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"I never thought, Mr. Chen, that your Longxing Group has a secret base in Shenzhen, near the seaside."

Shencheng Longgang.

Paogouling.

After Nvidia CEO Huang Renxun got out of the car, he looked at the large industrial park in front of him and couldn't help but sigh.

I thought I had seen the full picture of the Longxing Group, but I didn't expect that the Bantian base was just the tip of the iceberg.

"I thought of investing money to develop this place because it is close to the sea. Now the data center of Longxing Group and the Pangu supercomputer are both bathing in the sea."

Chen Xing had no intention of hiding anything and told the advantages of the chosen location.

Perhaps many people do not understand how high the cost of heat dissipation is.

The 2015 national statistical data center energy consumption report pointed out that the total energy consumption of data centers of Internet companies such as Penguin, Ali, and Wangdong reached hundreds of billions of kilowatt-hours, which is much more than the total annual power generation of the Three Gorges Dam.

Nearly half of the electricity is used to dissipate heat for the equipment.

In order to solve the problem of high cooling costs, since 2014, Internet companies have followed the example of Silicon Valley technology companies. Some have thrown their data centers into the sea, and some have moved them to cold areas, using hundreds of methods.

Upon hearing this, Jack Ma praised: "Putting it in the sea is indeed a good idea. My data center is placed in the sea, which can save tens of billions of dollars every year."

"Hey, speaking of heat dissipation." Xiao Ma couldn't help but interrupt and continued, "I plan to move Penguin's data center to Antarctica. What do you think of this idea?"

"Antarctica, Antarctica is fine." Zhou Hongwei nodded slightly and gave an example: "Facebook's data center is in Antarctica. I even wonder if their servers will catch a cold."

"There's no need to go as far as Antarctica. I feel the temperature in the Mohe area of ​​Northeast China is quite low. The key is that it's still in China, and the procedures and resistance are relatively small." Li Yanhong, CEO of Baidu Technology Company, suggested.

He had actually planned for the heat dissipation problem a long time ago. He also thought about sinking the ship into the sea, or going to Antarctica like Silicon Valley companies, but after careful consideration, he decided to turn his attention to the Northeast.

"Northeast, Northeast is fine."

Xiao Ma Ge nodded.

Since they are all Internet companies, the topic they cannot avoid is heat dissipation.

The few people talked as they walked. While talking, they did not forget to look around the industrial park. The scale of construction here exceeded their expectations.

After nearly a year of construction, the once deserted Paogouling area has been completely transformed. A daily commercial area has been built in Liujia Village, with fast food restaurants, milk tea shops, hot pot restaurants, barber shops, gyms and other commercial stores.

The original villagers of Liujia Village moved collectively to live in the urban area of ​​Shenzhen, becoming true demolition households.

The commercial area and the industrial area are separated by a large amount of green plants.

Since the lithography factory is close to the commercial area, in order to ensure smooth production, the planning designers used a football field to separate the two areas and set up separate entry and exit roads.

Of course.

This is just the main entrance.

There is also the entrance to the industrial park.

Entering from the northern entrance of Paogouling, you can go directly to the dormitory living area. Further ahead is the planned production factory area and the second commercial area for daily necessities.

Due to the vast area of ​​Paogouling, which is tens of thousands of acres, the current development progress is only less than 30%, and 70% is still under construction. It is estimated that it will take three years for Paogouling to be truly transformed.

"This is the photolithography factory area. The God chips and Huaxia chips used by Longxing Group are all produced here."

Chen Xing explained.

“Can I go in and take a look?”

Huang Renxun asked.

He was so curious about the lithography factory that he racked his brains to figure out how the Qingzhou chip and the God chip were produced.

Western media and experts in related fields even think in the direction of creationism, saying that the chip was given to Chen Xing by God.

Huang Renxun doesn't believe this. He would rather believe that the Qingzhou chip and the God chip were given away as a gift when he recharged his phone bills than believe in the so-called gift from God. This is nonsense.

But then again, the initial blockade of semiconductor chips was not just about photoresist, resin materials, EDA software and instruction sets, but also the most critical lithography machines.

Not to mention the most advanced EUV lithography machine, just take the 28-nanometer DUV lithography machine as an example. The Dutch ASML company has set up layers of restrictions and even dispatched live monitors to supervise.

