The end of technology.

"Heh, Brother Ning, you can insult my knowledge, but not my IQ. Can I beat you on knowledge-related questions? You ask me a math problem, how can I answer it?"

"Don't you want to be strong all your life? How about this, the questions I ask you don't exceed the scope of elementary school knowledge, and you don't have any restrictions, how about it?"

After hearing these words, Lu Xiaoya finally got a little over the top.

"I don't want you to be so contemptuous of people. Let me mention the difficulty, at least mention elementary school... Forget about elementary school, let's go to elementary school, but only for elementary school math problems. Don't want me to recite certain passages about elementary school ideology and morality."

"That's for sure!"

"You go, you go, if you still stump me with the math problems in primary school, you can do whatever you want today!" Lu Xiaoya said grandly, rolled her eyes, and added: "Wait Wait, it has to be a multiple-choice question."

"Oh, that line, the first number sequence question, there is a number between 33, 34, 35 and 39, how much do you think should be filled? The options are 36, 37, 38."

"Wait..." Lu Xiaoya quickly jumped up from the sofa, found a pen and paper, and wrote down Ning Zi's question on the paper, then she was obviously a little dazed.

"Are you sure this is an elementary school topic?"

"I'm sure, it can be regarded as a reminder. This is what I learned in the fifth grade of elementary school. Since the national elementary school mathematics knowledge should be similar, you should have been exposed to this type of question in the fifth grade." Ning Zi was very sure. replied.

Lu Xiaoya glanced suspiciously at Ning Zi, and when she returned to the paper, she suddenly felt a little dazed.She is obviously good at elementary school mathematics, why does she seem to have never seen such a problem before?

"Ahem, that, this is too simple, why don't we relax the conditions and go to junior high school? To tell you the truth, when I was young, my main research direction of mathematics was quadratic equations in one yuan. How about solving quadratic equations in one yuan when you debuted?" Equation problem?"

"you sure?"

"Pretty sure. But solving equations isn't multiple choice."

"It's okay, I'm the best at solving quadratic equations in one yuan."

"Okay then. Give me the pen and paper."

After Ning Zi finished speaking, he took the pen and paper from Lu Xiaoya, thought for a moment, and quickly wrote the topic on the paper: "Is there a real number k such that the equation about x, 9x^2－(4k－7 )x+6k^2=0, the two real roots x1 and x2 satisfy Ix1/x2I=3/2, find all the values ​​of k that satisfy the condition, if it does not exist, explain the reason."

After reading the question posed by Ning Zi, Lu Xiaoya looked at Ning Zi with a look of surprise: "You call this solving a quadratic equation in one yuan?"

Ning Zi replied calmly: "You can send this question to your junior high school teacher and ask him if this is a quadratic equation problem in one variable."

In fact, it is a bit of a bully.

But for this kind of thing, Ning Zi felt that it was safer to ask a difficult question.

Lu Xiaoya rolled her eyes, then took the initiative to push Ning Zi, and said aggrievedly: "Brother Ning, please give me some hints."

"Well, the first question has been hinted. The knowledge points of the fifth grade of elementary school, the second question actually k exists, and has two values."

"I……"

……

Silicon Valley.

When Lu Xiaoya was stumped by two small and elementary math problems, many big people here were also troubled by difficult problems.

What was posted on the March Forum was indeed confusing.

Although Huang Wenhuang, the rotating chairman of the World Semiconductor Alliance, expressed his opinion on Twitter almost immediately, thinking that this is fake news.But the capital market obviously doesn't pay much attention to this kind of more emotional catharsis, but based on its own judgment.

Speaking of this, I have to praise the credibility of the March Forum.In the past March, the forum announced many incredible technologies, such as the turbulence algorithm, which shocked the world at the time.But after testing by a group of professionals, the value of the algorithm was finally confirmed.

Now that the algorithm has been replaced with a chip, the difference is probably that before the real thing is obtained, it is not like the algorithm that can be downloaded and tested to distinguish between true and false.However, in view of the reputation accumulated by the forum in March and the consideration of risk aversion in the capital market, it was immediately reflected on the stock market that day.

This is a very embarrassing point.

Many technology stocks have been operating at a low level during this period. The topping of the restrictive policy is a double-edged sword. Countless capital representatives are waiting to see. They have to see the effect and the financial reports of each company after the policy is implemented. In order to judge the impact of this series of policies on the entire market, as well as the impact on internal company business.

