The world's richest man started by developing gutter oil

April 2013, 12, US time.

Office on the top floor of an antique church-style building at 16 1733th Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

After receiving the news from Deep Blue, Wilmer Vase immediately ran to the top floor office to report the matter to Siegel Brand.

"Damn it, how could this happen?" Siegel Brand said angrily after reading the report in his hand.

The emergence of Deep Blue Foundry and Big Dipper EDA completely broke their semiconductor hegemony. At the same time, it also meant that they lost the two most important jewels in the industrial crown. The most terrifying thing was that Deep Blue actually copyrighted EDA.

The copyright operation of EDA will lower the threshold of the semiconductor industry by dozens of levels, which means that China's semiconductor industry will experience a blowout growth. To be more precise, the global semiconductor industry will experience a blowout growth.

China will also gain more allies because of Beidouxing EDA and Deep Blue Foundry, and those allies who have been oppressed by them for a long time may turn against China.

"Notify the board members to hold an online meeting in half an hour," said Siegel Brand.

"Okay, boss." said Wilmer Vase.

Half an hour later, all shareholders of Black Rock Group had logged into their dedicated conference room via computers.

Wilmer Vasai was the first to speak after seeing everyone log in to the conference room: "I believe everyone already knows that Deep Blue has successfully developed lithography machines and EDA."

Everyone in the conference room responded to Wilmer Vasse immediately. How could they not know about such a big incident?

"I think we may have to put the ban on Deep Blue on hold," said Wilmer Vase.

"Wilmer, Deep Blue has developed to this point. If we don't ban Deep Blue, the entire semiconductor industry will be destroyed by Deep Blue." An old man in a black cloak said in a hoarse voice.

"We lost nearly $1 trillion this morning alone," said a middle-aged man in a suit in the lower right corner of the video.

“Now that Deep Blue has reached this point, we must not only ban Deep Blue, but also speed up the process of banning Deep Blue. Not only do we have to ban Deep Blue, but we must also join forces with other allies to ban Deep Blue.” An elderly fat man smoking a cigar said in the center of the video.

If there were outsiders here, they would definitely be able to recognize who the fat man smoking a cigar is. This old fat man is none other than George Soros, the founder of the Quantum Fund, which is reaping the benefits of the global economy.

After everyone in the conference room expressed their opinions, Wilmer Vasser said: "According to the analysis sent by the think tank, Deep Blue's EDA is more advanced than ours. If we ban Deep Blue at this time, Deep Blue will also ban us, which means we will lose the most advanced EDA technology.

However, after our competitors use this technology, they are likely to surpass us in the short term. Don't forget that Deep Blue's EDA uses a copyright operation model.

As the threshold for chip research and development is lowered, more and more people will join the semiconductor industry, which means that our enemies will become more and more. With the help of Deep Blue's EDA, they may be able to surpass us in the short term. At that time, we will really be enemies all over the world.

Without advanced technology, our companies will soon go bankrupt, and our losses will be a hundred or even a thousand times more serious than they are now," said Wilmer Vasser.

"We need to find a way to trick Deep Blue's president into coming to America, and then we can use the old method to deal with him," said the middle-aged man in a suit.

"Jaquin, Deep Blue is a Chinese company. Do you think he will come out at this time? Even if he wants to come out, will China let him? Even if we trick him into coming here, it doesn't matter. He is not a technical person. It is useless for us to arrest him. He doesn't understand technology at all.

Once they know we have arrested the person, they will immediately take over Deep Blue, and then everything we have done will be in vain. "Wilmer Vase said.

"Can't we use a ban to force the other party to hand over the technology?" Soros asked.

"The possibility of forcing the other party to hand over technology by blocking them is less than 1%. Deep Blue Group is a wholly-owned company and the other party has the final say in the entire company. From Deep Blue's past actions, it can be seen that the other party is a person who responds to soft actions and not to hard ones." Wilmer Vasse said helplessly.

"Since there is no way to ban the other party, we have to restrict them at least. Tell me how to solve this problem?" asked Jacqueline Merritt, a middle-aged man in a suit.

