alien heir

Cheng Yuan doesn't care much about the low-cost production of robots. After all, these things already have prototypes. The most important intelligent control system also has Xiaolan's help. Alfonso and others are just reverse-engineering the prototype robot and doing some materials. It's just a simplification, it's not too difficult, the only thing worthy of praise is that the time to get the result is faster.

What Cheng Yuan really cares about is actually nanochips and the supposedly more mature 5g mobile communication technology, because these technologies are not borrowed from Louis, but are developed by the disciples themselves with the help of the original technology of the earth. of.

However, these two developments have little to do with Alfonso. Instead, they were developed by two of Louis's twelve disciples, Harlan and Feidin, who studied theoretical mathematics.

At the beginning, among the twelve original disciples of Lewis, there were two mathematicians. Although they both studied theoretical mathematics, their tendencies were slightly different.One of them, named Fei Ding, mainly studies cutting-edge science such as quantum mathematics, and the other, named Harlan, mainly studies computational mathematics, a subject between applied mathematics and theoretical mathematics.Of course, there are many overlaps in the research and development of the two, so the laboratories of the two are actually connected.

As long as a group of people are together, there will inevitably be battles. Take the Blue Illuminati as an example. Although it is not stated clearly, the people inside are basically centered on their own vice president, and there are three major factions among them. , are the Louis faction, the Martina faction, and the Vivienne faction, and even within a faction, different people will have competition.

For example, people like Alfonso, Harlan, and Feidin, although they are all in the same line, and they are the original twelve disciples, and they have all eaten the green flash, but they are still very competitive with each other. In other words, These twelve people have each other.Different small circles were formed.

No matter what you do, it is always good to have more people, even if you are engaged in research and development.Therefore, whether it was due to the young people's eagerness to compete, or for their own research projects, the twelve disciples of Louis at the beginning were constantly working hard, wanting to produce results in exchange for the membership of the new disciples.

Because there were regulations within the organization at the beginning, the qualifications to recommend new members must be those who have produced valuable results.Whoever comes up with the results recognized by the organization first can get more blue flashes, or membership.

Obviously, whoever has the right to recommend, then the recommended person will basically become a member of his own family after entering the organization. This is an obvious way to strengthen himself. After adding new disciple candidates, it has become a consensus.

To know.So far, the most disciples are Louis' subordinates, which has already aroused the jealousy of Martina and Vivian's subordinates.

anyway.Why can Alfonso produce results so quickly?It is because there are enough new disciples who are assigned to study materials science, and then they lead some ordinary scientific research workers, and then use super-technological equipment, it is normal for the progress to speed up.

Although Alfonso and others already have many disciples.Alfonso, the twelve people who had eaten the green flash in the early days, also became actual little bosses, but none of them thought there were too many people.So this time, I was a little uncomfortable to hear that Cheng Yuan was concerned about other colleagues' projects.

However, after all, it belongs to a faction, so Alfonso's discomfort was fleeting, and soon he took Cheng Yuan to the other side of the laboratory, where Harlan and Feidin's joint laboratory was also The place where nanochips and 5g mobile communication technologies are produced.

For Cheng Yuan's arrival, Feidin and Harun were a little cold, not as enthusiastic as Alfonso, but this probably had something to do with their personalities, not intentional hypocrisy.

Although the performance is indifferent, they are also very excited when talking about technology. After all, for those of them who have become scientific research lunatics, technology is like their own children, so naturally they want to show off to others when they have time one time.

Let me talk about nanochips first.To put it simply, nanochips use nanotechnology to directly combine designed molecules in the laboratory to form chips directly. In this way, there is no need for ultra-clean production workshops like traditional silicon-based chips. There is no need for expensive production equipment and a huge production team, which can greatly save costs.

Moreover, nanochips are smaller in size, faster in operation, and consume less energy. A nanochip composed of carbon nanotransistors is not only much smaller than a silicon chip, but also more than 1.5 times faster than a silicon chip, but consumes a lot of energy. It can be said that it is a chip with high cost performance.

