Chapter 65: Fake Li?
Although he was scolded pretty badly.
But Fan Ren didn’t slack off at all on the chip research work.
Half a year passed in the blink of an eye.
Inside the chip laboratory.
Fan Ren was quietly lying in the office chair, with a cigarette between his fingers.
In front of him was Zeng Yingying’s figure, sweeping the floor, organizing documents, and even on the folding bed that he had strongly insisted on moving over, neatly smoothing out the messy bedding.
Due to secrecy reasons, as early as half a year ago, Fan Ren had transferred Xinghai’s this ‘nanny’ to take charge of the logistics management in the laboratory area.
How to put it?
For Zeng Yingying, although her status seemed to have lowered, her salary had increased.
She now truly had an annual salary of a million!
“General Manager Fan, Xu Min even helped curse those foreigners for you.”
Zeng Yingying wiped the slight sweat from her forehead, sat across from Fan Ren and took a sip of water, then smiled.
“Oh? What do you mean?”
Zeng Yingying covered her mouth and chuckled, then said: “Isn’t it because you raised the solid-state battery patent authorization? Those foreigners curse Xinghai every day now.”
Speaking of this, she couldn’t help but feel a bit indignant too.
Fan Ren tapped the ashtray with his hand to flick off some ash, puzzled: “Then how did it get connected to her?”
Talking about Xu Min, there was no initial awkwardness on Zeng Yingying’s face anymore.
After busying around for Fan Ren for so long, she had also come to understand this university classmate’s thoughts.
No matter what, after all, they were classmates; Fan Ren at most treated her as an existence from memories, and it was all in the past.
When chatting about it over tea and dinner, it wouldn’t feel embarrassing at all.
“Wasn’t it that a few days ago, the car companies on our side collectively raised the selling price of cars for export, and then the foreigners turned their spears on us. They badmouth Xinghai everywhere.”
Fan Ren laughed, not caring: “Let them be; compared to those people domestically, the foreigners’ cursing level is childish to the point of being laughable.”
Hearing this, Zeng Yingying narrowed her charming eyes and giggled along.
Fan Ren’s gaze lightly swept over the office desk, finally settling gently on a square chip in the packaging box, and a surge of indescribable comfort and satisfaction welled up in his heart.
The entire half year, R&D funds were spent nearly a hundred billion, and the number of experiments was countless.
Hundreds of experimental personnel followed him, and everyone rarely had time to rest, yet they all worked hard without complaint.
Now it was finally successful.
Fan Ren recalled all sorts of things from the past half year in his mind, staring at the chip, momentarily lost in a daze.
Under the brand-new architecture designed by A’dai, this chip’s single core could burst out with a high frequency of 100GHz.
Yet the power consumption it brought was only a mere 100W.
As for the heat issues troubling those top chips on the market, they were also resolved.
According to the test data, under full operation, this chip only needed simple air cooling to maintain the temperature around 45°.
Fan Ren could already imagine the impact this chip would have on the entire semiconductor industry after its release.
“Boss, the data is out; do you want to take a look?”
The office door was roughly pushed open; Fan Ren snapped out of his daze, and without thinking, he knew only A’dai would dare to do that.
“Just tell me directly.”
His gaze fell on A’dai’s head; he wouldn’t really be bald, would he?
It was understandable though; after all, as the laboratory’s top technology expert, this half year the chip’s architecture design and such were all led by this big bald head.
A’dai, thrown into this area, was like a fish in water, finally showing off big time in front of Fan Ren.
“Ah, thanks, Sister Zeng.”
A’dai took the water handed over by Zeng Yingying and drank a sip. He wasn’t polite either, reaching for a cigarette from the table on the desk and looking around for a lighter.
“Get on with it,” Fan Ren irritably tossed the lighter to him.
‘Click’, A’dai lit the cigarette and took a satisfying puff.
“Overall, it’s just about 20 times stronger than Nvidia’s top GPU chip.”
“Impressive!”
“No big deal; it’s still thanks to Boss Fan’s research on carbon nanotubes. Without this thing, no matter how good the design architecture is, there’s no platform to showcase it.”
Zeng Yingying, watching A’dai’s smug appearance on the side, covered her mouth and laughed; the mood suppressed for over half a year suddenly cleared up completely.
South Island Country, Samsung press conference site.
Jin Ze sat in the frontmost seat in the audience, watching the chip department person in charge animatedly explaining on stage; his previously gloomy face finally regained some color.
Those wastes in the materials laboratory, after months of tinkering and spending nearly a hundred billion in consumables funds, finally had no choice but to try using semi-finished carbon nanotubes for chip development.
How to put it?
It succeeded, yet it also didn’t seem all that successful.
Using As Company’s top 3-nanometer lithography machine manufacturing process, compared to China’s 5-nanometer process, it exceeded by a 2-nanometer gap; he believed the actual performance would definitely surpass by quite a bit.
The 10GHz high-frequency processing capability brought extremely high power consumption and an unsolvable headache of a heat dissipation problem.
Fortunately, the base was made of graphene, which had the advantage of high temperature resistance; higher temperatures didn’t affect usage performance much, but the power consumption was huge.
And no matter what, a chip temperature as high as 150° resulted in highly demanding usage environments.
Thereby indirectly increasing usage costs.
But no matter what, at least the R&D work was completed before Xinghai.
Jin Ze’s gaze fixed on the area above the press conference stage.
‘San Xin Group Global First Commercial Graphene Chip Product Press Conference’
A string of big characters was shining brightly, echoing with the flashes from the audience below, like a dream.
The day after the press conference, San Xin Group’s stock price soared.
And at the same time, inside Linhai City’s science and technology park.
Xinghai had now completely taken over the entire science and technology park.
As early as several months ago, the chip manufacturing plant had started construction under Fan Ren’s request.
Benefiting from the rise in solid-state battery patent selling price, and the high-voltage radio branch company that was gradually opening the market and starting to profit providing support, after deducting the chip R&D expenses, Xinghai surprisingly still had quite a bit of money left.
The current Jin Qiaoying had already been pulled by Fan Ren onto a train with no way back.
If it were before, telling her that a certain technology was still in R&D yet starting factory construction to prepare for the upcoming product listing, she would definitely think it was crazy.
But at that time, she had no choice.
Unlike Xingyun Manufacturing which was followed through from start to finish by Yun Yin, due to the importance of the chip, there was no intention yet to make it independent.
So all the work was being tracked by her.
But currently, actually most of the projects were nearly completed; the only difficulty left was still the lithography machine issue.
Although a 5-nanometer lithography machine equipment had been ordered early from Guo Xin Technology, due to the nearly one-year manufacturing cycle needed, it wasn’t available yet.
The response method was only to temporarily put some processes on the 5-nanometer lithography machine in the laboratory to complete them.
It’s just that this way, efficiency would definitely be greatly reduced.
But thinking of the chip’s terrifying performance that was jaw-dropping, a satisfied smile appeared on Jin Qiaoying’s face.
