1048 Academician Lu“s Projec
The silence in the air was terrifying.
The skinny man with gla.s.ses standing on stage noticed this, and he stopped his speech while feeling a little unsure of whether he should continue.
Finally, someone broke the silence.
“What’s your name?”
The person who asked this question was Mayberry, the Intel CTO sitting in the front row.
He asked this question after making eye contact with the man on stage.
The person on stage was shocked that a big name was talking to a small fry like him. He zoned out for a second but quickly realized he was still standing on stage. He nodded and spoke.
“… He Hai, research and development engineer at Huawei.”
He Hai?
Mayberry subconsciously remembered this name. His eyebrows furrowed as he began to think. He couldn’t recall ever hearing this name.
Finally, he gave up. He looked at He Hai and spoke.
“It doesn’t matter what your name is.”
He Hai: “???”
You were the one who asked.
Mayberry didn’t realize how contradictory his statement was. He pushed his gla.s.ses up the bridge of his nose and spoke calmly.
“I heard you mention the word carbon-based chip. Judging from the PowerPoint slides, am I correct to deduce that you, representing on behalf of Huawei, are here to announce to the academic community and industrial circle that you guys have made a breakthrough in carbon-based chip technology?”
Strictly speaking, he was only halfway through his presentation, far from the Qu0026A session. Mayberry’s action was somewhat disrespectful to the presenter, as well as the audience.
But there were exceptions to everything.
No one frowned at Mayberry’s behavior, because they all wanted to know the answer to the question.
Were the things on the PowerPoint slide accurate?
He Hai obviously didn’t expect Mayberry to ask such a strange question. He looked at him strangely, then looked back at his PowerPoint. He made sure that there were no mistakes on the slides and spoke.
“As you can see, as the first Dragon series chip produced using carbon-based chip technology, we have adopted a new generation of carbon-based transistors by collaborating with the Jinling Inst.i.tute of Computational Materials and carbon-based laboratory…”
The second the audience heard the word carbon-based transistor, there was a commotion.
The concept of carbon-based chips was something that only appeared this year. Until today, most people thought it was only a concept, while the feasibility of the concept was still controversial in the academic community.
However, now this person on stage was claiming…
That someone had already solved this controversial technology?
Mayberry began to panic. He could barely keep his composure. He stared at the presenter and spoke.
“You’re speaking on behalf of Huawei? Are you responsible for your words? Do you know what it means to publish false academic results at a conference?”
Mayberry desperately tried to get a read on the Chinese man’s face, hoping to see micro-expressions that he was lying.
However, he was disappointed.
The presenter named He Hai didn’t realize the questions were rhetoric, so he awkwardly smiled and said, “Oh, there’s no need to worry about that.
“The corresponding author of this paper is Academician Lu.
“He’s responsible for this project.”
Professor Lu!
The second this name was mentioned, the venue went quiet.
Mayberry’s face turned pale. His lips trembled as he was rendered speechless.
He hoped that the report was just a hoax, that there was no carbon-based chip technology, that Huawei was lying. But now, all of his hopes were destroyed by the mention of “Academician Lu”…
A n.o.bel Prize laureate and Fields Medalist, the person who proved Riemann’s hypothesis, who recently won the Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize. With so many t.i.tles and honors behind this name, his resume would be ten pages long.
Because of his status, there was no reason for him to lie for Huawei.
If this technology was really backed by this person’s academic reputation…
Seeing how Mayberry was speechless, He Hai spoke.
“Um, so can I continue?”
“Continue…” said Swan, speaking for his dumbfounded CTO.
He Hai looked at the pairs of gazes staring at him. He gulped and nodded.
“Oh, okay.”
…
He Hai swore to G.o.d that the presentation today was the peak of his life.
At least the peak of the first half of his life.
The entire venue was filled with well-known scholars and engineers in the semiconductor industry, as well as industry leaders.
However, everyone sitting in the audience, whether they were a noob researcher or a big name, all quietly listened to his PowerPoint presentation.
He was certain that everyone was truly listening to him.
Because when he presented the chip testing performance results, he could hear exclaims…
“28nm process technology, chip integration of 10 million per square millimeter… Superior to Xeon chips, this is crazy!”
“How is this possible! Before seeing this with my own eyes, I won’t believe it!”
“The clock speed of 3.7GHz, the maximum power consumption of 20W… Haha, impossible.”
“In theory, carbon-based chips have better heat dissipation performance than silicon-based chips…”
“This is impossible! I’ll say it again, this is impossible!”
“…”
When He Hai heard the whispers in the crowd, he didn’t begin to worry. Instead, he was relieved.
Regardless of whether or not the audience believed him, what mattered was that they listened to him.
As for the debates…
That didn’t matter.
He had seen the magical chip before. It was the size of a thumbnail, light as a piece of paper. He couldn’t describe the shock in his heart when he first saw it. One thing he was certain of was that when the people sitting here see the chip with their own eyes, they would be just as shocked…
After the presentation ended, there was no Qu0026A session. The whole venue was a mess.
Qualcomm’s vice president Koch had a blank expression on his face.
Suddenly, he spoke.
“Wacker, do you know what I want to do?”
Wacker had the same expression. He gulped and muttered, “I don’t know, I don’t trade stocks… I have some Qualcomm stock, I’m going to try to sell as much as I can.”
Koch nodded.
“I had the same idea.”