The end of technology.

Chapter 186

People can be strong without desire.

This is probably Chen Yonggang's mentality at this time.

He really didn't want to improve any more. Being able to stay in the University until retirement was already the most perfect life for him.

According to the current pace of development of the University, until retirement, he is the most powerful principal in the world since ancient times. There is no one, and he must be included in the history books.

So Chen Yonggang really has nothing to pursue, and naturally he doesn't care about making jokes with the leaders.

Anyway, it is impossible to approve the tens of billions of notes, even if the old leader really has the courage to approve it...

That's even better, for things like appropriation, as long as the money arrives in Tida's account, he has the final say on how to use it.

For example, the administrative building of the University used to look good, but with the rapid development of the University, it is not so grand and has no special features. It is quite good to rebuild a building.Now that the University is developing into a comprehensive university, the science building is too simple. If possible, build another twin building, and the enrollment will double next year.

The situation of Pearl Shuangdan University next year is worrying. He has to think about many students and not let young students be deceived by those schools that have no name.

One by one, one by one, is very important, so naturally it seems that dealing with the leadership is not very important.

Of course, the other end of the phone probably also knew Chen Yonggang's little thoughts, and after a few curses, he had no choice but to do so.There is no way, after all, the system still needs someone who can talk to Ning Zi.

Everyone has seen Ning Zi's temper, and they all know how difficult it is to deal with, and this guy protects his weaknesses.

There are many people who are unhappy with Ning Zi, but there is no way, this boy is now a national treasure-level scientist, he is so headstrong and has a lot of people to accompany him.

Extremely capable, an absolute leader in China's future scientific research field, with a protective personality, stubborn, willful, reckless in doing things, and dare to turn the table...

All these characteristics are combined, so that the leader actually has no way to deal with Chen Yonggang's hob meat. The most he can do is swear a few words, then hang up the phone angrily, and then find an excuse to forgive this misplaced principal.

What else can be done?

If you really turn your face, maybe you will ask for it in the future if you have something to do.

……

Of course, it is not only the leaders who have been annoying Chen Yonggang at this time, the principal has to deal with many partners.

For example, Youwei, especially Apple.

To be honest, Ning Zi suddenly announced on the official website that he would share the new structure chip technology, and it was also a little sudden for these two quasi-ally allies.

Youwei is lucky, because the relationship is closer, and he has already obtained first-hand technical information and authorization, and has begun to plan the design and production of narrowband chips and radio frequency chips.Both chips are essential to the company's future robotics strategy.

Although the design logic of the chip embedded in the mobile phone is different from that embedded in the robot, it can be regarded as a familiarity for the group to do these things.From their perspective, they actually hope to have more collaborators.

But what Ning Zi's attitude is, they still hope to know the first time.

As for Apple, the significance of the new structure chip is naturally more important.

After all, if the process can be improved rapidly, it means that the A-series chips in a few years will also be able to use this new process, so that their own products can have more powerful performance.So Tim Cook has been actively communicating, hoping that Apple can get the relevant technology, but he didn't expect it to be in this form. He has to invest real money like those manufacturers in the World Semiconductor Alliance...

Obviously, this is extremely unfair from Apple's perspective.

After all, the large chip research and development center was built with Apple's assistance, so there should be some discounts, not to mention that Apple has multiple considerations and has not joined the World Semiconductor Alliance.

Yes, Tim Cook, who is in his office in the Apple headquarters building, is struggling.

It would be a lie to say that I have no regrets.

He still remembered that he made a special trip to Huaxia to meet Ning Zi for the upgrade of Apple's intelligent voice service system Siri more than a year ago.He even remembered what Ning Zi said when the two were having dinner in the dining room of the University's canteen: "Our technical reserves are enough to make Apple fall from the altar..."

Really, Tim Cook still remembers how he felt when he heard these words... Slightly upset, but still somewhat convinced.But at the time, based on his judgment based on scientific common sense, he believed that such a research and development center could not really pose any threat to the mature semiconductor industry chain for at least 20 years.

So he refused to invest more at the time and share the results of the R&D center in the future. Instead, he chose a more realistic solution, trading a R&D center for Ning Zi's long-term upgrade service for Siri.It now appears that Tim Cook must admit that he was too short-sighted.

But at that time, who would have believed that this research and development center was officially handed over to Ning Zi, but in just a few months, there were subversive results.

Still too careless.

After seeing the announcement on the official website of the R&D Center, he really wanted to have another in-depth conversation with Ning Zi, and re-discuss the cooperation between Apple and Tida. He can choose to make more concessions and at the same time get more development bases. I went to retreat again, and I can't contact anyone for the time being.

In order to understand these two words, he also called a Huaxia engineer in the company for advice, but he also got an ambiguous explanation.But he still understood some things. The engineer found out on Google that before Ning Zi came up with the new structure of the [-]D chip, he also announced that he had been closed for a period of time in the research center. After he came out, the chip had a finished product...

