A genius? I just love studying.

I will be the one to cap off Chapter 166.
"7-nanometer chip!"

"Jesus!"

"How did they do that?"

"They actually used a 7-nanometer process to create a chip that rivals those made with a 3-nanometer process!"

"No, not just comparable, but surpassing!"

In the laboratory, Martin, who was personally involved in reverse engineering, gasped in shock.

"Analyze his architecture!"

Martin is certainly capable of becoming CTO.

When he discovered that China was using a 7-nanometer process, he was not worried at all, but rather excited.

This indicates that China has not achieved a breakthrough in chip manufacturing technology, but rather has taken a shortcut, likely by adopting a more sophisticated architecture.

It's amazing that the chip's performance has been improved by nearly three times simply through its architecture, while its power consumption has been reduced!
Breakthroughs in technology are difficult, but they can completely copy the architecture!
With 3-nanometer technology and this amazing architecture, what terrifying monsters would be created? Martin's body trembled with excitement.

Although he mentioned so many difficulties, compared to China, they have a huge advantage. They have the world's most advanced microscopes, which can see the details of chips and the layout of transistors, as well as EDA tools capable of designing 1.4-nanometer circuits.

EDA is similar to CAD for engineering drawing. It can be simply understood as professional chip design software. It can design circuit diagrams, simulate chip operation, and perform simulation calculations on integrated circuits. It is an indispensable professional software in chip design.

As far as they know, China's most advanced EDA only supports 7 nanometers.

With this technical support, they can completely reverse engineer the architecture of this amazing chip, it's just a little more complicated.

But thinking about the prospects of this job, even Martin, who was used to a life of ease and didn't like trouble, was full of energy!
Three days passed in the blink of an eye.
Martin looked at the architecture diagram reverse-engineered from the latest mobile phone chip and felt like God was playing a joke on him.

How do they solve the heat dissipation problem with such dense stacking?
With a chip like that, you could probably fry an egg in ten seconds, right?

Are you sure this isn't some kind of bomb?
As if electrocuted, the chip fell from his hand onto the desk.

He then remembered that, according to previous evaluations, this unscientific chip not only had no heat dissipation problems, but its temperature at full power was also lower than Apple's 3-nanometer process chip.

How exactly did they do it?
What's the magic behind this architecture?
If you can't figure it out, then experiment and make it first. As long as you can replicate the effect of a chip, you don't need to understand the underlying principles. Just use it first.

"That's impossible. Stacking transistors together like that would just create a pile of garbage."

The key personnel in the chip-related technical department shook their heads. Although the facts were right in front of them, they still couldn't believe that this structure had truly saved the lump of chips created by the Chinese.

Because he is a chip expert, the more he understands chips, the more he can tell how unreasonable this chip really is.

"Simulation using EDA is also not very effective. The resulting architecture is essentially a pile of garbage and cannot possibly be a high-performance chip!"

Martin didn't even refute this key figure.

There was no point in thinking about it further, so he contacted Samsung's Chief Technology Officer, Nam Seok-woo, directly.

ASML specializes in lithography machines and has not ventured into chip manufacturing. To produce complete chips, it can only rely on its partners.

Although the chips are not under their jurisdiction, the outcome of this matter is closely related to them, and they cannot afford to ignore it.

It's a little past 10 a.m. in the Netherlands, but a little past 3 a.m. in South Korea. Ignoring the time difference, Martin let the phone ring again and again. That's the confidence of a leading supplier.

"Mr. Martin."

Finally, the call was answered and then ended.

"I have a chip architecture diagram here, which I have already sent to you via email. You should immediately manufacture the chip based on this architecture diagram and test its performance."

Martin spoke almost in a commanding tone.

"Are you also reverse-engineering chips?"

After a while, a broken English sentence came from the other end of the phone. Even though Martin had dealt with these thieves many times, he still couldn't get used to their pronunciation.

Chinese people often pronounce "f" as "p" and "function" as "punction," which sounds very awkward to listeners.

"You don't need to know that much, just do as I say."

Martin felt a surge of frustration. Christopher had only given him three days, and now there were only a few hours left. If he couldn't give a satisfactory answer, he knew Christopher would really fire him.

“We have already replicated it, Mr. Martin.”

A frustrated voice came from the other end of the phone, "The zinc sheet made with this architecture isn't even good enough to be considered a hand warmer. The transistors will break down quickly at high temperatures; it can't even operate normally for more than ten seconds!"

