Chapter 21: Photon Processors!
After the launch of Yuan Lin's horizon algorithm, it did not have an explosive repercussion on a global scale, after all, this is a set of professional tools, except for the field of chip development, other industries simply do not need it, and they do not need it.
However, in the semiconductor industry, the emergence of the horizon algorithm is like a rock breaker, directly creating a new era.
In the past, EDA tools were like sickles, and the Horizon algorithm was a combine harvester, which is hundreds or thousands of times more efficient, and the work that used to take thousands of senior chip engineers can now be done by a few people.
In this way, there are too many efficiency improvements, and in addition to efficiency, the more important significance of Horizon is to break the monopoly.
Like the light-chasing motion capture engine, the horizon algorithm is also open to the world, and any individual or enterprise can use it for a fee.
Before that, the West took advantage of the technological monopoly and brandished the big stick of sanctions against all competitors, not only Huaxia was the victim, but even the traditional hooligans like France were also killed by the Angsa group.
In the view of the idealist Yuan Lin, the only goal of mankind is to enter the era of the universe as soon as possible, and to achieve such a lofty goal, there is no second choice except to gather the wisdom and strength of all human beings.
After all, when you are facing the stars, the vast universe does not care whether you are a Huaxia or an Angsa, you have the ability to survive in the cosmic era, and the universe will not let you go just because you have a certain bloodline.
It is based on such a lofty ideal that a comprehensive open technology platform has become Yuan Lin's only choice, both now and in the future.
"There's something wrong with quantum technology, right? How can such a good technology be open to the world? ”
"If I were Yuan Lin, I would use the horizon to engage in technology monopoly, and only for Chinese enterprises."
"That's it, why did Yuan Lin turn his elbow outward?"
The opening up of technology again and again also made Yuan Lin face unprecedented pressure of public opinion in China, and some narrow-minded nationalists were quite hostile to Yuan Lin, and even regarded him as a national scum.
Of course, these people's thinking is ridiculous, as if any enterprise must represent justice as long as it is marked with the word Huaxia, but they have forgotten the 40 billion missing deposits, and more unbelievable strange stories, and the word "compatriots" is also written behind them.
In short, Yuan Lin didn't feel bothered in the face of all kinds of doubts, he just felt funny.
Because in his view, only the working class is the compatriot of the working class, and those who stand above and you call yourself compatriot are often just to take advantage of you.
The unstoppable launch of the black technology giant wheel, motion capture, optical lenses, EDA tools, these are just the beginning, and now Yuan Lin must make a choice, whether to start the development of the metaverse next, or continue to strengthen the semiconductor industry.
After all, the research work of the technology simulator takes time, and Yuan Lin can't fire on multiple fronts at the same time, so he will only lose one and the other, and the gains outweigh the losses.
The benefits of choosing the metaverse are obvious, the metaverse can be seen as a second home, where all human beings gather except for the real world, and break a series of monopolies from finance to geography, all of which must be completed by the metaverse.
The semiconductor industry is equally important, and if we continue to upgrade a series of hardware from silicon wafers to lithography machines, we will be able to comprehensively improve the strength of the earth in the field of chips.
In the future, supercomputers, virtual headsets, advanced algorithms for calculating stars, and even robotics will all need superchips as a foundation.
After some careful consideration, Yuan Lin finally decided to upgrade the semiconductor manufacturing technology first, after all, although the dream of the metaverse is great, it still needs computer hardware as support.
Forcibly developing the metaverse with the current level of technology is not impossible, but it cannot be perfect.
Just like when Cyberpunk 2077 was first released, players found out that the game was not as good as advertised, and it was still a half-finished product that had not been fully developed, causing the reputation of the game's developer, Polish Stupid Donkey, to plummet.
In order to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, Yuan Lin temporarily shelved his own metaverse plan after the end of the EDA project and chose to continue to cultivate the semiconductor industry.
Putting on quantum glasses and entering the world of technology simulators, Yuan Lin chose photonic processor technology as his next goal.
So the question is, what is a photonic processor?
Very simply, the silicon-based chips we currently use are electron-based computing technology, while photonic processors are based on photons, and quantum processors are based on quantum.
The main bottlenecks of traditional processors are bandwidth and power consumption, while the high bandwidth of optics and the passive computing process of optics can perfectly overcome this problem and improve computing efficiency by more than 460 times.
Yuan Lin's chosen research direction is the top model in the photonic processor sequence, the matrix optical computing system, compared with the traditional silicon-based computing system, the performance is thousands of times higher, such as neural networks and other scientific ideas, will become a reality because of the mass popularization of photonic processors.
Although the thirty-one-day research cycle was very long, Yuan Lin still gave orders to the system without hesitation.
After being busy for several months, he suddenly had leisure time, and Yuan Lin's choice was to go out on vacation and go to the LS he longed for.
However, when Yuan Lin got on the plane, he soon found that there were many things wrong, such as the beautiful flight attendant didn't even look at the ticket, she called her name directly, and the eyes of those people in the cabin glanced at her from time to time, and when Yuan Lin looked back, they quickly turned their heads.
Yuan Lin was puzzled, and after coming to the hotel, he told Xingxing and Xia Qiuyu about the phenomenon he had observed, who thought that they were not surprised at all, and put on a predetermined appearance.
"Cut, even I noticed that something was wrong with you, can you still know from above?" Stared at Yuan Lin happily and said: "It's only been less than two months, and you've already done so many things, even the all-intelligent EDA tool has been made, how can a normal person do it?" ”
"Seriously, do you have a powerful alien organization behind you?" Even Xia Qiuyu, who had a cold personality, couldn't help but ask Yuan Lin.
"As far as I know, there don't seem to be aliens in the Milky Way, at least not at Earth's latitude." Yuan Lin didn't want to blurt out that this result was obtained after he consulted the system.
Call~
Happy and Xia Qiuyu were immediately taken aback.
"No aliens?"
"You even know this, and you still say that you have no background?"
"Can you reveal who your boss, my boss's boss, is sacred?"
"Reborn or Traveler?"
jumped up happily and asked a series of questions to Yuan Lin.
And Yuan Lin remained silent as always, after grabbing his head and smiling awkwardly.
Experience tells Yuan Lin that a lie often needs countless lies to cover up, and he either tells the truth or doesn't speak, and when faced with a very difficult problem to explain, Yuan Lin usually chooses the latter.
As for the authorities' problems, they are not clear about Yuan Lin's cards, and second, arresting and detaining them are often the novelists' own imagination, and the authorities will not do so unless they have to.
After all, Yuan Lin is also a celebrity now, and he has a very strong influence in the world, and this kind of thing disappearing for no reason is often only used to pinch ordinary people and disobedient people, obviously Yuan Lin does not have these two points at present.
For the implementation of technology, Yuan Lin now has a mature method, he will transfer the technical information and experimental data provided by the simulator, and put it on the server side of quantum technology for customers to download, if there is still something you don't understand, you can even consult Yuan Lin.
In the blink of an eye, in October, with the crunch of the system, the development of the photonic processor, the largest scientific research project in history, was finally completed.