Chapter 36: Super Control Chips
Wu Tao, who returned to his residence, saw that it was still early, so he simply began to study the related disciplines and key technologies involved in robots. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
This fascination unconsciously reached the middle of the night. Until an unexpected phone call interrupted his thoughts.
Is it Angel? Wu Tao was confused and indirectly connected on the phone, and said in a serious tone: "Hey? ”
"Wu Tao, I'm Anqi." The other party's voice was faintly excited.
Wu Tao didn't let down his guard, after all, this woman had said a lot of bad things about herself in front of Su Tong a few hours ago, and it wasn't necessarily a good thing to call her directly this time.
"I know."
"Lao Li and I watched that special effects sample, it was really great, so exciting, so realistic! We watched it more than ten times, and all aspects such as light and shadow, color, and 3D effects were flawless, and the more we looked at it, the more shocking we felt! "Angel used the word 'too' three times in a row, and it seemed that she couldn't express the excitement at the moment.
Unexpectedly, Wu Tao's reaction was extremely indifferent, "Oh, I'll just play with it, it's purely a ticket game." I don't expect to make any money from this movie, as long as the project can attract small stars and engage in unspoken rules! ”
After hearing this, Angel was immediately embarrassed. Thinking of the baskets of words she said to Su Tong to slander Wu Tao, she was also choked up.
Li Zhongda next to him heard it word for word, covered his mouth, held back a smile, and endured it so hard.
The phone was speechless, and Wu Tao didn't bother to be angry with An Qi anymore, so he simply said, "It's nothing, I'll hang up." ”
"Wait, I'm sorry, Wu Tao, Mr. Wu, Boss Wu?" Angel even initiated.
"Calling so late just to talk about this?"
Angel said, "Yes, ah, no. Boss, I mainly want to ask, how much does the three-minute invincible special effect cost? Are the special effects of our Star Wars movie of this high level throughout the whole process? ”
Wu Tao muttered slightly: "You don't have to care about the cost of special effects, and the special effects will maintain the level of the sample film throughout the process." ”
"Wow, that's awesome!"
Although across the phone, Wu Tao could still feel the enthusiasm of the other party's excited cheers.
"So you and Lao Li have to do a solid job in all aspects, don't figure out if I'm playing with the unspoken rules all day long!"
"Yes, boss, not next time! No, there is no next time, I promise! ”
After hanging up the phone, Wu Tao remembered Wangcai, looked around, and found that this product was lying on the sofa and pretending to sleep, leisurely ruthless!
"Wangcai, you're lazy here! How's the special effects going? ”
Wangcai looked aggrieved: "Brother Tao, you want to make the movie, and you earn the money, how can you do all the work on my head?" ”
Wu Tao patted the information in his hand and said, "Aren't I going to research and make robots?" Otherwise, I'll use the computer to do my own special effects, and you can send me all the data pictures! ”
Wangcai said: "No, no, Brother Tao." You're still busy building robots, after all, this is the great cause of technological inheritance. As for the little things like movie special effects, leave it to me, no matter how many times you change it, I promise to do it until you are satisfied. ”
"That's okay, what you said, don't deny it!"
After speaking, Wangcai immediately sat up. I saw that its claws were slashed in the void little by little, and around its small body, three rows of dozens of holographic projections appeared out of thin air......
Wu Tao nodded with satisfaction, and when the movie was released, no one would have imagined that all the real special effects were made by the super intelligence of Wangcai.
Walking back to the table, Wu Tao continued to return to the question of the robot.
After several hours of data research, Wu Tao found that he had thought of robots too simply. A small robot, involving a large number of basic disciplines and cutting-edge technology, almost subverted his original cognition.
For example, the most basic and lowest-level robots require at least four key technologies. Specifically, it is a high-performance control chip, servo motor, precision reducer and visual recognition system.
Among them, the high-performance control chip is like the human brain, dominating the daily thinking and emergency judgment of the robot. It must not only be able to think like a human, but also be able to simulate the action instructions of the human body's subconscious rapid response.
At present, there are targeted solutions for such daily thinking, which are generally through massive learning and accumulation, so that the control chip has the ability to simulate thinking.
However, for the simulation of the rapid response of the human body's subconscious, the requirements for the control chip are even more demanding. Because under normal circumstances, the time for the human body's knee-jerk reaction is 0.1 seconds, which means that the time used by the control chip for decision-making and instruction issuance and transmission must be controlled in milliseconds, that is, one thousandth of a second.
As for the servo motor and the precision reducer, the two complement each other to form the muscles and joints of the human body. Servo motor technology determines the speed and explosive power of robot muscles; The precision reducer is just like the joints of the human body, carrying the cushioning capacity after the explosion of speed and power.
For the visual recognition system, it is undoubtedly equivalent to the human eyes. In addition, there is also speech recognition and action recognition, which are simulated human language ability and tactile system response ability.
However, these key technologies and products have been monopolized by Japan, Europe and the United States, and have not been localized at all. Occasionally, some products have the name of domestic production, or they are inferior products that are purely picking up people's teeth.
However, Wu Tao is not very interested in the secret technologies of Japan, Europe and the United States. He sits on the treasure trove of science and technology of the entire extraterritorial civilization, does he still care about the little bit of earth technology?
What he worries about is how to restore the robot technology and manufacturing process in foreign civilizations to the greatest extent possible on the basis of the existing materials, manufacturing and chips on the earth.
For example, control chips, even though there are mature artificial intelligence software algorithm libraries in the treasure trove of science and technology that can be copied and applied, the computing power of the strongest chips of the two major CPU providers on the planet cannot meet the requirements. Not only that, but the overall power consumption is particularly high.
In this way, Wu Tao is powerful and difficult to use. It is not possible to build a three-way intelligent computer production line for this purpose, which will not only take a long time, but also make a huge investment.
Waving away the idea of a ternary computer chip, Wu Tao's eyes fell on the word 'multi-core' on the manuscript paper.
A flash of inspiration suddenly occurred in my mind, there is!
It turns out that the current multi-core architecture on the earth is not reasonable, and does not give full play to the advantages of parallel computing of multi-core integration, and today's software systems do not provide good support for the multi-core model.
As long as the multi-core architecture is improved, a super control chip is developed, the advantages of multi-core parallel computing are brought into play, and supplemented by sufficient software scheduling support, the performance of the chip can be improved geometrically!
Thinking of this, Wu Tao searched in the treasure trove of science and technology and found that the multi-core architecture of neural networks was the perfect solution he wanted.