Chapter 180: Google is no longer on the road
The contract was concluded very quickly. Li Jun came to Shangdu to discuss with Qiu Shiming. Shuguang Technology was leading in the industry. Last year, he decided to abandon his previous huge investment and chose the "Tianqing Architecture". From this perspective, he undoubtedly gained the favor of Qiu Shiming.
The interview and consultation went smoothly. Li Jun successfully won the contract order of Tianqing Technology in less than five days after he arrived at the Shang Dynasty, officially providing a supercomputing solution with 243.5 petaflops performance for Tianqing Technology's data computing center.
On January 13, after Shuguang Technology and Tianqing Technology officially signed a contract, Li Jun returned to Tianjing from Shangdu and held a press conference immediately to announce the news.
Shuguang Technology's market value rose sharply, and it hit the daily limit that day, and its market value exceeded rmb ¥40.1 billion in one fell swoop.
It was impossible for colleagues to say that they were not envious of this news when they learned about nearly 5 billion contract orders. Even the news was not revealed. When they knew about it, the contract was signed.
The second news of Tianqing Technology in the new year was once again hotly discussed by the technology media because of this contract project. The last time was the annual report that was released just recently.
As Shuguang Technology further disclosed relevant news details, Tianqing Technology Company has once again become a hot topic of discussion among domestic and foreign media.
Nothing else, because Shuguang Technology has announced that it will provide supercomputing solutions for Tianqing Technology. At that time, "Tiangu No. 1" will break the world record held by summit with a performance of 243.5 petaflops (100 million floating-point operations per second) and become the most powerful supercomputer in the world.
It is worth mentioning that Gu Chuang wanted to name this supercomputer "Queen of Fire" or "Feng Queen", but after thinking about it, I felt a bit inappropriate, because there are also movies like "Resident Evil" in this world. It would be bad if someone misunderstood or maliciously interpreted that Tianqing Company wants to make a realistic version of "Umbrella Company".
The "Umbrella Company" in the Resident Evil series is a big villain and is notorious.
After the news was confirmed, foreign media, especially European and American media, have loaded reports, all sighing that being rich is willful, and they have to mention summit, which only reached the top last year, but they didn't expect to be surpassed so soon.
By then, the top 5 in the world in supercomputing field, first, fourth and fifth will all come from China.
However, this news reached the ears of major European and American technology companies, especially Google and Meas, which have already formed competitors with Tianqing Technology, but they were not happy and even became even more nervous.
Originally last year, North America had a series of comprehensive suppression of Huaguo Technology, represented by Tianqing Technology and other companies. In fact, Tianqing Technology itself was not bad, and it did not suffer much losses or impact. Instead, some North American companies suffered a heavy blow.
Of course, Tianqing Company, as the main victim, has a certain impact. The revenue in the second quarter of last year was even lower than that in the first quarter, which is the most intuitive manifestation. However, after the developer conference, it ushered in a Jedi counterattack, and the revenue in the third quarter exploded.
In contrast, European and American companies, especially major technology companies in North America, are not that good. The loss is not just the purchase of Tianqing Technology of $200 billion, because China imported more than $300 billion in chips a year, half of which comes from North America.
Even if domestic companies are still purchasing chips on a large scale from North America, the "Tianqing Architecture" represented by domestic semiconductor companies represented by HiSilicon and ICT fields has risen rapidly. There is no doubt that they will make preparations. In the future, they will further squeeze the market share of North American semiconductor companies and the world market share.
Among the major technology companies in North America, the biggest victim is Qualcomm. Since all of Hua's chips have been replaced by the self-developed Kirin 1020, Hua's chips have stopped paying patent fees to Qualcomm, and even Samsung has stopped purchasing Qualcomm's chips.
As the world's top two smartphone manufacturers, this loss to Qualcomm is immeasurable. Qualcomm was still suing Apple, but now at this critical moment, both sides have to stop fighting and unanimously to the outside world.
On China, Tianqing Technology created "Tiangu No. 1" this time, but inadvertently flapped the "butterfly's wings", which caused a huge shock among technology companies in North America.
It is not just that Summit is surpassed by Chinese people again, but is about to fall to the top.
The key is that Tianqing Technology is about to independently operate the world's strongest supercomputer, and this move greatly stimulated the sensitive nerves of a number of high-tech giants in North America.
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"Damn..."
Larry Page, who was on a vacation on the island, kept cursing when he saw this news: "I knew that Tianqing Technology and its founder are the most noteworthy. It seems that my guess is likely to come true. Tianqing Technology may really become the biggest enemy of Silicon Valley in the near future. You can't sit still and wait for death. This technology war is becoming more and more popular."
Larry Page verbally refers to Silicon Valley, but his meaning actually refers to high-tech companies in North America, because Silicon Valley is a representative place name for technology companies.
He doesn't care about other institutions building the world's strongest supercomputer, but it's this company, which shows that Tianqing Technology's technology is developing very rapidly, so it needs to operate a supercomputer independently to meet its own development needs.
Tianqing Technology's development is too fast, which puts North American technology companies feeling much pressure, especially their competitors.
Although Larry Page is happy all day long on a private island, in fact, his attention to Tianqing Technology is still high, and it is one of the few people in North America who are extremely vigilant about Gu Cheng's existence. However, Page found that even if he continues to overestimate, he still underestimates Tianqing Technology and Gu Cheng's strength.
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On the afternoon of January 15, the headquarters of Shangdu Tianqing Technology.
"Haha, I didn't expect that Tianqing Technology's current world influence is so great. I have a supercomputer that has greatly stimulated a group of high-tech companies in North America, and most of them are industry giants." Gu Cheng said with a hilarious smile. He really didn't expect that the matter of arranging supercomputing was due to Xiaoqing, who was yelling to become a "household clan", otherwise it would not be so soon, and it would take a while to arrange it.
Qiu Shiming, who was chatting next to him, said: "As a world-renowned technology giant, Google has actually been involved in the field of quantum computing. The more famous one is Google's joint investment in the supercomputer of the Canadian D-wave Systems Company. Just yesterday, Google announced that it would establish a new laboratory to study artificial intelligence through quantum computers. According to them, Google's quantum computers are thousands of times faster than existing supercomputers and are expected to be put into use in the third quarter of this year."
News about "Tiangu No. 1" was reported on Tianqing Technology, and Google's official Weibo immediately responded from afar. In November last year, ibm released a 50-qubit quantum computer cloud platform. The heart of Google said that it would go from 50-qubit to 72-qubit at once.
Even Lockheed Martin later announced the purchase of the first commercial quantum computer from D-wave for testing and measurement work, such as the design of jet aircraft, or the reliability of satellite systems.
Lao Qiu couldn't help but worry: "According to Google, they already seem to have quantum hegemony and can defeat any of the fastest classic supercomputers in the world."
Gu Cheng said with a smile: "Google is also a listed company and needs a gimmick to maintain its stock price. Google is no longer up to the point. The quantum computer they claimed must be "pseudo" in front of it, and even classic computers can't beat it. Haha... Lao Qiu, do you want to hear the opinions of technical experts?"
"Expert's opinion?" Qiu Shiming glanced at Gu Cheng for a moment, and reacted and said in a giggle: "Okay, I'm ready, you can pretend to compete."
Chapter completed!