In fact, the technology of nanochips is not new. The technology of nanochips has been around for a long time, and the system is relatively mature. What restricts the development of this technology is mainly the acquisition of materials, that is, the difficulty of obtaining carbon nanotransistors.

After carbon nanotransistors could be produced in large quantities, this technology broke through the bottleneck. Under the joint research of Feidin and Harlan, they quickly broke through a series of other small problems and began to mature this technology. change.

When nanochips are mature, nanocomputers can be developed. In fact, so far, new nano-storage technologies, carbon nano-circuit boards and other technologies have also been developed. Nanocomputers have also been born in research laboratories. Even industrial production methods It has also been researched, and it is only waiting for further improvement before launching the production line directly.

"Is this the kind of nanochip?" Cheng Yuan asked, looking at the small square in his palm, which was only the size of a seven-star ladybug.

"To be precise, this is a nanocomputer." Feidin explained on the side, "A real nanochip is much smaller than this, only a hair is thinner, smaller than a grain of sand. This thing in your hand , is a complete computer, which includes not only a microprocessor, but also a motherboard, and memory, which can be operated independently."

"Oh? Can you demonstrate it?" Cheng Yuan asked with interest.

"Of course." Feidin nodded, picked up the seven-star ladybug in Cheng Yuan's palm with tweezers, and carefully placed it in a small square box the size of a fist, and explained at the same time, "Because this nanocomputer is too It is small, so the power supply system and internal and external transmission systems need to be designed separately. This small square box integrates the power supply system and internal and external transmission systems. It is similar to a converter."

After finishing speaking, Fei Ding closed the glass cover of the small square box, took monitors, keyboards, stereos, etc., and plugged a series of data cables into the sockets of the small square box, and then said to Cheng Yuan: "It's ready now." , would you like to try turning it on yourself?"

"Oh, that's good." Cheng Yuan smiled and pointed to an oval button in the small square box. "Is this the power button?"

"Yes." Fei Ding nodded.

After getting the answer, Cheng Yuan stopped talking nonsense and directly pressed the power button. Soon, the monitor lit up, and a familiar operating system screen began to appear directly.

Seeing this situation, Feidin smiled and said: "Because the speed is too fast, the screen of the operating system will be launched directly after booting up, so you don't have to wait for the boot screen anymore."

"That's not bad. I usually hate waiting for the boot screen." Cheng Yuan smiled. After laughing, he operated it again and found that the computer responded very quickly.No sluggishness at all.

Nodding in satisfaction, Cheng Yuan asked Fei Ding again: "How about the parameters and performance of this computer?"

"The processor of this computer is a 164-core processor, and the clock frequency of each core can be as high as 36 GHz. As for the memory, the memory is 256t, and the external memory is 756t, which is completely comparable to a supercomputer." Feiding said I paused here.Then he continued, "After our calculations, this computer can perform 4 billion operations per second, and the peak speed of double-precision floating-point operations can reach 4.59 million operations per second. The peak calculation can reach 2.39 billion times. Of course, the most important thing is that this one can be said to be completely comparable to the existence of a supercomputer, and the power consumption is only the amount of a No. 5 dry battery!"

"...Really?" Cheng Yuan was speechless, "I know that nanocomputers are amazing, and the finished products have been developed in foreign countries, but they are not so powerful?"

"Hehe, the key is the material technology." Alfonso next to him suddenly rushed, "Actually, the key to this kind of computer is to look at the material technology. If there are good carbon nanotransistors and better chips Design, naturally can make a big leap.”

Glancing at Alfonso, Feidin next to him nodded: "Yes, the key is the issue of material technology, of course, architectural design and other aspects are also very important.

In fact, the reason why this computer has such a strong ability is mainly because all his designs are made of carbon nanotransistor materials, and this kind of carbon nanotransistors are not ordinary carbon nanotubes, but directly made of Made of curled graphene material, it is a perfect carbon nanotransistor.

