Just when everyone was discussing the authenticity of carbon-based chips and doubting "Exploration" and Professor Xu, he began to violate his 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.
That is, 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 Warwick, SMIC and other companies.
That is the finished carbon-based chip of the ‘Xiongxin Series’!
When this 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 so accurate.
To be honest, carbon-based chips are more like a brand-new building built next to the silicon-based semiconductor industry building.
This brand-new building is higher and stronger than the old silicon-based semiconductor building in terms of functionality, 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!
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At the same time, on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.
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 emerged from the
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 has made a big 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, holds a copy of the "Discover" 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.
"Discovery 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 Journal"." James Duke nodded and said, "It's the one about 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, but... 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 silicon-based transistors carved by photolithography machines. In theory, it has stronger storage capacity."
"If we follow the data published in "Exploration·General Journal" and according to my calculations, in terms of the performance of non-volatile memory chips, 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 could answer, 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, Regino looked at James Duke with a questioning look, and then said: "Moreover, I just heard yesterday that the experimental data in "Exploration General Journal" may be fraudulent."
Duke smiled, closed the journal in his hand, and said: "The corresponding author of this paper bears the name of Professor Xu Chuan. With his academic reputation and credibility, compared to those questioning rumors,
I still prefer to believe the former."
"What's more, it's still in the critical field of semiconductors."
"I think the companies that least want to see a breakthrough in carbon-based chip technology are companies like Intel and AMD that 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 am afraid that no media can refuse."
"What's more, maybe there is some intention from the authorities behind this."
Looking at the Discovery Journal in his hand, James Duke had a smile on his lips: "Moreover, in just three days, the carbon-based chip laboratory under the name of Xinghai Research Institute will officially hold a product launch conference to disclose their research and development.
The latest finished carbon-based chip.”
"If it is said that the data is fake, it cannot be hidden from everyone."
Breakthroughs in carbon-based chip technology are not good news for Intel, AMD, and even the US government, which dominate 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 usher in a series of semiconductor manufacturers such as Intel, Qualcomm, AMD, etc., and even the entire Western interest group in the early stage.
of suppression.
In the most popular terms, a fight is necessary.
The current smear campaign against the "Explorer" journal and questioning the falsification of experimental data in papers published in "Explorer General Journal" are just the first wave of tactics.
This is one of the core rights to speak in the high-tech field, and it is also a power change among countries around the world.
Changes in power are often accompanied by conflict and bloodshed.
Of course, this is viewed from the two huge perspectives of silicon-based semiconductors and carbon-based semiconductors, and even the old Western interest groups and the new rising China.
From his personal perspective, not only did he not panic, he even had a hint of hope.
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 seize the opportunity 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 Chinese.
This has great advantages for preliminary work.
With some thoughts in his mind, James Duke took out his mobile phone from his pocket and searched for flights to China.
For the silicon-based semiconductor industry, this may be a fatal blow, but for him personally, this may be a missed opportunity that he will never encounter again in his life.
Of course, he also had to find a way to get a ticket for the carbon-based chip product launch conference.
I heard that the upcoming meeting is by invitation only, which may be a bit troublesome for him.
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In fact, James Duke was not the only one who had similar ideas.
When Xinghai Research Institute announced its carbon-based chip product launch, air tickets to Jinling from all over the world immediately sold out.
Many people who didn't even get direct flights chose to buy flights to Shanghai or other cities and then transfer.
For example, Apple's President and Vice President Tim Miller arrived as early as the day after the news of the product launch came out with two other executives of the company and several core R&D personnel of the "XDG Discovery Design Team"
China.
They hope to take advantage of this gap to contact senior executives 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, A series chips and M series chips have become popular in the mobile phone and PC markets, and their market value once reached 3.5 trillion yuan.
, setting a record for the world’s most valuable company.
But both A-series chips 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 end will definitely not be much better.
However, what disappoints everyone is that in recent days, whether it is Xinghai Research Institute, Warwick, or SMIC and other companies, they have refused to meet with them.
This can't help but make people feel a little panicked.
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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 Chuan was walking side by side toward the interior of the venue with Long Teng, the deputy director of the Science and Technology Department, and Mr. Ren from Warwick.
For such a major event as the product launch of carbon-based chips, if there were not urgent matters to be dealt with in Beijing, I am afraid that the person attending this meeting would be the senior leader Yuan Zhouli.
