Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 427: Laying Out the Quantum Computer Track

"When a decisive advanced technology emerges, it will greatly promote the improvement of production efficiency, further increase the total wealth of the entire society, and further improve people's living standards!"

"From the earliest textile machines and steam engines to electrical applications and then to electronic computers, they have all led to major changes in productivity in all aspects!"

"In the past decade, the emergence of smartphones, the mobile Internet era driven by the emergence of 3G and 4G technologies, and the highly intelligent manufacturing industry supported by advanced chips have emerged."

“Breakthroughs in battery technology and artificial intelligence technology have brought about a series of industries such as smart electric vehicles and robots!”

"And now, our technological breakthroughs in superconducting materials and superconducting quantum computer technology will greatly promote productivity and even technological progress in all walks of life!"

During the symposium, Xu Shenxue focused on the two fields of semiconductors and quantum computers.

His belief remains the same as always, that semiconductor technology is the most core advanced technology now and in the next ten or even twenty years, and its level directly determines the level of other industries.

At the same time, it is also believed that the emergence of superconducting quantum computers will further promote the advancement of integrated technology and even lead to huge changes in all walks of life.

The huge increase in computing power brought by superconducting quantum computers will have a huge impact.

This doesn’t mean that personal computer-like devices are faster, won’t lag, or are more enjoyable to play games on…but rather it means a series of technological advances behind them.

For example, in scientific research, many complex problems that are difficult to solve with current electronic computers may be solved using quantum computers.

At the same time, the computing power of terminal electronic computers is limited and cannot provide sufficient computing power for many terminal devices. However, the use of quantum computers can meet the computing power requirements.

Although the superconducting quantum computer currently developed by Zhiyun Group is still relatively large in size and consumes a lot of power, and also requires a low-temperature environment to operate, the entire system is too complex, large and demanding, and cannot be used for personal consumption or regular office use for the time being.

But what about the future?
Technology is always improving. When technology advances further in the future, superconducting quantum computers that are smaller, less expensive, and have more convenient operating conditions will always appear.

In addition, there is also an optical quantum computer, which is also making continuous progress. Optical quantum computers have no requirements for the operating environment and do not require a low-temperature environment. However, the technology of optical quantum computers is more complex. Although domestic research and development is in a leading position, it is still very difficult to achieve commercial application.

Zhiyun Group's superconducting quantum computer technology has already begun to develop superconducting quantum computers with tens of thousands of quantum bits, and plans to officially commercialize them next year.

As for optical quantum computers, the previous research and development teams were mainly other domestic research institutions. Zhiyun Group did not invest much in this field and only did some basic theoretical research.

However, after Xu Shenxue returned to Shenzhen this time, he summoned several members of the technical committee, and then summoned several core leaders of the quantum computer project.

He asked everyone present in detail, with the aim of finding out the progress of the future miniaturization and large-scale commercialization of the current superconducting quantum computer.

The technical team’s answer was that the current superconducting quantum computers are built on MMK34 superconducting materials, and the core characteristic of this material is that it needs to operate in an environment of minus degrees Celsius.

It is not easy to maintain this low temperature environment for a long time, and it requires a very excellent refrigeration system, which can be achieved in a professional computer room using professional refrigeration equipment.

However, outside of this professional computer room environment, it would be extremely difficult to achieve this minus 25 degrees operating environment in a conventional environment... It's not that it's impossible, but the limitations would be very great.

At the same time, it is also difficult to use in some common environments, such as mobile devices... Refrigeration equipment requires sufficient power supply, which the current battery level cannot sustain.

Therefore, superconducting quantum computers using MMK34 materials can only be used in some specific fields or environments, except as supercomputers and ordinary servers. It is difficult to use them everywhere like current electronic computers.

Unless there is further breakthrough in superconducting materials and we can obtain truly room-temperature or even high-temperature superconducting materials, superconducting materials can be used in room temperature or even high-temperature environments.

However, the emergence of MMK34 material is largely accidental. At present, the Guangcheng Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute is conducting a comprehensive study on MMK34 material, especially on the technical route, trying to summarize the technical laws and key points, and then make further breakthroughs on this basis to make better superconducting materials.

But so far, the results are not equal to zero, but they are almost zero...Materials are too metaphysical, and it is extremely difficult to summarize rules from metaphysics and go further.

Even...to date, materials scientists have not even figured out why MMK34 material can achieve superconducting properties...this goes against the technical principles of many current superconducting materials.

For contemporary domestic materials science, the MMK34 material is somewhat similar to the DF103 drug developed by Galaxy Life Science, which is the "Xylocta" commercialized by Galaxy Biotechnology.

This drug is clearly there, and major pharmaceutical companies around the world, including Galaxy Biopharma itself, are studying it, trying to find out the workings of this drug.

