Scientists who revitalized the country (9): Rewriting the world

Netizens who turned on the TV to watch the live radio broadcast, while watching the live broadcast on the screen, used computers to discuss with netizens on the forum.

“What are these foreigners talking about?”

“I can’t understand the foreign language, but I can feel that they are very weak.”

“Can anyone knowledgeable explain what this means?”

“…Let me explain, although I am also a little confused. As we all know, the best chips in the world are silicon-based chips. Both operating speed and power consumption are currently the best in the world. They are widely used in aerospace and high-precision machine tools. As for the carbon-based chip that Mr. Si just mentioned, IMHO, it only exists in theory… Do you know about nano? It is a high technology that has only become popular in recent years. Carbon-based chips are made of carbon nanotubes, an ideal transistor material that only exists in fantasies…The difficulty here is so great that just thinking about it makes one’s head dizzy. “

“Wait a minute, I remember we couldn’t even make a lithography machine for making silicon-based chips before? How could we make such a breakthrough thing all at once?”

“So you mean, Si Qi is lying?”

“Nonsense! Mr. Si won’t lie!”

“If this is a lie, then we are really embarrassed.”

“Stop talking, I’m starting to panic.”

On the other side of the screen, Si Qi glanced at the people laughing wantonly below, and said in an unceremonious and indifferent tone: “Quiet. If you want to disrupt the press conference, just go out, or I will ask someone to throw you out.”

“OK, OK, since you are an internationally renowned mathematician, we are willing to patiently listen to the fairy tale you carefully weave.” The executives raised their hands in a gesture of surrender and sneered: “After all, this kind of funny show doesn’t happen often.”

“No, you can spend some money to go to the circus to see it.” Another person laughed.

The assistant who came out with the testing equipment looked at Si Qi innocently and asked in a low voice if he could start.

Si Qi glanced at the foreigners below him with a scornful look. This arrogant look made those people’s faces stiffen, and also made all the Chinese people tremble with indescribable excitement.

They subconsciously slowed down their breathing and waited silently for Si Qi’s follow-up.

Facing the camera, Si Qi held up two chips of different sizes and thicknesses in his hand, and analyzed the data on the large screen behind him. After stating the most basic functions, he went straight to the topic and spoke slowly and clearly. : “Compared with traditional silicon-based chips, our carbon-based chips are 16% smaller in size, 3mm thinner, run ten to twelve times faster, and consume 10% less power! Perfectly satisfying the demand for ultra-low-power chips, this is the most cutting-edge chip at the moment.”

Listening to Si Qi speaking these precise values in a calm and composed tone, while the foreign executives below maintained disdainful expressions on their faces, a hint of suspicion quietly appeared in their eyes.

Si Qi was a world-renowned great mathematician, and his academic dignity was to some extent equivalent to his international status.

No one will respect a scholar who tells lies and does whatever it takes to achieve his goals, especially in mathematics, the most rigorous field. This kind of lying behavior will become even more shameful.

In order to forcibly save respect for his motherland, he told such a big lie in front of the whole world, but no one with a brain would do such a stupid thing that would be harmful to oneself.

There was also the overly familiar testing instrument next to Si Qi, which gave several executives a bad premonition.

“It’s just nonsense.” A senior executive deliberately mocked loudly: “How can there be such an advanced chip in the world? It will be something that can only be manufactured in at least a hundred years!”

Si Qi sneered without saying a word, and placed the two chips on the test instruments respectively. The projector behind him then displayed the current status of the two instruments.

He made a “look” gesture to the camera, stared at the guy below who was talking nonsense, and hugged his shoulders with a half-smile, waiting for the show to happen.

This fearless appearance made several senior executives increasingly uneasy.

In this uneasy mood, everyone could clearly see that the two instruments were running the same set of test programs. As the test content became more and more complex, the temperature of the silicon-based chip on the left quickly rose to the critical point, and it began to experience freezes, frame drops, lags, etc. It stopped after three seconds and completely lost its function.

However, the small and light carbon-based chip on the right was still running smoothly and efficiently. Not only did it quickly complete the entire test program, the speed was even ten times that of the silicon-based chip on the left. There was no temperature change throughout the process, which showed that this level of testing was easy for it.

Such a stark contrast stunned everyone present, and even laymen could clearly feel the difference.

The executives below jumped up and yelled: “This is impossible! You must be cheating!”