However, there are many leaders attending the product launch today. In addition to Deputy Director Long Teng from the Science and Technology Center, there are also deputy directors from the Industrial Information Center, top leaders from Jinling, etc.
It can be said that the government has spared no effort in building a platform for carbon-based chips.
The group of people chatted while walking towards the venue.
His eyes fell on the signs and posters at the hotel entrance, lobby, corridors and other places. Looking at the pictures related to carbon-based chips and mobile phones, computers, etc., Long Teng, the deputy director of the Science and Technology Department, looked curiously.
Xu Chuan asked.
"Looking at these posters, you have already produced carbon-based chip mobile phones and computers?"
In fact, the breakthrough in carbon-based chip technology shocked not only foreign semiconductor manufacturers and Western governments.
Even they themselves were shocked.
Xinghai Research Institute is well known for its research on carbon-based chips in conjunction with Huawei HiSilicon, SMIC and other companies.
But the senior management actually doesn't have much hope as to whether they can make any major breakthroughs here.
After all, Xinghai Research Institute was transformed from the original controllable nuclear fusion research team, and the leap from the energy field to the chip semiconductor field is too big.
There are many domestic institutions researching 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 would actually be 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 only take about half a year at most before we can launch the first mobile phone using carbon-based chips!"
On the side, Mr. Ren from Warwick also smiled and said: "Three years!"
"In up to three years, Warwick will comprehensively change its internal ecology, and electronic products such as low-, mid- and high-end mobile phones, computers, etc. will fully use carbon-based chips!"
"At the same time, Warwick'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 extremely proud and confident.
Centering on carbon-based chips and carbon-based semiconductors, Warwick will fully cooperate with Xinghai Research Institute to create a new ecological industry chain.
Xu Chuan smiled and nodded, and said: "The application of carbon-based chips in mobile phones and computers is not the key. According to the previously agreed policies, we need to make complete changes to 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 leave carbon!"
Hearing this, Long Teng, the deputy director of science and technology, couldn't help but praise him.
"Okay! Okay!"
"This is Hua Guoxin! The real core of hope!"
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The product launch conference of carbon-based chips was held at Jinling International Convention and Exhibition Center.
After handing the invitation letter to the security guard, Intel President Pat Gelsinger walked into the venue.
Led by the staff who had already prepared, the group walked towards the infield where the product launch conference was about to be held.
Looking at the signs and posters that were almost all over the venue, Pat Gelsinger squinted his eyes and looked at the different product pictures on the posters.
Among them, what concerned him the most was undoubtedly the boxy carbon-based chip diagram.
The pitch-black chip is covered with mysterious patterns, and the pillars around it are as dazzling as the stars around a black hole.
Although he knew that this was just a conceptual diagram drawn by a computer, it made his heart tighten involuntarily, and he had a vague feeling of something bad.
Has China really developed and prepared 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 failed to do. To this day, he still doesn't believe this is true.
It's not clear whether he doesn't believe it or doesn't want to believe it.
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At 9:50 in the morning, in ten minutes, the carbon-based chip Dragon Generation product launch will officially start at the Jinling International Convention and Exhibition Center.
The ‘guests’ from all over the world have already taken their seats, waiting anxiously, fearfully or uneasily for the official start of the press conference.
Sitting with Ren Zhengfei in the front row, Xu Chuan glanced at the empty stage and was also waiting for the meeting to start.
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.
Turning sideways, before the press conference started, Ren Zhengfei smiled and asked Xu Chuan: "Speaking of which, this is an opportunity to show your face in the world's semiconductor industry? Academician Xu, don't you really want to go up and say a few words?"
Xu Chuan turned to look at him, smiled and shook his head, saying: "It's not necessary, I'm not interested either."
Ren Zhengfei smiled and joked: "But you must know that at least half of the people in this venue are here because of your name."
Hearing this, Xu Chuan shrugged and said, "If I have to go up and say a few words because they come here because of their admiration, then wouldn't I have to stand in the sky and speak every day?"
Ren Zhengfei was stunned for a moment, then laughed.
"I almost forgot. If you gave a lecture on mathematics and physics, the scene would be even more shocking than this."
He almost forgot that this guy was a mathematical physicist, not someone 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 by little by little.
For Xu Chuan, the reason why he did not give a speech this time was because he really had no interest.
On the other hand, there are some young people who are more cultivated.
