This is Shenma Black Technology

Chapter 95 Carbon-Based Chips
The time of reunion passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the New Year was over.

During the New Year, relatives and friends gather together to celebrate the New Year. After the New Year, they go back to their own lives and do whatever they have to do!

On the New Year's Day, Ning Yifan also said goodbye to his parents and relatives.

Randomly drove a car that my father didn't like to drive from the garage at home, and returned to Shenma Technology Company.

As for the Unimog, mom and dad will go on a trip this year, so I will leave it to my dad and them.

A few days ago, Ning Yifan introduced the powerful performance of the Unimog to his father, which really opened his eyes and made him fall in love with this car.

Artificial intelligence fully automatic driving, which self-driving traveler would not like it!

There is also the holographic projection used by Ning Yifan to remotely control the simulated intelligent robot for parents to use. The holographic projection will be used as a common method of remote communication.

When he misses his family, Ning Yifan can use full holographic projection to cross the distance and come to his parents who are traveling. He can even remotely control the simulated intelligent robot responsible for protecting them and play together!
However, because Ning Yifan used it alone before, the interior space of the car still needs to be modified to make it more suitable for family travel.

Ning Yifan made an agreement with his parents. When he goes on a self-driving trip, he will go to the Shenma Technology Company's factory and spend a day or two on upgrades, interior decoration, etc., so that his parents can They live more comfortably when they travel.

As for giving the Unimog to his father and the others, what should Ning Yifan do?

Naturally, we just need to make a better one from scratch.

During the half-month period when Ning Yifan went home for the New Year, the chip factory had completed manufacturing, and the industrial mother machine 2.0 was idle, and various vehicles could be modified according to Ning Yifan's ideas.

Coupled with today's more powerful chips, it only takes a while to create the aircraft in the X-Men, or the space carrier of S.H.I.E.L.D., etc.!
A brand new car is waiting to be developed and manufactured by Ning Yifan, so stay tuned. . .

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After returning to the Shenma Technology Industrial Park in Dujiangyan from the small city in his hometown, Ning Yifan immediately came to the chip manufacturing plant of the factory.

This is a new factory that was just built not long ago. At this time, there is a very large equipment inside, a fully automatic chip manufacturing factory!
Cutting-edge semiconductors are core technologies that are being developed and manufactured in various countries today. For Ning Yifan, they are also the key to future technology.

Almost all future technological products will be inseparable from chip control.

The automated chip production equipment in the chip manufacturing factory is still a giant, only about half the size of the industrial mother machine.

"I've finally waited for this day!" Ning Yifan said with emotion as he looked at the huge machine in front of him.

Compared with the industrial motherboard with a transparent shell, the shell of the chip manufacturing plant is made of high-carbon steel, with a dark sealing coating on the surface, as well as some other sealing technologies. The overall appearance is a dark rectangle.

There are thousands of devices with different functions inside the entire machine.

At the same time, the interior can meet the standards of a cutting-edge dust-free workshop to ensure that no tiny particle of dust will exist during the chip manufacturing process, which can ensure the yield rate of the chip.

When Ning Yifan arrived at the chip manufacturing factory, the entire manufacturing factory was already operating according to the instructions Ning Yifan had given remotely before arriving.

"Zhuge, how are you now?"

The voice of Zhuge, the chief steward of artificial intelligence, came from the factory: "Boss, in about half an hour, the first batch of 2 yuan, 0.1nm process carbon-based chips is about to be completed."

Ning Yifan nodded: "Half an hour is not too long, you can wait."

"How is the motherboard production going?"

"The production of the first batch of [-] motherboards suitable for simulation-type intelligent robots, as well as customized motherboards for servers from Shenma Technology Company and artificial intelligence Zhuge has been completed."

With the chip processor, even if it integrates a lot of technical equipment, it still needs some other equipment to adapt, such as the motherboard. Compared with the chip factory, the motherboard is much faster in the long run. In just one day, Industrial Motherboard 2.0 It has been manufactured and put into use.

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Half an hour later, the carbon-based chip independently produced by Shenma Technology Company will be released soon.

As for why it is a carbon-based chip, not a silicon-based chip.

Carbon-based chips have more powerful performance than silicon-based chips.

Most of the chips in the world today use silicon as the underlying material, but chips using silicon as the underlying material have a physical limit, and the ultimate limit is the 1-nanometer process.

Why do silicon-based chips encounter physical limits? Silicon has always been the most basic material in chip production. It is polished into silicon wafers and made into wafers. After thousands of processes, the chip is formed.

