After choosing something to eat from the table, Xu Chuan walked towards the corner of the banquet hall.
After pulling out the chair and sitting down, he looked at James Duke opposite and said, "Tell me, what do you think?"
After asking a simple question, he picked up his chopsticks and started eating.
James Duke, who was a little uncomfortable with Xu Chuan's straight-to-the-point style, was stunned for a moment, then looked at Xu Chuan who was busy fixing the food on his plate and said.
"Have you not had lunch yet? How about I treat you? I know there is a very good private dining restaurant nearby..."
Xu Chuan: "..."
No, where did this come from?
Didn't you see him eating?
The corners of his mouth moved, and after swallowing the food in his mouth, he looked at the funny guy who ran from nowhere and said lightly.
"You have 9 minutes left."
"Ah? Okay...Okay."
After being stunned for a moment, James Duke quickly came back to his senses. After thinking that he only had ten minutes and now there were nine minutes left, a sense of urgency suddenly arose in his heart.
"Ahem...that's it, Academician Xu, I have read the two papers you wrote related to carbon-based chips over and over again. Really, they are so well written! The high performance and performance of carbon-based chips
The low power consumption feature gives it a very significant advantage in AI applications, as it can use more complex circuits at higher frequencies, allowing for more precise calculations and data processing..."
Seeing this guy starting a tirade, Xu Chuan couldn't help but interrupt: "I know everything you said. If there are no other important points, I think these are not attractive to me."
"Cough..." James Duke coughed a little awkwardly, and said quickly: "Quantitative technology! It's AI neural quantification technology!"
"This technology can perform powerful performance in non-quantized matrix convolution operations, but it is very dependent on single-precision floating point numbers, and the demand for computing resources and memory has increased dramatically, which makes traditional silicon-based chips very difficult to
Difficult to run efficiently on a monolith.”
"Carbon-based chips are different. I just watched the product launch conference you held. There is a very critical node in carbon-based chip technology, and that is three-dimensional carbon nanotube array technology!"
“This is a natural fit for the development of neuroquantification technology!”
"They fit really well."
James Duke, who had been talking nonstop for a long time, looked at Xu Chuan with expectant eyes, and then said: "AI must be the most important direction for the development of the Internet in the future, and it will be the next outlet to take off!"
Glancing at this guy's excited face, Xu Chuan asked curiously: "Aren't you the technical consultant of Oracle?"
If he remembers correctly, Oracle seems to be a company that specializes in database software, right?
However, as for the current Internet companies, as long as they are slightly larger in scale and basically do not engage in AI technology or anything like that, they seem to dare not call themselves Internet companies.
Not to mention big Internet companies such as Goose Factory, Cat Factory, and Pig Factory, there are also companies with valuations of tens of millions, and many of them use AI intelligent technology as their core competitiveness.
As for a Fortune 500 company like Oracle, which is also an Internet company, if you don’t research some AI technology, you probably don’t dare to go out and meet people.
James Duke nodded excitedly and said: "Yes, in addition to the construction of large databases, I am also good at the construction of advanced edge computing AI models, and the architecture of human-machine alignment mechanisms."
"I want to cooperate with you to jointly establish a quantum AI interconnection technology company based on carbon-based chips. Based on high-performance three-dimensional carbon-based chips, we will greatly increase the current development speed of AI intelligence!"
“This is definitely a super outlet!”
Xu Chuan glanced at him and asked, "So you came to me to attract investment?"
"invest?"
Hearing this question, James Duke was stunned for a moment, and then said: "No, no, no, I'm here to discuss your cooperation. I still have some personal savings, about 30 million, for technical cooperation based on carbon-based chips.
It’s about US dollars, which is enough for the company’s early development!”
"As long as you wait until the angel round of financing, I can guarantee that artificial intelligence based on carbon-based chips and AI neuroquantification technology will definitely become popular around the world, and you will also be able to reap the most meaningful investment."
After a pause, he looked at Xu Chuan and continued with a smile: "Of course, if you are willing to invest in our company in the early stage, it is absolutely fine. In that way, we may be able to hold more of the original shares and avoid losing money in the financing stage.
Losing too much control over the company..."
"...I believe it can definitely surpass the current OpenAI and become a star in the new era!"
Hearing that this guy started describing the future in a big way again, Xu Chuan couldn't help but shook his head and said: "Tell me about the application of carbon-based chips in large databases that you mentioned before."
"If it's just about the development of the AI field, I'm afraid I can only say that your idea is very interesting."
There is no need to tell him that carbon-based chips are suitable for the development of AI intelligent technology.
Putting aside the artificial intelligence of AI neuroquantification technology mentioned by James Duke, the physical properties of carbon-based chips themselves are far more suitable for AI training than silicon-based chips.
Higher electron mobility, faster switching speed, smaller size, higher density, lower energy consumption, etc., etc., all make carbon-based chips more efficient when processing complex AI algorithms, reducing
computation time and energy consumption.
In addition, the high energy efficiency of carbon-based chips in AI training has completely overwhelmed silicon-based chips.
Needless to say, the carbon-based chip they have prepared after their current technological breakthrough is the world's first tensor processing unit (TPU) based on carbon nanotube transistors developed by the Peking University team last year.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! A carbon-based chip composed of only 3,000 carbon nanotube transistors far exceeds Google's Edge TPU processor in terms of energy efficiency.
The energy efficiency of carbon-based TPU can reach one trillion operations per watt, which is almost 1,700 times that of Google TPU
In terms of AI training and other aspects, the basic advantages of carbon-based chips lie here.
