I Found A Planet

After listening to Tang Shengwu's introduction.

Chen Jin nodded.

Suddenly remembered something.

He looked at Ling Jundong, who was sitting on the left hand side, and said, "Old Ling, did Intel release a desktop CPU product last month, which is said to surpass our 'Qinglong II' in performance, is there such a thing? "

Some time ago, he vaguely remembered that there were many provocative comments on his personal Weibo, many of which were written in English.

His English is not very good, but after noticing words like 'Fack' in it, he realized that it was not a good word.

"Yes, there is such a thing."

Ling Jundong nodded and said: "The performance of Qinglong's second-generation CPU was surpassed by an Intel CPU model iX-10000, and their counterattack was very quick."

"But the method they adopted was very extreme. They doubled the area of ​​the chip wafer and increased the operating frequency to 8GHZ. In the end, they surpassed our second-generation Qinglong in terms of running points, which can be regarded as a comeback."

"But it doesn't make much sense. The maximum power consumption of this CPU exceeds 400 watts. It can be said to be a fire dragon. It's so hot that you can fry eggs on it. It has little commercial value. It's just to prove that they didn't lose. This product is almost unsalable.”

Intel just won back face, and the market is still losing ground.

"With a working frequency of 8GHZ, the CPU must not smoke directly?"

Chen Jin frowned and asked, 5GHZ is basically the upper limit of the operating frequency that a silicon chip can withstand, how did they achieve 8GHZ without burning out.

"They used the second-generation graphene heat dissipation technology, and the heat dissipation capacity has been greatly improved. If liquid nitrogen is used for cooling, it can even be overclocked to 10GHZ, but it can still quickly remove heat and allow the CPU to work normally."

"From this point of view, Intel's product does have some advantages. Our Suzaku second-generation CPU, domestic DIY players can only overclock to 6.8GHZ, and we need to continue to catch up in some areas."

Ling Jundong introduced.

In addition, Intel plans to conquer the 7nm process CPU within 18 months, and the performance will double by then.

And launched the research and development of a new architecture, and strive to come up with an architecture more advanced than X86 within two years, reaching a level comparable to the "Weaver Girl Architecture".

In order to meet the challenge from Xinghai Technology, Intel mobilized all its strength and completely abandoned the "toothpaste squeeze strategy". Instead, it launched a toothpaste every year, and Xinghai Technology must be suppressed!

But... From Chen Jin's point of view, Intel's actions were just a desperate struggle.

Xinghai Technology will not dance with it, and will follow it into 7 nanometers.

Instead, go straight to another track and leave Intel behind forever!

Because there is a CPU made of a material that has a much brighter future than a CPU made of silicon crystals!

Graphene CPU!

Silicon chips are the end of the road; they are the real future.

Just in addition to the material research center, there is a graphene CPU research and development team in the chip research center of Xinghai Technology. This team has been established for more than two years. value information.

In addition, the material research institute has completely conquered the preparation technology of graphene.

The graphene CPU he was looking forward to had recently produced some laboratory products, but Chen Jin did not have a detailed understanding of the specific performance of this product.

He asked Liang Ying, the vice president, to contact the research center. During the video conference, Chen Jin asked Rong Weizhi, the project leader, a few questions.

"Leader Rong, you said that you have made several laboratory products, how are the performance of these products?"

Rong Weizhi is in his early thirties, very young. He is a top student in a prestigious school, has an arrogant personality, and is a "perfectionist". Many people made complaints about him, calling him "very high IQ, but zero EQ".

Fortunately, this did not delay the progress of the project, and Chen Jin didn't particularly care about it.

"No, the performance of the product is not good enough, it's all rubbish!"

Rong Weizhi shook his head: "We have determined the technical route of the graphene CPU a long time ago. There is no big problem. What we are doing wholeheartedly is to try our best to reduce the size of the graphene transistor."

"In August last year, we successfully produced the first graphene transistor. Its size is 100 microns, which is very far from the commercial standard."

"We continued to improve and shrink the size of the transistor. After one month, we reduced the size to 10 microns."

"Continued to improve, so that the size of the transistor continued to shrink, compressed to 1 micron, 600 nanometers, 500 nanometers, 400 nanometers, 300 nanometers...Recently, the size can be reduced by one hundred nanometers every month."

"In August of this year, we finally achieved the size of graphene transistors to the extent of 100 nanometers."

"However, it suddenly becomes more difficult. No significant results have been achieved in the past two months. The size of 100 nanometers is absolutely not acceptable. It cannot meet the commercial standards. It must be compressed to 50 nanometers or less than 30 nanometers. Potential to replace traditional silicon CPUs."

Rong Weizhi shook his head again and again, he was still extremely dissatisfied with the progress he had made so far.

100 nanometers?

Chen Jin's heart moved, and he asked him: "After you compress the graphene CPU's manufacturing process to 100 nanometers, what is its operating frequency?"

"100GHZ."

Rong Weizhi replied: "It is easy to achieve this operating frequency. The heat generation of graphene transistors is only one-thousandth of that of traditional silicon transistors, and the thermal conductivity far exceeds that of silicon. In theory, the operating frequency of graphene CPUs can be improved." to 1THZ, but still generates less heat."

Chen Jin was rather surprised. 1THZ, this working frequency, can be said to be extremely high to an exaggerated level.

It means that the efficiency of a graphene transistor is about equal to 1000 silicon transistors.

Under the same area, the number of transistors integrated in a 10nm process chip is about 100 times that of a 100nm process chip.

But the operating frequency of graphene transistors can be thousands of times higher.

On the whole, the graphene CPU with 100nm process cannot be said to have no commercial value, but the commercial value is very high.

For example, the processor used in supercomputers, even if the manufacturing process is relatively backward, but if the operating frequency is set to 100GHZ, the computing performance is not much different, but the electricity cost is saved by at least 90%.

Based on the electricity bill of more than 300 million per year for an Exascale supercomputer, after using the graphene CPU, the annual electricity bill saved is more than 270 million.

The saved electricity bill almost paid back the cost of buying the CPU.

However, due to Rong Weizhi's perfectionist character, the commercially available graphene CPU was actually delayed by two months.

Chen Jin immediately criticized him: "The 100-nanometer manufacturing process is enough, why didn't you tell us until now? Dozens of days were wasted."

"I'm sorry Mr. Chen, this is my fault, I didn't fully realize its value."

Rong Weizhi realized his mistake and apologized by scratching his head.

Chen Jin shook his head, instead of continuing to criticize him, he gave two instructions: one is to continue to explore graphene CPUs with smaller processes.

Second, immediately commercialize the 100nm process graphene CPU, and develop a supercomputer with less power consumption!

After all, supercomputers consume too much power, and Xinghai Technology has a lot of large-scale servers and supercomputers, and the number of supercomputers has exceeded 30, which has reached the standard for opening supercomputer Internet cafes.

What followed, of course, was the extremely exaggerated electricity bill.

Even a local tycoon like Chen Jin can't completely ignore the annual electricity bill of at least three or four billion yuan... I thought it would be great to save part of the electricity bill.

Therefore, it is urgent to use graphene CPU.