Chapter 892 The third largest carbon-based semiconductor industry chain
The impromptu meeting lasted until past ten o'clock in the evening.
In response to the carbon-based chip planning report sent by Xu Chuan, senior officials held urgent discussions with many experts and academicians in the chip and electronics industries.
The discussion on the carbon-based chip project to open up the semiconductor chip industry cluster, promote carbon-based chips to replace silicon-based chips as the core of the new era, and vigorously promote the development of carbon-based chips is quite intense.
There are those who are supportive, those who are opposed, and those who are hesitant.
However, the layout and development of carbon-based chips were firmly determined after this meeting.
Gathering resources and strength in the domestic chip field and electronics industry, building a semiconductor industry cluster around carbon-based chips, and fully promoting the development and expansion of carbon-based chips is the final result after the meeting.
No one doubts whether this can be done, no one doubts whether Xinghai Research Institute’s breakthrough in carbon-based chips is true or false, and no one doubts the country’s determination to transform the chip field.
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The reply came almost three or four days later.
When Zheng Hai delivered the letter, Xu Chuan almost forgot about it.
Taking the letter from Zheng Hai's hand, he opened the envelope, took out the letter paper and read it twice.
For him, the contents of replies are basically the same.
It is nothing more than a letter to praise him and Xinghai Research Institute for their breakthroughs and contributions in related technologies, and to ask about some specific progress highlights and future development of current technologies.
But this time there seems to be an exception.
In addition to past words of commendation and praise, there is also a planning document for the semiconductor chip industry group, which includes the location of the semiconductor chip industry group, which companies are invited to participate, planning and construction plans, etc.
It seems that detailed plans to open up the entire semiconductor chip industry group are attached.
In addition, the letter also contains some inquiries about his detailed views and suggestions on developing a semiconductor chip industry cluster.
This actually surprised Xu Chuan. He didn't expect that the reply from above would be so complete this time.
It seems that in the past three or four days, the top management has made a decision to strongly support the development of carbon-based chips, and even the site selection and planning have been completed.
This efficiency was so high that Xu Chuan was a little surprised.
Although he knows that breakthroughs in carbon-based chip technology will definitely attract the attention of senior management, he also knows that his suggestions will definitely be discussed above.
But I didn't expect that the senior management would be so impatient in this area.
Nowadays, the most basic problems of carbon nanotube integration and carbon-based transistor integration have just been solved, and related work is already underway.
This efficiency is indeed a bit exaggerated.
But if you think about it from another perspective, it’s actually not surprising.
China started late in the field of chips. When they started research, Western countries such as Omega, Japan and South Korea had already developed a complete industrial system in the field of silicon-based chips and built a tall protective wall.
Technical suppression and patent moats have forced them to pay a high price for backward technology in the field of silicon-based chips.
China has always been the world's largest importer of chips. Over the past decade or so, the domestic market has spent trillions of dollars on the purchase of chips and related patents every year.
If you include memory chips, semiconductor components and the like, they have to spend trillions of RMB on this market every year.
For example, in 2019, the import value of integrated circuit chips was 304 billion meters.
According to the exchange rate between rice gold and RMB at that time, which was close to 1:7, they would have to pay 2.1 trillion RMB just for integrated circuit chips, which far exceeded the amount of oil imports that year.
It is extremely sad to stand in a high position and watch such huge domestic wealth flow to other countries.
What's more critical is not only the huge amount of imports in the chip field, but also the serious problem of "stuck" in Western countries with the help of chip process technology and related patented technologies.
Opponents can unscrupulously use patents and technologies in the chip field to unfairly suppress domestic high-tech companies without any reason.
This kind of unscrupulous suppression has further promoted their desire for self-research in the chip field.
If they can establish their own advantages in carbon-based chips first and achieve progress and breakthroughs.
The long-standing humiliation in the chip field will disappear, and carbon-based chips will establish their leading position in the chip field in one fell swoop.
At that time, it will be those Western countries that were originally superior in this field that will continue to catch up with them.
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The development of carbon-based chips takes time. Even if the top management has decided to open up the third largest semiconductor industry chain after controllable nuclear fusion and the aerospace industry, and decided to strongly support it, the transfer and arrangement of related construction and personnel companies can only be done step by step.
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There is actually not much that Xu Chuan and Xinghai Research Institute can do.
They have initially solved the two most difficult problems, the high-density deposition of carbon nanotubes and the integration of carbon-based transistors.
As for the remaining problems such as optimization of preparation technology, control of size, shape, structure and stability, and industrial production, manufacturers that need to cooperate with them, such as Warwick HiSilicon, SMIC and other companies, will unite little by little.
advancement.
Regarding the problems encountered in the chip preparation process, Xinghai Research Institute cannot help much. At most, it can further cooperate and optimize basic materials and other aspects.
So after the relevant work was handed over to the Materials Research Institute, Xu Chuan didn't put much thought into it.
