It is clear that it is not only domestic consumers who were stunned by this product launch.

The video of the scene has already been spread to every corner of the Internet around the world through the live broadcast channels of Warwick's official website and cooperative media platforms.

People were surprised that the carbon-based chip was real, and when Professor Lu was not joking with them, he couldn't help but recall the paper that was retracted by the IEEE some time ago.

Obviously, there is nothing exaggerated about the data in that paper, and it can even be said to be quite conservative.

For a moment, the IEEE's position instantly became awkward.

Retracting a correct paper from a summit meeting and discrediting it as academic deception not only violates the principle of academic freedom, but is itself a manifestation of academic deception.

If this is the result of the unanimous agreement of the IEEE high-level leadership, the subsequent impact of this retraction storm will be ...... for IEEE in the field of electronics Even the reputation of a series of covered fields, including computer science, electrical engineering, etc., will be a heavy blow.

More than a dozen professors and scholars from many universities in China, such as Yan University and Mizuki, have announced their withdrawal from the IEEE organization, and strongly condemned this behavior that seriously violates the spirit of academic freedom.

At the same time, the Literature and Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences also reacted quickly, downgrading the partition rating of IEEE journals by one level on the grounds of "academic corruption" and "substandard".

Even if the IEEE quickly launched public relations and clarified the matter, a series of reasons that are not only illogical and even make people laugh at it, such as "the retraction is a ruling made by the Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Integrated Circuit Design and Technology in accordance with U.S. law", "it is the personal behavior of the director of the committee", "the temporary retraction is not a permanent retraction", and "there may be shady transactions behind it will be seriously and thoroughly investigated".

It is impossible to put a paper back on it that has been removed.

Not to mention that they can't do this kind of thing to eat back what they spit out, and it is impossible for Lu Zhou to agree to it......

……

In fact, compared to the people who instructed them to do these things, the IEEE was lucky.

After all, even if they face the most serious reputational crisis since the publication was founded, and their credibility and influence are both frustrated, they are far from facing the stage of life and death.

However, for the semiconductor industry alliance that instructed them to withdraw the manuscript, they were really pushed to the precipice of life and death.

Qualcomm headquarters.

In the chairman's office.

After watching the video of the press conference, a group of executives were as anxious as ants on a hot pot, and they discussed for a long time without coming up with any good ideas.

“…… The only way now is to lobby Congress to legislate not to recognize their patents in the name of national security, and to demand that our allies—"

Hearing his secretary's proposal, Jacob's nose almost tilted, and he shouted angrily.

"Are you crazy? Congress has a hole in its head to vote in favor of such a proposal! What's more, whose interests are being harmed in this way? ”

Shocked by this terrifying momentum, the secretary subconsciously closed his mouth, trembling and not daring to speak.

"Fack! What do we do now? ”

In the face of the chairman's roar, there was a deathly silence in the office.

It's not just Jacob who wants to know.

Everyone wants to know what they should do now.

However, as things stand, the situation they face is almost insoluble. In the face of the innovative technology of carbon-based chips, the silicon-based chips in their hands are like a giant ship that may sink at any time, and the ecology they are proud of building around silicon-based chips is also fundamentally vulnerable in the face of the ambitions that Huawei has shown.

In fact, it may be a good idea to actively study carbon-based chip technology.

However, the difficulty is far from being as simple as this sentence says.

At least in the case of Professor Lu's paper published in Future, the carbon-based chip uses a graphene material with the prefix "SG" series, which is an improved version of the material used in the coils of controlled fusion superconducting magnets with semiconductor properties.

However, so far, let alone carbon-based chips, they have not even found a good industrial synthesis method for SG materials, and the superconducting magnets of the unfinished fusion power station in California are made of SG materials imported from China at the same time.

Even if everyone here believes that they will eventually master this technology, no one can give a date even if it is estimated.

Just then, the silence in the office was broken.

Chief Engineer Derek Wakoff, who had been leaning against the table with his arms folded and thinking, suddenly spoke: "In fact, the impact of carbon-based chips on our business should be relatively minimal. ”

Jacob said with a gloomy face, "I know this without you saying it." ”

As we all know, Qualcomm's most profitable department is the legal department, and they don't produce chips themselves, at least they don't have to be like Intel, Samsung, TSMC, which are engaged in R&D and production, and have a headache about how to eliminate those worthless backward production capacity that will soon become worthless.

But so what?

Their patents in the field of communications may hold out for a while, but what about next?

With the upgrading of chip technology, communication technology will sooner or later follow, and when their chips are rolled out in the whole field, everything he worries about will definitely happen.

"You misunderstood me," Wakoff paused to look at a gloomy Jacob and continued, "I mean, if carbon-based chips are really the future, then why should we resist him?" ”

"It will take them three years to make Longteng chips bloom everywhere in the downstream industrial chain, but to think about it another way, we still have three years to make business adjustments."

Jacob's brows furrowed slightly, his expression seemed to have thought of something, but he was a little undecided, so he said in a deep voice.

“…… What do you mean? ”

"We might be able to talk to those Chinese people privately."

Wakov paused for a moment and continued, "Of course, I don't mean to surrender, it's just that Warwick can't eat it all in such a big market. They're ...... Even with the support of an entire country, it is not possible. If it's hard-hitting, it's going to be a long game, maybe we're going to lose in the end, and they won't get much out of it. ”

The principle of trade is mutual benefit and win-win, a big tree cannot survive without branches and leaves, even if it is trying to show its strength and cover all the areas that everyone can think of.

However, there are still those corners that they have not mentioned and have no time to take care of.

In the 1+8+N strategy, only the 1+8 part is the core business of Warwick, and the N part should be completed by other components of the entire ecosystem, so as to form a good ecosystem.

In fact, while the product launch showed their strength, it was also a hint to the industry.

Although they don't want to admit it, the best option for them to survive now is to give up the game that is going to the end and put the remaining pieces into the next game as much as possible.

Although it may take a lot of effort and cost to adapt to their rules, if they don't, they will continue to hold on to the dying tree of traditional carbon-based chips, and sooner or later they will be buried by the times......

Having already guessed what Wakov was going to say, Jacob's eyes flickered.

“…… You asked me to go and talk to Warwick privately? This is a betrayal of the industry alliance. ”

Seeing Jacob kick the ball to himself, Wakov sighed and continued.

"Come on, my dear Mr. Jacob, do you think our superficial allies will be able to hold on after that product launch? Even if our old friend Intel squeezed out all their toothpaste at once, it would be impossible to defeat our opponents. Instead of drowning in the same boat with them, it is better to plan for something else. ”

"Besides, I heard that Swan's old fox was at the press conference! Why did the entire semiconductor industry invite them individually? Is it just to get off with the industry giants? Or did you also receive an invitation but just didn't go? ”

After Wakov's words fell, the air in the company was quiet for a long time.

Seeing that Jacob did not respond to his question, Wakov already had the answer in his heart, so he was not in a hurry, just stood aside and waited quietly.

He believed that what he could see, the chairman must have seen as well.

It's just that it's not easy to make up your mind......

After a long silence, Jacob finally lowered his noble forehead and nodded slightly.

“…… I know. ”

Wakov finally breathed a sigh of relief, but when he turned his back and walked to the door, he couldn't help but let out a faint sigh.

The alliance has collapsed.

The time that belonged to them has passed.

It was not an easy decision to make, but he didn't want to see half of his life's work go down the drain.

As long as you survive, it's all worth it.