Martin then realized that the reason the other party took so long to answer the phone might not be because they were sleeping, but because they were working on reverse engineering overnight.

"How can this be?"

"You must have made a mistake somewhere!"

The three-day period had passed, but he had gained nothing, which Martin could not accept.

“There’s no way we could be wrong. We’ve conducted three experiments, each with ten control groups. This setup is definitely useless, or even terrible.”

Nan Xiyu's tired and disappointed voice rang out, "Or rather, this architecture alone is not working; there must be something we've overlooked!"

Compared to ASML, Samsung naturally feels a greater sense of crisis.

Even with the blockade of core chip technology, Youwei's market share has already surpassed Samsung's. If Youwei were to create a chip that is even more powerful than Samsung's, it is foreseeable that Samsung would be easily defeated in the international market.

ASML's crisis is in the near future, while their crisis is right before their eyes!
……

Your math level has improved from 3 (31%) to 32%.

In the library, Chen Hui put away his computer, and a pop-up message appeared in front of him at just the right moment.

Half a month had passed since he decided to study the Yang-Mills equations. From late October to early November, the weather in Jiangcheng had changed from scorching heat to mild.

He slung his backpack over his shoulder and headed towards the cafeteria. After further investigation, Chen Hui discovered that the scientific community's research on the Yang-Mills equation had reached a very advanced level. Through the Atiyah-Singer index theorem and fiber bundle theory, it had been proven that the modulus space of the solutions to the Yang-Mills equation on a four-dimensional sphere is a smooth manifold, and its dimension is determined by the structure of the gauge group.

For example, the modulus space dimension corresponding to the SU(2) gauge group is 8, which provides a topological basis for the existence of solutions.

However, the current proof is limited to four-dimensional spacetime, and the existence of solutions on higher-dimensional (such as the 10-dimensional required by supersymmetric theory) manifolds still needs to be broken through. The main obstacle is the singularity after the gauge field is compactified.

In 1982, Uhlenbeck proved the removable singularity theorem for the solution of the four-dimensional Yang-Mills equation. His mentor, Tian Yang, extended it to higher dimensions, solving the convergence problem of gauge fields near singularities. In 1982, Taubes verified the existence of nontrivial solutions by constructing instantaneous solutions.

Beyond breakthroughs in mathematical foundations, significant progress has also been made in physical experiments. In quantum chromodynamics, lattice calculations have verified the gluon self-energy correction term, confirming asymptotic freedom and color confinement phenomena…

However, many questions remain unanswered, such as the existence of higher-dimensional manifolds, the universality of the mass gap, and the fact that while dynamic Ricci flow has proven the existence of the mass gap in the four-dimensional case, its extension to non-compact manifolds, such as on a cosmological scale, suggests that the mass gap may be disrupted by gravitational effects, requiring the integration of quantum gravity theory. Furthermore, the compatibility of gauge group extensions and the existence of physically realizable solutions for gauge groups outside the SU(N) group are also relevant. Currently, only indirect evidence from string theory is provided, lacking independent mathematical proof.

Chen Hui was invigorated, feeling that there was much to be done.

The current mainstream research methods mainly include topological quantum field theory reconstruction, which uses anyon weaving technology to construct the topological protected state of Yang-Mills field, and experimentally measured entanglement entropy S=0.693ln2, which is close to the theoretical limit.

Machine learning has demonstrated that the GPT-7 model developed by DeepMind in 2025 improved the computational efficiency of instantaneous solutions by 300 times through pattern recognition optimization of Ricci flow parameters.

The exploration of gauge-gravitational duality, through AdS/CFT correspondence, maps the solutions to the Yang-Mills equations to anti-de Sitter space, providing a new perspective on the existence of gravitons.

This is also Chen Hui's main focus of study at present. He doesn't know which path is the right one to the truth, so before that, he needs to understand these three methods in depth. This is undoubtedly a difficult task, but fortunately he has the time and confidence to complete it.

Of course, he has no clue yet.

Chen Hui was not discouraged. Another millennium problem, the Poincaré conjecture, was not solved by Perelman alone. It also took many years and the joint efforts of many mathematicians.

In 1960, American mathematician Smail completed the proof of the Poincaré conjecture for all manifolds of five dimensions and above. Unfortunately, his method could not prove the Poincaré conjecture for three-dimensional and four-dimensional manifolds.

It wasn't until 1981 that Friedman proved the Poincaré conjecture about four-dimensional manifolds.

Then came Perelman's well-known proof of the Poincaré conjecture for three-dimensional manifolds. He completed the roof of this building, but the walls and foundation of this building were completed by countless mathematicians.

