The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

The lunar super-large hadron collider project has attracted worldwide attention.

After all, this is a super project in the physics community, and it also represents that the Chinese physics community is gradually reaching its peak.

It also represents China's contribution to human scientific research on Earth as a world-class power.

Before this, China had officially surpassed Europe and the United States in cosmic physics and became the world leader in cosmic physics.

And now, China will gradually catch up with Europe and the United States in other fields of physics, breaking the world physics pattern of the past few hundred years.

The total investment in the project has reached 2000 billion yuan. With such a large investment, let alone on the moon, even on Earth, only China can do it in the world.

Liu Tao attended the meeting. After the meeting, he left Beijing and came to the Institute of Computational Materials of Kunming Panshan Academy of Sciences.

While in Beijing, Liu Tao received good news from his secretary: the carbon-based chip was finally completed!
Carbon-based chips were invented by Liu Tao a few years ago and used in the Panshan spacecraft. The spacecrafts and quantum computers currently in use are all carbon-based chips. It is precisely the quantum computers that carry artificial intelligence.

However, it is not so easy to digest the carbon-based chip technology he came up with.

The institute responsible for this work is the Institute of Computational Materials of Panshan Academy of Sciences.

The Institute of Computational Materials has specially organized a carbon-based chip project and established a new laboratory.

Before this, all China could produce in small batches was 1nm chips, which has reached the ceiling of silicon-based chips.

The world's mainstream chip is the 7nm chip, which is commonly used in high-end mobile phones, laptops, tablets, data centers and cloud computing, game consoles, mining machine chips, etc.

As for 5nm chips, they are used in high-end smartphones, high-end personal computers and servers, artificial intelligence and machine learning, autonomous driving, and IoT devices, mainly in high-end devices and high-performance computing fields. With the advancement of technology and the expansion of production scale, it is expected that 7nm chips will gradually be popularized in more types of electronic products in the next seven years.

The 5nm chip is also the top chip that China does not export individually. All that are exported are finished products.

As for 3nm chips, they are all in small-scale production, and are used in even fewer fields and products. It is expected that it will take a few more years before they will be allowed to be put on the market.

Ever since China mastered the chip field, it has been consciously planning the market applications of chips.

As for 1nm chips, they are all used in scientific research equipment. Even most people outside don’t know that China has already achieved 1nm chips.

The chips used nowadays are basically silicon-based chips, and their ceiling has already appeared.

That is why Liu Tao has been consciously planning carbon-based chips since a few years ago.

In other words, not only China is planning to develop carbon-based chips, but Europe and the United States are also planning to develop carbon-based chips, hoping to overtake China in the chip field with the help of carbon-based chips.

Liu Tao came to the Institute of Computational Materials and went to the laboratory accompanied by Director Chen Liqun.

When I first arrived at the laboratory, it was quite quiet.

A group of researchers with dangerous hairlines were gathered around an experimental device about two people tall, and one of them was carefully adjusting something.

Each of these researchers has a doctorate degree in the field, is extremely capable in research, and is truly a talent.

Soon, exclamations began to spread among the crowd.

Looking at the excited expressions on the researchers' faces, Liu Tao could guess without asking that they must have discovered something incredible.

Liu Tao chuckled. No one in the world understood carbon-based chips better than him.

What these researchers are working hard on are what he has left over.

Liu Tao's arrival made the laboratory even more excited.

After all, they all knew that Liu Tao was the real authority in this area.

Many of the materials they read and the books they studied were written by Liu Tao.

They became bald and stronger!

But they all felt that they were no match for Liu Tao.

Next, in front of Liu Tao, they resumed production of carbon-based chips.

Producing a chip is a rather complicated matter. Using silicon wafers as substrates, layer upon layer of photomasks are stacked up like Lego toys, and finally a complete chip can be obtained.

This may sound easy, but you have to know that these are all in nm size, and involve complex IC design and lithography processes, etc. The number of countries in the world that can produce truly high-end chips can be counted on one hand.

Whether or not a country can produce a chip that meets market expectations has long become an important indicator for measuring the foundation of a country's electronic industry.

Currently, China is the only country in the world that can produce top-notch chips.

China occupies almost all the market share in chip research and development in the world. As for the chip manufacturing companies in Europe and the United States, they all went bankrupt because they could not compete in terms of price-performance ratio.

