Chapter 887 The Third Key to Opening an Era

After seeing off Lei Jun, CEO of Xiaomi, Xu Chuan sat back at his desk and turned on his computer.

Looking at the preliminarily completed manuscript on the screen, he thought for a moment, then opened the document and started revising it.

Since it's already being done, just finish it. It's not his character to give up halfway.

Although carbon-based chips are still semi-finished products, whether it is the breakthrough of ultra-high-density carbon nanotube integration technology or the breakthrough of carbon transistors and carbon integrated circuits, they are all of great importance.

Perhaps the top management may have learned about the breakthrough of carbon-based chips through various channels, but he still sent his suggestions.

In addition to pulling Xiaomi to anchor high-cost-effective electronic products, other things will be left to the top to worry about.

After spending two and a half hours to make a complete revision of the preliminarily completed draft of the carbon-based chip plan, Xu Chuan clicked Save and printed out the suggestion document.

Taking out the document with residual heat and ink fragrance from the printer, after checking it again, Xu Chuan picked up the signature pen from the table and signed his name on the letter.

For carbon-based chips, it is not just Xiaomi that he contacted that needs to be laid out. There are also various patents and other work that need to be completed.

And this work, if it is done by Xinghai Research Institute, may take years.

For example, after the research and development is completed, find suitable manufacturers for each step, such as ultra-high purity silicon carbide substrates need to be produced, such as ultra-high density carbon nanotubes also need manufacturers.

In addition, there are patent applications related to carbon-based chips and technology upgrades.

For example, try to improve and further optimize the size of carbon-based transistors as much as possible, increase the number of carbon-based transistors per square millimeter on the chip, and so on.

For carbon-based chips, even if they have developed sufficiently commercial products now, they still need to further improve their performance to catch up with and surpass silicon-based chips that have dominated the chip field for decades.

Xu Chuan never thought that once carbon-based chips were released, they would be able to directly surpass silicon-based chips in performance and overturn this huge aircraft carrier. This is impossible.

And these things require a systematic industry, which is not something that Xinghai Research Institute can do alone.

So he needs the power of the country to twist the relevant systems in the domestic electronic industry into a hemp rope and give full play to their maximum initiative.

The best way is to form a closed industrial chain from R&D-patent-raw materials-production-parts-assembly-sales.

As long as the performance of carbon-based chips is comparable to that of silicon-based chips, and this system is formed and accepted by the market, then under the impetus of the times, silicon-based chips will sooner or later be swept into the dust of history.

For China, this will be the third key to open the future era and lead the trend after controlled nuclear fusion technology and new space shuttle technology.

And now, they have initially mastered this key, and only need to wait for subsequent fine processing to insert it into the door of the era and push it open!

After finding an envelope to put the documents in his hand, Xu Chuan sent a message to Zheng Hai.

After a while, the other party rushed over.

"Professor, you're looking for me."

"Well, here's a letter. As usual, send it to the Beihai Island on Chang'an Street."

Zheng Hai took the letter, glanced at it and asked, "Is it important? If it's important, I'll go."

Xu Chuan shook his head and smiled, "No, just ask someone to send it over."

"Okay, is there anything else?"

"No."

"Okay, then I'll go first."

Nodding, putting the envelope in his arms, Zheng Hai turned and walked out. Since he didn't need to send it in person, he could just hand it over to the national security personnel in the security team. The people there could go directly to Chang'an Street.

Xu Chuan didn't care about these. This kind of work has never disappointed Zheng Hai.

His eyes fell back on the laptop on the desk. Just as he was about to deal with the emails that had been piled up in his mailbox since the beginning of the year, the phone in the corner of the desk vibrated.

Touching the phone casually, Xu Chuan glanced at the caller ID. The call was from Ouyang Ji, the editor-in-chief of the journal "Exploration".

Ouyang Ji was a professor who graduated from Nanjing University in the early years. He once served as the editor-in-chief of Nature Physics.

