Chapter 1062 Small Cars, Big Cars, and Colliders
While Lu Zhou was on another retreat, sothing huge happened in the outside world.
Let’s start with the small news first.
The first electric vehicle based on lithium-air battery technology had been successfully launched on the market in Shanghai.
Its battery life was twice that of lithium-sulfur batteries, and the wireless charging technology in the built-in battery had sparked considerable discussion upon launch.
More surprisingly, the car was manufactured by BYD Auto.
People never would have expected that a middle-range brand was taking the lead by using their electric vehicle as a major selling point, standing in front of BMW, rcedes-Benz, Volkswagen... as well as Tesla.
People didn’t know how to feel about this...
On the other hand, Beep Beep Charging was the official wireless charging technical support partner for BYD Auto, and they were not receiving as much attention as BYD.
Ever since defeating Tesla’s Evgo subsidiary, Beep Beep Charging had achieved a coverage rate of 85% in Shanghai, smashing their yearly performance asures. They had also begun expanding to Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces.
On the other hand, large shopping malls in California had also begun implenting Beep Beep Charging stations.
When the fusion power station in California was built, the new electric vehicle market on the Arican west coast would begin growing rapidly. This was a good opportunity for Beep Beep Charging to preemptively dominate the charging station market.
Now, on to the bigger news.
While China’s electric vehicle industry was booming, another breakthrough in public transportation had erged.
The world’s first vacuum magnetic levitation train, the Jinshang Line, was officially opened to the public, connecting Shanghai and Jinling.
According to the specifications on paper, the maglev train could reach up to 2,000 kiloters per hour, while its initial trial operation speed was 600 kiloters per hour. After the trial was over, the operating speed would increase to 900-1000 kiloters per hour.
When people read this in the news, they could see that this was as fast as comrcial airplanes.
The Euclidean distance from Jinling to Shanghai was only 300 kiloters. Using a speed of 1,000 kiloters per hour, theoretically, it would only take 18 minutes to travel from Shanghai to Jinling.
What did this an?
This ant that it was faster to take the maglev train from Shanghai all the way to Jinling, than it was to take the subway from Shanghai suburbs to Shanghai CBD.
After the news ca out, many people in Jinling joked that they could travel to Shanghai during their lunch break for so dumplings, then co back before the end of their lunch break.
Of course, considering the price of the ticket, the dumplings would be quite expensive.
While the people in Jinling and Shanghai welcod the opening of the vacuum tube maglev train, the Jingbei line, which connected Beijing and Jinling, was also under construction.
When this line was completed, the Jinshang line would be integrated into the Jinbei line, connecting the three provincial capital cities.
According to the announcent issued by the relevant ministries, there were six new lines planned for construction. Reaching 100% coverage for all major cities.
When the whole project was completed, the people in the country would enter an era of transit where interstate transportation was faster than intrastate transportation. So people hadn’t even been on an airplane, but now, they could get on a train that was faster than an airplane.
Lithium-sulfur batteries to lithium-air batteries, the world’s first vacuum tube magnetic levitation train...
Three years after the breakthrough of controllable nuclear fusion technology, China’s public transportation had already revolutionized.
Not to ntion, more changes were happening.
One day, it would reach a tipping point. People would look back on the past, and they would finally realize how far they had co...
After the conclusion of the first international high-energy physics summit of ILHCRC, Secretary-General Luo Wenxuan announced at the end of the conference that the third phase of the lunar hadron collider had been completed. By using superconducting magnets, the collider track had already been deployed on the lunar surface and final assembly work would be completed within the year.
If everything went well, the first trial operation of this giant scientific research device could begin in March next year.
The only problem left now was that it was difficult to rely on the lunar electricity generators to power this behemoth.
The current solution was to implent a charging station, three days of charging amounted to three minutes of experintation.
Of course, there were also proposals to deploy a fusion reactor on the lunar surface, but there were nurous technical problems with that solution.
One solution was to use fusion batteries, the kind used in Skyglow and Starlight. However, the cost was unrealistic and the power was nowhere near enough.
This was like removing the reactor from an aircraft carrier and supplying power to a city with it. Even if it was a small city, it wouldn’t co close to providing enough power.
Whether it was on the Moon or on planet Earth, international news was filled with China’s latest developnts.
Aside from electric vehicles, vacuum tube maglev trains, and the collider in the sky, the most exciting thing was undoubtedly the innovative te100 mobile phone.
After all, this was sothing that actually impacted people’s lives. Sothing that people followed closely.
The carbon-based chip had been garnering international attention, and the strategy depicted by the chief product strategy officer of Huawei gave people high hopes.
In the midst of all this, the semiconductor giant Intel suddenly announced an OEM agreent with Huawei HiSilicon, with HiSilicon producing a new generation of carbon-based chips from their Jiangcheng factory.
The news was like a level twelve hurricane, shocking the semiconductor industry.
No one expected Intel to do sothing like this.
People wondered why HiSilicon, whose focus had always been integrated circuit design, had begun manufacturing their own chips?
In most people’s mind, HiSilicon was just a chip design company, only able to supply its own parent company due to its limited production capacity.
But now, by relying on the Jiangcheng semiconductor industry cluster, production capacity was no longer a problem.
It seed like both companies had completely transford.
In the carbon-based chip field, Intel was forced to rely on an OEM like HiSilicon.
The cooperation between Intel and Huawei ant that China’s growing semiconductor industry would receive huge orders from the Arican market.
By accumulating experience and capital through other orders, China could invest back into research and developnt. This would form a positive loop, further expanding the advantages of China’s semiconductor field.
This was how the rich got richer.
On the other hand, when Intel accepted the terms, they gave up their power and opened the door for carbon-based chips. They went from the top to the very bottom of the industry chain.
Even though this was difficult to accept, this was the price of survival.
Seeing how even the all-mighty Intel turned to the dark side, Qualcomm imdiately announced their entry into the carbon era. They signed an agreent with Huawei and even sent a large number of experts in the field of communications and modem chips to Shanghai. They had beco a firm supporter of the new carbon-based chip industry ecosystem.
Intel and Qualcomm were trying their best to survive, even actively helping to replace their own silicon chips.
After all, this was the only way.
If they stubbornly hugged onto silicon chips, they would end up like Nokia and Motorola...
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