In a classroom at the Xinghai Institute of Technology, Li Chun, Song Cang, Jiang Wannian and many other scientists and researchers from the chip research group gathered together to discuss chip research.
"With the existing computer technology, it is really not an easy task for us to re-research a set of architectural design, and we also need to develop corresponding architectural design software, which is even more difficult, although I have already
We have recruited more than 100 software engineers across the country, but so far we still haven't made much progress."
Jiang Wannian reported the chip architecture design and architecture software development to the project team.
Liu Yuan's support for the project team is undoubtedly huge. Tens of billions of funds have been allocated, and important people have asked the Human Resources Department to recruit people from all over the country.
Regarding architecture alone, the software research group has recruited hundreds of software engineers to develop its own architecture design software and design its 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 progress was rapid. With Liu Yuan's heavy investment and the joining of Liu Yuan, a talented scientist, he continued to bring out technologies one by one from the inherited seeds.
In just about half a month, Li Chun achieved a huge breakthrough.
In terms of refining silicon elements, Xinghai Research Institute has developed a brand new purification technology, which can not only perfectly purify silicon elements from sand, but also achieve a purity of more than 99.9999999%, which can completely reach the highest level of manufacturing.
Grade chip requirements.
Moreover, in terms of cost, it is many times lower than the most advanced purification technology in the world. So when the mature silicon wafers were manufactured, Liu Yuan couldn't help but calculate the cost on the financial side.
I'm about to scold him.
The price of wafers in the world is very expensive now. The price of each standard 12-inch wafer ranges from 7,000 to more than 20,000 depending on the grade used to make different chips. The higher the precision requirements, the higher the wafer price.
The price is more expensive.
The price of wafers used to manufacture the most advanced chips is even higher, even exceeding 100,000 yuan.
However, after careful calculation by Xinghai Technology, they found that even the cost of manufacturing wafers for the highest-level chips would not exceed 100 yuan.
Calculated in this way, the profits involved are terrifying.
Liu Yuan felt that buying 3,000 green coins for a genetic weight-loss drug that cost tens of yuan was already a shameless act, but looking at these chip manufacturers, they were even worse than Liu Yuan.
Even though their cost may be higher than that of Xinghai Technology, but the sales are so fast, it is definitely faster than grabbing money.
So much so that Liu Yuan cursed on the spot after seeing the cost data.
Hundreds of billions of green coins are spent on purchasing chips a year, and the other party may not even need a fraction of the cost, it is all profit. If no one breaks through this technology, the money spent will not be worth it.
Li Chun's side is making rapid progress. Currently, wafer technology has achieved a breakthrough. Liu Yuan's side is also spending huge sums of money to invest in building factories, so that in the future, wafers for chip manufacturing can be produced on a large scale.
At the same time, Liu Yuan and Li Chun have also begun to study photolithography machines. If they can successfully conquer the photolithography machines, it means that two of the four major problems in chip manufacturing have been overcome.
Such rapid progress has also put the software team led by Jiang Wannian and Song Cang under great pressure.
By then, Liu Yuan and Li Chun have already researched all the relevant technologies, but I don't even have a clue yet.
The chip is a systematic and huge project.
Not only hardware technology, but software technology is also very important, because the global chip architecture design and the software for developing chip architecture are all in the hands of the beautiful country.
Even if you make a breakthrough in hardware and can create the most advanced chips, if you don't make a breakthrough in software and find your own way, you will still be controlled by others.
With the beauty of the country, all your investment will be wasted if it is not worth it.
Not to mention anything else, in terms of patent fees alone, they can raise the cost of your chips to sky-high prices. Even if the technology is advanced, if the cost is too high, you will not be profitable, and the huge investment will be in vain.
"In my opinion, we may still be affected by the existing chip technology. Our thoughts and ideas are always limited to the existing technology, so we have never been able to break through."
Liu Yuan looked at Jiang Wannian and Song Cang. During this period, Liu Yuan was not only busy studying the purification of silicon elements and manufacturing wafers, but also often visited the software team.
It is clear that both Jiang Wannian and Song Cang worked very hard, and the team they led often worked overtime until late at night, but they still had no big clue.
"Limited to existing technology?"
When Jiang Wannian, Song Cang and others heard this, they all looked at Liu Yuan.
As for Liu Yuan, if we get along with him for a long time, basically everyone will be deeply impressed by Liu Yuan's monster and genius. Even if it is his first contact with many things, Liu Yuan will soon be able to become this with a little study.
Experts in the field.
During this period of time, Liu Yuan proposed many methods and ideas to purify silicon elements and manufacture wafers. Almost every method and idea can greatly speed up the maturity of wafer technology. With him here, in just half a month,
At that time, mature technology for purifying silicon elements to make wafers was developed.
It is even more foresighted, reliable and lower cost 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. His thoughts were like an antelope hanging its horns, and he could always think of some ways and methods that no one could think of.
"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 been tempered for decades and have almost reached their peak state."
"It is very difficult for us to make another breakthrough in such an environment."
"This is like a painting, which has already been painted with beautiful mountains and rivers. It may be difficult for us to add one stroke to another, let alone make breakthroughs and find new ways based on this."
Liu Yuan took out a painting and explained it in detail to everyone.
The reason is actually very simple. Today's computer technology is very mature, and it is very difficult to make breakthroughs again.
In terms of software design, the current frameworks, design software, etc., because people from the beautiful country have the first advantage, they have occupied almost all directions and fields, and you who are late can only follow them.
Plan the direction and path to move forward.
This also means that under the current computer technology, they will always be invincible, because they have mastered all the rules and roads, and they can win just by collecting patent fees.
"You mean we're going to break everything again?"
Jiang Wannian thought for a while and said.
"Yes~"
"Now that they have mastered all the existing computer technologies, we can no longer make a breakthrough."
"Why do we still study these things? Why don't we just draw on a blank piece of paper?"
Liu Yuan nodded solemnly, then took out a piece of white paper and said: "Since they have mastered all the framework technology and software technology of binary computers, why don't we study ternary, quaternary, and quinary systems?"
, or even decimal technology?”
"Also, computer technology is not limited to current technology. We can study photon computers. What about quantum computers?"
Liu Yuan smiled and nodded.
The advantages of binary computers are very obvious. Based on the operation rules of 0 and 1, combined with the on and off of the circuit, it is very easy to implement in the circuit, very simple and efficient.
However, binary computers also have some shortcomings. When expressing a number, there are too many digits, so octal and hexadecimal systems 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 the computer chip 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 or no, but also unknown and other situations.
This is also the reason why computer technology is developing more and more slowly now. It is difficult for technology to achieve a leap-forward breakthrough, and it has reached a peak.
Liu Yuan has learned a lot of computer technologies in his inheritance seeds, including photon computers, quantum computers, and space computers. There is even a cosmic computer among the top civilizations in the universe.
Any computer technology will completely overwhelm existing binary computer technology.
“Draw again on a blank paper?”
"Ternary computer?"
"Photonic computer?"
"Quantum computer?"
When everyone heard this, their eyes widened slightly.
What on earth is Liu Yuan thinking in his head? He actually thinks of ternary computers, photon computers, and quantum computers. You don't treat everyone as human beings at all. You just open your mouth.
It is difficult to do research on the existing basis, but do you think it is really easy to draw on a blank paper?
Ternary computers, quantum computers, photon computers, if everyone keeps following you like this, they will die sooner or later. How can these technologies be developed so easily?