Hujian, a certain large industrial park.
"Mr. Chen, how is the equipnt installation coming along?"
"About 60% is completed. We are currently working overti with the joint engineering team from Jinghai to debug the equipnt that has arrived and urgently install the production line according to the design diagrams!"
"Hmm! Make sure to be strict in your oversight; there must not be a single error.
This production line is crucial not only to our entire company but also to the fate of the entire industry—there’s no room for carelessness!"
"Understood! Rest assured that even if we have to sleep on the production line, we will ensure that the mass production plan is completed ahead of schedule!"
"Hmm!" Mr. Yu nodded.
After leaving Su City, he didn’t go straight back to Yangcheng City but made a low-profile trip to Hujian to personally supervise the landing of this first Light Chip production line.
By his side was the newly established Light Chip R&D departnt "Dawn’s" chief technical officer and also Si Hai Company’s most authoritative top technical expert, Professor Chen.
"However, I really didn’t expect that the company’s ’Nanniwan Plan’ would suddenly create such a big stir without making a sound.
Large-scale integrated Light Chips... to think that they have been realized so quickly.
Mr. Yu, who is the luminary that achieved such an astonishing feat? You can tell now, can’t you?"
At these words, Mr. Yu felt sowhat helpless.
This was not the first ti these technical giants had asked this question.
But even he himself wasn’t sure of the answer, let alone able to provide them with one.
To find a source for this technology, they could only claim that this significant breakthrough was one of the results of their own backup plan...
"Mr. Chen, don’t ask anymore. I’m sure you understand what the situation has been like for our dostic chip talent in recent years.
It’s not just you who doesn’t know; even I am in the dark. It’s the company’s top secret!"
"I see..."
Though sowhat disappointed, Mr. Chen also understood.
To protect their last stronghold of information technology, almost the entire Western world was restricting Country Hua’s self-research capability in chips, with various "unfortunate" incidents involving experts in the field occurring frequently in recent years.
Depression-related suicides, plane crashes.
No one can be certain whether these were natural disasters or man-made calamities...
If it were exposed that there existed such a level of talent dostically, they might potentially beco the target of the enemy’s most frenzied attacks.
In fact, this was also Mr. Ren’s and Mr. Yu’s guess as to why the "inventor" needed to remain "anonymous and hidden"...
Science knows no borders, only a fool would believe that!
"By the way, Mr. Yu, although we have been as reserved as possible, the people from Jinghua still learned quite a bit of data during the cooperation process.
Their person in charge ca to yesterday, seeking our authorization to develop optical storage modules to complent the technology of this chip."
"Is that so?" Mr. Yu’s eyes brightened.
"It seems Jinghua wants to rise from where it fell...
Everyone knows the predicant that Jinghua faced before was the mory storage competition with DRAM.
Jinghua’s managent clearly sees hope for redeeming past humiliations..."
Mr. Chen nodded with a smile.
"Exactly, I’ve seen their approach, which mainly uses GST phase-change material as the storage elent and carries out data reading and writing with optical pulses sent through waveguides.
Although there is so difficulty at the consur level, with Jinghua’s accumulated technology, developing an optical storage module for large data centers shouldn’t be a big problem.
Once they succeed, our ’Alpha’ will undoubtedly receive even greater performance support!"
’Alpha’ can currently only be considered an ’Optoelectronics Chip,’ but after solving the problem of creating sothing from nothing, the way forward is clear.
While the chip is the core, the excellence of an end product doesn’t depend solely on the chip—there are also storage and other functional components.
The chip determines processing speed, and storage determines the speed of data reading and writing.
Without optical storage to match the Light Chip, even with the Light Chip, optical-to-electrical conversion would still be necessary; the read-write rate could at most be comparable to that of electronic chips, inherently limiting the performance of the Light Chip.
Ro wasn’t built in a day, and similarly, the ’Light Ecosystem’ isn’t created overnight; it requires the joint effort of a large number of supporting industries.
"Authorization is certainly no problem; we don’t plan to keep this technology under wraps forever.
We need to license it to our supply chain partners, and when the ti is right, we also need to quickly convene an industry ecosystem symposium to mobilize the world’s R&D power!"
