Super Copy of Great Power Technology

"Since we have the ability, we must do something to help these cancer patients. I plan to invest 1 billion yuan every year in the research and development of anti-cancer drugs. Even if all of this 1 billion yuan is wasted, it will not have a big impact on us."

"Well, it's good that you know this. The Ruida Charity Foundation that I manage can also be used in this regard to help those cancer patients whose families are poor and unable to pay for medical expenses to continue their treatment. Our ability is limited, so we should help as many as we can." Du Qingqing is a kind-hearted girl. She also can't bear to see those cancer patients from poor families give up treatment because of lack of money. She wants to lend a hand and help some people.

"I've been away for over a month. Is there any problem with the company?" During this time back home, Qiao Ruida has been very busy, treating his grandmother's illness, attending the launch of Ruida Automobile, and participating in the research and development of graphene chips. He has not been involved much in the management of the group company. He just regularly looks at the financial statements and signs some documents.

"Basically nothing has happened. All the companies are developing smoothly, and the research institute has produced a lot of new results. Oh, by the way, there is one thing that everyone is unsure about, and they said they want to wait for you to come back to discuss it before making a decision."

"Oh, what's the matter? Is it worth making such a big fuss?" Qiao Ruida also became interested and asked.

"Two weeks ago, several managers from securities companies came to the group headquarters, saying they wanted to push Ruida Technology to go public. At that time, Mr. Zhao Hongcai happened to be at the headquarters, so he talked to them. The other party offered very generous conditions and promised that after Ruida Technology went public, the valuation would at least double. Everyone was quite tempted, but the company's listing would have a huge impact, so no one could make the final decision. We can only wait for you to come back and make the decision."

Qiao Ruida thought for a moment, then shook his head and said, "The purpose of a company going public is nothing more than to raise funds, reduce the debt ratio, and seek greater development. Our Ruida Technology Company is in good operating condition, with a debt ratio of almost zero. It has more than enough profits to spend every year, so there is no need to go public for financing. Even if we want to go public, it's not the right time. When mobile phones and laptops based on graphene chips are launched on the market and occupy the market, we can go public again. The market value can at least increase by more than ten times. By then, I can even become the world's richest man. Wouldn't that be great?"

"Oh, so, the graphene chip production technology that you participated in developing has made some progress?" After Qiao Ruida returned to his hometown, he often called and video chatted with his girlfriend. He also talked to his girlfriend about his participation in the development of graphene chips. It was not surprising that Du Qingqing asked this question.

"Well, the graphene chip production technology has been mastered, but the yield rate is still a bit low, only in the single digits, and mass production is impossible in a short period of time. However, the performance of graphene chips is quite amazing. A chip of the same size has a performance that is almost dozens or hundreds of times that of silicon chips. The performance of a single-chip microcomputer chip I designed casually has caught up with the M1 chip. Later, the newly designed and produced M2 graphene chip has a CPU performance that is dozens of times that of the M1 chip, and a GPU performance that is more than twice that of the flagship graphics card, while the power consumption is less than ten watts. When laptops and tablets equipped with M2 chips are launched on the market, they will easily beat Apple, Asus, and Lenovo, and even Intel and AMD behind them. By then, we can push Reda Technology to go public, and then it will be easy for the market value to exceed one trillion."

Graphene chips have huge potential. As long as Ruida Group can monopolize the graphene chip production technology for a few years, it will not be difficult for it to directly earn trillions of wealth, let alone a market value of over one trillion.

"The performance of the M2 chip is so powerful? Then can you replace the laptop and tablet I usually use with M2 chips? I have been using them to play games these days, and I always feel some lag and frame drops." Girls and boys always have diametrically opposed ideas. Hearing that the performance of graphene chips is so powerful, Du Qingqing's first thought is to upgrade the laptop and tablet she uses, instead of using the powerful performance of graphene chips to seize the market and conquer the city.