Traditional silicon-based chips have gone from 14 nanometers to 3 nanometers to improve chip performance.

As long as the transistors are made smaller, the number that can be accommodated by the chip will be greater. In addition, the transistors are the channels responsible for transmitting signals. As the channels increase, the speed of transmitting signals will naturally be faster.

Therefore, in the same chip area, the one that can arrange more transistors will have better performance.

However, the limit expansion of silicon-based chips can only reach 1 nanometer, which involves the limitation of atomic arrangement of silicon-based materials.

Such limitations can be seen from the development of chip manufacturing technology.

From the beginning, the process technology could be improved to tens of nanometers in a few years, but as it gradually approached the limit, various companies suffered setbacks, and no major breakthroughs were made in several years.

In 2001, the chip manufacturing process at that time was 130 nanometers, and the Pentium 3 processor used at that time was a 130 nanometer process.

2004 was the first year of 90 nanometers. In that year, Pentium 4 adopted the 90 nanometer process technology and its performance was further improved.

At that time, there were many manufacturers that could achieve the 90nm manufacturing process, such as Intel, Infineon, Texas Instruments, IBM, as well as UMC and TSMC.

In 2012 years, the process technology has developed to 22nm. At this time, Intel, UMC, MediaTek, GlobalFoundries, TSMC, Samsung, etc., there are still many manufacturers in the world that can achieve 22nm semiconductor process technology.

2015 became a watershed in the development of chip manufacturing. When the process technology entered 14 nanometers, UMC (Taiwan United Microelectronics) stopped there.

In 2017, the process entered 10 nanometers, and Intel fell behind at 10 nanometers. In the past, Intel's chip manufacturing process was the only one in the world, and TSMC, Samsung, etc. were all catching up.

But when the process entered 10 nanometers, Intel's 10 nanometer chips could only be used on low-end models. Intel's main I5 and I7 processors were delayed in delivery due to yield issues.

In 2018, the process entered 7 nanometers.

By 2022, the process technology of mass-produced computer CPUs will still be at the 7-nanometer level!Mobile phone CPU chips are at the 5nm level.

Even Shenma Technology Co., Ltd. is still unable to break the limitations of the 1-nanometer manufacturing process of silicon-based chips.

However, carbon-based chips can implement processes within 1 nanometer, their operating speed can be 5 to 10 times faster than traditional silicon-based chips, and their power consumption is also reduced by more than a little.

There are two main types of chips designed and produced by Shenma Technology Company.

What my company uses internally is a carbon-based chip with carbon nanotransistors as the underlying material. With the existing technology of this chip production factory, it can produce 0.1 carbon nanometer chips.

Its operating speed is 10,000+ times more powerful than today's processors manufactured by cutting-edge semiconductors!
Ning Yifan plans to only use this chip for himself for the time being.

In addition, chip production factories still produce silicon-based chips that are widely used in the world today. However, even though they are still silicon-based chips, they are able to achieve the theoretical limit of one nanometer process for silicon-based chips!

I believe that the one-nanometer process technology will bring a surprise, even a shock, to the world's cutting-edge semiconductor field!
However, that is all for later. What Ning Yifan is looking forward to most now is the simulation intelligent robots in his factory and the upgrade of the artificial intelligence system Zhuge.

Waited for a long time and finally waited until today!

Half an hour passed in a hurry, and soon, the packaged 0.1 nanometer carbon-based chip was delivered from the production line of the chip production factory like flowing water.

For a total of 2 yuan, the chip wrapped in a plastic anti-shock box was sent out in a few seconds. From this, it can be seen that the production capacity of the chip production factory is still very consistent with Shenma Technology Company's consistent production capacity standard.

Ning Yifan stepped forward, opened the plastic box, picked up a piece and examined it carefully.

This is a chip about the size of a fingernail. It looks almost the same as most chips on the market today. It is still boxy.

But this is just its appearance. Its truly powerful heart is enough to make today’s top CPU processors far behind!
Just a chip the size of a fingernail can run 10,000+ times the computing power of today's top CPU processors.

And it also integrates many functions, not just a single processor.

The CPU processor in our usual computers is a kind of chip, and the graphics card is also a kind of chip. The solid-state memory is also mainly composed of storage chips, and the flash memory chip of the memory stick.

There is a type of CPU called a graphics CPU, which integrates the functions of a graphics card.

And Shenma Technology's chips integrate even more functions!

