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"In front is the research and development building of our Longxing Group. Although it is not as big as the Imperial Capital Dragon Academy of Sciences, it is small but complete." Chen Xing walked in front and introduced the team of academicians of the Imperial Capital Dragon Academy of Sciences.

Looking at the U-shaped building with exquisite structure standing majestically at the Longxing base, many academicians exclaimed in amazement.

"so high!"

"This building must have a single-story area of ​​more than 10,000 square meters, right? And it has more than 10 or 20 floors. Mr. Chen is really too modest."

"It is indeed modest. At first glance, I thought it was a New York business building!"

"As for the laboratory building, I think our Longke Institute should also invest money to improve it. They are all small three- or four-story buildings from decades ago. We have to run back and forth to do an experiment. It would be better to learn from Longxing Group and use one building."

"Well said."

Listening to the sentiments of his academician friends, Qu Cheng also echoed: "I have long proposed to rebuild the research and development base of Longke Institute, but President Qin just couldn't bear to spend that little money."

"I mentioned it too, but he said money should be spent wisely. He's such a stingy person." Liu Dongsheng also complained.

"I don't think it's a matter of money. Dean Qin is probably afraid that the reconstruction will delay the progress of the project. After all, reconstruction is no small matter. It may take half a year at the fastest, or even two to three years at the slowest." Chen Xing spoke well of Qin Long as they walked.

"Haha, maybe that's true."

"It seems that we have wronged Dean Qin. It is President Chen who has seen through it."

"As expected of Mr. Chen."

The academicians did not argue, but echoed Chen Xing's words. They just complained simply and did not intend to argue whether Qin Long was stingy or not.

What's more, if the person who speaks ill of others behind their back is their "immediate boss" and people find out, they will suffer a lot, and the project funds may even be cut.

While everyone was chatting casually, they also came to the fountain square of the R&D building.

Before Chen Xing and others reached the main entrance, Gao Zhengqian, Pei Hui, Jiang Ce and other main leaders of the three-stage R&D team who were waiting in front of the R&D building came forward to greet them.

"President."

"Good afternoon, President."

"Yes." Chen Xing nodded, then stepped aside and introduced: "I won't introduce Academicians Qu Cheng and Liu Dongsheng in detail, as everyone knows them. As for these few people, they are Academician Wang Jie in the field of semiconductor chips, Academician Xu Weiguo in the field of computers..."

"Hello, Academician Wang Jie, I am Gao Zhengqian, the chief of the chip team of Longxing Group."

"Hello, hello, I didn't expect you to be Chief Gao. You are too young. Qu Cheng often mentioned you to me."

"I've heard of Academician Zhang Manman for a long time. I work in chip lithography. My name is Lin Tian, ​​which means "Lin" in the forest and "Tian" in the lawless world."

"I've heard people mention Chief Lin a long time ago. He really has an extraordinary personality."

"Hello, Academician Xu Weiguo, my name is Jiang Ce, and I'm a programmer."

……

The two groups shook hands and greeted each other. After a brief acquaintance, Qu Cheng on the side couldn't help but look at Gao Zhengqian and asked, "By the way, Chief Gao, I have a question I want to ask you. Is it convenient?"

"Please say."

Gao Zhengqian smiled lightly.

The moment Qu Cheng opened his mouth, the air around him instantly became quiet, as if the mute button was pressed.

Liu Dongsheng, Wang Jie, Jiang Ce, Lin Tian, ​​and even Chen Xing all set their sights on Qu Cheng and Gao Zhengqian.

This seems to be an academic exchange, but in fact they came with a mission.

As long as the ternary project can be realized and have far-reaching impact, the Longke Institute will mobilize all its forces to collectively accomplish it.

Because during the IPO speech, Chen Xing proposed the ternary computer.

Anyone who has been a programmer knows that a normal patch update requires a week or so of coding, and there is a possibility of bugs, which requires constant optimization.

The workload of ordinary system patches and building a completely new number system are completely different in magnitude, just like the difference between a small stream near your home and the vast ocean.

