Great Country Academician

After choosing something to eat from the table, Xu Chuan walked towards the corner of the banquet hall.

After pulling out the chair and sitting down, he looked at James Duke opposite and said, "Tell me, what do you think?"

After asking a simple question, he picked up his chopsticks and started eating.

James Duke, who was a little uncomfortable with Xu Chuan's straightforward style, was stunned for a moment, then looked at Xu Chuan who was busy fixing the food on his plate and said.

"Have you not had lunch yet? How about I treat you? I know there is a very good private dining restaurant nearby."

Xu Chuan: "."

No, where did this come from?

Didn't you see him eating?

The corners of his mouth moved, and after swallowing the food in his mouth, he looked at the funny man who ran from nowhere and said lightly.

"You have nine minutes left."

"Ah? Okay."

After being stunned for a moment, James Duke quickly came back to his senses. After thinking that he only had ten minutes and now there were nine minutes left, a sense of urgency suddenly arose in his heart.

"That's right, Academician Xu, I have read the two papers you wrote related to carbon-based chips over and over again. Really, they are so well written! The high performance and low power consumption characteristics of carbon-based chips This gives it a very significant advantage in AI applications, as it can use more complex circuits at higher frequencies, allowing for more precise calculations and data processing."

Seeing this guy starting a tirade, Xu Chuan couldn't help but interrupt: "I know everything you said. If there are no other important points, I think these are not attractive to me."

"Cough" he coughed in embarrassment, and James Duke quickly said: "Quantitative technology! It's AI neural quantification technology!"

"This technology can achieve powerful performance in non-quantized matrix convolution operations, but it relies heavily on single-precision floating point numbers, and the requirements for computing resources and memory have increased dramatically, which makes traditional silicon-based chips very difficult to implement. Difficult to run efficiently on a monolith."

"Carbon-based chips are different. I just watched the product launch conference you held. There is a very critical node in carbon-based chip technology, and that is three-dimensional carbon nanotube array technology!"

“This is a natural fit for the development of neuroquantification technology!”

“They fit really well.”

James Duke, who had been talking nonstop for a long time, looked at Xu Chuan with expectant eyes, and then said: "AI must be the most important direction for the development of the Internet in the future, and it will be the next outlet to take off!"

Glancing at this guy's excited face, Xu Chuan asked curiously: "Aren't you a technical consultant from Oracle?"

If he remembered correctly, Oracle seems to be a company that specializes in database software, right?

However, as for the current Internet companies, as long as they are slightly larger in scale, they basically do not engage in AI technology or anything like that, and they seem to dare not call themselves Internet companies.

Not to mention big Internet companies such as Goose Factory, Cat Factory, and Pig Factory, there are also companies with valuations of tens of millions, and many of them use AI intelligent technology as their core competitiveness.

As for a Fortune 500 company like Oracle, which is also an Internet company, if you have not researched some AI technology, you may not dare to go out and meet people.

James Duke nodded excitedly and said: "Yes, in addition to the construction of large databases, I am also good at the construction of advanced edge computing AI models and the architecture of human-machine alignment mechanisms."

"I want to cooperate with you to jointly establish a quantum AI interconnection technology company based on carbon-based chips. Based on high-performance three-dimensional carbon-based chips, we will greatly increase the current development speed of AI intelligence!"

“This is definitely a super outlet!”

Xu Chuan glanced at him and asked, "So you came to me to attract investment?"

"invest?"

Hearing this question, James Duke was stunned for a moment, and then said: "No, no, no, I'm here to discuss your cooperation. I still have some personal savings, about 30 million, in technical cooperation based on carbon-based chips. It’s about US dollars, which is enough for the company’s early development!”

"As long as you wait until angel round financing, then I can guarantee that artificial intelligence based on carbon-based chips and AI neuroquantification technology will definitely become popular around the world, and you will also be able to reap the most meaningful investment."

After a pause, he looked at Xu Chuan and continued with a smile: "Of course, if you are willing to invest in our company in the early stage, it is absolutely fine. In that way, we may be able to hold more of the original shares and avoid losing money in the financing stage. Losing too much control over the company”

".I believe it can definitely surpass the current OpenAI and become a star in the new era!"

Hearing that this guy started to describe the future in his words again, Xu Chuan couldn't help but shook his head and said: "Tell me about the application of carbon-based chips in large databases that you mentioned before."

"If it's just about the development of the AI ​​field, I'm afraid I can only say that your idea is very interesting."

There is no need to tell him that carbon-based chips are suitable for the development of AI intelligent technology.

Putting aside the artificial intelligence of AI neuroquantification technology mentioned by James Duke, the physical properties of carbon-based chips themselves are far more suitable for AI training than silicon-based chips.

Higher electron mobility, faster switching speed, smaller scale, higher density, lower energy consumption, etc., all make carbon-based chips more efficient in processing complex AI algorithms, reducing computing time and energy consumption.

In addition, the high energy efficiency of carbon-based chips in AI training also completely crushes silicon-based chips.

Needless to say, the carbon-based chips they have prepared after the technological breakthrough are the world's first tensor processing unit (TPU) based on carbon nanotube transistors developed by the Peking University team last year.

The carbon-based chip composed of only 3,000 carbon nanotube transistors far exceeds Google's EdgeTPU processor in terms of energy efficiency.

The energy efficiency of the carbon-based TPU can reach one trillion operations per watt, which is about 1,700 times that of Google's TPU.

