Chapter 786: Chapter 746: Technology is a Double-Edged Sword
Lincoln didn’t rush to make a decision but buried his head in the technology information, roughly going through it to verify whether the second option was actually feasible.
If, as he imagined, the chip industry’s fate could be changed by relying on branch technology, then there’s no doubt the profits would be huge and the risks would be the most controllable.
If they want to manufacture a consciousness chip in the future, the prerequisite technology is indispensable.
However, after spending a long time sorting it out, Lincoln realized—
His idea was too idealistic.
Technology isn’t simply a matter of addition and subtraction, and the manufacturing of consciousness chips isn’t as simple as “artificial protein + graphene chip”.
It isn’t modular.
—On the contrary, the consciousness chip is an extremely closely-knit structure as a whole. Any slight change would influence the entire system. It’s not something he could just take parts out of as he wished.
It seems that the only thing that can be taken out for use is some basic technology of the graphene chips.
These technologies still hold significant value today.
But this value lies in the subsequent research value, not the usage value.
Because it’s far from enough to manufacture a graphene chip—if they give up on artificial proteins, even the circuit design will have to start from scratch.
If they want to create a graphene chip and launch a chip revolution, they’ll have to invest a lot of time and effort in learning the related technology, investing in laboratories, recruiting talent, and leading teams to break through.
Even if they succeed, the performance of the initial generation of graphene chips would hardly surpass that of silicon-based chips, which have been developed to the extreme.