If it weren't for the fall of the chip industry, this company wouldn't have received so much investment.
In total, it has raised nearly 2 billion US dollars in financing. It should be noted that SenseTime only raised 2 billion US dollars back then.
The company's stock price has been declining since its listing on the Science and Technology Innovation Board, just like SenseTime, which peaked immediately upon listing.
"The main reason is that this company already had products."
Then later, dedicated photonic computing processors for enterprise use were also developed, specifically for algorithm computation in the field of artificial intelligence.
"That shouldn't be the case. If such a processor really existed, I should have heard of it at school."
This is still a domestic company.
I often talk with students in the computer science department, so I have some understanding of which components have been domestically produced.
"Professor Zhu, the main thing is that the photonic chips that this company previously developed were mainly for specific neural network algorithms."
It is hundreds of times faster than high-end GPUs only in these specific recurrent neural networks.
However, its universality is not high enough.
So it might be used in certain specific situations.
If they could adapt to all scenarios and be hundreds of times faster than mainstream high-end GPUs on the market, the company's price-to-earnings ratio should be in the hundreds, not less than fifty.
Are there similar photonic chips abroad that can adapt to all scenarios?
Not yet.
"Then why were they able to develop it before other countries?"
I don't doubt the capabilities of domestic companies.
It's a scam about chips, or to put it nicely, a blatant lie; we've seen it far too often.
I always question these so-called technological breakthroughs first.
Technological development, especially cutting-edge technological breakthroughs, has never been strongly correlated with money or policy.
It is a weak correlation.
"Yes, Professor Zhu, what you said makes perfect sense."
Over the years, cities like Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen have implemented numerous supporting policies to promote investment in high-tech industries and advance the high-end, green, and intelligent development of the manufacturing sector.
There are also things like future industrial hubs, industrial clusters centered around VR and 6G, and so on.
One set after another.
Why did Suzhou become an industrial hub and industrial cluster?
Suzhou's GDP is even about to catch up with Shanghai's.
Whether it's new energy, biomedicine, artificial intelligence, or VR, a large number of highly skilled jobs are concentrated in Suzhou.
Can Suzhou compare with places like Shanghai and Shanghai in terms of policy advantages?
I wouldn't have believed it before, but this company does have a long history of research and development in the field of photonic chips.
With the emergence of virtual worlds, photonic chips don't seem so fantastical anymore.
This is, after all, an industry that has been built up over many years.
"I did not completely rule out this possibility."
It's just that we need to be cautious.
"Thank you, Professor Zhu. We will probably need to invite more experts in related fields to conduct research in the future in order to obtain more accurate results."
At this point, another fund manager chimed in, "I don't think they would lie."
After all, it is a listed company. Although it has been losing money all these years, at least it has the National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund (Big Fund) holding its shares.
They may have exaggerated some of the facts.
It's supposed to be compatible with all scenarios, but that claim might be inaccurate.
Furthermore, we don't need to find experts; just ask people from other listed companies in the same industry, and we'll understand.
No matter the era or industry, competitors are always rivals.
"Professor Zhu, we would like to ask you another question: is it possible to replicate biophotovoltaic technology?"
For example, purchasing related products and then reverse engineering the specific technology.
"I have just one question for you: Has any other manufacturer cracked the brain-computer interface technology that Kechuang Bio developed ten years ago?"
"No.
However, this is not because we cannot crack it, but because we have technical patents.
Kechuang Biotechnology's solution represents the best technological approach.
Attempts to circumvent their technical solutions failed to achieve the same results.
"What about the lithium metal cathode material of Kechuang Biotechnology?"
Have you guys cracked it yet?
That's technology from ten years ago.
"That's due to insufficient material precision."
"I think these technologies are technologies that Blue Star has accumulated before, and they are within our understanding."
We've spent ten years and still haven't been able to reverse engineer it.
Why would anyone think that a technology like biophotovoltaic, which is only known to insiders, can be reverse engineered?
Based on my understanding, I never imagined that commercially viable biophotovoltaics could be achieved within ten years.
Not to mention trying to seize the market share of traditional photovoltaics.
At most, it serves as a green accent or decoration in the homes of high-end individuals.
As a large-scale energy solution, it faces too many technological limitations.
Over the past decade, China has caught up with foreign countries in many fields.
For example, traditional silicon-based chips can now be produced entirely domestically across the 14nm industry chain.
For China, achieving this goal would already be considered a strategic victory within the Silicon Valley.
While America imposes a blockade on China in high-tech industries such as semiconductors, it does not rule out continuing to cooperate with China in the economic field.
This new form of confrontation has been likened by the media to a silicon curtain, an attempt to lock down China's development ceiling in the field of silicon-based chips.
However, with the technological roadmap determined, the ability to maximize the role of money as a resource amplifier, combined with a massive supply of researchers, led to China breaking through the 14nm barrier earlier than the industry expected.
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