In fact, if Ning Wei evaluates himself, he really doesn't make the above suggestions with the mentality of making trouble. He just hopes that with the most limited time, overcome the greatest resistance, promote the speed of scientific and technological progress in an era, and accelerate the transfer process of the science and technology center. It is best to see Huaxia become the world science and technology center when he is young.

This actually comes from resentment towards a certain sentence from Lu Dongyi.

Ning Wei still remembers that he was still at Jiangcheng University at that time. When he was about to graduate from his senior year, he was spending time with his roommates in KTV. Senior Brother Lu called and said that Ning Wei still remembers clearly: "What kind of KTV should I go to at a young age? I have retired at the age of fifty or sixty and have plenty of time to play."

At that time, Ning Wei only thought that Senior Brother Lu was very social, and after he came, he found that Lu Dongyi was really thinking that way.

Now every day, he is under the eyelids of Senior Brother Lu. In order not to wait until he is fifty to enjoy life, he has to work hard. Otherwise, he would not be allowed to go on a honeymoon with Classmate Jiang when he gets married, and he will be told by Senior Brother. The urgency of not waiting for me is often related to the people around him. Really, if he was in the previous dormitory, he would probably not have such a feeling of not waiting for me.

So he really hopes that Mr. Cook, who has the courage, can withstand the pressure and make a decision on the cooperation between the two parties, because in this way, the biggest malice from the world is Huawei and Apple, two giant companies, standing in front of him, and his task is simple, so you don’t have to worry about promotion, restrictions and other negative issues. Just do research with peace of mind.

This is like fighting the king. Although it seems to be a headwind, as long as the other four players play well and involve the opponent's attention, he, the jungler, develops a tower in the rear. As long as the opponent is not paying attention, Ning Wei will be sure to knock out the opponent's crystal directly. He is so confident!

Although this situation may not be very good in the early and mid-term, who cares so much about the process? As long as the final result is that the other party's crystal is knocked off, our side is intact, and the star system that should be put on will naturally be given. On the contrary, no matter how good the scene is, the family will be stolen in the end. Even if the entire MVP is on the opposite side, the star that should be lost will still drop.

The only pity is probably that all the big guys seemed very cautious on this issue. Even after Tim Cook finished listening, Ning Wei could tell from his expression that the big guys were indeed moved for a moment. But he soon broke free from that illusory beauty and returned to Qingming.

It’s not that his proposal is unattractive, but that everyone is afraid of taking too much pressure. To put it bluntly, Mr. Le Dunn, Ericsson, probably simply does not have the courage. The person in front of him may have had the courage. He has been playing in the wind for too long. He will inevitably worry when he thinks that he may have to play against the wind for a while. From this point of view, it can be seen that these big guys are far less resilient than Huawei.

Really, companies and people are actually similar in many cases. When a company has been accustomed to surviving desperately in the cracks for a long time, its sense of crisis will be far stronger than other companies and will be more sensitive. Any chance to turn things around will not be missed. But if it keeps developing smoothly, it does not mean that it will completely lose its sense of crisis. It is just that it will probably be more cautious when facing some opportunities.

It was like Tim Cook at this time, even thinking about the wording for a long time before slowly speaking: "I will seriously consider your proposal, really, Dr. Ning, very seriously. Actually, I came here with the idea of ​​in-depth cooperation. For example, I have been considering whether Apple's next generation or next generation products can use the 5G baseband chip provided by our allies. This requires understanding the production capacity and industrialization plan of this new baseband chip."

"At the same time, we also hope to reach cooperation with some Chinese companies on car manufacturing and include China Manufacturing into Apple's supply chain. We have tried to contact some Chinese companies before, but the results were not good. But this time I came with twelve sincerity and even decided to make some concessions to complete our car manufacturing plan. So many things can be discussed, just like you said before, as long as you keep communicating, everything is possible, right?"

Ning Wei nodded, then looked at Tim Cook curiously and asked a question he had been puzzled by for a long time: "When it comes to car manufacturing, Mr. Cook, you really plan to complete the design of the first generation of Apple cars according to the drawings we provide."

"Ha ha!"

