The venue was dead silent, and the air was terrifyingly quiet.
Affected by the silence, the tall, thin man with glasses standing on the stage couldn't help but stop talking. He was a little unsure whether he should continue or not.
Finally, someone broke the silence and spoke.
"What's your name?"
The person who asked this question was Mr. Mayberry, the CTO of Intel, who was sitting in the front row.
He looked at the PowerPoint presentation on the stage and then at the man on the stage. He then asked this question.
The man on the stage was surprised to see a well-known figure talking to a nobody like him. However, he quickly realized that he was still in the middle of a report, so he nodded and spoke.
"He Hai, Huawei R&D engineer."
He Hai?
Mayberry subconsciously spelled this name in his head. He frowned and thought for a while, but he couldn't remember where he had heard or seen this name before.
Finally, after thinking about it for a while, he gave up. He did not want to waste time on this unimportant problem. He stared at the man named He Hai and said in a low voice, "Don't worry, I'll be fine.
"It doesn't matter what your name is."
He Hai: "???"
Isn't that what you want to ask?
Mayberry didn't realize what was wrong with his words. He pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose and spoke slowly.
"I noticed that you just mentioned the word carbon-based chip. Based on the content of this PowerPoint presentation, can I understand that you are representing Huawei to send a signal to the integrated circuit design academic community and industry that Huawei has made a breakthrough in carbon-based chip technology?"
Strictly speaking, the report was only halfway through, and there was still a long way to go before the Q&A session. Mayberry, who was talking to the presenter on the stage, was being disrespectful to the presenter and the other audience members in the venue.
However, there were exceptions to everything.
At this moment, almost no one frowned at his behavior, because everyone wanted to know the question he asked.
Are those things on the powerpoint real?
He Hai obviously didn't expect Mayberry to ask such a strange question. He looked at him strangely and looked back at his PowerPoint presentation. He made sure that there was nothing wrong with the PowerPoint presentation. He then nodded and spoke.
"As you can see, as the first Dragon One series of chips produced based on carbon-based chip technology, we used a new generation of carbon-based transistors jointly developed by the Jinling Institute of Computational Materials and the carbon-based chip laboratory …"
The moment people heard the keyword carbon-based transistors, they began to talk like a tidal wave.
The concept of carbon-based chips wasn't something that only appeared this year. However, most people sitting here didn't know about this concept, and there was a lot of controversy in the academic community about whether this technical route was feasible or not.
However, such a controversial technology just had to be used …
Now someone told him that he had been defeated?
Mayberry looked like he had just been smashed in the head by a tomato. He tried his best to remain calm as he stared at the presenter standing on the stage and spoke hysterically.
"Can you represent Huawei? Can you be responsible for what you're saying? Do you know what it means to present false academic results at a conference like this? "
When he said this, he had been trying his best to overcome the facial blindness caused by the racial difference. He tried to find a flaw on the face of this Chinese man and expose this false lie.
However, he was disappointed.
This unrealistic hope was like a straw floating on the top of a wave.
After hearing Lu Zhou's question, the reporter named He Hai thought that Lu Zhou was asking this question out of a serious and responsible attitude, so he smiled embarrassedly and added, "Don't worry, Lu Zhou.
"Oh, don't worry about that.
"The corresponding author of this paper is our Academician Lu.
"He's actually in charge of this project."
Professor Lu!
The moment the people in the venue heard this name, they took a deep breath.
Mayberry's face turned pale. His lips trembled, and he couldn't speak.
Earlier, he still had a glimmer of hope that the entire report was just a joke, that there was no carbon-based chip technology at all, and that the PowerPoint presentation was nothing more than a balloon blown up by Huawei. But now, that glimmer of unrealistic hope had been annihilated by the word "Academician Lu" …
Winner of the Nobel Prize and the Fields Award, the person who proved the Riemann conjecture, and recently won the Gauss Prize, the highest award in the field of applied mathematics. With so many titles and halos, any two of them would be enough to dazzle the eyes of countless people.
With Lu Zhou's status in China, he obviously didn't need to come out and support a company.
If this technology was really backed by Lu Zhou's academic reputation …
Was there any suspense left in this matter?
When He Hai saw that Mayberry was speechless, he hesitated for a second and asked.
"Uh, can I continue?"
"… You can continue." The one who spoke was Swann, who was sitting next to Mayberry. He had been silent all this time. He spoke on behalf of the CTO, who was completely dumbfounded.
Looking at the pairs of eyes staring at him, He Hai gulped and nervously nodded.
"Oh, okay."
…
He Hai swore that today's report was the pinnacle of his life.
It was at least the pinnacle of his life.
The entire venue was filled with well-known scholars and engineers in the semiconductor industry, as well as industry leaders who wouldn't even look at him.
However, at this moment, whether it was an ordinary scientific researcher like him or an academic leader in a certain field or the first person in charge of a certain project, they were all sitting quietly like statues, listening to him reading his lines on the PowerPoint.
He was sure that they weren't faking it, they were listening to him.
This was because when he showed the performance parameters of the chip test, gasps of surprise could be said to rise and fall in succession from the audience …
"28nm process technology, integration degree per square millimeter of 10 million … Matching the Xeon chip series, this is insane!"
"How is this possible?! I won't believe it until I see the real thing! "
"A 3.7GHz clock frequency, a maximum power consumption of 20W … Haha, are you dreaming?"
"Theoretically speaking, carbon-based chips do have better heat dissipation than silicon-based chips …"
"This is impossible! I'm only going to say it once, this is impossible! "
"…"
When He Hai heard the discussions around him, he did not feel anxious at all. Instead, he felt gratified.
Regardless of whether there were a lot of people who believed him or not, these people went to his report with questions.
As for the controversies …
Those things weren't important at all.
He had seen that magical little thing before. It was only the size of a thumbnail and was as light as a piece of paper. He couldn't accurately describe the shock he felt at the time, but one thing he was sure of was that when the people sitting here saw the thumbnail-sized chip, they would have the same expression on their faces …
After the report, there was no Q&A session. The entire venue was in a mess.
Koch, the vice president of Qualcomm, stared blankly at the end of the report. The pen in his hand was nowhere to be seen, and only his hand was left on the table.
Suddenly, he spoke.
"My dear Wacker, do you know what I want to do right now?"
Wacker's expression mirrored his own. He swallowed hard and mumbled to himself as if he was sleep-talking.
"I don't know, I don't invest in stocks … I think I have some Qualcomm shares, I just want to sell as much as I can."
Koch nodded with a blank expression on his face.
"We're thinking the same thing."
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