It happened at this time that this news was exposed. The biggest blow to the alliance was that a series of policies formulated before seemed to have become a joke.Not to mention that there is no effect, the main effect is still affecting one's own business.What's even more frightening is that if this news is true, some business will not only be lost, but some business in China may be lost forever.

Because according to the internal structure diagram of the new chip released by the March forum, it is obviously not achievable by the current semiconductor manufacturing technology.Whether it is EDA software, lithography machine, or etching, it is impossible to complete the layout of the transistors in the through tube.The chip test report released simultaneously shows its huge development potential.

This is a question of who has the initiative.If the news is false, of course everyone will be happy, and it will also expose China's relentless nature; but if it is true, then everything the World Semiconductor Alliance has done will be like throwing stones at the foot, and now all their restrictive policies will be broken. Even if If you don't seize the time to occupy the market and give Huaxia a certain window of time, it will become a problem to have the most advanced chip technology in your hands in the future.

After all, what the capital market pays more attention to is the expectation for a certain period of time in the future. The layout of the capital market is determined by studying and judging a company's short, medium and long-term performance.If the final effect of the alliance's series of policies can deepen China's dependence on these alliances and has to compromise, then even if the short-term performance is affected, in the medium and long term, everyone will still be optimistic about the development of these companies.Suppressed demand will eventually explode.

But if it is the other way around, when the capital believes that these needs will be replaced, and even after the development of the Huaxia chip industry in the future, it will become a strong competitor of the alliance and can eat up the performance of these companies in large sums. He yelled at "stupid", and then without hesitation, he withdrew large sums of money and flocked to more profitable fields.

As for things like supporting the development of their own chips, that is another level of problem.People of insight from another dimension are needed to raise funds to help domestic companies take the lead again.

So the question now is cross-examination.

The alliance must prove that this is false news as soon as possible to appease the confidence of investors.This is very important, after all, the wealth of many big names in the technology industry is actually in stocks.

If the stock keeps falling like this, it means that everyone's property is shrinking rapidly.

It also means that if you want to recover the loss to the greatest extent, you need to know the truth.

So now, more than anyone else in the league, how to prove this point quickly.

……

"As I said on Twitter, this is fake news. Call any of your scientists, really, pick up your phone, call any of your scientists and ask them, it's not possible! Such a short In a short period of time, it is impossible to design a chip in a new way, even if the structure diagram is so simple.

I don't know how many of you have carefully read the report on the March forum. I just want to point out that the report says that the Chinese people use CNT materials, so how to constrain the growth of these transistors according to the designed layout?

This is a worldwide problem, a fundamental problem.To control the arrangement of transistors at the nanometer scale through non-lithographic methods, IMHO, this is simply a fantasy.The Huaxia people's ideas are very smart, but they are not professional. They hope to put us in a dilemma in this way, and even voluntarily abandon the original policy.

But that's a joke.I am sure that for a long time to come, we will receive all kinds of bad news, and they will continue to release similar news through the March forum to influence our decision-making.But it is impossible for you to see the real chip.Because it's a lie, a complete lie.

So at this time we must be more united and respond to such lies with a stronger attitude.For a few months at most, these lies will be self-defeating.Because they simply can't prove it's real. "

Huang Wenhuang was speaking via video at an emergency high-level meeting held by the alliance.

The sonorous and powerful voice, combined with the contagious gestures, made this speech extremely convincing.Also showed his attitude.

In fact, this speech was originally his idea. After all, Huang Wenhuang was also born in technology.Of course he has a say.

Just as soon as his voice fell, he saw someone applying to speak. The applicant was Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and the CEO was not online at the beginning of the meeting.

Huang Wenhuang immediately assigned the authority to be able to speak.

"Well, everyone, I went to listen to some information just now. A middle-level manager of the company reported that someone claimed to provide us with two samples of the new structure chip newly developed by Huaxia, but he asked for a price of 3000 million US dollars. So I think about it. Listen to everyone."

In a word, this video conference started to become lively, and the expressions of many people on the screen became very strange.

Of course more speeches began to emerge.

"Provide chip samples? How do you know it's real?"

"Mr. Amherst, obviously, we have the structural diagram of the March forum for comparison with the test report. It is easy to distinguish the real one from the fake one."

"But maybe it's a liar."