Later, after Xu Chuan threw the establishment of the journal "Exploration" to Nanjing University, the president of Nanjing University, Tan Shaoyuan, personally called to pull him back from the United States. Now he serves as one of the deputy editors-in-chief of "Exploration".

As for the editor-in-chief, in addition to Xu Chuan himself, he is the editor-in-chief.

Although it is said that the editor of an academic journal should try to avoid submitting articles to his own journal in the subconscious of the academic community, because it does not sound reasonable to do so.

After all, in people's cognition, the idea of ​​"it is easier to get things done with acquaintances" is too deeply rooted in people's minds, so they are very concerned about the saying of "avoiding suspicion".

If the editor of a journal can submit articles to his own journal, even if the editor-in-chief or higher review editor does not intervene, the reviewer will understand it when he sees the name of the author of the article, causing a certain unfairness.

Some highly vigilant magazines may explicitly stipulate that the editor-in-chief shall not submit articles to the journals he is responsible for.

But the fact is that most magazines will not consider this issue and can only rely on personal consciousness.

However, for Discovery, they had no other choice.

Based on Xu Chuan's requirements for "Exploration", apart from himself, it may be difficult to find a suitable editor-in-chief in China.

As for the various papers he submitted to "Exploration" as the editor-in-chief, there is not much controversy in the academic world.

After all, Xu Chuan's reputation in the academic world has been top-notch since he became famous. In addition, when the journal "Exploration" was first established, it had considered this situation and had clear procedures to handle manuscripts submitted by editorial board members. .

Therefore, there is no objection from the outside world to Xu Chuan becoming the editor-in-chief of the journal he founded.

Thumb across the screen, Xu Chuan answered the phone: "Hello, Chief Editor Ouyang."

After calling for a meal, Ouyang Ji said with respect: "Academician Xu, the sub-journal of "Exploration", "Exploration Mathematics", has just received a submission. We are a little undecided here. Do you want to take a look?"

Hearing the submission to "Exploration·Mathematics", Xu Chuan's mind stirred and he asked: "Is it P=NP? Is there a paper on the conjecture related to the problem of graph isomorphism?"

On the other side of the phone, Ouyang Ji nodded and replied: "Well, the contributor is Ms. Liu Jiaxin from Chuanhai Network Technology Co., Ltd."

"The paper she submitted is a study on the quasi-polynomial graph mapping method for graph isomorphism problems. The Discovery journal has no way to determine the specific situation of this paper, and it is difficult to find a suitable reviewer."

This kind of research involving the seven millennium problems is not even possible in China.

Even if you put it in the United States, France and other countries with the most developed mathematics, they are all top-notch. There are only a handful of mathematicians in China who can review papers of this level.

And P=NP? I guess there are no well-known scholars in China regarding this mathematical problem in the field of computational complexity theory in theoretical informatics.

As for foreign countries, it is honestly difficult for the deputy editor-in-chief and editor-in-chief of Discovery to come into contact with big names who can review papers of this level.

Although he himself once served as the editor-in-chief of the journal Nature and knew some big names, unfortunately he was not in the field of mathematics, but in physics.

Xu Chuan smiled and said: "Send the paper to me and I will be the reviewer."

Hearing this, Ouyang Ji hesitated and asked hesitantly: "Is this okay? I don't doubt your ability, but will there be some controversy over the fairness of the journal?"

After a slight pause, he quickly added: "Of course, I am not talking about your principle of impartiality, Academician Xu, but after the review is disclosed, this matter may cause some controversy in the academic community."

"After all, your relationship with that Ms. Liu."

Generally speaking, avoidance of suspicion is an important principle in the review process of academic journals.

This is mainly to avoid potential conflicts of interest or bias and ensure the objectivity and fairness of the review.

Specifically, reviewers should avoid relationships with authors that may affect impartial judgment, such as avoiding direct collaborative relationships, knowing the authors, etc.

Most SCI journals usually have a rule that recommended reviewers cannot be from the same organization as the author.

