Great Country Academician

Chapter 976 Panic Intel~

After hearing the approximate profit given by Mr. Ren of Huawei, Xu Chuan nodded with a smile and said, "One hundred and eighty billion is not bad."

For him, taking this opportunity to make some money from the stock and securities markets in the United States, Europe and other places can only be said to be a by-product.

Although the number of one hundred and eighty billion US dollars sounds exaggerated, and even the annual GDP of many countries does not have this number, it is really nothing to him.

Not to mention other things, the shares of Fusion Energy Power are unknown how many times this number is.

And the technologies and patents he has in his hands, such as lithium batteries, carbon nanomaterials, high temperature/room temperature superconductors, etc., are difficult to measure with money alone.

To be honest, pure cash is the least worthwhile one among the wealth he has.

After all, there are still many things in this world that cannot be bought with money.

But on the contrary, if it is through technology trading in exchange for technology, it can be done.

For example, when he was studying controlled nuclear fusion technology in the early years, he traded the ASDEX fusion device from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics through high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials, supplemented by some funds.

For a country, this kind of cutting-edge technology is always more valuable than money.

Pure money is the most useless thing.

Across the sofa, Ren Zhengfei smiled bitterly. One hundred and eighty billion MiGold, not bad.

This kind of words, it is estimated that only this person in front of the world can say it.

Not to mention for individuals or companies, even for superpowers like China and the United States, one hundred and eighty billion MiGold is a huge amount of money.

If there is a chance to obtain this level of funds, no country can resist the temptation and take action.

Only this time's great changes in the semiconductor field and the last technological breakthrough in the field of controlled nuclear fusion, they can draw such huge benefits from the stock market and securities market with the prerequisite preparation.

This kind of opportunity is rare in the world, and there may not be a few times in a century.

After all, this was achieved at the cost of the fall of traditional chemical energy and silicon-based semiconductor industries.

At other times, if you want to make such a huge amount of money in the stock market and securities market, don't even think about it, and don't even dare to dream of doing it.

Even Soros, the giant crocodile in the financial world, can't achieve such a "brilliant" record.

He doesn't have such ability, let alone such skills, and doesn't have such funds.

But Xu Chuan didn't care about these things at all.

He smiled and then said: "This time, the transaction processing in the stock market and securities market has troubled Mr. Ren."

"No, no, Academician Xu, please don't say that."

Hearing this, Ren Zhengfei came back to his senses and smiled and said: "If you were not willing to take us with you, Huawei would not have such an opportunity."

Whether it is carbon-based chips or making money from the stock market and securities market this time, the opportunity is indeed brought by Xu Chuan.

Although it is said that the profit is not as much as the person in front of him, the profit Huawei and he personally made from the stock market this time can be said to be an extremely huge number.

With the opportunity of the fall of the silicon-based semiconductor field, Huawei's income is at least the sum of the net profits of the past ten years.

And the subsequent expansion and development in the field of carbon-based semiconductors can also bring huge markets and profits.

Coupled with the wealth gained from the stock market this time, Huawei can lead other manufacturers and complete its deployment in the fields of carbon-based chips and carbon-based semiconductors.

Without Xu Chuan, they would not have this opportunity.

Xu Chuan smiled and said: "Don't worry, there are so many opportunities to make money. This time the fluctuation of the silicon-based chip market is just the beginning."

"The two papers published by "Exploration" are just a beginning. When we officially release the finished carbon-based chips, the market related to silicon-based chips may collapse faster."

For the whole world, the publication of these two papers related to carbon-based chips by "Exploration" is like holding a pole to test the water and knowing half of the depth.

Or simply put, it is to test the market's acceptance of a product before officially launching it on the market, just like doing a public opinion report survey.

And the two papers published by "Exploration" do just that.

But now it seems that the sensation caused by "Exploration" is much bigger than expected.

Originally just a test, it directly led to the semi-collapse of the silicon-based semiconductor market.

Overnight, the market value of top companies in the silicon-based semiconductor field such as Qualcomm, Nvidia, Intel, Apple, and AMD dropped by more than one-third.

Although this was due to their influence behind the scenes, to be honest, Xu Chuan did not expect that just two papers could cause such a drastic fluctuation before seeing the official finished product.

Although he knew in advance that the "Exploration" paper would have an impact on the silicon-based chip and silicon-based semiconductor market after it was released, he really didn't expect it to be so big.

If he had known earlier, he would have taken out all the money in the bank and went all in.

After all, 100 billion, even if the unit is rice gold, is not all his deposits.

Although at his level, money is just a number in a bank card, but who would dislike having more money?

If he earns an extra 100 billion, maybe he can build an extra Mars city of his own on Mars in the future, or develop some other products in the field of scientific research?

As for the money, it’s not too much anyway.

Ren Zhengfei laughed and said: "There will indeed be many opportunities to make money in the future."

"But for us, making money is a secondary purpose! With this carbon-based chip, our mission is to redefine the entire semiconductor industry chain and break the technical barriers to us in Western countries!"

"Given the superior performance of carbon-based chips, I believe this day will come soon!"

While smiling, Ren Zhengfei also felt a little emotional.

He has been waiting for this day for decades!

The ups and downs that Warwick suffered were not his own.

Fortunately, in this era, he and Warwick, and even China, have ushered in the dawn of hope.

When they break through the biggest technical barrier in the semiconductor field, there will no longer be any shackles in the world that can hinder their take-off!

