Zhu Zhongliang and Zhu Jingyuan finished looking at the uranium ore samples, and then went to the chemical workshop to see the production line.

Finally, I came to the warehouse and took a look at the uranium yellow cake that had been produced.

The yellowcake factory has completed a production line capable of continuously refining ore to produce uranium yellowcake.

However, the production speed remains at a low level for the time being, mainly because the follow-up plant is still under construction.

The enrichment uranium processing technology at the end has not yet completed all the overall technical research.

At present, the plant continues to produce a small amount of uranium yellow cake, which is mainly used for laboratory research of uranium tetrafluoride and uranium hexafluoride.

So in the afternoon of the same day, they visited the uranium yellow cake factory, and the two went to the uranium tetrafluoride and uranium hexafluoride laboratories the next day.

On the third day, I went to the laboratory with filter membranes and centrifuges.

From front to back, the nature of engineering construction is getting lower and lower, and the nature of theoretical research is getting stronger and stronger.

Zhu Jingyuan only gave the direction, and only knew the direction and basic principles, and the practical application required the craftsmen to do it themselves.

In addition to the original basic concepts and principles, what Zhu Jingyuan can continue to give is full support.

But for researchers, this is more than enough.

If you have ideas, there will be no mistakes in the direction, and there will be no empty baskets.

There is comprehensive support at the financial, material, personnel, and political levels, and it will not be dragged down by all kinds of practical problems.

Researchers only need to focus on research, and they don't need to create gimmicks to gain attention and get investment.

This allows them to really focus on their research.

After leaving the centrifuge laboratory, Zhu Jingyuan's grandparents and grandchildren went to another equally important laboratory.

Binary Tube Computer Laboratory.

Computer research started earlier, and Zhu Jingyuan learned more in-depth information and provided more guidance.

Therefore, the progress of Daming-related research is also faster.

The laboratory has now built the first small-scale computer verification machine.

Zhu Jingyuan stood in the middle of the hall, looking at the eight large cabinets of this verification machine, and was full of emotion in his heart.

On the cover plate on the front of the middle cabinet, there is a huge seal with the word "Dao".

The name of this computer is "Dao".

Naming the new achievements of one's own research and development with its own traditional cultural symbols is a natural choice for a country with a core traditional ethnic group.

The key is that the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty saw that the design of the binary system naturally corresponded to the Tai Chi Yin and Yang in traditional culture.

Then in terms of design and planning, it is natural to move closer to the numbers of Tai Chi Yin and Yang Bagua.

The eight trigrams are combined to form sixty-four hexagrams, and the sixty-four hexagrams are combined in pairs, and the result is four thousand and ninety-six.

So the "Dao" uses 4,096 electron tubes, which can perform 1,000 and 24 calculations per second.

Compared with the computers of Zhu Jingyuan's previous life and later generations, this computing power looks extremely bleak.

But it was the world's first electronic computer, and the first binary general-purpose electronic computer.

It has controllers, combinators, memory, input and output devices, which can be programmed.

In its body, the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty have completed the verification of technical principles and crossed the process of starting from scratch.

What is being done now is to standardize the technology that has been validated on it, and then build a larger computer.

Moreover, as the world's first electronic computer, it is actually many times stronger than the first electronic computer ABC in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life.

It is also many times more powerful than the first computer in the country.

The craftsman in charge of the computer told Zhu Jingyuan and Zhu Zhongliang about the computer's capabilities.

It can be used in scientific calculations, it can be used in ballistic calculations, and there are a variety of calculation items that can be used.

Computing projects that originally took tens of minutes to complete only need tens of seconds with electronic computers, and the time has been shortened by dozens of times.

The effect of speed improvement is not only the speed itself, but more importantly, the speed of the entire scientific research system that it can drive.

At present, the laboratory is designing and building a larger-scale computer, preparing to use 32,768 electron tubes, and strive to increase the computing speed to more than 8,192 times per second.

Zhu Zhongliang nodded frequently on the side, but Zhu Jingyuan was a little distracted on the side.

How many years did it take to get the first electronic computer, to the first game console, to the first personal computer?

In the original history, Enia was born in 1946, Xerox designed the personal computer "Otto" in 1973, already had a mouse and graphical display interface, and Steve Jobs launched the Apple 2 in 1977.

In the eighties, there was Nintendo FC, the prototype of the Little Overlord, and in the nineties, there was Sony's PS.

Diablo 2 was released in 2000, Warcraft 3 was released in 2002, and Legend of Blood was released in 2001.

Intel released the Core 2 dual-core processor in 2006, and Apple released the Apple 3G in 2008.

At this time, it was only more than sixty years since Eniake was born.

In other words, even if the computer industry develops naturally at a normal pace, about 30 years later, middle-class families in the Ming Dynasty will have the opportunity to use personal computers, and their children will have the opportunity to play video games.

In 50 years, you will be able to play computer games, and in 60 years, you will be able to use a capacitive screen touch phone.

If you can live to be 80 years old, your lifestyle will be closer to the era of your previous life.

If you specialize in accelerating the development of computer technology, you may be able to play the online game "If you are a brother, come and cut me" on the computer by the time you are 50 years old.

When I retire at the age of 60, I can use my touchscreen phone to search the Internet for the question of why the frame rate of my game suddenly dropped from 60 to 56.

Thinking of these things, Zhu Jingyuan's whole spirit quickly lifted up, and he gained unprecedented motivation for work.

Zhu Jingyuan suddenly turned to several craftsmen around him:

"Is there any pen and paper? I have some new ideas, write them out and you can try them when you have time......"

Without any hesitation, several craftsmen immediately led Zhu Jingyuan to the side and to the table where various registration forms were stored.

Zhu Jingyuan sat at this table, and under the watchful eyes of Zhu Zhongliang and a group of craftsmen, he picked up his pen and began to write about transistors while thinking.

The transistor was actually invented relatively early, in the second year of Enniak's service, and in 1955 there was the first transistor computer.

The computing power of a transistor computer is exponentially improved compared to that of a tube computer.

It can allow the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty to start relevant research in advance.

In order to use compact PCs as soon as possible, we will accelerate the semiconductor industry from now on.

Zhu Jingyuan stayed in the computer laboratory for three days, wrote his ideas about transistors, and gave careful explanations to the craftsmen here.

Let them arrange a group of people and start relevant research and testing.

Transistor computers, which will be used as a successor to tube computers.

Now that the principle of the tube computer has been basically formed, and the follow-up is to expand and produce models of different scales, it is indeed possible to start new research.

This arrangement is reasonable, and the craftsmen are more impressed that His Royal Highness Prince Dashi has a new idea.