After the layoffs, I became a tech godfather

Chapter 126 During the celebration banquet, Xiaosha received two extremely urgent message reminders!

The three long and two short vibrations were the special emergency warnings set up by Hao Cheng.

But since it was set up, it has been such a long time, and today is the first time it has been triggered.

It just happened that Hao Cheng was holding a celebration party for his team.

"You're in trouble this time!" Hao Cheng muttered to himself, then took out his cell phone and looked closely:
[America officially included Baiju Technology in the Entity List, with the reason being: Xiaosha seriously affects America's national security and is the root cause of the recent large-scale riots caused by the new human AI. ]

"Puchi~" When Hao Cheng saw Xiaosha's hint, he almost couldn't help laughing out loud.

But is this news particularly urgent? It is true, but it will not have any impact on Baiju Technology.

Hao Cheng took a look and didn't even tell everyone who was drinking and chatting about this matter, as it was not disturbing enough.

"Come on, Brother Cheng, let me toast you a glass." Cao Song groped his way over and said, "Thank you, Brother Cheng, for providing such a platform for everyone, giving us all the opportunity to display our talents!"

Hao Cheng raised his cup and accepted all the drinks since he was drinking Sprite anyway.

There was jubilation at Baiju Technology, as if nothing had happened at all.

The reaction of the majority of netizens is the same. They are no longer as indignant as they were at the time of the initial ZTE incident, nor are they as anxiously concerned as they were at Huawei.

"This is the first time I feel that America is not talking nonsense, and Xiaosha can really threaten them.

"Although the turmoil caused by the new humans was not caused by Xiaosha himself, Xiaosha is still a half-master whom I trust. This is right!"

Some people even expressed their delight: "I am so happy! Xiaosha is finally selected by the White House. Otherwise, everyone of the same level would be selected. It would be embarrassing."

"Xiaosha isn't on the list? I thought she was on it a long time ago! America's reaction is too slow!" What's more, in his mind, Xiaosha has always been on the list.

"You're still slow! Xiaosha has only been born for two months!"

"Only two months? Why does it feel like it's been a long time?"

"Me too. Seeing that Xiaosha has done so many things and has such a big impact, it must have been more than half a year. After careful investigation, I found that Zhifeng Quicksand was first launched on Huawei AG Apps on November 11, so it has only been two months."

Some people have started to check the calendar again. Xiaosha has indeed done too many things, and it feels like it has appeared for a long time.

There were all kinds of people, but no one was worried about Xiaosha. Some people even wondered, "No, you're not worried at all? Will Xiaosha be affected?"

"What can it affect? Huawei has survived, let alone Xiaosha! Besides, what can America do to Xiaosha? Can't America allow Xiaosha to use English letters? Don't be ridiculous! Besides, English letters are not theirs!"

"You're right, you're right. Now that apps are used by both AI and humans, why can't programming languages be the same? Forget BCCJAVA. White Horse Technology should just develop a natural language programming language."

"Isn't Xiaosha doing that now?" Someone asked in confusion, "You just tell it the logic and it will write the code for you. What you say is Chinese!"

"That's different! The underlying systems are still C, C++, Python, and Go, but you speak Chinese and Xiaosha helps you write. You also need their underlying environment and runtime library."

"Just do it. I'm afraid it won't be that easy. After all, Xiaosha only involves software and AI, and the current hardware architecture is still ARM and X86."

"Develop your own architecture and instructions. The current architecture and instructions are very old. They were not designed with AI in mind, so AI is not convenient to use!"

……

Baiju Technology does not have its own plan, but a group of people are busy planning the technical route for Baiju Technology. Some of them even go to Baiju Technology's official website to directly provide the technical roadmap.

What's more, there are quite a few fantastic ideas and practical suggestions.

However, when the group of people were having fun, suddenly a piece of news broke out, leaving everyone silent.

"Buzz~Buzz~Buzz-Buzz~"

Before I finished my meal, there was a few long and short vibrations.

Hao Chengdu was speechless. It had never been triggered since he set it up, but during the time it took to hold a celebration banquet, two special emergency messages were triggered.

[Biden will increase restrictions on AI chips before leaving office. Exports exceeding the limit to 120 countries including Singapore will be subject to quantity restrictions and licensing restrictions. From 2025 to 2027, the quota for each country will not exceed chips, and China and other "non-American friendly countries" will have zero licenses for AI computing chips. 】 "Are you crazy?" This was Hao Cheng's first reaction when he saw the news, and he was shocked.

The previous restrictions were only for high-computing power AI chips, but this time they were directly expanded to all computing power chips.

