235: Fenglei T1 chip is released

Crucially, with the new technology replacing semiconductors, their Fenglei T1 Chip production costs are also low.

Previously, Nvidia and Qualcomm used to sell a single chip for seven hundred US dollars.

The price for 1-nanometer precision would be even more expensive.

Many companies, due to the high price of chips, were forced to increase product prices, which indirectly affected sales.

But not buying them was not an option.

Without this technology themselves, their necks were tightly constrained.

Ren Yi roughly estimated in his mind.

If calculated based on producing ten thousand chips at once, the cost per chip would only be around one hundred US dollars.

It is said that the internal production cost of a 3-nanometer chip at a certain foundry is as high as three hundred US dollars.

Calculating this way, Fenglei T1 Chip is likely to have become the world's lowest-cost and most precise chip factory.

“CEO Ren, what do you think about the naming of this chip…?”

On this side, an old expert from the research institute spoke, his eyes gleaming with excitement.

With the release of this chip, China's decades-long history of chip sanctions and being constrained will likely come to a complete end.

Ren Yi nodded, saying with some emotion, “In my opinion, let’s call it the ‘Fenglei T1 Chip’…”

Ren Yi thought for a moment and decided to stick with this relatively simple naming convention.

Firstly, it continues their car company's naming style.

Secondly, the name “Fenglei” also carries a special meaning.

“Excellent name, Fenglei T1 Chip!!”

“This name is very imposing, CEO Ren has great literary talent!!”

Dean President Liu Zhou also praised him.

The R&D personnel present, as well as the group of gray-haired experts, looked at each other.

They repeated the name twice in their mouths, and their eyes were shining!

Ren Yi continued, “Our chip costs are low, so I think we can install two more Fenglei T1 Chips into the ADS Intelligent Driving System, which will directly double the computing power.”

Previously, the energy consumption of four Nvidia 1-nanometer chips already reached 1000W.

However, their two “Fenglei T1 Chips” only consume 200W, which further reduces the overall heat dissipation pressure.

If these figures were released, they would directly shock people to death.

“Since the chip is out, immediately apply it to the Zhi Jia System and conduct road tests.”

Ren Yi immediately gave the order.

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Soon, the experts from the R&D department and the research institute became busy again.

Time flew by.

A week passed in a flash.

In the office, Zhang Kangyang reported excitedly, “CEO Ren, the new Fenglei T1 Chip has been installed in the latest batch of manufactured car models, and the factory tests have been completed.”

“The smoothness of our previous car system has increased by more than 5 times, and the accuracy of the autonomous driving algorithm has also doubled.”

Upon hearing this, Ren Yi was delighted.

He didn't expect the performance of the Fenglei T1 Chip to improve so much.

A few days later, the first batch of Fenglei T1 Chips had been installed for trial, and the ultra-high computing power of this chip significantly improved the Zhi Jia System performance of all models under Fenglei.

Previously, Fenglei's ADS Intelligent Driving System was already far ahead, even more intelligent than Tesla's FSD autonomous driving system.

Now, after replacing it with the world's strongest superconductor chip, the entire Zhi Jia System is even smoother to an unbeatable level.

It's like upgrading from an initial L3 level to an L4 level of driving technology.

It was already unbeatable before.

Now, it can only be said that it is far ahead on the path to being unbeatable!

It should be noted that this is a huge breakthrough in pure computing power.

It was purely achieved by brute force stacking chip precision.

Moreover, the algorithm itself has not yet fully adapted to fully utilize the chip's computing power.

In other words, with the support of such powerful computing power, Fenglei's software and Zhi Jia System will become even more powerful after a period of evolution and adaptation.

Ren Yi nodded with satisfaction.

The current performance and achievable effects of the superconductor chip will certainly cause a major earthquake in the chip industry.

“In that case, you can inform them.”

“Post an announcement on the official website, stating that Fenglei will stop the delivery of all car models for the next half month, and will hold an ADS3.0 upgrade version press conference, which will be newly launched three days later.”

Ren Yi said.

“By the way, is Tesla planning to hold a press conference recently?”

Just after saying this, Ren Yi suddenly remembered.

“Yes, CEO Ren, Tesla is also planning to hold a press conference this time to announce their latest chip and revised autonomous driving technology.”

Zhang Kangyang answered truthfully.

Hearing this, a smile appeared on Ren Yi's face.

“In that case, let’s schedule it at the same time as Tesla, and see what that old fellow Elon Musk has to say.”

Thinking of how Elon Musk has been targeting their Fenglei both openly and secretly for so long, and now even collaborating with Nvidia to create a new Zhi Jia System to snatch Fenglei’s market, Ren Yi suddenly felt a bit mischievous.

He wanted to see how exciting Elon Musk’s expression would be when the Fenglei T1 Chip and ADS3.0 Intelligent Driving System were revealed!

Online, Fenglei released a piece of news.

“Fenglei will cease production and delivery immediately for half a month, hoping that consumers and car owners are aware.”

“And in three days, a press conference for the new chip will be held, at which time the chip software configuration and Zhi Jia System of the models under its brand will undergo a major revision and update.”

As soon as the news was released, it topped the hot search lists of major websites.

Many netizens panicked when they saw the first sentence.

“Oh my god, half a month… Fenglei is going to stop production for half a month?”

“No way, is Fenglei really going bankrupt??”

“It’s over… domestic cars are actually going to be out of print!!”

Many people were somewhat shocked by this news.

Although they knew that Fenglei would eventually run out of inventory due to the cutoff of chip materials, they didn't expect it to come so quickly.

Below, some netizens quickly reminded.

“Upstairs, do you need to open your eyes wider and look carefully? They said they would stop production for half a month, then resume production, and update the chip software configuration.”

“Is there any expert who can explain what’s going on with Fenglei? Does it mean they really don’t have chips? What’s the meaning of the new car model update? They’re not going to cut off the original Zhi Jia System, are they?”

“If that’s really the case, Fenglei would be crippling itself, at the very least losing its left and right arms!!”

“The Zhi Jia System is the core competitiveness of new energy vehicles. Will anyone still order Fenglei cars then??”

The onlookers below were discussing.

Some were car owners who hadn’t picked up their cars yet, and what they feared most now was that Fenglei had no chips.

They could only try to get some domestic low-end old chips to replace them.

Even if the cars produced this way could run, due to limited computing power and precision, autonomous driving and software functions would be practically out of the question.

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