In the past year, the wafer production capacity of China's semiconductor industry has reached 2 million pieces (equivalent to 6000-inch wafers)!

And these wafers have produced trillions of chips!

As silicon-based chips reach the technological limit, the breakthrough direction of the next generation of semiconductor technology has become an inevitable choice.

The next generation semiconductor technology chosen by China is carbon-based chips.

Carbon-based chips are undoubtedly a disruptive solution that can replace traditional silicon-based chips. After all, the ultra-high speed, extremely low power consumption and potential flexibility of silicon-based chips can completely break through the physical limits of silicon-based chips.

The physical limits of silicon-based chips mean that further miniaturization faces quantum tunneling effects and heating problems, which means that Moore's Law is slowing down. In terms of power consumption, leakage and energy consumption problems of processes below 5nm are becoming increasingly serious, restricting the improvement of computing power.

In terms of carbon-based materials, the advantages are obvious. For example, in terms of electron mobility, carbon-based materials are more than 143 times that of silicon-based materials. In terms of thermal conductivity, carbon-based materials are more than 33 times that of silicon-based materials. In terms of mechanical strength, silicon-based materials are very brittle, while silicon-based materials are flexible and bendable.

Now that we have achieved a technological breakthrough in carbon-based chips, the next step is to move from the laboratory to small-scale trial production.

These carbon-based chips, which are trial-produced in small batches, will be used first in high-frequency radars, space electronic equipment, biosensors, and other areas.

This also means that Liu Tao no longer needs to make carbon-based chips by himself. If he wants carbon-based chips, he can just call them directly.

It is no exaggeration to say that in the future, carbon-based chips will gradually replace silicon-based chips.

Of course, this replacement is a gradual process, not something that can be achieved overnight.

Liu Tao was in a good mood and specially had dinner with these researchers to encourage them.

These researchers were so happy to have dinner with Liu Tao. Even though they were old, they felt they could brag about it to their grandchildren.

The further they go on the road of scientific research, the more they understand Liu Tao's strength, which is that they can't even see Liu Tao's back.

It took them several years to fully master Liu Tao's research on carbon-based chips. Who knows if Liu Tao has mastered more advanced technologies?

Kunming City, Panshan Group Headquarters.

Villa No. 001.

This is Liu Tao’s home in Kunming, where he has lived for 40 years.

When Liu Tao returned home, Zhu Lin was watching TV.

Beauty fades with age, and over the years, Zhu Lin inevitably ages gracefully.

Liu Tao is 67 years old this year, but he still looks like he is 30 years old, with a head full of black hair and no wrinkles on his face.

Zhu Lin already has a lot of white hair and wrinkles on his face.

However, even if the beauty is old and no longer as beautiful as before, she is still elegant and generous.

"Now that you're back, do you want to eat noodles or something else?" Zhu Lin asked.

Time is merciless. Now the eldest son Liu Jingming is 42 years old, and the eldest grandson is almost 20 years old. At the age of 70 this year, her biggest event is to go to Hangzhou to attend the gathering of "The Legend of New White Snake", which is also one of the rare commemorative events she attends every year.

This is also a way for her to commemorate her youth.

The last time she did this was when she attended the memorial service for the director of "Journey to the West" to bid farewell to her late friend.

"Don't be in a hurry, I have something good to give you!" Liu Tao said with a smile on his face.

"Oh? What is that?" Zhu Lin was a little curious.

Liu Tao took out a strange box from his bag. The box was made of blue gold alloy and had a password setting.

Even if it is lost, no one in the world can open it.

One can imagine how serious Liu Tao was.

Opening the box, Liu Tao took out a bottle containing emerald green liquid.

"What is this?" Zhu Lin was a little curious.

"Water of Life!" Liu Tao smiled, "It's definitely a good thing!"

"What water of life?" Zhu Lin looked confused.

"This is the essence of life extracted from plants. It can activate human cells and stimulate longevity characteristics in genes. It can allow people to live to 150 years old in good health and greatly extend the period of youth!" Liu Tao explained.

He felt that time was ruthless and that human life was too short.

Even now, the average life expectancy of Chinese people has barely reached 80 years.

