Great Country Academician

The impromptu meeting lasted until after ten o'clock in the evening.

In response to the carbon-based chip planning report submitted by Xu Chuan, the top leaders held an urgent discussion with many experts and academicians in the chip and electronics industry fields.

The discussion on the development of semiconductor chip industry clusters for carbon-based chip projects, promoting carbon-based chips to replace silicon-based chips as the core of the new era, and vigorously promoting the development of carbon-based chips was quite intense.

There were supporters, opponents, and hesitations.

However, the layout and development of carbon-based chips were firmly determined after this meeting.

Gathering resources and strength in the domestic chip field and the electronics industry, building a semiconductor industry cluster around carbon-based chips, and fully promoting the development and expansion of carbon-based chips were the final results after the meeting.

No one would doubt whether this could be done, no one would doubt whether the breakthrough of Xinghai Research Institute in carbon-based chips was true or false, and no one would doubt the country's determination to transform the chip field.

The reply was sent about three or four days later.

When Zheng Hai sent the letter, Xu Chuan almost forgot about it.

Taking the letter from Zheng Hai, he opened the envelope, took out the letter from it, and flipped through it.

For him, the content of the reply letter was basically the same.

It was nothing more than praising him and Xinghai Research Institute for their breakthroughs and contributions in related technologies, and asking about the specific progress and future development of current technologies.

But this time seemed to be a bit of an exception.

In addition to the previous words of praise and praise, there was also a planning document for the semiconductor chip industry cluster, which included the location of the semiconductor chip industry cluster, which companies were invited to participate, and the planning and construction plan.

It seemed that the detailed plan for the development of the entire semiconductor chip industry cluster was attached.

In addition, the letter also included some detailed opinions and suggestions on how to develop the semiconductor chip industry cluster.

This surprised Xu Chuan a little. He didn't expect that the reply letter from above would be so complete this time.

It seems that in the past three or four days, the top management has made a decision to strongly support the development of carbon-based chips, and even the site selection and planning have been done.

This efficiency is so high that Xu Chuan is a little surprised.

Although he knew that the breakthrough in carbon-based chip technology would definitely attract the attention of the top management, and he also knew that his suggestions would definitely be discussed.

But he did not expect that the top management would be so impatient in this area.

Now the most basic carbon nanotube integration and carbon-based transistor integration problems have just been solved, and the top management has already started related work.

This efficiency is indeed a bit exaggerated.

But if you think about it from another perspective, it is not surprising.

China started late in the chip field. When they started research, Western countries such as Europe, the United States, Japan and South Korea had already developed a complete industrial system in the field of silicon-based chips and built a tall wall of defense.

The crushing of technology and the moat of patents have forced them to pay a high price for backward technology in the field of silicon-based chips.

China has always been the world's largest chip importer. In the past ten years, the domestic market has spent trillions of yuan on the purchase of chips and related patents every year.

If you count things like memory chips and semiconductor components, they have to spend trillions of RMB in this market every year.

For example, in 2019, the import amount of integrated circuit chips was 304 billion US dollars.

According to the exchange rate of US dollars to RMB at that time, which was close to 1:7, they had to pay more than 2.1 trillion RMB for integrated circuit chips alone, far exceeding the amount of oil imports that year.

Standing at a high position, watching such a huge amount of domestic wealth flow to other countries is extremely painful.

And the more critical thing is not only the huge import amount in the chip field, but also the serious problem of Western countries "choking" with the help of chip process technology and related patent technology.

The opponent can unscrupulously use patents and technologies in the chip field to "unjustifiably" suppress domestic high-tech companies.

This unscrupulous suppression has further prompted their desire for self-research in the chip field.

If they can establish their own advantages in carbon-based chips first, make progress and breakthroughs.

The long-standing humiliation in the chip field will disappear, and carbon-based chips will establish their leading position in the chip field in one fell swoop.

At that time, those Western countries that were originally high and mighty in this field will continue to catch up with them.

The development of carbon-based chips takes time. Even if the top leaders have decided to open up the third largest semiconductor industry chain after controlled nuclear fusion and aerospace industry and decided to strongly support it, the relevant construction and personnel and enterprise mobilization and arrangement can only be carried out step by step.

Xu Chuan and Xinghai Research Institute can actually not do much.

The two most difficult problems, high-density deposition of carbon nanotubes and integration of carbon-based transistors, have been initially solved.

As for the remaining preparation technology optimization, control of size, morphology, structure and stability, as well as industrial production and other problems, these need to be promoted bit by bit by cooperating manufacturers, such as Huawei HiSilicon, SMIC and other companies.

Regarding the problems encountered in the chip preparation process, Xinghai Research Institute cannot help much. At most, it can further cooperate and optimize basic materials and other aspects.

So after the relevant work was handed over to the Materials Research Institute, Xu Chuan didn't pay much attention to it.