"The packaging layout of the M2 chip is somewhat different from that of the M1 chip, so a direct replacement is impossible. However, when I came to Beijing this time, I brought several test products that use M2 as the main control chip, including laptops and tablets. I can just give you two. Hey, why is there a burnt smell in the air? Is there a fire in the house?" As Qiao Ruida was speaking, he suddenly smelled a burnt smell. He frowned and sat up to find the source of the burnt smell.

"Oh, I almost forgot I was stewing fish in the kitchen. It's been an hour, the water must have dried up!" Du Qingqing exclaimed, not caring about her tiredness. She put on a pair of pajamas and ran towards the kitchen.

Qiao Ruida also put on a polo shirt and slippers, followed his girlfriend into the kitchen. At this time, the kitchen was filled with thick black smoke and visibility was extremely low. After Du Qingqing rushed into the kitchen and saw this situation, she quickly opened the window and turned on the range hood. After a roar of the fan, the black smoke quickly dissipated and visibility in the kitchen was much better. It can be seen that the natural gas stove is still on at this time, and the stew pot on it has been burned red. The fish inside has been burned into a pile of strangely shaped coke, with red light flashing inside and curling black smoke constantly coming out. I think the black smoke and burnt smell that filled the kitchen just now came from this.

Du Qingqing quickly turned off the gas stove, then used a ladle to collect some tap water and poured it into the soup pot to cool it down. With a "crackling" sound, a white vapor came out of the soup pot, the temperature of the soup pot dropped rapidly, and the smoking fish pieces also stopped. Du Qingqing quickly cleaned up the scene, then took out several other dishes from the incubator, and called Qiao Ruida to the restaurant for dinner.

"It's okay, it's okay. I prepared a lot of dishes. I can't eat the fish stewed with basil anymore. There are other dishes to eat."

Du Qingqing used to enjoy the treatment of a princess at home, with everything provided for her. Cooking skills were non-existent. However, in the past two years, she has lived with Qiao Ruida in the courtyard, often buying ingredients and cooking by herself. She is willing to learn hard, so she has learned to cook quite well. Take the dishes on the table for example, they are delicious and far beyond the level of home cooking. Qiao Ruida was very satisfied with the meal, and Du Qingqing was also very happy to see her boyfriend enjoying the meal. After lunch, Qiao Ruida picked up the suitcase that had been thrown in the yard before, opened it, took out a laptop and a tablet from it, handed them to Du Qingqing, and said, "This is the first batch of test machines assembled with the M2 chip. There may be some minor bugs during use. If you find any problems during use, remember to write them down and give them to me so that we can improve them in subsequent versions."

"Got it, stop nagging!" After getting the laptop and tablet, Du Qingqing couldn't wait to plug them in and turn them on. Then she ran to the bedroom, took the device she was using, and transferred the data. Since both the new and old devices use the KaiTian operating system, as long as you log in to the same account, you only need to click a button to complete the data migration. Not only can photos, videos, and personal folders be migrated completely, but even the programs installed on the old device, the saved passwords, and some personal settings can be migrated without missing a single one, truly achieving seamless switching to the new device.

After just a few minutes, the data migration was completed. Du Qingqing picked up the new laptop, connected the wireless mouse and keyboard, plugged in the HDMI cable, and output the image to the huge 58-inch LCD TV in the living room. No wonder Du Qingqing said that it was stuck when playing games. The LCD TV in the living room is a high-end product made by Qiao Ruida. It has a resolution of 4K and a refresh rate of 144HZ. The display is extremely clear and it is an excellent experience for playing movies. However, the resolution is too high for playing games. It is difficult to run a computer of this era. Even with a first-generation laptop from Ruida, it is a bit difficult to drive such a high-resolution display.

Looking at the game that Du Qingqing started, it turned out to be "Jian Wang 3", so it was no surprise that there were freezes and frame drops. This game is famous for its exquisite graphics, but poor optimization. Even with a full set of top-end computers, there would be freezes during the attack and defense. Not to mention the Reda laptop, which does not use the native WIN system and can only run "Jian Wang 3" in a translated way, which has a lot of performance discounts. It would be unfair if there were no freezes.