Because scientists still haven't figured out why it can treat cancer... Of course, they can observe various drug reaction processes, and they know that after Xiluokeda is taken by the human body, it will react in the human body to produce some very special ingredients, and then these ingredients will stimulate the body's immune function and eliminate cancer cells in a targeted manner.

This is also the current research direction of some large pharmaceutical companies, and they have even developed some experimental products!

To put it simply, it is to use genetic technology to synthesize targeted ingredients directly in the laboratory in vitro, thereby stimulating the body's immune function to kill cancer cells.

The problem is... Xiluokeda completes this step in the body and simultaneously produces a large number of various ingredients, while stimulating the body's immune function, thereby being able to kill various cancer cells.

Scientists now don’t even understand why Xiluokeda causes this kind of reaction in the human body... nor do they understand why so many different ingredients can be produced at the same time, and these ingredients are messy and have almost no regularity, and the ingredients produced in each person’s body are different.

It is even less clear why the many components produced by Xiluokeda after reacting in the body can lead to immune function, and why it can so accurately identify different types of cancer cells and eliminate them.

Many biological scientists today are confused by the drug Xiluokeda...

Even the scientists within Galaxy Life, who developed this drug, were equally confused when faced with Xirokeda!

Well, we all know that Xiluokeda is very powerful. It can treat cancer and it is a broad-spectrum anti-cancer drug.

but why?
No one can answer it yet!

This thing cannot be explained by using the basic principles of many current biological fields.

If we insist on applying many current biological theories, we may even come to the absurd conclusion that this thing should not exist at all.

Although the MMK34 material is not as exaggerated as the DF103 drug, it directly causes the basic principles of contemporary biology to crash!

However, it is still a very exaggerated special material that cannot be explained by many existing material theories.

We all know that this material is amazing and can achieve superconductivity at minus 25 degrees Celsius, but why?
This problem is what the Institute of Artificial Intelligence Materials and many of the top domestic materials scientists who have come to support it urgently need to solve.

They need to know why this complex structure of MMK34 material can achieve superconducting properties.

At the same time, we also need to understand why this extremely special and complex structure can be made, and what are the special features between the various different processes?
They need to know a variety of principles. After knowing many principles, many things will be easier to handle later!

Of course, these are what the top materials scientists do. They play with various theories and try to explain the MMK34 material from the fields of mathematics and basic theory.

But Yu Taihe doesn't care about all that... He originally worked in the field of applied materials, and as for the theoretical aspects... It's not that he likes to belittle himself, but he really doesn't have the ability.

Those who are good at playing with material theory are all perverts, just like Professor Wang Binyao of Fairy Mountain Holdings next door. Serious material scientists, after seeing his messy and incomprehensible research, basically have to say: pervert.

Yu Taihe felt that he was still a normal person. At most, he was just a little more flexible in his thinking, but he was not a pervert...

So Yu Taihe did not actually delve into the deep-seated basic theoretical issues behind the MMK34 material... That was the research topic for perverts like Professor Wang Binyao and had nothing to do with him.

What Yu Taihe needs to do is to continue following the previous ideas and technical routes, come up with a mess of new material concepts, and then hand them over to the artificial intelligence scientific research assistance system, mobilize the huge computing power resources of the AI ​​supercomputer within the group to conduct various analyses, and plan experimental paths.

Then we’ll see what the results are. If we think this material project is promising, we’ll conduct various tests… Everything will be based on the test results.

If the experiment is successful and new materials are produced, then that is a result!
As for why this material is successful, why it has certain properties, and whether there are any rules behind it... Yu Taihe doesn't know and doesn't care, nor does he have the ability to care.

However, Yu Taihe continued with his previous technical approach and has done a lot of experiments recently. Unfortunately, no discoveries have been made so far.

So, when his superiors asked him to predict when they would be able to produce superconducting materials that can operate at room temperature or even at high temperatures, he could not give any answer: I don't know!

Maybe it will be tomorrow, maybe next year, or maybe a hundred years.

When it comes to material research and development, all I can do is keep trying!
As for whether you can succeed, when you will succeed, and what you can get after success, that is not my business... you have to ask God!

Yu Taihe's answer was also the answer given by the technical committee to Xu Shenxue.

When Xu Shenxue heard this, he naturally made corresponding plans.

It is impossible for him to rely on future room-temperature and high-temperature superconducting materials, which no one knows when they will appear, for all the terminals, consumer-grade and small quantum computers in the future.

He must have a backup plan!

So, he turned his attention to optical quantum computers.

The next day, he summoned the research and development team of the optical quantum computer under the group company. After understanding the basic situation of the team, Xu Shenxue personally made a decision to increase the funding and personnel investment in optical quantum computers in the future.