Hearing this question, Tim Cook did not look unhappy as Ning Wei imagined, but showed a sincere smile: "Of course, why not? Although the design drawings you provide are slightly higher for industrial basic requirements, and some spare parts do not meet the requirements of mass production, isn't this exactly in line with Apple's philosophy? We can and will create the best and most powerful concept car on the planet that can demonstrate our identity and face the future."

"Of course, concept cars will not be mass-produced, but our engineers will reduce some configurations and make ordinary models that can be mass-produced according to the concept car concept. After all, car manufacturing is a brand new field, so the goal I set is actually very conservative. For future concept cars, we only plan to produce 100 vehicles in three years. After careful analysis by our engineers, it is not a big problem to achieve this goal."

"As for ordinary models, we can follow the design concept of concept cars. If it is not necessary, there will be no big changes in appearance. We just replace some spare parts that are not currently industrialized. Although they naturally cannot be compared with concept cars in terms of performance, as long as they are still better than our competitors. Also, as a new industry we have just started, I think Apple should not be so radical. After all, for Apple, making cars is for the future, not the present."

It makes sense to say it well, but I just feel that I benefited a lot.

Indeed, the whole world knows that Apple is probably the company with the most abundant capital reserves on this planet, the most profitable and high-tech company with the highest net profit, and it can even be said to be no less. The company's capital flow is so healthy that any company's finances will be jealous when it sees it. More importantly, Apple's products are still popular now, so for Apple's car manufacturing plan, there is no pressure to make any profit.

It just means that one day in the future, the mobile phone industry will be overturned again, and Apple phones will be difficult to sell. At least there is a pillar industry that can continue to support Apple. Therefore, at this stage, people's demand has never occupied much market. As long as it can consolidate the viscosity of fans and send a signal to the world, Apple cars are the most advanced on this planet, and it is enough to make everyone feel confident about Apple.

Sure enough, this is what it means to really attack and retreat and defend. Having a good hand of cards means you can be willful.

After hearing Tim Cook's words, even Ning Wei was a little envious and jealous. Of course, this also shows that it is not unreasonable for Tim Cook to be the largest company in the universe now. At least people are very clear about what the goal they need to achieve. Unlike some companies, when they propose a new project, they actually didn't understand why they should do it and what goal they want to achieve.

Ning Wei nodded with a sigh, feeling that there are not many people who are sober in the world like this. After saying this, he was a little uncomfortable: "You know, I am a math researcher. Actually, I don't understand business things very well. But I think you are right. Really, I must buy one of Apple's concept cars. By the way, maybe our concept chips can be used in the Apple concept cars."

"Concept chip?" Tim Cook asked with a slightly frown on his eyebrows.

“Yes, concept chip.”

Ning Wei nodded and explained carefully: "Of course I haven't disclosed this news to the outside world yet. Mr. Cook, you should be the first to know. Specifically, we have pushed the chip process nodes made by three-dimensional silicon-to-tube technology to 65nm, which is nearly three times higher than the 180nm technology I gave you before. Well, because it is three-dimensional, this triple is not only two-dimensional, but also three times the three-dimensional ones."

"For example, for the same thickness, we used to stack three layers, but now we can stack nine layers, and the density of each layer of silicon transistor is also increased by three times. In this way, the surface area of ​​the available stacked transistors is increased by about nine times, and the spacing between carbon nanotransistors is reduced by three times, which means that the number of transistors that can be accommodated per unit area is increased by about 27 times."

"Of course, it should be more. In fact, this process can be almost designed and produced some relatively high-end chip products. In fact, the number of transistors that can be stacked per unit is almost the same as the 10nm process level of traditional chip manufacturing technology, but this is not easy to compare. Intel's 7nm and 7nm of Taidao CMC's completely tell two stories, right?"

"Of course, if you want to further improve the process, it is still difficult. After all, from 180nm to 65nm now, our R&D center is really hard. In the past month, everyone has been working overtime day and night. Yesterday, several engineers and technicians stayed up all night. When you came here, I was still staying at the laboratory. If you were not Director Tian, ​​I might not come back today, and I have to wait for the new generation of chip products to be made. It's really hard! Of course, we are friends. After tomorrow's awards dinner, I will give Apple two newly upgraded chips."

Ning Wei sighed with a sigh, a sincere expression, and the dark circles that had not been completely removed between his eyebrows and eyes, you can feel the bitterness revealed in the words, and of course it is more of a question mark in the mind.

