Super Copy of Great Power Technology

Some of the spectators, led by Qiao Ruida and others, applauded together. Although the applause was much smaller than that received by the champion, it was still not a dull moment.

After the award ceremony, Fei Yushu and his team were interviewed by domestic and European media. Then, together with two teams of Audi drivers, they drove their championship cars and slowly circled the track to celebrate with hundreds of thousands of fans. Seeing the five-star red flag and the Ruida team flag being held high by Fei Yushu and Qin Zhenhua and fluttering over the stadium, Qiao Ruida and Du Qingqing in the stands could not hide their excitement and cheered along with the audience around them.

That night, Qiao Ruida booked the best restaurant in Le Mans and held a banquet to celebrate the success of the team. Although the French meal was not very tasty, everyone still enjoyed it very much and drank a lot of wine, including a lot of red wine and French brandy. Facts have proved that drinking too much red wine and foreign liquor can still make people drunk. Fei Yushu and the other three racers were knocked down by everyone's concerted efforts.

The next day, most of the team members packed up and chartered a plane to return home, leaving only the captain and deputy captain Fei Yushu and Feng Jiayu to handle the transportation of vehicles and items. Qiao Ruida and Du Qingqing did not return home immediately, but rented a car and went on a self-driving tour in a foreign country.

They set out from Le Mans and went to the French capital Paris as their first stop, visiting famous attractions such as the Champs Elysees, the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the Arc de Triomphe, and the Palace of Versailles. Then they drove to Mont Saint-Michel, known as the "Fairy Mountain on the Sea", and the medieval port city of Saint-Malo. After that, they passed through the Bordeaux region, a famous wine-producing region in France. Qiao Ruida and Du Qingqing tasted many fine wines here and purchased a large number of them as collections or gifts.

Next is Nice, a city on the Mediterranean coast, which enjoys bright sunshine and beautiful beaches. Finally, they arrived at the Cote d'Azur, which has charming seaside scenery. Qiao Ruida and Du Qingqing swam, caught fish in the sea, and sunbathed here, having a great time. If they had not had to return to China immediately due to thesis defense, they really wanted to stay in France for a few more days, extend their tour route to the south of France, and see the beautiful scenery of the Alps.

On the evening of June 6, Qiao Ruida and Du Qingqing took a plane back to Beijing International Airport. Pulling the suitcase out of the exit, Du Qingqing stretched out lazily in the sunset and said, "I'm finally back to Beijing. It's still the familiar smell of smog. It's authentic."

Seeing his girlfriend acting funny, Qiao Ruida, who was pushing three suitcases alone, couldn't help laughing. "If the people from the Environmental Protection Bureau heard you say this, they would definitely have a fight with you."

"The air quality in Beijing is really bad. Can we not say anything about it? Apart from other things, the air quality cannot be improved with all the fuel-powered vehicles running on the roads."

"You are right. In order to protect the environment, the country is also promoting new energy vehicles. However, the fuel vehicles on the road are accumulated sales over the past few decades. They are part of the people's fixed assets. We can't force them to be scrapped."

Qiao Ruida and Du Qingqing chatted as they walked to the parking lot, picked up the car, put their luggage in the trunk, and then drove back to Shijia Hutong.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, our car has only been parked in the parking lot for less than half a month, and they charged 3000 yuan. It's really unfair."

"Who said it wasn't? If we had known that parking fees were so expensive, we should have taken a taxi to the airport." Qiao Ruida usually parks his car in the company parking lot or in the courtyard, which doesn't cost any money. Occasionally, when he goes out shopping or eating, parking is mostly free. Who would have thought that the parking lot near the airport would be so expensive, more than two hundred yuan a day, and after parking for two or three months, a used car would come out. Although Qiao Ruida is not short of money now and doesn't care about the two or three thousand, the parking fee is still too high.

"I've learned a lesson from this. From now on, I will never drive myself to the airport to take a flight."

After more than ten hours of flight, coupled with the jet lag, Qiao Ruida and Du Qingqing were a little tired. After returning to the courtyard, Du Qingqing wanted to cook, but Qiao Ruida stopped her, "Wife, you are also tired today, so don't cook, let's order takeout."

