As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 152 The era of upstream enterprises raising prices at will is over
Guan Yang finally understood what the Deep Blue in Deep Blue Storage meant. Deep Blue actually refers to living things.

"We are a scientific research enterprise. Don't we have profit requirements?"

"Does the company that conducts research on biological storage technology with Russia survive on government subsidies?"

"How much funding does the SASAC give us every year so that I can prepare a recruitment plan."

"I am doing preliminary research on biological storage. Although I have been engaged in the storage industry for many years and have been in the front line of research and development before, I really don't understand biological storage."

"In my opinion, this thing still has a long way to go before it can be commercialized, and the country needs to be prepared for long-term investment."

"Yangtze River Storage said it was prepared to invest but not make money for three years, while Deep Blue Storage conservatively estimated it would take 30 years."

Guan Yang usually wouldn't say so much, but when he took over the job at Yanjing, the R&D director told him that their main business was biological storage, he really couldn't hold it in anymore.

It's a bit funny to work with Damao to develop biological storage technology.

The presence of Da Mao in the biological field is as weak as their presence in the semiconductor field.

Of course, many years ago, about a hundred years ago, the big hairy creatures were still very strong. As for now, a hundred years later, it is rare to see their highly cited papers and highly cited biologists in various contemporary biological and medical journals.

After R&D director Fei Hongbo and other staff members finished their long speeches, they realized that the other party was very pessimistic about the prospects of Deep Blue Storage.

If he had not been transferred from the research institute under the Bureau of Anomalous Matters Investigation, he would also be pessimistic.

Fei Hongbo knew he had to appease the new chairman, "We actually already have products that can be commercialized."

"What? There are already commercial products?"

"Old Fei, when we were at the research institute, you were not the type to brag."

Fei Hongbo was Guan Yang’s former colleague at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Although they were in different majors, they were good friends back then.

The reason why Guan Yang was chosen was also due to Fei Hongbo’s recommendation, but it was a very small factor.

Then Guan Yang went to the industry, and Fei Hongbo continued to stay at the Chinese Academy of Sciences until he was transferred to a secret research institute.

Fei Hongbo said seriously: "Old Guan, you know me, and if you want to see it, there is a biological storage server in the laboratory on the second floor. I can take you to see it."

Guan Yang saw that the other party was so serious, so he asked, "Could it be that this is a biological storage chip developed by American Corporation, and then some data was placed in it, and the actual writing process is extremely complicated and is a pure laboratory product?"

Fei Hongbo reminded: "A biological storage server is not a chip or a hard drive."

Guan Yang's curiosity was completely aroused. He stood up and said, "Then what are you waiting for?"

After a long unlocking process, the two came to the experimental area. The researchers in the experimental area were doing their own things, as if they didn't see them.

In front of Guan Yang and Fei Hongbo was a huge cube.

Most of the back of the cube is made of transparent glass. There is water in the glass, and flocs are floating in the water, a bit like jellyfish, but not as regular as jellyfish.

One end of the floc is fixed at a certain position.

The front half is a black signal writing device, which is responsible for reading and writing data from the flocculent organism at the back. There are various interfaces in the front that can be directly connected to a switch, server or personal computer.

Guan Yang squatted down as if to look for traces of the hard drive. There was a ventilation device in the transparent part at the back, so it was obvious that there was no hard drive.

He hoped to find traces of the hard drive through the gap in the black steel plate in front.

"Is this thing really a biological storage server?" Guan Yang turned around and asked after trying for a while without any results.

“This is our biological storage server.”

"The samples jointly created with Huawei are currently using Huawei's most advanced Dorado 18800 memory chips and architecture."

“However, since this product framework is still for flash memory, we will optimize the storage chip and architecture specifically for biological storage technology in the future.”

Guan Yang shouted: "How is the data? How is the performance compared with Huawei's all-flash product? What is the cost?" Guan Yang no longer doubted the authenticity of the biological storage technology after seeing this. He just wanted to know how difficult it would be to promote this technology on a large scale.

"According to current test data, the end-to-end latency is ten times shorter than Huawei's all-flash products. We have just obtained the stability and are still testing it."

Testing for storage stability, for example, takes a longer time because it is not prone to problems.

Problems with enterprise-level storage servers are a big deal, and the requirements for stability are always very high.

It takes a while of high voltage testing to determine the stability.

"But judging from the current performance, the stability is no worse than that of all-flash products."

"The most important point is the data storage capacity. The effective storage capacity of this biological storage server alone, that is, the amount of data we can read and write at will, is 100PB, which is a thousand times higher than that of all-flash products."

“We don’t know the cost yet.”

As for the cost, we have to wait for the pricing by the Abnormal Affairs Administration. Since it involves the manpower cost of the mages, plus China has invested 5 magic coins, the cost would be sky-high if we really calculated it.

"How long will it take for personal products to be realized? Can it be promoted on a large scale for personal computers?" Guan Yang asked.

Fei Hongbo said directly: "It takes time. It's not possible now. Even if we achieve miniaturization from a technical point of view, there are still certain problems."

"This biological storage is actually a combination of biology and machinery. It needs nutrient solution to survive, and needs to be infused regularly."

"For individuals, this may be troublesome. But the most important thing is that we need time to study the miniaturization of the signal conversion device."

If you want to change your computer's storage capacity from 1T to 1000T, and the only cost is to regularly give the computer fluids, most people would probably be willing to do so.

Guan Yang stood up straight, his eyes red. As a veteran in the industry for many years, he knew very well how difficult it was to localize the storage industry.

Since the beginning of the 20th century, companies such as Samsung, Hynix, and Micron have controlled the upstream of storage, and they are engaged in both personal and enterprise businesses.

What consumers feel most deeply is that memory stick prices have been rising arbitrarily. In 17, the price of memory sticks almost quadrupled.

This is true for memory sticks on the consumer side as well as the enterprise side. When China purchases enterprise storage products from abroad, a large portion of the profits is eaten up by these companies upstream of the industry.

Guan Yang knew that they would finally no longer be strangled by others. Instead, they could now strangle other countries.

With the same volume, the data capacity is a thousand times that of previous storage technologies. He knows what this means.

Companies like Samsung, Toshiba, and Micron will at least lose half their lives if they don't die. Samsung will not die, but only its enterprise storage business will die.

The personal storage business can be retained for the time being.

But this day was not achieved by Yangtze Memory Technologies, and he was not an eyewitness.

Guan Yang has been with Yangtze Memory Technologies since its founding. He thought they would be the ones to put an end to the era of upstream manufacturers raising prices at will.

They did achieve part of it, but in the end they still relied on the biological storage technology of Huazhong University of Science and Technology to achieve a dimensionality reduction attack.

"Why didn't you use this technology earlier? You could have used it when the effect wasn't as good as it is now.

For example, if the capacity is only twice as high and the end-to-end latency is the same as that of an all-flash product, it can be used first. "Guan Yang was confused.

Fei Hongbo knew the inside story, but he couldn't tell it because of confidentiality regulations. He whispered, "The conditions were not ripe before."

"You know where the difficulty of biological storage technology lies."

"The reading and writing of biological storage has not been solved until now, and it was only in the past two years that a breakthrough was made."

Fei Hongbo admired himself in his heart for being so smart in finding an appropriate explanation in such a short time.

(End of this chapter)