Super Copy of Great Power Technology

Dean Song cleared his throat and asked, "Student Qiao, do you know why Lao Wang and I came here today to host your thesis defense?"

Qiao Ruida shook his head and said, "I don't know, but I guess it should be related to the paper I wrote?"

Academician Wang nodded and smiled, "You guessed right. Your graduation thesis is very well written, and the level is very high. Even Old Song and I didn't understand part of it. I came here to attend your thesis defense today because I have some questions that I want to ask you."

"I don't deserve your advice. Let's just communicate with each other. If you have any questions, just ask." Qiao Ruida quickly waved his hand and said.

"I noticed that you used a lot of atmospheric precipitation, doping, and processes in the design of this artificial intelligence chip, but rarely did any etching operations. Why is that?" Dean Song asked the first question.

"This is determined by the characteristics of the graphene chip. The graphene wafer used as the substrate is too thin, usually consisting of only one or two layers of carbon atoms. If too much etching is used, the graphene wafer may break."

"In your paper, you designed a set of instructions specifically for artificial intelligence chips. What is the design of this instruction set based on? Is it your original creation?"

"This instruction set is of course my original creation. It is specially designed for the computing needs of artificial intelligence programs. If we must say that this instruction set has any reference objects, then Nvidia and AMD's related instruction sets used in graphics cards are two. However, the similarities between the three are not great and will not constitute patent infringement."

For the next half an hour, Dean Song or Academician Wang asked questions, and Qiao Ruida answered them calmly. Dean Song, Academician Wang, and several other professors and lecturers listened carefully. When they encountered some key points, they would take out their notebooks and take some notes, including Dean Song and Academician Wang. The scene was very strange. It didn't look like Qiao Ruida was defending his thesis at all. Instead, it seemed like Qiao Ruida was teaching these old professors with white hair and beards.

Qiao Ruida's thesis defense lasted for more than an hour until all the questions were answered. Academician Wang put away his notebook and said to Qiao Ruida, "Okay, we have finished asking questions, and you have passed the thesis defense. To be honest, this paper is more than enough for a doctoral thesis, but it is too much beyond the scope of an undergraduate thesis. By the way, are you going to submit this paper to a domestic journal or a foreign journal?"

"Forget about submitting to foreign journals, but you can consider domestic journals. This paper involves many patented technologies, including some design principles of graphene chips, and I don't want too many foreigners to see it." Qiao Ruida thought for a moment and replied.

The performance and power consumption of graphene chips are so excellent that they have completely crushed traditional silicon chips. Since the launch of Reda Technology's Reda II laptop, everyone has witnessed the power of graphene chips. Since then, dozens of chip giants and top research institutes at home and abroad have invested heavily in the research and development of graphene chip production technology. Now half a year has passed, and these companies and research institutes have achieved very few results. Graphene chip production technology is still the exclusive technology of Rockchip Foundry. If Qiao Ruida's graduation thesis is translated into English and published in foreign journals, it will provide some inspiration to those companies and research institutes, which is something Qiao Ruida does not want to see.

After the thesis defense, seniors like Qiao Ruida truly entered the graduation season, and there was not much time left to stay on the Peking University campus. Everyone seized the time and took friends and classmates who got along well with them to wander around the campus, take pictures, and drink and party. Or they mustered up the courage to confess their love to the male (female) classmate they had a crush on, because if they didn't confess, they would really miss it. Of course, some couples who had been in love for two or three years chose to break up at this time and then go their separate ways. Graduation season is breakup season, this sentence is not just talk.

On July 7, Qiao Ruida and Du Qingqing, wearing rented bachelor's gowns, went to the Peking University auditorium with many senior classmates to attend the graduation ceremony organized by the school.

"Hey, those people sitting in the front row seem to be wearing different clothes than us, what's going on?"

"Those seniors in the front row are graduating masters and doctors. Of course, the clothes they wear are different from those of us bachelors."

"I was wondering why these people looked so mature. They didn't look like people of our age. It turns out they are seniors who are studying for their master's degrees."

