{"id":145599,"date":"2026-02-04T23:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145599"},"modified":"2026-02-04T23:00:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:00:37","slug":"chinese-semiconductor-engineer-xu-zhenpeng-says-he-left-us-to-find-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145599","title":{"rendered":"Chinese semiconductor engineer Xu Zhenpeng says he left US to find freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostLeading chipmaking engineer Xu Zhenpeng said the United States no longer offered the freedom that researchers once expected \u2013 a key reason for his decision to continue his work in China.<br \/>\nXu, who joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) as a tenure-track assistant professor in January, left behind a team leadership role at Atomic Semi, a California start-up with high-profile backers that included OpenAI\u2019s venture fund.<br \/>\nBefore his departure, Xu led a team that was developing a new kind of&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3342299\/chinese-semiconductor-engineer-xu-zhenpeng-says-he-left-us-find-freedom?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostLeading chipmaking engineer Xu Zhenpeng said the United States no longer offered the freedom that researchers once expected \u2013 a key reason for his&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145599"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}