Even if he wanted to research AI intelligence, Xu Chuan didn't have many ideas to cooperate with the Oracle technical consultant in front of him.
Of course, if the other party can bring out unique advantages, then that's a different story.
Seeing that Xu Chuan was not very interested in the ideas he expressed, James Duke was not discouraged. He nodded and continued.
"Multi-dimensional solid unit data storage system!"
After having a preliminary understanding of the character of Professor Xu in front of him and knowing that he did not like to waste time on irrelevant words, he did not continue the long speech, but went directly to the key points.
"Traditional database structures mainly include three types: mesh, hierarchy and relationship. Or they can be divided into several different types of architectures such as the database's default relational architecture, distributed architecture, NoSQL architecture, and new SQL architecture."
“But these databases often have limited scalability, especially databases built on a single server or fixed hardware resources. Once the amount of data increases or the amount of access surges, the capacity or performance of the server has to be increased through physical means. This will
Not only is it time-consuming and labor-intensive, the cost is high, and it is impossible to respond to changes in demand in real time.”
"The multi-dimensional three-dimensional unit data storage system is another completely different data storage method. It combines the bionics of the human brain's neural units and efficiently processes data through non-linear mapping capabilities and parallel distributed processing.
....."
"There is almost no upper limit on both vertical and horizontal expansion, and it will not have a big impact on the stability and maintenance costs of the system..."
"To put it simply, this storage system is more similar to the human brain's classification of knowledge and memory. It has great advantages in terms of storage capacity and data recall."
"Of course, from a technical perspective, it is undeniable that it is very difficult to build such a huge database."
"And in the era of silicon-based chips, this is almost possible."
"But carbon-based chips carved based on three-dimensional carbon nanotube array technology do have such potential."
In the banquet hall, Xu Chuan was eating his lunch while listening to the other person's thoughts, with a hint of interest in his eyes.
It has to be said that people who can serve as technical consultants in a super enterprise like Oracle still have two skills.
Although he does not know much about computers and AI, it is not clear whether some of the theories and ideas proposed by James can really be realized.
But it is undeniable that carbon-based chips are quite interesting both in terms of AI intelligent applications and in the architecture of this so-called multi-dimensional three-dimensional unit data storage system.
Especially the latter, this so-called multi-dimensional three-dimensional unit database may be of some help to the virtual reality technology Xu Xiao is researching?
Of course, it's possible that it's of no use at all.
After all, real virtual reality technology is not something that can be handled by a database.
But overall, after finishing the matter here, he would find someone to evaluate it.
After putting the last piece of roast duck on the dinner plate into his mouth, Xu Chuan stood up from the chair with the dinner plate in hand.
"OK, ten minutes are up."
"I will find someone to evaluate the things you mentioned. If there are any further developments, I will contact you."
Holding the dinner plate, Xu Chuan smacked his mouth and walked towards the dining table.
He was interrupted by this guy. He was still not full and was going to choose something to eat.
Behind him, James Duke also stood up and said quickly with a hint of joy on his face: "Then I will wait for your news."
In his opinion, Professor Xu in front of him was obviously interested in his content, and the probability of subsequent cooperation was already infinite.
Xu Chuan waved his hand without making too many unnecessary remarks.
In his opinion, even if the idea proposed by James' consultant is valuable, he would prefer to acquire it, or directly 'recruit' this person.
Cooperation is also based on the fact that both parties can provide each other with nearly equal resources or resources that are indispensable to the other party.
If a Chinese person came to talk to him about this, he might be interested in cooperation and invest some money or something.
But as a foreigner, he really doesn't have much interest.
...
After the celebration banquet for the carbon-based chip, Xu Chuan did not stay here much.
What he can do is actually almost over at this point.
The rest, such as how to quickly promote carbon-based chips and seize the silicon-based chip market, or how to overthrow the silicon-based semiconductor alliance, have nothing to do with him.
Professional administrative staff and management will help handle these matters.
As a scholar, if the carbon-based chip interference was not so serious that he needed to take a stand, he would have preferred to stay at the CRHPC institution and analyze the original collision data.
Now that the matter is over, he finally has his own time to do what he wants to do.
Instead of returning to the villa at the foot of Purple Mountain, Xu Chuan rushed to Xia Shu Aerospace Base in the car driven by Zheng Hai.
In Academician Chang Huaxiang's office, he knocked on the half-covered door, and soon the voice of "please come in" came from inside.
Smiling, he opened the door and walked in. Xu Chuan said hello: "Chang Lao."
Hearing the sound, Chang Huaxiang looked up in surprise and asked in surprise: "Why are you back so soon? Has everything on the carbon-based chip been settled?"
Xu Chuan smiled and said, "I'm just going to stand there. I don't have anything to do over there."
Hearing this answer, Chang Huaxiang smiled, stood up from his desk and made tea, and said: "As soon as you stand up there, you don't need to say anything, the world of the semiconductor industry will immediately change."
Xu Chuan smiled and said: "What you said is too exaggerated. The credit for the breakthrough in carbon-based chip technology does not lie with me, but with the tens of thousands of engineers and researchers who are working hard at their jobs."
Chang Huaxiang looked over cheerfully and said: "Okay, don't be humble in front of me. I don't know you yet? I have read both papers in "Exploration". Without you taking the lead to break through the core problems,
I don’t even know that a breakthrough in carbon-based chip technology will have to wait until the end of the year.”
In the office, after the two chatted for a while, Xu Chuan took a sip of tea and asked: "Speaking of which, our astronauts should have reached the orbit of Mars, right?"
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