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Time flies by like a white horse. For many people, the capital city goes from the scorching summer to the rustling autumn wind in the blink of an eye.

Autumn in Beijing is a little drier, but it is extremely comfortable. The temperature is suitable. Unlike many places where it starts to rain in autumn, the autumn sun shines brightly most of the time, and it’s not too cold even when it’s windy.

Half of the trees in Yanbei University have turned yellow, mixed with evergreen forests all year round, making the school more colorful, like a finely crafted oil painting. In the afternoon, the number of students at Weiming Lake began to increase, and youthful laughter could be heard from time to time.

For Ning Wei, the biggest sense of accomplishment during this period is that little Ningzhe is finally half a year old.

From the perspective of a father, his youngest son is quieter than other children. He rarely cries at night. He wakes up occasionally during the day. Most of the time he does not cry or fuss, just holding his thumb in his mouth. Explore this strange world with curious and wise eyes.

Although the doctor told him that the eyes of a half-year-old baby are not fully developed, and the visual acuity is only about 0.5 at most. In theory, everything seen is blurry, so no matter how clear the eyeballs look, Ning Wei still feels that little Ningzhe's eyes are He is wise, otherwise there is no way to explain how this little guy can make the always steely old Ning become softer after being brought home.

When he was holding the little one, he was peed all over the body, and he happily said that this meant that little Ning Zhe in the family would become a great person in the future, because he felt very strong when he peed, which was much stronger than Ning Wei when he was a child.

This made Ning Wei feel humiliated, and he believed that Lao Ning had no right to speak at all. According to Ning's mother, Lao Ning never hugged him when he was a child, and when he was just born, Lao Ning even thought he was too ugly, and his facial features were wrinkled and huddled together, like a monkey...

Damn...whose facial features were not wrinkled by soaking when they were first born? ! Now in the grandson's generation, even the pee smells fragrant. The double standards of old men are so terrifying. Is this something we learned from the United States?

Yes, it’s all America’s fault! Transformed a strong old man into a shameless double standard.

Of course, Ning Wei would not dare to say this in front of Lao Ning. The suppression of blood is something that cannot be explained. It may seem like nothing to some people, but to the vast majority of normal people, it is like a thousand pieces of gold. .

The preposition is, for example, the relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States.

From a historical point of view, Lao Ying should be Lao Mei's biological father. But now that Lao Mei has recognized the rich Lao Yi as her adoptive father, she doesn't quite recognize her real father. She even wants to be Lao Ying's father, which is not very filial.

This is like something that happened recently.

Modeling, a British start-up company, was spotted by Google and hoped to acquire it directly at a lower price, but was rejected. As a result, the two parties started a lawsuit over intellectual property rights, which directly triggered the involvement of higher supervision, and then it became a hot search.

The current flagship product of this Modeling company is called Instant Jian in Chinese. It is a software product based on the currently popular three-dimensional display technology. Specifically, you only need to take a few photos of an object from various angles, and then perform background intelligent processing to restore the three-dimensional prototype in a three-dimensional display environment.

Of course, limited by the computing power of the device and the efficiency of artificial intelligence, the degree of restoration of this software is actually not that high, but it still performs quite well throughout Europe and the United States. It is basically one of the must-buy software after updating 3D display products in Europe and the United States.

Ning Wei learned about this incident after the two parties had already had a conflict. Originally, he had no intention of caring about such a trivial matter. This kind of software could be developed even by Ningshe, or it did not need to be developed at all.

If you are a paid member of the March platform, you can actually find similar services in the function list provided by the platform. Moreover, March's own cloud computing platform has greater advantages in fuzzy condition modeling, and the generated three-dimensional models are more accurate, but its main service targets are some enterprise-level users, which can make 3D modeling more convenient. For the time being, no one has thought that it can be extended to the civilian field.

The main reason I paid special attention to this matter is that Lloyd Adams, the founder of Modeling, has a very distant relationship with him.

Lloyd Adams graduated from Imperial College London, and his postgraduate tutor happened to be Professor Bona Kane.

The point of the relationship between the two is that when Ning Wei was still at Jiangnan University, Professor Ken of Imperial College London could be said to be the first professor to extend an olive branch to him and invite him to study for a Ph.D., and his attitude was particularly sincere. It is said that the professor even had a quarrel with the school because of the delay in sending the invitation letter.

Of course, a few years later, many people in the school will most likely still regret it. If it had been done more appropriately, maybe it would have been true?

In fact, if it weren't for the hundreds of millions of accidents that happened later, which gave Ning Wei more choices, and Lao Ning has always been respectful and insensitive to Ning Wei's study abroad, maybe he and Lloyd Adams were brothers. It’s related.

It is said that under the influence of Professor Ken, this Lloyd Adams was also one of Ning Wei’s fans.

So after learning about this incident, Ning Wei specifically commented on his social platform: "Listen to my advice, ignore Google, jump up and slap him in the face!"

