Chapter 1050 The Technology that Subverts the Entire Industry

Although at the first glance of seeing the new micro-architecture of "Silver Light", Keqi already tacitly agreed that the limelight of this international IC design and technology conference was destined to be robbed by Intel, but after seeing Huawei HiSilicon's carbon After the chip-based technology, all his original ideas were overthrown in an instant.

Let alone the limelight of a mere IEEE conference.

Almost at the end of the report meeting, the news of "Longteng No. 1" and "carbon-based chip" spread its wings, flew out of the report hall, and reached the ears of all industry insiders.

Immediately afterwards, an earthquake no less than a magnitude 8 earthquake spread throughout the semiconductor industry.

Huawei has made a major breakthrough in carbon-based chip technology!

The first Longteng No. 1 series chips based on carbon-based chip technology will serve mid-to-high-end servers, benchmarking against the Xeon series chips of the industry leader toothpaste factory!

One after another, the news came in intensively, and one or two were still so explosive that it was overwhelming for a while.

At the same time, the stock market's reaction was beyond everyone's expectations.

Intel, which just launched the "Silver Light" architecture, not only did not fly into the sky, but was even smashed to the floor by this sudden black swan...

Everything came so suddenly that there was no defense.

Although before this, Mr. Keqi, the vice president of Qualcomm, also considered another possibility, that is, this matter is just an oolong, there is no carbon-based chip at all, or Huawei HiSilicon is too optimistic—even a mistake Deciphered emails from partners.

But all of these are pinned on a very small probability——

In other words, Professor Lu didn't even look at the paper with his corresponding author's name on it.

However, this is clearly impossible.

It is not just Intel that encountered the black swan incident, Qualcomm, AMD, and even the entire semiconductor industry, all suffered a sap because of this sudden change.

Everything came so suddenly.

Before the report meeting began, there was no warning.

Many people don't even know that Jinling Institute for Advanced Study has such a project. Most people have only vaguely heard that Huaguo is building the fifth largest semiconductor industry group. Huawei HiSilicon is no longer satisfied with chip design and started Get involved in the upstream of the industry chain, these scattered news.

However, no matter how you think about it, these fragmented news alone cannot be associated with carbon-based chips.

The knock-on effect caused by the slump of the semiconductor industry across the board quickly spread to the entire Nasdaq sector. The pessimistic sentiment started from the mobile phone, PC, and server businesses and spread wildly to all high-tech stocks.

No one expected that Intel, Qualcomm and other chip giants, who are firmly in the upper reaches of the industry chain, would have their strong positions shaken overnight by a chip as light as thin paper.

Together with the foundation of the edifice of the global semiconductor industry, it is crumbling...

Jinling Institute for Advanced Study.

In the dean's office.

Sitting on the sofa in front of the coffee table drinking tea, Wang Zhengfei, the boss of Warwick, was full of joy that could not be concealed. He smiled and talked to Lu Zhou about the turmoil caused by that paper in the semiconductor industry these days. Rain and rain.

"In the past few days, the phone calls of our HiSilicon sales department have been blown up, and some calls even came to my office."

Huawei HiSilicon's sales strategy is to prioritize Huawei's internal orders, followed by domestic orders, and finally sell overseas according to market classification.

Judging from the current demand gap, the demand for chips from Huawei's self-operated business alone is enough for Jiangcheng Semiconductor Industrial Base to arrange orders until the end of the year.

Even if others want to buy it for a while, they may not be able to buy it.

However, this does not prevent those downstream manufacturers from looking forward to this chip.

Especially the highest power consumption of 20W, and the excellent heat dissipation performance of carbon-based chips. Even several well-known supercomputing centers in China called, not asking about the price, but asking when it will be available.

Knowing what kind of experience it is to be on the phone, Lu Zhou said with empathy.

"Thanks for your hard work."

"What's the hard work?" Wang Zhengfei waved his hands, and laughed, "My hard work means that I have more things to worry about, and I still can't compare to those of you who are engaged in scientific research."

Lu Zhou: "I'm fine, Professor Wu is mainly in charge of this project."