"Yes! That’s exactly what I thought. Speaking of which... The person in charge of Jinghua also told sothing very important."
"What is it?"
"It seems soone has already set their sights on our project!" said Mr. Chen solemnly.
"What?!" Mr. Yu was taken aback.
"Soone paid 100,000 US dollars to bribe an executive from Jinghua.
Thankfully, that guy still had so conscience and leaked the news quietly, but it seems so of our project information has already been leaked..."
"Hmm..."
Mr. Yu’s eyebrows knitted slightly, but then slowly relaxed again, as he just smiled faintly.
"Forget it, such a big project can be hidden for a mont, but not for a lifeti. We never expected to keep it secret for very long.
Now that the equipnt has already been moved into the factory, the project will soon need a large number of workers. With so many people, keeping secrets is out of the question.
If we keep covering it up, not only will we fail to keep the lid on, but our project progress will actually be slowed down...
It seems that the issue of initiating an industry ecosystem seminar... I need to go back and start organizing it right away..."
"Mr. Yu, do you an..."
"Mmm! It’s about ti to make the project public!"
...
A few days later, an explosive piece of news ca out, quickly overshadowing the heated discussions about the "new Origin of the Universe theory" and shot up to beco the hottest topic —
Hua Wei held a press conference to officially announce the establishnt of the "Light Chip" R&D departnt "Dawn" and made a significant breakthrough in the field!
Mr. Yu proudly declared that the world’s first milestone comrcial Light Chip "A" had completed tape-out!
The computing speed of "A" is about 3200 TFlops, which is three orders of magnitude higher than traditional electronic chips!
The power consumption of a single Photonics Chip is 4W, about one percent of the corresponding traditional chip!
The tech community was still reeling from the shocking data, struggling to process it.
But they were given no ti to digest it all.
The announcent continued, stating that the first Light Chip production line would be in Hujian, with Jinghua Integrated Circuit Co., Ltd. handling the foundry work.
By next year at the latest, the first batch production will be completed!
Due to production factors, there will be no sales for the ti being...
But, barring any surprises, "A" will debut in Hua Wei’s latest cutting-edge model, the Mate30 next year!
"Damn! You can’t be serious!"
"Hua Wei, don’t act like those tabloid headline-mongers, alright? If you say so, I might actually believe you!"
"Holy shit! No wonder they have the confidence to take on the world’s number one superpower. If you won’t sell to , I’ll make my own, and I’ll make the next generation... Aweso!"
"Soliton frequency comb, silicon-based lasers, integrated microresonator frequency combs... You’re telling you’ve solved all those related challenges at once?
What the hell have I been researching these ’cutting-edge’ technologies for these past years?"
"I don’t understand, but 666!"
"Hahaha! In this mont, the truth is laid bare!
’Dawn’ is such a great na! It’s darkest before the dawn, and what pierces that darkness... is light!"
"Do you... believe in light?
I’m sorry! From today on, light is my faith!"
"..."
If this were just initial laboratory results, it would have been one thing.
But... design, finalization, tape-out, mass production...
Within a single day, Hua Wei dropped a super-shock bomb from nothing to everything!
The sudden ergence of the conceptual Light Chip "A" sent the whole world into a frenzy!
Also left in turmoil was the poor CIA director...
He watched the live broadcast of the press conference, his face turning directly as dark as the bottom of a pot, with even a hint of purple in that darkness...
I know science has its serendipities, but is this sothing you can just break through as you say?
Does that an everything I’ve been doing up till now has been for nothing?
You wouldn’t sell 5nm, 3nm?
I’m over here counting every single nanoter, and you’re starting with "three orders of magnitude" ahead?
How are we supposed to compete now?!
With that thing in their hands, what about all my plans for subsequent sanctions?
I’ve already spent the money, I’ve taken care of my underlings, I’ve cast a wide net in preparation to encircle and block you!
And now you’re telling you’re not going down that path anymore?
My second move, it’s not just that it’s halfway burnt by soone throwing cold water on it, it’s that you’re not planning on leaving a single spark!
It’s like I’ve been preparing a major move, painstakingly readying a set of Thirteen Killing Swords.
But just as I make the initial gesture...
You respond with a direct assault of Swords to Pinnacle?
That’s not playing by the rules!
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