When Xu Chuan and Ren Zhengfei were relaxing and chatting.

In lands other than China, almost every country that can be spoken of in the world is doing the same thing!

That is to study the two latest publications of the "Exploration" journal, "Exploration·General Issue" and "Exploration·Materials"!

Intel headquarters in Santa Clara, California, USA.

In this huge office building, which can even be called a high-rise building in a group of buildings, people are coming and going in a hurry.

The sudden release of two papers related to carbon-based chips from China's "Exploration" journal can be described as a stab in the waist for Intel, the dominant player in the semiconductor industry.

More importantly, these two papers were signed by the famous Professor Xu Chuan.

No one knows whether carbon-based chips have really been completed, and no one knows when the end of silicon-based chips and silicon-based semiconductors will come.

In a certain conference room in the headquarters building, an emergency meeting was being held.

Intel's president, chief engineer, chief designer, head of the business department, and head of the design department. Here, you can see most of Intel's various executives that you usually can't see at all, and even Congress Congressman over there.

Intel has held several meetings like this in the past few days.

"Jim, regarding the two papers published in Discovery, when will the results be available? Can carbon-based chip technology really do what is described above? What is the status of China's research on carbon-based chips? To what extent? You have to give me the answer today!”

In the conference room, Intel President Pat Gelsinger looked at Chief Engineer Jim Keller sitting aside and asked with an expressionless face.

In the chip field, Jim Keller has a high reputation, and Intel spent a lot of money to invite him.

The chief engineer once helped Tesla build its self-driving chips, and has also held important positions in AMD, Apple and other companies.

Hearing this question, Chief Engineer Jim Keller had a headache and twisted the bridge of his sore nose. The crazy overtime work in the past few days had made him unable to bear it anymore, and he was quite exhausted both mentally and physically.

After taking a deep breath and forcibly cheering up, he looked at Pat Gelsinger, shook his head and said, "Honestly, I don't know."

"have no idea?"

Jim Keller sighed, and said with a headache: "If we just rely on the two papers published in the journal Discovery, it is actually difficult for us to judge the other party's development on carbon-based chips."

"In terms of style, we compared the previous papers of Professor Xu Chuan and can confirm that the two papers published in the latest general issue and materials issue of "Discover" were written by him personally."

"With his academic ability, it is almost impossible for us to find some usable information from him."

"As for whether China can really achieve the carbon-based chips described in the paper."

After a pause, he looked at Pat Gelsinger and continued: "In my personal opinion, there is a high probability that it can be done."

"At least, there is no doubt about the technology of high-density integrated carbon nanotube arrays."

"As for whether high-performance carbon-based chips based on high-density integrated carbon nanotube arrays have finished products, it remains to be discussed."

"But from the perspective of a chip designer, if the biggest problem of high-density integrated carbon nanotube arrays is solved in the field of carbon-based chips, then it will be a matter of time before a complete carbon-based chip can be prepared."

Upon hearing this, Pat Gelsinger quickly asked: "If it is based on this, how long do we have?"

Jim Keller rubbed his temples and thought for a while before replying: "The design and preparation of chips is a very complicated task."

"High-density integrated carbon nanotube arrays are the biggest problem in the research process of carbon-based chips, but other difficulties cannot be underestimated."

"When China can develop, design and manufacture carbon-based chips with commercial value, it depends on the funds and resources invested by the other party."

"In the field of low-end chips, at least in the research and development of chips below the 28-nanometer process, they have a fairly complete industrial chain."

"If the 28-nanometer chip process is used as the limit, I'm afraid we only have about two years at most."

"If China mobilizes resources and completes the development of carbon-based chips with all its strength, then this time may be shortened by at least half."

Two years, shortened by half.

Hearing this answer, the president of Intel couldn't help but raise his head.

On the basis that the core problem of carbon-based chips, the high-density carbon nanotube array, has been solved, whether China will concentrate its domestic production resources to cooperate with the full development of carbon-based chips is a question that can be answered with toes.

According to Jim Keller's speculation, the longest time left for them is only one year.

One year, what can be done?

There was silence in the conference room. At this time, Michelle Johnston, the head of the business unit sitting opposite and vice president of Intel, suddenly spoke in a low voice.

"Maybe. The situation is worse than we expected now."

Hearing this, everyone looked over. The expression on the face of this vice president with 25 years of work experience at Intel was not very good.

She spoke in a low and somewhat frustrated tone: "According to the information we received before, more than a year ago, Huawei was no longer satisfied with chip design and began to get involved in the upstream of the industrial chain."

"And in 2024, China also specially opened up the third largest semiconductor industry chain after controlled nuclear fusion and aerospace industry."

"At the beginning, we all thought that this third largest semiconductor industry chain was for the development of silicon-based chips and silicon-based semiconductors."

"After all, the only mature semiconductor industry on the market is silicon-based materials."

"But now looking back and thinking carefully, perhaps the third largest semiconductor industry chain they opened up last year was to prepare for carbon-based chips."

"Maybe earlier, they had already made breakthroughs in carbon-based chip technology, but they were only made public now."

Hearing Michelle Johns' analysis, the conference room fell into a panic.

If there is still a year left for them, although it is short, Intel can still find a way to solve and overcome this difficulty.

But if China has already developed carbon-based chips with commercial value, then they will only face the possibility of a complete defeat.