110: Chapter 110, no matter how difficult, shouldn't it be enough to take half a year to complete?

As Director Zhou Ping's voice trailed off, the entire press conference hall fell into an eerie silence.

Below the stage, hundreds of battle-hardened top media reporters from home and abroad were all frozen stiff in their seats.

Some had forgotten to press the shutter while holding their cameras, while others had their hands holding voice recorders suspended in mid-air, trembling slightly; everyone's brain had completely crashed for several seconds at this moment.

What?

Fifth-Generation Communication Technology?!

In the international community, Fourth-Generation Communication Technology had only just begun to be deployed, and those communication giants were still fighting tooth and nail to compete for the patent standards of the fourth generation.

Now, the Xia Kingdom's officials were actually announcing with great fanfare that they were going to skip the fourth generation entirely and develop Fifth-generation Communication?!

And what about that Brain-like Machine Intelligence?

Just hearing the name was already completely beyond the cognitive scope of humanity's current technological tree!

In the front row, a foreign reporter stationed in Xia for an international news agency had his mouth open wide enough to fit a fist, unable to close it for a long time.

The colleague next to him tugged hard on his sleeve, whispering in a trembling voice: "God... did I hear that right? The... the fifth generation?"

"You didn't hear wrong, buddy..."

The reporter stationed in Xia swallowed hard, the expression on his face more horrified than if he had seen a ghost.

The spectrum utilization rate of fourth-generation communication had not yet been thoroughly understood by the academic community, and the technical standards for base station coverage had been argued over in the International Telecommunication Union for three years without being finalized.

Yet currently, the Xia Kingdom was still generally using third-generation communication.

And now you're telling me that you're going to skip the fourth generation entirely and flip the table to develop the fifth generation?

Meanwhile, the comment section of the official live stream had already spiraled completely out of control.

"Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap! Fifth generation!!!"

"What the hell is that Brain-like Machine Intelligence? This name is way too explosive!"

"Wait a second, let me process this, there's too much information, my brain can't keep up..."

"The Other Side of the Ocean: I just finished applying for the fourth-generation patent, and you're telling me you want to develop the fifth generation? (Dog head)"

"Overtaking on a bend? No, this is fucking blowing up someone else's track and flying a plane instead!"

On the podium, Director Zhou Ping took in the reactions below, but he didn't give everyone much time to digest the information.

He tilted his head slightly, glanced at Lin Yuan, who was sitting beside him with a composed posture, and then handed the microphone over.

"Regarding the specific details of these two technologies, Comrade Lin Yuan, the Chief Technical Engineer of the special task force, will now introduce them to everyone."

As soon as these words were spoken, the commotion below was instantly pressed onto the pause button.

All the cameras and microphones, along with every gaze, converged without suspense onto that young man.

Lin Yuan reached out and took the microphone, his five fingers gently gripping it.

His sitting posture remained unchanged, his back resting slightly against the chair, and there was not a trace of tension in his body.

"Hello, everyone."

He spoke, his clear and steady voice spreading through the amplification equipment.

"I am Lin Yuan."

These four simple words caused the pen tips of many reporters below to tremble simultaneously.

This name no longer needed any prefixes now.

The two words "Lin Yuan" were one of the most weighty signs in the global scientific and technological community today.

"I think the news just announced by Director Zhou will take a while for many people to wrap their heads around."

Lin Yuan's words were unhurried, even carrying a touch of casual teasing.

"But that's normal. Fifth-generation Communication and Brain-like Machine Intelligence are indeed relatively new concepts—so new that the international academic community doesn't even have a unified definition for them yet."

He paused for a beat, his gaze sweeping over the tense faces of the foreign media reporters below.

"So, I won't beat around the bush with everyone; I'll just explain what these two things actually are in the most straightforward way."

"Let's start with Fifth-generation Communication."

Lin Yuan tapped his finger casually on the microphone stand, making a light sound.