Whatever memory you need, whatever flash memory you need, it’s all on one chip!
This is the future!
Looking at the small piece of carbon-based chip held in his hand, Ning Yifan was very satisfied.

No longer need to rely on stacking a large number of CPU processors to improve the processing capabilities of artificial intelligence simulation intelligent robots!
It can also further upgrade the artificial intelligence system.

Smaller chips also mean that more internal space can be freed up to improve the performance of simulated intelligent robots.

If used as a server, with hundreds or thousands of such chips and a customized motherboard, the performance will be the best in the world today!

I have been looking forward to this day for a long time.

After looking at it, Ning Yifan put the chip back again and said at the same time.

"Zhuge, prepare to upgrade the intelligent robot! As well as upgrade the company's server." "Okay boss, preparations have been made, the information has been conveyed, and the data has been backed up."

"Bring the motherboard to Industrial Machine 2.0, as well as these chips."

After completing the instructions, Ning Yifan walked towards the industrial mother machine 2.0.

The delivery vehicle controlled by the artificial intelligence program Zhuge behind him carefully placed the carbon-based chip on the delivery vehicle and hurried towards the industrial machine.

When Ning Yifan came to the industrial mother machine, the motherboards produced by the motherboard factory and the chips produced by the chip factory were already in place.

Ning Yifan took out a chip and a motherboard, and waved his hand.

Upgrading work begins.

The motherboard and chips were sent in from the entrance, and soon the robotic arms grabbed many raw materials and placed the chips one by one on the motherboard.

Next, the simulated intelligent robots that received the command will go to the industrial mother machine in batches to install the latest chips.

After placing the CPU chip on the motherboard, Ning Yifan held the motherboard, looked at Rem next to him and said, "Rem, open the computer cover."

"Okay, boss."

With her back to Ning Yifan, Rem revealed her smooth and jade-like back. With the subtle sound of mechanical operation, a gap opened in her fair skin, revealing the motherboard, CPU and other equipment inside.

"Shut down."

As Ning Yifan's order was issued, Rem's eyes lost color.

Inside the back, the running cooling fan also stopped.

You can say goodbye to these outdated devices!

Taking out a specially brought electric screwdriver, Ning Yifan removed the original motherboard equipment from Rem's back and threw it to the ground.

Ning Yifan now unilaterally declares that this motherboard, which is equipped with more than a dozen AMD's latest 3990XCPU, is garbage!
Electronic products are so cruel. If they are outdated and eliminated, they will have no effect. This is also the problem that Daxia encounters when developing the chip field.

Naturally, it is impossible to develop chips from scratch and catch up with the chip technology that large companies have studied for decades. However, the products produced are lagging behind and no one buys them.

After the investment, there is no output at all. Many countries naturally give up the idea of ​​​​developing chips, and it is convenient and fast to buy chips from large companies.

Although those dozen pieces of the latest AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X processor, 7nm process, 64 cores and 128 threads, may be sold for 10,000+ if put on salted fish, but throw it away!

In the space behind Rem's back, Ning Yifan placed the palm-sized motherboard on a card slot inside, screwed on the screws, and connected the cables, data cables, etc. to the original wires one by one.

Once the installation is complete, it’s as simple as having your hands on it. It’s much easier than installing a computer!
Looking at the vacant space on Rem's back, Ning Yifan thought about it. These places could be used. Is it to hold some kind of weapon, a larger carbon nanobattery, or something else? !

By making good use of that space, not only the computing power can be improved tens of thousands of times, but the combat ability can also be greatly improved.

God knows how much space was wasted by previous artificial intelligence robots and many important combat capabilities were sacrificed in order to carry huge motherboards, water-cooling radiators, power supplies, hard drives and other equipment.

Compared with before, this motherboard is now only about the size of a palm, and its volume is one percent of the previous one!

Even because of the good power consumption control, it can be used at full power without the need for a radiator!
The motherboard had been installed, and Ning Yifan gently pressed the start switch on the motherboard.

Almost instantly, Rem's eyes became lively this time, even more alive than before!

"Good morning, boss!" Rem had a bright smile on her face.

"Good morning, Rem, how are you feeling now?"

"How do you feel now?" Rem twisted her neck cutely and spun around in a circle before continuing: "I feel great! My mind is much clearer."

"Of course, you are completely different now than before!"

"Hmm, my computing power now is tens of thousands of times what it was before! There is also storage, and the same goes for running these. Thank you, Master!"

"you are welcome!"