In addition, not only are all the core chips made of carbon nanotransistors, but other motherboard materials are also made of carbon nanotransistors made of graphene, and the memory is the same. The entire computer is like using a two-dimensional graphene, and then it is like origami The same, folded into different shapes to form different circuit modules.Because the graphene structure has super-strong electron conductivity, it is the fastest electron-transfer material among all known materials at room temperature, so it consumes very little energy, which makes this computer super powerful and consumes very little power. reason. "

"Well, not bad." Cheng Yuan nodded, "In this way, the miniaturization of supercomputers can be realized, and the effect will be revolutionary."

"More than that." At this time, Harlan who was not talking much beside him suddenly said, "Our exploration of this material is still very shallow, and we also use the traditional chip model. In fact, due to the unique quantum Fundamental changes have taken place in field force and structural performance, so quantum computing can be realized. That is to say, as long as we do more research and change the operation mode, we can realize a miniaturized quantum computer. At that time, the operation speed will be a matter of quality. improvement!"

"Quantum computer, you mean, a quantum computer under nanotechnology?" Cheng Yuan asked.

"Yes." Harlan nodded. "This kind of computer is actually just our experimental work. It's nothing. What Feidin and I are researching is actually the miniaturization of quantum computers. Just give us a little more time." With resources, I believe that the trial production will be successful soon. By then, the whole world will be different!"

"Yes." Feidin sighed and nodded, "Imagine that in the near future, the watch you wear casually will be a computing device faster than today's supercomputer. In this way, we humans will It will really enter the era of computing. At that time, everything will become simpler and faster, intelligent robots will become smarter, and virtual reality networks will become reality. Isn’t that a wonderful era?”

"Indeed, the prospect is bright." Cheng Yuan nodded, "Let's not talk about quantum computers, let's talk about this computer. This computer is already very powerful, I would like to ask. How much does this computer cost?"

"The cost," Feidin thought for a while, "because it is a test product and has not yet been industrialized, it will be a little higher. If you include the cost of materials and production costs, such a computer will cost about [-] euros."

"One hundred thousand euros... In terms of this kind of performance, it's very cheap." Cheng Yuan nodded. "So, if this kind of computer is simplified? For example, it doesn't need such a high performance, 164 cores, or such a high storage capacity. If it only needs 6 cores and about 10 tons of storage, how much cheaper will it be?"

"I'm afraid it's not much cheaper." Fei Ding shook his head, "Because this is mainly the price of materials. In terms of manufacturing process, because the new intelligent tunnel scanning technology is applied, manual operation is no longer required. So on the same chip , the difference between making 6 cores and making 164 cores is not very big. On the contrary, making a circuit with 6 cores will cause a lot of waste, and the same is true for storage materials.

In other words, the current computer is the most cost-effective one we have made. Even if the process is simplified, the price will not be less than [-] euros, but the performance is too poor, so it is not worth it. "

"Understood," Cheng Yuan said, "In the final analysis, it is because of the difference in the production process that the production method has changed, and the price can no longer be calculated purely based on the performance of the computer."

"That's right." Fei Ding nodded.

"So, how much would it cost to set up a factory to produce this kind of computer? How much space would it need?" Cheng Yuan asked again.

"I'm afraid this doesn't require a lot of space, as long as a room of 5000 square meters is needed, a nanocomputer factory can be built." Feiding said, "As for the investment, I haven't calculated it specifically, but it is based on the materials required for the production line we designed. Calculated, based on the current market price, about 220 million euros is enough. After completion, theoretically, 200 such computers can be produced every day, and in fact, there can be more than [-], and the output is still very impressive.”

"More than 200? You mean the whole computer? Doesn't it just include chips?"

"Of course." Fei Ding nodded, "Because this is the direct synthesis of circuits using nanotechnology, so there is no need for complicated assembly processes, and the various parts can be directly synthesized into a highly integrated computer. Of course, if you want to divide them into individual It is not impossible to assemble parts, but that would consume more resources and be uneconomical.”

"That is to say, this kind of computer is integrated, and the components cannot be used separately?"