"Time flies so fast. Military training and the opening ceremony seem like they happened just yesterday. Four years have passed in the blink of an eye, and we are about to graduate."

"Yes, it's hard to bear to think that our classmates, good friends, and good brothers will have to part ways with each other and go to different places."

"Since you can't bear to leave, then stay and study for your master's degree. Next semester, more than a dozen people in our class will stay at Peking University for their master's degree or prepare for the entrance exam. As long as you stay for your master's degree, we can still be good brothers in the same trench."

"Forget it. Studying is too hard. I'd better go home and inherit the family business."...

Qiao Ruida sat in the back row of the auditorium, listening to the discussion of his classmates around him, with a calm expression, unmoved. He had experienced the same scene once in his previous life, and now it happened again, so the feeling was naturally not as deep as the first time. Moreover, during his four years in college, Qiao Ruida focused his main energy on product development and business operations. He did not interact much with his classmates, and the relationship was not very deep.

Half an hour later, the graduation ceremony officially began. First, the host gave a speech, introducing the ceremony process and guests. Then the president gave a speech. The old president, who rarely appeared in public, stood in front of the podium and spoke eloquently, from the Sino-Japanese War to the May Fourth Movement, from Cai Yuanpei to Southwest Associated University. He spoke for thousands of words. Half an hour had passed when he finished his speech. After a round of warm applause, the next part began. The guest gave a speech. Robin Li, the founder of Baidu and an old Peking University senior, stood on the podium and shared his experience after graduation, studying abroad, and returning to China to start a business. It was full of practical information and won warm applause.

Next, it was the turn of speeches by the graduates, followed by doctoral students, master's students, and undergraduate students. They expressed their gratitude to their alma mater and shared their experiences and gains in college. These people's speaking skills were not as good as the principal's, and the content of their speeches was rather boring, with a lot of empty words and clichés. The students in the audience were drowsy listening to them. Many students were openly absent from their studies, or reading novels on their phones, or chatting in low voices with their girlfriends or buddies. The fat boy Xu Lin leaned close to Qiao Ruida's ear and asked in a low voice, "I heard that the president of the Student Union, Lin Hong, specifically looked for our class monitor a few days ago and asked for your WeChat account. What did he want to talk to you about? Can you tell me?"

Qiao Ruida pointed in the direction of the podium and said, "President Lin wanted me to speak on behalf of the undergraduate graduates, but I refused."

"Going on stage to speak is a good thing. Why do you refuse?"

"Nothing. I've been busy these past few days and haven't had time to prepare a speech. I also don't want to be like the guy on the stage and talk a lot of nonsense, so I just refused."

A few days ago, the first batch of 1000 artificial intelligence chips R1 were produced, assembled into boards, and sent to Beijing. Qiao Ruida led several researchers and worked for two days to assemble these boards into a supercomputer dedicated to running large AI models. In order to test the performance of this supercomputer, Qiao Ruida wrote an intelligent program that automatically plays Go. The programming ideas and program architecture can refer to the later AlphaGo, but the program source code cannot be directly applied because the instruction set of the R1 chip is brand new and does not communicate with the relevant function code of the NV graphics card. All the codes need to be rewritten by Qiao Ruida. These days, Qiao Ruida is busy coding, so he has no time to waste on boring things such as speeches.

Another half an hour later, the speeches of the student representatives finally ended, and the ceremony entered the next stage, the awarding of graduation certificates. The host read out the names of the doctoral and master's graduates in turn, and the president and several school leaders and department heads pinned the tassels on their caps and issued them degree certificates and graduation certificates. The number of master's and doctoral students is limited, and it took only twenty minutes to complete the issuance. Then it was the turn of the undergraduates. This year, the number of undergraduate graduates from various colleges and departments of Peking University has reached more than 4,000. If all the graduation certificates were issued by the school leaders, they would be busy for several hours and still not be able to finish. In desperation, the students had to be diverted, and the outstanding graduates of each college and department were still handed over to the president and school leaders to issue graduation certificates. The remaining ordinary graduates were handed over to the deans and professors of each college and department to issue graduation certificates.