"I'm so happy today, hee hee, the master personally completed the upgrade for me! I want to put it in the disk and remember this day firmly!"

Not only the hardware equipment, Rem's artificial intelligence program has also been upgraded. This is an artificial intelligence program that Ning Yifan had written before. It was copied into the chip during manufacturing.

The complete artificial intelligence program occupies 3000T of memory. If it is loaded with the previous hard disk, it will require hundreds of pieces of maximum capacity to fit it.Installing so many hard drives will take up a lot of space.

And if you use too many solid-state drives and store them separately, it is very easy to cause problems. Therefore, the artificial intelligence programs used before are all simplified and simplified versions of Ning Yifan, which can only complete some simple things.

Even if you communicate with people for a few more days, you can make others feel that they are not real people. Even if you look very beautiful in appearance and cannot tell whether it is a real person, you still cannot simulate human emotions and so on.

As for the full version of today's artificial intelligence programs, as long as they don't tell others and have completely anthropomorphic personalities, no one may find out that they are a robot after living with people for decades!

As for the Turing test and the like, it is easy to pass.

Of course, a complete simulation of human personality is still a simulation, but the simulation is more precise. In essence, they are still just a running program, not intelligent life.

Emotions such as happiness, happiness, sadness, excitement, etc. are all simulated based on the existing situation!
0.1 nanometer carbon-based chip, artificial intelligence, is no joke!
Rem's upgrade is completed, and Zhuge's upgrade is next.

The upgrade procedure of artificial intelligence Zhuge, the chief steward of Shenma Technology Company, is somewhat different from Rem's.

At the same time, its motherboard is also very different from Rem's palm-sized motherboard, which has a carbon-based chip.

This is a square motherboard one meter long, one meter wide, and twenty centimeters thick, with a carbon-based chip placed every two centimeters on it.

As a server, with the existing technology, stacking more processor chips is still the only choice to improve performance.

This large motherboard is divided into ten layers. Each layer is equipped with a 100-yuan carbon-based chip, and a total of 1000-yuan carbon-based chips are integrated. Its performance can lift computers all over the world!It’s the same even with supercomputing!
It is said to be a motherboard, but in fact it is more like a server host!
"Let's go, Rem, let's go upgrade Zhuge!"

"Yeah, good master!"

Rem held Zhuge's motherboard and followed Ning Yifan.

The two walked dozens of meters and came to a specific location behind the industrial machine 2.0.

"Zhuge, open the control room!"

"Okay boss." Following Zhuge's answer, a door opened on the industrial machine 2.0 that was like a single entity, and Ning Yifan and Rem walked in.

Inside, there is Zhuge's server, which is also the core of controlling the industrial master machine 2.0, and the core server of Shenma Technology Company's official website, super sleep artifact, artificial intelligence electronic pet, etc.

This is a large space with more than a dozen rows of shelves. On top of the shelves, server motherboards are placed one after another.

The sound of the fan spinning came, and even with the suppression of the air conditioner, you could still feel the huge heat.

After continuous upgrades, there are already tens of thousands of top-notch processors, graphics cards, memory and other equipment on the market today.

From a visual perspective, it looks a bit like a mining factory!
After Ning Yifan and Rem moved forward again, they came to a reserved console.

After placing the large motherboard into the groove at the designated location, connecting the power supply, optical cable, and other lines, Ning Yifan said again: "Zhuge, start the new server."

"Okay boss, the equipment has been started."

On the new server, the indicator light is on.

"Migrate server data."

"The data migration is expected to take 2 minutes."

Through the optical cable, countless data are transmitted to the new server at a speed of hundreds of terabytes per second.

At the same time, Zhuge's artificial intelligence program has been running in the new server.

Soon, Zhuge's voice came again: "The data migration is completed and the new server has been taken over."

The originally noisy server room suddenly became quiet as Zhuge finished speaking. The previous server had been shut down!

Ning Yifan personally upgraded Rem and Zhuge, and the next work was left to Zhuge.

With artificial intelligence control and robot work, there is absolutely no need for Ning Yifan to do anything.

In fact, Ning Yifan did not have to complete the upgrades of Rem and Zhuge by himself.

With just one command, Rem can take the motherboard into the industrial mother machine and let the industrial mother machine control the robotic arm to complete the upgrade.

Or several simulation intelligent robots can upgrade each other. The same is true for Zhuge. The simulation intelligent robots can be upgraded.

It was purely because this was an important moment for the company and Ning Yifan was relatively free that he came here!
(End of this chapter)