Mixed In the United States As a Local Tyrant

  Chapter 159 Chip Revolution

   But it will be at least two years before the Queen's maiden voyage.

  After investing all the planned money this year, my wallet is empty, and the end of the year is approaching. Joanna and An Feng spent a Thanksgiving without turkeys. They are not Americans, so it doesn’t matter if they celebrate the holidays. Instead, they do volunteer work with the girls at school, which is busy but interesting.

  December is after Thanksgiving, and the countdown to the holidays begins at universities around the world. While Joanna is preparing for the exam, she is also planning holiday activities. An Feng was in charge of searching for strategies on the Internet according to her request, and chose the one he liked... The days were very peaceful, until the GP company notified him.

  Graphene chip finally succeeded!

  The news came a bit late. According to An Feng's original prediction, it would take three to five months to get it out, but now it took almost a year. It can be seen that the gap between ideal and reality is not small. Even if the theory is completely correct, the experts in the technical team still have a long way to go.

  But a breakthrough is a good thing, and it means that money can be made again.

  An Feng finally felt the urgency of lack of money. When he first sold Tailan shares, how should he spend more than one billion yuan, but once his personal plan was implemented, his wallet was immediately empty. There is a lot of money in an offshore account, but it is of a corporate nature and not as convenient as a private account.

  The market potential of graphene chips is no worse than that of super batteries, and it is even easier to popularize with the public, and it can drive the revolution of chip technology.

  An Feng's special plane flew to Texas and landed at Austin Airport, and the company sent a special car to pick him up. Very interesting, it is actually a Tesla MODEL-S.

  Due to the strength of GP Energy, Tesla, which has a particularly huge demand for super batteries, is closely following them.

The driver opened the rear door for him, An Feng got in the car, and the electric car started silently, running peacefully and at a constant speed on the road. It felt very different from a gasoline car, and it was too quiet to drive. Put more work on the decoration and suspension, and you can't feel that you are in the car when you close your eyes.

   But the workmanship of American cars... this is still not discussed.

   "It uses a new type of battery?" An Feng asked boredly.

The driver nodded and said: "Yes, sir. It looks the same as a normal MODEL-S, but it uses a super battery specially developed by the company for Tesla. It has an outstanding range and can reach more than 650 kilometers. Charge 70%, ten minutes full."

  An Feng said: "There are very few super charging stations in Texas, right? What about ordinary ones?"

  The driver replied: "The wall-mounted high-voltage charger takes 25 minutes to fully charge, while the ordinary household charging plug takes about 40 minutes."

   "Very good!" An Feng finally felt that the future was close to him, starting with super batteries, and then super chips, slowly driving various fields.

The driver is a chatterbox, and he couldn't stop when An Feng spoke: "Recently, Tesla can be regarded as a star in the automotive industry. It signed a ten-year super battery supply contract with GP Energy. In the future, the electric vehicle market in the United States may be dominated by it. , and the recent stocks have also doubled."

  An Feng smiled and asked, "Have you bought Tesla stock?"

The driver also smiled: "After GP announced a breakthrough in super battery technology, I bought a little Tesla's stock as early as possible, and now it has more than doubled. It's a pity that it's not the original stock. The guy who takes the original stock is the most profitable. Yes, more than two hundred times, it can be called the mass production place of millionaires."

  An Feng jokingly said: "If GP Energy is going to be listed in the future, everyone has to rush to buy it."

  The driver said: "Of course, I am very optimistic about it."

  I chatted all the way to the company. I haven’t seen each other for two months. The land next to me has become a construction site. I heard from the driver that a new building is being built, taking into account both office and technology research and development. There is also a helipad on the roof, which An Feng likes, the designer is good, the big boss just needs a dedicated helipad on the roof.

The electric car deliberately detoured for a certain distance, drove on a temporarily rebuilt road, came to the original company's six-story office building, and stopped steadily. The female assistant Eve had been waiting for a long time, and she quickly stepped forward and opened the car door. An Feng got out of the car, looked up at the office building, and walked towards the main entrance.

  An Feng said while walking: "Is it going well recently?"

  Eve nodded: "The operation of the company is good. GP Energy's No. 1 workshop will be in operation by the end of the year, and No. 2 and No. 3 are expected to be completed in the second half of next year."

  An Feng looked at her with a smile: "I mean you, can you get used to a busy life?"

  With the lessons learned from John, he is right to ask this question. He really likes to put all the pressure on the assistant secretary, and then go on his own.

  Eve smiled: "Thank you, Mr. An, for your concern. The work is very challenging, but I can do it well."

  An Feng nodded: "I believe in you."