However, even in this difficult situation, Longxing Group announced successively that it had conquered 14nm and 7nm chips. This shocked Huang Renxun and the entire Silicon Valley technology circle. They really couldn't figure out any way to replace the lithography machine and complete the chip lithography process.

Jack Ma, Li Yanhong, Zhou Hongwei and others all looked at it curiously, and they all wanted to go in and take a look.

"no problem."

Chen Xing nodded slightly and explained, "This time I brought all the CEOs here mainly to show the photolithography factory and to let Master Huang give us some suggestions on how to build the second phase of the Nuwa supercomputer."

Since he had obtained Nvidia's latest graphics card core data, he also wanted to produce and build the second phase of the supercomputer as soon as possible.

At present, the computing power of the Pangu supercomputer is 12.59 quadrillion floating-point operations per second, which is 5 quadrillion floating-point operations less than the Titan supercomputer in the United States.

In the upcoming intelligent era, the consumption of computing power will be very large.

12.59 quadrillion floating-point operations are far from enough. For Chen Xing, who suffers from "lack of power fear", the minimum required is 25 quadrillion floating-point operations to ensure his leading position in the future intelligent era.

"I see."

Huang Renxun and others also understood. No wonder Chen Xing suddenly took them to visit the industrial park of Longxing Group. It turned out that he made the invitation with this idea in mind.

With Chen Xing leading the way and swiping the authorization card, everyone walked into the first phase of the lithography factory, and passed through the corridor to the production monitoring room.

"Mr. Chen."

"Mr. Chen."

Several engineers in charge of supervising production immediately stood up and greeted Chen Xing.

"Well, just go about your normal work, we'll just take a look around."

Chen Xing asked them to sit down.

Hearing this, the engineers returned to their posts.

Huang Renxun looked at the OLED screen in front of him and couldn't help but exclaimed: "Is this fully automated production?"

"almost."

Chen Xing nodded and continued, "Except for semiconductor silicon wafers and photoresists, which need to be manually filled into the spare warehouse, everything else can be produced automatically. This is not only the monitoring room, but also the control room of the machine."

"Incredible."

Huang Renxun murmured to himself.

The other CEOs were equally dumbfounded.

Although the concept of a lithography factory had been exposed by Chen Xing, this was their first visit and the first time they learned that a lithography factory is a fully automated production facility and does not require too many lithography engineers.

Compared with traditional lithography machines, lithography factories are more like fully automatic assembly lines, with greatly improved production capacity and quality.

"Mr. Chen, I would like to ask a question, where does the pure light required for photolithography come from?" Huang Renxun asked shamelessly.

He was so curious.

The lithography factory broke his cognition.

He thought it was a scam, a scheme to use lithography machines to disrupt the West, but he didn't expect them to bring him in for a tour.

What else can be said?
If there weren't so many people around, he would have wanted to kneel down and beg Chen Xing to tell him what the principles of the photolithography factory were.

The other bosses were also very curious, they all wanted to know where the light came from.

You must know that the light from the lithography chip cannot have any noise, and its purity and energy intensity must be guaranteed.

For example, if you use a magnifying glass to focus a beam of sunlight, it may seem to have very high energy, but in fact it is far from enough to meet the needs of lithography.

Anyone who has learned about chip etching knows that photolithography is a matter of a split second, and the energy released at that moment is forty or even fifty times that of everyday sunlight.

The most important thing is that the purity of sunlight cannot be guaranteed and cannot be used for photolithography.

"Light."

Chen Xing hesitated for a moment, then briefly explained the principle and said, "You should all be familiar with Maxwell's equations."

"This equation states that electrons will emit electromagnetic waves as long as they are accelerated. In other words, as long as we accelerate the electrons to a certain speed, we can get an electron with the wavelength we want."

"By gathering electrons in these wavelength bands using magnetic confinement, we can obtain beams of deep ultraviolet and extreme ultraviolet light."

Although he is an ally of intelligent AI, Chen Xing did not explain the principle in detail and deliberately avoided equipment such as particle accelerators and ring memories.

Even if today’s conversation were leaked, no one would be able to master the core technology of lithography factories within ten years.

"Brilliant!"

"It's so bold for a skilled artist!"

"Awesome, this is a completely different approach!"

The bosses all praised it.

Do they understand?