Now, when I switch to a test notebook equipped with an M2 chip and run "Jian Wang San", the situation is naturally very different. First of all, the startup speed is much faster, and the long loading time is reduced by more than half. After entering the game, the picture is clear and smooth. Even if all the special effects are turned to the top, the frame rate can still be maintained at the game's upper limit of 67 frames. At this time, the CPU occupancy is less than 1/10, and the GPU occupancy is slightly higher, reaching 42%. It can be seen that the power of the M2 chip cannot play its full strength in dealing with online games such as "Jian Wang San".

Du Qingqing operated her Qixiu character, and brushed the daily tasks of the master's sect and the teahouse, followed the team, played two dungeons, and queued for a battlefield. During this time, she switched countless maps and scenes, and went to the main city and the dungeon entrance where many players gathered several times. There was no lag at all, and the frame rate was always displayed at 67, as stable as an old dog.

After completing a round of daily tasks, an hour passed. Du Qingqing quit the game, gave Qiao Ruida a thumbs up, and said, "This laptop is good. It doesn't lag when playing games, and there is no noise. Good review!"

"As long as you like it, the graphene chip generates very little heat. This laptop uses passive cooling and has no fan installed, so the noise is of course low. Another advantage of this laptop is that its battery life is very long. It can last for more than 24 hours when doing word processing, browsing the web, or chatting. Even if you use it to play large games, it can last for more than 12 hours."

"Really? Let me bring it to school someday to try." Du Qingqing played with the new laptop and tablet computer, seeming reluctant to let them go.

Qiao Ruida rested at home for a day, and the next day he returned to Peking University with his girlfriend. Like an ordinary student, he attended classes, studied on his own, and went to the library to read. Only on weekends would he go to the headquarters of Ruida Group to handle company affairs. In fact, there are a lot of professional courses in the second semester of the junior year, and the study pressure is very high. Ruida Group is growing stronger and stronger, and there are also a lot of documents and affairs that need to be handled by Qiao Ruida, the chairman, every day. Studying is not easy, and starting a business is even more difficult. It is not easy for a normal person to do any of them well, otherwise Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Larry Page would not have made the decision to drop out of school and start a business. Only a person like Qiao Ruida can balance study and entrepreneurship, and do both very well.

One week after Qiao Ruida returned to campus, the exam week arrived as scheduled. In just one week, there were seven courses to be tested, and the pressure on students can be imagined. Even Qiao Ruida, a cheating player, had to take it seriously. He reviewed the textbooks again, borrowed class notes from a few familiar classmates, and memorized them all.

While Qiao Ruida was busy preparing for the exam, the Chinese Academy of Sciences released a message on its official website, which caused a sensation on the entire Internet. The message said, "Recently, the EUV lithography machine prototype developed by Academician Qi Jinzhong of our institute has passed the acceptance of the expert team and will soon enter the mass production stage. Special congratulations!"

The message was followed by several photos, including a close-up of the EUV lithography machine, a working photo of the lithography machine processing silicon wafers, and a group photo of Academician Qi Jinzhong and the R&D team.

When Chinese official organizations and scientific research institutions release news, the shorter the information, the bigger the event. The same is true for the news released by the Chinese Academy of Sciences this time. Before the emergence of Rockchip Fab, the chip production capacity in mainland China has always been very backward, at least two process nodes behind chip giants such as Intel and Four Star. Domestic chip manufacturers have also thought about catching up, but they are stuck by Western countries in chip production equipment, especially lithography machines. They want to purchase domestic lithography machines and replace them with domestic ones, but they find that domestic lithography machine research and development and production companies are not very powerful. ASML has already sold 14nm lithography machines in batches, and China's 90nm lithography machines have just been completed.

Now the situation seems to have reversed. The Chinese Academy of Sciences has actually skipped the DUV lithography machine and directly mastered the more difficult EUV lithography machine. If domestic EUV lithography machines can really be mass-produced and supplied in batches to major domestic wafer fabs, then the rise of domestic chips is just around the corner. (End of this chapter)