"Support 50 million engineering robots at the same time?!"

Hearing Lu Weibing's words, the people at the scene were also shocked, because this number seemed to be a bit exaggerated.

But after thinking about it carefully, they found that 36,000 qubits can easily support more than 500,000 engineering robots to work at the same time, and this is when many other artificial intelligence functions are used at the same time.

If Dawning focuses on controlling engineering robots and does nothing else, doubling the number to 1 million engineering robots doesn't seem like a problem.

At this time, the number of qubits reached 3.66 million, a 100-fold increase, and it seems possible to control 50 million robots at the same time.

But at this time, Chen Dong, the person in charge of Dawning Manufacturing and Dawning Electronics, shook his head slightly and denied:

"It's not just 50 million units, because our quantum computer is not a traditional supercomputer, it's a quantum computer.

According to the theory of quantum computers, the more qubits, the stronger their computing power, and its computing power is exponentially increasing.

So according to the conventional situation, the computing power of our quantum computer has not increased by 100 times, but by more than 100 times, but I can't figure out how much.

Hearing Chen Dong's words, the people at the scene also nodded suddenly, and they remembered that this was indeed the case.

That's why quantum computers dare to claim that the computing power of thousands of qubits is equivalent to the sum of the computing power of all traditional computers in the world.

At this time, their qubits have increased by a hundred times, and the final computing power must not be calculated according to the 100 times increase, otherwise the difference in computing power will definitely be very different, it can be said that one is in the sky and the other is on the ground.

Thinking of this, the people at the scene were all very excited and even excited.

But at this time, Lin Chen suddenly shook his head and said:

"This increase in computing power is not as powerful as you think, because how much water a bucket can hold is not based on his strongest longboard, but on his shortest shortboard."

Lin Chen told a rather cruel truth.

Because the fact is indeed as Lin Chen said, the computing power of a quantum computer does increase exponentially with the growth of qubits on the surface, but the quantum computer is also composed of other things.

In the case of the Dawning quantum computer, there are even things such as memristor chips and special memory to assist in the work.

After all, the quantum computer also needs the assistance of a memristor chip, and also needs a special memory to temporarily store data, not that he doesn't need anything else, but he only uses quantum computing for the computing part.

Finally, there is the problem of the bandwidth limit of the interface between the quantum computer and the outside world, so the computing power of the quantum computer will naturally not reach the terrifying level they imagined.

Of course, compared with the previous generation, the strength of the second-generation quantum computer is still quite strong, and the computing power has also increased hundreds of times compared to the previous one.

So theoretically, it is true that it can easily support the operation of 50 million robots, but unfortunately this is only a theory, because the Internet network does not support it, and the network interface bandwidth of the memristor supercomputer does not support it.

A robot has so many screens, and the complexity of each additional robot screen increases so much, how is it possible to support 50 million robots?

Therefore, if you want to increase the number of robots, you still have to increase the intelligence of the local artificial intelligence program and increase the computing power of the local computer.

"So how many robots can we support?"

Huang Hua asked his words.

"Supporting 10 million robots shouldn't be a problem, but that's pretty much the limit.

Because after reaching this level, one of our shortcomings, the network interface bandwidth has been very congested and cannot continue to increase. ”

Lin Chen said his reply, and the people at the scene instantly fell into decay.

Because this data is too different from the previous 50 million and even the hundreds of millions of robots they imagined, it is almost a gap between heaven and earth.

"Can't we just keep increasing?"

Huang Hua asked a little unwillingly.

"Absolutely."

At this time, it was Ni Guangnan who spoke, and I saw Ni Guangnan smile and say in the eyes of people's hope:

"It's not possible to fundamentally solve the problem of network bandwidth limitations, but we can alleviate this problem in disguise, and we've been doing this for a long time.

The first point of this approach is to make the local AI program smarter, so that it becomes smarter and can do more things.

The second point is to increase the computing power of local robots, after all, if you want to support smarter AI programs that can do more things, you need stronger computing power to support them.

We've made a lot of progress on the local side in increasing the intelligence level of the AI program so that it can do more.

Because we have a very powerful second-generation quantum computer, we can build a virtual scene using the Unreal Engine 4 game engine.

Then let the local AI program keep training to deal with it, and we human developers and AI Dawn are constantly correcting it.

It can be said that after using this method, the intelligence of our local artificial intelligence programs is increasing day by day, in the case of engineering robots, without updating the hardware.

With the updated local AI program, our engineering robots have been able to handle most of the engineering tasks and support more and more complex scenarios, and the need for assistance from the dawn of artificial intelligence in the cloud has been directly reduced by more than 44%!

And this data can actually be further increased, because stronger computing power can support smarter AI programs and can do more things.

If we have enough computing power to develop stronger AI programs, it is possible to achieve 99% of scenarios without the support of artificial intelligence Dawn, which will increase the number of robots in disguise. ”

"Is there any big breakthrough in the problem of local computing power? How far have you got? ”

Lu Weibing, the person in charge of Shuguang Construction, asked his words.

"Speaking of which, I can't help but tell you the good news."

Speaking of this, Ni Guangnan's eyes were a little excited, and then he said with a smile under people's gaze:

"Our first-generation memristor chip has been designed and is about to be trial-produced, and this memristor chip is not the storage-computing integrated chip used by the host of engineering robots.

Because although the integrated memory and computing chip can also be called a storage and computing integrated chip, its essence is only based on the improvement of the von Neumann structure, and it actually belongs to the near-memory computing chip.

Therefore, the performance efficiency of near-memory computing chips is indeed greatly improved compared with traditional computers, but the gap is not as much as imagined, and the maximum upper limit is only 10 times the difference.

The memristor chip that has been designed now is a real integrated memory and computing chip, which can theoretically reach 100 times the efficiency of traditional computer chips under the same power consumption, and is also the most suitable chip for robots! ”

Speaking of which, the near-memory computing chip was actually designed as early as March 2008 last year, and the original design goal was to build a near-memory computing supercomputer.

But because Lin Chen developed a 36,000-qubit quantum computer and a memristor supercomputer with more terrifying performance and computing power in advance, the near-memory computing supercomputer naturally ended without a problem.

(End of chapter)