"Increasing tariffs can make our products more competitive. In addition, it can block customs and reduce the number of times their goods enter the country, so as to minimize their shipments," said Wilmer Wasser.

Increasing tariffs is the only solution that Black Rock Think Tank can think of at the moment, and it is also the only reasonable method so far.

In the end, everyone agreed with Wilmer Vase's approach. This was the only thing they could do now and it was also a way to prevent others from catching them.

The entire semiconductor sector of the U.S. stock market has seen a sharp drop.

Intel, as the leader of the semiconductor sector, fell directly by 18%. Other semiconductor companies also fell by about 20-40%. The entire Nasdaq can be said to be in wailing.

"Can anyone tell me what is going on and why the semiconductor sector has fallen so much?"

"Fuck, who is behind this? Why are semiconductors falling so sharply?"

"Deep Blue has developed its own lithography machine and will achieve mass production of 14 nanometers next year. In addition, Deep Blue has also launched its own EDA. Our semiconductor industry has lost its leading edge, which is also the biggest reason for the decline of the semiconductor sector."

"Hey, I started shorting Intel when Deep Blue launched its self-developed X86 CPU. I really made a lot of money this time."

"Fuck, even though Deep Blue Group caused me to lose money, their mobile phones are really good."

"Deep Blue Group has also copyrighted its EDA software. Brothers, please short the semiconductor sector. The end of the semiconductor sector is coming."

"It's over, it's over, it's really over this time."

at the same time.

The CEOs of major semiconductor companies all looked very unhappy.

They had guessed that Deep Blue's chips were most likely produced by itself, but they didn't expect that Deep Blue's chips were really produced by itself, and that in addition to producing chips, it also produced EDA, a dragon-slaying weapon.

In the short term, a large number of competitors will emerge, and these competitors will be spread across the world. After obtaining these technologies, some allies may rebel against them and conduct independent research and development of technologies. This is also the real reason for the plunge in the semiconductor sector of the U.S. stock market.

September 2013, 12, China time.

Two days passed and there was no response from the American side. In the past two days, Andrew Ng responded that the server was too slow. Although they already had a dedicated AI acceleration card, the computing power of the server still did not meet their requirements.

Andrew Ng hoped that the semiconductor department could develop a server with more powerful computing power to train AI. To this end, Han Chen took two brain capsules to design the architecture of AI chips.

Conference Room No. 1, DeepBlue Semiconductor, Nantian Entrepreneurship Park.

Han Chen summoned all the executives of Deep Blue Semiconductor to his office for a meeting early in the morning.

“I believe everyone must be curious about why I called everyone to the conference room for a meeting early in the morning. This time I called everyone to the meeting to arrange two important tasks, which are related to the future strategic development of the group.

I believe everyone should know that DeepBlue's voice assistant is developed based on AI. Although DeepBlue's voice assistant is better than Apple's Siri, this is not the limit of the AI ​​developed by the group.

I believe everyone has a certain understanding of AI, so I won’t introduce it in detail here.

If AI wants to make further progress, we need to solve several problems. One is computing power and the other is communication speed. So how do we solve the computing power problem?
To solve the computing power problem, we have to develop supercomputers specifically for AI.

I have designed the architecture of the AI ​​supercomputer, and what you need to do next is to design it according to my plan." Han Chen said.

The poisoning of two brain capsules made Han Chen design a super single-chip module with a structure similar to the later NVIDIA H200.

According to Han Chen's estimation, the computing power of a single-chip module can reach 60TFLOPS. Due to process limitations, Han Chen could only design such a single-chip module. Later AI acceleration cards all started at 100TFLOPS.

However, Han Chen knew that with technological advances, they would be able to develop acceleration cards with more powerful computing power.

When Han Chen was speaking on the stage, the people below were also carefully taking note of everything he said. Han Chen's design method amazed them one by one. Many newcomers did not expect that their boss's design ability was better than theirs.

"Everyone already knows how powerful Kunpeng's computing power is, but strong computing power alone is not enough. Communication speed has become Kunpeng's bottleneck. For this reason, I designed two solutions. The first solution is CPO optical module communication, which can achieve a maximum communication speed of 1TB. The second solution is the DAC solution.