Qin Long and Wang Shan took this into consideration and thought of using the opportunity of academic exchange to invite a group of academicians to come and see if there was any way they could help.

"That's right." Qu Cheng sorted out his thoughts and continued, "Chief Gao, we are colleagues in chip design. Logically speaking, without the appropriate EDA chip design software, it is impossible to design nano-scale chips. After all, it is impossible to draw logic circuits manually."

"What I want to ask is, how do you design the logic circuit of a ternary chip without ternary EDA chip design software?"

As we all know, the number of transistors in a chip is in the billions. Take the 5-nanometer Huaxia chip as an example, it has 300 billion transistors.

What does 300 billion transistors mean?
火力全开的情况下，每0.1秒就可以提供150亿个1和150亿个0，组成算力的基本逻辑单元。

Due to the technology blockade by the three major EDA chip design software giants Synopsys, Cadence and Mentor, Longxing Group has always been using the internal EDA chip design software of Longke Institute.

However, the EDA chip design software within Longke Institute is binary, and there is no way to perform circuit logic testing on ternary chips.

If you insist on using binary EDA chip design software to design a ternary chip, it is not impossible, but it is almost like walking with your eyes blindfolded. You have no way of judging whether you are walking in a straight line or what the road conditions are.

First there was ternary EDA chip design software, then there were ternary chips. This is Qu Cheng’s personal understanding.

If Qu Cheng is right, then the question arises again. Running ternary EDA chip design software requires a ternary computer. Does Longxing Group really have this condition?

Judging from various factors, ternary chips may still be in the theoretical stage, and this is what Qu Cheng wants to verify.

Gao Zhengqian listened to Qu Cheng's question, thought about it for a while, and responded: "Yes, it does require ternary EDA chip design software, and it also needs to be paired with a ternary computer. At present, the logic circuit of the Fuxi Chip has not been officially built."

The moment the words fell, the academician of the Longke Academy was greatly disappointed, and the expectation in his eyes disappeared without a trace.

But if you think about it carefully, it is indeed impossible to enter the chip design stage so quickly. After all, this is a ternary chip, which is a brand new field.

"Ah, as expected!"

Qu Cheng sighed in his heart.

Although he also knew that the ternary chip was related to too many things and it was impossible for all of them to become reality in one go, Gao Zhengqian was an omnipotent god in his heart. He had hope for Gao Zhengqian, but now that hope was shattered, he could only face the cruel reality.

Just as the members of the Longke Academy were all thinking differently, Gao Zhengqian suddenly changed the subject and said, "Although the ternary logic circuit has not been formally built, the binary logic circuit has been mostly completed."

"???"

"???"

"???"

Didn’t you say that you want to design a ternary chip?

Why is there a binary logic circuit again?
Is this a ternary chip or a binary chip?
Academicians in the field of semiconductor chips, such as Qu Cheng, Liu Dongsheng, and Wang Jie, were all confused. They just felt that their "CPU" was a bit overloaded.

Since there is no reference for ternary chips and it is a completely new field of intelligent chips, they really don’t understand it.

Looking at the confused academicians, Gao Zhengqian smiled calmly and explained: "The logic circuit of the ternary chip is actually not difficult to understand. It only has one more negative logic circuit than the binary logic circuit, which means that a transistor is needed to express negative logic."

"That is to say, ternary system is based on 1 and 0 transistors, and adds a transistor to express negative numbers."

Gao Zhengqian took a breath and continued to explain: "As we all know, using EDA tools to design chips is like building blocks. Without the ternary EDA software to assist in verification, we can first design the relevant circuit components and materials, then start to build the 1 and 0 parts, and then complete the negative part after the ternary EDA software tools are put into use."

"To put it simply, build a rough house first, and then slowly renovate it when you have enough money until you are satisfied."

"Clap clap-"

The moment Gao Zhengqian finished speaking, Qu Cheng couldn't help but applaud him.

First build a rough house and then do the fine decoration. He had never thought that this system could be applied to chip design.

