Chapter 68: Like A Thunderbolt
Today’s Fan Ren was emanating an extremely strong aggressiveness from head to toe.
His gaze was fixed on the direction of the camera, with a provocative smile hanging on the corner of his mouth.
“I think the arrival of the Graphene Chip era can’t be just for boiling eggs, right? So here I want to emphasize the point about temperature.”
As soon as Fan Ren finished speaking, bursts of laughter suddenly erupted in the venue.
Only at this point did those with keen insight finally react, realizing that the target of this press conference was extremely obvious.
“500W energy consumption, 150C° high temperature, requiring 300W water cooling equipment for heat dissipation. Taking a civilian PC computer as an example, plus energy consumption from some other equipment, it’s about one kilowatt-hour per hour.
Hiss~ This seems pretty scary.”
The reporters in the audience, hearing this, couldn’t help but feel that the Xinghai Chairman, who had always handled things low-key, must have taken a bullet today?
But Fan Ren continued.
“Let me think, oh right, and if this technology’s chip is applied to the mobile phone domain, ladies and gentlemen, please remember to bring high-temperature insulated gloves before using it.”
He stretched out his hand and shook it, his mocking expression no longer hiding anything.
“We all know that Graphene excels greatly in conductivity and thermal conductivity. It is precisely because of this characteristic that Star Core Number One has lower energy consumption and lower heat generation surpassing traditional Silicon-based Chips.
I think, on this point, certain companies’ chip designers should pick up materials science related books and review them seriously.
I believe that as long as you work hard to solve this problem, the main frequency can also explode to 100Ghz high frequency like Star Core Number One.”
Fan Ren said this and finally paused temporarily.
Just as everyone thought his criticism and mockery targeting San Xin had come to an end, Fan Ren took another chip from the tray that was much larger in size than the previous Star Core Number One.
“I don’t know what everyone thinks of the three words ‘squeezing toothpaste’, but personally, I extremely despise it.”
He held the larger chip in his hand, shook it towards the camera, with a furious expression on his face.
“So this GPU chip developed based on Carbon Nanotube was born accordingly. Please look at the parameters.”
As soon as he spoke, the large screen behind Fan Ren changed style.
Star Calculation No. 1
Transistors: 200 billion (using Guo Xin Technology 5nm Lithography Technology)
Computing Performance: 400 PFLOPS (400 quadrillion floating-point operations per second)
Supports multi-chip coordinated working environment.
The venue fell silent once again.
Fan Ren quietly waited for a moment, then spoke again.
“Worth mentioning is that Star Calculation No. 1 and Star Core Number One have many similarities. Under extreme conditions, the temperature does not exceed 60C°. The power consumption performance is equally surprising, requiring only 150W to drive a single unit’s operation.”
He was a bit unaccustomed to it; it was too quiet, with no interaction at all, making him unsure how to control the rhythm to keep the press conference going normally.
Forget it, about time to wrap up here. Fan Ren shook his head slightly regretfully.
“So, next is the most anticipated price release segment. After ‘bragging’ for so long, what about the price? I think this is the indicator that everyone in the audience cares about the most, right.”
After Fan Ren finished, he smiled and pressed the remote switch in his hand, and the large screen behind him changed again.
Star Core Number One: 9999 yuan (China selling price); 100,000 yuan (export selling price)
Star Calculation No. 1: 400,000 yuan (China selling price); 4 million yuan (export)
“Hiss!”
Fan Ren could clearly hear gasps of cold air from the audience, but he didn’t pay it any mind.
Surprising? A surprise?
Why did he have to spend 1.5 billion to buy a backward 14nm Lithography Machine, and not only is the goods gone now, but the money is also withheld by As Company.
Why did your Baiyue Alliance casually list Xinghai Technology on the High-Tech Products ban sales list with a stroke of the pen.
He couldn’t do that kind of repaying grievance with virtue. During this period, whether it was San Xin Group, or As Company, or that Semiconductor Alliance in the Baiyue Alliance.
How they targeted Xinghai, Fan Ren had seen it all.
Now that the bitter days are over and the sweet ones have come, with the successful research and release of the Graphene Chip, the taste of arbitrarily inflating prices on High-Tech Products that they’ve been enjoying should also be experienced by the Baiyue member countries.
Don’t complain it’s expensive; production capacity is insufficient, prioritizing internal supply in China!
Other Side of the Ocean, United States Cupertino, Nvidia Headquarters building.
Huang Wei had just arrived at the company entrance in the morning and felt that the atmosphere in the company today was extremely eerie.
Cold winds whistled past the entrance, and he subconsciously tightened his black leather jacket.
“It’s dropping! It’s dropping!”
Huang Wei’s ears twitched, and his brows furrowed involuntarily.
He hated hearing these two words the most; they were so unlucky, ruining his good mood for the entire day!
He had to see which department was so inconsiderate.
His face darkened slightly, and he stepped seriously into the company interior.
‘Hm?’
The receptionists at the entrance aren’t working?
“Let’s see who the shift leader is today.”
Looking at the empty company hall, Huang Wei’s face couldn’t help but twist into a gas-laugh.
“Oh! It’s gone straight! My god!”
Another unified exclamation came, and Huang Wei’s just-lifted foot hung in mid-air.
“Limit down!”
“I haven’t sold mine yet, doomed!”
“This is it, huge loss!”
“What nonsense is this, not working? Who is the shift leader today!”
Huang Wei suddenly pushed open the employee rest room and roared angrily inside.
“This is?”
His gaze was quickly drawn to the green line on the monitor at the front of the crowd.
Huang Wei took off his glasses, rubbed his eyes, then put them back on and looked closely.
“President Huang!”
“Come quick, President Huang has fainted!”
South Island Country, San Xin Group.
“Fake! Fake! Impossible!”
In the General Manager’s Office, crashing sounds came intermittently, and the secretary outside the door trembled in fear but didn’t dare to go in and comfort.
“Chairman!”
In the corridor, an elderly figure that hadn’t appeared for a long time slowly walked over.
Jin Zhiyong waved his hand, his face showing undisguisable fatigue.
“You go out first.”
With that, Jin Zhiyong stepped forward and pushed open the heavy door of the Chairman’s Office.
“Get out! Who let you in. Grandfather.”
Jin Ze’s eyes were bloodshot, his face extremely distorted as he roared at the person at the door, but upon realizing it was his grandfather, the document he was about to throw froze in his hand.
“What a disgrace!”
Jin Zhiyong snorted coldly, his originally cloudy eyes bursting with deep gaze once again, falling on Jin Ze, making him shudder involuntarily.
His hand loosened, and the documents scattered to the floor.
“Grandfather, I…”
Jin Zhiyong waved his hand dismissively, walking with elderly, shuffling steps to stand in front of Jin Ze.
He held his cane with one hand, raised the other, and finally placed it on Jin Ze’s shoulder.
“Sit down. It’s been a long time since us grandfather and grandson have had a proper chat.”
With that, he sat down on the sofa himself.
Meanwhile, Jin Ze’s previously agitated emotions seemed to calm somewhat in that instant, and he sat down beside him.
