Chapter 183 Pickup Truck Turns into Ferrari(2/2)
But there is a phenomenon. As the process approaches the nano-level, the difficulty of increasing the ground will double. At the same time, the interference phenomenon according to quantum theory is becoming more and more serious.
This is also the main reason for the unstable in our laboratory products.
International research shows that once it breaks through ten nanometers, it will reach the current physical limit. Therefore, if nothing unexpected happens, the semiconductor industry will reach a bottleneck in more than ten years or at most twenty years. This is also a great opportunity for us to catch up and surpass it.
I suggest that we immediately conduct a comprehensive study of superconducting materials that have surpassed the bottleneck!"
Xiao Qiang was silent for a moment and turned to ask the researchers in the materials department: "Can the research on superconducting materials be achieved in more than ten years? Can it be transferred to practicality?"
The head of the materials department thought for a long time, discussed it with the department researchers, and said with a wry smile: "It's difficult! It's still possible to achieve certain results. But it's probably difficult to be practical for 20 or 30 years. Superconducting materials are an international problem!"
Xiao Qiang nodded, clapped his hands to let everyone pay attention, and said, "The current situation and future of computer development just now. I guess everyone here has heard it. From the current perspective, based on the current research progress and the trend of human scientific development, computer development will enter a bottleneck in the short term. Do you have any ideas about this issue?"
The researchers here were all silent.
How can they solve international problems that cannot be solved by even computer science and materials science? The limit of physics is the limit of physics. This is the reality of science. It is not just that you can walk through the ground with your mouth.
"Or why don't we just start a new business and build a biological computer?" A researcher in a biochemistry discipline said suddenly, "Now everyone is discussing intelligence. When it comes to intelligence, is there any more characteristic than the computers manufactured according to biological neural theory? In a drop of water, there are billions of biomolecular chains. If we can successfully operate organic molecules, we will get an integrated chipset that is stronger than the current chip? Moreover, its power consumption is almost negligible, and its data storage is far more than that of current silicon chip computers. I think this will be a great development direction!"
As soon as he said something, he suddenly felt like he had poked a hornet's nest. People in the computer science discipline glared at him. However, the researchers in the biochemistry discipline cheered loudly.
If you study biological computers, a lot of the knowledge in the computer discipline will be rewritten. And you have worked hard. How can the computer scientists who have come to this point stand up angrily and accused the other party of reading too many science fiction novels. Even if biological computers can be realized, they will not be able to achieve results in a short period of time. Instead of wasting time and money on this project, it is better to think about how to solve superconducting materials, which is more realistic.
The biochemistry department also felt the more she thought about it, the more she felt that Tongxiao was right. They thought that Xiao Qiang would call them, a department that was not very close to computers, to discuss computer development, and obviously had similar ideas. They immediately felt confident, and they also refuted the arguments of the computer discipline and compared the gap between chip computers and biological computers.
The first advantage they take out is speed.
The speed of biological computers, based on their familiarity with DNA encoding, just a little calculation is obtained. According to this calculation, if the biological computer is developed, all the calculations that have been performed by computers before. It takes several days for biological computers to complete the calculations!
Its speed is unprecedented. A biological computer can surpass the sum of all existing computers!
But the computer department was very aggressive and asked them to come up with solutions. Everyone in the country avoided talking about it.
Not to mention anything else, just talk about the DNA map, and it is still being cracked. There is not even a complete DNA database, so what is the biological computer? Otherwise, DNA map drawing would not be called the Century Project!
With the DNA Map, this is the first step in the Long March. Every step of the development process will face problems that existing technology cannot solve. That is, researchers in the discipline of biochemistry are both stubborn and muttering in their hearts. They are reserved about whether biological computers can be released.
They fought here, and the people from the photoelectronics discipline discussed for a while, and suddenly joined the battle group.
What they proposed is another type of computer: quantum computer!
Compared with biological computers, quantum computers are faster!
According to quantum mechanics, quantum storage can be superimposed. Therefore, as long as there are n quantums in the CPU, data can be twice as high as n ground in one operation. Compared with computers today, no matter how many transistors are synthesized, they can only perform one data operation at a time, and their speed is incomparable!
According to this calculation method, as long as five thousand quantum needle computers are integrated, its thirty-second calculation results are now, and now traditional supercomputers need to calculate for 10 billion years!
If quantum computers are released, they will use them to virtualize a small-scale environment to change. It will be easy!
The computer department is arguing with the biochemistry department. Unexpectedly, the optoelectronics discipline emerged again, and a quantum computer appeared!
This completely subverts the current computer theory!
Xiao Qiang listened for a while. Seeing that they became more and more quarrels, some researchers were already blushing and thick-necked. They rolled up their sleeves and prepared to start, so they quickly clapped their hands to calm them down.