"That's right." Feidin admitted, "So in other words, if it breaks, you have to return the whole machine and replace it with a new one."

"What about the data, if the computer breaks down, what happens to the stored data?"

"Basically, the part that stores data is not easy to break, and the main thing that is easy to break is the processor." Fei Ding said, "So if the computer is broken, you can directly read out the content stored in it and save it. In case the storage device is broken, you can also read out the undamaged part of the data, of course there will be a certain loss, but in reality, the computer, the storage device is broken, and the data will be ruined. In comparison, our Due to its extremely small size and the composition of carbon nanotransistors, the strength of nanocomputers is several times higher than that of steel, and it will not break easily. Even if you step on, drop, or use a computer the size of a ladybug It usually won't break if you hit it with a hammer."

"Not bad." Cheng Yuan looked at Fania who started playing Need for Speed ​​with this computer, and nodded, "It seems that you have researched something very remarkable. By the way, aren't you still researching Is there any 5G communication system? Can you tell me about it and take a look?"

"Oh, what you're talking about is terahertz mobile communication technology." Feiding said, "Indeed, we have also made a breakthrough in this technology, well, why don't I demonstrate it to you here."

After finishing speaking, Feidin took out a black 5.0-inch mobile phone and said: "This mobile phone is specially made. The unique thing is that it is embedded with a new nanocomputer that we just demonstrated. Normal circuit board design, so the performance of the embedded nanocomputer cannot be fully utilized, but even so, 5G communication can be directly realized through this mobile phone. Here, we only use the processing function of the nanocomputer. After all, this is the most Quick."

"Well, then you can demonstrate." Cheng Yuan said.

"Okay." Feidin nodded, and then began to operate.Then open a piece of software and show it to Cheng Yuan, "Look, this is a test software that can perform wireless download and upload. Through this, the wireless download and transmission speed of the mobile phone can be obtained, and in this base, 5G has been covered. The mobile communication network is not a mode such as wifi, but a real long-distance mobile communication technology!"

finished.Feidin clicked one of the buttons, and then saw a clock-like thing constantly changing numbers, then Feidin pointed to the clock and said: "Look, this is to test the download speed. We just downloaded a large video file , a full 180g, and now you can see that the download speed is a full 10gb per second. You see, as we speak, the 180g video has been downloaded. The whole time only takes 19 seconds!"

Speaking of this, Fei Ding showed Cheng Yuan the screen of his mobile phone. Sure enough, Cheng Yuan found that in the following records, the recorded average download speed reached 9.92gb/s, and the highest peak download speed was 10.65gb/s, downloading a 180g video , it took only 19 seconds!

"South Korea issued a statement a while ago, saying that they have developed a 5G system, haha, but that thing is just a toy compared to ours." Feidin smiled, "The technology in South Korea has a download speed of 1G. It cannot reach every second, and the transmission distance is limited. It is said to be two kilometers, but it is actually about one kilometer. And we use terahertz technology, which has higher frequency, longer transmission speed, and wider coverage, which can be directly realized. Point-to-point transmission between ground and satellite."

"Tahertz technology? Has the research matured?" Cheng Yuan asked.

"Of course." Feidin nodded, "In fact, Ericsson has been exploring terahertz technology before, mainly researching terahertz communication technology, but you also know that the difficulty of terahertz technology is mainly economical and portable emission sources As well as the receiver, it is easy to apply, and after our material technology has made a breakthrough, they have easily obtained a technological breakthrough in terahertz by applying nanotechnology. In addition, they have applied our micro-nanocomputer and applied terahertz The 5G communication technology is fully mature."

After a pause, Feidin continued: "Due to the superiority of terahertz technology, in our conception, the future 5g communication technology will be a brand new model, that is to say, it can be launched by launching satellites and manufacturing The model of high-altitude airship base station to achieve global coverage, so that there are no dead spots in the world. Of course, it can also be combined with existing base stations to accommodate existing 2G and 3G communication technologies."