Just like the Yang-Mills equations now, Chen Hui feels that it's time to put the roof on this edifice of Yang-Mills equations!

Although Chen Hui put away his thesis along the way, his mind did not stop thinking. He simply followed his instincts to walk into the cafeteria, get his food, sit down, and eat.

Not far from Chen Hui and his group, a group of seven people were chatting casually.

Chen Yu enthusiastically introduced her boyfriend, and as she spoke of his glorious deeds, her fair face radiated with happiness and pride.

Yin Hao and his friends couldn't help but feel a little envious. They listened with great interest to Chen Yu's stories about competing and writing papers, and even felt a sense of longing.

As for her boyfriend, he simply nodded slightly to the side, looking quite aloof.

However, Yin Hao and his friends could understand. After all, he was a top student who could publish SCI papers in his sophomore year, so it was normal for him to be a bit aloof.

But when I think of my roommate, who's such a high achiever, he's actually quite down-to-earth. It just goes to show that there are differences between academic superstars.

Suddenly, Yin Hao's eyes lit up. He actually saw Chen Dashen in the cafeteria.

"Master Chen, you actually eat too!"

Yin Hao's voice came from the side. He stopped listening to Chen Yu recount those glorious years, picked up his plate, and sat down opposite Chen Hui. Immediately, a group of people came to Chen Hui's table with their plates.

Yin Hao, Zhang Xia, Yin Hao's girlfriend Liang Xuefei, and their four or three roommates.

Chen Yu's boyfriend glanced at Chen Yu, not understanding what had happened.

Chen Yu looked somewhat uneasy; the smugness on her face had completely vanished, but she still whispered, "That genius from the Mathematics Department, Chen Hui!"

Upon hearing this, the boy's eyes lit up. Without waiting for Chen Yu, he also carried his tray and sat down at Chen Hui's table.

Li Zehan and Chen Ling'er were not there. Li Zehan had been studying with Chen Hui, but Chen Hui's pace was indeed not something a normal person could keep up with. If they hadn't been working together, it would have been difficult to find Chen Hui in the library with his phone on Do Not Disturb mode.

So, Li Zehan started going in and out of the library with Chen Ling'er, and it is said that they have recently been studying the Zhou Conjecture.

This is a conjecture proposed by Chinese mathematicians. It is an important mathematical conjecture in the field of number theory regarding the distribution of Mersenne primes, and can be considered one of the highlights of Chinese mathematicians in the field of number theory.

Of course, this conjecture itself is quite difficult. It was proposed in 1992 and has been going on for decades without being solved. It will be very difficult for Li Zehan and his two freshmen to prove it. I wish them success.

The remaining two in the dormitory, Yin Hao and Zhang Xia, were living a normal college life. However, Yin Hao got a girlfriend as soon as he entered the university, while Zhang Xia, the unlucky guy, was always all alone.

It's rare to see so many people gathered together; it must be because of some big class that everyone came over for dinner after class.

"Could the big shot be Chen Hui from the School of Mathematical Sciences?"

The boy Chen Hui didn't recognize stared intently at Chen Hui, his face full of excitement.

"Oh, he's Chen Yu's boyfriend, Yan Yi from the Computer Science Department."

Yin Hao began his introduction.

"Hello, boss."

Yan Yi looked at Chen Hui with a big smile, "You published a mathematics journal in your freshman year, I'm so envious. I heard that you're going to attend the European Mathematical Society Annual Meeting in December and give a 30-minute presentation. I'll be there too, and I'll definitely go to cheer you on."

"Hey bro, let's add each other on WeChat first!"

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Yin Hao looked at this computer science genius with a strange expression, his filter of admiration shattered.

You weren't like that just now!
I still prefer your rebellious side.

The others also had strange expressions, especially Chen Yu, who was filled with mixed feelings and remained silent for a moment.

Yan Yi completely ignored the reactions of the others. For freshmen like Yin Hao, publishing in a mathematics journal was indeed a very impressive thing, but they didn't have a concrete understanding of it. Only he, who had published a paper, knew how difficult it was to publish in a mathematics journal and what it really meant!
He only published one SCI paper in a Q2 journal, yet he has already won more than a dozen awards of all sizes from the School of Computer Science. This shows just how significant a single paper in a mathematics journal is.

Being able to befriend such a person makes saving face seem less important, and he has never felt that showing enthusiasm towards such a person is a loss of face.

(End of this chapter)