So in Tim Cook's understanding, Ning Zi's retreat probably means not seeing anyone, hiding in the laboratory and using magic.

He used it once half a year ago, and then Huaxia got the chip.

Half a year later, he decided to use it again, and God knows what he will come up with this time.

So soon, Tim Cook made a decision. After a year, he decided to go to Huaxia to take another look.He only needs to arrange the things at hand within a week, and then he can start his trip to China.After making his decision, Tim Cook pressed the answering device on his desk.

"Kai Li, renew the itinerary plan for me, I plan to go to Huaxia Capital next week..."

"Oh, good Mr. Cook."

"Go!"

……

Just when Tim Cook decided to go to China, after Cisco's negotiating team stayed in China for nearly half a year, they finally reached a package agreement with the School of Computer Science of the University of Physical Education.He returned to the United States with an intelligent software that could subvert the world.

Yes, this negotiation took a long time.

The reason is also very simple. Cisco does not have the ability to upgrade the software in the short term. This requires companies under the School of Computer Science to undertake the maintenance and upgrade of the software in the early stage. Data is shared with each other.

The focus of the negotiation is stuck here. Even though Conan Lamar agreed to a compromise under the instruction of Ning Zi, in order to avoid a series of possible problems, the School of Computer Science of the University still needs to register a branch in the United States to come Responsible for software upgrades, maintenance and data collection.

In short, after half a year of hustle and bustle, the two parties finally reached an agreement and signed the contract.

Cisco is about to usher in a new life.

But from another perspective, a storm of layoffs spreading outward from Silicon Valley has also begun to brew.The first shot of artificial intelligence finally beginning to replace humans in the field of high-level work is about to fire.

It just happened to coincide with the opportunity of the large chip research and development center to release the cooperation, absolutely.

……

Liu Xinfeng walked into Google's office building in Silicon Valley as usual.

In fact, compared to his Chinese name, colleagues here prefer to call him by his English name, Pete Liu.

To be honest, Pete is quite satisfied with his current life.

The whole world knows that Google is a company that treats employees very humanely. In addition to the high salary, various benefits are also full.His current annual salary is about 20 knives. Don't underestimate this figure, which is more than many university professors.

He is also very satisfied with the canteen provided by the company. The Michelin-starred chef provides delicious meals for three meals a day. The only thing that makes Pete not satisfied is that the company stopped cooking meat for one day recently, but there is no problem. Big, the company still offers many delicious pastries and vegetarian options.

There is free high-end coffee in the tea room, and you can discuss various technical issues with your colleagues at any time during working hours, and you can even fish in an open and honest manner without anyone caring.

The company has already arranged a rest area, so you can go to sleep during the lunch break.

The company also helped them pay for insurance that is far better than ordinary people, except that the housing prices and rent in the Bay Area are indeed a little more expensive, but it is not a problem for Pete, he is still young, give him another two or three years It should be able to make up enough down payment to become a homeowner.

Compared with the extreme life of domestic students, this relaxed life mode is undoubtedly more comfortable.

For Pete, the only trouble is probably that this comfortable life has made him lose the motivation to struggle in the past, which made him not think about improving himself for many years after graduating from Columbia University. This is really worth it Reflection, but then again, many local colleagues around him, as well as classmates who used to be from the Huaqing Alumni Association, are actually pretty much the same.

It is actually very difficult to go further, especially for Chinese people, it is too difficult to get into the technical jobs in the core laboratory.And for the vast majority of people, the job of this code farmer is also very decent now, and it is actually not too bad to pass this life like this.

What Pete hopes most now is to find a girlfriend and get married.

But this is indeed a very difficult task in the Bay Area of ​​​​California.

Simply put, there are more wolves and less meat.The wages of the code farmers working here are all about the same, and the annual salary is between 20 and 30. A social party, with three or five single women, can often attract dozens of code farmers to participate, especially the vast majority of Chinese boys. It is more difficult because the options are relatively narrow. After all, he still prefers to find a wife who is also of Chinese descent.

There are relatively few female international students, and they seem to have a wider range of choices, and they don't mind falling in love with Westerners, which really makes Pete feel a headache.

But how can everything be perfect in life?

Anyway, he is still young, only 28 years old, and he still has time to find her hidden in the crowd.

……

As usual, after turning on the computer, Pete did not intend to enter the working state immediately, but went to the pantry to make a cup of coffee first.Then I was keenly aware that the atmosphere in the company today seemed a bit wrong. Several Western colleagues were gathering in twos and threes to chat about something, and many of them had solemn expressions on their faces.

He doesn't like to chat with local colleagues, not because of discrimination. In fact, a big company like Google has a good working atmosphere.After all, they are all high-spirited groups, basically graduated from Ivy League universities. There are more international students in this type of universities, and they have long been accustomed to the communication between different ethnic groups.

