494 The best programmers
The domestic company, which obviously had the upper hand in the market competition, suddenly separated, Microsoft wanted to acquire the international version of the Syllabic APP, and Microsoft also sold its R&D center to a competitor, and when the competitor was most short of people, it made a large number of layoffs.
This 2020 is a bit magical, and a group of bigwigs who like to point out the country on the Internet have shouted that they can't understand the business logic. Not to mention the ordinary people who eat melons.
Of course, from an international perspective, Silicon Valley's direct competitors are also very confused.
For example, Wang Yufei has not been able to receive calls from many international friends recently, and he has been knocking on the reasons for the sudden breakup of Changxiang Technology.
For this kind of phone call, Wang Yufei has always told his thoughts frankly and truthfully.
If you really want to talk about it, this belongs to the petty family spirit in Wang Yufei's concept.
While not trusting the modern management system, Wang Yufei is not ashamed to use equity incentives like other companies.
After all, not everyone has a sense of distress like Wang Yufei.
Because according to his vision, if he wants to do some tech trees, one day Enjoy Tech may go bankrupt.
As for whether the bigwigs believe it or not, that's none of his business.
But in any case, most people on the Internet in China are still looking forward to enjoying technology, or the current Yuxin Technology Service Co., Ltd. is good. According to the mainstream media, brain-computer chips and solid-state high-energy batteries are currently much cheaper in Huaxia, and the Xin system is even completely free, all because of the company's Huaxia priority strategy.
Regardless of whether Huaxia is preferred or not, at least Huaxia consumers have benefited.
After all, they are all new mobile phones and laptops equipped with brain-computer chips and Xin systems, and it is true that Europe and the United States are twice as expensive as those in Huaxia, and almost all brands are like this, and there is even news that when Changxiang Technology authorizes its products, the price of terminals sold overseas is different from that of domestic sales.
This kind of operation is easy to gain the favor of the public.
This is probably one of the reasons why there are many big Vs who are unhappy with Changxiang Technology, but they have never been able to shake this company.
It is said that after the launch of new products equipped with solid-state high-energy batteries, the price of domestic and overseas batteries will continue to increase.
This is probably something that many Chinese people like to see.
In the eyes of most people, it is understandable for wealthy people in Europe and the United States to spend more money on these products.
Of course, the outside world is full of discussions, but everything is actually going on inside the company without shock, and even many of the technical and sales staff who stay in Changxiang Technology are still very excited.
It is said that after the separation, the company will learn from the rating of large factories and give employees equity incentives.
Although the equity is held by the Changxiang Technology Management Committee, employees only enjoy the right to dividends, and once they leave, they will not enjoy equity dividends, but now the company's operating conditions are very clear to everyone, once they start to pay dividends, as long as they are willing to work hard, it is not a dream to double income.
So everyone was very happy during the whole moving process.
The technicians who were assigned to the research institute were not envious, because the wages and benefits were directly and greatly increased.
According to the published internal rating standards for researchers, the lowest-ranking research assistants can also receive a salary of 50,000 yuan per month, and there is also a double salary as a year-end bonus at the end of the year. If you work twice or three times your salary for overtime, and you have worked for five years, and the performance appraisal is on the passing line within five years, the company will directly allocate a three-bedroom apartment. Of course, at this time, the property rights of the house still belong to the company, and if you leave the company before you have worked for ten years, the house must be returned to the company.
But if it's more than ten years, congratulations, the house is transferred directly to the employee.
If it is a director-level researcher who can stand alone, it is even more unbelievable, with an annual salary of 3 million, he can divide the house in the imperial capital in three years, and he can continue to get dividends when he produces results.
Most of the logistics staff of the R&D institute, including administration and finance, have a basic salary of more than 20,000 yuan, which is at least twice as high as that of the business company. Although there is no property incentive, the company does provide dormitories.
For people with dull personalities and unsociable personalities, salaries have almost doubled.
The salary of the business company does not rise highly, but it has equity incentives, and if the company's benefits are good, it is not a dream to earn one million a year.