"He said that we can send technicians to inspect on-site, pay half of the payment after confirming that there is no problem with the chip, and pay the other half after the inspection."

"Google doesn't have related technology business in China, right? Why did that person come to you? Who is he, from Huaxia?"

"In fact, the transaction was not completed in China, but in the United States. He is not from China, and some people may have heard of his name, Neeson Mountbatten. If you don't remember this name, then Nissenwell Technology Company, everyone should still remember."

Obviously, many people in the alliance of this company still have fresh memories.

"The cockroach? How could he have such a thing?"

"So there is only one possibility. Huaxia has already mastered this technology, and they just picked a suitable time to announce it. As for this Mr. Neeson Mountbatten... If you have a general understanding of what he has done recently, probably I can understand. Well, everyone, please stop arguing about these trivial matters, $3000 million, two chips, do you think this deal should be completed?"

Chapter 168 It's so cool to point fingers

3000 million US dollars, two chips, the unit price is 500 million, which is already the highest in history.Price-wise, it's expensive.

But obviously the bosses are not so superficial when looking at the problem, because from the perspective of intelligence, these two chips can also be invaluable, so some people quickly gave their opinions.

"Then what are you waiting for? I hope to see these two chips as soon as possible. If everyone is not interested in these chips, then the money can be paid by Intel alone. Of course, we will share the final report with the alliance. .”

Deep-pocketed Intel president Pat Gelsinger gave his opinion directly.

Of course, Intel is definitely not the only one with deep pockets in the alliance. In fact, if it really has more money than Intel, Intel may not even be better than Google.It's nothing more than that everyone's main business is different.But it's normal for Intel to be more anxious than Google.

After all, Intel's heavy assets are concentrated in the fab.As one of the few companies in the world with a complete industrial chain in chip design and manufacturing, Intel naturally pays more attention to new chip technologies than Google.

Of course, it's not just Intel that's concerned.

Representatives of Samsung Group, which is also an IDM company, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., a well-known semiconductor foundry, also expressed their opinions almost at the same time.

"Since the alliance is a whole, on behalf of Samsung, I hope to obtain these two chips in the name of the alliance."

"Yes, we should have this information as soon as possible."

Sundar Pichai, who didn't speak again after the explanation, said: "Well, friends, I bring this issue here to discuss, of course not only because Mr. Mountbatten offered 3000 million US dollars, in fact he also There is one condition.

If it is decided to buy these two chips at this price, then the CEOs, presidents and chairman of all companies in the alliance need to first publish a paragraph on the public network advocating that the citizens of the companies where the companies are located eat more vegetables and less meat, or even just eat more vegetables and less meat. The promotional video of eating vegetables and not meat must contain a sentence, bid farewell to meat, egg and milk, and be happy every day.

Moreover, the alliance must spend no less than 1000 million US dollars or corresponding resources to carry out large-scale advertising promotion of all these videos on major social platforms and websites.Of course, if it is promoted on Google, we can not charge this advertising fee and use it as a public service advertisement.Of course, the good news is that we should be able to quickly reduce the popularity of these videos after a short period of fermentation. "

When Sundar Pichai's voice fell, the video conference room suddenly became quiet.

A group of people finally understood why Google did not directly win these two chips.It's not about money at all...

The bosses of all the companies in the alliance have different personalities. Some like to appear in the media often, and some never like to appear on the scene. It's a bit too much to record videos all the time.

Everyone was silent. After a long time, Huang Wenhuang said: "What does he mean? This Mr. Mountbatten is crazy?"

Sundar Pichai replied: "Neson Mountbatten explained everything sincerely. Don't blame him. Because he was also entrusted by others. As for who, I think everyone knows. He also specifically said , The attitude that person wants to express is that this kind of feeling of being able to teach people how to do things is very good, he likes it very much, and hopes we can get used to it.”

This probably belongs to shouting from afar.

These words caused another silence in the meeting room.

The moods of all the bosses are probably extremely complicated.

Want to say something, but don't know what to say.

After a while, Huang Wenhuang said, "Then what if we reject this deal?"

Sundar Pichai replied: "He said it doesn't matter. Anyway, there will be more opportunities in the future. I believe there will always be opportunities for us to agree to this condition. Of course, Neeson Mountbatten has repeatedly stated that this sentence is also on behalf of that person. .In addition, the other side asked him to bring a message. If we reject this transaction, he has a hundred ways to let the public know the truth before us. He thinks this is not a good idea.

