Reborn in 2010, the AI ​​in my mind is too powerful.

Although Chen Yiran wanted to start spending money, the prerequisite for spending money was having money first.

The most exciting day for working people is probably payday, and Chen Yiran, as a big boss, is no exception.

Finally, it was the evening of December 23rd, Beijing time, and the morning of December 23rd, New York time.

Chen Yiran received a message from Kai Deng that, in accordance with the contract, the money would be transferred to Wanguoyuan's account today.

Subsequently, an hour before the stock market opened, Kaden submitted an 8K form, or timely disclosure form for material events, to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Subsequently, official press releases were published on several major websites.

Bloomberg, Reuters, and other financial media outlets immediately pushed the key information to their clients.

The effect was immediate; as the most mechanically programmed system, the quantitative fund immediately and automatically triggered strategy adjustments.

The market's response was unanimous: a frenzied sell-off.

Spending $20 billion to buy a PCB design software is already an outrageous thing.

The most outrageous thing is that the payment method is almost entirely cash.

Countless retail investors started cursing and angrily accusing Kaiden's management of being brain-dead. They said that a company with a market value of only over two billion US dollars would use all its cash, a mature business line, and cash for the next three years to make a life-or-death gamble.

When the market officially opened, Kaiden's stock price began to fluctuate and decline.

The stock price dropped by 8% in just one hour, with extremely heavy sell orders and unusually large trading volume.

By noon, after several fluctuations, the price stabilized at a 14% drop.

The comments section on Yahoo Finance was filled with criticism, with the most upvoted comment being Chen Liwu's original statement from three months ago during the quarterly earnings call: Kaiden will continue to focus on the return on investment of its self-developed product lines.

The comments below are a neatly arranged bunch of question marks, with skulls appearing on some floors, and there are quite a few direct death threats.

Wall Street analysts are almost unanimously pessimistic, and their core arguments are not complicated.

No matter how advanced this technology is, it's not worth such a large investment.

Moreover, Caden's decision to announce the news before Christmas was clearly intended to release downward pressure before the holidays.

This proves that they themselves weren't that confident.

Moreover, in terms of storytelling, although it has been revealed that WanGuoYuan is the company of Chen Yiran, a prominent figure in Silicon Valley this year.

However, when Chen Yiran sold goods last time, he received $2 million from Microsoft, and even now everyone thinks it was a losing deal.

Many people think that this is another case of a genius finding a sucker.

At noon, major television stations reported on this as a hot news topic.

Other television stations' reports are not in-depth, but CNBC's midday financial program is very meaningful.

CNBC is a regular platform for Icahn's voice, and he has been a regular guest on many shows.

The editor of Midday Finance keenly recalled Icahn's previous actions towards Director Ming. Coupled with Icahn's previous statement about not reaching an agreement with Chen Yiran, this not-so-complicated relationship became clear.

Although Icahn is an old acquaintance of his, even acquaintances can become strangers for the sake of trending topics.

CNBC spent a full half hour at noon analyzing the matter, ultimately pointing the finger at Director Ming.

Regardless of how good this new technology called "White Lychee" is, it will definitely have a significant impact on Ming-Tao.

With its manufacturing EDA business already squeezed by FlowEDA, and its second-largest business line about to be scrapped, Mingdao's future is in jeopardy.

They even guessed the truth: Chen Yiran must have secretly established a team in China to get revenge on Icahn and avoid detection. It was all to prevent Icahn from discovering the scheme and running away beforehand.

The program had an immediate effect; many retail investors who watched the program during lunchtime immediately opened their accounts and started running away with the money.

When the market closed for the evening, Kaiden had only fallen by 16%, while Mingdao had fallen by 24%.

The epicenter of the crash was on Wall Street, but when New York closed, it was morning in China.

The major financial and technology accounts on Weibo were in an uproar.

This was an era of vibrant online forums, with each forum having its own audience and focus of attention.

But 2 billion US dollars at the age of 18 is truly astonishing. According to last year's Hurun Rich List, this net worth would place him around 50th.

Moreover, the other bosses are mostly from the real estate, manufacturing, or consumer and resource industries.

Companies like Tencent and NetEase, which are called technology companies, have actually transformed into game companies.

Only Baidu took a different path and transformed into a smaller version of GG Company.

Now that truly high technology has emerged, it's inevitable that it will be sought after.

Moreover, Chen Yiran is very complex. Some people use him as an example to say that Chinese people can catch up with others in science and technology.

Some people use him as an example, saying that American education is good, and that if you go to America, you can become a billionaire in a year. I really have to think about this carefully.

In short, Chen Yiran flooded Weibo, Tianya, Mop, Renren, and Li Yi Bar with posts.

Chen Yiran ignored all of that. Once he confirmed that the money had arrived, he called Ted.

Ted was ecstatic: "It's finally settled, Boss Chen. I'll send you the lawyer's bill later. Thank you so much this time. My persistence in maintaining our relationship has finally paid off!"

"What do you mean by 'finally reaping the rewards'? How much have you collected these past few months? Besides, you've just closed one deal. Xinshi won't back down; they'll continue. You'll still have a lot to earn later."

