Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 71 45 nanometers
Because it was an experimental project, not too many clones were bred from this new generation, only 1000.

After switching bodies again and testing the quality of each clone, and finding the one with the highest quality, Li Qingsong's maximum number of consciousnesses increased slightly again, reaching 500.

Li Qingsong's heart was filled with joy.

"This is just an experiment, and there will be more refined optimizations and improvements in the future. I expect that once the technology is truly fully mature, my maximum number of consciousness connections will increase further, estimated to reach around 510 million.

At this stage, it’s enough!”

At this moment, those clones that were produced in advance and had been eating for at least a month and as long as three or four years finally had their place to be used.

Many new bases and new factories appeared on Luoshen like mushrooms after rain. The poles, equator, canyons, mountains, plains, no matter where they were on Luoshen, as long as there was value, there would be clones.

The maximum number of consciousness connections is 500 million. Taking into account rest, illness, daily losses, etc., the number of commonly used clones reaches 1000 million.

1000 million clones are enough to carry out comprehensive development of Luoshen at the planetary level.

With more abundant resources and manpower, Li Qingsong launched larger-scale technological research and development work.

Li Qingsong would not let go of any aspect of the modern industrial system and modern scientific system, whether at the theoretical or application level, and arranged more or less clones to study them.

Moreover, any aspect and any branch of research has been integrated into the whole under Li Qingsong's special ability.

Perhaps it was just the progress of a very branch of research in topology within the mathematical system that led to a breakthrough in the study of insulators in the seemingly unrelated field of chemistry;

Or perhaps a small breakthrough in materials science results in a huge advance in optical physics.

Industry barriers? Knowledge barriers? They don't exist.

As a result, Li Qingsong's overall technological progress once again showed a rapid development.

After this went on for several years, Li Qingsong gradually realized a problem.

The resources on Luoshen seem to be insufficient.

Thousands of early mines have been abandoned due to resource depletion. New mines have been forced to dig deeper to extract resources, sometimes even drilling wells thousands of meters deep to barely extract any resources.

Even the surface of Luoshen was no longer the dark red color as before, but turned into light red.

Because too much of Thorin had been taken away by Li Qingsong like scraping the ground.

But even so, the supply of resources is beginning to become somewhat tight.

After all, it is just a dwarf planet, with a surface area of only a few tens of that of the Earth and a mass of only one-six hundredth of that of the Earth.

Li Qingsong has always been relatively frugal in the use of resources.

After all, these clones don’t have any entertainment needs, they just want to be full.

However, even if it is just scientific research, the energy and resources required are huge enough.

In order to verify the reliability and efficiency of a process, Li Qingsong would often build a large factory, consuming billions of kilowatt-hours of electricity, and large amounts of water, chemical raw materials, etc. to keep it running; in order to develop a new type of propulsion material, Li Qingsong would often carry out large-scale propulsion tests, consuming an unknown amount of methane and oxygen.

Not to mention that sometimes when tackling a key technology, Li Qingsong would regardless of cost, directly mobilize hundreds or thousands of factories to participate, and mobilize tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of clones to join in, and the resources consumed were even more astonishing.

"The progress of scientific and technological research and development cannot stop, nor can it slow down. In the future, it will even accelerate again.

In this case, developing the enemy planet is inevitable.

However, in order to develop Enemy Star on a large scale, several prerequisite technologies are still needed.

First, more efficient propulsion technology. Second, more advanced intelligent AI and chip technology. Third, elementary electromagnetic catapult technology.

Next, we will prioritize researching these three technologies!"

Li Qingsong made up his mind. As the research on these three technologies began, the rate of resource consumption on Luoshen Star not only did not slow down, but actually increased again.

In the chip factory built by Li Qingsong, the mature near-ultraviolet lithography technology is used. The clones go through a series of processes and finally place the wafer into the lithography machine for exposure operation.

The wavelength of the light source it uses is about 400 nanometers. Using this technology, Li Qingsong can mass-produce chips with a process of 800 nanometers.

Although the 800-nanometer chip is still too backward compared to the human era, it is still a real nano-level chip, which is a huge improvement compared to the previous one.

This type of chip manufacturing process played a huge role in Li Qingsong's technological development. It not only improved the automation level of all factories, but also even built supercomputers, playing a huge role in scientific computing.

But now, 800-nanometer chips can no longer meet Li Qingsong's needs.

To develop Enemy Star, a certain level of AI technology and more powerful computing power are inevitably needed.

To this end, Li Qingsong built a larger and more technologically advanced base in addition to the original chip technology research base, and comprehensively launched research on the next generation of lithography machines and chip technology.

After two years of research, the new generation of lithography machines was finally manufactured. With a little excitement, Li Qingsong began the trial production of the new generation of chips.

Highly pure silicon wafers are fed into the photolithography machine. After the photoresist coating is completed, a photolithography machine with a higher frequency deep ultraviolet light source is used to expose them using ultraviolet rays with a wavelength of about 200 nanometers.

According to the chip design plan completed previously, countless tiny circuits appeared on this small chip.

After subsequent processes such as doping, cleaning, etching, and packaging, a small chip finally appeared in front of Li Qingsong.

This chip is exactly the same size as the chip manufactured using the old process.

But Li Qingsong knew that the number of transistors integrated on this chip reached 10 billion, while the previous chip manufactured using 800 nanometer technology only had about 320 million transistors.

An increase of more than 300 times!
Although the increase in the number of transistors cannot be directly equated with an improvement in performance, a rough estimate shows that the performance improvement is at least a hundred times greater!
Not only that, its reliability, energy consumption, heat generation and other aspects have also seen huge improvements.

Looking at this small chip, Li Qingsong's heart was filled with joy.

"Although the 45nm process chip is not very advanced, it has at least touched the threshold of AI technology and can be used to develop AI technology based on it!"

(End of this chapter)