Riding the wind of rebirth

"Virtual chess players are actually just a very specific and very simple application scenario of nonlinear supercomputing matrices. However, the unique advantages of nonlinear supercomputing demonstrated in this scenario are very obvious. We have already stepped into a region that no one has stepped into before, and we will continue to expand and study it in depth."

This had a commanding, overarching feel to it, and everyone applauded enthusiastically.

Once things were settled, Mai Mingdong ushered the rest of the people out of the meeting room and said to Mai Xiaomiao and Zhou Zhi, "Why don't you go home for dinner tonight? Aunt Liu keeps talking about you, saying you haven't been back in a long time."

Actually, Mai Xiaomiao had only been back to Zhouzhi once since she met him, mainly because she still felt a little awkward.

Mai Mingdong had actually married Liu Ma, but they had only registered their marriage at the Civil Affairs Bureau. It was a very secretive affair, and practically no one knew about it.

He didn't even tell his family, only Zhou Zhi.

Zhou Zhi actually supports this matter. It's good for the old academician to find a companion in his later years. Although Liu Ma is not highly educated, she is a very kind person and takes good care of Lao Mai. As long as the two have feelings for each other, why not support it?

As for the claim that there's another person coming to claim a share of the McCain family fortune, that's simply not a possibility for the McCain family. Jeff McCain, who's a college professor in New York and has a banker wife, would never have such a thought.

Mai Xiaomiao would never have such thoughts. With her intellectual property rights to the nonlinear supercomputing matrix, she holds a significant stake in the Clover Group's Xiaozhi supercomputing system. The supercomputing system is now generating new profit growth points through collaborations with various projects. In addition, Mai Xiaomiao is the chief scientist of the Clover Group, with a salary equivalent to that of Masaoka and Lao Shi, and even higher than that of Hu Tianyu, Hu Lidong, and An Chunjia, who are currently known as the "Three Heroes of Sichuan University." She is not short of money at all.

Moreover, Mai Xiaomiao had never had any concept of this. Her assets were all shared by Zhou Zhi and herself, and she entrusted them to Li Laosan to manage. She only had one bank card, which always had a balance of more than one million yuan, but she rarely spent it.

"If Zhouzi goes, I'll go too." After interacting with more "ordinary people" in Lianhe Township, Mai Xiaomiao's resistance to Liu Ma has basically disappeared. However, she still finds it difficult to have anything in common with Liu Ma. If Zhou Zhi doesn't help "smooth things over" when they meet, she feels speechless and a bit awkward.

Zhou Zhi is different. Even though Liu Ma's formal job for most of her life was as a nanny, he still has a lot in common with her. For example, cooking is a friendly way to bring the two of them closer.

"Then let's go there early and have steamed pork with rice flour for dinner," Zhou Zhi said with a smile.

"Steamed pork with rice flour is too oily, I don't know if Aunt Liu will approve it..." Mai Mingdong swallowed, it seems he had been under Aunt Liu's control for a long time and was craving it.

“Just tell Xiao Miao what she wants to eat,” Zhou Zhi said with a smile. “We can steam ribs, pork intestines, and pork belly. When the time comes, just give Xiao Miao a look and she’ll put food on your plate. It’s not good for Aunt Liu to stop you.”

“No, no…” Mai Mingdong was still arguing, but his next sentence revealed his true feelings: “Then I’ll try to go home early tonight.”

After Mai Mingdong left, Zhou Zhi and Mai Xiaomiao held another meeting with the three-person team to discuss the initial deployment and application of the Tianxing Diwang system, as well as subsequent follow-up matters.

Sun and Yu were incredibly capable, and their work aligned with both production and political needs, resulting in swift approval from above. First, the state agreed to open another Long March 3B rocket production line and another Dongfeng 3B satellite production line to meet production and assembly requirements.

At the same time, a document was issued to accelerate the construction of the Wenchang launch site, striving to achieve the launch capability of large vehicles next year.

Next comes the financial game. To ensure the funds arrive quickly, AXA Fund will provide a 70% entrusted loan to Yangtze Communications, and the remaining 30% will be used by AXA as equity swap funds to establish Changxing Holdings with Yangtze Communications, which will mainly operate Xingqing satellite services in the future.

The transfer of this loan to the mainland was carried out through the newly launched digital currency financial settlement system of Bank of China (Hong Kong) and China Minsheng Bank. The funds were first converted into digital currency at Bank of China (Hong Kong), and then directly arrived at the People's Bank of China Settlement Service Center in the capital through digital currency settlement. Then, they arrived at the headquarters of China Minsheng Bank in Pudong. From the initiation of the transaction to the arrival of the funds, including the teller's operation and accounting, the whole process took five minutes.

On the night the transaction was initiated, Xu personally oversaw the operation at the People's Bank of China headquarters. Only after the $300 million in funds arrived at the Minsheng Bank headquarters did he clap and laugh, exclaiming, "Our country's economy has gained another powerful booster!"

The communication channel for this transaction utilizes the rudimentary Tianxing Diwang system that is already in use. Although the three heroes of Shu University have all seen a lot in life, they are still terrified when faced with this task, after all, the amount of money is too huge. In Hu Tianyu's words, this is the biggest sum of money I have ever seen.

It really is just "seen" because the exchange and confirmation of transaction instructions in cyberspace are all under technical security monitoring. Although those instructions in cyberspace are the same in nature as Zhouzhi logging into the campus network and talking nonsense, they are just a message packet. However, because the information they carry is too important, the attitude towards them will be different.

However, this is purely a matter of mindset, not a technical issue, and can only be met with ridicule from Zhou Zhi.

Once the funds entered the country, things became much easier. With everyone's joint efforts, all plans were immediately accelerated. After the introduction of process quality control management systems into the military industry, it became extremely simple for businesses with relatively low R&D content, which were basically just copy-pasting and mass production. The main thing was to allocate funds, materials, and manpower. Furthermore, due to the centralized mass production, the cost of the Long March 3B and Dongfang 3B equipment was greatly reduced, and the country gained an unexpected large profit.

Zhou Zhi estimated that the national Tianxing Diwang system might not require any additional spending. With the $600 million he and Li Lao Er had provided, there would still be a huge surplus after the three systems were delivered.

However, changing from three sequential plans to three parallel plans, and from single-location launches to two-location launches in rotation, inevitably involves many changes. The initial plan of the Clover Grassland will also be adjusted accordingly, and Zhou Zhi needs to give the group a heads-up.

Meanwhile, the group is also responsible for the research and development of key system components such as optoelectronic conversion modules, fiber optic switches, and non-linear encoding GPUs. The actual needs of AXA Fund, Yangtze Telecom, and the National SkyStar Ground Network also have their own focuses and differences, and the group is also responsible for completing the adaptation and transformation.

In addition to the series of industries brought about by nonlinear core algorithms, energy is also a new profit point discovered by Zhouzhi.

Lithium iron phosphate polymer lithium-ion batteries will also be a key area of ​​future development. At present, it is not meaningful to make the pie too big. Zhouzhi will combine reality with small batteries and make profits by manufacturing batteries for Samsung and Sony's home digital products. Large batteries will make profits by being high-end replacements for UPS lead-acid batteries. At the same time, it will also take into account some needs from the military industry, such as power supply for radar stations, communication base stations and other facilities.

These alone constitute a massive industry; the batteries required by just a few supercomputing centers are enormous, making advance investment and planning essential. (End of Chapter)