In short, when the outside world was extremely noisy, all the employees of Changxiang Technology also chose which side to go next in various entanglements, and then picked a night, and Changxiang Technology moved silently.
Moved from the Changxiang Building to the former Microsoft Asia Pacific R&D Center.
At the same time, at least half of the staff employed by the former Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D Center were recruited and interviewed in the original Changxiang Technology Headquarters Building, and applied for various positions in Huaxia Yuxin Technology Co., Ltd.
You know, after the separation, now the Changxiang Science and Technology Building is almost empty again.
Not counting the underground part, a building that can accommodate more than 5,000 people at the same time, which is more than enough, is less than 300 people left after the company cuts. There is a serious waste of resources.
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Many people may not believe it when they say it, but the outside world has made a fuss about the sudden separation of the family because of Changxiang Technology, but it does not have much impact on the parties.
Upstairs is moving, and downstairs is rushing to catch up with the progress of the experiment.
Building a quantum supercomputer from scratch in a year that surpasses Google's performance is definitely a very, very difficult task. In particular, the composition of the laboratory is almost impossible to include researchers in quantum physics. Basically, all the laboratory plans were made by Wang Yufei in advance.
In other words, only Wang Yufei is irreplaceable in the entire R&D team, of course, for this cause, it is better to have relatively stable personnel.
You must know that the entire laboratory is almost the most advanced equipment in the world, including many high-end instruments and equipment that are listed on the embargoed list. Changxiang Technology can be smoothly transported to the laboratory in the capital by mastering the technology of brain-computer chips.
As a great man said in his book, when capital is profitable, when it can obtain 300 percent profit, crossing the line is nothing. What's more, just equipping a laboratory is not a large-scale transportation, it is nothing more than a few more turns during transportation, and you can always find loopholes.
Not to mention the difficulty of building these machines, just using them correctly is a big project.
A single how-to guide is hundreds of pages long, and it's all written in English. This kind of highly professional book cannot be translated into Chinese at all, just as the translation of Chinese poems into English will be missing, and many professional terms in the book will appear extremely unprofessional when translated into Chinese.
Therefore, the operation of these equipment and instruments also requires a high degree of scientific literacy, CNC equipment involves programming, but also to be very familiar with the operation process.
Fortunately, Wang Yufei found people who are very reliable, basically the operators who can enter the laboratory are at least the title of associate researchers, not only undergraduate students are in China's first-class universities, many have also been exchange students, spent gold in European and American universities, and after returning to China, they studied for master's and doctoral degrees in Huaqing, all of them are experienced research and development personnel, although quantum mechanics is not a professional research content, but just learn to operate these instruments proficiently, and complete the test progress in accordance with the outrageously detailed requirements is not a big problem.
At this time, Wang Yufei was presiding over the experiment of carving a circuit on the cut diamond.
Although quantum computers are a cutting-edge science, they have actually been proposed in the eighties of the last century, and the first to give the idea of quantum computing institutions was the American scientist Richard Feynman.
At that time, electronic computers were still in their infancy, and when the scientist discovered that IBM's computers simulated quantum phenomena, the amount of data was also huge because of the huge Hilbert space. The computational time required for a good simulation becomes considerable, even unrealistically astronomical. I thought that quantum systems could be used to simulate quantum phenomena.
At that time, quantum computers were just a concept, but in the 90s, Peter Sauer, a scientist at Bell Labs, proved that quantum computers can complete logarithmic calculations at a much faster speed than classical electronic computers, directly challenging all passwords, and quantum computers are finally valued by more scientists and companies.
Including the giant enterprise at that time, IBM not only started the research of quantum computers itself, but also conducted joint research with many famous universities at that time.
After that, when the Internet became more and more developed, technology newcomers Microsoft, Google, and Intel also joined the research and development of quantum computers.
Decades have passed, and general-purpose quantum computers are still in the research phase, and Google's previous press conference vowed to master quantum supremacy is only a flash in the pan.
After all, a quantum computer that can only run for more than two minutes, how useful can it be expected?