Si Qi was not in a hurry, raised his chin, and asked his assistant to switch the two chips on the spot. After the silicon-based chip returned to temperature, he ran the program again, and the results were exactly the same as before.

The executives’ eyes widened, their faces turned red from holding back, and they kept saying: “This is impossible, this is impossible!”

However, the facts were in front of them. Even if they couldn’t accept it in their hearts, just seeing the complex program running quickly in a very short time, they could clearly feel how powerful that small chip was.

Far away on the other side of the ocean, the top executives of major semiconductor companies who were sitting in front of the TV waiting to see the joke could no longer laugh at this moment. They were frozen in place with dull expressions on their faces, with shock and disbelief written all over their faces.

One with a poor psychological quality turned pale and fell off the sofa in a daze, as if he had foreseen the coming of a catastrophe.

All of them knew that behind this small chip, there was an extremely terrifying meaning.

With one test after another, the Chinese media at the press conference became more and more excited, and the feeling of excitement in the audience could be felt through the screen.

Several executives from major companies, whose cameras were locked on them, stared at Si Qi on the podium with livid faces, as if they had some deep grudge against him. Angry, resisting, gnashing of teeth…the complex expressions were difficult for foreign audiences to accept, but made domestic audiences cheer loudly!

How depressed they were before, now they feel so relieved to see the collapsed faces of the executives.

This press conference that shocked all the audience quickly spread throughout the Internet with the promotion of netizens, and immediately entered the eyes of various countries.

The whole world witnessed the whole incident with their own eyes.

First, several major countries jointly refused to sell chips to China and used physical sanctions to forcibly restrict China’s development. China had no solution.

Then China disappeared for a month, being laughed at, ridiculed, and despised by everyone, until today, a month later, a press conference was announced.

Everyone was waiting to see China’s joke, but in the end, they made a fool of themselves at the press conference without saying a word. It showed the world the finished carbon-based chip that every high-tech country could not even imagine. And it was a finished product!

It was not about showing off data, or showing off half-finished carbon nanotubes to scare a bunch of people, but when the whole world was laughing at China for not being able to even make a lithography machine and having to import even a single chip, China was directly at the forefront of the world, achieved overtaking in a corner, and left behind those so-called big countries by countless stages in one breath!

When everyone thought that carbon-based chips were just an unattainable fantasy, China slapped those people in the face with facts and told those people around the world who once looked down on them, Iit was not that China couldn’t manufacture lithography machines, nor that they had to rely on imported chips for scientific research, but that they had better things that others hadn’t come up with yet! 

The wonderful thing was here.

Did they think their technology was so backward that they couldn’t even build a lithography machine?

What a joke, they bypassed the lithography machine and built a more powerful one!

Some people with quick thinking immediately realized the deeper meaning behind this, and were suddenly frightened by China’s ambition and took a breath.

——Could China, which could produce carbon-based chips, be unable to produce just a lithography machine? Of course it was impossible! On the contrary, they felt that even if they created a lithography machine, they would only be competing for the cake with those major semiconductor manufacturers that had already formed a fixed circle. So simply bypass the lithography machines that major manufacturers rely on to survive, use technology that even lithography machines can’t handle, create more advanced carbon-based chips, re-plan the entire ecological environment, and become the boss yourself!

This was the true purpose of China!

From the beginning to the end, China never thought about chasing behind others and participating in science competitions. They directly built a new track and forced everyone to join in, just like those people forced China to do so before.

Since then, the positions of upstream and downstream had been completely swapped. This time, it was China’s turn to be the superior upstream, laughing and watching the people behind them catch up with them.

Those who once imposed a technological blockade on China, now it was their turn to taste the feeling of being blocked by technology.

Want to research carbon-based chips? Do you know the design ideas and understand how to make such thin carbon-based components? Do you have the machinery and equipment to make such components?

There was nothing, so it depended on their mood. Prepare the money and see if they were willing to sell it to you!

It is conceivable that once new chips came out, the once-high-end silicon-based chips would become completely garbage and have no value for continued production and research.

The lithography machines that were hidden away by those countries became free and became garbage that others thought took up space. They could only be sold as scraps by the pound.

However, before the press conference ended, Si Qi also left a meaningful sentence that aroused heated discussion among countless people.

“Carbon-based chips are just the beginning. In one month, China will bring even bigger surprises to the world.”