I Found A Planet - Chapter 315

Chapter 315: Releasing Many Small Updates Or One Major Update?

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

After 10 odd days, Xing Hai Entertainment was established with a registered capital of 10 billion. Xing Hai Technologies officially entered the entertainment field. Moreover, Xing Hai Entertainment took very fast actions. On the day of the company’s establishment, Xing Hai Sci-fi Novel Platform, Xing Hai Film and TV, Xing Hai Advertising, Xing Hai Music, and other websites or client servers had been launched on the internet in succession for the vast numbers of users.

Of course, these were all empty “skeletons.” There was not much content, and users could not see much of anything. The content had to be filled up as soon as possible.

In particular, the online novel platform could be described as the “core content production center.” A sufficient number of novels were the guarantee for Xing Hai Entertainment’s long-term development. Therefore, on the first day that the Xing Hai Sci-fi Novel Platform was established, in addition to recruiting a large number of authors to publish their works, the company also organized a literary competition where the first prize was as high as 10 million.

The name of the event was, “Wa-wah Robot Quality Sci-Fi Movie Literary Contest With Prizes Awarded.” It turned out that Chen Jin intended to offer the major IP of the movie “Wa-wah Robot” and let the majority of authors create quality sci-fi works on the basis of this IP. If the setting of their work was outstanding with a brilliant plot, it could be made into a movie. The winning writer would get a million-dollar prize.

There were a total of ten grand prizes, all of which had the possibility of being adapted into film and television. The minimum monetary amount of the prizes were at least 1 million. As for the smaller prizes such as the Award for Potential and the Creativity Encouragement Award, there were more than one hundred of those awards with a minimum prize amount of 50,000.

It could be said that for this literary competition, the wealthy Xing Hai Entertainment made use of its advantages to offer a large amount of real cash to the winners. It hoped to use this literary competition to make some quality sci-fi movies related to “Wa-wah Robot.” This was their way of sounding the first signal horn to display their power in the entertainment industry.

Thus, Chen Jin also realized his original dream of making a hard-core quality science fiction movie. Of course, Chen Jin could not attend to the specifics of the various operations and their processes personally. Professional tasks should be attended to by the professionals. It was enough for him to occasionally pay some attention to it. He would not focus all his attention on some small detail. Xing Hai Technologies was too big. Because he started too many projects beforehand, many breakthroughs were achieved around the same time.

For example, there were two major breakthroughs recently, which grabbed all of Chen Jin’s attention. One of the breakthroughs was not unfamiliar. It was not a totally new breakthrough, but a major upgrade based on an old achievement. But this major upgrade would transform the entire chip industry. It would lead to an unimaginably destructive impact on the traditional chip industry.

Chen Jin expected that once this product was released, the international chip manufacturing OEM giants such as Mossey Electrics, Samsin, etc., would see their stock price plummet by more than 50%. Even Zhongxin International, who was a close partner of Xing Hai Technologies, would also see its stock price fall by more than 30%.

That was right! The graphene CPU. The 45-nanometer process, whereby the heat generated was only one-thousandth of the traditional silicon chip. The graphene CPU had an operating frequency of more than 100GH.

Rong Weizhi, who was in charge of the project, said, “President Chen, the era where the graphene chips replace the traditional silicon chip has arrived. The reason why the traditional silicon chip releases a large amount of heat is because of the heat generated when electrons collide with the transistor wall during the process of moving back and forth between the transistors. Hence, the larger the size of the transistor, the more heat is generated; the smaller the size, the more energy-efficient it will be. But when the size of the transistor is compressed below 7-nanometers, electrons may pass through the wall of the tube due to the quantum tunneling effect, causing the transistor to leak power, which affects the normal operation of the chip. 5-nanometers is virtually the limit of the traditional chip manufacturing process. It is almost impossible to further reduce it. In addition, in order to control the heat generated, it is generally difficult for the operating frequency of the silicon chip to exceed 5 GHz, and for the mobile CPU chip to exceed 3 GHz. But the graphene chip is different! After the transistor of the graphene chip is charged, its energy distribution does not have the pattern of traditional parabolic linearity. Instead, its energy distribution pattern is like a Mexican hat that rises high up in the middle. The electron density near the ‘cap’ is almost infinite. So, we only need to exert a small amount of voltage and a large number of electrons will start moving at the same time. This will cause a rapid change in the current on the other side of the energy barrier. Not only does this greatly shorten the moving distance of the electrons, but the energy required to switch between the on and off mode is extremely small. The conventional silicon material transistors cannot match this. So even a graphene CPU with a 100-nanometer process can work at an operating frequency of 100 GHz. Now I have compressed the size of the transistor to 45-nanometers, so there is no problem setting the operating frequency to 250 GHz. If the size was further reduced, the operating frequency can be set even higher. But the 45-nanometer has reached the point where it can replace the traditional chips. Its performance at a 250GHz operating frequency is comparable to that of a 5-nanometer silicon chip with a 3GHZ operating frequency. However, its energy efficiency is more than 90% higher. If you were to use a 45-nanometer graphene CPU on your mobile phone, you can increase your battery life by at least 40%, and you don’t have to worry about heat dissipation. The temperature on the surface of the phone will not experience much change no matter how you use the phone. The so-called ‘reducing CPU overheating’ problem will never happen on graphene CPUs, so its performance will be more stable. Its overall performance of the 45-nanometer graphene CPU will definitely be better. Lastly, for its production cost, the 45-nanometer process graphene chips are not too difficult to manufacture. At least, the process will not be as complicated as the 5-nanometer silicon chip. The production cost between the two types of chips will not be too different. So, it is inevitable that graphene chips will replace the traditional silicon chips!”

Chen Jin nodded. But he was not particularly happy. On the contrary, his brows scrunched in a frown and his face showed a difficult expression. It was fast. Too fast. Logically speaking, graphene chips replacing the silicon chips that were even now on the road to obsoletion could become a reality only after a minimum of ten years passed. However, due to the existence of Xing Hai Technologies, this progress had been fast-forwarded ten years, and it became a reality in advance.

The manufacturing process of graphene chips was completely different from the manufacturing process of silicon chips. Traditional chip OEMs could not produce graphene chips. Production equipment and processes must be completely overhauled. They could only build a production line specifically for the graphene chips.

The problem was that Zhongxin International just expanded its business. Zhongxin already produced a third of their chip OEM orders that were worth hundreds of millions of dollars every year. It would soon take over the top spot of Mossey Electrics. They were in an excellent business situation.

The introduction of the 45-nanometer graphene chip now was equivalent to destroying the fortunate circumstance of Zhongxin. It was tantamount to taking its own life. The money wasted and the potential benefits that would be lost were at least 100 billion.

President Zhang of Zhongxin International and his executives would also howl in injustice and grief. So the choice before Chen Jin was this: should he divide this major update by squeezing out many small updates, or just release it as it was in one shot?