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Chapter 107 2000 million? (Subscribe please!!)

If we only look at the performance improvement of a single chip, it is only a doubling, which seems to be nothing.

But don't forget that the performance improvement of a single chip also means that Li Qingsong can develop more advanced and intelligent parallel algorithms and use more chips in a supercomputer.

Therefore, a doubling of the performance of a single chip will result in a supercomputer with at least a tenfold performance improvement!
This means that the performance and intelligence of all the AIs used by Li Qingsong, such as Jade Emperor AI, Shennong AI, Mining AI, Metallurgical AI, Transportation AI, etc., will once again see huge improvements.

As reflected in the production efficiency, Li Qingsong's industrial strength has once again skyrocketed by at least twice without any expansion in scale or increase in the number of clones!
At the same time, with the investment of a large number of supercomputers dedicated to scientific computing, modeling and simulation, the speed of our own progress in scientific research will be further improved.

Li Qingsong did not hesitate. After adjusting the production process, he immediately mass-produced 10-nanometer chips at the fastest speed.

10-nanometer chips have entered mass production, and another batch of chip factories are about to come to the end of their life.

About 10 factories specializing in 100-micron chips were finally shut down. Equipment was destroyed, buildings were demolished, and the land was prepared for the construction of additional factories.

The 100-micron process chip is too outdated. Even for the simplest industrial scenes, such as a remote control and a washing machine, Li Qingsong has more intelligent and lower-cost chip alternatives. There is really no need to produce it anymore.

With the further improvement of intelligence, the further expansion of industrial production capacity, and the further strengthening of scientific research capabilities, Li Qingsong finally turned his attention to an extremely critical and extremely important area.

Miniaturization of nuclear fission secondary pressurization propulsion modules.

A nuclear fission secondary pressurization propulsion module consists of three parts: the first is naturally the nuclear fission reactor, the second is the internal combustion engine system, and the third is the secondary pressurization module.

Li Qingsong regards these three parts as a module and conducts subsequent research and development as a whole.

Nowadays, the smallest nuclear fission secondary pressurization propulsion module that Li Qingsong can manufacture has a total mass of about 3000 tons.

This mass means that it can only be used on large spacecraft. In terms of warships, even the largest Venus-class spacecraft cannot be used.

A Venus-class spacecraft fully loaded has a total mass of no more than 3000 tons, and a propulsion module weighs tons? What a joke.

However, compared with traditional chemical thrusters, secondary pressurization propulsion has incomparable advantages.

Once I am able to equip Venus-class and Mercury-class spacecraft with nuclear fission propulsion, to what extent will the maneuverability of these two spacecraft be improved?
How much will this improve the overall combat effectiveness of the spacecraft?
This is almost a revolutionary improvement.

Therefore, while maintaining the stable production of the industrial system and the steady progress of all other disciplines, Li Qingsong mobilized all his spare resources and devoted them to the research of this module.

With more intensive research, numerous minor technological advances emerged. However, after three years of research, Li Qingsong realized a problem.

It seems that I am short of manpower.

This lack of manpower didn't mean the current production scale and scientific research system couldn't be maintained. In fact, if the current level was maintained, the current approximately 3000 million clones—after arriving in the Jupiter system, Li Qingsong had intermittently produced approximately 1500 million clones locally—were more than sufficient.

However, if Li Qingsong wanted to take further steps, expand the scientific research system, invest more manpower and brainpower in each research branch, and further expand the industrial system to provide more resources for scientific research, the existing manpower would be insufficient. Because nuclear fission thrusters involve almost every discipline, this overall shortage of manpower has become the largest obstacle to the miniaturization of nuclear fission thrusters.

“Alas, when technology develops to a certain level, it will inevitably become more and more complex, with more and more branches.

If you look into it carefully, mathematics can probably be divided into hundreds or even thousands of branches.

Algebra, geometry, topology, analysis, logic, sets, probability, statistics, numerical analysis...

There are so many branches, and each branch has smaller branches, and each smaller branch has many different topics...

The entire scientific system has become so complex that any tiny branch could exhaust the lifelong efforts of an outstanding scientist without making even a single step forward. And there are enormous obstacles between any two tiny branches, like mountains separating us. It's hard to imagine how the human world once advanced technology to a level even more advanced than mine today..."

Now, Li Qingsong has also temporarily encountered obstacles due to the complexity of the scientific system.

It is necessary to further expand the manpower in order to have enough brainpower to devote to each increasingly subdivided scientific field and maintain a sufficient scale of production to provide resources for these studies.

After a rough calculation, Li Qingsong believed that in order to achieve a level sufficient to support the further miniaturization of the nuclear fission propulsion module, or even to miniaturize it enough to fit into a Mercury-class battleship and make it have practical combat significance, his maximum number of consciousness connections would have to be increased to at least 1500 million.

At this moment, he has about 3000 million clones, and after the maximum number of consciousness connections is increased to 1500 million, it is completely sufficient for use.

In fact, when Li Qingsong was producing clones, he prepared according to approximately this number.

"A 50% increase?"

Li Qingsong thought silently.

Although he encountered obstacles at this moment, he was not too worried.

The reason is simple. With the rapid development in the past period of time and the construction of the most important 10-nanometer supercomputer, which has greater computing power, breakthroughs in biotechnology are just around the corner.

Supercomputers cannot truly simulate reality. However, given enough parameters, they can provide a valuable reference to reality through simulation.

At this moment, Nuwa AI, the biotechnology supercomputer specially trained by Li Qingsong, simulated and calculated an almost new gene editing plan after the clones provided enough parameters.

If this plan is really implemented, then the new batch of clones will have more adequate brain nutrition supply, more neurons, faster signal transmission speed, and greatly improved physical fitness.

Obviously, this clone will have a greater number of consciousness connections.

Theory shows that the number of his consciousness connections will even double, skyrocketing from 1000 million to 2000 million!
(End of this chapter)