In less than a month? Is this chip manufacturing process upgrade a joke? Is this something that can be solved by working overtime? What kind of genius does Ning Wei's experimental center have? Really, for the first time, Tim Cook doubted whether Ning Wei's chip manufacturing process was the same as what he understood.

Intel's time to upgrade the chip process from 180nm to 65nm takes years to calculate, but in China it is calculated in months. And in terms of structure, the upgrade of the chip process of three-dimensional structure is obviously more complicated than the upgrade of the traditional silicon chip manufacturing process. Traditional processes only need to consider the two-dimensional circuit structure, but three-dimensional also needs to consider whether the three-dimensional structures will interfere with each other, how to solve the internal space of closer transistors, and so on.

But now Ning Wei says that they have upgraded their manufacturing process to 65nm?

At this moment, Tim Cook suspected that Ning Wei was discussing with him not the industrial chip technology upgrade, but the magic chip technology upgrade. At this moment, he couldn't figure out how Ning Wei did it.

Even if you have long-term technical reserves, it doesn't make sense. Apple has also conducted a survey on this three-dimensional silicon tube technology, and there are not many related papers. The sudden launch is enough to shock the whole world. This is also the reason why everyone chose to come to China to attend the Wolf Awards Ceremony in this extremely sensitive moment.

So if Ning Wei said it is true, then he must re-examine what Ning Wei said about the three-party cooperation. Because there is only one truth, that is, everyone underestimates the significance of the big data artificial intelligence platform in guiding the improvement of real industrial technology. In other words, everyone underestimates the resource integration capabilities of the March Intelligent Platform.

This is the conclusion that Tim Cook came to at this moment. For a moment, he really had the urge to strangle the young man in front of him to death. In less than a month, it could promote the upgrade of the chip technology. What else can this smart platform not do?

Only magic can defeat magic, but now Apple does not master magic skills, which is a problem. Really, at this moment, Tim Cook was suddenly glad that he had a second option. If he couldn't defeat it, it would be better to join directly.

Of course, Tim Cook would not make any decision at this time. Even if he had to make a decision, he would have to wait for the chip that carries the magic power of this era to be really taken into his hands and pass the test before he could talk about it. Or he could stay in China for a longer time at that time. But there is really nothing to talk about now.

But no matter what, the two were having a happy chat. Ning Wei's office left a profound impression on Tim Cook. If he hadn't known that the other party's wealth was actually not small, he might have wanted to donate a set of electronic equipment produced by Apple to this place...

So after a few greetings, Tim Cook said politely, and Ning Wei did not try to keep him. It can be foreseen that Tim Cook's arrival is a signal that he will be very busy in the next days.

What made Ning Wei very happy was that he didn't even have to arrange accommodation issues for these big shots, because these distinguished guests were invited by the Wolf Foundation, so all accommodations were solved by the Wolf Foundation.

It is perfect for the host to be able to do this.

...

After getting in the car, Tim Cook sat in the back seat to calm himself down for a moment, then took out his cell phone from his pocket, and did not consider the calculation based on the time difference. At this time, it was still 6 a.m. in Silicon Valley time, and he directly called.

This call was called to John Tenus. In January last year, the hardware engineer just took over as senior vice president of Apple hardware, responsible for the entire hardware engineering team of Apple and has the authority to report directly to Tim Cook. Of course, power and obligations correspond to, high salaries and high power represent high responsibility. The rules of the game in the capital world have always been very concise and clear. For example, answering the boss's call during non-working hours is one of the obligations.

The phone rang five times, and the phone was answered just before Tim Cook's patience was almost wiped out.

"John, what does China's three-dimensional silicon-to-tube chip manufacturing process have reached the 65nm process level mean?"

Really, you can imagine John Tenus's mood at this time. At six o'clock in the morning, the boss called him to enjoy the future. This probably directly caused the senior vice presidents of hardware to be in a state of a downtime and asked subconsciously: "Well, that, Mr. Cook, what did you say just now?"

"I'll ask you what does the Huaxia three-dimensional silicon-to-tube chip production process mean if it has reached 65nm process?" Tim Cook emphasized his tone and repeated the question.

"It has reached the 65nm process? Are you kidding? I think this assumption is impossible, it is as if Master had sent five million people to Mars."

