Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 87 % Combat Power
Two-dimensional is a plane, and three-dimensional is a solid.

Originally, transistors were "engraved" on silicon wafers using photolithography. Converting to three-dimensional technology is like "building" transistors on a chip.

The technical difficulty is obviously many times higher.

"The multiple exposure technology I developed earlier seems to be suitable for lithography of three-dimensional transistors. Let's give it a try first."

There was no need to go through complicated application procedures, no need to communicate, and no need to collect resources. Li Qingsong had just learned of this possibility the second before, and in this second, Li Qingsong made the decision directly.

So many clones who were trying other solutions immediately put down their work and joined in trying this possibility.

The relevant resources required for this attempt were immediately in place without any delay, and the entire process was extremely efficient.

After completing the preliminary design, the experimental multiple exposure equipment immediately began etching a silicon wafer in the laboratory. This was followed by a series of inspection processes.

When the final result was presented in front of Li Qingsong, Li Qingsong widened his eyes with joy.

"It's really possible!"

After switching from a two-dimensional transistor to a three-dimensional one, the short-channel effect disappeared, and the transistor's performance and current stability were further improved!
"This is it!"

Less than half a month had passed since this idea came up, and based on the experimental data at this moment, Li Qingsong made a major decision that was enough to change the direction of the entire industry.

Three-dimensional transistors undoubtedly have higher performance, but it also means a problem.

That is, the technical difficulty has increased significantly compared to before, and accordingly, if this technology is used, the manufacturing process will be greatly extended.

From the purification of silicon wafers to the final chip packaging, the entire process involves more than 1700 steps!

Assume that the yield rate of each of the 1700 processes is 99% - this seems quite high, but in fact, after 1700 processes, the yield rate of the final product is only 3.8 per billion, which is completely unusable.

Only by increasing the yield rate of each process to about 99.99% can the final yield rate be increased to about 80%, which can be considered practical.

But achieving a 99.99% yield rate in every process...how difficult it is.

But there was no other way. Li Qingsong could only follow the most stringent design and construction requirements to build this brand new chip factory.

Li Qingsong finally chose a site in a basin far away from any bases and railway lines, so as to ensure that even the slightest vibration would not be transmitted here;

The factory buildings of this huge factory have adopted the most stringent anti-radiation measures to prevent interstellar radiation from interfering with the production line;
Every clone entering the production workshop must wear the most stringent dust-proof clothing to prevent bringing any dust, etc.

The construction of this huge factory, as well as the installation and debugging of subsequent equipment, took Li Qingsong a total of one year.

A year may not seem like a long time, but for the extremely efficient Li Qingsong, it is a rare long time.

The chip factory was finally built and could finally mass-produce advanced chips with a 20-nanometer process.

However, I have just mastered this technology, and at this stage, the yield rate of the chip factory cannot be increased for the time being, and is currently only about 3%.

Its total annual production capacity is 30 million chips. However, only 970 of these meet demand. The remaining million chips have various problems, resulting in overall performance degradation. Should these chips be thrown away? Or should they be reprocessed?
What a joke!
If there is a defective part of the chip, we can block it through algorithms and programs, and the remaining part can still be used, right?
Although the overall performance will decline, even if it does, the comprehensive performance is higher than even the most advanced 45nm process chip before, so it is still a good thing.

Therefore, Li Qingsong used all 30 of the highest-quality chips produced that year to build a new supercomputer, and the remaining 970 million chips were all distributed to factories and bases, as well as various spacecraft and vehicles.

With continuous production and optimization and adjustment, the overall yield rate is slowly improving. I believe it will reach more than 90% in a short time.

Now with the supply of more advanced chips, Li Qingsong finally built the new supercomputer he had always dreamed of.

Compared with the previous generation of supercomputers, this one uses more chips, reaching 16!

Its computing power has reached 1.3 quadrillion floating-point operations per second, which is more than 30 times that of the previous generation of supercomputers!
After the construction and debugging were completed, Li Qingsong couldn't wait to put the combat AI, which had previously had severely limited performance, into this supercomputer and start combat experiments again.

This time, Li Qingsong adopted a different fighting method from the last time.

His real body also arrived at the training ground, controlling Party A's fleet almost without delay. At the same time, he consciously delayed the control of Party B's fleet, giving it a 100-second delay.

But Party B's fleet has a supercomputing spaceship that can receive real-time assistance from combat AI.

In this way, one side had no combat AI but also no delay, while the other side had combat AI but also had delay. Both sides used blank bullets and simulated weapons and engaged in fierce fire in space.

With the application of new supercomputers, it is visible to the naked eye that the flexibility, reaction speed, coordination, cooperation ability, etc. of Party B’s fleet have been greatly improved.

Various tactics such as advance, formation, volley, cover, and suppression were performed in turn, while bullet torrents, artillery, interstellar missiles, electromagnetic bombs and other weapons were used in turn.

In the end, the Party A fleet directly controlled by Li Qingsong still won the battle.

But winning was not easy.

Comprehensive evaluation shows that when the delay reaches 100 seconds, with delayed manipulation and combat AI assistance, the combat effectiveness of Party B's fleet can reach about % of Party A's fleet.

Li Qingsong did not stop and started the experiment again.

This time, he increased the delay of Party B's fleet to 500 seconds.

In another battle, the combat capability of Party B's fleet showed a clear decline. After final evaluation, its comprehensive combat capability was only about 7% of that of Party A's fleet.

However, if there is no combat AI assistance and it relies entirely on itself to control the fleet with a 500-second delay, its overall combat effectiveness will plummet to only about %.

The combat AI provides a 40% increase in combat effectiveness!

"A 500-second combat delay corresponds to a combat radius of approximately 7500 million kilometers.

From this moment on, with the assistance of combat AI, I can exert 7500% of the fleet's peak combat power even if the spacecraft is 70 million kilometers away!

enough! "

(End of this chapter)