My science and technology museum

"How is the research on the Asian market going? Does Warwick have any plans to release a new flagship phone in the second half of the year?"

Licanife Island.

Pingguo Spaceship Headquarters Building.

On the viewing platform with the best location, Kulas, holding red wine, looked into the distance, admiring the scenery while not allowing himself to talk about work with his assistant Mel next to him.

Apparently he was in a pretty good mood at this time.

Mel was definitely well prepared to appear here at this time, so he naturally did not hesitate in facing Kuras's inquiry. He immediately opened a report document in his hand and said: "According to the latest news we have received, in the second half of this year, Warwick and Xiao Midu has no plans to release a new flagship phone."

"This is a really good opportunity for us."

Seeing Kulas turn around and sit down, Mel took the initiative to hand the document in his hand to him.

Kuras had no intention of checking the file. He put the wine glass to his mouth and took a sip before asking another question.

“When will our carbon-based chips be available?”

"Currently, Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is stepping up its efforts to allocate production capacity to our OEM production, which should not affect the use of new mobile phones in the second half of the year." Meyer replied casually.

"very good."

"This time, all aspects are beneficial to us, and our share of the high-end mobile phone market in Asia will definitely be regained."

After once again confirming the next company layout, Kulas spoke confidently, feeling much more comfortable than before.

In order to reverse the decline in the high-end mobile phone market in Asia last year, Kulas decided to strive to launch the first carbon-based chip mobile phone in the second half of this year to compete with Huawei, Xiaomi and other relatively powerful solid-state battery mobile phone brands.

Mobile phone batteries are different from power batteries.

Improving battery life alone is not a must-have advantage for mobile phone users.

With the two core points of having a carbon-based chip with stronger performance and maintaining the original price, I believe there will be many users willing to repurchase Pingguo mobile phones.

The key point is that Huawei and Xiaomi have no plans to release new mobile phones in the second half of the year, which will be more conducive to the promotion and sales of Pingguo's carbon-based chip mobile phones. Even if the sales volume is still not as good as that of Huawei, it will definitely show a significant recovery compared to last year. situation.

And that's what Kulas wants to see most.

"Sit down and have a drink with me. When our carbon-based chip mobile phone is launched, there should be no more arguments from the board of directors."

At this point, Kuras may have become interested, and he immediately invited Mel to sit down and asked the service staff not far away to open a new bottle of wine.

Last year, due to the sodium-ion battery incident and the failure to purchase solid-state batteries, the company's smart device sales plummeted, and even affected not only the Asian market.

Although he still serves as the CEO of Pingguo, the company's board of directors is quite critical of this.

Now, as long as they wait for the launch of carbon-based chip mobile phones to restore the situation, next year they will be able to get the solid-state mobile phone batteries produced by Xingyuan Batteries. After all, the total price of the batteries for that year's production capacity has been paid. By then, even if they have no more batteries than Warwick In comparison, an absolute advantage will be re-formed.

Relying on carbon-based chips and solid-state batteries, it remains at the top of the high-end mobile phone market.

Mel naturally knew that the boss was in a good mood at this time, so he would not lose face at this time. He immediately sat down generously after hearing the invitation.

He took the red wine and glass from the waiter and poured the wine for Kulas himself.

But it is worth mentioning that although it is not the right time to mention the bad news, Mel still believes that there are some things that need to be paid attention to.

So after the two clinked glasses, they talked about future technology again.

"boss."

"As for the development of quantum computers in future technology, do we need to pay more attention or formulate corresponding plans?"

"No need." Kulas waved his hand after hearing this.

He raised his head and drank the red wine in the glass before explaining with a smile.

"If Future Technology also chooses to develop carbon-based chips, Xu Lei's ability may really be able to conquer the production process of carbon-based chips in a short time."

"Let Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. and Sanxing Electronics still struggle to hold their own in the semiconductor market."

"But they were too conceited and chose the quantum realm."

When Kulas said this, he seemed to be inspired by it, and deliberately paused for a few seconds to add a few words of his own opinion.

"This is a common problem among young people."

"After a few successes, I think there is nothing difficult, and I always want to try projects with high difficulty. However, I often end up being educated by the cruel reality."

"Quantum theory dictates that its chip cannot be installed in mobile phones like traditional silicon-based chips. Its device form will be very large and has strict requirements on the environment. They want to achieve commercialization and use quantum chips to crush carbon-based chips. Totally impossible."

After listening to Kuras's superficial understanding of quantum chips, Mel felt much more relieved.

