Chapter 162: Slaves Of Capital
Fan Ren smiled. Through further development of the quantum light source instruments, as well as improvements in technical strength in other aspects, today’s quantum communication has nearly 10 times the usage range compared to back then.
However, compared to the Solar System’s range with a diameter of 15 billion kilometers, this distance is still too small.
One concept that must be clarified is that the Solar System is not a flat, two-dimensional galaxy; it is a three-dimensional one, with each planet having its own independent orbital path.
For this reason, even though the quantum communication distance has increased nearly 10 times, if we want to cover the entire Solar System, we still need a large number of relay satellites to handle the transfers.
“Boss, Huang Wei has arrived at the chip laboratory. In terms of architecture design, he is not much weaker than our scientists, and he even has his unique insights in certain aspects.”
Fan Ren nodded. A’dai’s arrangement had been mentioned to him briefly, and he did not know Huang Wei’s personality, nor did he care to find out.
But Xinghai had recently announced a global recruitment plan, and he placed great emphasis on talent.
Now hearing A’dai’s high praise for Huang Wei, he naturally had no objection to meeting the man who was the first to propose the artificial intelligence concept.
“Record the data and hand it over to the Ministry of Industry for mass production. Deploy all relay satellites across the Solar System at the fastest speed to achieve low-latency communication within the galaxy.”
Fan Ren said this as he walked out of the laboratory.
At the main entrance, under A’dai’s control, a passenger-carrying orbital vehicle was already docked and ready.
The expansion work on the Space Hub has been ongoing. In just half a year, it has grown from its original scale of just a few heavy industry factories to a vast production park for cutting-edge technological products.
However, when it comes to the largest land area, it has to be Xinghai’s various large laboratories.
After handing over all production and processing to the Ministry of Industry, Xinghai is now traveling light.
Under several super-large laboratory clusters in fields such as information technology, biotechnology, energy technology, material technology, and aerospace engineering technology, there are hundreds or thousands of smaller sub-classified science laboratories.
Hundreds of thousands of top scientists from various fields around the world have now all been brought under Xinghai’s wing with its grand gestures, drawing high salaries while tackling one technological domain after another.
Half an hour later, Fan Ren arrived at the office in the chip laboratory where he was located.
Huang Wei was still wearing that leather jacket on his upper body. The only difference from the image often seen in the media was that his face now had more wrinkles brought by age.
Since the establishment of Xinghai Technology, 13 years have passed in the blink of an eye. Huang Wei is now nearly 60 years old.
However, today’s him no longer had the same indifference on his face as he did in Utopia City.
As Fan Ren pushed the door open and entered, the expectation on Huang Wei’s face finally reached its peak.
Their last meeting was 10 years ago. At that time, although Xinghai Technology had developed graphene chips with certain market potential, Nvidia’s market value that year was a terrifying 20 trillion super-giant behemoth company.
The scale of the two back then could be said to be one in the heavens and one underground.
Now, the scale of Xinghai Technology is already immeasurable.
Nvidia has long been buried in the dust of history, gradually forgotten by the world.
“Mr. Huang, hello, long time no see.”
Fan Ren, now in his thirties, was no longer as green as he was back then, especially after experiencing the ‘Primal Crisis’, he had visibly become more mature and steady.
Even though he did not particularly like this man who back then only knew how to hype things up wildly, under A’dai’s opinion, he still made time amid his busy schedule to come.
Huang Wei could naturally tell that Fan Ren’s attitude toward him was not particularly friendly, but he did not mind.
“General Manager Fan, hello. I won’t introduce myself; you definitely know who I am.”
He stood up and shook hands with Fan Ren, staring at him with great interest, his gaze without the slightest evasion.
Fan Ren did not mind and went straight to the point: “A’dai mentioned it to me briefly. Your insights in artificial intelligence are very unique. I believe you already know that Xinghai is currently vigorously recruiting scientists with relevant experience in all scientific research fields, with very generous treatment.”
Huang Wei showed no reaction. He had lived a wealthy life and did not care about this.
On the contrary, if it were only this, he would still prefer to live that plain life of sunset and rest in Utopia.
“It’s like this, General Manager Fan. If you don’t mind, I’d like to ask you a few questions.”
After Fan Ren finished the pleasantries, Huang Wei did not respond but instead looked at him with eyes full of expectation.
Hearing this, Fan Ren glanced with interest at Huang Wei, whose hair roots were already slightly graying, then shook his head and said: “Here’s how it is: I’ll ask you a question first, and then you can ask away freely. However, whether I can answer your questions, I cannot guarantee.”
“Please ask.”
Huang Wei showed no hesitation.
Fan Ren touched his chin, surprised by the other’s directness, but without much thought, he directly voiced the doubt that had always been in his heart.
“Mr. Huang, in the chip industry, the early GPU graphics processing chips were first proposed and developed by you, and upon listing, they received high recognition from the industry. In this aspect, you deserve the greatest credit.
Not only that, afterward, under your leadership, the CUDA architecture was again first proposed by you.
Thanks to this technology, the massive data computations needed for various human scientific research are no longer a bottleneck hindering scientific progress.
After that, the artificial intelligence concept was amplified by you and actually applied to various industries.
Before the advent of Xinghai’s graphene chips, human society’s productivity was greatly elevated as a result.
To be honest, calling you the ‘father of GPU’ would not be an exaggeration.”
Fan Ren looked at him with respect as he spoke of these achievements from his early years.
But next, Fan Ren’s expression changed slightly.
“I’ve always been curious. Nvidia once had a market value as high as 20 trillion, and you even topped the global rich list in the top few spots because of it.
Why couldn’t you continue to deeply cultivate the GPU field, and instead turned to hyping concepts to boost that ridiculous stock price?
You, or rather Nvidia back then, were not short of money, right?
To be honest, early Xinghai did not have the capability to develop GPU chips. Our chief designer in this area was also a temporary recruit.
Fortunately, in this aspect, he showed talent beyond ordinary people. Thus bypassing your various patents, we developed our own Xinghai GPU, Star Calculation No. 1.
Actually, before that, I was more inclined to cooperate with you all, even including Intel, AMD, and Apple.
We would handle chip production and processing, while you handled your own architecture design.
I’d like to ask, why did you have to shut Xinghai out?
Even after our graphene chips came out, your attitude still did not change?
Was it just because of that ridiculous, now-defunct White Alliance restriction?
Or, even someone like you, whom I once respected, has ultimately become a slave to capital, with only monopoly in your eyes?”
