Kaiweisi Hotel, a luxurious large box, a large dining table for twelve people in four chapters, Zhou Xing greeted his subordinates with a smile, and they brought their eldest female companions to the table. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Now, the engineers finally understand that they have fallen into a very big 'pit', their own chairman - Zhou Xing is a 'eat people without spitting out bones' technical cattle man, workaholic, working under his hands, must be squeezed out of every mental and physical strength.

A more relaxed job?

The engineers thought about it for a while, and soon gave up, first, they could no longer find a better unit than Xingyao International Welfare, second, working under a skilled person like Mr. Zhou, they could learn a lot of new knowledge and improve their skills, and third, when they were young, it was time to endure hardships, and they should not choose comfort.

Thinking about it, they have to grit their teeth and do this job, so if they don't take the opportunity to eat back at this time, they will wait for when.

The engineers vented all their grievances on the exquisite food on the dinner table, as if they were going to eat Zhou Xing, eating and drinking with an open stomach, and at the same time, they did not hesitate to greet the family members around them, without scruples.

Zhou Xing smiled happily and joined the army of food grabbers.

If you want to use it, you must first move its heart.

It's just a banquet, and Zhou Xing is not short of money.

The task deadline is only two years, and the time is urgent, and the most important thing at present is to catch up with the research and development progress of AI chips.

Zhou Xing, who has a very thorough understanding of software in the field of artificial intelligence, is now ready to research on artificial intelligence hardware and develop an AI chip, which is suitable for smart phones, intelligent robots, smart homes, and other fields, combined with intelligent software systems to make electronic products have the "smart" ability of "fake" artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence is the hottest technology field today, in September last year, chip giant Intel announced the development of a special chip for artificial intelligence technology, Google said it would independently develop new chips to support artificial intelligence, IBM is designing a chip based on brain structure TNH, Apple, Microsoft,...... Tech giants are designing new AI chips and developing artificial intelligence.

The major technology giants are actively deploying in the field of artificial intelligence, and if they release AI chips in these giants, they should be able to meet the requirements of the task by cooperating with other publicity plans.

Zhou Xing was eating delicious food while thinking about the plan in his mind.

After eating the banquet and telling the administrative secretary to deal with the aftermath, Zhou Xing left the hotel first.

Back in the Bauhinia Rose Garden, as soon as Zhou Xing returned to his room, he entered the virtual laboratory as soon as possible.

Empty virtual laboratory, chip detector, signal tester, power analyzer,...... , a variety of electronic instruments and equipment, densely packed.

Zhou Xiaozhi wrinkled his little face, floating in mid-air, staring at the several instruments that were operating below, monitoring the all-round test data of the AI chip.

"Boss, you're here!" As soon as Zhou Xing appeared, Zhou Xiaozhi floated in front of him, and a happy smile bloomed on his little face.

"Well, what are the test results?" Zhou Xing asked impatiently.

"Boss, the computing power of the AI chip has met your requirements, but the energy consumption and heat dissipation are not up to it. Zhou Xiaozhi's face fell, and he looked at Zhou Xingdao with some concern.

"Hmm! What is the situation of energy consumption and heat dissipation?" Zhou Xing darkened slightly, and sighed unexpectedly.

"The energy consumption is still 35% short of the requirements you set, the heat dissipation is far from your requirements, and the speed of the chip's operating temperature increase is more than 47%-65%. Zhou Xiaozhi reported to Zhou Xing.

Integrating 30 billion transistors on a chip the size of a fingernail can improve the overall computing performance of the chip and greatly reduce energy consumption, but after a large number of transistors are powered on, the problem of heat dissipation is an unsolvable problem.

In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore famously proposed Moore's Law: the number of components that can be integrated on a semiconductor chip doubles every 12 months.

Over the years, the chip industry has basically developed according to Moore's Law, and the performance of chips can be doubled every 18 months.

Today, this famous Moore's law is now about to hit the ceiling, when the lithography machine for processing chips reaches the 5 nanometer level, the atomic barrier of silicon-based chips is an insurmountable hurdle.

"Xiaozhi, we give up silicon-based materials, we use new materials for development. Zhou Xing gave an order to Zhou Xiaozhi.

"Well, boss, Ash recommends using: graphene. Zhou Xiaozhi nodded clearly and recommended to Zhou Xing: "Compared with silicon-based materials, graphene has extremely high interceptor speed and electron migration speed, and the main frequency of chips made of graphene can reach 300GHz, and the heat dissipation and energy consumption are more than 67% higher than that of silicon-based chips, and the running speed is estimated to be more than one million times that of silicon-based chips." ”

Graphene chips?

Hearing this, Zhou Xing smiled bitterly, he had thought about this direction, but the mass production of graphene is a big problem, graphene is a single-layer two-dimensional carbon atomic structure, and the current products in the country are only a few hundred grams per year, yes, the unit is grams, even if you have money, you can't buy it.

Do you want to develop a mass production process for graphene casually?

Zhou Xing frowned, distressed, the development and utilization of new technologies, materials are often a huge limitation, a problem is solved, and a new problem will emerge.

"Xiaozhi, are there any other new materials to recommend?" Zhou Xing asked Zhou Xiaozhi tentatively.

"Boss, if graphene is not good, Xiaozhi recommends using molybdenum material to make chips, the semiconductor characteristics of the single-layer molybdenum material are better than those of silicon materials, only 0.65 nanometers thick, and the energy consumption in the steady state is 100,000 times smaller than that of traditional silicon transistors, which is more suitable for manufacturing smaller semiconductor chips than graphene. Zhou Xiaozhi recommended to Zhou Xing.

"Molybdenum ore?" Zhou Xing frowned, he was very unfamiliar with this mineral, and he had no knowledge in this area.

"Yes, boss, are we going to start experimenting?" Zhou Xiaozhi looked at Zhou Xing with a small face.

Under Zhou Xing's unintentional cultivation, Zhou Xiaozhi became very interested in various experiments, especially the research and exploration of new things.

"Don't worry, wait a minute, I'm going to read a book to learn about this material. Zhou Xing touched Zhou Xiaozhi's little head and said comfortingly.

"Oh, boss, when will you be back!" Zhou Xiaozhi pouted and asked unhappily.

"Five or six hours, I'll do it as soon as possible, you can study it first, wait a minute, we'll know more than one by one." As soon as he learned, Zhou Xing couldn't give a definite time, so he quickly changed the topic.

"Good! Zhou Xiaozhi's eyes lit up, and he nodded with high morale.

"Well, then I'm leaving!" Zhou Xing smiled slightly, said goodbye to Zhou Xiaozhi, and before the words fell, the figure disappeared in the laboratory in a hurry.