"Okay, we'll keep working hard. You called to ask about Intel, right? We were talking about $40 million before, but I feel that after today, adding another $10 million shouldn't be a problem."

Chen Yiran didn't care much about this small amount of money anymore, and gave instructions: "Forget it, just get it done as soon as possible, preferably between Christmas and New Year's Day. I have other things that your law firm needs to handle, so there's no need to worry about such a small sum."

"No, we charge based on a percentage."

"Time is money, so get it done quickly."

Chen Yiran doesn't really care about the other source of income. In the embedded systems business, virtual machines are the main source of revenue. Chen Yiran's technology is more like a scalpel for Mingdao.

This will make it easier for Intel to break Mentor's monopoly in the low-end market.

Having already amassed a fortune, Chen Yiran was no longer concerned about the price; tens of millions of US dollars were enough.

This money is just enough to cover the cost of buying the house, and my parents can spend the rest as they please.

Let them get used to a life with money. Chen's parents still don't know how to spend money, and they're not very enthusiastic about things like lobster and abalone that Chen Yiran mentioned.

They didn't want to go to Da Dong, Li Family Cuisine, Tan Family Cuisine, or Wumingju.

Not to mention Xin Rong Ji, which Chen Yiran suggested could only be experienced in Shanghai. (The Beijing branch probably hasn't opened yet.)

Chen's mother is doing well; she has recently started visiting upscale bakeries and has become interested in cakes.

Chen's father was not so good. When asked what was delicious, he would say lamb spine and fried sauce noodles. It was truly a case of a wild boar not being able to eat fine bran.

As for the nine hundred million US dollars they just received, Chen Yiran and Jasmine have had some initial ideas after a week of discussion.

If we're only looking at making money, then there are too many paths ahead of us.

At the end of 2010, Nvidia's stock price was still low. It had just stabilized its position in the graphics card market with the GTX 480 Fermi, and a bull market of more than ten years was expected to follow.

Tesla stock is also dirt cheap; if you buy it and hold it for twelve years, that's a fifty-fold profit.

In his memory, there are countless similar treasures; with a little effort, billions or even trillions of dollars in the future would be easily within his grasp.

To be honest, if Chen Yiran had lived a difficult life in his previous life, he might have stopped here.

A year has passed since his rebirth, and he has grown accustomed to Jasmine's company. Living a life of luxury with Jasmine is quite nice.

However, Chen Yiran lived a very comfortable life in her previous life. Although she couldn't go to Xinrongji every day, she could still go once every few months. And she could eat lamb spine hot pot near her home every day without any problem.

Walking this road again in this lifetime would be too boring.

Therefore, in the future, we still need to modify brain-computer interfaces and develop many more different things.

If we continue down this path, AI chips will become an unavoidable issue.

And ideally, it should be something completely under your control.

Therefore, Chen Yiran needs to have his own wafer fab.

This goal is extremely difficult to achieve. Not to mention, advanced process technology, which is chips within 28 nanometers, requires a 12-inch production line.

First of all, the investment is extremely large, with equipment purchases starting at at least $15 billion.

Photolithography equipment, thin film deposition equipment, etching equipment, ion implantation equipment, CMP polishing equipment, metrology and inspection equipment, cleaning equipment, and heat treatment equipment—each and every one of them is indispensable and extremely expensive.

Moreover, they all need to be imported, leaving almost no room for domestic alternatives.

While encouraging himself, Chen Yiran asked Jasmine again, "Are you sure we can do this? This investment will likely involve spending money extravagantly over the next few years. Let's not look back and find that the chips we make ourselves are unusable. Based on current projections, we might ultimately not be able to reach below 5 nanometers, right?"

Don't worry, based on what I've learned, not all chips needed for brain-computer interfaces require advanced microprocessors. For analog signal acquisition, 0.18 micrometers or even 0.35 micrometers are sufficient. For signal processing and wireless transmission, 28 nanometers is adequate.

The real bottleneck lies in AI inference acceleration chips, which definitely require more advanced nodes. However, we can compensate for this difference using mature processes; based on my current calculations, 7 nanometers is sufficient.

"Okay, on the bright side, at least we have targets to choose from around us."

Chen Yiran walked out of the bedroom and into the study.

As expected, Mr. Chen did not go to work. However, instead of playing chess at Lianzhong World, he started looking at news about Chen Yiran.

When Chen Yiran came over, his father, acting like a lackey, brought him a stool.

"Oh my goodness, our two billion teenager has arrived."

Chen Yiran said helplessly, "Don't try to limit me with 2 billion. I might become a 200 billion boy in the future."

Chen's father opened a few web pages: "That's what people call you online now, the 2 billion boy, and the 18-year-old money-printing machine."

Chen Yiran didn't look at the computer, but instead pretended to look his father up and down, then said in a very irritating tone, "With you like this, not going to work every day, are you well-liked at your workplace? I have a collaboration with Shougang Group that I'm about to inquire about. Don't let them turn out to dislike you and make me panic."

Mr. Chen slammed his fist on the table: "I'm the father of a billionaire, who dares to dislike me? Tell me, what kind of cooperation do you want with Shougang?"