You are a black technology boss, you didn't say it sooner!

Jiang Fu's words were very serious, causing Lou Qingyan to feel a little uncomfortable being praised by him, turned his head and said: "You can get it."

Jiang Fu didn't say much, "I'll drive when I go back."

The current car of the two is a Volkswagen that Lou Qingyan bought casually, it is extremely low-key and restrained.Jiang Fu really went bankrupt because of him, he sold his house and his car.

When Lou Qingyan got into the car, he suddenly thought of this matter, and said to him: "How do you plan to save the money in your hand now? Reinvest in real estate? Or start a small business? Have you ever thought about it?"

Jiang Fu: "I told you, you can't remember."

Lou Qingyan: "...Really, haha." He probably said it while talking on the phone at night, when he was usually sleepy and hazy.

"If there is no accident, I may put it in the financial market for short-term investment." Jiang Fu said.

Lou Qingyan heard something strange, "You want to keep this money in your hand? Why, is there any place to use the money?"

Jiang Fu was silent.

In fact, he also told Lou Qingyan about these things.He once introduced Lou Qingyan's future plans in detail, but it seems that the latter didn't listen.

However, he didn't mind sharing it again to impress Lou Qingyan.

"I will not work in a research institute after I get my degree. If I can, I will set up my own laboratory and do projects."

"Why don't you go to the institute?"

"Promotion is too slow."

Lou Qingyan looked at him and said, "You already have your own project."

"Yes." Jiang Fu said.

"You're too bold," Lou Qingyan said, "It's not impossible to host the project directly after graduation. Why don't you get a doctorate abroad and come back to apply for Qianqing Jieqing?"

Both Qianqing and Jieqing are national policy support for young scientific researchers. If they can apply for the highest level, they can get millions of subsidies every year.It is impossible for the institute not to allow these talented people with their own funds to host the project themselves.

It is not just the convenience of subsidies and application projects, these policy support also symbolize honor.The Qianqing Project only selects 1000 people each year, and those selected are the best of the best, and the benefits they bring are not measurable by money.

For some reason, Lou Qingyan felt that Jiang Fu was very powerful, and if he applied, he would definitely be selected.

"Policy support is a good thing, but some people need it and some don't."

Jiang Fu said, "Those who compete with me on the opposite side may regard it as the greatest opportunity in life and an important way to realize their dreams. I don't need to squeeze their places."

He is also too confident, as if he will succeed if he declares.

"I don't lack honors or funds, but I just lack a research environment that won't be disturbed."

However, this confidence is too dazzling.

Some men are confident because they think highly of themselves, and some men are confident because they are high-spirited.

Lou Qingyan looked sideways at Jiang Fu, the man sitting in the driver's seat was concentrating on driving, with no expression on his cold face.The colorful afterglow of the setting sun adorns him outside the small window, and the newly lit Beijing also becomes a background beside him.

Lou Qingyan covered his chest, controlled himself to turn his head back, and turned back in less than three seconds, looking at him.

While subconsciously looking for a topic, "What is it, the project that makes you stick to it..."

Jiang Fu raised the corners of his mouth secretly and imperceptibly.

Then he said solemnly: "A new chip technology, photonic chip."

"..." Lou Qingyan's mind suddenly cleared up, "I said you, didn't you sneak into my mind and peep at my thoughts? Why did the business route given in the notebook and the current research and development direction all agree with what I thought? So consistent."

Jiang Fu was surprised, "Are you also interested in photonic chips?"

Lou Qingyan spread his hands, "The progress of the smart era has entered into the competition of computing power. What qualifications do you think I have not to be interested in chips?"

If an ordinary person came to talk to him, he would probably be in a foggy state from head to toe, but Jiang Fu understood, or he understood everything from natural science to computer to finance and management.

"I thought you were in software. Chips are for leading companies and professional companies."

When their identities were not exposed, the two rarely talked about professional topics, but every time they accidentally mentioned it, it always made their hearts tremble.

When they talk about their respective majors, their states are different, which is an expression that cannot be seen in daily conversations.

Physics is a part of Jiang Fu, and computer is a part of Lou Qingyan, they are incomplete without this part.These two parts had little communication in the past, but now the two suddenly discovered that they fit so well, no matter how advanced and boring the professional content was, the other party would definitely understand it.

Lou Qingyan said with a smile, "Deep space is driven by technology, and what we pursue is always research and development, not limited to software and hardware. And computing power competition, how can we lack the link of chips."

"Cloud computing, I'm one step behind. The data center, the current money is only enough to build half of it. The core technology, the AI ​​chip, is already in full swing. After thinking about it, there is only one overtaking track in deep space..." He suddenly stopped talking, and It's a rhetorical question, "Do you know what it is?"

Jiang Fu paused, "Super calculation."

