Great Country Academician

Product launch conference~

Just when everyone was discussing the authenticity of carbon-based chips and doubting "Exploration" and Professor Xu, they began to violate their own academic principles in order to promote the development of China's chip field.

Xinghai Research Institute once again released a piece of news, which attracted the attention of the entire semiconductor industry and even the world.

The carbon-based chip laboratory under the name of Xinghai Research Institute will officially hold a press conference in a week and disclose the latest products they have developed in conjunction with companies such as Warwick and SMIC.

That is the finished carbon-based chip of the ‘Xiongxin Series’!

When the news was released, the entire world felt as if it had experienced a magnitude 10 earthquake, with violent shaking spreading across the globe.

If we say that the two papers related to carbon-based chips released by the journal Discovery have shaken the foundation of the industrial building of silicon-based semiconductors.

Then the finished carbon-based chip is undoubtedly like a bomb buried in the building of the semiconductor industry that is enough to destroy it.

Of course, using bombs to describe this may not be that accurate.

To be honest, carbon-based chips are more like a brand-new building built next to the silicon-based semiconductor industry building.

And this brand-new building is higher and stronger than the old silicon-based semiconductor building in terms of function, performance, potential and other indicators.

Therefore, in the future, both capital and industrial chains will gradually be transferred from old silicon-based buildings to carbon-based buildings.

This is the general trend and the unstoppable wheel of the times!

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Pacific.

In the United States, south of the San Francisco Bay Area, a metropolitan area in northern California, is the Santa Clara Valley, where high-tech industries gather.

It also has an even more famous name, ‘Silicon Valley’!

This is the first place in the world to research and produce silicon-based semiconductor chips. The headquarters of high-tech companies such as Intel, Apple, Google, and Yahoo are all located here. In just a few decades, Silicon Valley has gone out of its A large number of technology tycoons.

In the past, this place was undoubtedly one of the most prosperous and lively areas in the entire United States. There were more than 1,500 computer companies, and countless migrant workers or white-collar elites worked in this small valley, making it full of prosperity and excitement. lively.

However, today, this bustling city is full of depression, depression, worry and other emotions.

Even if you occasionally see some pedestrians on the road, most of them are in a hurry, and their faces no longer have the smiles of the past.

For those who work here, whether they are white-collar elites or ordinary wage earners, they will more or less keep an eye on news about science and technology, especially the Internet, semiconductors and other related industries.

Especially now that the news of the launch of carbon-based chips is making a fuss all over the world, there is no reason why this group of 'elites' working in Silicon Valley should lag behind.

Especially when it comes to their work and income, they will only care more about the changes and progress of things than others.

For example, James Duke, who is working at Oracle, is holding a copy of the "Exploration" journal in his hand at the moment, and it is in pure Chinese, and he is reading it carefully.

Although Oracle moved its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas as early as 2020, it still has multiple offices here.

Sitting next to James Duke, his colleague Wilder Reginald glanced at the journal in his hand, his eyes focused on the devil-like text symbols.

"High-performance carbon-based chips based on high-density integrated carbon nanotube arrays!" 》

"What is this?"

His eyes fell on the cover of the journal. Wilder Reginald, who did not understand Chinese, looked at James Duke who looked serious and asked curiously.

"Discover Journal."

James Duke replied without raising his head.

"That journal made by Professor Xu from China?" Wilder Reginald asked in surprise.

"Well, this is the latest issue of "Exploration General Magazine"." James Duke nodded and said, "It's the most popular carbon-based chip in recent days."

"When did you become interested in chips?"

James Duke smiled, raised his head and said: "The storage and design of databases are also linked to semiconductor chips. It does not hurt for us to learn more about the developments in cutting-edge fields."

He wasn't very curious about this Wilder Reginald. The Duke in his memory was such a person. However, his eyes fell on the "Exploration" journal and he asked curiously.

"By the way, this is pure Chinese, right? You can actually understand those devil-like words?"

James Duke smiled and said: It's okay. Although I can't fully understand it and there are still some words in it that I can't understand, but generally it's quite interesting. "

"Although I haven't seen a specific actual chip yet, judging from some of the data and information published in this paper, carbon-based chips may be more suitable for database storage than silicon-based memory chips."

After a slight pause, he added: "Or excellent."

"This chip made of carbon nanotubes is superior to silicon-based materials in terms of electronic control performance, which means it can transmit information faster."

"The spatial structure of carbon nanotubes is far more complex than that of silicon-based transistors carved by photolithography machines. Theoretically, it has a stronger storage capacity."

"If it is based on the data published in the Exploration Journal, according to my calculations, in terms of non-volatile memory chip performance, the performance of carbon-based memory chips may be 3-5 times that of silicon-based chips."

Hearing this number, Wilder Reginald asked in surprise: "Are you sure?"