As long as future technology cannot develop a true quantum computer, the industry status of Pingguo's carbon-based chip mobile phones will not be affected.

"I understand boss."

"I will often negotiate with Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd."

Temporarily ending the work matters, after Mel finished saying this, I saw her finish the red wine in the glass again.

Kuras's happy laughter continued to be heard on the viewing platform.

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Let’s talk about the domestic side.

Although everyone's concerns about future technology have not stopped in the following days, they think that Xu Lei's rash entry into the field of quantum computing is like stepping half into a black hole.

Not only will the project be difficult to achieve, it may also drag down the entire company.

However, Future Technology did not make any further response to the relevant comments on the entire network.

Due to the coherence characteristics of quantum operations, the accuracy of calculations can only be guaranteed when the temperature is close to absolute zero, so creating a low-temperature environment has become a more important step in manufacturing quantum computers.

Currently, all major forces use dilution refrigerators to provide a low-temperature environment, but there are only a few manufacturers in the world that can manufacture such equipment.

And they are all in the hands of overseas companies.

Given Future Technology's special status in the world, it may not be easy to get such a dilution refrigerator.

However, what Xu Lei wants to build is a quantum computer that can operate at least one million bits. The effect of the dilution refrigerator alone is obviously not enough.

This requires developing a more powerful refrigerator from scratch.

This ensures that quantum operations can proceed smoothly in a low-temperature environment without being interfered by radiation from external factors.

This is also the reason why Xu Lei brought Gu Sanlin, who was in the field of special materials, into the project team.

besides.

Xu Lei also assigned a new task to Liang Fuxing's team, asking them to develop an ultra-low temperature control chip. By interconnecting this chip with bits, the bit signals can be transmitted to the external secondary core.

Minimize heat generated by wiring.

Because to achieve so many steps requires a lot of special equipment and materials, some of which cannot even be obtained through formal channels.

In this case, although the project team members have been finalized, the project cannot be officially started until everything is in place.

certainly.

Xu Lei was not idle in his spare time.

In addition to normal eating and sleeping, I basically focus on improving the core drawings.

After all, with such a thing, Xiao Chengyong and Yuan Zhi will be more comfortable serving as assistants.

It’s noon this day.

In the restaurant of the Future Technology Headquarters Building.

Sitting next to the window, Xu Lei and Chen Shihe were sitting here, taking advantage of their meal to learn about the global trends these days.

"Mr. Xu."

"At present, netizens and many overseas forces still believe that we cannot conquer quantum computing, saying that it is simply impossible for quantum chips to be commercialized to serve mass users."

For some reason, although they were still talking about company matters, Chen Shihe liked the current atmosphere very much.

Especially watching Xu Lei eating, I always felt very safe in my heart.

This is a completely different feeling than being in the office.

So much so that when explaining these situations, his eyes were entirely on Xu Lei, and he didn't even realize that the food on the table in front of him was cold.

In recent days, Xu Lei has had almost no contact with the outside world in order to improve the core drawings, so he is quite curious about the trends of various forces around the world. He wants to know what kind of response they will make after Future Technology announces the development of quantum computers.

In this case, Xu Lei focused on Chen Shihe's voice and did not notice her gaze.

After hearing all these words, Xu Lei temporarily put down his chopsticks and said with a confident smile on his face: "Of course I understand that quantum chips cannot be popularized for civilian use."

“But what we are going to do is use the cloud approach, allowing users to abandon traditional chips and directly access quantum computers to deal with problems.”

“At that time, the equipment everyone uses will be more appropriate than a smart terminal, rather than a monitor.”

Listening to Xu Lei's plans for the future industry, Chen Shihe couldn't help but fall into admiration.

Imagine in your mind the changes in all walks of life in the quantum era.

It wasn't until Xu Lei's voice rang in his ears again that Chen Shihe came back to his senses.

"By the way, do Pingguo and Truss have any new developments?"

"Pingguo has planned to officially launch a carbon-based chip mobile phone in the second half of the year. There has been little movement from Tesla. However, Mars seems to be focusing on Starlink and should continue to launch satellites this year."

Facing Xu Lei's inquiry, Chen Shihe quickly told everything he knew about the situation.

After losing the sub-region market, Tesla has been seriously injured. It is quite normal to have no new actions. Future Technology has already begun to study quantum communications, and there is no need to worry about Masen's Starlink plan.

However, Pingguo was so eager to launch a carbon-based chip mobile phone to regain the market that Xu Lei became very interested, and then he murmured thoughtfully: "If our quantum terminal equipment can be launched by the end of the year, I believe Lao Ku’s face must be very good-looking.”