Eve's job is not bad. Although there is still a gap between him and the skilled and talented John, but for An Feng who doesn't like to change subordinates frequently and is a little nostalgic, as long as it is not a fatal flaw, he plans to gradually develop into a A trusted confidant. Eve is a candidate.

   Came to the lab, hugged Song Wenrui, whom I hadn’t seen for a long time, and said to the team members: “Congratulations everyone! I brought you such a great New Year’s gift!”

  Song Wenrui said: "Fortunately, I have the full support of my husband."

  An Feng said with a smile: "You are too modest. Without your work, where would you be today?"

An Feng's words are very helpful to the employees. Although they do all the finishing work, it is the somewhat unpredictable young boss who really pioneered. But being able to contribute to the Great Wall of Technology and witness its breakthrough and rise is a lifetime. A glory to be remembered.

  After exchanging pleasantries, the personality of the engineering man was exposed, and everyone got to the point and showed the samples. It is a computer about the size of a home computer case.

Song Wenrui said: "We successfully installed graphene chips on the computer and assembled them into a minicomputer, which has 16 superprocessor chips built in. But except for the chip, we are not prepared in other aspects. The minicomputer is a cooperation with IBM. made."

He continued: "The processor chip uses IBM's POWER architecture, and other hardware is obtained from suppliers in various fields. At present, the R&D team is considering whether to develop our own processor architecture, or according to IBM's idea, we will cooperate with It cooperates and takes what's available."

There are many ways to process processor chips. Minicomputers and servers are a bit far away from ordinary people. Taking the current household microcomputers as an example, the chips are nothing more than Intel or AMD. They seem to be different, but they all use the X86 architecture. If a microcomputer company wants to manufacture chips, it must have the authorization of X86, and the patent of X86 is in the hands of Intel. If it does not grant it, what you do is useless.

  Minicomputers and mainframes are similar, and IBM's architecture patents are there.

An Feng has his own ideas. He has a new architecture with strong compatibility in his head. Whether it is a microcomputer platform or other mainframe platforms, there are simple instructions or complex instruction sets, and this is much easier than developing chips. Just tell me the time.

   But now his concern is performance: "How does the performance compare?"

Song Wenrui said: "Compared with IBM's Power-740 minicomputer, the test product has 32G of memory, and the peak frequency of the graphene chip reaches 300GHz. After a series of complex comprehensive tests, it is concluded that its performance is about It is more than 150 times that of the 740, comparable to a large computer."

   "It's great!" An Feng said, knowing that it's too complicated is useless, all he needs to know is how powerful it is after comparison. Graphene really hasn't let him down now.

  Song Wenrui continued: "Moreover, it generates very little heat, consumes low power, and its manufacturing cost is about ten times higher than that of computers of the same type."

   Ten times the performance of hundreds of times, as long as it is not a fever, you will be willing to accept it. The market for minicomputers is also huge. If its performance can replace mainframes, it can almost monopolize both medium and large computers. IBM will definitely be in a hurry, but fortunately they also have shares in GP.

  There are too many articles that can be done here. It is estimated that the top management of IBM should now consider how to bribe the people on the GP company, so that they can win more shares, or cooperate in research and development, and devour this huge market. Maybe their ambitions will revive and they will want to invade the microcomputer market.

But An Feng doesn't want to touch the shares of GP company anymore. The water here is too deep, and the consortium family is taking root. If there are more outsiders, it may be difficult to coordinate. The best way out for graphene chips is to establish a subsidiary company... GP Electronics finally recruited wise men like last time.

   An Feng is not interested in the business fight. The purpose of developing these was to make money at the beginning, and it is still the same now, but there is one more thing: robot companies can use it. He considered making a mainframe and moving it back to San Francisco as the core server of the robot company to expand the field of cloud computing.

  Hoffman has been wanting to use GP's graphene computer recently. Apart from his hobby, he said that it can provide a lot of help for research and development.

   Even, this monster plans to set up a small-scale cloud computing network.

The future of cloud computing is very interesting. A small mobile device is connected to the mainframe through the network, and the calculation process occurs entirely on the mainframe. The device is only responsible for receiving the final data through the network. In some respects, the mobile device Computing power is as strong as a mainframe.

Further expansion, whether it is a notebook, a desktop, or a tablet, there is no need to develop a separate chip, all of which are based on cloud computing, and all calculations occur on the core host, which is fast and powerful... After all, An Feng felt that this was the prototype of "Skynet".

   Hoffman went around this pit!

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  PS: I’ve been very busy recently, and the update time may not be normal in the past two days... After the 3rd, the punctual and monthly ticket additions will resume.

  (end of this chapter)