The next day, three days after the conclusion of the 15th U.S.-China Entrepreneur Roundtable, Alphabet received an update on the XPRIZE program.

At the headquarters of Alphabet, Larry. Page looked at a top secret document of the company without saying a word, and he looked at the pictures that had been cleaned out without saying a word, and it was sent back from the moon.

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At the same time, just today, Seattle broke the news of a new shock. The news announced at an official temporary press conference jointly convened by many parties immediately detonated the global technology circle and media.

The two heads of Matrix Technology and Laura Space Systems signed a contract of up to $33.5 billion, and under the eyes of countless reporters, both parties wrote their names on the contract, Laura Space Systems will provide Matrix Technology with the manufacture of 120 relay satellites in two years and four months.

At the press conference, Ren Hong and Sean signed a contract with each other, and the two sides shook hands with each other under the lock of countless cameras. And after a while, Ren Hong and Elon . Musk has signed a contract for space exploration technology company SpaceX to partner with Matrix Technologies to launch 120 relay satellites provided by Laura Space Systems into predetermined orbits with the company's Falcon series of recyclable rockets.

With Elon. Musk signed the contract for a whopping $9.8 billion.

In addition to all the journalists present, there were also officials from both countries, and it is clear that this is a model of cross-border cooperation, in which the authorities of both countries play a key role in facilitating it, in addition to the companies themselves.

"Wait, it looks like there's still there." A reporter said suddenly.

Just when Ren Hong signed two contracts in one go, the reporters present saw that a group of new faces appeared, and then they saw two more written documents being sent.

After a while, the spokesperson stood on the podium and announced: "With the joint efforts of the two governments, the following cooperation has been successfully facilitated, Matrix Technology XlouS will enter into a cooperation of up to $46.6 billion with Bell Labs of the United States, Bell Labs will provide Matrix Technology XlouS with 1,000 third-generation enterprise-grade, and specific versions of photonic computers in the next two years, and 1,000 photonic computers will be mounted on more than 200 artificial satellites to be sent to outer space with them." ”

The spokesman nodded lightly with a professional smile, finished speaking, and left the podium with a low tide of exclamations from the reporters in the audience. The reporter's gaze suddenly shifted from the podium to Ren Hong's position, and the camera also shifted here.

I saw Ren Hong shake hands with another new face, and the two contracts were placed next to the two of them, and the two sides signed the contract one after another, exchanged and signed again.

Ren Hong handed the contract to his assistant, and the two sides shook hands again, and the contract was reached.

At this point, the real purpose of his trip to Seattle in the United States can be regarded as successfully achieved.

The game between the big powers behind is the exchange of interests, and the cooperation with Bell Labs in the United States has been reached, in which the country has played a vital role in promoting and negotiating behind the scenes, to be precise, these three contracts can be successfully signed, and the country has played an irreplaceable role.

In addition to the quantum computer as the core hardware architecture of the virtual world, the photonic computer is also an indispensable and important part, if the unprecedented data storage and processing center composed of super quantum computers is the core carrier of the virtual world, then the photonic computer will be the key bridge for signal transmission and communication to the world.

As early as 1990, Bell Labs in the United States successfully developed the world's first photonic computer, and so far, the United States has begun to lead the world in this field.

Both quantum computers and photonic computers have their own advantages and disadvantages, and some excellent performance of photonic computers will inevitably become an indispensable and important part of the huge hardware architecture of the virtual world.

Photons do not carry electric charges and do not interfere with each other when they propagate in parallel or cross-propagation, which is self-evident in today's vast information world. At the same time, the photon has no resting mass, as an information carrier, which means that it can propagate in a vacuum or in the medium, and the speed is thousands of times faster than the traditional signal propagation, it will perfectly solve the delay problem caused by the connection between the two hemispheres, and can truly achieve zero delay. Although its ultra-high computing speed is still no longer a level compared with quantum computers, it can fully meet the requirements in regional transit and processing, after all, the core of the virtual world does not rely on photonic computers as carriers, and photonic computers themselves have super-large-scale storage capacity, which is undoubtedly a big advantage in the current world where massive amounts of information are born every day.

In addition to these advantages, photonic computers also have another major feature, which is their low energy consumption.

The advantages of this series of photonic computers are simply born for the hardware architecture of the virtual world, low energy consumption makes it have the conditions to be sent to outer space for long-term work, as a temporary processing end of information relay, it will perfectly solve the problems of signal transmission, relay and delay, and these are more fatal shortcomings for virtual networks, with photonic computers, these shortcomings will be overcome.

At this point, the hardware architecture of the virtual world has been basically integrated, and only waiting for the final laying.

However, for the virtual world, the content is the most important, because for the user, it is not those cold machines and hardware devices in space, nor what the user needs, but directly facing the user is the content generated in the virtual world.

For the content, Ren Hong is obviously not a professional, but someone will solve it, Facebook is stepping up the construction of virtual communities, this company's rich experience in this field is no longer in doubt, Zuckerberg has already sent a core team into Matrix Technology, and on the other hand, the acquisition team of Matrix Technology has long locked in the current major game developers around the world, and is looking for some game companies that can generate high-quality capacity.

When all this is deployed, the virtual world will be officially launched and will be open to the world, and at that time, it will shake the world.

The birth of the three-point contract, Matrix Technology once again invested nearly 90 billion US dollars, and the promotion of bilateral governments, this series of cautions all show that Matrix Technology is brewing an unprecedented super plan.

"Is XlouS's recent partnership with Facebook and its D-Wave related to the current three-point contract?" Reporter's question time, an AFP reporter asked.

"Relevant." Ren Hong's wired microphone on the mobile desktop said briefly.

"Excuse me, can you tell us more about that?"

"Trade secrets, no comment." Ren Hong nodded at her with a smile and signaled the end of the conversation.

(To be continued) (To be continued.) )