Great Country Academician

Chapter 975 Poor Warwick~

When the latest issue of the journal "Discovery" was released through an interview, the whole world was stunned.

What followed was a sensation like Mars hitting the Earth.

Shock, surprise, excitement, excitement, fear, fear. All kinds of emotions appeared almost simultaneously in the entire academic and industrial circles.

Many scholars or engineers who were still sleeping late at night, as well as bosses, executives and other personnel in related industries, were almost all called by emergency calls without exception.

Emergency meetings were held quickly, and the entire semiconductor industry was discussing the relevant situation.

Carbon-based chip!

A new type of chip made of carbon nanomaterials!

For academia and the semiconductor industry, the concept of carbon-based chips is not something that has only appeared this year.

As early as the 1950s and 1960s, scholars proposed the use of carbon materials to prepare integrated circuits.

But until today, the term "carbon-based chip" is still just a "conceptual noun" for the entire semiconductor industry.

Even in the most cutting-edge academic community, there is considerable controversy over whether this technical route is feasible.

After all, carbon-based chips still need to overcome various difficulties such as purity, orientation angle and density before they can be mass-produced, and there are also extremely high difficulties in preparing large-area uniform CNT array films.

Even many top material science experts or cutting-edge engineers in the semiconductor field are hesitant about carbon-based chips, and even think that this is a technology that cannot be achieved in a short time.

However, it is such a controversial technology. Now someone stands up to tell the world that they have done it!

And the person who stood up is not someone else, but the first person in the academic community today, Professor Xu Chuan, who has solved the controlled nuclear fusion technology.

Nobel Prize and Fields Medal double winner, Hodge conjecture, NS equation, Yang-Mills existence and mass gap problem, controlled nuclear fusion technology, lithium dendrite problem, room-temperature superconducting materials.

So many honors and halos, just pick one from the problems he has solved in the past, that is a miracle and epic existence, enough to blind countless people.

More importantly, with the performance of this big guy, if there is no clear breakthrough in a certain work, and it has achieved a foolproof level, then he will basically not speak publicly.

Although China is indeed in short supply in the field of chips and has lagged behind the West for many years.

But with the character of Professor Xu, if he has not really made a real breakthrough in the field of carbon-based chips, then he will not stand up and express his position.

If the breakthrough in carbon-based chips is really completed by this big guy himself

Then for the Western interest groups that now control the semiconductor industry, it is not an exaggeration to say that the sky has fallen directly.

For the news released by the "Exploration" journal, the first to react was not the semiconductor industry, nor the governments of various countries, but the stock market and securities market.

When the relevant news was transmitted to the United States, it was this Thursday afternoon.

And the stocks of major semiconductor companies, which were still rising because the authorities relaxed restrictions on the semiconductor field in the last second, fell straight down like a cliff in the next second.

Whether it is Nvidia, Intel, Qualcomm, AMD, Apple, Samsung and other companies, or even the entire semiconductor industry, they all plummeted because of this sudden change.

Even if this news is just a preview of the next issue of the journal "Exploration", even if everyone has not seen the real content, the semiconductor industry is still like being shot, and it has been hit hard.

Everything came so suddenly.

Before the preview of "Exploration" was made public, almost no one had heard of the relevant news, and no one knew when Professor Xu started to get involved in the semiconductor field.

Although as early as last year, everyone knew that China had begun to focus on the development of chips and semiconductors, and even promoted the development of the semiconductor industry chain, and began to try to layout the upstream and downstream of chips.

But for Western countries that have already laid out the semiconductor industry for a century, this is nothing at all.

After all, there is an extremely large and cutting-edge technology industry chain surrounding chips.

Whether it is high-purity single-crystal silicon materials, or photoresists, photolithography machines, or EDA products for designing chip integrated circuit diagrams, they are not problems that China can solve in a short time.

However, no one expected that the world would change overnight.

China, which was still catching up with them last year, has made a major breakthrough in carbon-based chips this year.

Moreover, this news was published by a journal created by the first person in the academic world today, which was simply surprising to everyone.