Will Liu Jiaxin study P=NP? After carefully and rigorously reviewing the paper on the conjecture about the problem of graph isomorphism several times and putting forward some suggestions for modification, after more than half a month, this paper was titled "Research on Quasi-polynomial Graphical Mapping Method for the Problem of Graph Isomorphism" The paper was finally officially published in "Exploration·Mathematics".

This is the first issue of "Exploration·Mathematics". It also has only one paper, which can be called a special issue.

Like the previous "Exploration" general issue and "Exploration·Physics", the sub-issue of "Exploration·Mathematics" immediately aroused heated discussions in the mathematics community once it was released.

When "Exploration Mathematics" officially released the first issue, on the other side, in the United States, was the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Although the eighty-year-old Pierre Deligne has left the classroom and begun a retirement life, he still visits the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton from time to time.

He even occasionally holds an open class at Princeton University to talk about mathematics.

Among them, the one that many Princeton University students are most interested in is undoubtedly his student Xu Chuan.

Every time there is an open class, there are always students who are very curious about Xu Chuan, and Deligne is also willing to use Xu Chuan's stories to bring some encouragement to these students.

As usual, while taking a walk in the back garden of the Institute for Advanced Study and preparing to find books to read in the Flintstone Library, Deligne saw a man sitting by the glass window of the cafe on the first floor of the Institute for Advanced Study. Familiar figure.

After looking twice to make sure he saw it correctly, he opened the door of the coffee shop and walked over, asking with a hint of curiosity.

"Why are you back? Shouldn't you be at CRHPC at this point?"

Sitting in the cafe drinking coffee was none other than Edward Witten.

Hearing the familiar voice, Witten raised his head and said with a smile: "Come back to deal with some things. Why do you have time to go out for a walk today?"

"stroll?"

As if he heard a strange adjective, Deligne raised his eyebrows and asked.

"It means going out for a walk." Witten smiled and continued: "In China, they call the act of going out for a walk after eating or going out to relax with nothing to do as 'walking'."

Nodding, Deligne was not surprised.

After the establishment of the CRHPC institution, it has become the largest high-energy physics research center in the world. Many physicists have moved their positions from CERN to China.

In the past half year or so, if they were willing, it would be enough for these scholars, who possess the pinnacle of human wisdom, to learn each other's language and some habits.

This is normal.

Pulling out the chair and sitting down, Deligne's eyes fell on the journal in Edward Witten's hand.

""explore"?"

Naturally, he knew about the academic journal founded by Xu Chuan and subscribed to it.

However, currently only the main journal of "Exploration" and the sub-journal of "Exploration Physics" have published papers, and he is not very interested in these.

Witten nodded with a smile and said, "Yeah, and it's the first issue of the Mathematics sub-journal."

Hearing this, Deligne showed a hint of surprise on his face: "Mathematics Sub-Journal? When was it released?"

"I just arrived today, there are some over there." Witten pointed to the front desk of the coffee shop with a smile.

There is a newspaper and magazine rack over there, which contains various types of magazines and periodicals, such as mathematics, physics, materials, etc., all subscribed to by the Institute for Advanced Study.

Deligne stood up, walked over, flipped through the newspaper and magazine rack, and found another "Exploration Mathematics" on it.

When his eyes fell on the cover, there was a trace of surprise in his eyes.

P=NP? Conjecture on the study of graph isomorphism?

After taking the journal and ordering a cup of coffee, Deligne sat back on the coffee table by the window and started reading eagerly.

More than half an hour passed, and when the setting sun fell on him through the glass window, he put down the journal in his hand and said softly:

"Interesting, quasi-polynomial graphical mapping method, I see a hint of familiarity in it."

Witten smiled and said, "She is by Xu Chuan's side. It is normal to feel familiar."

Deligne picked up the coffee, took a sip, and said lightly: "That's good."

He still has an impression of Liu Jiaxin. She is a very introverted and shy girl. She has a good talent in mathematics, but she is more capable in computer science.

Witten smiled and put the journal in his hand on the table, and said with emotion: "It seems that the academic world will have another academic journal comparable to Nature and Science."

"If he can maintain this quality to start other sub-magazines."

Hearing this, Deligne looked over, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Is this possible?"

If he remembers correctly, "Exploration" not only covers areas such as mathematics and physics, which Xu Chuan is good at, but also many other basic and engineering disciplines such as chemistry, materials, medicine, astronomy, communications, computational science, and natural engineering technology. of sub-journals.

As for the three journals that have been published so far, the opening papers of each are top-notch.

It is unimaginably difficult to collect so many top papers in so many disciplines and fields.

It is impossible for him to do so much research in so many fields. This is impossible.

Wei Teng smiled and said, "Nothing is impossible. It seems that you don't know him as well as I do."

After a slight pause, he continued, "I bet that if he doesn't find a suitable opening paper for other sub-journals, he may delay publishing the first issue of the sub-journal!"

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