After all, for him, there has long been no shortage of opportunities to pretend... ahem... to show up on the world stage.
But others are different, especially domestic scientific researchers, who rarely have this opportunity.
This time, the people who took the stage to give a speech were selected from the carbon-based laboratory-on-a-chip.
A very young scientific researcher named Fu Zhijie, who is less than thirty-five this year.
Although young, he has made considerable contributions in the research process of carbon-based chips.
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Stability and reliability issues.
Moreover, unlike Xu Chuan himself who is a dabbler in the chip field, this Fu Zhijie is a real talent in the chip field.
He dug it back from the United States a few years ago.
Perhaps many people don’t know him, but he also has a very famous classmate named ‘Cao Yuan’, a ‘genius boy’ who is famous in the field of graphene research.
The two studied for Ph.D.s at MIT together, but their research directions were different.
After the controllable nuclear fusion technology was completed, Xu Chuan used his own influence and that of Xinghai Research Institute to recruit both of them back.
Now both work at Xinghai Research Institute, but Cao Yuan continues to study his graphene superconductivity, while Fu Zhijie joined the Carbon-based Chip Laboratory and made great contributions in the process.
For Xu Chuan, he has never been stingy in rewarding these scientific researchers.
For example, this opportunity to report on stage is both a reward and an exercise.
After all, for Fu Zhijie, with this resume blessing, his future academic career in China will undoubtedly be smooth sailing.
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At nine fifty-eight, the lights in the venue suddenly went out, and the surrounding area fell into darkness.
On the stage, bright and dazzling lights came on, and a young man in a suit and leather shoes with a slightly nervous posture stood in the center of the stage, his eyes falling on the crowd in the audience.
Perhaps because it was the first time he appeared on such an occasion, Fu Zhijie had a somewhat reserved look on his face. He took several deep breaths before calming down, and then made a simple opening statement while trying to maintain a steady speaking speed.
After politely welcoming the guests present, unlike scholars like Xu Chuan or CEOs like Ren Zhengfei, who have a strong aura and can make some digressions on the stage, he went straight to the topic.
After receiving a transparent protective box containing a small carbon-based chip from the staff on the side, Fu Zhijie lifted it up, faced the camera, and spoke smoothly.
"Xiongxin No. 1! The first commercially available carbon-based chip of the Xiongxin series of chips."
"It was jointly developed by Xinghai Research Institute and Huawei HiSilicon, SMIC, Peking University, Shuimu University and other corporate institutions."
"The Xiongxin series of carbon-based chips are produced based on carbon nanotube materials and combined with carbon-based chip technology. They use the advanced SoC architecture of Huawei HiSilicon's carbon nanotransistors developed by the carbon-based chip laboratory under the name of Xinghai Research Institute
SMIC’s 28nm multiple exposure and other multiple technologies were jointly completed.”
"The standard Xiongxin No. 1 commercial chip has integrated 10 million carbon-based transistors per square millimeter, for a total of 1.07 billion transistors..."
When Fu Zhijie stood on the stage and disclosed the specific performance parameters of the Xiongxin series chips, countless people in the audience who participated in the product launch, even though they had seen it in advance in the "Exploration" journal, still felt at this moment
I was shocked by it.
10 million carbon-based transistors per square millimeter, a total of 1.07 billion!
Quad-core design, with a main frequency of up to 5.8GHz, and a thermal design power consumption TDP of 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, there was silence in the venue.
No one communicated or discussed, and various emotions agitated under the eerie silence.
There is surprise, astonishment, shock, confusion, pessimism, surprise, pride...
Everyone seemed to have seen God or gods, staring blankly at the stage, their eyes focused on the chip that was no more than the size of a fingernail.
In fact, before coming here today, almost 90% of the people present in the semiconductor industry, whether they are scientific researchers or corporate executives, did not believe that Xinghai Research Institute had successfully prepared and "Exploration"
·Carbon-based chips with the same performance as published in the General Journal.
Most people tend to think that the chip in that paper is just derived test data, or an imperfect product in the laboratory.
So much so that when it truly appeared in everyone's eyes, no one dared to believe it for the first time, believing that it was really created.
More importantly, it actually has exactly the same performance as the data published in the paper published in "Exploration·General Journal".
How is this possible?!
How on earth did they do it?
For a moment, everyone present seemed to have lost the ability to speak, looking at the small black chip on the stage in a daze and shock.