"Launching satellites, high-altitude airship base stations? Will there be any cost issues? Also, have you thought about maintenance issues in the future?"

"We've thought about all of this." Fei Ding said, "Due to the variable nature of this technology, the traditional base station model has become uneconomical. For example, in the traditional base station model, a base station must be built at a certain distance to connect The network also needs corresponding personnel to carry out regular maintenance. With the existing technology, it is indeed convenient, but with the terahertz and microwave technology, these technologies are outdated.

You see, our terahertz transmission technology has a longer transmission distance, more data transmission volume, and stronger penetration. Even if it is 50 meters underground, you can still receive signals, and the download speed can still reach 8g per second. seconds, the upload speed can also reach 6g per second.Moreover, due to the larger amount of data it can accommodate, a high-altitude airship base station can accommodate [-] million information bodies, that is, it can accommodate [-] million people to call each other and download data without any problems.

Basically, for the 60 billion people in the world, all communication problems can be perfectly solved by building [-] high-altitude airship base stations or [-] satellites.Compared with the construction of ground base stations, the cost advantage is much stronger.

Moreover, because we have nanocomputer technology, each satellite can accommodate multiple supercomputers, making the satellite smaller and the ability to process data stronger, so the satellite can be miniaturized, and the launch cost will be lower Low.

We have calculated that if we launch 20 satellites, and each satellite can accommodate [-] million information objects, then one satellite only needs to be as big as a mobile phone, so that one rocket can be launched at a time to carry [-] satellites , using multi-body separation technology, it is possible to achieve full coverage of a rocket.Of course, in reality, it is impossible to launch only [-] satellites and double the number of satellites for backup, but the cost will not be very high.

As for maintenance, not to mention the high-altitude airship, it is very convenient. Even if it is a satellite, you can directly launch a new satellite to replace the broken satellite. The broken satellite can be recovered by the spacecraft. Due to the small size of the satellite, recovery will become very difficult convenient. "

"More than that." Harlan said on the side, "Actually, launching satellites can not only be used for this new type of transmission system, because it can be equipped with our newly developed nanometer computer, and each satellite is a supercomputer, so it is also It can perform other parallel calculations. For example, this satellite can carry out navigation, geological research, meteorological research, etc., which is equivalent to a satellite with multiple functions. It can be said to be a meteorological satellite, military navigation satellite, and communication satellite. And other functions are combined together, and the price/performance ratio will become even more superior.”

"Yes." Feidin continued, "At that time, the entire earth will be transparent to us, and if the satellite is equipped with high-energy laser weapons, haha, then the missile will completely enter the era of the end! It can be said that, As soon as we launch enough satellites, the whole world is in our hands!"

"That's right, it's a good idea." Cheng Yuan nodded calmly, "How much will this system cost after all the construction is completed?"

"This has not been carefully calculated." Fei Ding shook his head, "However, if there are 300 to [-] billion US dollars, it should be enough."

"Two to thirty billion dollars..." Cheng Yuan nodded, "In terms of building a brand new system, the cost is not high."

"I think so too." Feidin also nodded.

"Very good." Cheng Yuan said with satisfaction, "You have done a good job, I will report your affairs truthfully, um, do you have any requirements?"

"Here, if possible, can you increase the number of new members for us?" Feiding said, "Actually, Harlan and I have many friends and relatives. If possible, can you absorb them?"

"Friends and relatives?" Cheng Yuan frowned, "You should know that things about the organization cannot be easily revealed to the outside world, you..."

"Don't worry, I didn't tell them about the organization." Fei Ding said quickly, "They just know that I work here. However, they are really reliable, and we do lack manpower. If there are enough members to help, Our research speed can definitely be faster."

"That's it." Cheng Yuan thought for a while, "Give me a list later, and we can authorize you if there is no problem after our investigation. Well, in view of your performance, I will give you and Harun 20 people each. Quota, what do you think?"

"Great!" Feidin snapped his fingers, "That's enough, haha, let me just say that our organization is the future of mankind, and we will eventually create history!" (To be continued...)