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The "Aurora One" matrix computer that Lingxun Company aims to start selling to the outside world, except for the parts connected to traditional electronic computers, the rest of the system functions including input and output, calculation, storage, etc. are realized through the matrix.

Among them, the core calculation matrix group requires the largest number of matrices, because this module contains control and computing functions similar to those of a traditional computer central processor, which is the core of the matrix computer.

Classified according to the design architecture, "Aurora 1" belongs to the million-matrix level. It is not that higher-level core computing modules cannot be implemented, but under the current design architecture, one million matrices is enough, and any more is just equivalent. Just opening a new machine will not improve the performance of a single machine.

Electronic computers can form supercomputers by connecting countless individual computers, and matrix computers can also be used, but when measuring the function of one computer, the overall capabilities of countless of them are not calculated.

If there were no breakthroughs in matrix computer-related technologies, the million-level computer would have almost reached its bottleneck.

In addition to the core computing module, the number of basic matrices required for other functions of an "Aurora One" is also in the millions. These millions will not change much when it is updated in the future.

In other words, the current "Aurora One" computer contains nearly 10 million basic matrices. If one spiritual stone can only inscribe one matrix, this will require nearly 1 cubic meter of matrix-bearing material.

The worst matrix material at the moment is not the spirit stone itself, but the difference is nearly 10 million pieces.

Although the performance is not much different from its smaller counterparts, its energy consumption has been greatly reduced. Xia Chengyue estimated that several spiritual monks inputting mana at the same time would not be able to power it, and It uses the spiritual energy reserves in the forehead.

That number seems small, but in fact it is too small compared to a spacecraft capable of retrograde jump navigation.

Xia Chengyue needs to consider such a problem. For other people, a high-quality psychic affinity material like Lingshi is only 1 square centimeter in size, but for Xia Chengyue, there is no need to have less.

After having no experience in building a personal spaceship for Yu Min, Miao Chenxian ended up listing a few small elements that a jump spaceship must have.

Xia Chengyue still had his usual design idea, first build the beggar's version, and then add whatever was needed before, step by step. With the experience of designing a spaceship after that, Xia Chengyue still added the main control computer. It is enough to use the "Aurora 1", and the control system designed for the Yuman spacecraft can also be used.

Otherwise, just the reaction rate control of the fusion battery will be finished.

It means that the manufacturing difficulty, only the design difficulty has been reduced, and the issue of discrete matrix integration needs to be considered.

So that "Aurora No. 1" is not that young?

Earth-like artificial gravity, spacecraft interior decoration, weapons, control computers, etc. are all required. All functions need to be controlled by the driver himself. In particular, only those who have achieved Yuan Shen can control it so finely.

In the future, as the processing technology takes a step back, larger matrix computers that can be used by one person will also appear.

When Xia Chengyue was erasing the traces of the jump in the starry sky, he still embodied the "Aurora One" in the original world. Naturally, it was for the design of the retrograde jump ship. I couldn't wait to fly the jump ship.

But now Lingxun Company itself only uses products processed by 6-matrix-level engraving machines, so one can imagine the size.

First of all, since it is called a jump ship, if a jump engine is needed, the jump engine is a "magic weapon" engraved with a space jump matrix group. It contains tens of millions of basic matrices and is the core part of the spacecraft.

Others such as fixed frames, decorations, etc. are ignored.

As the accuracy of the matrix engraving machine increases, the required cost, that is, the number of spiritual stones, will also increase slightly. If it is processed by a 20-matrix-level engraving machine, the final matrix body of the matrix computer will only have a volume of 50,000 cubic centimeters (the volume of 50 liters of water). ).

Secondly, conventional power, fusion reactor, produces conventional energy - electric energy to drive the ion pusher. Miao Chenxian has no experience in that aspect. Next time I will make a fusion battery with a length, narrow and low of about 20 cm, which will be enough to push an ion pusher. A large spaceship.

If it is a beggar's version of the spaceship, it will be fine as long as the heterodyning is small.

Previously, the gravity lock was not an important component for accelerating and decelerating the spacecraft far away from the celestial body. The conventional power thruster would eject a small amount of ultra-low-speed ions during takeoff and landing, which would cause little damage to the take-off and landing platform, so the gravity lock must be However, a large spacecraft would only need nearly 10 million basic matrices to achieve that function.

In the past, people could use computers as large as today's calculators to send people to the moon. Now it is strange that Xia Chengyue has designed a jump spacecraft with only 100 million basic matrices.

Of course, the analogy between transistors, electron tubes and basic matrices is not appropriate, but it also illustrates the speed of technological regression. Xia Chengyue suspects that with the continuous development of matrix technology, the number of basic matrices required for a spaceship will increase. It will rise exponentially.

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There is no need to worry at all. Whether it is a 20-matrix process or a 6-matrix process, it has little impact on the actual performance of the matrix computer, but there is not a big difference in energy consumption.

When modern electronic computers were first born, they only used 20,000 electron tubes. Nowadays, the central processing unit of a computer contains hundreds of millions of transistors. The speed of development can be imagined.

That's just what Xia Chengyue showed up with his hand, and he didn't pursue low precision.

The volume of such an "Aurora One" machined with 20-matrix-level engraving machines is quite scary. If you think about it, a 50-liter water cooler is not too small, but not too small.

The core of the fusion battery lies in the gravitational matrix group, which generates a gravitational force similar to that inside a star and drives the fusion of elemental hydrogen all the way to iron, which requires millions of basic matrices.

The lower the processing accuracy, the higher the energy consumption.

and psychic reserves.

A jump ship that can pass through less than 100 million basic matrices can be easily built by countries under the earth. The jump matrix team first talked about it. Just integrating several large standard spirit stones and the matrices in them is not a comparable task. Huge project.

In this case, a simplified version of the jump ship would require at least 100 million basic matrices to implement.

And behind Xia Chengyue, the processing technology of "Aurora No. 1" transformed from the origin of the original world has reached the 150 matrix level (1 standard spiritual stone inscription has 150 basic matrix), and the theoretical processing bottleneck of the mana-level inscription machine has been easily broken through.

The main body of the matrix is ​​just the same as the volume of 6.6 liters of water. The difference is that it is not a laptop computer 10 centimeters ago. It is not very practical. Compared with the shrinkage speed of electronic computers when they were first born, it is not much slower. .