MTL - The Rise of Space Technology-Chapter 94 , ternary computer (on)

  Chapter 94, Ternary Computers (Part 1)

  In a classroom of Xinghai Science and Technology Research Institute, scientists and researchers from many chip research groups such as Li Chun, Song Cang, and Jiang Wannian gathered to discuss chip research.

"In terms of existing computer technology, it is really not an easy task for us to re-study a set of architecture design, and we also need to develop corresponding architecture design software, which is even more difficult, although I have already We've hired more than 100 software engineers across the country, but we still haven't made much progress."

  Jiang Wannian reported to the project team about chip architecture design and architecture software development.

  Liu Yuan's support for the project team is undoubtedly very huge. Tens of billions of funds are allocated casually, and the important people also let the Human Resources Department go to poach people all over the country.

   The architecture and software research groups have recruited hundreds of software engineers to develop their own architecture design software and design their own chip architecture.

   It's just that a lot of money has been spent, and a lot of people have been recruited, but the research progress has been unsatisfactory.

   On the contrary, Li Chun's side is making rapid progress. With Liu Yuan spending a lot of money, and with the addition of Liu Yuan, a talented scientist, he continues to bring out one item of technology from the seeds of inheritance.

   In just about half a month, Li Chun made a huge breakthrough.

In the extraction of silicon, the Xinghai Research Institute has developed a new purification technology, which can not only purify silicon perfectly from the sand, but the purity of the purification exceeds 99.9999999%, which can reach the highest level of manufacturing. level chip requirements.

And in terms of cost, it is many times lower than the most advanced purification technology in the world, so that when mature silicon wafers are manufactured, the financial side calculates the cost, and Liu Yuan can't help it on the spot. To be scolded.

Now the price of wafers in the world is very expensive. Each standard 12-inch wafer, according to the grade used to manufacture different chips, the price ranges from 7,000 to more than 20,000. Wafers with higher precision requirements, more expensive.

  The price of wafers used to make the most advanced chips is even higher, even more than 100,000 yuan.

   But after careful calculation by Xinghai Technology, it was found that even for wafers of the highest level chips, the cost of Xinghai Technology would not exceed 100 yuan.

   In this way, the profits are terrifying.

  Liu Yuan felt that he had bought 3,000 green coins for genetic diet pills that cost dozens of dollars, and he had already arrived at his grandmother's house, but looking at these chip manufacturers, they were better than Liu Yuan.

   Even their cost may be higher than that of Xinghai Technology, but the sale is so fresh, it is definitely faster than stealing money.

   So much so that Liu Yuan scolded on the spot after seeing the cost data.

   Hundreds of billions of green coins are spent on purchasing chips a year, and the cost of the other party may not be even a fraction of the cost.

  Li Chun is making rapid progress here. At present, wafer technology has made a breakthrough. Liu Yuan is also investing heavily in the construction of factories. In the future, he can produce wafers for chips on a large scale.

   At the same time, Liu Yuan and Li Chun have also started to study the lithography machine. If the lithography machine can be successfully overcome, it means that two of the four major problems in chip manufacturing have been overcome.

   Such a rapid pace of progress also made the software team led by Jiang Wannian and Song Cang feel a lot of pressure.

   Don't wait, Liu Yuan and Li Chun have already researched all the relevant technologies, and they don't even have a clue on their own.

  Chip is a systematic and huge project.

   Not only hardware technology, but also software technology is very important, because the global chip architecture design and the software for developing the chip architecture are all in the hands of the beautiful country.

   Even if you have made breakthroughs in hardware and can manufacture the most advanced chips, but if you have not made breakthroughs in software, you will find your own way, and you will still have to be controlled by others.

   With the beauty of the beautiful country, all your investments will be wasted when it is not worth it.

   Not to mention, in terms of patent fees alone, they can make the cost of your chips rise to sky-high prices. Even if the technology is advanced and the cost is too high, you will be unprofitable, and the huge investment will be wasted.

   "In my opinion, we may still be affected by the existing chip technology, and our thoughts and ideas are always limited to the existing technology, so we have never been able to break through."

  Liu Yuan took a look at Jiang Wannian and Song Cang. During this time, Liu Yuan was not only busy with the study of silicon purification and wafer manufacturing, but also often visited the software team.