If photonic chips come out one day, it is impossible to apply them to microcomputers at once. Supercomputers are the first step for photonic chips.

At that time, technology was not limited to chips. This technology should be called photonic computer.

That is, the optical brain often mentioned in science fiction.

Lou Qingyan said: "Not only to compete with other companies, but the daily research and development of deep space is also increasingly limited by computing power. Simply put, as long as the computing power can go up, I can make many breakthroughs immediately."

Although he has long known that the level of artificial intelligence is limited by hardware, he has never paid attention to this issue.The main reason is that the computing power in the interstellar era is redundant, and there will never be a phenomenon that the hardware cannot keep up with the software. He has never personally experienced such a large hardware limitation.

People in this era are changing their minds, and so is Lou Qingyan.

"In the past, people thought that the foundation of artificial intelligence was algorithms and data, but now we need to add computing power."

"5G is slowly rolling out, and the speed of data transfer to the cloud has met the speed requirements. With more and more cloud data, the requirements for computing are getting higher and higher."

In recent years, leading technology companies have made frequent moves to develop cloud platforms, invest in building data centers, and compete for the development of AI chips... I am afraid that they will be one step behind.They are increasingly aware of the importance of computing power.

Before the emergence of cloud computing, the development of computing power was a step-by-step process. According to the famous Moore's Law, the number of components that can be accommodated on an integrated circuit will double every 18-24 months, and the performance of the computer will also double. Double it.

This law drives the development of all electronic computers, including personal computers and supercomputers.For half a century, under the guidance of Moore's Law, electronic computing capabilities have doubled at a rate of 18-24 months.Even if people want to compete in computing power, they have no way to start. They can only follow the objective laws step by step.

Nowadays, with the rumors that Moore's Law has expired, the progress of computer performance has indeed slowed down.

Once Moore's Law fails and the development of computing power stagnates, the technological progress of the entire planet will slow down-don't laugh, this is true, because scientific research is too dependent on computer calculations.

In other words, people nowadays can no longer follow Moore's Law and must find a breakthrough point to break out of the shackles.

This breakthrough point may be a photonic computer, a quantum computer, or a carbon-based chip or something... But they are still far away. Before the official breakthrough, people have invented two technologies that allow them to breathe.

That is cloud computing and AI chips.

The future computing power competition will become more and more fierce around these two technologies, especially today when 5G has landed, and the future of cloud computing is unstoppable.

But in these two aspects, Lou Qingyan has fallen behind.

What he lacks is not technology, but money.

Is 20 billion RMB a lot?In fact, even a large data center is not enough to build, not to mention that he has already spent half of it.

He looked at Jiang Fu and said slowly: "Deep Space has a three-step plan for computing power competition, and I haven't told anyone about it."

"The first step is to slowly arrange the data center, the second step is to find opportunities to enter AI chips, and the third step is to establish a laboratory to develop photonic chips."

"In terms of photon, quantum, carbon-based, nano, biochemical... various computer research and development directions, I think only photon is the most reliable, and it can see results in the short term."

"I didn't expect you to also plan to join this field." He said, "I found that the two of us agree in many things, really, not only the direction of research and development, but also the many opinions in that notebook."

"Let's cooperate."

While talking, the car drove into the underground parking lot.

Jiang Fu stopped the car, but did not unbuckle his seat belt.

"So trust me?" He said softly.

Lou Qingyan said: "Your way of thinking is different from most people nowadays, with a calm sense of history and a sense of the macro. I don't know your professional ability, but I trust this way of thinking." kind.

Jiang Fu is one of the rare people who can keep up with him in terms of thinking, whether it is a macroscopic cognition of everything, or a unique view of details, or even a fundamental awareness.

"How about I build a laboratory for you, pay for your project, and give you a quiet and undisturbed research environment?"

Jiang Fu didn't say anything for a long time, he seemed to be very happy, but also seemed to be entangled in something.

Lou Qingyan leaned forward, reached out and touched his brow.

"Why are you frowning? You don't want to?"

A touch of temperature sticks between the eyebrows.

When Lou Qingyan retracted his hand, he subconsciously frowned again.Still, the temperature was gone.

He said lightly: "We can cooperate, but you have to change the term. You can't say that you build a laboratory for me, but that you invest in my laboratory to obtain my research results legally."

"Hahahahaha, are you okay?" Lou Qingyan knew what he was struggling with, "I don't want to change, I just don't want to change, Jiang University scientist, I want to pay for you, will you come to my bowl?" ?”

Jiang Fu: "..."

Lou Qingyan suddenly leaned over and looked at him very closely, with eyes like a hawk.

"The foundation of the intelligent era is algorithms, computing power, and data. Do you agree?"

Jiang Fu looked down at his lips, "I agree."

Lou Qingyan said: "I provide the algorithm, you provide the computing power, we occupy the data highland together, and the future is ours."

"Do you agree?"