In terms of AI training and other aspects, the basic advantages of carbon-based chips are here.

Even if he wants to study AI intelligence, Xu Chuan doesn't have much idea to cooperate with the technical consultant of Oracle in front of him.

Of course, if the other party can come up with a unique advantage, that's another story.

Seeing that Xu Chuan was not very interested in the ideas he expressed, James Duke was not discouraged. He nodded and continued to speak.

"Multidimensional stereo unit data storage system!"

After getting to know the personality of Professor Xu in front of him and knowing that he did not like to waste time on those insignificant words, he did not continue to talk at length, but went straight to the point.

"The traditional database structure mainly has three types: network, hierarchy and relationship. Or it can be divided into several different types of architectures such as the default relational architecture, distributed architecture, NoSQL architecture, and new SQL architecture."

"But these databases are often limited in scalability, especially databases built on a single server or fixed hardware resources. Once the amount of data increases or the number of visits surges, the capacity or performance of the server has to be increased physically, which is not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but also costly and unable to respond to changes in demand in real time."

"The multidimensional stereo unit data storage system is another completely different data storage method. It combines the bionics of the human brain's neural units and processes data efficiently through nonlinear mapping capabilities and parallel distributed processing. ”

“There is almost no upper limit in both vertical and horizontal expansion, and it will not have a big impact on the stability and maintenance cost of the system.”

“In simple terms, this storage system is more like the classification of knowledge and memory in the human brain. It has great advantages in terms of storage capacity and data call. ”

“Of course, from a technical perspective, it is undeniable that it is indeed very difficult to build such a huge database. ”

“And if it is in the era of silicon-based chips, this is almost possible. ”

“But the carbon-based chips carved based on three-dimensional carbon nanotube array technology do have such potential.”

In the banquet hall, Xu Chuan ate his lunch while listening to the other party's ideas, with a hint of interest in his eyes.

It must be said that people who can serve as technical consultants in super companies like Oracle are still very capable.

Although he does not know much about computers and AI, he is not sure whether some of the theories and ideas proposed by James can really be achieved.

But it is undeniable that both carbon-based chips in AI intelligent applications and in the so-called multi-dimensional unit data storage system architecture are quite interesting.

Especially the latter, this so-called multi-dimensional stereo unit database may be of some help to the virtual reality technology that Xu Xiao is researching?

Of course, it is also possible that it is useless.

After all, real virtual reality technology is not something that can be solved by a database.

But overall, after finishing the work here, he will find someone to evaluate it.

After putting the last piece of roast duck on the plate into his mouth, Xu Chuan stood up from the chair with the plate.

"OK, ten minutes are up."

"I will find someone to evaluate these things you said. If there is any follow-up development, I will contact you."

Holding the plate, Xu Chuan smacked his lips and walked towards the dining table.

He was interrupted by this guy, and he was still a little hungry now, ready to choose something to eat.

Behind him, James Duke also stood up, with a hint of joy on his face, and said quickly: "Then I will wait for your news."

In his opinion, Professor Xu in front of him was obviously interested in his content, and the probability of reaching cooperation next time was already infinite.

Xu Chuan waved his hand and did not make too many extra expressions.

In his opinion, even if the idea proposed by James consultant is valuable, he is more inclined to acquire or directly "recruit" this person.

Cooperation is also based on the premise that both parties can provide each other with nearly equal or indispensable resources.

If a Chinese person came to talk to him about this, he might still be interested in cooperation and invest some money.

But he really doesn't have much interest in a foreigner.

After the celebration banquet for the carbon-based chip, Xu Chuan didn't stay here for long.

What he can do is almost over at this point.

The rest, such as how to quickly promote carbon-based chips, seize the market of silicon-based chips, or how to overthrow the Silicon-based Semiconductor Alliance, have nothing to do with him.

These things will be handled by professional administrative staff and management.

As a scholar, if the interference of carbon-based chips is not so serious that he needs to come forward to take a stand, he would rather stay at the CRHPC institution to analyze the original collision data.

Now that the matter is over, he finally has his own time to do what he wants to do.

Instead of returning to the villa at the foot of Zijin Mountain, Xu Chuan rushed to the Xiashu Aerospace Base in the car driven by Zheng Hai.

In the office of Academician Chang Huaxiang, he knocked on the half-hidden door, and soon a voice of "please come in" came from inside.

Smiling, he pushed the door open and walked in. Xu Chuan greeted him, "Mr. Chang."

Hearing the voice, Chang Huaxiang looked up in surprise and asked, "Why are you back so soon? Have you settled the carbon-based chip business?"

Xu Chuan smiled and said, "I just went over there to make a scene. There's nothing for me to do over there."

Hearing this answer, Chang Huaxiang smiled and stood up from his desk to make tea, saying, "You stand up there, and without saying anything, the world of the semiconductor industry will change."

Xu Chuan smiled and said, "You're exaggerating. Carbon-based chip technology is... The credit for the breakthrough does not belong to me, but to the thousands of engineers and researchers who are working hard on their posts. "

Chang Huaxiang looked over happily and said, "Okay, don't be so modest in front of me. Don't I know you? I have read the two papers in "Exploration". Without you taking the lead in breaking through the core difficulties, I don't know when the breakthrough in carbon-based chip technology will come. "

In the office, after the two chatted for a while, Xu Chuan took a sip of tea and asked, "Speaking of which, our astronauts should have reached the orbit of Mars, right?"

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