"Listening to your words is worth ten years of reading. Chief Gao is indeed the master that Academician Qu Cheng often mentions. He is so knowledgeable."

"We have been building with blocks for so long, but we have never thought of this way of building. Chief Gao is amazing!"

"A great man hides himself in the city, so awesome!"

"Chief Gao, how are your electronic components? Is there anything we can help you with?"

"Yes, yes, yes. If you need us, please let us know. We can also learn in depth."

An expert can tell whether something is possible with just one move. This simple conversation made these academicians from the Dragon Academy of Sciences deeply understand that there is always someone better.

According to their fixed thinking, eggs come first and then the chickens are hatched, that is, first there is EDA chip design software, and then the chip logic circuit is designed. This is basically the consensus in the industry.

But Gao Zhengqian's words broke their stereotyped thinking.

Why can only eggs come first and then chickens hatch, and other species are not allowed to evolve and mutate, from being viviparous to being oviparous?
After hearing the academicians' final statement that they wanted to participate in the research and development of the ternary project, Gao Zhengqian looked at Chen Xing for his opinion.

Chen Xing nodded slightly in response.

He still trusted the academicians of the Long Academy of Sciences. Moreover, Qin Long's intention was very clear. It seemed that he wanted the academicians to come to exchange and learn, but in fact he wanted to speed up the incubation of the ternary project.

Furthermore, the second-generation Beidou chip has been mass-produced, and there is no rush to launch the third-generation Beidou chip project. The semiconductor chip academicians of the Longke Institute also have a lot of free time.

In previous years, during the project gap period, they would often go to universities to give lectures or participate in academic forums.

But now, there seems to be something more urgent, more important, and more interesting to them than the third-generation Beidou chip.

With Chen Xing's permission, Gao Zhengqian also made a gesture of invitation and said, "Since all the academicians are interested, let's go up and talk in detail."

"Okay, excuse me then."

"Let's go up and take a look without further ado. I'm really interested in the ternary chip project."

"Me too."

"Excuse me, Chief Gao."

Gao Zhengqian moved aside and signaled Chen Xing and the academicians from Longke Academy to go first.

At this time, Xu Weiguo, an academician in the field of computer science, spoke up. "I don't know much about chips, so I won't go. Chief Jiang, can you let me see our ternary computer?"

“The code is not finished yet…”

Jiang Ce politely declined.

Rebuilding the number system is an extremely huge project. Even though they have used Ai tools to write it, they have only completed about 30%. There is no point in visiting now because they are still stringing together codes.

Seeing this, Xu Weiguo did not hide his true thoughts and said, "Actually, I came to our Longxing Group this time with a mission. I just want to ask Chief Jiang and Mr. Chen whether ternary computers can support IPv6 Internet Protocol."

"IPv6?"

Jiang Ce looked at Chen Xing. He seemed to remember that this project was handed over to other teams and he was not an expert in this area.

“There is a layout in this regard.”

Chen Xing gave an accurate response.

Since Longxing Group is going to adopt the three-level system, it will naturally carry it through to the end.

Perhaps many people do not know what the IPv6 Internet Protocol is, let alone what IPv is.

The so-called IPv Internet Protocol is like a house number. With this house number, you can go online and the data can accurately find the target device on the network.

It's like when you shop online. If you don't enter the delivery address, how can the merchant ship the goods to you? You can't just guess, so you need the delivery address to shop online.

The current mainstream is IPv4, the full name is Internet Protocol version 4, which is the fourth version of the Internet Communication Protocol.

IPv4互联网协议是由IETF互联网工程任务组在1981年9月提出，当时发布的RFC 791中描述，它替代了之前版本的RFC 760，将使用32位4字节地址，理论上可寻址的节点数量为2^32个，即约42.95亿个。

However, because some addresses are reserved for special purposes, such as private networks and multicast addresses, the actual number of addressable nodes is approximately 38 billion.