The answer is cruel, no.

They experienced firsthand what Maxwell's equations, electron acceleration, and magnetic confinement meant, and they couldn't remember anything at all.

Of course.

Most importantly, they are not in the semiconductor field.

Internet company CEOs don’t even have to think about Maxwell’s equations. The only thing on their minds is how to make money.

However, Huang Renxun did understand a little bit. After all, NVIDIA is a graphics card manufacturer. After removing the outer shell of the graphics card, the GPU inside is actually no different from the CPU. They are both bare chips.

"President."

At this time, a young man's voice came from the door.

Chen Xing and others looked back and saw Lin Tian, ​​who was wearing a white coat but still had dyed yellow hair. He looked a bit out of place.

"this…"

Although Jack Ma, Huang Renxun and others did not say anything, they were all wondering in their hearts, which family was this energetic young man who sneaked in?
"You came just in time."

Chen Xing nodded and introduced them to him: "This is Penguin CEO Pony Ma, Alibaba CEO Jack Ma, Baidu CEO Li Yanhong, Nvidia CEO Huang Renxun..."

Afraid that Lin Tian didn't understand, Chen Xing introduced their backgrounds one by one.

After introducing the last person, Zhou Hongwei, he glanced at the other CEOs and introduced: "This is our Longxing Group's Chief Lithography Officer, Lin Tian. He came back from ASML in the Netherlands and is quite unruly."

"Chief Lin, nice to meet you."

"So he's a returnee. I was wondering why he has such a unique personality."

"Chief Lin, please give me your guidance."

Although in their impression, scientific researchers all have black hair, but after Chen Xing's explanation, it seems a lot more reasonable. After all, Western culture is about openness. For example, they can have boys and girls parties two or three times a week and dye their hair, which seems to be acceptable.

"I've heard a lot about you, CEOs." Lin Tian greeted them, then looked at Chen Xing and asked, "I just checked WeChat. President, did you say there are new production tasks?"

"Correct."

Chen Xing nodded, took out the NVIDIA X80 core data hard drive, handed it to Lin Tiandao, and said, "This is NVIDIA's latest model, a graphics card that focuses on the field of artificial intelligence. I plan to use it to build the Nuwa supercomputer to make up for the lack of computing power of the Pangu supercomputer."

"correct."

He looked at Huang Renxun and asked, "Master Huang, I want to ask, how many NVIDIA X80 graphics cards are needed to achieve the computing power of the Titan supercomputer?"

The Titan supercomputer uses NVIDIA graphics cards, and it is also the supercomputer with the highest computing power publicly disclosed by the United States.

Now that Huang Renxun is here, we naturally need to understand the data.

"As for the Titan supercomputer..." Huang Renxun thought for a moment and responded, "Actually, I don't know much about it, because the United States has been expanding its computing power room. We only participated in the first phase of construction and only provided graphics cards afterwards."

"Then do you still remember clearly how many graphics cards you provided?" Chen Xing asked again.

"The graphics card at that time was X50, which seemed to provide 12 cards. The subsequent one was X60, which provided 7 cards, and X70 also provided 5 cards. Its actual computing power will be much higher than the announced one." Huang Renxun told the news he knew.

Why are graphics cards so scarce?
It’s so versatile!
Many players thought that they couldn't get graphics cards because other players were competing with them. In fact, it was not the case. The other players competing with them for graphics cards might be the major laboratories. "If you want to build a 30 petaflop supercomputer, how many X80 graphics cards do you need?" Chen Xing asked again.

"Let's start with 20."

Huang Renxun responded.

He didn't know what Chen Xing wanted such high computing power for, but since he asked, he could only give a rough estimate.

"Chief Lin, you heard me, 20 are the base. I need you to produce 20 NVIDIA X80 graphics cards as quickly as possible."

"clear."

Lin Tian nodded in response.

The bosses present might not understand why Chen Xing would spend a huge amount of money to pursue such high computing power when the computing power of Pangu supercomputer was more than enough.

however.

Only Chen Xing knows.

In the era of intelligence, computing power is king.

Nowadays, homes and assistants are gradually moving towards intelligence. When the first generation of Jiuzhou Ai comes out, the demand for computing power will increase several times or even ten times.

In addition to the surge in demand for computing power, there is also a demand for intelligence.

