Ever since that International Conference on Integrated Circuit Design and Process Technology ended, the entire global semiconductor industry had been caught in a storm of uncertainty.
A breakthrough in Carbon-Based Chip technology!
Traditional silicon-based chips might completely exit the stage of history!
Over the entire weekend, executives at Intel, Qualcomm, and countless other semiconductor companies had spent their time in anxious dread, fearing that by the time the new week arrived, they would have already lost their jobs to layoffs.
But just then, a sudden piece of "good news" allowed quite a few people to breathe a sigh of relief.
The paper on Carbon-Based Integrated Circuit technology had been retracted by IEEE.
The reason given was fabricated experimental data!
That was an extremely serious accusation.
Although many people found the matter somewhat suspicious, only a minority questioned the truth of it.
Especially when it came to authoritative industry conferences under IEEE, their credibility was still fairly strong. For the vast majority of practitioners in the field, the first channel through which they obtained industry news was searching literature databases. IEEE's top journals and conferences in various fields were the focus of their efforts to track the latest achievements.
Even IEEE thought the technology was unreliable. It had to be true, right?
After all, compared with a mere Huawei HiSilicon, they were clearly more willing to trust IEEE.
Almost the instant the "Carbon-Based Chip" paper was retracted, discussions of the topic on Facebook became lively.
[...I said long ago that Carbon-Based Chips were nothing but an overinflated balloon. So many outstanding semiconductor companies around the world, including Intel, Qualcomm, and AMD, had made no progress whatsoever in researching this thing. Yet a company that designed chips suddenly jumped out and proclaimed that it would lead the industry's future. Would you believe