Time is coming to late August.

One Monday afternoon.

Applied Semiconductor Corporation.

First floor.

William Webber, one of the first graduates of Warren Leiden Laboratory and determined to follow Evan, is directing colleagues to move the newly arrived experimental equipment into the temporary laboratory.

While they work, they are chatting happily. The recent hot topics are nothing more than the wars in the Far East and the upcoming California Centennial Day.

Just as they argued that Truman's statement of sending troops to the Far East was somewhat credible, a beautiful woman led a man in her thirties in her arms.

Seeing the visitor, William Webber and others immediately calmed down. William showed a flattering smile and said hello to the woman: "Good afternoon, Chief Sproul."

That's right, the woman is Linda Sproul.

As Evan's chief secretary, Evan changed her office location, so she naturally had to follow her. However, the situation is that Linda did not stay in Rothmead, but was still in Inglewood. However, she would definitely communicate with Evan by phone every day and come to Rothmead several times a week.

After William and others became part of Evan's company, they naturally understood Linda's status. With her brilliant figure, everyone was moved, but they did not dare to look directly at it.

Faced with William's question, Linda slowed down slightly, nodded slightly, and asked another question, which was considered a response.

"Good afternoon, boss is in the office?"

William nodded quickly and said, "Yes, he is in the office."

"Okay, you guys are busy, I'll take people up."

As he said that, Linda nodded to the man beside him and signaled him to follow him.

William and others watched the two of them walk towards the stairs until their figure disappeared, and then someone cared about it: "Who is this man?"

"Linda brought it here in person, I think it should be an important person, right?"

"Can it be the newcomer dug up by the boss?"

"Well, very likely!"

The last sentence was said by William. He finally remembered that the man who looked very familiar had been to Warren Leiden Laboratory before.

"Why are you so sure?"

William touched his chin and said with a memory look: "Because, that person seems to be from Bell's lab."

"What?"

"Really?"

"The boss actually dug the foot of Bell Labs?"

William's guess caused a lot of commotion.

Second floor, Evan's office.

After getting permission, Linda pushed the door open and saw Evan standing in front of a design drawing of some kind of equipment that she couldn't understand.

Linda was about to remind her, but Evan turned around and saw the man behind Linda. He looked surprised and immediately stepped forward to meet him.

"Mr. Pufan, you are here, please come in."

"Linda, thank you for your hard work." Evan looked at Linda, "But, you may need to work harder. Can you prepare for me for a drink? Today, Emilia asked for leave."

"Well..." As he said, Evan turned to look at Pufan and asked, "Coffee is OK?"

Pufan nodded: "Of course, it would be better if it was Blue Mountain Coffee."

"Blue Mountain? No problem!" Evan looked at Linda with uncertainty, "Right?"

Linda sighed helplessly and said, "Please wait."

After saying that, he turned around and left the office.

Evan breathed a sigh of relief and greeted Pufan again to take his seat.

"Mr. Pufan, it seems that the last time we met, it was three years ago."

Pfan, who was sitting opposite Evan, nodded, "Yes, your article was published shortly before, and the famous Warren Leiden Laboratory has just been established."

"Time flies so fast..." Evan sighed: "I really didn't expect that when we met again, I had already walked out of campus."

"What I didn't expect was that you, who had never agreed to my invitation, would actually agree to jump from Bell Labs to my company that has not even been completely built in the laboratory."

"Honestly, I'm a little confused."

Pufan, full name William Gordon Pufan, came to California Polytechnic three years ago on behalf of Bell Labs to visit the Evan display point contact transistor activity. It was that event that made the two meet. It was also since then that Evan tried to invite Pufan to join the laboratory together, but unfortunately he was rejected. This made him feel very sorry.

You should know that although Pufan has a low education and only has one master's degree, he is very talented in research on chemistry and crystal growth. It is precisely because of him that Bell Labs' research on transistors has not been completely abandoned by Warren Leiden Labs.

It's no wonder Evan was curious about why Pufan agreed to join the applied semiconductors.

Pufan narrowed his eyes and said, "The reason is very simple, because I think you will develop better than Bell Labs."

"The reason why I agreed now is that I simply don't want to go to school to get a teaching position."

"Oh, so that's it."

Evan said in surprise: "Isn't it good to take a teaching position?"

"I think the teaching job is easy, the salary is high, and the social status is good. Even I almost agreed to Dean Dubridge's invitation to get a teaching job."

Pufan asked back, "Then why don't you take it?"

Evan said: "I'm still young. The school is really suitable for research, but it's not suitable for me. Well, more importantly, it's not suitable for making money."

Pufan shrugged, "I feel so too."

Evan said: "It seems we are really in love."

The two looked at each other and smiled.

Not long after, Linda brought the Blue Mountain Coffee and Evan's black tea that Pufan wanted to the office, then sat aside and listened to the chat between the two men.

Of course, the so-called chatting is not a matter of serious matters. During this period, Evan clearly introduced the recent plans for applying semiconductors and the work he was responsible for after Pu Fan joined Applied Semiconductor.

About an hour later, William Webber, who had finished processing the equipment, was called into Evan's office.

"William, this is William Gordon Pufan, a former senior engineer at Bell Labs. Now we are the one who uses semiconductors. He will be responsible for the development of single crystal preparation equipment in the future. You can get to know each other."

"Wait for a moment, you can be your guide and take Pufan to visit the company and get to know everyone."

The previous guess was confirmed, and William did not show any surprise expression. After nodding at Evan, he reached out to Pufan and said, "Hello, I'm glad to know you."

Pufan reached out and grabbed it, saying, "So too."

The two quickly left the office. At this time, Evan immediately looked at Linda. He knew that Linda had not left, and there should be something to say.

Sure enough, Linda said: "Harvard University gave feedback, the Chinese asked for a price of $200,000."
Chapter completed!