Not only that, except for America’s so-called 18 “close allies”, all other countries will implement quota licensing, and domestic companies’ path to purchasing computing power cards from countries such as Singapore will also be blocked.

"Xiaosha, what are the specific underlying reasons?"

With such a strict restriction ban, only eighteen countries in the world can purchase America, or Nvidia's computing power cards, without restrictions, which is obviously abnormal.

Are America's own tech companies going out of business? Is Nvidia going out of business?

Moreover, haven’t the forces of technology companies been fighting with the Democratic and Republican parties for a while? The factions related to technology companies have even established the New Liberal Party. What is going on now?
Hao Cheng also asked about Xiaosha. Xiaosha's ability in collecting information and related comprehensive abilities was already very strong.

【Just earlier, the neo-liberal, democratic and republican parties reached a certain degree of consensus through negotiations.

[OpenAI agreed to block illegal questions and requests from new humans in accordance with regulations, and provide Europe and the United States with a normal and powerful AI. In exchange, the new freedom gained more opportunities to participate in national affairs.

[As for strictly restricting Xiaosha, the three parties reached a complete consensus. Their goal is to ensure that the European region must be completely under their own hands and not allow Xiaosha any opportunity to get involved. ]

Hao Cheng seemed to be thinking about something.

Computing power is indeed what Baiju Technology lacks the most. Although Xiaosha’s training does not require much computing power, it is needed for deployment and operation.

The original plan was that the scale of the three major computing centers would be able to meet the needs of hundreds of millions of users, but this only refers to Xiaosha's services.

As more and more users enhance their professional capabilities and commercial cooperation users continue to grow, Baiju Technology's computing power is close to full capacity.

The interface services provided by network security protection and the precise push of Xiaosha Advertising Alliance also require computing power. With these two included, the computing power resources are actually somewhat stretched.

In addition, the system plug-in for element-level services has also been launched recently. As an APP scenario used by both AI and humans, it is also a big consumer of computing power.

The construction of the computing center has always been the focus of Baiju Technology's work. However, unlike software, this thing requires a certain period of time to build. Baiju Technology was established only two months ago, and the progress of construction is actually seriously lagging behind the development speed of Xiaosha.

"This shouldn't have much of an impact on us, right?" After the celebration dinner, Cao Song left with Hao Cheng. On the way, the two were still discussing related issues:

"We expected that Nvidia cards would be unavailable, and Huawei also promised that if we needed them, Ascend would give us priority in supply. Ascend 910C is already in mass production, and even if it is not, the 910B group of large-scale computing centers will be enough!
"Now the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center, the small computing center we used at the beginning, is just a 200B with 910 cards? It's nothing more than building more!"

"It's not as simple as you think!" Hao Cheng shook his head: "Do you think America is really stupid? She gave up a good market and insisted on giving assists to Ascend?"

"Isn't it?" Cao Song scratched his head.

Cao Song thinks so, and there are many people who share the same idea as Cao Song. For example, there is a group of people arguing on the Internet: "Restricting AI cards at this time? Ascend 910C has been mass-produced, isn't that giving Huawei the market?"

There are also remarks such as "The White House truly loves Huawei and is here to offer assistance" which can be seen from time to time.

Everyone is jubilant, but not many people can really see the root of the problem.

"Actually," Hao Cheng said, "To put it in a less appropriate way, you think that Ascend's cards are piled up at the bottom of Songshan Lake and can't be sold, right? And you're still using America to provide Ascend with the market?
"The fact is that the market is determined by Ascend's production capacity, and it has nothing to do with any other factors."

Hao Cheng paused, then continued: "This is where America's trick comes in. China didn't have high-end production capacity before, but now it does.

"But the production capacity is so limited. Car companies need it to train smart driving, AI companies need it to train models, and even fighter jet wind tunnel models need it for analysis. Industry needs it, agriculture needs it, laboratories and schools also need it. If the production capacity is not enough, it depends on which one you give up!

"This is not a problem for Baiju Technology and Xiaosha, nor is it a problem for Ascend and Huawei. It is a problem that all related domestic companies must face."

This is indeed the case. Although high-end production capacity has solved part of the problem, it is only so much. It is needed for the Kirin mobile phone chip, the Kunpeng server chip, and the Ascend AI chip. How can it be enough!
This problem has no solution until the problems of domestic high-end DUV and EUV lithography machines are solved.

“Fundamentally, America’s policy is aimed at limiting the total computing power of all Chinese companies, which is critical to the development of the entire AI industry.

"If it is really strictly implemented, the impact may be greater than imagined."

If even the purchase of cards for transit in Singapore is strictly controlled, then, apart from anything else, the large number of domestic car companies preparing to launch limited L3 autonomous driving next year will definitely suffer.

(End of this chapter)