"I'll say it again, John, now is not the time to let you express your courage to think. I'm asking what it means if it has been realized!" Tim Cook's tone became more and more cold, which was different from the warm tone he had just chatted with Ning Wei.

At this moment, the engineer on the other end of the phone probably quickly woke up and replied: "That means that China is about to have the ability to break through the existing patent wall blockade and design and produce general-purpose large integrated circuits based on new architectures. We can even start to design the next generation of CPUs based on this technology. The biggest disadvantage of the three-dimensional structure lies in the heat dissipation problem when the chip runs at high frequency. If this problem can be solved, it means that multi-core technologies will be able to be taken to the extreme in the future. After all, the number of transistors that can be accommodated per unit area of ​​a three-dimensional structure is exponentially doubling compared to the two-dimensional structure. So if this assumption is true, I suggest that the next generation of products at the latest, the design based on the new chip structure should be started immediately."

Tim Cook's tone was a little softer and continued to ask: "In other words, if the Chinese really have mastered the technology of the 65nm process, should we cooperate with the Chinese?"

This sentence made the other person hesitate for a moment, and then said: "From the technical point of view alone, the answer is yes. Of course, the premise is that the Chinese really own this technology and have been able to achieve mass production. After all, this technology represents the future."

"Okay, I understand, you have a rest." After that, Tim Cook hung up the phone.

Then he dialed another phone number, and the phone rang three times and then was connected. Tim Cook asked directly: "Dan, if the Chinese people's three-dimensional silicon-tube technology has reached the 65nm process, I will make a more comprehensive and in-depth cooperation with the Chinese people. Do you agree?"

"Tim, are you crazy? This is impossible!"

"I mean if!"

"If..., well, since that's if, I certainly have no objection. If we can avoid Intel's RF baseband, maybe our products will be more popular."

"Okay! Thank you for your comment, Dan!"

"Hey, hey, hey... damn!"

After calling again, Tim Cook's phone number was already busy.

...

After waiting for the hotel room, Tim Cook made six calls and received six replies. Then he said to the secretary: "Help me arrange my itinerary. I need to stay in China for a longer time, and it is tentatively set to...half a month."

"But you will attend next month..."

"All itineraries within the past half month have been rejected, and I told the outside world that I want to solve the supply chain problem of Apple's future mass production in China. This is the most important task at present."

"Okay, Mr. Cook. By the way, Mr. Cook, Intel's official Twitter and China's official Weibo just released a promotional video. Maybe you are interested in taking a look."

"Oh, is that? Then I'll take a look."

...

After entering the room and sitting on the sofa, Tim Cook opened his phone and logged in to Twitter, clicked on Intel's official Twitter, and then saw a string of cool instructions.

"The new Intel7 process technology has a performance increase of 15% per watt, and the power consumption of multiple cores and the same performance is only 1/4, and it is equipped with a more powerful heat dissipation system..."

"16 cores, 24 threads..."

"8 performance cores (P cores), 8 energy efficiency cores (E cores), the new Hybrid hybrid architecture..."

"30MBL3 cache is combined with 14MBL2 to relieve..."

"Newly upgraded Intel thread manager, resource allocation is more reasonable..."

"Single core frequency up to 5.2GHz..."

"Supports the DDR5 memory overclocking configuration platform, and with dynamic memory overspeed technology, the maximum speed is increased to 4500MT/s..."

"One-click overclocking function..."

“Support new integrated WIFI 6E…”

"DMI4.0 standard, the internal communication rate has been greatly improved..."

"Intel leads a new era! Stay tuned for the 12th generation of Intel Core processors, a comprehensive technological innovation! Intel redefines the leader in chip standards in the PC field!"

...

After watching the video content, Tim Cook turned off his phone.

There is nothing to say. Pat Kirsinger is really anxious. He doesn't squeeze toothpaste this time. All technical methods have been used in the new generation of products over the years. Really, these technological integrations are worth holding a large-scale product launch conference, and maybe the whole world will be moved by this launch conference.

If he had seen this video an hour ago, he might have been moved by Intel's breakthrough. After all, this means that the CPU in the PC field is really moving towards a heterogeneous era, and the technical level shown by the new generation of products is absolutely subversive.

But now Tim Cook only feels that there is no turmoil in his heart.
To be continued...