Wang Zhengfei: "Speaking of which, Professor Wu will soon become an academician, right?"

Lu Zhou nodded: "Well, I recommended him, so it shouldn't be a big problem."

Wang Zhengfei said with a smile: "You said that the problem is not serious, so it seems that there is nothing wrong with it. I am going to ask if there is anything I can do to help, it seems that I am thinking too much."

Lu Zhou smiled faintly, paused for a moment, and said.

"Speaking of which, I actually don't understand a little bit."

Putting down the teacup, Wang Zhengfei said with interest, "Oh? It seems that I have the honor to clear up Academician Lu's doubts. Please ask me any questions."

Lu Zhou: "Is there any point in submitting the paper to the top conference of IEEE?"

It seems that it is not surprising that Lu Zhou would ask this question. Wang Zhengfei smiled and said: "Before opening the gate to release the water, we usually measure the pressure of the pipeline. The reaction of the industry, if there are problems exposed, we have to make adjustments in advance. Another thing, we have been working behind closed doors for the past two days, and no one else knows that we are researching this.”

"It's as if everyone thought you were working on the fourth-generation nuclear power technology, but you closed your door and studied it for a year or so, and suddenly we solved the problem of controllable fusion. There is no foundation at all, not to mention that the entire industry may not be able to accept it. , your partners may not believe you."

Lu Zhou frowned slightly: "What do we care about them?"

Patting his knee, Wang Zhengfei laughed and said, "That's a good question, we really don't need to worry about them! Manufacturers downstream of the industrial chain will find out that what we are holding is a treasure sooner or later, but it takes a lot of time I'm afraid it's not small. After all, this thing is not nuclear fusion, and we can have fun behind closed doors. What's more, we not only want to make profits from this thing, but also redefine the entire industrial chain of the semiconductor industry, breaking the technology that Western countries have imposed on us. barrier."

This involves more than a single chip problem. If you want to do this, you must catch them by surprise. Before they reacted and chased and intercepted us, we punched out with a combination of punches, and didn't give them a chance to prepare! "

Hearing these words, Lu Zhou raised his eyebrows slightly, and asked with interest, "Oh? What's the result of the pressure test?"

Wang Zhengfei smiled slightly and said: "It's completely in line with expectations! Now I'm afraid that the entire semiconductor industry is looking forward to it. Let's put the real thing in front of them. The next step is to respond to their expectations and hold a product launch event. How about it?" , is our academician Lu interested in speaking a few words?"

As soon as he heard that he was going to speak on stage again, Lu Zhou shook his head and said, "I'm not interested. I've given enough reports during this time. Besides, I've said it all. All I do is theoretical work. You guys I don’t know much about chips, so you should just find someone to do product launches.”

"Haha, in fact, your thinking is too complicated. You don't need to say anything if you stand up. I dare say that our chips will not worry about no one buying them." Wang Zhengfei smiled, and after a moment of pause, he retreated He said: "Then it's okay to visit the site, right? Anyway, it's in Jinling, so you don't need to travel far."

Lu Zhou hesitated and said.

"……Oh well."

I went to the scene to see that there was nothing wrong, not to mention that it was in Jinling, so it was not too troublesome.

At this moment, the phone vibrated suddenly.

Taking out his mobile phone from his pocket, Wang Zhengfei glanced at Lu Zhou apologetically and said.

"Wait a minute, work call, I'll answer it."

Lu Zhou: "Do you need me to avoid it?"

"No, no, no problem."

The phone call lasted less than half a minute.

The old man only said two words "um" and one sentence "I see" throughout the whole process, but his expression switched back and forth between unexpected and intriguing several times.

Seeing Wang Zhengfei who put down the phone, Lu Zhou asked casually.

"I guess what's the good news?"

Stuffing the mobile phone back into his pocket, Wang Zhengfei coughed lightly and said, "That IEEE conference has withdrawn our paper."

As soon as this sentence was said, the two suddenly looked at each other, and after exchanging glances, they smiled at the same time.

One smiled a little embarrassedly.

And the other one smiled a bit cunningly.