With the news of the breakthrough in carbon-based chip technology, semiconductor-related sectors, whether it is Nasdaq or S\u0026P 500, almost all plummeted.

Even the related chain reaction soon spread to other fields related to the semiconductor industry.

For example, mobile phones, computers, computing servers, etc., all plummeted due to the red semiconductor industry.

If the next issue of the journal "Exploration" had not been officially released, I am afraid that this panic would be even more confusing, affecting the entire United States, and even the stock and high-tech markets of the entire Western countries.

After all, that person's influence in the academic world is too great.

For the current semiconductor industry, almost everyone has contacted the journal "Exploration" and other newspapers that distribute the journal "Exploration" to subscribe to the next issue of "Exploration·General Journal" and "Exploration·Materials Science".

Not only the semiconductor industry, but also the financial field, other high-tech fields and other related or unrelated industries have also contacted "Exploration" to subscribe to the next issue of the journal or hope to get more news from the headquarters of Exploration.

For them, the only hope now can be said to be pinned on the next two papers.

The entire semiconductor industry is looking forward to the two papers related to carbon-based chips published in the latest issue of "Exploration". The author is not Professor Xu Chuan, but someone else.

After all, the different names of the authors of the papers bring completely different influences.

If it is signed by Professor Xu himself, then it will be a fatal blow to the current semiconductor industry.

If it is signed by other scholars, then all these worries will be relieved.

The building of silicon-based chips is still as solid as a rock and as solid as a rock.

The waiting time is always long.

After four full days, when July came and a new week arrived, the journal "Exploration" finally released its latest issue of "Exploration·General Journal" and "Exploration·Materials Science".

At the first moment, almost all the people waiting bought or purchased the electronic version of these two papers from the official website of "Exploration".

Without reading the specific content of the two papers or paying attention to how many words they had, everyone looked at the signatures of the authors of the two papers at the first moment.

"High-performance carbon-based chips based on high-density integrated carbon nanotube arrays!". Corresponding author · Xu Chuan.

"Methods for high-density integrated carbon nanotube arrays based on carbon-based semiconductor materials!" First author, corresponding author · Xu Chuan.

When that familiar name came into everyone's eyes, the sky of silicon-based chips and silicon-based semiconductor industries collapsed.

The corresponding author of both papers was Professor Xu Chuan, and even the paper on the method of high-density integrated carbon nanotube arrays was the first author.

For scholars or technicians engaged in semiconductor research, everyone knows what this means.

The biggest challenge of carbon-based chips has always been how to accurately control the arrangement of carbon nanotubes.

To put it more bluntly, it is actually the material.

At present, the materials and industrial academia have not found a method to accurately, stably and densely arrange carbon nanomaterials.

Especially carbon nanotubes, which are an important component of carbon-based chips, and their arrangement directly affects the performance of the produced carbon-based chips.

In the eyes of professionals, this paper "Methods for Highly Densely Forming Carbon Nanotube Arrays Based on Carbon-Based Semiconductor Materials" is even more important than "High-Performance Carbon-Based Chips Based on Highly Densely Formed Carbon Nanotube Arrays".

The two papers undoubtedly confirmed that carbon-based chips are the scientific research projects led by that person.

For a while, not long after the opening, the semiconductor industry, which had been rising all the way, fell off a cliff with a trend of nearly collapse.

Enterprises in the fields of mobile phones, PCs, computing servers and other fields related to the semiconductor field also suffered.

Even the global semiconductor industry is crumbling at this moment.

And the source is just because of the two papers released by that person.

Meanwhile, on the other side.

Jinling, in the office of the dean of Xinghai Research Institute.

Sitting on a leather sofa and drinking tea, Huawei's president Ren Zhengfei's face was filled with unconcealed joy, and he chatted with Xu Chuan about the shocking waves in the field of chips and semiconductors in recent days.

"Academician Xu, you are still amazing! Two papers almost overturned the entire semiconductor industry. I looked at the sailing of the US stock market today, and almost the entire semiconductor sector fell by at least one-third, and even the mobile phone and computer manufacturers related to it plummeted all the way."

Xu Chuan smiled and raised the teacup to show respect, and said with a smile: "This is just the beginning. When they see the finished product of the carbon-based chip, they will be even crazier."