Before James Duke answered, he quickly muttered to himself: "How is this possible!"

"3-5 times the performance of silicon-based memory chips, do you know what this concept is?"

Taking a deep breath, Reginald looked at James Duke with a questioning look, and then said: "Besides, I just heard yesterday that the experimental data in the Exploration Journal may be falsified."

Duke smiled, closed the journal in his hand, and said: "The corresponding author of this paper is Professor Xu Chuan. With his academic reputation and credibility, compared with those who questioned As for rumors, I prefer to believe the former. "

"What's more, it's in the key field of semiconductors."

"I think the companies that least want to see breakthroughs in carbon-based chip technology are Intel and AMD, which control the silicon-based semiconductor industry."

"This is their lifeblood. With their influence, if they want to push the media to write some articles on the experimental data of carbon-based chips, I'm afraid no media can refuse."

"What's more, maybe there are intentions from the authorities behind this."

Looking at the Exploration Journal in his hand, James Duke smiled: "Moreover, in three days, the Carbon-Based Chip Laboratory under the name of Xinghai Research Institute will officially hold a product launch conference to disclose their latest carbon-based chips."

"If the data is fake, it is impossible to hide it from everyone."

The breakthrough in carbon-based chip technology is not good news for Intel, AMD, and even the US authorities, which occupy the entire silicon-based semiconductor industry market.

If China wants to enter this market, no matter what they do, even if they choose to develop carbon-based chip technology, they will inevitably face suppression from a series of semiconductor manufacturers such as Intel, Qualcomm, AMD, and even the entire Western interest groups in the early stage.

In the most popular words, a fight is necessary.

The current smearing of the journal "Exploration" and questioning the falsification of experimental data in the papers in "Exploration General Journal" are just the first wave of means.

This is one of the core discourse rights in the field of high technology, and it is also a change of power between countries in the world.

And the change of power is often accompanied by conflict and bloodshed.

Of course, this is from the perspective of silicon-based semiconductors and carbon-based semiconductors, and even the old Western interest groups and the new rising China.

If it is from his personal perspective, he is not only not panicking, but he even has a little expectation.

After all, if carbon-based chips really replace silicon-based chips and become the mainstream, then it will be inevitable to develop a huge market around carbon-based chips.

And if he can understand the situation of carbon-based chips clearly and take the lead in the future, with his ability, it should not be a problem to establish a related database company around the new field of carbon-based chips.

Most importantly, he also knows some Chinese and Mandarin.

This is a great advantage for the preliminary work.

With some thoughts in his mind, James Duke took out his mobile phone from his pocket and looked up flights to China.

This may be a fatal blow to the silicon-based semiconductor industry, but for him personally, this may be an opportunity that he will never encounter again in his life.

Of course, he still has to find a way to get a ticket for the carbon-based chip product launch conference.

I heard that the upcoming conference is invitation-only, which may be a bit troublesome for him.

In fact, James Duke is not the only one who has similar ideas.

When the Xinghai Research Institute publicly released the carbon-based chip product launch conference, tickets from all over the world to Jinling were sold out directly.

Even many people who did not grab direct flights chose to buy tickets to Shanghai or other cities and then transfer.

For example, Apple's president and vice president Tim Miller rushed to China with two other executives of the company and several core R\u0026D personnel of the "XDG Exploration Design Team" as early as the day after the news of the product launch came out.

They hope to use this gap to contact the senior management of Xinghai Research Institute or Huawei, SMIC and other companies in advance to obtain more information about carbon-based chips.

Although Apple has always relied on a strong brand image and a complete self-developed system, the A series and M series chips have been thriving in the mobile phone and PC markets, and the market value has once reached 3.5 trillion US dollars, setting a record for the company with the highest market value in the world.

But both the A series and M series chips are based on the silicon-based semiconductor industry.

If the silicon-based semiconductor market collapses, they may die slower than other silicon-based semiconductor manufacturers, but their fate will definitely not be much better.

However, what disappointed everyone was that in the past few days, whether it was Xinghai Research Institute, Huawei, or SMIC, they all refused to meet with them.

This made people feel a little flustered.

Just as representatives from various countries and major semiconductor manufacturers rushed to participate in the meeting.

On the other side, at the Jinling International Convention and Exhibition Center, Xu Chuanzheng, the deputy director of the Science and Technology Department, Long Teng, and the general manager of Huawei walked side by side towards the inside of the venue.

For such a major event as the product launch of carbon-based chips, if there were no urgent matters to be dealt with in Shangjing, I am afraid that it would be Director Yuan Zhouli who came to attend this meeting.

However, there are many leaders attending this product launch today. In addition to Deputy Director Long Teng of the Science and Technology Department, there are also deputy directors of the Industrial Information Department, the top leader of Jinling, and so on.

In order to stand up for carbon-based chips, the government can be said to have spared no effort.

