At that time, it was speculated that this kind of chip may have been left on the earth by aliens hundreds of millions of years ago, or there may have been another high-tech civilization before humans appeared on the earth. Of course, some people think that this chip is probably a biological fossil.
The technology industry has changed the way we live and do business, and 20 17 will bring even greater changes. For startups, 20 17 means more new technology applications and new opportunities brought by it.
1. The acceleration of bank automation
Many people say that the automation of the banking industry began with the launch of 1998 PayPal. It is predicted that by the end of the fourth quarter of 20 16, this global online payment system will complete the payment of 348 billion US dollars, covering more than 190 countries and 28 currencies. Meanwhile, in the third quarter of this year, PayPal's revenue reached $2.67 billion. The company spun off from Yi Bei has a market value of nearly $50 billion.
Nowadays, more online banks and financial service providers are booming, bringing higher efficiency and lower cost to consumers.
But traditional banks will not "fall asleep". They are looking for financial software companies that can help them to automate their services and compete with online financial technology companies. All this means a major change in the traditional banking industry.
2. The rise of investment and wealth management services.
In the past, many investors lost money in their investments because their data were limited. Now, everything has changed. With the help of big data technology and robot consultants to interpret and analyze the data, robot consultants can turn big data into meaningful data for individual investors, and the world of investment transactions has basically been democratized.
Therefore, in 20 17 years, the demand for financial planners/consultants will decline, and in the coming year, the big data financial services provided by small intelligent technology companies will gain greater market share.
Artificial intelligence is obviously a part of big data technology, and it will continue to become more and more complex. Machines can analyze economic and financial patterns and predict "winners", "losers" and financial trends in the market.
3. Blockchain keeps hot
From bitcoin to blockchain, we have witnessed the rapid development of financial technology. With the emergence of more and more digital transactions, other financial institutions have also seen the value of blockchain. Through blockchain technology, they can continue to promote the automation of services and let customers use a wider range of digital transactions.
After 20 17, financial technology companies that develop more and more mature blockchain software will usher in greater market demand.
4. Traditional software suppliers are impacted.
Financial technology companies provide customers with services that traditional banks cannot provide. Although the essence of business has not changed, the improvement of business process and customer experience is infinite. As banks change their service structure and integrate the services of financial technology providers, they will retain customers.
On the one hand, financial technology companies develop software for traditional banks to help them digitize their business and provide better services to customers at lower costs; On the other hand, traditional software developers, such as IBM, usually need several years to develop, approve, implement and train new software, which increases the burden on banks.
This is a question about conspiracy theories. You can't be sure whether the source of any news and its specific content are 100% true, just like the "stone chips" written in the first answer.
That's a fake! There is no basis!
Conspiracy theorists' spiritual food!
If the chip is an alien technology, then this alien civilization is too backward. Not only is it backward, but aliens probably have to dress up as teachers to teach us all kinds of integrated circuits, otherwise we may not know what a "chip" is at all.
Chip is not the product of so-called human evolution! Humans will not suddenly have such a thing as a "chip" in their heads because of evolution.
This is actually the crystallization of human exploration and research on materials. Almost all the objects we can see and touch in the world, like chips, are made of a variety of materials mixed, combined and matched. We use all available elements on the earth to produce thousands of combinations through research, and the chip is just one of the products.
These chips that humans are using now were invented by humans.
Kilby's father was an electrical engineer and was the president of Kansas Electric Power Company, so kilby became interested in electrical equipment at an early age. In the eyes of the world, kilby is indeed a typical science and engineering man. Kilby, whose height is 1 m 89, has a kind face, Mediterranean curly hair and speaks surprisingly slowly. However, kilby's hands-on ability is first-class. Moreover, kilby has always been willing to be treated as an engineer and has always been quite confident in his hands-on ability.
1958, kilby was 34 years old and officially joined Texas instruments. At that time, the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union entered its first climax. From 65438 to 0957, the world's first artificial satellite was successfully put into the predetermined orbit by the Soviet Space Agency, and the domestic public opinion in the United States was in an uproar, which made the US authorities and the US military departments feel pressure. At that time, the US military had established a cooperative relationship with Texas Instruments, and the US military asked Texas Instruments to develop miniaturized computer equipment. In other words, kilby was employed by Texas Instruments to let kilby participate in the miniaturization project of computer equipment that Texas Instruments is vigorously promoting. However, kilby is not interested in this. Kilby believes that instead of integrating all the finished components together as planned by Texas Instruments, it is better to integrate these components into a chip from the beginning. Therefore, it can avoid complex connections between components. In order to test this idea, kilby took advantage of the vacation of other employees of Texas Instruments to stay alone in the semiconductor laboratory to carry out this research.
Maybe we don't know that alien civilization has chip technology for a long time, but the chips used in existing computers, mobile phones and other equipment are all obtained through long-term exploration and development.
The chip is essentially an integrated circuit.
In fact, the development of integrated circuits has gone through a long process:
1906, the first electron tube was born;
19 12 years, the maturity of electron tube production triggered the development of radio technology;
19 18 years, semiconductor materials were gradually discovered;
1920 discovered the photosensitive characteristics of semiconductor materials;
1956, the silicon mesa transistor came out;
At the end of 1960, the world's first silicon integrated circuit was manufactured;
1966, Bell Laboratories produces recognized LSI;
1988, 16M DRAM came out, and 35 million transistors were integrated on the chip with the size of 1 cm2, which marked that VLSI entered a higher stage.
1997, 300Mhz Pentium II came out, using 0.25 micron process;
In 2009, the new Intel Core I series was launched, adopting the leading 32 nm process.
There is no doubt that intelligent technology will penetrate into almost all old industries like the Internet. A research report on the artificial intelligence industry mentioned nine industries: life service O2O, medical care, retail, financial industry, digital marketing, agriculture, industry, commerce and online education. In fact, many old industries will be reborn, such as military, media, home, medical and health industries, life sciences, energy, public sector ... and even virtual industries affected by the development of VR/AR (virtual reality and augmented reality) technology.