Although this sentence was published in the Chinese media, the English used was also specifically @Imperial College of Technology’s official WeChat account in China.

However, when the matter developed into a lawsuit between the two parties, Ning Wei had already put the matter aside. After all, he didn't really go to Imperial College to study under Ken, and the relationship between everyone was only enough to support him on the Internet. After all, he had no interest in the Modeling company, and considering his age, Professor Ken was about to retire, and his little connection with Imperial College also disappeared with the retirement of old Ken.

And if you want to ask Ning Wei’s true opinion, he thinks that it is a good thing for a start-up company like Modeling to be sold directly to Google. It's better to take some money and do something else than to run a business like this.

Not only the UK, but Europe as a whole has fallen behind in the Internet era. There are no eye-catching companies. The alpha dog studied by Deep Mind in the early years indeed once amazed an era. Unfortunately, that was also after the acquisition by Google. There seemed to be no soil for these Internet-based high-tech companies to thrive.

Even Germany, which once led the world in high-tech industry. In this era, the only ones that have anything to do with the most advanced technology are Infineon, one of the representatives of semiconductors, and the optical technology that was once indispensable for manufacturing chips. In an era when the three-dimensional silicon-based heterogeneous three-dimensional chip manufacturing industry is becoming more and more popular, former industry leaders like Infineon are also facing transformation problems.

Especially in the era when 3D display is bound to Ningxin, ASML, the former leading lithography machine company, is struggling to survive. Once the darling of the world's semiconductor industry, it is now facing a dilemma of choice. When manufacturing costs remain high, it will significantly reduce the price of top-level lithography machines and struggle to survive, or it will cut off its strength and give up on continuing to promote the next generation of lithography. machine research, and turned to the development of new manufacturing models...

No matter which one you choose, it seems to be very difficult now. The point is that it depends on the attitude of relevant Chinese companies.

This is another embarrassing thing. After all, the relationship between the two parties was not that good back then. But there is no way, the industry is changing too fast, and consumers are voting with their feet, which directly makes the prospects of the entire industry less clear.

The current fact is that the current combination of Ningxin and Hongmeng systems best supports the 3D displays that are being robbed by the market. Whether it is the former Intel-Microsoft combination or other products, although the three-dimensional mode can be run, there will always be shortcomings of one kind or another. It will probably take some time for the two sides to get along. Not only are there technical problems to overcome, but the two sides also have to discuss various man-made technical standards.

It is not difficult to unify technology, but what is difficult is the contradictions and differences that naturally arise when everyone sits together.

But no matter how noisy, one thing is the industry's acquiescence. In this era, traditional silicon-based chips can only be regarded as second-rate products. In the face of a relatively saturated market, consumers lack the desire to purchase machines and are more sensitive to price, which are negative market sentiments.

The emerging two-dimensional and three-dimensional conversion market is exactly the opposite. Compared with global demand, the output is obviously insufficient, the market demand is still huge, and consumers have a strong desire to buy, and they can even accept a premium.

Reflecting on the industry itself, it is probably that the products of Ningxin and Apple are still very popular. Especially after the new generation electric vehicle technologies of Huawei and Apple have begun to be equipped with three-dimensional navigation display technology, the products of the two companies have become popular again. saute.

In this case, it is not just equipment providers like ASML that are frustrated. The foundries and packaging plants upstream and downstream of the entire semiconductor industry chain are having an even more difficult time.

For example, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company...

Once the largest chip processing plant in the world, it was reluctant to receive orders.

It is no exaggeration to say that if it sneezes, the world's chip prices will reach a peak...

However, order volume has been declining since last year, and this year there has even been a surplus of internal production lines. There are not that many orders anymore, but if the machines that produce chips stop, it will be a huge loss. As a last resort, several production lines have been completely stopped.

What’s even more frightening is that while the order volume has decreased, unit prices have also seen a downward trend. Of course, this is understandable. When traditional silicon-based chips are only suitable for second-rate products in consumers' minds, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.'s customers must be desperate to keep prices down. There's nothing right or wrong, it's just that we just want to survive the current situation.

Along with the online lottery carnival in March when an academician gave birth to a son, it was not surprising that the entire semiconductor industry was at a point where it might die if it did not change.

For this reason, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. changed its leadership. The new helmsman has been staying in the Chinese capital for most of the year, hoping to introduce a new generation of chip manufacturing production lines to continue its glory.

Ning Wei knew about this because the young helmsman had no idea how many roundabout connections he had made, so Ning Wei had to betray a big boss to have a meal. When eating, the helmsman kept his posture very low, but it can only be said that he used it in the wrong place. Because Ning Wei himself doesn’t quite understand how the entire industry chain operates, let alone how to speak.

Although Ning Xin is named after him, in fact Ning Wei has not participated in the operation of the entire industry chain at all. The production of high-precision growth machine tools, various supporting equipment, etc. involve the efforts of thousands of people. He can't get involved in upstream factory orders, production line construction, etc., which involve countless profit distributions. I don’t even have that idea.

