Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 111 Limit
At this stage, although the thrusters of Mercury-class and Venus-class battleships have been fully updated, and the armor has also improved to a certain extent with the introduction of Type 0 fiber, the weapon system still uses old-fashioned gunpowder guns and machine guns. Even the most powerful means of attack is only an interstellar missile using chemical fuel as propellant.

The radar system can only barely provide early warning for targets with larger reflective surfaces. It cannot scan tiny bullets, electromagnetic cannon projectiles, etc., let alone effectively intercept them.

Without sufficiently advanced radar systems, there would be no interception system. Without an interception system, warships would have to rely on their armor to withstand attacks.

Now that the main fleet of the Bluetook civilization is about to arrive, Li Qingsong knows that although it is impossible for him to improve his technology to the same level as the Bluetook civilization in such a short time, he must at least try his best to improve his combat power to the highest possible level.

Only in this way can he save the solar system.

Therefore, in addition to retaining a considerable amount of scientific research resources for the research and development of thrusters, Li Qingsong once again added a large amount of scientific research resources to the scientific research team that had been working on electromagnetic gun technology, composite armor technology, high-speed precision radar technology, laser gun technology, automatic interception technology, etc., which can effectively improve the combat effectiveness of spacecraft.

In addition to this, Li Qingsong also plans to try to improve in another aspect.

Wukong AI!

Compared with the Bluetook civilization, Li Qingsong believes that the only area where he can hope to maintain his advantage is artificial intelligence.

As long as the Bluetook civilization is a civilization composed of a cluster of intelligent life forms, they will inevitably have the difficulties that the human world encounters in developing artificial intelligence technology.

Poor data quality, insufficient total data volume, waste caused by repeated competition, insufficient overall investment and promotion efforts, and so on.

The difference lies simply in the degree of difficulty.

But in this regard, I can do my best.

The data quality is high, the total amount is high, there is no duplicate competition, and the investment intensity can be extremely high.

Even if his computer hardware technology cannot reach the level of Bluetook civilization, the Wukong AI he developed still has the hope of surpassing the war AI of Bluetook civilization!

Of course, this also requires continuous improvement and optimization of Wukong AI.

Based on this, Li Qingsong made this decision.

Launch a comprehensive attack on chip technology!
Before the disappearance of human civilization, 2-nanometer process chips could be manufactured at the silicon-based chip level.

Li Qingsong knew that after 2 nanometers, further reducing the process and carving more transistors within the limited chip area would face a series of obstacles that were so complex that they were almost insurmountable.

For example, the quantum tunneling effect.

When transistors shrink to the nanometer scale, electrons can pass through the barriers that are supposed to block them, leading to increased leakage current and reduced performance.

This is determined by the basic laws of physics and cannot be avoided. In chips with a process smaller than 2 nanometers, the quantum tunneling effect is already extremely obvious.

It is certainly possible to use some means to circumvent this impact by continuing to develop chips with smaller process sizes, but this is costly, technically difficult, and has limited performance improvements.

As a result, humans began to turn towards quantum chips and gradually gave up further research on silicon-based chips.

However, despite significant progress in quantum chip technology by the time of the disappearance of humanity, it had yet to achieve practicality or widespread adoption, demonstrating advantages only in niche areas. A 2-nanometer chip is essentially the limit of silicon-based chips, and the limit that Li Qingsong could achieve in the foreseeable future.

Well... at this stage, since it is almost impossible for my quantum chip technology to make a breakthrough, I will first push the silicon-based chip to its limit!

If we can mass-produce 2-nanometer chips and then build a supercomputer based on them, the computing power of the supercomputer used by Wukong AI can be increased by at least 40 times on the existing basis!
In this way, the functions of Wukong AI will become more powerful, and its overall combat power will also increase accordingly.

After confirming this, Li Qingsong included chip technology in the list of key research areas.

Millions of clones specializing in chip technology research and iteration are now busy not only in research bases, but also in chip factories.

In laboratories, production lines, and every place related to chips, attempts are being carried out again and again.

Can the chip packaging process be optimized to improve chip stability?
Try to find some optimization solutions to verify them in practice.

Can the energy density of the light source be improved?
Verify that as well.

Can the formula of photoresist be adjusted to better absorb the energy of the light source and engrave the chip?

Verify it.

Every moment, countless conjectures are born from the minds of many clones, instantly synchronized to Li Qingsong's head, and instantly synchronized to the heads of every clone involved in the chip research.

This immense brainpower was constantly speculating, verifying, pondering, and integrating numerous solutions. With the aid of a comprehensive set of experimental tools, Li Qingsong would allocate resources to verify any solution that held even the slightest value.

Anyway, resources are now extremely abundant and industrial strength has been greatly improved. So what if they are wasted?
I can afford to waste it!
Under such circumstances, Li Qingsong's chip technology developed rapidly, just like his previous propulsion technology.

Soon, the next-generation chip technology of 10-nanometer chips and the large-scale manufacturing technology of 7-nanometer chips passed all-round verification and were put into large-scale production.

But Li Qingsong is still not satisfied. 7-nanometer chips are not the end of the research.

What a joke! I have invested the scientific research power of almost the entire human civilization into a single field for research, and you want to get rid of me with just 7 nanometers?
A quick breakthrough is what is expected. It would be abnormal if there is no progress for a long time.

Following the 7-nanometer chip, breakthroughs have been made in 5-nanometer and 3-nanometer chip technologies one after another.

With these breakthroughs, the size of transistors carved on silicon wafers has become smaller and smaller, the density has become higher and higher, and the number of transistors accommodated on a single chip has increased.

However, the 3-nanometer chip is still not the end of Li Qingsong's research.

2 nanometers, it must be 2 nanometers, we must push silicon-based chip technology to the limit!

Only by pushing it to the limit, only by raising the performance of Wukong AI to the limit in the foreseeable future, will I be able to save the solar system under the main fleet of the Bluetook civilization!

Feeling the enormous pressure from the distant starry sky, Li Qingsong controlled many clones and once again devoted himself to the tireless technical research.

(End of this chapter)