Let’s start with the CPO module. CPO stands for Co-packaged optics. CPO is to assemble the switch chip and the optical engine together on the same socket, forming a co-package of the chip and the module.” Han Chen projected the schematic diagram of CPO onto the screen when introducing CPO.

The people in the audience listened with great interest, and the CPO's design also opened their eyes.

This design of integrating COMS directly on the chip as an optical receiver can be said to be very creative.

"The packaging technology of silicon photonic modules is very difficult, so your packaging department will have to put more thought into it. You can work with major universities for joint research and development. However, there is one thing I want to make clear to everyone in advance. Our company is not allowed to cooperate with Peking University and Tsinghua University on any project. As for the reason, please don't ask." Han Chen said.

"Mr. Han, I will strictly review the universities we cooperate with." Su Ma said.

"DAC is generally translated as direct-attached cable or direct-attached copper cable. It means that optical modules are installed on both ends of the high-speed patch cord. By connecting switches to routers or servers, it is widely used in storage area networks, data centers and high-performance computer connections. It is gradually emerging in network communications. In simple terms, high-speed cable DAC is to connect optical modules at both ends of a cable.

The cable complies with the IEEE P802.3by Ethernet standard and the SFF-8402 SFP28 standard, and each SFP28 connector contains an EEPROM that provides product information that can be read by the host system.” Han Chen began to introduce it.

In fact, although high-speed copper cables are called high-speed, the speed of a single copper cable is only 25GB. However, if 32 copper cables are aggregated together, the speed can reach 800GB.

The biggest advantage of high-speed copper cable is its cost. Its cost is less than one-third of CPO, and its power consumption reaches an ultra-low 0.1W. The disadvantage is that it cannot be output over long distances, but it is sufficient for use in a computer room.

As for external output, only the CPO module can be used for external output.

This is also the reason why Han Chen asked them to develop the two modules together.

The meeting lasted for two hours. Han Chen's mouth was a little dry after speaking for two hours. Fortunately, Han Chen had said everything he needed to say.

"Does anyone have any questions?" Han Chen asked after taking a sip of Coke.

Everyone looked at each other and finally turned their eyes to Su Ma who was sitting next to Han Chen.

"No." Su Ma replied.

"Since everyone has no objections, let's just leave it at that." Han Chen said.

2014:1 a.m. on May 1, 8, China time.

There were three days off for New Year's Day so Han Chen hasn't woken up yet. At this moment, Han Chen was holding his eldest grandson Xiaoxiao in his arms and sleeping soundly. At this moment, the cell phone on the bedside table rang.

After being awakened by the ringing of his cell phone, Han Chen opened his eyes slightly and reached for the phone on the bedside table.

【Caller: Slit Christian】

"Slit, what's the matter?" Han Chen asked after answering the phone.

"Boss, Congress passed a resolution this afternoon to increase tariffs on electronic products from 10% to 35%, and tariffs on automobiles from 2.5% to 25%. Do you think we should lower the agency price appropriately?" asked Sleater Christian.

"Slit, what class of people can afford our products?" Han Chen asked.

“The people who can afford our products are either middle class or rich,” Sleater Christian replied.

"Do you think these people are short of such a small amount of money? Besides, it is not us who want to raise prices. We only raise prices because of the increase in tariffs. If consumers can accept it, they can accept it. If they cannot accept it, let them buy smuggled goods.

I believe that it won't be long before Mexican orders will surge. We will give some appropriate discounts to Mexican agents. I will let Mr. Kong tell you the specific amount of the discount later.

In addition, you can publicize that Deep Blue's products are guaranteed worldwide, and we will provide warranty services no matter which country you buy them in." Han Chen said.

Slit Christine's eyes lit up when she heard Han Chen's words.

Ma once said: "If there is a 100% profit, the capitalists will take risks; if there is a 200% profit, the capitalists will defy the law; if there is a 300% profit, then the capitalists will trample on everything in the world!"

The increase in tariffs means there are huge profits to be made from smuggled goods.

"Boss, I understand." Slit Christian replied with a smile. (End of this chapter)