The technological generation gap is not something that can be easily accepted.Especially for the alliance, it is very likely that there will be disagreements at this time.This requires their own consideration.He very much welcomes those companies that have a need for this technology to come to the University to discuss cooperation plans.I know people don't want to hear these things in this occasion, but I feel the need to say it now because even if I don't say it, he has a channel for everyone to know. "

Sundar Pichai spread his hands. This Indian-American understands business struggles.

Instead of letting someone get in touch privately, it is better for everyone to spread the word out, which may allow the alliance to exist for a longer period of time.

After all, Google is different from other companies. It makes chips to lay out the future.It is not too heavy on asset layout.Not to mention that for now, Google's main revenue is still advertising, and the semiconductor field is still in the investment stage.The steering can be said to be very flexible, so Sundar Pichai hopes that the alliance can last longer.

However, for EDA software providers in the alliance, equipment manufacturers upstream of the industry chain, DMI companies such as Intel and Samsung that are heavy on assets, and OEMs that are heavy on assets and low in profits, they are probably the most urgent to understand the real situation. Then develop a strategy accordingly.

The basis for the existence of the alliance is that everyone can have a common long-term interest.The so-called unity can at least draw a big pie that everyone recognizes.When this pie no longer exists, the disintegration of the alliance will probably not be far away.

Not much more to say.

As the first talker in the alliance, Huang Wenhuang said simply after everyone was silent: "Then, let's start voting now. If you agree with this deal, please raise your hand if you get these two chips as soon as possible."

He himself did not raise his hand, but it is clear that his opinion does not represent the mainstream opinion within the league.

It's nothing more than a few words of advice in public. Although there is a feeling of PUA, it is not unacceptable to publicly express some opinions in terms of the importance of intelligence of these two chips.Although few of these bigwigs are true vegetarians, what does it have to do with them if they just call on others to be more vegetarians?

"Okay, then the money comes from the alliance. After getting the chip, the members of the alliance can send their own scientists to study the two chips. The final report can be freely checked within the alliance. With that Neeson Mountbatten I will leave the contact to you, Mr. Pichai."

Sundar Pichai nodded casually, of course he knew that Huang Wenhuang must be dissatisfied with him.

After all, he didn't communicate with this so-called alliance speaker in advance, but who cares?

It may prove that this chip technology can really represent the future, and whether this semiconductor alliance can still exist is a question.

"Okay, today's meeting is over. But I believe we will be able to prove everything soon."

……

Just when the big bosses reached a consensus, Lu Xiaoya also made a choice.

"For the first question, choose 37!" Although Lu Xiaoya said it confidently, she was actually confused by the answer.

No way, even though Lu Xiaoya is very confident in solving quadratic equations in one variable, she really wants to ask why there is a K in the second equation question?She had never seen this type of question before, and when she wanted to solve it, she just felt that she had no way to start.

So the first multiple choice question is easier.

Anyway, it is the content of the fifth grade of elementary school, and among the three numbers 36, 37, and 38, 37 is obviously the most similar.Because if you choose 37, the first three numbers are 33, 34, and 35, and the last three numbers are 35, 37, and 39. Lu Xiaoya thinks this is very neat, and she thinks that the level of a fifth-grade elementary school student can see this. This rule is already quite clever.

"Are you sure?" Ning Zi asked without any expression.

"Don't try to fool me in this way, make me feel that I might be wrong, and then revise the answer. It's 37, very...definite...and...definitely!" Lu Xiaoya stared at Ning Zi, using the extension Yin answered, she hoped to see the answer from Ning Zi's expression, if she saw that this guy started to get complacent, she planned to change the answer again.

It's a pity that from the beginning to the end, Ning Zi didn't have any expression, no complacency, no happiness, not even the slightest smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Very good, you...wrong answer." Only then did Lu Xiaoya see that the corners of Ning Zi's mouth finally rose.

"Wrong answer? How is it possible?" Lu Xiaoya said in surprise.

"In fact, the answer is wrong. If you don't believe it, you can connect with any elementary school teacher. If you don't have friends who are math teachers, you can also send this question to your mother and ask her to ask. This question The answer to the question should be 38. I reminded you that this question is about the content of the fifth grade elementary school mathematics."