464: Chapter 459 Wishing us success

"Right now, Aegis Lab's 'prometheus' launch is set for two weeks from now. Wall Street analyst reports are flying everywhere, all predicting how it will subvert the industry."

"And here you are, silent."

"My partners have already started putting pressure on me."

Shen Yan put down his chopsticks, picked up a wet towel, and slowly wiped his hands.

"So, you're here for a guarantee?"

"No." An Ran shook her head. "I'm here to confirm whether this ticket in my hand leads to the New World or the Titanic."

Shen Yan smiled.

He leaned back in his chair, looking at the clever woman before him.

"An Ran, have you ever seen the sun?"

An Ran was stunned, not understanding the meaning of his erratic question.

"prometheus is, at most, a single match."

Shen Yan's voice was soft, yet it carried a chilling certainty.

"In the darkness, it is very eye-catching."

"But when the sun rises, who will care about a match that has gone out?"

An Ran's heart skipped a beat.

In Shen Yan's eyes, she saw something she couldn't comprehend.

It wasn't confidence, let alone arrogance.

Rather, it was a kind of... calm, as if he were stating a fact.

"What kind of sun?" she pressed, her voice a bit dry.

"One that subverts everything currently in existence."

Shen Yan picked up his teacup and took a light sip.

"We have designed a completely new architecture."

"It no longer follows the traditional Von Neumann architecture; we call it the 'oracle' architecture."

The name 'oracle' was something he had thought of on the spot.

He would not tell anyone the real name, 'Kuafu'.

"It deeply couples the computing units and storage units at the physical level."

"This means that data no longer needs to exhaust itself running back and forth between the processor and memory as it does now."

"Its computational efficiency is, theoretically, more than ten times that of existing architectures."

An Ran's breathing stalled.

Although she didn't come from a technical background, as a top-tier investor, she knew these basic concepts like the back of her hand.

Ten times.

This was a figure enough to cause an earthquake in the entire industry and topple countless giants in an instant.

"That's impossible..." she subconsciously countered. "What about power consumption? Heat dissipation? And the yield rate! This kind of integrated storage-and-computing chip has astronomical requirements for the manufacturing process! Even the current top-tier 3nm process can't do it!"

"Who said we were going to use 3nm?"

Shen Yan's counter-question hit An Ran's heart like a heavy hammer.

An Ran's pupils contracted sharply.

A crazy thought, one that even she found absurd, surfaced in her mind.

"You..."

"The 'oracle' architecture we designed can be directly adapted to the future 2nm process."

Shen Yan calmly dropped a literal nuclear bomb.

"Furthermore, it's not just a blueprint."

"Along with it, we have also solved some of the core patents for the 2nm process."

A deathly silence fell over the private room.

An Ran stared blankly at Shen Yan, her mind a complete void.

She felt as if she were listening to the ravings of a madman.

Chip architecture and manufacturing processes were two completely different fields, two insurmountable mountains.

Shen Yan was actually saying that he had trampled both mountains under his feet?

"Do you... do you know what you're saying?"

An Ran's voice carried a hint of trembling.

"I'm very clear on it."

Shen Yan looked at her.

"An Ran, I didn't ask you here to show off to you."

"I'm here to give you a choice."

"We are preparing to launch Series A financing."

An Ran suddenly snapped back to her senses.

"Series A? Now?"

"Yes."

Shen Yan nodded.

"I need money, a lot of money."

"I want to use this money to leverage a ten-billion-level wafer fab and make it serve me."

"I also want to use this money to headhunt the top talents from all over the world."

"I want 'oracle' to go from blueprint to reality in the shortest possible time."

An Ran's heart beat wildly.

She finally understood.

Shen Yan wasn't racing against Aegis Lab at all.

He was in another dimension, preparing to launch a dimensionality reduction strike against the entire industry!

"Your... your appetite is too big."

"If it's not big, how can I swallow this world?"

Shen Yan countered indifferently.

An Ran looked at him. This man was calm, rational, yet crazy to the extreme.

She fell silent for a long time.

Only the sound of their faint breathing remained in the room.

After a long while.

An Ran picked up the cup of tea that had already gone cold and drank it in one gulp.

"Series A, Anhe Capital will follow the investment."

She looked at Shen Yan. The former sharpness in her eyes had been replaced by something deeper.

It was a fanaticism mixed with excitement, fear, and a desperate gamble.

"Tell me, how much money do you need?"

"What I want, you can't give."

Shen Yan shook his head.

"I need the capital of all of Huaxia to stand on this ship with me."

An Ran understood.

What Shen Yan wanted wasn't money.

What he wanted was 'momentum'.

It was an Eastern momentum sufficient to contend with those ancient financial groups that controlled the global technological lifeblood.

And she, Anhe Capital, would be the first passenger to board this epic giant ship.

"I understand."

An Ran stood up.

"I won't stay for the meal."

"I'll fly back tonight and help you organize this circle."

She walked to the door, then stopped, turned back, and gave Shen Yan a deep look.

"Shen Yan."

"To our success."

"We will succeed."

Shen Yan's voice was very calm, without the slightest ripple, as if he were stating an established future.

An Ran's figure disappeared at the door.

The door closed gently behind her, isolating that world belonging to capital and ambition.

Shen Yan raised his wrist and glanced at the watch face.

Seven-fifteen.

It wasn't too late yet.

He grabbed his coat from the back of the chair and stepped out.

Outside the window, the city lights had already connected into a brilliant river of stars.

In that river of stars, there was one light shining for him.

The moment he opened the front door, a small figure rushed over like a cannonball.

"Daddy!"

The milky voice was filled with joy.

Shen Yan bent down and steadily pulled the soft little thing into his arms.

He buried his face in his daughter's neck and took a deep breath; it was the unique, sweet, milky scent of Youyou.

"Did you miss Daddy?"

"I did!" Youyou hugged his neck and nodded vigorously. "I missed Daddy so much."

Shen Yan's heart felt as if it were being gently squeezed by a warm little hand.

He carried his daughter toward the living room.

But after just two steps, Youyou squirmed in his arms.

"Daddy, put me down."

Shen Yan's footsteps paused, a bit confused.

In the past, this little fellow couldn't wait to hang onto him forever.

"What's wrong?"

"Daddy is already so tired from work." Youyou looked up, her expression as serious as a little adult's. "I can't let Daddy keep carrying Youyou anymore."