He hopes to see certain technological breakthroughs in optical quantum computers within three years. Even if they cannot keep up with the commercialization level of superconducting quantum computers, they must reach a certain level of commercial prospects.

In the field of quantum computers, Xu Shenxue decided to walk on two legs. He would work on both superconducting quantum computers and optical quantum computers.
Otherwise, if we are having fun with superconducting quantum computers, but there is no greater breakthrough in superconducting material technology, then Zhiyun Group's superconducting quantum computers will always be limited in their usage environment... The operating temperature of the MMK34 material below minus degrees is a flaw that is not so easy to overcome.

In the long run, if someone else in the future develops an optical quantum computer with the same quantum bit and powerful computing power, but is more convenient to use and does not require a refrigeration device, Zhiyun Group will be completely defeated in the field of quantum computers!
As a world-class multinational enterprise, Zhiyun Group would never make such a mistake... Since it has set its sights on the quantum computer track, Zhiyun Group will invest in all sub-sectors of the quantum computer field!

This is also related to Xu Shenxue's investment philosophy. He has always been playing with the track, not just a certain technical branch route, a certain enterprise, or a certain product in the track.

Xu Shenxue valued the smart electric vehicle industry, and started to play with lithium materials and other rare materials needed to manufacture power batteries and motors, and then played with power batteries, automotive-grade chips, etc.

The HaiLan brand of smart electric vehicles is only a small part of the smart electric vehicle track planned by Xu Shenxue.

The same is true in the future field of quantum computers. Xu Shenxue will try any technical route.

At the same time, Xu Shenxue will make some arrangements for some upstream industries involved in quantum computers, such as equipment, materials, etc., especially to control the supply of the most core spare parts, equipment and materials.

Under the personal leadership of Xu Shenxue, the companies under the three major systems of Zhiyun Group, Xiannvshan Holdings and Liuhe Investment began to make various investments and research and development arrangements around the field of quantum computers.

Most people in the outside world don’t even know this... Some people in the industry, or some internal personnel in the entire system, have more or less noticed some news, but they are very confused about it: Is Xu Shenxue’s pace too fast... It’s easy to get into trouble if this happens!

Because the quantum computers that have been announced so far, even those announced by Zhiyun Group, are only hundreds of quantum bits. They look very new, but it is still a long way from large-scale application.

In this case, it would be easy for Zhiyun Group to waste such huge resources in the field of quantum computers too early!

But they don’t know that Zhiyun Group is planning a big move.

The person in charge of the superconducting quantum computer project reported to Xu Shenxue: "Our first generation of commercial superconducting quantum computers has solved many basic theoretical and subsystem technical problems, and has now entered the prototype development stage."

"After the successful development, considering many issues such as confidentiality and application ecology, it is not realistic to directly sell the application on a large scale. In addition to supplying to related institutions and companies, our group mainly uses it for its own use."

"By then, whether it is us, related institutions or sister companies, the main application of the first generation of quantum computers will still be to form quantum computer arrays to provide computing power for scientific research and some commercial fields!"

"At present, our project team is trying to transplant big data model technology, that is, artificial intelligence technology, to our quantum computer platform."

"Of course, the underlying framework of our current artificial intelligence technology is built on traditional electronic computers. It will take time and a lot of effort to transplant it to the quantum computer platform."

"However, in addition to the hardware field, the core technology of our quantum computer is the LX architecture we developed independently. It uses a big data model to control quantum bits to reduce the error rate of quantum entanglement, thereby greatly increasing the number of controllable quantum bits. This is also the core reason why we can achieve thousands or even tens of thousands of controllable quantum bits!"

"Our LX architecture, based on the premise that quantum computing has excellent parallel computing, further strengthens this advantage... Because the LX architecture itself needs to run in a powerful parallel computing environment, we paid special attention to and optimized it during the design."

"This also brings a good side effect, that is, our LX architecture has powerful parallel computing capabilities. After many attempts and experiments by our technicians, once our big data model runs on our LX architecture quantum computer, it can give full play to the advantages of our quantum computer in the field of parallel computing."

“It will be of great benefit for the training and operation of big data models in the future!”

"According to our calculations, if we use our first generation of commercial superconducting quantum computers to train big data models, even though our quantum computers currently have high hardware costs and high operating costs, the overall cost-effectiveness is still very impressive!"

“We have calculated that if our second-generation Yun AI model is trained using our quantum supercomputer, the overall training cost will be reduced to about 35%!”

"The most important thing is that our quantum computer technology is still in its infancy and is far from reaching the theoretical technological limit."

"According to our current data theory, the potential of the LX architecture is to be able to support 100,000 quantum bits. This quantum supercomputer composed of quantum computers is enough to provide us with computing power far exceeding that of current traditional electronic computers!"

(End of this chapter)