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North America.

The President was looking at the budget in his hand in a daze. At the end of the budget, there was a figure that even the president found shocking.

After a while, the President said in a hoarse voice: "Financial hegemony is still in our hands, so I am not worried about how much money it will cost to do this. If the money is gone, just turn on the printing press."

"What really worries me is people. How much value can tens of thousands of scientists invest in the research of photolithography machines and silicon wafer technology bring us? How can this technology mastered by the Chinese people bring us How much of a threat does it pose?”

Opposite the President, sat Special Envoy Brice Vincent, and Elon Musk, a representative of the Western technology community.

Looking at each other, Musk said: "Your Excellency, if you want to understand it this way, you can actually ignore China's technology, because no matter how high their technological level is, they pose no threat to us."

"Whether it is solid-state batteries or artificial intelligence, these top technologies are only sold within China and are given in small quantities to a few brother countries that are loyal to them."

"Look, this is the stock price of Nvidia Group."

"When Kunlun Dream Technology was released, everyone thought Nvidia would die and its stock price plummeted. However, when they learned that Kunlun Dream graphics cards would not be exported in large quantities, Nvidia's stock price rose again."

"Wall Street has discovered that even if the technology is lagging behind, Nvidia can still make profits for them. As a result, what kind of graphics cards China uses has nothing to do with us, and our companies will not try their best to catch up with Kunlun. Group’s technology.”

"There is an old Chinese saying that boils a frog in warm water, and now we are the frog soaking in the pot."

"Although China's high-tech products have not conquered our territory, objectively, the gap between us is getting wider and wider. Gao Yuan even proposed that China will be the first to enter the interstellar era. This is undoubtedly a declaration. Such arrogance and complete disregard for us."

The President nodded slightly and muttered to himself, "Yes, it is not very lethal, but it is very insulting. As the only superpower in the world, we cannot sit back and watch as China gradually widens the gap."

"By the way, why don't Kunlun Dreams sell it to us? It's just a graphics card, it shouldn't be considered a strategic resource, right?"

Musk said: “On the contrary, graphics cards are a super important strategic resource!”

"Supercomputers composed of pure CPUs are being rapidly eliminated. Whether it is Japan's supercomputer [Kyo] or our North American [Summit] and [Xuefeng], they all use CPUs and GPUs to form a special architecture."

“Especially our [Summit], as the world’s most powerful deep learning supercomputer, has a total of 28,600 graphics cards installed.”

At this point, the President suddenly froze and felt a chill on his back.

"I understand what you mean. Plateau does not export graphics cards to us because high-performance graphics cards are an important part of heterogeneous supercomputing!?"

"That's right." Musk nodded slightly.

The President frowned, put his chin in his hands, and recalled the horrific scene not long ago.

In June 2016, Sunway TaihuLight was born, and in one fell swoop it became the world’s number one supercomputer, knocking out all the large supercomputers in the West.

For a time, the Western scientific community was completely shocked and felt like it was facing a formidable enemy.

Although later, the West took advantage of its resource advantages to overtake again. In June 2018, North America launched its peak and killed China’s Shenwei TaihuLight. However, during the two-year period dominated by China’s supercomputer, it was like the West wielding power. The nightmare that never goes away, to this day, I still dare not forget.

Super calculation!

The next step for Kunlun Dream is supercomputing!

Thinking of this, the President clenched his fists and his face turned livid.

Swish swish swish~

The President quickly signed his name on the budget and then handed it to his staff standing behind him.

"I have approved the money, and I have approved the people. No matter what, we must stop those Chinese people!"

Musk nodded, "Don't worry, heterogeneous supercomputing requires the cooperation of CPU and GPU to achieve maximum performance. Now China has only taken the lead in GPU, but in terms of CPU, they are still far behind."

"We have joined forces with Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, Apple, IBM, Applied Materials and other top companies to study countermeasures."

…

In the afternoon, Han Chang and Liang Shaojie took a walk in the courtyard of Kunlun Group together.

Han Chang looked at this familiar place and said with emotion: "I think back then, when I first came here to find Plateau, it was a temporarily put together industrial area. The laboratory was placed in the workshop of the printing and dyeing factory, and the newly recruited employees, Living in the old dormitories of the textile factory.”

"It's a pity that the Jiangnan base has just been built, and the plateau is about to be moved to the desert in the west. This guy is really capable of tormenting, but it is precisely because of this that the big guys above trust him so much. After all, the Kunlun Group is so huge. Ba took the lead in moving to the west, and it has set a great example. Maybe in a few years, the west will really become a good place with birds singing and flowers fragrant."

The two chatted and came to the large conference room. They saw Gao Yuan standing on the stage and talking about the supercomputer project. Before the engineers transferred from various places arrived, Gao Yuan first trained his own employees.

Soon after, the meeting ended and Gao Yuan invited Han Chang and Liang Shaojie into his office.

Han Chang said with a smile: "After listening to you for a long time, I didn't understand anything. I just remembered the word kaleidoscope. This should be the code name of your Kunlun supercomputer, right?"

Gao Yuan said: "It can be said that our global mainstream supercomputing is divided into two types, the heterogeneous supercomputing represented by North American Summit and Xuefeng, and the many-core architecture represented by China Sunway and Japan's Fugaku. Both architectures are There are obvious advantages and disadvantages.”

"Considering that for many years to come, we will use artificial intelligence zero as the core of our development. The kaleidoscope architecture with stronger interactive capabilities and more suitable for deep learning is a more suitable choice..."

Han Chang and Liang Shaojie looked at each other with a bit of a wry smile on their faces. They didn't understand technical matters. Gao Yuan's talk with them was just playing the piano to others.

After listening for a long time, they probably understood that the kaleidoscope architecture supercomputer has strong collaborative interaction capabilities and is more suitable for accumulating the number of cores and performing miracles with great strength.

"Let's talk about business." Han Chang said.

The main thing Han Chang wants to talk about is the further integration of military scientific research forces and Kunlun Group.

Although Kunlun Group has now confirmed to succeed SMIC and lead China's semiconductor industry, since Kunlun Group is a private company with different constitutions, military-civilian integration will inevitably require many procedures.

As for Liang Shaojie, the matter he wanted to discuss with Gao Yuan was about intelligence.

"North America has specially approved US$40 billion for the Western Technology Alliance to increase research on lithography machines, semiconductor process research, and next-generation CPU and GPU research, etc."

"In short, the two projects of Kunlun Dream and ultraviolet lithography machine have caused a lot of excitement in North America. They will not only consume huge funds in North America, but also consume massive human resources. Watch them go down the wrong road. The further we go, the more relieved I feel." Liang Shaojie said.

Gao Yuan nodded slightly and said: "Silicon-based chip technology is still very confusing. With the current technology, it can easily break through one nanometer."

"But the key point is that silicon-based chips will encounter a huge problem below one nanometer. Quantum tunneling seems to be very close to success, but it is this quantum tunneling that makes success completely impossible. This is not It’s not a process problem, but a physical limit that cannot be solved unless the semiconductor material is replaced.”

Everyone laughed. Gao Yuan was very bad. Although he announced the Kunlun Dream Technology, he did not announce the prerequisite technology for this technology, the carbon-based wafer technology.

As the scale of production continues to expand, North America will know sooner or later that it has been led into a ditch by the plateau, but it doesn't matter, let's wait until that day.