Guan Yang finally knew what the deep blue in the deep blue storage meant. The deep blue was actually a reference to living things.
"We are a scientific research enterprise, don't we have profit requirements?"
"Can companies that are conducting research on biostorage technology with Russia rely on financial funding to survive?"
"How much allocation does the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission give us every year? I can prepare a recruitment plan."
"Doing preparatory research on biological storage. Although I have been engaged in the storage industry for many years and have been on the front line of research and development before, I really don't understand biological storage."
"In my understanding, this thing is still a long way from commercialization, and the country needs to be prepared for long-term investment."
"At that time, Yangtze Storage said it planned to invest only three years without making any money. Deep Blue Storage conservatively estimated that it would last thirty years."
Guan Yang usually wouldn't say so much. When he took over the job in Yanjing, he was really overwhelmed when the R&D director told him that their main business was biological storage.
It's a bit funny to partner with Damao to develop biological storage technology.
Da Mao's presence in the biological field is as weak as their presence in the semiconductor field.
Of course many years ago, maybe a hundred years ago, the big-haired creatures were still very powerful. As for now, one hundred years ago, in various contemporary biological journals and medical journals, it is rare to see their highly cited papers and highly cited biologists.
R&D director Fei Hongbo waited for Guan Yang to finish talking and realized that he was very pessimistic about the prospects of Deep Blue Storage.
If he hadn't been transferred from the research institute under the Bureau of Anomaly Investigation, he would have been very pessimistic.
Fei Hongbo knew he had to appease the new chairman, "We actually already have products that can be commercialized."
"What? There is already a commercial product?"
"Old Fei, when we were in the institute, you weren't someone who liked to talk big."
Fei Hongbo was Guan Yang’s former colleague at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Although they were in different majors, they were relatively good friends back then.
Fei Hongbo's recommendation was also one of the factors that led to the selection of Guan Yang, 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 manager, 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: "Isn't it a biological memory chip made by American Company, and then put some data in it, and the writing process is actually extremely complicated?"
Fei Hongbo reminded: "Biological storage servers are not chips nor hard drives."
Guan Yang's curiosity was completely aroused, and he stood up: "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.
What stood 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 there are flocs floating in the water, which is somewhat similar to jellyfish but not as regular as jellyfish.
One end of the floc is fixed in place.
The front half is a black signal writing device, which is responsible for reading and writing data from the flocculent organisms at the back. There are various interfaces on the front that can be directly connected to switches, servers or personal computers.
Guan Yang squatted down as if looking for traces of the hard drive. There was a ventilation device in the transparent part at the back. Obviously there was no hard drive.
He pinned his hopes on finding traces of the hard drive in the cracks in the black steel plate on the front.
"Is this really a biological storage server?" Guan Yang turned around and asked after trying for a while with no results.
"This is our biostorage server."
"The samples jointly created by Huawei and Huawei currently use the memory chip and architecture of Huawei's most high-end dorado 18800."
"But since this product framework is still aimed at flash memory, we will specifically optimize the memory chip and architecture for biological storage technology in the future."
Guan Yang shouted: "How is the data? Compared with Huawei's all-flash products, how is the performance? What is the cost?"
After seeing this, Guan Yang no longer doubted the authenticity of biological storage technology. He just wanted to know how difficult it would be to promote this technology on a large scale.
"Judging from the current test data, compared with Huawei's all-flash products, the end-to-end latency is shortened by ten times. Since we have only obtained the stability, we are still testing it."
For example, storage stability needs to be tested for a longer time, because after all, this thing is not prone to problems.
Problems with enterprise-class storage servers are a big deal, and stability requirements are always very high.
It takes a period of high-voltage testing to determine the stability.
"But judging from the current performance, the stability will not be worse than that of all-flash products."
"The most important point is the amount of data storage. The effective amount of data stored in 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 all-flash products."
"We don't know the cost yet."
In terms of cost, we have to wait for the Bureau of Abnormalities to set the price. Since it involves the labor cost of the mage, and Huaguo invested 5 magic coins in it, the cost will be astronomical if it is really calculated.
"How long will it take for personal products to be realized? Can personal computers be promoted on a large scale?" Guan Yang asked.
Fei Hongbo said directly: "It takes time, and we can't do it now. Moreover, even if we achieve miniaturization technically, there will still be certain problems."
"This biological storage is actually a combination of biology and machinery. He needs nutrient solution to survive, and he needs to be given regular infusions."
"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 your computer's storage capacity is changed from 1 terabyte to 1,000 terabytes of storage capacity, the cost is only regular infusion of fluids into the computer, and most people would be willing to do so.
Guan Yang stood up straight, his eyes red. As a veteran of the industry for many years, he knew that localization of the storage industry was not easy.
Since the beginning of the 20th century, companies such as Samsung, Hynix, and Micron have controlled the upstream of storage. They do both personal and enterprise business.
What the majority of consumers feel deeply is that the price of memory modules has increased wantonly. In 2017, the price of memory modules nearly quadrupled.
This is true for memory modules on the consumer side, and it is also true on the enterprise side. When China purchases foreign enterprise storage products, a large part of its profits are eaten up by these companies in the upper reaches of the industry.
Guan Yang knew that they no longer had to be choked by others. Instead, they could now choke other countries.
With the same volume, the data capacity is a thousand times that of previous storage technologies, and he knows what this means.
Samsung, Toshiba, Micron and other companies will have to kill half of their lives. Samsung will not die, only Samsung's enterprise storage business will die.
The personal storage business can be saved for the time being.
It's just that Yangtze River Storage did not accomplish this day, and he was not the one who experienced it.
Guan Yang has been with Yangtze Memory since its establishment. He thought they would end the era of arbitrary price increases by upstream manufacturers.
They did achieve part of it, but in the end they still relied on the biological storage technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to achieve dimensionality reduction.
"Why didn't you use this technology earlier? You could use it when the effect wasn't as good as it is now.
For example, if the capacity is only twice that of an all-flash product and the end-to-end latency is the same, it can be used first. "Guan Yang didn't understand very much.
Fei Hongbo knew the inside story, but he couldn't tell it due to confidentiality regulations. He whispered: "The conditions were not mature before."
"You know what's difficult about biological storage technology."
"Previously, the reading and writing of biological storage has not been solved for a long time. It is only in the past two years that there has been a breakthrough."
Fei Hongbo admired himself in his heart for being so resourceful and finding an appropriate explanation in such a short period of time.