With the rise of the Internet, at the 2011 Internet Addressable Node Conference, 38 billion IP addresses have been allocated and are shared globally without duplication. Longguo has been allocated a total of 3 million IP addresses.

With a population of over one billion, there are only 3 million IP addresses, which is obviously not enough. Especially since the rise of online shopping after 2012, the demand for IP addresses has skyrocketed.

It is obviously impossible to have one IP address per person. The shortage problem can only be temporarily alleviated through technical means such as CIDR classless inter-domain routing and NAT network address translation.

Compared with the IP address shortage problem of IPv4, IPv6 can solve it perfectly.

Because it uses 128-bit addresses, it can theoretically provide more than 3.4×10^38 IP addresses, which is enough to support the networking needs of all devices worldwide.

To put it bluntly, it is basically unlimited, to the extent that any dog ​​passing by can be assigned a dedicated IP address!
In recent years, Longguo and member states of the Asia-Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC) have continuously proposed to the ICANN Assigned Numbers Authority and the RIRs Regional Internet Registries to update the IPv4 Internet Protocol to the IPv6 Internet Protocol, but have been repeatedly perfunctorily rejected.

There is a saying that goes, scarce resources are valuable.

Upgrade IPv6?

What about the countries that benefit from IPv4?
As the leading country in the Internet Protocol, the West not only holds a large number of IP addresses, but also sells a batch of IP addresses to other countries every year to make huge profits, and also holds 13 root servers.

If you succeed in promoting the IPv6 Internet protocol, won’t the interests of those countries with vested interests be harmed?
Will they agree?
obviously.

They won't agree.

In order to solve the problem of IP address shortage, Longguo and other countries in the same predicament have been promoting the IPv6 Internet Protocol, but there has not been much progress. Western countries insist on using the IPv4 Internet Protocol.

But with Chen Xing's proposal of the ternary computer, things took a different turn.

In the eyes of top management, if Longxing Group dared to reconstruct the computer number system on its own, why can't such a big country as Longxing Group attract other countries that are also short of IP addresses to jointly develop the IPv6 Internet protocol?

However, if you want to implement IPv6 alone, you will have to deal with many aspects, including infrastructure construction, technical preparation, policy support, and user popularization.

Let’s talk about infrastructure construction first. If we want to smoothly promote the IPv6 Internet protocol, we must upgrade the existing backbone network and metropolitan area network equipment to ensure that they support the IPv6 protocol.

This includes the replacement or software upgrade of core network equipment such as routers and switches.

In addition, the access network also needs to be modified, such as upgrading access equipment such as optical modems and DSL modems, as well as corresponding wiring modifications.

Only when these infrastructures are in place can home and business users access the IPv6 network.

Secondly, the data center and network architecture are upgraded.

The servers and storage devices of data centers and cloud service providers must support IPv6 in order to provide IPv6 services to users.

As for the network architecture, it is necessary to build a data center network architecture that supports IPv6, including intranet and extranet connections, as well as security equipment such as load balancing and firewalls.

Of course.

And the most critical technical preparation.

1 is protocol stack support. If you want to promote IPv6, you must make the operating system and devices support the IPv6 protocol stack.

For example, mainstream operating systems such as Hongmeng, Tianxuan, Windows, Linux, and hardware devices such as smartphones, tablets, and smart homes.

2 is application software, which will encourage application software developers to update their products to support IPv6 network access and data transmission.

3是过渡技术，在IPv4向IPv6过渡期间，可以采用双栈和隧道技术来实现IPv4与IPv6网络之间的互联互通。

Only when all of the above are completed can IPv6 replace the IPv4 Internet Protocol and make IP address resources no longer scarce.

It is precisely because of its complexity and the fact that Western-dominated operating systems such as Windows, iOS, and Android do not support IPv6 that it has not yet become popular.

But now, things have taken a turn for the better.

iOS, Android, and Windows have all been gradually taken over by the Tianxuan operating system. In terms of devices, Apple phones and Korean star phones are also gradually losing market share.