   It is clear that Jiang Wannian and Song Cang are both working very hard. The team they lead almost often works overtime until late at night, but they still don't have much clues.

   "Limited to prior art?"

   Jiang Wannian, Song Cang and others immediately looked at Liu Yuan in unison.

For Liu Yuan, it takes a long time to get along. Basically, everyone will be deeply impressed by Liu Yuan's evil spirit and genius. There are many things, even if it is the first contact, Liu Yuan will learn a little, and he will soon be able to become this person. experts in the field.

During this period of research and purification of silicon elements, just like manufacturing wafers, Liu Yuan proposed many methods and ideas. Almost every method and idea can greatly speed up the maturity of wafer technology. With him, in just half a month In the time since then, the mature technology of purifying silicon element to manufacture wafers has been developed.

   is even more prescient, reliable, and cheaper than international technologies.

   So as soon as Liu Yuan spoke, everyone immediately listened carefully. Liu Yuan's brain didn't know how to do it, and his thoughts were like antelope hanging on his horns, and he could always think of some methods and methods that everyone could not think of at all.

   "The existing chip and computer technology can be said to be very mature and have developed to an extreme."

   "These frameworks, software designs, etc. derived from existing technologies have also been honed for decades, and have almost reached their peak."

   "It is very difficult for us to make breakthroughs in such an environment."

   "It's like a painting with splendid mountains and rivers already painted on it. It may be difficult for us to add a single stroke to it, let alone make breakthroughs based on it, and then find another way."

  Liu Yuan took out a painting and explained it to everyone in detail.

The reason    is actually very simple. Now the computer technology is very mature, it is very difficult to make a breakthrough.

In terms of software design, the current framework, design soft armor, etc., because the people in the beautiful country occupy the first advantage, so they occupy almost all directions and fields, and your latecomers can only be based on them. Plan the direction and path to move forward.

   This also means that under the existing computer technology, they will always be undefeated, because they have mastered all the rules and roads, and they can win while sitting and charging royalties.

   "You mean we're going to re-break everything that exists?"

   Jiang Wannian thought about it and said.

   "Yes~"

   "Since the existing computer technology has been fully mastered by them, we can no longer make breakthroughs."

   "Why do we still study these things, why don't we just re-paint on a blank sheet of paper?"

Liu Yuan nodded solemnly, then took out a blank piece of paper and said, "Since they have mastered all the framework technologies and software technologies of binary computers, why don't we study ternary, quaternary, and quinary. , or even decimal technology?"

   "And computer technology is not limited to current technology, can we study photonic computers and quantum computers?"

   Liu Yuan smiled and nodded.

The advantages of the    binary computer are very obvious. Based on the algorithm of 0 and 1, combined with the on and off of the circuit, it is very easy to implement in the circuit, very concise and efficient.

   But binary computers also have some shortcomings. When representing a number, there are too many digits, and octal and hexadecimal are often used.

   And because of the characteristics of binary computers, the requirements for chips are getting higher and higher. Under the huge computing load, the temperature of computer chips will become higher and higher.

   At the same time, because it is only based on the judgment of yes and no, this brings great obstacles and limitations to artificial intelligence technology. Sometimes the judgment of a transaction is not only yes and no, but also unknown and other situations.

   This is also the reason why the development of computer technology is getting slower and slower now. It is difficult for technology to make leap-forward breakthroughs, and it has developed to a peak.

  Liu Yuan is based on many kinds of computer technologies in the inheritance of seeds, photon computers, quantum computers, and space computers, and even among the top civilizations in the universe, there are cosmic computers.

   Any kind of computer technology will completely explode the existing binary computer technology.

   "Repaint on blank paper?"

   "A ternary computer?"

   "Photonic computer?"

   "Quantum computer?"

   When everyone heard this, their eyes widened slightly.

   What the **** is Liu Yuan thinking about? He even thought of ternary computers, photonic computers, and quantum computers. You don’t treat everyone as human at all, and you come here when you open your mouth.

  It is difficult to do research on the existing basis, but do you think it is really easy to draw on blank paper?

   Ternary computer, quantum computer, photonic computer, if everyone follows you like this, they will die on this computer sooner or later. How can these technologies be researched so easily?

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