The group chatted while walking towards the venue.

Looking at the signs and posters at the hotel entrance, lobby, corridor and other places, and looking at the pictures of carbon-based chips, mobile phones, computers, etc., Long Teng, the deputy director of the Science and Technology Department, looked at Xu Chuan curiously and asked.

"Looking at these posters, have you already made carbon-based chip mobile phones and computers?"

In fact, the breakthrough in carbon-based chip technology shocked not only foreign semiconductor manufacturers and those Western governments.

Even they themselves were shocked.

It is known that Xinghai Research Institute is jointly researching carbon-based chips with Huawei HiSilicon, SMIC and other companies.

But the top management did not have much hope for whether there could be any major breakthroughs here.

After all, Xinghai Research Institute was transformed from the original controlled nuclear fusion research team. It is too big to cross from the energy field to the chip semiconductor field.

There are many domestic institutions that research carbon-based chips, and there are a lot of professional ones, but there have been no breakthroughs in this field.

As a result, no one expected that under the leadership of Academician Xu, carbon-based chip technology was really developed.

Xu Chuan smiled and replied: "Not yet, but Huawei is already designing mobile phones, computers and other products based on the current Xiongxin series chips."

"According to the current situation, it will take only about half a year at most for us to launch the first mobile phone with carbon-based chips!"

Beside him, Ren, CEO of Huawei, also smiled and said: "Three years!"

"In the longest three years, Huawei will completely change its internal ecology, and low-, medium- and high-end mobile phones, computers and other electronic products will fully apply carbon-based chips!"

"At the same time, Huawei's other products, such as routers, whole-house intelligence, network equipment and other products will also be replaced in batches!"

"In addition, we will also adjust the Hongmeng architecture to make it more suitable for the performance of carbon-based chips!"

At this moment, Ren Zhengfei was full of pride and confidence.

Around carbon-based chips and carbon-based semiconductors, Huawei will fully cooperate with Xinghai Research Institute to create a new ecological industrial chain.

Xu Chuan smiled and nodded, and said: "The application of carbon-based chips in mobile phones, computers and other products is not the key. According to the previously finalized policy, we need to completely change the entire semiconductor industry chain around carbon-based chips!"

"Our goal is to achieve upgrading in all fields where carbon-based chips and carbon-based semiconductors can be applied! Remove silicon and keep carbon!"

Hearing this, Long Teng, the deputy director of the Science and Technology Department, couldn't help but praise.

"Good! Good!"

"This is Huaguoxin! The real core of hope!"

The product launch of carbon-based chips was held at the Jinling International Convention and Exhibition Center.

After handing the invitation letter to the security guard, Intel's president Pat Gelsinger walked into the venue.

Led by the staff who were already ready, the group walked towards the inner field where the product launch was about to be held.

Looking at the signs and posters that were almost all over the venue, Pat Gelsinger narrowed his eyes and looked at the different product pictures on the posters.

Among them, what he cared about most was undoubtedly the square carbon-based chip picture.

The inky black chip was covered with mysterious patterns, and the pillars around it were as dazzling as the stars around a black hole.

Although he knew that this was just a concept map drawn by a computer, he couldn't help but feel nervous, and vaguely had a bad feeling.

Could it be that China has really developed and produced finished carbon-based chips?

How is this possible? !

You know, this is something that even top semiconductor companies such as Intel, Nvidia, and AMD have not been able to do. To this day, he still doesn't believe it is true.

As for whether he doesn't believe it or doesn't want to believe it, it's unclear.

At 9:50 in the morning, there are still ten minutes before the product launch of the carbon-based chip Longteng Generation will officially begin at the Jinling International Convention and Exhibition Center.

The "guests" from all over the world have already taken their seats, waiting for the official start of the launch conference with trepidation, fear, or anxiety.

Sitting in the front row with Ren Zhengfei, Xu Chuan glanced at the stage where there was no one now, and was also waiting for the meeting to begin.

However, the two of them were in a much happier mood. The breakthrough in carbon-based chip technology was an epic milestone for both him and China.

Tilting his body, Ren Zhengfei asked Xu Chuan with a smile before the press conference started: "Speaking of which, this is an opportunity to show your face in the semiconductor industry around the world? Academician Xu, are you really not going to say a few words?"

Xu Chuan turned his head to look at him, smiled and shook his head, and said: "There is no need, I am not interested."

Ren Zhengfei smiled and joked: "But you know, I am afraid that at least half of the people in this venue are here for your name."

Hearing this, Xu Chuan shrugged and said: "If I have to say a few words because they all come here because of your reputation, then don't I have to stand in the sky and speak every day?"

Ren Zhengfei was stunned for a moment, and then laughed.

"I almost forgot that if you open a lecture on mathematics and physics, I am afraid the scene will be more shocking than this."

