Recently, Future Group's name appeared on the news quite frequently. A lot of media began to discuss if they should collect advertising fees from the boss of Future Group.
Just as Jiang Chen arrived at Papua Island, the world was once again excited by a piece of news.
New York Times: "Future Heavy Industries announced a major breakthrough in the field of semiconductor-type graphene material research. The 5-nanometer curse that silicon chips can't break is expected to be easily broken. Before 2020, the world's electronics industry is expected to enter the PM era! "(1nm = 1000pm)
UK Guardian: "Incredible research results. Cambridge University's materials science professor stated that Future Group may once again use technology to change our future."
France's Le Monde: "Lu Yuan and three other Hua scientists affiliated with Future Group's materials science research laboratory will be nominated for the 2018 Nobel Prize in Science."
Xiangjiang's South China Morning Post: "There are many talented people on the mainland. Moore's law may be extended by this man!"
Global Times: "…"
It was common knowledge that conventional graphene had no band gap. Its special corrugated valence band and conduction band were actually connected, which made it more like a metal than a semiconductor.
Future Heavy Industries announced that their researchers discovered that using silicon carbide as raw material, through a heat treatment method, it could form a graphene layer with an energy band greater than 1.10ev in the buffer layer.
This was very close to the 1.12ev of silicon material, making graphene chips possible!
Future Heavy Industries' major breakthrough in the graphene field caught Intel, AMD, and other well-known CPU developers and manufacturers off guard. Nasdaq's technology stocks opened with cries of distress, scaring Wall Street investors into crying.
You want to ask why? The reason was obvious!
Once the semiconductor graphene material was introduced, it would mean the end of silicon chips. It would only be a matter of time before smaller graphene transistors were eliminated. Just like a steam engine, no matter how fast it ran, could it outrun an internal combustion engine? It was the same logic.
These investors were creatures more cunning than monkeys. If it was another company bragging about creating global Wi-Fi, virtual reality, and graphene chips, they would only scoff. "Humph, do you think I'm a new investor? You're using these things to trick me into buying shares. "
But Future Group was different. Everything they announced they would do, without exception, became reality.
It was unknown whether Intel and AMD would fall from the altar like Kodak, but Wall Street investors already dumped their stocks.
The movements of the Kodak Company's stock prices were still fresh in the minds of these investors. From 31 billion USD in February 1997 to a crazy 2.1 billion USD in September 2011, this roller coaster feeling was more exciting than the A-shares on the other side of the ocean!
In the slumping technology sector, what the B City Consortium didn't expect was that the stock price of B City Technologies was surprisingly strong. Future Group's subsidiaries were still in the IPO process, so investors had to vent their enthusiasm on B City Bank and B City Science, which were partners with Future Group. Although he wasn't sure if the two parties would cooperate in the graphene field, wasn't investing in this kind of thing a gamble?
If he made the right bet, he would be the second Intel!
The bliss of picking up money while lying down was beyond Carson Loki's expectations. John Lawrence, who originally opposed working with Future Group to develop the North American market, was also secretly glad about the result of the vote.
Just as the world was discussing Future Heavy Industries' breakthrough in the field of graphene, the Wall Street Journal broke another blockbuster news.
Based on a patent office official who didn't want to be named, Future Heavy Industries submitted a total of 2000 patent applications in the past week! From graphene transistors to the preparation of graphene chips, Future Heavy Industries took over all of them at lightning speed.
The Capital was both happy and shocked. Happy that Future Group was finally willing to register a patent. What surprised him was that Future Heavy Industries almost blocked all avenues of graphene chip research and development! Many materials science laboratories that had a cooperative relationship with the US Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) had wasted hundreds of millions of dollars of investment.
They already put their research results on the table and applied for a patent.
In the next two decades, any company that wanted to produce graphene chips would have to pay high patent fees to Future Group …
Jiang Chen made the decision to register a patent after careful consideration.
Different from neural connection and mature artificial intelligence technology, graphene technology didn't have a huge technological leap, just like Future Heavy Industries' solid-state lithium-air battery. Perhaps in a few years, these technologies would emerge from the laboratory.
Dr. Lu Yuan of the materials science laboratory also supported Jiang Chen's point of view.
Referring to papers in international journals such as Nature and Science, he made a more optimistic judgment. If it was fast, perhaps in 2020, graphene's industrial production technology would have a significant breakthrough.
Therefore, Future Group, through the International Patent Organization, registered a total of 2,000 patents for graphene-related research results in Hua, the United States, Europe, and Russia. They set up barriers thicker than the Great Wall and established Future Group's monopoly on graphene chips.
Of course, the registered patent was only for the product, not the production process.
The difficulty of graphene research was how to carry out industrial production and the preparation of graphene materials with different properties. Without key production technology, even if the graphene chip samples were obtained, it would at most provide an idea for the experiment. It would be difficult to reverse engineer the production process.
All chip production would be completed in the high-tech industrial park on Ange Island. Jiang Chen had no plans to build factories in other countries, so he naturally didn't need to disclose it in exchange for intellectual property protection.
In this visit to the New Malaysia Special District, Jiang Chen had two main things to do.
First, the 80 million tons of ore supply contract with BHP Mining Group was used up by half because the construction project in Penglai City caused the price of iron, aluminum, and other metal ores to recover. Luke Joyce wasn't stupid. Of course, he wouldn't continue to renew the contract with Future Group at the cost price.
This time, Jiang Chen came to the New Malaysia Special District to negotiate with the boss of BHP and discuss the renewal of the contract.
Second, Jiang Chen planned to investigate the production status of the New Malaysia Special District.
The technical difficulties of graphene chips were solved. Future Group certainly couldn't just sell chips, they had to expand into the downstream industry. Phones, tablets, PCs, Future Heavy Industries could do it all! If they couldn't do it, they would acquire some subsidiaries!
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