The Carbon-Based Chip Research Institute.
Lu Zhou had lost count of how many times he had visited this place.
Unlike his previous visits, however, he could clearly sense a different atmosphere this time.
How could he put it?
Although his previous visits had more or less been for similar reasons, such as progress in the research, this time he could clearly see the joy in the researchers' eyes at finally completing their long journey, along with the relief of having lived up to everyone's expectations...
At the same time, he could plainly sense that the source of all this was the thin, jet-black square in his hand, barely the size of his thumbnail.
"This is it."
After carefully placing the chip in Lu Zhou's hand, Professor Wu Tianqun looked at it and excitedly explained, "The Dragon Soar 1000, the first prototype chip in the Dragon Soar series! Also known as Longteng No. 1! Its specifications are what you saw earlier. Using our current 28 nm process, we've successfully increased the transistor density from three million per square millimeter to ten million!"
"Based on our partner's requirements, our initial positioning for the Longteng No. 1 chip is the mid- to high-end server market, with Intel's Xeon X56 Series Chips as our benchmark. Although our transistor density and process node look slightly inferior on paper, thanks to the superior physical properties of carbon-based transistors, I can say without exaggeration that we've left them in the dust in terms of performance!"
Using the simplest language he could, Professor Wu Tianqun explained the chip's performance characteristics to Lu Zhou.
A density of ten million transistors per square millimeter was nothing compared with Intel, which could already achieve one hundred million. But carbon-based transistors and silicon-based transistors were fundamentally different things and could not be