Since the ternary chip is still under development, tuning Ai requires greater computing power.

It's like if a child has low IQ, the only way to get him into college is to use the tactic of using a large number of exercises to train him so that he can master the problems.

to be honest.

Or is it that quantitative change leads to qualitative change!

"And that's..." Chen Xing spoke again. Just as he was about to ask Lin Tian to study the NVIDIA X80 graphics card carefully, the phone in his pocket made a beeping sound. It was a new WeChat message.

He did not rush to check, but looked at Huang Renxun and Lin Tiandao: "Regarding the production of NVIDIA X80 graphics cards and the construction of the Nuwa supercomputer, you two should discuss it more."

"Ok."

"can."

Lin Tian and Huang Renxun looked at each other and nodded in response.

Currently, the only client of Nvidia is Longxing Group, which is a major computing power user. Other Internet CEOs think that since Chen Xing is pursuing large computing power, they will not do so and can just pay for it when the time comes.

"And all the bosses." Chen Xing looked at Li Yanhong, Zhou Hongwei and others, and continued, "Since we are all allies now, I will speak frankly. I hope that before the Spring Festival, Jiuzhou Ai can at least train its cognitive level to that of an ordinary 15-year-old human. This is the bottom line and the red line."

The cognitive ability of an average 15-year-old is at a lower-average level.

Most teenagers at this age have not yet formed their own way of thinking and cognitive abilities, and need to rely on teachers to indoctrinate them.

20, 30 and 40 years old are all watersheds. Every ten years, as people gain more experience and knowledge, they become smarter.

Why is "old" cunning and treacherous, instead of "young" cunning and treacherous?
What it means is that the older people get, the more experience and knowledge they have, and the more clever they become.

"15 years old…"

Jack Ma thought about it and responded: "No problem, the cognitive ability of a 15-year-old should be achievable before the Spring Festival."

“We’re speeding up.”

"Yes, speed up the process."

Other CEOs echoed this.

The statement that a 15-year-old has cognitive ability is actually very vague. Even if it is only the cognitive ability of a 13 or 14-year-old, who can tell the difference?
This was also a deliberate move by Chen Xing. He didn't want to push too hard. After all, Jiuzhou Smart Ai had only been established for half a year.

Huang Renxun has been sharpening his sword for ten years, and they want to make AI have the cognitive level of a 30-year-old human in just half a year?

That's basically impossible!

unless…

The ternary chip was successfully launched.

After giving instructions to the CEOs of each company, Chen Xing also took out his mobile phone to check the messages.

next second.

His pupils contracted slightly.

[Li Ge - WuXi Group]: "Brain-computer interface is just waiting for the right time."

A short WeChat message set his brain working rapidly, as brain-computer interface was a project he had been planning for a year.

What is the use of brain-computer interface?

How broad is the prospect?
Let’s put it this way, it can be used in everything from military industry to entertainment.

Let’s talk about the military field first. Once the brain-computer interface is connected, the drone will no longer need a remote control but will be directly controlled by the human brain.

The threat level of drones remotely controlled by the human brain will increase dramatically.

Furthermore, in the medical field, the control of nanorobots, or the implantation of devices in the body, can be completely controlled by the human brain with a precision of microns.

There are also diseases such as neurological paralysis, blindness, epilepsy, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis that can be cured with it.

The most important thing is that it can realize the interaction between reality and virtuality.

What do you mean?
It's simple, virtual reality!

The holographic games in online novels will no longer be science fiction, and brain-computer interfaces can also be implanted with the functions of mobile phones and computers, getting rid of the burden of external objects.

Because it has such a wide range of applications, Chen Xing spared no effort in its construction and even went to Xicheng many times to inquire about the progress.

"what happened?"

Jack Ma observed very carefully. He clearly saw Chen Xing's pupils shrink slightly, as if he had seen some important news.

"nothing."

Chen Xing smiled calmly.

He knew very well that he had lost control of his facial expression just now, but it was not his fault. Brain-computer interfaces were too important.

Its advent will likely trigger a new economic revolution.

(I want to climb up step by step)

(Waiting for the sun to look at its face quietly)
(Small sky has big dreams)
Jay Chou's song "Snail" sounded, and the screen of Chen Xing's phone, which had just been turned off, lit up, and the caller ID showed that it was Zhang Ming from ByteDance.

