117: Chapter 118: Aiming at global capital markets, a "computing power monster" that breaks the limits of physics is born!

The other end of the phone fell into a brief, shocked silence.

Even Wu Tianheng, who was well-accustomed to great storms,

was completely stunned at this moment by Shen Du's arrogant and generous "excessive payback."

One billion US dollars plus six hundred million US dollars.

This was equivalent to Shen Du pulling several hundred million dollars of pure profit straight out of his own pocket

just to give money to this group of "creditors"!

"Bang!"

A heavy thud of a hand slapping a desk came through the phone.

Immediately following was Wu Tianheng's voice, trembling slightly with excitement:

"Good kid! Loyal enough! Spirited enough!"

Wu Tianheng laughed out loud and, with absolute certainty, swore his ultimate allegiance over the phone:

"Nephew Shen, I will keep your words today in my heart!

From now on, no matter where your territory expands,

as long as I, Old Wu, am still breathing, no matter how brutal the commercial meat grinder we face,

even if I have to bet the very underpants of the entire Wu Family, I, Wu Tianheng, will definitely go all-in with you to the end!"

Amidst a burst of hearty laughter, the call hung up.

Listening to the dial tone from the receiver, Shen Du slowly put down his phone, the gentle smile on his lips gradually fading away.

For him now, repaying an extra few hundred million dollars wouldn't even make him bat an eye.

What he wanted was never to clutch hundreds of millions in cash tightly in his hands like a miser.

In Shen Du's mind, which functioned like a high-precision chessboard,

this seemingly "disadvantageous" massive feedback of benefits was actually a brilliant strategic layout.

Having gone through the previous bloody battle of tens of billions,

the so-called "Beijing Capital Circle" domestically

had completely retreated in the face of the now-thriving Jiyuan Technology, losing even the qualification to sit back at the table.

But how could Shen Du's ambition be confined merely to this domestic pond?

His gaze had long since crossed national borders,

locking dead onto the future international capital Asura Arena, where there were no bottom lines and entry started at tens of billions of dollars!

When that time came,

Jiyuan Technology would have to face those international conglomerates and Wall Street tycoons who perched at the top of the global industrial chain like deep-sea behemoths.

Once on that kind of world-class business battlefield,

Shen Du would not only need a powerful moat of his own, but also a pack of capital wolves willing to risk their lives with him!

Feeding these Shanghai Families back with several hundred million dollars now

was in disguise providing them with ample nourishment, allowing them to have enough capital to grow frantically.

Only by completely forging these Shanghai Capitals into a massive peripheral fleet that was absolutely loyal to him, Shen Du,

could he, on the day they charged into the international battlefield in the future,

have a steady stream of reserve ammunition to tear those high-and-mighty international giants to shreds!

Just as Shen Du sat in his large leather executive chair, looking through the massive floor-to-ceiling window

and projecting his ambition onto that unfathomable global capital map,

the heavy solid wood double doors of his office were knocked on three times in a rhythmic manner.

"Come in."

Shen Du retracted the sharpness in his eyes and gave a flat reply.

The door was pushed open.

A figure wearing a crumpled plaid shirt, sporting two massive dark circles under his eyes, but with an intimidatingly bright gaze, walked in quickly.

Lin Zimo, sporting his massive dark circles,

didn't even wait to catch his breath before heavily slapping a densely packed hardware output manifest onto Shen Du's large desk.

"President Shen, take a look at this first.

Those madmen in the basement have truly poked a hole in the heavens this time!"

Lin Zimo's voice sounded unusually hoarse from excitement and staying up for days,

even carrying a hint of uncontrollable trembling.

Shen Du picked up the manifest, his eyes quickly scanning the data on it.

Having read just the first two lines, his deep pupils, which were usually as calm as an ancient well, couldn't help but shrink suddenly.

This was by no means some periodic experimental test report.

It was a "corporate-grade nuclear bomb" delivery manifest that was enough to make the entire Silicon Valley tremble!

Listed in the first column was a server processor that perfectly replicated Intel's underlying architecture:

The Xeon X7560 core.

A single chip with 8 cores and 16 threads, with a base clock speed of 2.26 GHz.

But what made one's scalp tingle the most was the quantity note and specification that followed: fifty sets!

The "sets" here did not refer to individual CPUs, but rather the hardcore "four-way server" specification!

This meant forcing four X7560s together to directly form a single-machine super monster boasting 32 cores and 64 threads!

Fifty sets meant a whopping two hundred of the world's top processors today!

In 2012, this was absolutely a computing power nuclear weapon that top data centers around the world dreamed of acquiring.

And the data listed in the second column was even more insane.

The Tesla M2090 computing card core!

Not only that, the form clearly indicated

that these monsters had not only developed the core,

but had also conquered and packaged the accompanying high-speed ECC VRAM array!

Total quantity delivered: over a thousand cards!

Looking at this incredible string of numbers, Shen Du quickly calculated in his head the terrifying market value of this hardware if it were put on the market.

In this era, the market price of just these fifty sets of top-tier four-way CPUs through official channels would absolutely exceed four million RMB.

As for those over one thousand Tesla computing cards, which represented the peak of current human civilian parallel computing power,

according to current market rates, their total value skyrocketed to an exaggerated sum of over twenty-seven million!

After finishing reading the form in his hand,

Shen Du gently placed the thin sheets of A4 paper on the desk.

He leaned back against the executive chair, waves of shock surging in his eyes, unable to calm down.

He did not snap out of it for a long time.

Because what these six people had done was simply too shocking!

This wasn't some knock-off crudely made by finding a few veteran masters from Huaqiangbei to reverse-engineer it with magnifying glasses.

This bunch of technological madmen, regarded as heretics by the entire world,

had completed an unprecedented reconstruction inside that fortress deep beneath Sheshan!

According to Lin Zimo's supplementary report, they did not stop at the level of simple "copying."

These geeks had used that Maskless Lithography Machine prototype

to violently and directly improve the untouched underlying logical architectures of Intel's CPU and NVIDIA's GPU,

perfectly grafting them onto their original QW-SOI quantum well fully depleted silicon-on-insulator architecture!

This crazy underlying physical reconstruction

brought about an experimental result that would make any semiconductor giant's skin crawl.

While this batch of "cloned" top-tier chips

perfectly restored 100% of the original's nuclear-bomb-level performance,

they had forcefully slashed their originally terrifying power consumption and heat dissipation by a full thirty percent!

A thirty percent reduction in power consumption and heat generation.

In the semiconductor field, this was simply an insurmountable miracle!

This meant

that these "heat monsters," which originally had to rely on high-velocity fans or even expensive liquid cooling systems just to be barely suppressed,

could now run at full load completely without restraint.

Shen Du's mind was as clear as a mirror.

He knew very well

that if the underlying secrets of this batch of chips were exposed, letting those Wall Street tycoons at Intel and NVIDIA know

what kind of shocking deeds Jiyuan Technology had committed deep beneath Sheshan,

Shen Du wouldn't even need to do anything else;

tomorrow, those international conglomerates would directly drag him to the highest international court with the power of their entire nations, facing astronomical infringement claims.

But as the saying goes, the bold die of gluttony, while the timid die of starvation!

In this capital-eat-capital world, there was never any room for gentleness, courtesy, restraint, and temperance.

Faced with this forbidden fruit that was enough to subvert the entire world's technological landscape and bring infinite windfall profits to Jiyuan Technology,

not even a trace of fear or hesitation flashed in Shen Du's eyes.

On the contrary, a madness to flip the entire table set ablaze within him.