Chapter 197: Virtual Currency Crisis
Chips are just an infinite company, a medium-term goal.
Their top priority now is to use the components produced by Professor Kruger to assemble several supercomputers for special equipment modification.
Because they recently received news that the island's Institute of Physics and Chemistry announced that it has developed the fastest computer in the world, named wine2.
This computer uses a large-scale integrated circuit chip and has a peak operating speed of 10 trillion operations per second.
Breaking the world record in one fell swoop.
It is 4 times faster than the computer used by the United States to simulate nuclear explosion tests!
In order to master the core technology, Professor Kruger put forward the suggestion of dismantling the photolithography machine.
Because only by understanding its internal structure can we produce it ourselves.
Can the photolithography machine be disassembled?
The answer is of course yes.
However, they need to model each component of the equipment separately, store it in the computer, and conduct precise analysis.
Although Ni Guangnan hopes that the modification of this lithography machine will be completed immediately, he also understands that this matter requires caution and cannot be rushed.
Without understanding the internal structure of the lithography machine, rash actions are likely to destroy its precise construction, which is not worth the loss.
This matter needs to be dealt with slowly.
If it doesn't work, I can only go to Director Zhang and ask them if the old photolithography machine in the Precision Research Institute can be dismantled...
Chen Jie and the others were not idle either. They held meetings every day to discuss the company's next development direction, but after much talk, they could never make a decision.
Chen Jie even believes that Infinity Company started through finance and should continue to flourish in the financial market.
This view is recognized by many company executives.
The fastest way to make money is in finance, which is much better than doing scientific research and industry.
Now the company has been burning money, various projects are being promoted, and the monthly expenses are as high as hundreds of millions of yuan. If it were not for the strong capital, it would have been unable to withstand it long ago.
But Lin Zeju said that China's current financial market is simply not enough to support the entry and exit of large sums of money.
Every operation will cause large fluctuations in the market. No one wants the China Securities Regulatory Commission to send inquiry letters every three days.
Moreover, at Infinite Private Equity, Feng Yiwen is leading people to short Nasdaq technology stocks and cannot spare any manpower at all.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity because Microsoft Corporation of America was suddenly sued by a federal court.
They stated in the fact-finding letter released in November that Microsoft did indeed have a monopoly on the market.
If the judge finally rules that Microsoft violated antitrust laws, Microsoft will be subject to many legal penalties.
Suing Microsoft has become the biggest antitrust case of this century.
This incident directly affected the stock market.
This severely damaged investors' confidence in technology stocks, and they sold off Microsoft and other technology companies' stocks in a near panic.
Even Microsoft's founders and largest shareholders, Bill Gates and Paul Allen, are no exception.
According to news published by the Wall Street Journal, Gates has recently sold off $63.3 billion worth of stocks.
Allen also sold $3 billion worth of Microsoft stock in three months, accounting for 15% of his total Microsoft stock holdings.
The two of them significantly reduced their holdings, causing Microsoft's share price to fall from a maximum of US$180.3 to US$90 per share.
The market value has shrunk by nearly half (original market value of US$600 billion.)
The entire Nasdaq market was dragged down by Microsoft's negative expectations and continued to fall. Even the Wall Street stock market suffered a Black Tuesday.
At the same time, several major European stock markets all experienced declines of 3-5%.
Since technology stocks are in their infancy and the proportion of foreign capital is too low, A-shares will not be affected.
During this period, look at the entire A-share market.
There are only six companies with a market value of more than 20 billion, and no giant companies have been born in various industries.
If you want to imitate others' monopoly, you have no chance.
At this point in the discussion, Chen Jie's face moved slightly and he lowered his head with a guilty conscience.
He previously asked Haitong Securities to help him buy stocks, and recently he made a huge profit, and now he has reached the shipment stage.
I just hope they can learn a lesson and do it more covertly so that the China Securities Regulatory Commission doesn’t find out.
Li Xier dismissed the meeting and returned directly to the general manager's office.
There was a delicate globe on her desk. She turned it gently and found a small colorful patch on the globe.
Thinking of a certain person, she became so angry that she always replied that she would go back to China next week. However, after several months, there was no sign of him.
Now, everyone no longer believes any nonsense he said.
Love won't come back, it's best not to come back forever, it's not like the company can't move on without him!
at the same time.
Island country, Tokyo.
Division of Infinity Corporation.
Chen Weidong sneezed violently, wondering who was speaking ill of him behind his back.
Recently, he and a young employee named "Satoshi Nakamoto" are designing an encrypted digital currency.
The characteristics of this currency are decentralization, anonymity, and can only be used in the digital world.
It does not belong to any country or financial institution, and is not subject to geographical restrictions and can be exchanged anywhere in the world.
Its output method is to steadily obtain a certain number of coins by consuming the computing time and electricity of the CPU, similar to the way gold miners consume resources. (In the early days, the CPU was used to mine, and later the graphics card was used.)
The threshold for participation is so low that everyone only needs to own a computer to perform "mining" operations.
It's a coincidence that this employee is Hirosuke Kitai, the director of human resources, who was recruited by chance. Because the company's business has continued to expand recently, internal servers have been exposed to more attacks every day.
At most, it can reach more than 5,000 times a day.
This made Chen Weidong extremely angry, but here in the island country, there are very few people who understand network security technology, let alone be proficient in it.
In the end, a lot of money was spent on external recruitment, and only six people were recruited.
After some investigation, it was discovered that only this young man named "Satoshi Nakamoto" had the most solid technical foundation.
Chen Weidong also accidentally saw this name when he was reading information. At that time, he thought of the mysterious figure who stirred up the currency circle in later generations.
Regardless of whether he has the same name or not, his appearance reminded Chen Weidong.
Therefore, a plan that would make the world's computer graphics card manufacturers tremble was born.
Many years later, when people broke through the thick cocoon of information and deciphered the truth, they discovered that the beneficiaries of that incident had already grown into towering trees.
Unable to shake.
The entire incident, the careful layout, and the final counterattack have become classic examples of MBA, and are taught to students by countless professors and tutors.
Chapter completed!