Fortunately, as he grows older, Ning Wei becomes more and more skilled in handling this kind of thing.

It is nothing more than praising the everlasting friendship between the two parties, and then stating that he will strongly support the determination of some people in Taiwan who want to contribute to China's semiconductor industry, and then euphemistically stating that his influence is not actually that great, and finally sublimating it, although I It has no influence, but I must go and ask for help.

At the dinner table, we greet each other passionately as brothers and sisters, and then leave our contact information. On the way back from the meal, I blacklisted the numbers of my fair-weather friends - and everyone was happy with the meal.

Ning Wei doesn't have much emotion about this.

Every industrial revolution is actually like this. When advanced industries eliminate backward production capacity, it doesn’t leave much time for everyone to react. For Ning Wei, the results of the basic physics laboratory are the top priority.

Whether an alien mining program can be launched in the next decade depends on the results of the laboratory. It is a pity that some companies could have continued to be brilliant, but they were eliminated in the torrent of history and were unable to participate in the competition of the next era. No need to remember, it’s just a rule.

These little things are just spices that enrich life.

Of course, when the time came to October, another small thing began to enrich Ning Wei's life. Over there, discussions about this year's Nobel Prize are once again ripples on the Internet.

In fact, if you really pay attention to the Nobel Prize, you will find that the most discussed thing every October is actually the Nobel Prize in Literature. As for other awards, most of them only triggered small-scale attention and discussion in some more professional forums.

This is actually related to the knowledge structure of most people.

Whether it is physical chemistry or biomedicine, they all involve extremely professional knowledge. When analyzing who can win the award, you need to have a deep understanding of the research fields of the leaders in the relevant industries over the years, as well as the most cutting-edge research in the relevant majors. Only by dabbling in the research direction can you analyze something useful.

For the vast majority of people in this world, not to mention understanding the content of the specific analysis, the only feeling given to those scientific terms that require long attributives to be accurately defined is that they are unclear.

For example, a cutting-edge research direction in physics uses AdS/CFT duality to study the properties of low-energy chromodynamics, such as chiral phase transitions, confined phase transitions, chromatic superconductivity and quark-gluon plasma, as well as condensed matter physics. Some phenomena in the field, such as high-temperature superconductivity, Hall effect, KT phase transition, exotic metals, Fermi liquids, non-Fermi liquids, topological insulators, cold atomic systems, etc., are expected to be studied in the mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity and topological states of matter. Breakthrough progress has been made in theoretical aspects and related properties of low-energy quantum chromodynamics.

Judging from the overall situation, each word is not difficult, and no uncommon words are used, but when combined together, people who have not studied related majors will probably be confused. You can't really comment that "coal is needed to study these, and coal needs to be washed..."

Not to mention that this is just a discussion of one research direction. When it comes to any of the topics, there are all kinds of complicated formulas and equations that make people's heads boil. Heisenberg model without external field, Hamiltonian expansion, ▽θ (r) = σθ/σx*x (unit vector in x direction) + σθ/σx*y (unit vector in y direction)...

These expressions that seem extremely simple to professionals can make ordinary people wonder whether they and the people who study these things are the same creature.

But literature is different. As long as you know a thousand Chinese characters, you can comment on any literary work on the Internet, get passionate about it, and trigger debates. You can also analyze your own opinions from multiple dimensions and find faults? nonexistent! Both literature itself and literary appreciation have always been a very subjective matter. This is just like asking the original author to do reading comprehension questions, and you may get a very low score...

Is there any real correct answer to this thing about literature? All its value lies in its universal recognition. The so-called world masterpieces are only praised by the vast majority of people in the industry. Even if Sheng Doumin, who only knows a thousand words, can say what a certain masterpiece is about, he is still qualified, because he really doesn't like it...

The awesome thing about science is that if you don’t like a certain theorem, unless you can find evidence to falsify it, you can only accept it no matter how much you don’t like it. If you bring up some fallacious theories to the real experts, they will take a second look and they will see that it is true. Lost...

But in terms of literature, even if you don’t like a world famous book, you can still comment on it. As long as you don’t like it, who do you think you are?

Therefore, 10,000 people can really have 10,000 opinions on who can win the Nobel Prize and who does not deserve it. Any writer in the world can come up with an argument. If their favorite writer is not selected, there must be something shady. And things like shady stories are the most exciting to discuss.

But what is different this year is that the Chinese Internet has begun to hype the topic of whether Ning Wei can win the award, achieving zero breakthrough.

Although Yang and Li, two real masters in history, both won the Nobel Prize for their discovery of parity nonconservation, after all, the two masters had already become American citizens when they won the prize, and they could only be regarded as Chinese. Origin.

Ning Wei is different. Not only has he not changed his nationality or even had any experience studying abroad, he is an extremely pure scientist trained in China. Moreover, although he has not achieved long-term achievements in physics, his achievements have already been promoted as the 21st The greatest advance in physics of the century.

The news doesn’t even use “one” to limit…

This is really suitable for hype...