He didn't say anything. He lowered his head and thought for a long time, but he didn't expect such a big storm to occur.
He looked at the materials discipline and asked, "They mentioned biological computers, quantum computers. What do you think of the materials department?"
The materials department did not hesitate at all and blurted out: "The basic composition of biological computers is not within our research scope, so we cannot comment. However, we should study quantum computer base materials. We would rather study superconducting materials! At least. This is a research project that can see the results!"
The computer department laughed in unison, extremely proud.
The researchers in the discipline of biochemistry and optoelectronics stood together. They stared at them with the same hatred, obviously not convinced.
Xiao Qiang stood up slowly and looked around. He said, "I have gained a lot of knowledge today and heard about biological computers and quantum computers. These are all future computers! As long as it is developed, humans will probably conquer the Earth, even the solar system, the Milky Way will probably conquer it!"
The computer department burst into laughter again.
Researchers in the discipline of biochemistry and optoelectronics were overwhelmed by the boss's words, and their frustration was beyond words.
Xiao Qiang said again: "I heard that there is another photon computer. I don't know if you have heard of it."
"Optical brain?" The smile of the computer department suddenly froze. The researchers in the optoelectronics discipline became excited, and only the biochemistry discipline was a little listless.
"The propagation speed of light is one thousand times that of electrons. And light is not charged and has no magnetic field interference." Xiao Qiang used this as an opening remark to introduce the photon computer. "Light does not need wire connections. Light channels with a thickness of a coin for every five cents can accommodate all the communication content in the world. What do you think?"
The materials department and the people's faces were dark.
Speaking of which, this task is also comparable to the development of superconducting materials. The difficulty of the research and development of the two is equally different.
Of course, this is always possible to complete tasks, which are easier than the vague biological computers and quantum computers.
The discipline of optoelectronics is naturally supported immediately. Although photon computers are much behind quantum computers, they are relatively easy to manufacture.
Faced with Xiao Qiang's inquiry, they immediately said that the development of light brains is theoretically possible.
The core part of photon computers is light conduction, optical computing, optical control and optical storage.
Optical conduction is a problem that has been solved for a long time. The optical fiber transmission technology used is now very mature and can be used directly. Optical computing can also be implemented.
The problem of limiting the occurrence of photon computers lies in optical storage and light control.
Photon computers are not new. As early as the 1960s, scientists proposed the concept of photon computers first, which was limited to the manufacturing technology capabilities at that time. They could not be converted into physical objects.
With the advancement of science, people are increasingly seeing the possibility of light and brain realization.
Optical transmission has been resolved.
In 1986, Bell Laboratories manufactured the first photo transistor and in 1990, the first computer based on this photo transistor.
However, this optical transistor is too large.
The computer has a volume of fifty times fifty centimeters. It can only do mathematical operations.
If all of these optical transistors are used to create an optical brain with similar performance as today's desktop computers, its size will reach the size of a car!
Another difficulty that is difficult to solve now is optical storage. This does not refer to storage media such as cvd and dvd, but optical memory. The advantage of photon computers lies in their speed. Without high-speed memory for data conversion, the advantages of photon computers cannot be reflected at all.
But, how to store light?
Almost all scientists have invested in this research project, as long as they solve the problem of optical information storage. The rest is the matter of modern integrated circuit technology. They only need to continuously miniaturize optical transistors, and they can quickly make new computers that surpass the current computers!
But this gave everyone hope.
Both the United States and Japan invested heavily in the research of photon computers. The United States immediately announced that it would invest 2 billion US dollars, and Japan was not outdone and announced that it would invest twice the bottom of the capital for research.
Seven countries including Britain, France, Germany and Italy also jointly invested heavily in researching photon computers. In 1993, it announced that it would build a light brain, which was a speed of one thousand times higher than the current calculation!
Xiao Qiang thought about it for a long time before he made up his mind.
Moreover, he believes that he has a way to solve some of the problems in optical brain manufacturing, which is of great help to the first practical optical brain that was born at Universal Corporation!
At the same time, China's research on laser technology is earlier than that of all countries in the world. Many technical difficulties can also be requested from domestic research institutions, and the possibility of realization is very high.
The light brain will be the booster of Universal’s soaring power!
With it, all research progress will rise in geometric numbers, and it will only be a matter of time before the world leads the world!
Light brain, the computer for the next century, is Xiao Qiang’s latest goal!
Even if it takes ten or twenty years to sell the money, he made up his mind to create a photon computer! He wants to seize this opportunity and never wait for the technology to mature!
He will have steps to complete it in stages until he achieves final success!
Chapter completed!