And this time, Wang Yufei's goal is to directly build a quantum computer that can run continuously.
There are many uses, such as simulating microscopic quantum phenomena.
You must know that even quantum entanglement, which is now familiar to ordinary people, in fact, all the experiments that have proved that quantum entanglement is a physical phenomenon so far have been indirectly confirmed by verifying Bell's inequality, and are not directly observed.
This leads directly to the fact that all current understanding of quantum entanglement has its limitations.
But if the quantum brain simulates the microscopic world, it can allow people to observe quantum entanglement in a certain sense, and have a new understanding of the microscopic world.
Of course, in addition, with the help of various deep neural algorithms, the quantum brain can even become a real intelligent computer, or the intelligent brain whose way of thinking and cognition is closest to that of humans.
Of course, these are all conclusions reached by Wang Yufei through calculation and analysis, and whether it is really as he judged, it has to wait for the successful manufacture of quantum intelligent brain.
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The trial went very well.
After countless calculations and simulations, about hundreds of thin diamond flakes were lost, and the circuit was finally successfully carved on a batch of diamond slices, and the next step was to install these engraved circuit diamond slices on the pre-designed quantum brain pedestal in the center of the seven laboratories according to the pre-designed steps.
The base of the whole quantum brain is composed of sheet transparent diamond, mainly based on the strong thermal conductivity of the diamond itself, and various circuits have been designed below, and the next step is to insert the engraved diamond chip into the previously reserved slot in order, and then it is to install polarizers, various filters, various resistor devices, control lines, and also need to measure inputs, measurement outputs, high electron migration amplifiers, etc......
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, after all, the goal of the first stage was successfully completed.
Of course, for the entire quantum brain project, the efforts of most of the month are only about 10%. The next step is to test the pre-designed quantum circuits and then revise the circuit design, which will be a lengthy process.
Any small mistake in the microscopic field can lead to unpredictable results. Of course, the so-called unmeasurable, feedback to the laboratory itself is a failure and an error.
When all of the above is completed, the control system needs to be designed.
The main thing is to solve two problems, convert the computing task into the control instruction of the qubits in the quantum chip, and extract the operation results from the quantum state of the qubits on the quantum chip. The basis behind this is the implementation of quantum logic gate operations, as well as the implementation of qubit reading.
Of course, you have to take a bite to eat, and of course things have to be done step by step.
For the quantum brain, Wang Yufei still has an extremely optimistic attitude.
After all, at this time, he had already proved that when he had an epiphany on the shore of Weiming Lake, the equations that popped up in his mind were not meaningless.
In addition to the explanation of some settings of the universe, most of the deduction results can be used in the quantum brain.
According to Wang Yufei's conception, the day when the quantum intelligent brain was successfully launched also means that human science and technology have really taken a big step forward on the original basis.
Of course, this big step does not mean that the company will master quantum supremacy and invalidate the world's passwords, but the key is that once human cognition of the microscopic world progresses, the advancement of materials science will be unimaginable.
For example, before the discovery of graphene, the scientific community did not believe that there were two-dimensional materials in the world, and it was not until after the discovery of graphene that scientists found that the carrier migration and heat diffusion of two-dimensional materials were limited to the two-dimensional plane, making these materials show many strange properties.
However, with a quantum computer, it is possible to develop various new materials in a very short period of time through the permutations and combinations of various particles.
In Wang Yufei's idea, people only need to describe the material properties and application scenarios required by the quantum computer to the quantum computer, and the quantum brain can start to calculate and simulate the scene according to these requirements, and give the atomic structure of the new material.
For example, if you want to build a space elevator, then the cable of the elevator that can go directly to space must be strong enough, tough, and not afraid of the corrosion of space radiation.
Then Wang Yufei only needs to input all the environment from the earth to space that the space elevator needs to be input to the Quantum Brain, and then input his own space elevator concept, and the Quantum Brain can automatically calculate what materials are needed for these special cables and how to design.
To put it simply, Wang Yufei's requirements for Quantum Intelligence Brain are to make it the best programmer in the world, and others to do a good job as a product manager.