He almost forgot that this guy's main job is a mathematical physicist, not a person in the semiconductor field.

And in the first two fields, his achievements are much more brilliant than in the semiconductor field.

The two chatted, and time passed bit by bit.

For Xu Chuan, he did not have much interest in giving a speech this time.

On the other hand, it was because he was cultivating more young people.

After all, he had no shortage of opportunities to show up on the world stage.

But it was different for other people, especially domestic researchers, who rarely had such opportunities.

And the people who gave a speech on stage this time were selected from the carbon-based chip laboratory.

A very young researcher named Fu Zhijie, who was less than 35 years old this year.

Although young, he made a significant contribution to the research of carbon-based chips.

Through packaging technology, the defects of carbon-based chips that are easily affected by factors such as temperature, humidity and chemical environment, which can easily lead to chip performance degradation or failure, were solved, greatly improving stability and reliability.

Moreover, unlike Xu Chuan himself, who is a half-baked person in the chip field, Fu Zhijie is a real talent in the chip field.

He dug him back from the United States a few years ago.

Maybe many people don’t know him, but he has a very famous classmate named ‘Cao Yuan’, the ‘genius boy’ who is famous in the field of graphene research.

The two had studied for a doctorate at MIT together, but their research directions were different.

After the completion of controlled nuclear fusion technology, Xu Chuan used his own influence and that of the Xinghai Research Institute to recruit both of them.

Now both of them work at the Xinghai Research Institute, but Cao Yuan is still continuing his research on graphene superconductivity, while Fu Zhijie has joined the carbon-based chip laboratory and has made great contributions in the process.

For Xu Chuan, he has never been stingy in rewarding these researchers.

For example, the opportunity to report on stage this time is both a reward and a training.

After all, for Fu Zhijie, with this resume, his future academic path in China will undoubtedly be smooth sailing.

At 9:58, the lights in the venue suddenly went out, and the surroundings fell into darkness.

On the stage, bright and dazzling lights came on, and a young man in a suit and leather shoes, but with a slightly nervous posture, stood in the center of the stage, his eyes fell on the crowd below.

Perhaps because it was his first time to appear in such an occasion, Fu Zhijie looked a little reserved. He took several deep breaths to calm down, and then tried to maintain a steady pace to make a simple opening speech.

After politely welcoming the guests, he did not have a strong aura like scholars like Xu Chuan or presidents like Ren Zhengfei who could insert some digressions on the stage. He went straight to the point.

After receiving a transparent protective box containing a small carbon-based chip from a staff member nearby, Fu Zhijie raised it, faced the camera, and spoke steadily.

"Xiongxin No. 1! The first commercial carbon-based chip in the Xiongxin series."

"It was developed by Xinghai Research Institute in cooperation with Huawei HiSilicon, SMIC, Peking University, Shuimu University and other enterprises and institutions."

"Its Xiongxin series carbon-based chips are based on carbon nanotube materials and are produced in combination with carbon-based chip technology. It uses multiple technologies such as carbon nanotube transistors developed by the carbon-based chip laboratory under the name of Xinghai Research Institute + Huawei HiSilicon's advanced SoC architecture + SMIC's 28nm multiple exposure."

"The standard Xiongxin No. 1 commercial chip integrates 10 million carbon-based transistors per square millimeter, totaling 1.07 billion transistors."

When Fu Zhijie stood on the stage and announced the specific performance parameters of the Xiongxin series chips, countless people participating in the product launch conference were still shocked at this moment, even if they had seen it in the journal "Exploration" in advance.

10 million carbon-based transistors per square millimeter, totaling 1.07 billion!

Quad-core design, with a main frequency of up to 5.8GHz, the thermal design power consumption TDP is only 30W!

The maximum number of memory channels is three, and the maximum memory bandwidth is up to 35.78GB/S

When these test experimental data were placed in front of everyone, the venue was silent.

No one communicated, no one discussed, and all kinds of emotions were stirring under the strange silence.

There was surprise, astonishment, shock, confusion, pessimism, surprise, and pride.

Everyone looked at the stage blankly, as if they had seen God or a deity, with their eyes focused on the chip that was only the size of a fingernail.

In fact, before coming here today, almost 90% of the people in the semiconductor industry, whether researchers or company executives, did not believe that Xinghai Research Institute had successfully produced a carbon-based chip with the same performance as that published in the "Exploration General Journal".

Most people tended to believe that the chip in the paper was just derived test data, or an imperfect product in the laboratory.

So when it was truly presented to everyone, no one dared to believe it at the first time, believing that it was really made.

More importantly, it actually had exactly the same performance as the paper data published in the "Exploration General Journal".

How is this possible? !

How did they do it?

For a moment, everyone present seemed to have lost the ability to speak, staring at the small black chip on the stage in a daze and shock.