Super Copy of Great Power Technology

Chapter 510 Spending money like water

This includes hundreds of Reda stores. Now that the R1 computing power card has begun to be sold overseas, it needs after-sales service support. It is indeed a good solution to borrow the after-sales service department of Reda mobile phones that has been established.

"Mr. Zhao, I want to purchase 20 R1 computing power cards. The price is as you say. I can transfer the payment to you first." A blond foreigner said in broken Mandarin.

"Mr. Zhao, I also want to purchase 10 computing power cards. In addition, I want to be the agent for Reda mobile phones and Reda notebooks."

"I want 5 R1 computing power cards."

"I want 70,000 computing power cards..."

Someone took the lead, and several other foreigners also spoke up to order R1 computing power cards. In just a few words, the share of 100 million computing power cards was divided up by these people. Zhao Hongcai talked to them about the general situation. The specific contract details and agency rights, etc., were naturally discussed in detail with these foreigners by the subordinates. After sending away several foreigners, Zhao Hongcai immediately took out his mobile phone and called Qiao Ruida to report what happened here.

After hearing the news, Qiao Ruida slapped his forehead and thought, "This is the mining boom. I've experienced it in my previous life. All mainstream graphics cards were swept away by mining bosses, leaving many gamers without cards to use. They can only go to the seafood market to buy old graphics cards. After a year or two of mining boom, there was a mining disaster. Bitcoin depreciated sharply, a large number of mining farms closed down, and second-hand slag graphics cards were dumped at low prices. Countless gamers happily rescued their female knight from the goblin's nest. As for how long this female knight had been training in the dark goblin's nest, it was unclear whether she could still play normally. Only God knows how long I can work. I should have thought of it earlier. This mining boom is a good opportunity to make money. As long as we can mass-produce R1 computing power cards, we will have no worries about sales. Those cyber miners abroad will wave US dollars and buy up all the computing power cards. As for those cyber miners who bought R1 computing power cards, whether they can make back their capital through mining or whether they will fall in mining accidents, that is not what Qiao Ruida cares about. I only sell AI computing power cards, which are used to run artificial intelligence programs. What does it have to do with me if users buy them back for mining? "

It is just like the gold rush in the West of the United States in the mid-19th century. So many people went to the West to pan for gold, but how many people really made a fortune? Instead, those who sold gold mining tools and jeans all made a fortune. In the past, Nvidia also made a fortune by selling graphics cards during several rounds of mining booms. It even launched several mining-specific cards without display functions, such as P106, 30HX, and 40HX. It was just to make money, and it didn't care about its face. It was precisely with the help of the mining boom that Nvidia's market value soared to trillions. Later, Nvidia's breakthroughs in the fields of artificial intelligence and big data were also based on the capital and technology accumulation during this period. It can be said that at least half of Nvidia's trillions of market value is accumulated by the corpses of cyber miners.

Now the same opportunity is in front of Qiao Ruida. As a reborn person, he is well aware of the madness of the subsequent mining booms, and he has mastered graphics card technology that is more powerful than NVIDIA. Of course, he cannot miss this huge wealth.

Thinking of this, Qiao Ruida said to Zhao Hongcai in a deep voice: "Old Zhao, contact the person in charge of Rockchip Fab and Ruida Electronics Factory immediately and ask them to immediately expand the production capacity of R1 chips and R1 computing power cards, and at least produce cards a day. If the production capacity of Ruida Electronics Factory is not enough, find the domestic electronics factories that produce graphics cards to do OEM. Pay more OEM fees, and they will accept the order."

Now the graphene chip production technology of Rockchip Fab is quite mature, and the yield rate has been improved to more than 90%. The graphene chip production line has also been expanded to six. If the production capacity is fully released, it will not be a problem to produce millions of R1 computing chips per day. The production bottleneck of R1 computing power cards is most likely to appear in Ruida Electronics Factory. In order to help solve more employment problems in his hometown, the degree of automation of the production line in Ruida Electronics Factory is not too high, and many processes require manual operation by workers. This kind of fine operation requires a certain degree of professionalism, and only skilled industrial workers can complete it, which is doomed to be unable to significantly expand production capacity in the short term. In order to increase the production capacity of R1 computing power cards, it is also a good solution to find other electronics factories for OEM.