So the main problem lies with Pete, who is inherently introverted.And under the influence of different cultures, everyone's laughter is different.What many Americans find very funny, he can't get a laugh at all.This is still the case, as many Americans like talk shows.

When someone casually said a joke, and the surrounding colleagues laughed out loud in tacit understanding, he was still thinking about what the words meant, so he seemed very out of group.

Fortunately, there are actually many Chinese descendants in his department, and he met one as soon as he walked into the tea room.

"Robin, it seems that everyone is not very emotional today? Is there something wrong?"

"Don't you know yet?"

"what do you know?"

"The company may be about to lay off employees on a large scale. It seems that the top management is making an assessment. Once the results come out, the company may usher in the largest layoffs in history. Many departments may be completely laid off, especially us code farmers."

"how is this possible?!"

Pete was surprised.

Although the semiconductor industry as a whole was in a downturn during this period, including news of layoffs from Intel, Nvidia, and IBM, Google is really not a serious semiconductor company. After all, Google’s main business is search, and its main profit comes from advertising. alliance.

As for all other businesses, almost all of them are laid out for the future.

You must know that Google is probably the only company in the world where 90.00% of the employees responsible for advertising support the remaining [-]% of the company.

Why does the downturn in the semiconductor market affect Google?
"Huh... I also think it's impossible, but I heard that Huaxia has developed a smart software, which is represented by Cisco. This software can be programmed independently, and it is said that it can replace more than 80.00% of the work of ordinary programmers. Of course, I also did it yesterday. The gossip heard, can't be confirmed yet."

"Intelligent software, replacing 80.00% of the work of programmers? Who developed it?"

"It is said to be a product produced by the newly established School of Planning and Design of Yanbei University of Physical Education."

"Ning Zi?"

"Who else?"

The two stared at each other silently.

Speaking of which, the name Ning Zi has really become a nightmare for many people.

From the beginning of the Mathematicians Conference, it has been stirring the hearts of countless people in the entire Bay Area, and then slapping the virtual currency market around the world to death...

They discussed Ning Zi a lot in private.

Especially for the alumni association of Huaqing in the Bay Area, the name Ning Zi is almost mentioned so that people's ears are cocooned.

After all, the love-hate relationship between Ning Zi and Hua Qing is really worth mentioning.

But even if he beat Pete to death, he would have heard such news again today.

What's even more frightening is that if the news is true, it's not just a matter of Google's layoffs. If the executives decide to lay off employees after evaluating it, it means that the efficiency of this intelligent software programming will be higher than that of their programmers, then it's not just a matter of layoffs. Google will use it, and almost every company that needs programming will probably introduce this software.

This also means that [-]% of the programmer jobs in the Bay Area will disappear out of thin air. It is conceivable how fierce the competition for such jobs will be in the future.

If you want to become that 20.00%, you probably need to be able to do things that smart software can't do, but now they don't know how much this smart software can do...

In an instant, Pete's originally good mood fell to the bottom, because he knew very well that there was a high probability that he was not among the 20.00%.

"This news... Seriously? Robin." Pete asked subconsciously.

"I also heard from John. He has a friend in Cisco's business department. It is said that Cisco has begun to readjust the business logic. In short, we should work harder during this period. The situation will definitely not be too optimistic. There are no holes. The wind."

Pete didn't know what to say.

Returning to the work station with coffee in hand, I wanted to do something, but I still couldn't concentrate.

He didn't dare to think about what else he could do if the job of programmer disappeared.

If he had known earlier that he might have continued to do research back then, it might have been a good choice to stay in school.Especially after graduating from Columbia University and returning to China to teach is still a plus...

A mess of thoughts were spinning in my head when I suddenly heard someone calling his name.

"Peter, hurry up and pack up..."

"Huh? I was fired?"

"What was fired? Didn't you read the notice on the chat? Hurry up and take the computer to the assessment!"

"Oh!" Pete let out a long breath, and quickly walked out of the office area with the computer and his colleagues in the department. He followed the flow of people to the elevator, got on the elevator, and the programmers of the entire department walked into a medium-sized conference room.

When everyone was seated, he saw the supervisor walk into the meeting room with a constipated expression.

"Okay, everyone, the company will release a random task next, and I need you to go all out to complete this task with the shortest possible time and the highest efficiency. Don't take it lightly, your performance is, in a sense, It will determine the future of many people, including mine.

You still have 10 minutes to prepare. If you need to go to the toilet or make coffee, you can go now. If you have low blood sugar, you can go to the next door to eat two pastries.Please hurry up and be back here in 10 minutes.I think you should be able to see how serious I am today, so I ask you to be serious too, okay, now start the timer, 10 minutes..."

(End of this chapter)