Now Longxing Group is going to develop a ternary computer, which means that the root server also needs to be reallocated. IPv6 can fully take advantage of this opportunity to become popular.

This was also the purpose of Xu Weiguo's trip, to find out what Chen Xing had to say.

When Chen Xing said there was a plan, he understood that there was room for negotiation.

"Mr. Chen said that ternary computers, Tianxuan operating systems, and future smart devices will all support the IPv6 Internet Protocol?" Xu Weiguo wanted to know the exact answer.

Although chip academicians such as Qu Cheng and Liu Dongsheng do not understand the IPv6 Internet protocol, they have heard of it and are aware that Longguo is in urgent need of IP addresses and has to spend money to purchase them every year.

"No wonder Xu Weiguo came along, it turns out he has a mission."

Qu Cheng murmured to himself.

Chen Xing did not deny it and gave a definite answer: "As long as the country is determined to promote it, I will definitely respond to the call."

He had long wanted to take action against the Internet Protocol, but due to his weak foundation in the past, he was unable to express his position.

But now it is different. The current Longxing Group has operating systems, smart devices, and its market share is far ahead of the world.

To take a step back, even if the country does not mention it, Chen Xing will mention it.

Because he is currently planning to develop smart homes, which involves the smart field, it definitely requires connection to the Internet.

As long as you are connected to the internet, you are at risk of being hacked.

The security of IPv4 depends on websites and applications; the protocol itself has no built-in security mechanisms.

Generally, in order to improve security, it is usually necessary to add additional security layers to the network architecture, such as firewalls, IPSec, etc.

This is also the reason why many home surveillance footage is leaked.

The IPv4 Internet Protocol is no longer applicable to the current era. It is no exaggeration to say that as long as your mobile phone is connected to the Internet, there is a risk of privacy leakage.

IPv6 is completely different. It is designed with security issues in mind, integrates Internet Protocol security standards, and has a built-in IPSec protocol, providing a standards-based solution for network security that includes data encryption, data integrity verification, and end-to-end authentication.

Longguo and other member countries of the Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC) have publicized the security of IPv6 more than once, but all efforts have fallen on deaf ears and the popularization of IPv has been slow.

After hearing Chen Xing's statement, Xu Weiguo's face instantly lit up with joy. He gave a thumbs up and said, "As expected of you, Mr. Chen. With your words, I can go back and report back."

"Academician Xu is not in a hurry to hand in his work. Building the IPv6 Internet cannot rely solely on Longxing Group. Data protocols such as routers, switches, optical modems, DSL modems, and software applications all require in-depth research."

"What does Mr. Chen mean?"

"We need to reach a consensus with Kunpeng, Penguin Alibaba and other companies. After all, each has its own expertise, and we cannot do without them in the construction of IPv6."

"Mr. Chen is right. I will explain the situation to Dean Qin Long first, and then visit them one by one."

"No need to bother."

As soon as Xu Weiguo finished speaking, Chen Xing waved his hand and continued, "The Internet is so developed now, there is no need to run around, it is too inefficient, please move to my office, I will set up a video conference and listen to their ideas."

"Then it's better to be respectful than to obey."

Xu Weiguo expressed gratitude.

"Mr. Qu, Mr. Liu, all the academicians have heard it. Academician Xu and I have a meeting to attend, so I need to excuse myself for a moment."

Chen Xing looked at the academicians around him and said self-deprecatingly, "But it doesn't seem to matter. After all, I'm not a researcher, I don't know much about chips, and I can't have academic exchanges with you. I won't disturb you and Chief Gao from discussing ternary chips."

"Well, Mr. Chen, you guys go ahead."

"Mr. Chen, you're joking. You're not an academic, but you know just as much as we do."

"Let's talk about Mr. Chen later."

Academicians responded one after another.

Chen Xing smiled and looked at Gao Zhengqian beside him and said, "Then we'll leave first. Chief Gao, you have to discuss the ternary chip with the academicians and make progress together."

"I will, don't worry."

Gao Zhengqian nodded in response.

(End of this chapter)