After carefully and rigorously reviewing Liu Jiaxin's paper on the P=NP? Conjecture on the Graph Isomorphism Problem several times and putting forward some suggestions for revision, after more than half a month, this paper titled "The Graph Isomorphism Problem"
The paper "Research on the Quasi-Polynomial Graphical Mapping Method" was finally officially published and published in "Exploration·Mathematics".
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! This is the first issue of "Exploration·Mathematics". It also has only one paper, so it can be called a special issue.
Like the previous main issue of "Exploration" and "Exploration·Physics", once the sub-issue of "Exploration·Mathematics" was released, it immediately caused a heated discussion in the mathematics community.
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When "Exploration Mathematics" officially released the first issue, on the other side, in the United States, was the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Although the eighty-year-old Pierre Deligne has left the classroom and started living in retirement, he still visits the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton from time to time.
We even occasionally hold open classes at Princeton University to talk about mathematics.
Among them, the one that many Princeton University students are most interested in is undoubtedly his student Xu Chuan.
Every time there is an open class, there are always students who are very curious about Xu Chuan, and Deligne is also willing to use Xu Chuan's story to bring some encouragement to these students.
As usual, while taking a walk in the back garden of the Institute for Advanced Study and preparing to look for books to read in the Flintstone Library, Deligne saw a man sitting by the glass window of the cafe on the first floor of the Institute for Advanced Study.
Familiar figure.
After looking twice to make sure he saw it correctly, he opened the door of the coffee shop and walked over, asking with a hint of curiosity.
"Why are you back? Shouldn't you be at CRHPC at this point?"
Sitting in the cafe drinking coffee is none other than Edward Witten.
Hearing the familiar voice, Witten raised his head and said with a smile: "Come back to take care of some things. Why do you have time to go out for a walk today?"
"stroll?"
As if hearing a strange adjective, Deligne raised his eyebrows and asked.
"It means going out for a walk." Witten smiled and continued: "In China, they call the act of going out for a walk after eating or going out to relax with nothing to do as 'walking'."
Nodding, Deligne was not surprised.
After the establishment of CRHPC, it has become the largest high-energy physics research center in the world. Many physicists have moved their positions from CERN to China.
Over half a year, if they are serious, it is enough for these scholars, who possess the pinnacle of human wisdom, to learn each other's language and some habits.
This is normal.
Pulling out the chair and sitting down, Deligne's eyes fell on the journal in Edward Witten's hand.
""explore"?"
Naturally, he knew about the academic journal founded by Xu Chuan and subscribed to it.
However, currently only the main journal of "Exploration" and the sub-journal of "Exploration Physics" have published papers, and he is not very interested in these.
Witten smiled and nodded, saying: "Yeah, and it's the first issue of the Mathematics Journal."
Hearing this, Deligne showed a hint of surprise on his face: "Mathematics Sub-Journal? When was it released?"
"I just arrived today, there are some over there." Witten pointed to the front desk of the coffee shop with a smile.
There is a newspaper and magazine rack there, which contains various types of magazines, mathematics, physics, materials, etc., all of which are subscribed by the Institute for Advanced Study.
Deligne stood up, walked over, flipped through the newspaper and magazine rack, and found another "Exploration Mathematics" on it.
When his eyes fell on the cover, there was a trace of surprise in his eyes.
P=NP? Research on graph isomorphism problem in conjecture?
After taking the journal and ordering a cup of coffee, Deligne sat back on the coffee table by the window and started reading eagerly.
More than half an hour passed, and when the setting sun fell on him through the glass window, he put down the journal in his hand and said softly:
"Interesting, quasi-polynomial graphical mapping method, I see a hint of familiarity in it."
Witten smiled and said: "She is by Xu Chuan's side, and it is normal to feel familiar."
Deligne picked up the coffee, took a sip, and said lightly: "That's pretty good."
He still has an impression of Liu Jiaxin. She is a very introverted and shy girl. She has a good talent in mathematics, but her ability in computer science is stronger.
Witten smiled and put the journal in his hand on the table, and said with emotion: "It seems that the academic world will usher in an academic journal that is comparable to Nature and Science."
"If he can maintain this quality and start other sub-magazines."
Hearing this, Deligne looked over, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Is this possible?"
If he remembered correctly, "Exploration" not only covers areas such as mathematics and physics, which Xu Chuan is good at, but also many other basic and engineering disciplines such as chemistry, materials, medicine, astronomy, communications, computing science, natural engineering technology, etc.
of sub-journals.
Regarding the three journals that have been published so far, the opening papers of each are top-notch.
It is unimaginably difficult to collect top papers from so many disciplines and across fields.
It's impossible for him to do so much research across so many fields. This is impossible.
Witten smiled and said, "Nothing is impossible. It seems you don't know him as well as I do."
After a slight pause, he continued: "I bet that if he didn't find suitable opening papers for other sub-journals, he might have been delaying the publication of the first issue of the sub-journal!"
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