The actual working time is only a short 30 to 35 years, and then you get old.

Many outstanding scientists died at a young age.

You know, these outstanding talents in the scientific field are so valuable. They truly represent the elite of China.

In addition, seeing his parents getting older year by year, Liu Tao also had a premonition that they did not have many years left to live, so he studied the field of life in his spare time.

Finally, with the help of the golden finger, Liu Tao developed the "Water of Life".

The function of 'Water of Life' is to re-stimulate the activity of cells, while also stimulating the longevity characteristics in human genes, so that people can live to 150 years old and maintain a young body up to 145 years old, and will not age rapidly until the next 5 years.

"What?" Zhu Lin was stunned!

She didn't expect that this 'Water of Life' would have such an amazing effect.

This is simply unbelievable!

"You're not lying to me, are you?"

"Come on, try it, and you'll know the effect!" Liu Tao chuckled. He took out a syringe and drew out the emerald green liquid.

Not even a drop of emerald green liquid was left.

Then the thin needle of the syringe was inserted into the vein on the back of Zhu Lin's hand, and the medicine was injected into the vein.

Zhu Lin only felt a tingling sensation on his body, as if countless ants were biting him.

The whole process lasted for five hours.

During these five hours, Liu Tao saw that the white hair on Zhu Lin's head quickly turned black, the wrinkles on his face disappeared visibly, and his skin became shiny again.

In just five hours, Zhu Lin seemed to have gone back in time and returned to his age of about 25.

"This~~~" Zhu Lin looked at himself in the mirror, full of disbelief.

This is me! ?
Looking at his rejuvenated self in the mirror, Zhu Lin felt dazed.

She really regained her youth!

Her body was full of energy again, and she felt relaxed, as if all her illnesses had disappeared without a trace.

There was disbelief in her eyes. There was actually something in this world that could make people regain youth, or something like a magic medicine!

"You can't believe it, this is the power of technology!" Liu Tao smiled faintly, "Maybe when technology develops further, people's life span will become longer!"

He closed the box and locked the switch. "Now there is one more thing to do."

"what's up?"

Liu Tao picked up Zhu Lin and went to the bathroom.

The two of them haven't lived a good life together for more than ten or twenty years.

Zhu Lin, who has regained her youth today, makes Liu Tao feel the same passion as when he was young.

The passion of youth is bursting out.

Zhu Lin seemed to have regained his youth, with a shy blush on his face.

The next day, I slept until I woke up naturally, a rare sleep.

When he woke up, Liu Tao chuckled as he looked at Zhu Lin who was still sleeping soundly beside him.

Without disturbing Zhu Lin's sleep, Liu Tao got up quietly.

At noon, Liu Tao and Zhu Lin returned to Beijing.

He also let his parents and two sisters use the "Water of Life". As his closest relatives, Liu Tao naturally didn't want to see them suddenly leave one day.

Then a special meeting was called.

Only nine people attended the special meeting.

Liu Tao introduced the "Water of Life" to everyone, which immediately made the other eight people excited.

After all, there is no one who does not want to live longer, and there is no one who does not want to stay young forever.

Except for Liu Tao, the youngest of the others is 70 years old, a real old man!

With the 'Water of Life', they can live longer, work better and realize their ambitions.

"Comrade Liu Tao, what is the production of this 'Water of Life'?" someone asked impatiently.

Liu Tao said: "At present, 'Water of Life' is a laboratory product. It is very difficult to make. It requires very precious materials and a very complicated process to make. Just one bottle of 'Water of Life' costs as much as 1 million yuan. It is difficult to produce it on a large scale in a short period of time."

"The current annual output is about 100!" Liu Tao shook his head and said, "It will be difficult to increase the production capacity in a short period of time. It is destined to be impossible to increase on a large scale. It is very optimistic to be able to increase the production by 100 per year."

"Everyone take the injection water now, and we will continue the meeting later!" Liu Tao said.

Others nodded.

Liu Tao injected everyone with the water of life, and then everyone regained their youth. Even their illnesses disappeared all at once. Each of them felt an unprecedented sense of relaxation and vitality in their bodies, as if they had endless strength and energy.

After experiencing the magic of the Water of Life, everyone finally believed that Liu Tao did not exaggerate the effect of the Water of Life. (End of this chapter)