Qiao Ruida and Du Qingqing were excellent in both conduct and learning during their college years, and their grades were outstanding. They were of course considered excellent graduates, and were able to step onto the stage and enjoy the same treatment as graduate students. Perhaps it was a coincidence, or perhaps it was a deliberate arrangement, but when it was Qiao Ruida's turn to receive his diploma, the person standing in front of him happened to be the old principal. He looked at Qiao Ruida and said admiringly, "Qiao Ruida, right? I've heard of your name. Others started their own companies after graduation, but you, while still in college, have become the chairman of a group company and the richest man in the country. This achievement is something that others may not be able to achieve even if they work hard all their lives. Well, well, our Peking University is meant to cultivate compound talents like Qiao. I hope that after graduation, you will continue to work hard, scale new heights, and make greater contributions to the development of science and technology in our country."

"Thank you for the encouragement, President. In the future, I will continue to delve deeper into the field of scientific research and make efforts for the development of the company, the progress of science and technology, and the rise of China." Qiao Ruida stood up straight and said calmly and forcefully.

The old principal nodded with satisfaction, then reached out his hand, straightened Qiao Ruida's cap, and handed him a Peking University graduation certificate and a degree certificate.

Due to the large number of graduates, the entire graduation certificate awarding ceremony lasted for more than an hour. Next, there was a theatrical performance prepared by the school's art groups to showcase the students' talents and the school's cultural atmosphere. The first to appear was the school's student choir, who sang the song "The Crossroads Where Phoenix Flowers Bloom". The beautiful melody, touching lyrics, and the rich graduation atmosphere at the scene made more than half of the graduates cry with this song. After the song was finished, the choir left the stage, and the Peking University Folk Orchestra came on stage to perform "Step by Step", expressing the heartfelt blessings of the school's teachers and students to this year's graduates.

The performance lasted for more than half an hour. As it was almost noon, the host took the stage again and announced the official end of the graduation ceremony. The students left the auditorium in groups of three or five and went to the cafeteria for lunch.

In the afternoon, the class monitor organized everyone to wear bachelor's gowns and take a few graduation photos. These photos are different in form. Some are well-behaved and lined up in rows; some are throwing bachelor's hats into the air and cheering; some are sitting upright in the classroom and simulating class. After taking graduation photos, the students separated from each other, took their boyfriends (girlfriends), besties, or buddies, and went to various famous attractions on campus, or places with special significance, to take photos. After all, everyone is about to graduate, and this is the only chance to wear bachelor's gowns. It's a rare opportunity, and it would be a waste if we don't take a few more photos.

Qiao Ruida and Du Qingqing got together, wearing bachelor's gowns, wandering around the campus, taking many individual and group photos. The memory card alone was used up for several photos. It was not until the evening that they took a few group photos under the sunset, and then they called it a day and returned the bachelor's gowns.

Back at the courtyard in the evening, Qiao Ruida imported the photos she had taken today into the computer for screening and post-processing. Du Qingqing selected a few representative photos from the processed photos and posted them on WeChat Moments and Weibo. Qiao Ruida also logged into Weibo and liked his girlfriend's post, and then added a few photos of himself in school uniform, leaving a message: "I didn't expect to graduate so soon. Next, I will focus on scientific research to bring you newer, more interesting and more practical technology products. Please look forward to it."

Qiao Ruida said this because the system upgrade experience has exceeded 95%. At the current experience growth rate, it will be upgraded in another seven or eight days. Once the system is upgraded, it will inevitably bring some new changes. A large wave of new technologies is beckoning Qiao Ruida. At that time, if he casually takes out one or two black technologies and applies them to the product, he can shock the world for a whole year.

The next day, Qiao Ruida and his classmates had their last dinner together. As they were about to part, everyone let go of themselves, toasted each other, and talked to each other from the bottom of their hearts. When the emotions reached a peak, both men and women shed tears silently, feeling extremely sad. (End of this chapter)