Hearing Qiao Ruida's radical decision, Zhao Hongcai was shocked and exclaimed: "What, 1 cards a day, Mr. Qiao, you are kidding! The computing power card is not a mobile phone, not a mass consumer product. Can we really sell so many R1 computing power cards? Judging from the current sales situation, there are only three uses for buying R1 computing power cards. One is to buy it back to run AI large models. In this regard, there are only our Pangu large models. Some users can't sell a few computing power cards at all. One is to buy it back and use it as an independent graphics card. Affected by the popularity of smartphones, our country Computer sales are declining year by year. Laptops and integrated graphics computers account for the majority, and computers with independent graphics cards are rare. Only gamers have this demand, and sales are not too large. The third is the foreigners who came today. They said they want to purchase R1 computing power cards and sell them to miners to mine Bitcoin. It is hard for me to understand why such a virtual currency with no value is worth mining. Anyway, I am not optimistic about this kind of mining behavior. I think this industry will not last long, and the demand for R computing power cards will not be too large. "

"You are right. The cyber mining industry will not last long, but it will continue to be popular for seven or eight years. Moreover, the demand for high-end graphics cards and computing power cards for this kind of mining is almost endless. No matter how many R1 computing power cards we produce, they can digest them. In addition to mining, R1 computing power cards are also necessary for running large AI models. Now the AI ​​industry has just started, and the fields involved are also limited. Of course, the demand for R1 computing power cards is not very high. But I believe that the future of the AI ​​industry is infinitely broad. It will only take three to five years for the industry to usher in a big explosion. At that time, the supply of R1 computing power cards will definitely exceed the demand."

The reason why Qiao Ruida was so anxious to increase the production capacity of R1 computing power cards was because he knew that the first round of mining boom would soon be over, and Bitcoin would collapse by the end of the year, ushering in the first round of mining disasters. If he didn't seize the time to produce more R1 computing power cards and sell them to make a fortune, he would really be sorry for his identity as a reborn person. "Okay, boss, I hope your analysis is correct. I will contact Mr. Luo of Rockchip Fab and Director Zhao of Reda Electronics Factory to negotiate the increase of R1 computing power card production capacity." Zhao Hongcai finally chose to compromise. Qiao Ruida was the big boss. As long as he wanted to continue to work as the general manager, he couldn't go against Qiao Ruida.

After hanging up the phone, Qiao Ruida exhaled and muttered to himself, "I hope Lao Zhao can act faster and make a fortune from those mine owners before the mine disaster. The third phase of the Ruida Aerospace City and the controlled nuclear fusion test reactor are being built at the same time. The cost is very high. Even with the current speed at which Ruida Group makes money, it is still not enough to cover its expenses. It's really a headache!"

After that, Qiao Ruida picked up a pen and signed his name on a document submitted by the Finance Department. If you look at the content of the document carefully, you will know that this is a remittance application, and the payment object is Huaxia Nuclear Energy Construction Company. The amount involved is a staggering 2800 billion yuan. This is only the advance payment for the construction of the controlled nuclear fusion test reactor. After the project is completed and passed the acceptance, there is a similar amount of final payment to be paid.

Just last month, a new company was established under the Ruida Group, named Ruida New Energy. The definition of new energy is quite broad, and nuclear power generation, wind power generation, solar power generation, tidal power generation, and even companies that just produce some lithium batteries can be labeled as new energy. But Ruida New Energy's ambition is obviously more than that. As soon as the company was established, it set its sights on the extremely difficult controlled nuclear fusion, and the first project it launched was the controlled nuclear fusion experimental reactor.

Controlled nuclear fusion is also nuclear fusion. It requires deuterium and tritium to undergo fusion reactions under ultra-high temperature and pressure. The conditions are quite harsh, and there are strict requirements for the environment, facilities, and buildings. After searching through all the construction units in the country, only Huaxia Nuclear Construction barely meets the requirements. The reason why it is barely in line with the requirements is that Huaxia Nuclear Construction has no major problems in construction, but there are still many problems in building materials. The entire infrastructure project of the controlled fusion experimental reactor requires the use of hundreds of building materials, of which there are more than a dozen with very high technological content that cannot be produced on modern Earth, and can only be solved by Qiao Ruida.