"Okay, I'll listen to you. After eating Western food for half a month, let's change our taste. How about a roast duck?" Du Qingqing hung her apron back on, then sat down on the sofa, took out her mobile phone and prepared to order takeout.

"Okay, let's order a roast duck from Bian Yi Fang. It's relatively close to us, so it can be delivered warm. Also, a mushroom soup and a serving of cold cucumber salad. Three dishes, that's about it."

"Okay, we've ordered. What shall we have for the main course? Steamed buns, wraps, or rice?"

"Of course you have to eat roast duck with a wrap, that's the authentic way."

Half an hour later, a takeaway boy in a yellow robe brought the food they ordered. Qiao Ruida picked up the food at the door, returned to the backyard, and called his girlfriend, "Honey, get ready. We'll have dinner soon."

"Chinese food is still exquisite. If nothing else, just the aroma is better than French food."

Perhaps because they hadn't had lunch for a long time, Qiao Ruida and Du Qingqing felt that the takeaway tonight was particularly delicious, and they ate a lot more without realizing it. A duck weighing more than two kilograms was eaten up by the two of them.

There was no conversation that night. The next day, Qiao Ruida and Du Qingqing drove to Peking University to attend the thesis defense organized by their respective departments. Qiao Ruida came to the familiar classroom, and most of the classmates in the same class had arrived. Seeing Qiao Ruida, the classmates greeted him one after another.

"Hey, classmate Qiao, we haven't seen each other for a few months, what have you been doing recently?"

"I know the answer to this question. A few days ago, I watched CCTV's live broadcast of the Le Mans Endurance Race and saw Qiao being interviewed by a CCTV reporter."

"No way, Old Joe is so busy, he still has time to go to France to watch a car race?"

"Who says Joe is just watching the race? He is leading the team. The Reda Racing Team shined at Le Mans this year and won the runner-up."

"Is this true? Ruida Automobile has only been established for less than two years, and it can already participate in the world's three major automobile competitions and even get runner-up. This is too incredible."

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Qiao Ruida, who had become the focus of discussion among his classmates, was not sure what to say, so he could only smile to ease the embarrassment. At this time, Xu Lin, a fat boy who had been Qiao Ruida's roommate for a semester, waved to him and said, "Boss, come and sit over here. All of our roommates are here."

Qiao Ruida walked over and sat next to Xu Lin, asking, "Brothers, how are you preparing for the thesis defense? Are you confident that you can pass it?" Li Derun said confidently, "The thesis I prepared is relatively simple. It only discusses how to reduce transistor leakage through process optimization. As long as the questions asked by the professors are within the framework of the thesis, I can definitely answer them."

Xu Lin patted his chest and said, "I designed a TV set-top box from scratch and even spent a lot of money to conduct tape-out testing. As long as it is a question related to chip design, I can answer it fluently."

“It seems that my paper is the worst. It contains some thoughts on graphene chip design. This part is relatively new, and I think the professors don’t know much about it. The questions they ask won’t be too professional.” Cai Zhiye scratched his head and said embarrassedly.

"Boss Qiao, what is the content of your paper? It must be very profound, right?"

As a big shot who independently designed an audio decoding chip in the first semester of his freshman year, everyone was very curious about what Qiao Ruida wrote in his graduation thesis.

“It’s nothing. I started by developing the instruction set, architecture, and IP core, and independently designed an artificial intelligence chip R1. After the tape-out test, the computing power is about 195TFLOPS, which is an average performance.” Qiao Ruida said modestly.

"Oh my god, did I hear you right? From developing the instruction set and architecture to chip design, you did it all by yourself. Boss, you completed the work of a team by yourself? This is too incredible."

"What's really amazing is the chip's computing power. 195 TFLOPS, or 195 trillion floating-point operations per second, is dozens of times the computing power of Nvidia's latest graphics cards. If you use it as a graphics card to run games, it will be awesome."

"Didn't you hear what Boss Qiao said? That's an AI chip, not a graphics card. It can't be used to play games. Am I right, Boss Qiao?"