"Zhang Ming..."

Chen Xing murmured to himself.

After a brief thought, he looked at Huang Renxun, Jack Ma and others and said, "I'm going to go out and answer a phone call. You guys continue chatting."

"Row."

"Ok."

The bosses all agreed.

Chen Xing walked out of the monitoring production room quickly and came to the office on the side. After closing the door, he clicked on the answer button and said, "Hello?"

"Mr. Chen, you have to give me some advice. I really have no other choice." Zhang Ming's voice was pleading and tired.

In the face of Western marches and boycotts, he has had people issue two consecutive apology notices, but still no one buys it. They think that ByteDance’s top beam is crooked, which leads to the lower beam being crooked.

"What's the trick?"

Chen Xing frowned secretly.

Although he has only known Zhang Ming for a short time, this guy is able to listen to his strategic layout. In addition, Longxing Group is a major shareholder of ByteDance, so he certainly cannot stand idly by if something happens.

"Is such that……"

Zhang Ming recounted the racial discrimination caused by "Sunshine, Rainbow and Little White Horse" in detail and in full.

Chen Xing felt something was wrong the more he listened, so he asked, "Where is your review team?"

Although the "nei ge nei ge" in "Sunshine Rainbow Little White Horse" does not refer to black people, but since the pronunciation is so similar, this kind of BGM should be strictly censored in Europe and the United States. It is ByteDance's own fault.

"this…"

Zhang Ming was a little embarrassed and said hesitantly, "No... not much money left. The financing money hasn't arrived yet. Maybe the audit... the audit department was too tired and didn't think about it the first time."

"I see."

Chen Xing did not blame Zhang Ming, ByteDance's battle line was indeed too long.

If it develops normally, TikTok needs to gain a foothold in China before investing in an international version. Now it is fighting on two fronts, so it is normal that the funds cannot keep up.

And this is definitely not a problem of funding, but someone is deliberately doing something bad.

The reason is very simple. The moment "Sunshine Rainbow Little White Horse" was exposed, various racial discrimination videos appeared and were widely promoted, which shows that the other party had been quietly lying in ambush for several days or even months.

Regardless of whether the funds can keep up, the review of videos with low popularity will not be taken seriously.

There is a saying that goes, the fewer fans, the better the quality.

Why is the quality good?

Just rub the edge!

Because it is most likely machine-reviewed.

But if you are a big blogger, every video will definitely be reviewed by a real person after it is posted, and it will be monitored very closely.

The reason is very simple. Big bloggers have a very large scale. If they post something unhealthy, the scope of spread will not be hundreds of thousands of people, but millions or tens of millions of people!

Small blogger, loose.

Big blogger, strict.

This is the review logic for short videos.

"Now what?"

Zhang Ming asked again. He really had no idea, so he thought of consulting Chen Xing to see if there was any solution.

"Now that the matter is settled, there is only one way to go..."

Before Chen Xing finished speaking, Zhang Ming lost his composure and said with a trembling voice: "You, you won't let me really engage in racial discrimination, will you? Something bad will happen, Mr. Chen!"

"What are you thinking about?"

Chen Xing said with a tone of speechlessness, "In this situation, no matter how you clarify, the label of racial discrimination has been attached to TikTok. You know the logic that it takes only one mouth to spread rumors, but it takes a lot of effort to refute them, right?"

"The only way now is to learn the slogan of the Colt revolver, the weapon of equality, the guarantee of freedom."

"You mean..." Zhang Ming's eyes lit up and his mind turned in an instant. Before he could continue speaking, Chen Xing reminded him: "Just as you thought, the most urgent task now is to collect evidence of the information cocoon and then strengthen our own label."

"I understand!" Zhang Ming looked excited, and continued, "Then I'll do it now. I won't bother you anymore, Mr. Chen. I'll treat you to dinner later."

"Okay, I'll wait for you."

Chen Xing smiled calmly.

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Ming secretly patted his head and said, "Why am I so stupid that I actually followed the other party's rhythm. It must be Chen Xing who has an extraordinary brain."

On the other side, Chen Xing put his phone back into his pocket and muttered to himself, "The group of people behind the scenes have finally reached a dead end."

Want to ban TikTok?

Close Longxing Group’s publicity channels?
But it’s not that easy!

(End of this chapter)