The collapse of the US stock-related sectors was something they had long expected.

After all, once the carbon-based chip technology matures, the silicon-based chip and the related silicon-based semiconductor industry will be completely abandoned by the times.

This general trend can be seen by everyone.

However, speaking of the stock market, Xu Chuan remembered another thing. He smiled and looked at Mr. Ren from Huawei and said, "Speaking of which, how much money have we made this time?"

After meeting with Mr. Ren and Director Yuan Zhouli from the Science and Technology Department last time, inspecting the R\u0026D progress of the carbon-based chip laboratory, and discussing the deployment and development of the carbon-based chip field, Xu Chuan modified the original plan.

He originally planned to wait for a while until the carbon-based chip laboratory pushed the Xiongxin series products to the mid-to-high-end chip performance before making it public.

But Director Yuan Zhouli and Mr. Ren both suggested that it is most appropriate to make it public now.

The performance of the Xiongxin 05 experimental chip is sufficient, whether it is in low-end mobile phones, tablets, computers and other electronic products, or in industrial control, automotive intelligence and other fields.

Carbon-based chips need to be developed after they are launched. It is impossible for them to occupy all the markets immediately after they are launched. They will only gradually erode the markets of silicon-based chips and silicon-based semiconductors.

In addition, the launch of carbon-based chips now can also help to further improve and optimize the performance and industrial integrity of chips with the help of market expansion.

These are all needed in the development of carbon-based chips.

So Xu Chuan changed his original idea, otherwise the paper originally published in "Exploration General Journal" would take some time to be released.

Of course, before officially launching carbon-based chips, they also made some corresponding preparations for the market.

For example, they went to the US stock market and the stock markets of other countries to make a fortune.

This kind of thing was done by them for the Nasdaq, European Securities and other stock markets as early as when the controlled nuclear fusion technology was broken through.

After all, this is free money, and it is a waste not to pick it up.

Sitting opposite the sofa, Ren Zhengfei of Huawei raised his teacup and sipped, smiling and saying, "The specific amount has not been fully calculated, but the people from the securities company have passed on the news. This time, our two companies alone have earned at least 300 billion MiGold in net profit!"

"As for the specific amount, we need to wait a few more days until the securities company completes the statistics to determine it."

Through various means such as shorting MiGold, it is not too easy for them to make money in the stock market with the information advantage.

Of course, it is not just the two of them who go to MiGold to make money. There are also other companies that have received some news, as well as the top government agencies, who have taken advantage of this opportunity to make a fortune in the stock market.

Speaking of this, Ren Zhengfei smiled and looked at Xu Chuan, and said with emotion, "If we calculate it based on 300 billion MiGold, Academician Xu, you alone account for three-fifths of it, more than 180 billion MiGold in revenue, and more than the net profit of Huawei headquarters in ten years!"

This time, shorting MiGold made money from the United States and other countries. Although Huawei also participated, Huawei did not make as much as the person in front of him.

There is no other reason. Although Huawei is big, its cash flow cannot be compared with that of the person in front of him.

When the securities responsible for trading received the funds from this person some time ago, his eyes almost popped out.

This guy alone transferred a full 100 billion RMB in cash!

Although it has always been known that Xu Chuan is rich, even if he is not ranked in the Forbes rankings, Ren Zhengfei never thought that he is so rich.

This terrifying cash flow is not even available in the world's top companies.

Although the market value of companies such as Microsoft, Nvidia, and Apple has been exaggerated to more than 200 billion or 300 billion, there is really no 100 billion RMB in cash.

After all, a large company has very high revenue and expenditure, and it is even more impossible to keep hundreds of billions of RMB in a bank card to earn interest.

As for Huawei, let alone.

Huawei's cash flow in 2024 is only a few billion, and the unit is still RMB, which is almost pitiful.

If they were not 100% sure that the stock market would make money this time, they would have used their assets with the help of the state to quietly borrow money from banks and other financial institutions.

This time, the US semiconductor industry plummeted and I am afraid they will not even get a share of the soup.

In comparison, Huawei is really pitiful.