Qiao Ruida shook his head and said, "The R1 chip I designed has two display units integrated inside. If you use it as a graphics card, it's not impossible, but the display effect is not as exaggerated as the computing power performance. Moreover, this is a special card for artificial intelligence. After mass production, the price is also relatively expensive. It is a bit of a waste to use it as a graphics card."

"No way, boss, you're planning to mass-produce this chip you designed and sell it to the outside world?"

"How novel! If it's not mass-produced and sold, why would I design it? Is it just for writing papers?"

Time passed quickly as everyone chatted, and at nine o'clock in the morning, the thesis defense officially began. The first person to be called was the fat boy Xu Lin. He took his thesis, walked out of the classroom with a nervous look on his face, and went to the next classroom to accept the assessment of several professors and tutors.

Just ten minutes later, Xu Lin came back. He looked nervous when he left, but had a bright smile on his face when he came back. It was obvious that he did not encounter any difficulties in his thesis defense and most likely passed it.

"Fu Xiaona, it's your turn to defend your thesis." Xu Lin helped the professor and called another student to go to the next room to defend his thesis. A female student stood up nervously and hurried out of the classroom.

"Fatty Xu, what questions did the teachers ask you? Were they difficult?" A classmate pulled Xu Lin aside and asked.

"All the questions come from the thesis. As long as you have completed the thesis yourself, it is not difficult to complete the defense."

Xu Lin's words undoubtedly gave everyone a reassurance. They were all top students at Peking University, and they did not slack off in their studies during college. Their professional abilities were all top-notch, and of course they completed their graduation thesis themselves.

The thesis defense was quite fast, taking only about ten minutes per person on average. Since this class of students was about to graduate, the teachers would not deliberately embarrass them, and as long as the answers were not too outrageous, they would pass them.

The morning passed quickly, and Qiao Ruida's class had already completed most of their thesis defenses. Qiao Ruida's name, however, was never called. At noon, when Qiao Ruida and his girlfriend were having lunch in the first cafeteria, they learned that Du Qingqing had already completed her defense and was very likely to pass. In this way, Du Qingqing had passed the last hurdle before graduation, and the only thing left was to hold the graduation ceremony and receive her diploma and academic certificate.

After lunch, Qiao Ruida returned to the classroom. At this time, there were only a dozen people left in the classroom. Many students who had completed thesis defense did not come in the afternoon. At 1 pm, the defense continued, and students were called out one by one. In the end, only Qiao Ruida and Li Derun were left. The two brothers were left at the end.

"Li Derun, it's your turn."

The last student who defended his thesis returned to the classroom, packed up his things, and called Li Derun out. Qiao Ruida was the only one left in the huge classroom, sitting there alone. Fortunately, Qiao Ruida's Qi cultivation skills were pretty good, so even when he was alone, he could still calm down and read.

Ten minutes later, Li Derun returned to the classroom with a frightened face. "Oh my god, I was so scared. When I was answering a question, the dean of our college and Academician Wang pushed the door open and walked in. I was so scared that I couldn't speak. Fortunately, my defense was almost over, so I didn't make a fool of myself in public. Boss Qiao, it's your turn to defend. The dean and Academician Wang are probably here for you, so you better pray for the best."

"Then I'll go over first. See you later." Qiao Ruida was not surprised at the arrival of the dean and Academician Wang. Academician Wang was his supervisor during his graduate studies, and the dean and Academician Wang were old friends for many years. It was a bit unexpected but not abrupt that they came together to host his thesis defense.

When Qiao Ruida walked into the next classroom, he saw Dean Song and Academician Wang sitting in the middle, with several teachers next to them.

"Student Qiao is here, please take a seat." Seeing Qiao Ruida walk into the classroom, Dean Song smiled at him kindly and said.

Qiao Ruida sat in the chair opposite the dean in a proper manner. If it were any other student, facing the dean and the academician alone, the pressure would be very great, and it would not be easy to speak clearly and fluently. However, these pressures were nothing to Qiao Ruida. He had seen too many big scenes and big figures in his rebirth, and he had trained himself to have a big heart. At this moment, facing the gaze of Dean Song and Academician Wang, Qiao Ruida was still calm and did not show any panic. (End of this chapter)