"Come in."

"Katsa."

With the sound of the door opening, the scene inside came into view of Chen He.

At this time, Lin Xuan was wearing a white scientific research coat and was looking at the data in front of an instrument.

After Chen He saw several scientific researchers in the room, he hurriedly came to Lin Xuan's side and whispered:

"Hua'er Street has made a move!"

"Let's go to the office first."

Hearing Huaer Street, the world's strongest capital force, Lin Xuan took Chen He to the office on the side.

After coming to the office, Chen He said angrily:

"Since yesterday afternoon, the price of refined cobalt has risen from 130 yuan to 350 yuan per gram!"

Hearing this, Lin Xuan instantly frowned, and his fists suddenly tightened!

The price of refined cobalt has risen to the terrifying price of refined cobalt in 2022 in the future.

This time Huaer Street is really a good means, and it has suddenly grasped the weakness of Hantang Technology, which is really a good means!

Cobalt is already scarce, and the world's proven reserves are only 3.2 million tons, which is estimated based on mathematical data.

There are only about 10 million tons on the surface of the earth, so cobalt is extremely scarce.

Now Huaer Street has started to make an article about the rare metal of cobalt, which is really accurate!

"Boss, according to the information I inquired, at present, the enterprises led by Intel, Motoluola, and Pingguo are hoarding a large amount of cobalt metal.

It is said that they have already bought all the cobalt metal for next year in advance and signed a long-term contract.

These guys are disgusting, they can't use cobalt and buy and hoard a lot of it, it's disgusting. ”

"We haven't seen it in a day or two, isn't it normal to use this method."

Lin Xuan didn't make a fuss, but just had a ridiculous expression on his face.

Because of what 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 has achieved the same scientific research results as the University of Berkeley in 2020!

Next, as long as Hantang Technology completes the mass production of carbon metal wire and develops a new carbon metal wire interconnection technology based on carbon metal wire, the global chip will lead to a great change!

"Boss, now that the price of refined cobalt has increased to such a terrifying price, we may not be able to make profits from the production of low-end chips in the future compared to the cost of buying refined cobalt.

In this case, every time we produce a low-end chip in the future, it will be a loss, and perhaps only the production of high-end mobile phones and high-end chips can keep us from losing money. ”

Chen He said what made him worried.

"Don't worry, it won't be long before they're gone!"

Lin Xuan said his reply in a hurry.

"Lost in blood?!"

Chen He looked at Lin Xuan with a stunned expression, not understanding why Lin Xuan would say this.

"At present, the carbon metal wire used to replace the cobalt interconnection technology has been manufactured, and the progress of carbon metal wire interconnection technology is 50% completed.

I'm going to do my best to solve the carbon wire interconnection technology, so the more refined cobalt metal they hoard now, the more they will lose money at that time! ”

"Carbon metal wire has been developed?!"

Chen He exclaimed, as Lin Xuan's secretary, he also knew the power of carbon metal wire.

He thought that it might take months or even a year or two to develop this thing, but he didn't expect the progress to be so fast, and a sample of carbon metal wire had been manufactured!

"Hahaha, that's great, those guys want to hoard cobalt metal to make our money, and once we don't buy cobalt metal they will sit on wax.

Haha, this time it's going to cost them nothing! ”

After speaking, Chen He laughed, and there was a burst of joy on his face.

This time, Western technology companies led by Moto Luola, Pingguo, and Intel went on a big purchase of cobalt.

Among them, they must need to pay a lot of money to raise the price, and Hantang Technology no longer uses cobalt interconnection technology, so the use of cobalt will be reduced!

It won't take long for its real price to fall back to before Hantang Technology launched cobalt interconnection technology!

So their hoarding of cobalt metal now will eventually form a huge loss, and the more cobalt metal they hoard, the greater the final loss!

So thinking of this, Chen He couldn't help but laugh out loud, happy for the huge losses that those despicable companies were destined to have in the future.

But after laughing, Chen He slowly said another worrying thing:

"Boss, Intel is already announcing a product launch trailer, and their second-generation Core processors will be launched on April 15th.

It is said that they are going to release dual-core or even quad-core Core processors, and this time the Core processors are certainly not weak and will definitely have a huge impact on our computers.

Our Hantang S2 has been hit by mobile phones, and now the computer business is the bulk of our profits.

At this time, if the computer business is not sold well, then our income will be a little beyond our means, after all, we are now researching too many things, and the scientific research expenditure is too much. ”

Lin Xuan, who heard this, groaned slightly, and then slowly spoke:

"If we want to compete and win with the West in terms of chip performance, unless we can launch a 14nm process technology, we will be in a disadvantageous situation for a long time.

Looks like I need to settle this matter once and for all! ”

"Settle this once and for all?"

Hearing Lin Xuan's resolute tone, Chen He's eyes showed a trace of confusion.

Can the things on the chip be solved once and for all? Does Lin Xuan want to use more advanced process technology to defeat the 14nm process process?

But as far as he knows, Hantang Technology has no plans to develop a process process below 14 nanometers.

Moreover, the current funds of Hantang Technology are not enough to support the research and development of 14nm process technology, because each advanced generation of process technology will have higher requirements for materials and equipment.

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 without developing silicon chips?

Lin Xuan wants to develop a biochip or a photonic chip or a quantum computer?

Chen He, who was thinking like this, cast his eyes on Lin Xuan, waiting for Lin Xuan's words.

In this regard, Lin Xuan did not say how to solve the leading solution of Western process technology once and for all, I saw him say slowly:

"Since the price of cobalt has swelled to this extent, 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.

But that's okay, since there is a carbon metal wire, then let's directly take the carbon metal wire as the core to develop carbon metal wire interconnection technology and 3D chip stacking technology.

In this way, the problem of transistor interconnection can be solved once and for all, and it is necessary to replace it with carbon metal wire interconnection technology and redevelop chips in the future. ”

Hearing this, Chen He nodded slightly, and it would be a waste of money to develop a 3D stacked chip based on cobalt interconnection technology at this time.

With this money, it is better to directly invest in the chip research and development of carbon metal wire interconnection technology.

Speaking of which, there are not many products that use 3D chip stacking technology in Hantang Technology, and only Hantang S2 mobile phones and computer memory are currently on sale.

As for the products used in cobalt interconnection technology, there are many products, Hantang mobile phone processors, Hantang computer CPUs, Hantang computer graphics cards, Hantang memory,......

However, now the price of cobalt metal is so terrifying, and the Hantang S2 mobile phone is still able to maintain good profits.

However, the mid-range CPU of Hantang Computer is no longer profitable, and the low-end CPU is directly losing money, selling one piece at a loss.

Therefore, in the future, Hantang Technology is estimated to only sell high-end CPU processors and high-end graphics cards in terms of computers, and low-end and mid-range computers will stop selling.

However, thinking that I am afraid that I will face the second-generation Core processor next, I am afraid that the good days of Hantang computers are coming to an end.

So the future of Hantang Technology is not optimistic!