North America.

The President was staring at the budget in his hand in a daze, and saw that at the end of the budget, a number that was shocking to the president was displayed.

After a while, the president said in a hoarse voice: "Financial hegemony is still in our hands, so I am not worried about how much money it will cost to do this. If the money is gone, just start the printing press."

"What really worries me is how valuable can people, tens of thousands of scientists invest in research on lithography machines and silicon wafer technology? How much threat can this technology mastered by Chinese people bring to us?"

Opposite the President, special envoy Bristol Vincent, and Elon Musk, the representative of the Western technology community.

Looking at each other, Musk spoke: "President, if you want to understand this way, China's technology can actually be ignored, because no matter how high their technological level is, it will not pose any threat to us."

"Whether it is solid-state batteries or artificial intelligence, these top technologies are only sold within China, and are given in small quantities to a few little brother countries who are loyal to them."

"You see, this is the share price of Nvidia Group."

"When Kunlun Fantasy Technology was released, everyone thought Nvidia would die and its stock price plummeted. However, when they learned that Kunlun Fantasy graphics cards would not be exported in large quantities, Nvidia's stock price rose again."

"Wall Street found that even if the technology is behind, Nvidia can still make profits for them. In this way, the graphics card used by China has nothing to do with us, and our companies will not try their best to catch up with Kunlun Group's technology."

"There is an old saying in China, which is called boiling frogs in warm water. Now we are the frogs soaked in the pot."

"Although China's high-tech products have not yet reached our territory, objectively, our gap is getting bigger and bigger. Plateau even proposed that China should take the lead in entering the interstellar era, which is undoubtedly a kind of arrogance and a complete ignorance of us."

The President nodded slightly and muttered to himself, "Yes, it's not very lethal, but it's very insulting. As the world's only superpower, we cannot sit idly by and watch the gap gradually be widened by China."

"By the way, why didn't Kunlun Dream sell us? It's just a graphics card, it shouldn't be considered a strategic resource, right?"

Musk said: "On the contrary, graphics cards are super important strategic resources!"

"Supercomputers composed of pure CPUs are being quickly eliminated. Whether it is the Japanese supercomputer [Beijing] or our North American [Pinfeng] and [Snow Peak], they all use CPU and GPU to form a distinctive architecture."

"Especially our [Summit], as the world's strongest deep learning supercomputer, has installed a total of 28,600 graphics cards."

At this point, the President suddenly became stunned and felt a coldness on his back.

"I understand what you mean. Gaoyuan does not export graphics cards to us because high-performance graphics cards are an important part of heterogeneous supercomputers!?"

"That's right." Musk nodded slightly.

The president frowned, held his chin with both hands, recalling the horror scene not long ago.

In June 2016, the Light of Shenwei Taihu Lake was born and won the world's number one supercomputer title in one fell swoop, and took all the large Western supercomputers out of Malaysia.

For a moment, the Western scientific community was completely shocked and felt like facing a great enemy.

Although the West later took advantage of its resource advantages and again, in June 2018, North America launched its peak and killed the light of Taihu Lake, the period of two years of rule by the Chinese Supercomputer was like a lingering nightmare in the West. To this day, I still dare not forget it.

Supercomputer!

The next step in Kunlun Dream is actually a supercomputer!

Thinking of this, the President clenched his fists and his face turned pale.

Swish swish swish swish ~

The President quickly signed his name on the budget and then handed it over to the staff standing behind him.

"I have approved the money and I have also approved the people. In any case, we must stop those Chinese people!"

Musk nodded, "Please rest assured, heterogeneous supercomputers need to cooperate with CPU and GPU to maximize their performance. Now China has only taken the lead in GPU, and they are still far from CPU."

"We have joined forces with top companies such as Intel, Amd, Qualcomm, Apple, ibm, Applied Materials, etc. to study countermeasures."

...

In the afternoon, Han Chang and Liang Shaojie were walking in the courtyard of Kunlun Group.

Han Chang looked at this familiar place and said with emotion: "I remember the first time I came here to look for the plateau, and it was a temporary pieced together industrial area. The laboratory was placed in the workshop of the printing and dyeing factory. The newly recruited employees lived in the old dormitory of the textile factory."

"It's a pity that the Jiangnan base has just been built and the plateau is about to move to the western desert. This guy is really able to do anything, but because of this, the big guys above trust him so much. After all, the demonstration role of giants like Kunlun Group taking the lead in moving to the west is too great. Maybe in a few years, the west can really become a good place for birds singing and flowers."

The two of them chatted and came to the large conference room. They saw Gao Yuan standing on the stage and talking about the supercomputer project. Before the engineers transferred from all over the country arrived, Gao Yuan first trained his own employees.

Not long after, the meeting ended, Gao Yuan invited Han Chang and Liang Shaojie into his office.

Han Chang said with a smile: "I heard you talk for a long time, but I didn't understand anything. I just remember the three words "kaleidoscope". This should be the code name of your Kunlun supercomputer, right?"

Gao Yuan said: "It can be said that our global mainstream supercomputers are divided into two types, including heterogeneous supercomputers represented by North America and Xuefeng, and multi-core architectures represented by Huaxia Shenwei and Japan Fugao. Both of these architectures have obvious advantages and disadvantages."

"Thinking that in the coming years, we will take artificial intelligence zero as the core of development, have stronger interactive capabilities and are more suitable for deep learning, which is the more suitable choice..."

Han Chang and Liang Shaojie looked at each other with a bitter smile on their faces. They didn't understand technical matters. Gao Yuan talked to them about supercomputing, and it was completely like playing the piano for cows.

After listening for a long time, they roughly understood that the kaleidoscope architecture supercomputer has strong synergy and interaction capabilities, which is more suitable for accumulating core counts and playing the routine of vigorously achieving miracles.

"Let's talk about the serious business." Han Chang said.

What Han Chang wants to talk about is mainly the further integration of military scientific research forces and Kunlun Group.

Although Kunlun Group has now decided to replace SMIC and take over the China Semiconductor Industry, since Kunlun Group is a private enterprise and has different physical constitutions, it is inevitable that there will be many procedures for military-civilian integration.

As for Liang Shaojie, what he was going to talk to Gao Yuan was about intelligence.

"North America has specially approved 40 billion US dollars to provide Western Science and Technology Alliance with additional investment in lithography machine research, semiconductor process research, and next-generation CPU and GPU research, etc."

"In short, the two projects of Kunlun Dream and Ultraviolet Lithography have made North America so messy and lively. It will not only consume huge capital in North America, but also consume a lot of human resources. I feel relieved as they go further and further on the wrong road." Liang Shaojie said.

Gao Yuan nodded slightly and said, "Silicon-based chip technology is still very confusing. Using the current technology, it can easily break through one nanometer."

"But the key is that silicon-based chips will encounter a huge problem below one nanometer. Quantum tunneling looks very close to success, but this quantum tunneling makes success completely impossible. This is not a process problem, but a physical limit. Unless the semiconductor material is replaced, it cannot be solved at all."

Everyone laughed. The plateau was very bad. Although he announced Kunlun Dream Technology, he did not announce the pre-technology and carbon-based wafer technology of this technology.
Chapter completed!