In other words, reviewers who have a relationship with the author must avoid suspicion, including scholars from the same institution, who by default fall into the category of avoidance.

This is just like when Xu Chuan proved Hodge's conjecture, the mathematics community organized six experts to review his paper, and the reviewers all avoided Princeton scholars.

Hearing this, Xu Chuan laughed dumbly, shook his head, and said: ""It's nothing. Although the principle of avoiding suspicion is necessary, for review, we only need to ensure the transparency, fairness and objectivity of the process. . "

"Send the paper to me and I will give corresponding review comments."

Ouyang Ji nodded and said, "Okay, in this case, I will follow the review invitation process of "Exploration"."

"Well, just follow the normal procedure." Xu Chuan responded with a smile.

On the other side, the capital.

The sun has set and night is gradually falling. In a conference room on Chang'an Street, an emergency meeting is underway.

The invitation from the Presbytery was quickly passed through the commissioners to the senior leaders of each clan.

In addition, many experts and academicians in the electronics industry have also received invitations.

Many people just got home from get off work and were called back by a phone call.

There were even some people still on the dining table. They didn't even have a bite of their food before they were taken away by the special car that came to pick them up.

And all this is just because of a letter sent to the Beihai Island on Chang'an Street two and a half hours ago, a letter sent from Jinling.

Bright lights illuminated the entire city. In a building on Chang'an Street, an emergency meeting was being held in a spacious conference room.

Academician Wang Qiming walked into the conference room wearing a black down jacket and holding a thermos cup in his hand.

Walking along the corridor and following the signs to find his location, his eyes fell on an acquaintance.

After being stunned for a moment, he walked over with a smile and said hello: "Hey, Lao Liu, are you here too?"

In the conference room, Liu Quan, who was looking at the podium with squinted eyes, turned his head when he heard a familiar voice. When he saw his old friend, he was stunned for a moment, then stared and asked, "You are here too. ?”

Academician Wang Qiming said with a smile: "You are here, why can't I come?"

Academician Liu Quan glanced at him and ignored him. He glanced around the conference room and said, "It seems that today's meeting is not simple."

Today's meeting was notified at short notice. It was said to be an urgent internal meeting, but the content was not disclosed.

At first, he thought it was just a small meeting, related to his professional field. Such meetings happened often to him, and he didn't pay much attention to it.

Now it seems that there is something wrong with the speculation. Judging from the nameplates on the table and the people present, the number of academicians in the semiconductor field and electronics industry present at this meeting exceeded double digits.

And he just glanced at the nameplates in front of him. They were basically senior leaders of various sects, even top leaders.

Looking at this posture and formation, I am afraid that what is going to be discussed is a bit unexpected.

Could it be that the country wants to fully support the development of the chip field?

Thinking of this, Liu Quan became a little excited.

The semiconductor field has been suppressed by foreign countries for such a long time. This should have been done long ago!

Without self-production of chips, the electronics field is equivalent to having no protective walls.

As the hour hand on the wall reached ten o'clock, all the leaders, experts and scholars from various departments and fields participating in the meeting arrived.

In the spacious conference room, the staff maintaining order closed the door of the conference room and stood at attention behind the door.

At the conference table, the person presiding over the meeting was an elder from the National Academy of Sciences. The meeting finally started.

Standing in front of the microphone, the old man cleared his throat, announced the start of the meeting, and continued.

"Thank you for taking the time to come here to attend this meeting at such a late hour. Due to the tight schedule and confidentiality, we did not inform you of the content of the meeting in advance. I hope you can understand."

After a slight pause, he continued: "The content of the next meeting will involve a relatively sensitive international situation. Before the country makes an official announcement, we ask that the content of today's meeting be kept strictly confidential."

As he spoke, a PPT picture was displayed on the silver-white curtain behind him.

When I saw the picture being displayed, the originally quiet conference room suddenly became filled with some noisy discussions.

Everyone sitting in the conference room had different expressions on their faces.

There was surprise, astonishment, shock, and most of all, a kind of confusion that was caught off guard by this message.