Huaxia Nuclear Construction is a state-owned unit that mainly does nuclear power plant construction projects and rarely undertakes external business. It is quite difficult to negotiate business with them. Qiao Ruida also contacted their person in charge through the relationship of Academician Wang, explained the scale and difficulty of the project in detail, and provided a set of drawings. After receiving the drawings, Huaxia Nuclear Construction organized construction experts and engineers to study the drawings and concluded that the construction was very difficult, but it could be done with more effort.

So Huaxia Nuclear Construction proposed a price list that was beyond belief. The entire infrastructure project of the controlled nuclear fusion experimental reactor was priced at 7000 billion yuan, to be paid in three installments. This was no different from asking for too much. However, they were the only one in China that could build nuclear power plants and nuclear fusion reactors and had relevant experience. Scorpion Baba was the only one. If they wanted to ensure the quality of the project, they had no choice but to find them.

Many companies under the Ruida Group have very good performance and surprisingly high valuations. However, high valuations do not mean more working capital. It is not easy to withdraw 2800 billion yuan at once to pay the advance payment for the project.

This controlled nuclear fusion is simply a money-eating beast. Just the initial infrastructure work will cost 7000 billion. Later, various instrument parts will be customized and deuterium and tritium raw materials will be purchased. This money is simply a bottomless pit. It is no wonder that international controlled nuclear fusion research projects lack funds and are difficult to sustain. It is really too expensive to carry out controlled nuclear fusion.

Qiao Ruida checked the Internet to find out the purchase price of some instruments and parts needed to build the experimental reactor. It is quite expensive. The purchase of the entire set will cost at least hundreds of billions. As for the raw materials for fusion, the purchase price of deuterium and tritium is also very high. Deuterium is better and can be obtained through heavy water distillation. The price is more expensive, but still within an acceptable range. The price of tritium is a bit outrageous. It is reported that tritium is an isotope of hydrogen. Its content in nature is extremely low and almost non-existent. Therefore, tritium is mainly prepared by artificial methods. It is mainly achieved through nuclear reactions, including the use of thermal neutrons in reactors to react with lithium-6 (6Li). Specifically, lithium-6 reacts with thermal neutrons to produce tritium and helium-4. The reaction equation is:
[ 6_{3}^{6}ext{Li}+ 1_0^n \rightarrow 3_1^H (ext{Tritium})+ 4_2^He ]
This reaction is usually carried out in a heavy water reactor, where heavy water (DO) is used as a moderator and coolant to provide the required neutrons. In addition to heavy water reactors, graphite reactors, high temperature gas-cooled reactors, gas-cooled graphite reactors, and high flux isotope reactors can also produce tritium. Although there seem to be many channels for obtaining tritium, the production capacity is actually very limited. The entire earth produces only a few kilograms of tritium each year, which is simply in short supply. The price is naturally quite high, reaching an astonishing $30 per gram.

After checking the price of tritium, even Qiao Ruida, a billionaire, could not accept it. If he was not worried about exposing the existence of the system, he would have wanted to copy hundreds of kilograms of tritium and have a clearance sale. In order to reduce the outside world's doubts, Qiao Ruida endured the heartache and ordered a kilogram of tritium. He made up his mind not to buy this thing again in the future. When he was short of tritium again, he would use the golden finger to copy a batch for use. Qiao Ruida had already thought of an excuse to the outside world, saying that he had improved the nuclear fusion reaction device and successfully solved the problem of tritium self-sustaining.

After ordering deuterium and tritium, Qiao Ruida divided the drawings of fusion reactor parts sorted out by the Dimension Puppet into several copies and sent them to several well-known domestic mechanical processing companies, requiring them to rush to produce a batch of products within two months. These parts have extremely high requirements for materials and processing accuracy, and the cost is naturally high. For this reason, Qiao Ruida once again paid a large deposit. Of course, these are not all the parts. In the drawings analyzed by Qiao Ruida, the materials of some core parts of the arc reactor have not yet been researched on the earth. These parts can only be solved by Ruida Technology's own research and production, or Qiao Ruida can open the gold finger and copy them. This is quite troublesome, but there is also an advantage, that is, it can be kept confidential. After all, the interests involved in controlled nuclear fusion are too huge, and no matter how much confidentiality is done, it is not too much. (End of this chapter)

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