"Currently, I have completed all the basic theories for Fifth-Generation Communication Technology, and the technical implementation is also proceeding at full speed."

Below, there was a flurry of scribbling sounds from pens taking notes.

Lin Yuan ignored the sounds and continued.

"The specific theoretical framework and underlying architecture are too cumbersome, so I won't go into them here today."

He spread his hands, his tone relaxed to the point of being casual.

"I'll just make an intuitive comparison with the fourth-generation communication currently being developed The Other Side of the Ocean. According to theoretical assumptions..."

"In terms of transmission rate, the fifth generation will be more than dozens of times faster than the fourth generation."

"End-to-end latency can be reduced from tens of milliseconds to one millisecond."

"The concurrent access capacity of a single base station device will jump from the hundred-thousand level to the million level."

With these sets of data thrown out, the foreign media reporters below could no longer sit still.

More than ten times the speed? One millisecond of latency? Million-level concurrent access?

This wasn't just an upgrade based on existing foundations; this was completely overturning common sense in the entire communication field!

How could the Xia Kingdom just pull out such dimensionality-reduction strike-like data?!

The shock brought by this data was still fermenting, but Lin Yuan had no intention of stopping.

"As for Brain-like Machine Intelligence."

He crossed his fingers, rested them on the table, and left a cliffhanger.

"It's hard for everyone to have a concrete mental image of this thing just by me talking about it. I can only say that it will completely subvert your imagination!"

"Anyway, time won't make everyone wait too long."

"When the intelligence comes out, everyone will naturally be able to experience it."

These words were said lightly, but the five words "won't wait too long" made countless people's brains knot up simultaneously.

Won't wait too long? Then how long exactly?

For this level of epoch-making technology, from theory to implementation, according to normal scientific research cycles, how could results be produced in less than three to five years?

Countless eyes stared fixedly at the young man on the podium, filled with confusion and speculation.

Lin Yuan took in these reactions, the corners of his lips curling slightly.

"Looking at everyone's expressions, it seems there are some questions about the words 'won't wait too long'?"

He laughed, his posture extremely relaxed, as if he were just chatting casually with friends.

"Then I will give everyone a clear timeline here; it will be about..."

"Half a year."

Three words, drifting lightly from the microphone.

Hearing Lin Yuan's words, everyone's brains collectively short-circuited at that moment.

Half a year?! Half a year again?!

The Other Side of the Ocean, those department personnel staring at the live broadcast screen sprang up from their seats almost simultaneously.

"Half a year?! He said half a year again?!"

An intelligence analysis supervisor gripped the edge of the table tightly.

Fifth-Generation Communication Technology combined with Brain-like Machine Intelligence, two epoch-making masterpieces that even the international academic community was still exploring in blank fields.

This young man had actually set a deadline of half a year for himself again?!

Inside the press conference hall, hundreds of faces below were filled with the same dazed expression.

Lin Yuan saw the reactions of these people, but he was in no rush to explain.

He just tilted his head, asking back with a touch of genuine confusion.

"You all don't think I'm joking, do you?"

No one answered. Because everyone had been shocked into losing their ability to speak.

Lin Yuan shook his head, his smile becoming more distinct, and he tapped his finger casually on the microphone stand.

"When I said I would build a Photolithography Machine in half a year, many people also thought I was joking."

"Countless people around the world said it was unrealistic, saying I was daydreaming."

He shrugged, his tone relaxed, as if he were stating a trivial matter.

"And what was the result?"

"Didn't I research and develop it in just two months?"

He paused for a beat, his gaze sweeping unhurriedly over the frozen faces below.

"So in my opinion, as for the Fifth-generation Communication and Brain-like Intelligence that need to be researched now, no matter how difficult they are..."

"Surely it won't take more than half a year to figure out, right?"

This sentence became the final straw that crushed the common sense of the world's scientific research!

The next moment, the blue progress bar representing confidence in Lin Yuan's mind was soaring wildly at a speed visible to the naked eye!