The moment Koch first saw Silverlight's brand-new microarchitecture, he had already assumed that Intel was destined to steal the spotlight at the International Conference on Integrated Circuit Design and Process. But after seeing Huawei HiSilicon's carbon-based chip technology, every one of his previous assumptions was overturned in an instant.
Forget merely stealing the spotlight at an IEEE flagship conference.
Almost the moment the presentation ended, news of Longteng No. 1 and carbon-based chips sprouted wings, flying out of the conference hall and into the ears of everyone in the industry.
Then, a sensation no less powerful than a magnitude-eight earthquake spread throughout the semiconductor industry.
Huawei had achieved a major breakthrough in carbon-based chip technology!
The first Longteng No. 1 series chips based on carbon-based chip technology would serve mid- to high-end servers, targeting the Xeon series chips of the industry's leading toothpaste factory!
One explosive piece of news after another came pouring in, leaving people overwhelmed.
At the same time, the stock market's reaction exceeded everyone's expectations.
Intel, which had just unveiled the Silverlight architecture, had not soared. Instead, it was slammed flat to the floor by this sudden Black Swan event...
Everything had come so suddenly that no one had been prepared.
Before this, Qualcomm Vice President Koch had considered another possibility: that this was all a misunderstanding, that there were no carbon-based chips at all, or that Huawei HiSilicon had been overly optimistic—even mistaken—in interpreting an email from its partner.
But all of that depended on an extremely unlikely possibility—
That Professor Lu had not even glanced at the paper listing him as the corresponding author.
Obviously, that was impossible.
Intel was not the only one hit by the Black Swan event. Qualcomm, AMD, and even the entire semiconductor industry had all been dealt a crushing blow