BXBX NOVEL Chapter 361: The research and development of carbon metal wire is completed!
"Click."
Following the sound of the door opening, the scene inside came into Chen He's eyes.
At this time, Lin Xuan was wearing a white scientific research coat and was looking at the data in front of an instrument.
After seeing several researchers in the room, Chen He hurried to Lin Xuan's side and said softly:
"Wall Street has made a move!"
"Let's go to the office first."
Hearing the term Wall Street, which is the strongest capital power in the world, Lin Xuan brought Chen He to the office beside him.
After arriving at the office, Chen He said angrily:
"From yesterday afternoon to now, the price of refined cobalt has risen from 130 to 350 yuan per gram!"
Hearing this, Lin Xuan frowned instantly, and his fists tightened suddenly!
The price of refined cobalt has risen to the terrifying price of refined cobalt in 2022 in the future.
Wall Street has a really good trick this time, and it has caught the weakness of Hantang Technology all at once. What a good trick!
Cobalt is inherently scarce, and the world's proven reserves are only 3.2 million tons, and it is speculated based on mathematical data.
The entire surface of the earth is only more than 10 million tons, so the amount of cobalt is extremely rare.
Now that Wall Street is making a fuss about a rare metal like cobalt, it's really accurate!
"Boss, according to the information I have inquired, companies headed by Intel, Motorola, and Pingguo are hoarding cobalt metal in large quantities.
It is said that they have bought all the cobalt metal for next year in advance and signed a long-term contract.
These guys are really disgusting. They obviously can't use cobalt, but they purchase and hoard it in large quantities. This behavior is really disgusting. "
"We haven't seen the urine of the Medigo company for a day or two. Isn't it normal to use this method?"
Lin Xuan didn't look overwhelmed by surprise, but there was an expression of irony on his face.
Because of something that Chen He didn't know at this time, Hantang Technology's carbon metal wire research has made a breakthrough.
Hantang Technology has successfully manufactured the world's first carbon metal wire, and achieved the same scientific research results as the Berkeley University in 2020!
In the future, as long as Hantang Technology completes the mass production of carbon metal wires and develops a new carbon metal wire interconnection technology based on such things as carbon metal wires, the global chips will bring about a great change!
"Boss, now that the price of refined cobalt has risen to such a terrifying price, our future profits from producing mid-to-low-end chips may not be as good as the cost of purchasing refined cobalt.
In this case, we will lose money every time we produce a low-end chip in the future. Maybe only the production of high-end mobile phones and high-end chips can keep us from losing money. "
Chen He told the reason why he was worried.
"Don't worry, they will lose everything in a short time!"
Lin Xuan said his answer lightly.
"Down the drain?!"
Chen He looked at Lin Xuan in astonishment, not understanding why Lin Xuan said that.
“Currently, the carbon metal wire used to replace the cobalt interconnection technology has been manufactured, and the progress of the carbon metal wire interconnection technology is considered to be 50% complete.
Next, I will do my best to solve the carbon metal wire interconnection technology, so the more refined cobalt metal they hoard now, the more they will lose money by then! "
"The carbon metal wire has been developed?!"
Chen He exclaimed, as Lin Xuan's secretary, he also knew the power of carbon metal wire.
He originally thought that it might take several months or even a year or two to successfully develop this thing, but he didn't expect the progress to be so fast, and a sample of the carbon metal wire had already been produced!
"Hahaha, that's great, those guys want to hoard cobalt metal to make us money, once we don't buy cobalt metal they will sit on wax.
Haha, this time they will lose everything! "
After finishing speaking, Chen He laughed out loud, with a burst of joy on his face.
This time, Western technology companies led by Motorola, Pingguo, and Intel have aggressively acquired the metal cobalt.
Among them, they must pay a lot of money to raise the price if they want to raise the price. Hantang Technology no longer uses cobalt interconnection technology, so the use of cobalt will decrease!
It won't be long before that time, and its real price will definitely fall back to before Hantang Technology launched the cobalt interconnection technology!
So their current behavior of hoarding cobalt metal will eventually cause a huge loss, and the more cobalt metal they hoard, the greater the final loss!
Thus, Chen He couldn't help laughing out loud when he thought of this, and was happy for the huge losses that those despicable companies were doomed to lose in the future.
But after laughing, Chen He slowly said another worrying thing:
"Boss, Intel is already releasing a product release notice, and their second-generation Core processor will be launched on April 15th.
It is said that they will release dual-core or even quad-core Core processors. This time the Core processors are definitely not weak, and they will definitely have a huge impact on our computers.
Our Hantang S2 has been impacted by the iPhone.e mobile phone, and now the computer business is our main profit.
At this time, if the sales of the computer business are not strong enough, our income will be somewhat beyond our means. After all, we are now researching too many things and spending too much on scientific research. "
Hearing the words, Lin Xuan pondered slightly, and then slowly said:
“If we want to compete with the West in terms of chip performance and win, unless we can launch a 14nm process technology, we will be at a disadvantage for a long time.
Looks like I need to settle this once and for all! "
"Fix this once and for all?"
Hearing Lin Xuan's resolute tone, Chen He's eyes showed a trace of confusion.
Can things on the chip be fixed once and for all? Is Lin Xuan going to use a more advanced process technology to defeat the 14nm process technology?
But as far as he knows, Hantang Technology has no plan to develop a process technology below 14 nanometers.
Moreover, Hantang Technology’s funds are not enough to support the research and development of 14nm process technology, because each generation of process technology is advanced, the requirements for materials and equipment will be higher.
Moreover, with the current amount of funds of Hantang Technology, it is far from supporting the research and development of 14nm process technology!
Does Lin Xuan want to develop other new chips instead of silicon chips?
Lin Xuan wants to develop a biological chip or a photonic chip or a quantum computer?
Thinking like this, Chen He turned his gaze to Lin Xuan, waiting for Lin Xuan's words.
In this regard, Lin Xuan did not say how to solve the problem of Western manufacturing technology once and for all. He said slowly:
"Since the price of cobalt has inflated to the current level, then we will give up the development of the second-generation Hantang processor and the third- and fourth-generation Hanfeng chips based on cobalt interconnection technology.
However, this is also good. Now that there are carbon metal wires, the next step is to directly use carbon metal wires as the core to develop carbon metal wire interconnection technology and 3D chip stacking technology.
This solves the interconnection problem of transistors once and for all, saving the need to replace with carbon metal wire interconnection technology and re-develop chips in the future. "
Hearing this, Chen He nodded slightly. It would be a waste of money to develop 3D stacked chips based on cobalt interconnection technology at this time.
With this money, it is better to directly invest in the research and development of chips for carbon metal wire interconnection technology.
Speaking of which, there are not many products of Hantang Technology using 3D chip stacking technology at present, and only Hantang S2 mobile phone and computer memory are currently on sale.
As for the cobalt interconnection technology, there are many products, Hantang mobile phone processor, Hantang computer CPU, Hantang computer graphics card, Hantang memory,…
However, the price of cobalt metal is so scary now, the Hantang S2 mobile phone is still good, and it can still maintain a good profit.
However, in terms of Hantang computers, mid-range CPUs are no longer making money, and low-end CPUs are directly losing money.
So in the future, Hantang Technology will only sell high-end CPU processors and high-end graphics cards in terms of computers, and will stop selling low-end and mid-range computers.
But thinking about the next generation of Core processors, I am afraid that the good days of Hantang Computer are coming to an end.
So the future of Hantang Technology is not optimistic!
(end of this chapter)