Tech Islander

Chapter 32 Super Control Chip
Wu Tao, who returned to his residence, saw that it was still early, so he simply began to study related subjects and key technologies involved in robots.

This fascination, unknowingly arrived in the middle of the night.Until an unexpected phone call interrupted his thoughts.

Is it Angie?Wu Tao got on the phone directly in confusion, and said in a serious tone, "Hello?"

"Wu Tao, I'm An Qi." The other party's voice was faintly excited.

Wu Tao did not let go of his guard. After all, this woman had said a lot of bad things about herself in front of Su Tong a few hours ago. It may not be a good thing to call directly this time.

"I know."

"Lao Li and I watched the sample of the special effects. It was so good, so exciting, and so realistic! We watched it no less than ten times. The light, shadow, color, 3D effects and other aspects were all flawless. I feel shocked!" An Qi used the word "too" three times in a row, and it seemed that she couldn't express the excitement at the moment.

Unexpectedly, Wu Tao's reaction was extremely indifferent, "Oh, I just messed around, it's purely for fun. I don't expect to make any money from this movie, as long as the project can attract small stars, it's fine to play with unspoken rules!"

After An Qi heard this, she was immediately embarrassed.Thinking of the basketful of words she had told Su Tong to slander Wu Tao, she choked up even though she was always eloquent.

Li Zhongda next to him heard everything without saying a word, covered his mouth, suppressed a smile, and endured so hard.

The phone was silent for a while, and Wu Tao didn't bother to get angry with An Qi, so he simply said, "It's nothing, I'm hanging up."

"Wait, I'm sorry, Wu Tao, Mr. Wu, Boss Wu?" An Qi even started whining.

"Calling so late, just to talk about it?"

An Qi continued: "Yes, ah, no. Boss, I mainly want to ask, what is the cost of the 3-minute invincible special effects? Are the special effects of our Star Wars movie all of this high standard?"

Wu Tao pondered for a while and said, "You don't need to care about the cost of the special effects, and the special effects will maintain the standard of the samples throughout the whole process."

"Wow, that's awesome!"

Although separated by the phone, Wu Tao could still feel the enthusiasm of the other party's excitement and cheers.

"So you and Lao Li have to do a good job in all aspects of work, don't try to figure out whether I am playing with unspoken rules all day long!"

"Yes, boss, not next time! No, there will be no next time, I promise!"

After hanging up the phone, Wu Tao thought of Wangcai just now, looked around, and found that this guy was sleeping on the sofa, leisurely and ruthless!
"Wangcai, you're actually being lazy here! How are the special effects?"

Wangcai looked aggrieved: "Brother Tao, you are the one who wants to shoot the movie, and you earned the money, why do all the work fall on me?"

Wu Tao patted the information in hand and said, "I don't want to research and make robots? Otherwise, I will use the computer to make special effects, and you can send me all the pictures in the information!"

Wangcai said: "No, no, Brother Tao. You should be busy with making robots, after all, this is the great cause of technology inheritance. As for the small things like movie special effects, leave it to me. No matter how many times I change it, I promise to do it." Until you are satisfied."

"That's fine, you said it, don't deny it!"

After speaking, Wangcai immediately sat up straight.I saw its claws bit by bit in the air, surrounding its small body, three rows of dozens of holographic projections emerged out of thin air...

Wu Tao nodded in satisfaction. When the movie was released, no one would have imagined that all the amazingly realistic special effects were created by Wangcai, a super-intelligent person.

Walking back to the table, Wu Tao continued to return to the question of robots.

After several hours of data research, Wu Tao found that he thought of robots too simply.A small robot, involving a large number of basic subjects and cutting-edge technology, almost subverted his original cognition.

Take the most elementary and lowest robots, at least four key technologies are required.Specifically, high-performance control chips, servo motors, precision reducers and visual recognition systems.

Among them, the high-performance control chip is like the human brain, which dominates the daily thinking and emergency judgment of the robot.Not only must it be able to think like a human being, but it must also be able to simulate the subconscious quick-response action commands of the human body.

For this kind of daily thinking, there are currently targeted solutions in the computer field, usually through massive learning and accumulation, so that the control chip has the ability to simulate thinking.

But for the simulation of the subconscious quick response of the human body, the requirements for the control chip are even more stringent.Because under normal circumstances, the subconscious reaction time of the human body is 0.1 second, which means that the time for the control chip to make decisions and issue instructions must be controlled at the millisecond level, that is, one-thousandth of a second.

As for the servo motor and precision reducer, the two complement each other to form the muscles and joints of the human body.The servo motor technology determines the speed and explosive force of the robot's muscles; and the precision reducer is just like the joints of the human body, carrying the buffering capacity after the explosion of speed and power.

For the visual recognition system, it is undoubtedly equivalent to the human eyes.In addition, there are speech recognition and action recognition, which simulate human language ability and tactile system response ability.

However, these key technologies and products are all monopolized by RB and European and American countries, and they have not been localized at all.Occasionally, some products bear the name of domestic production, but they are still inferior products that are purely human.

However, Wu Tao is not very interested in the secret technologies of RB and Europe and the United States.He is sitting on the technological treasure house of the entire foreign civilization, does he still care about the earth's technology?

What he worries about is how to restore the robot technology and manufacturing process in foreign civilizations to the maximum extent based on the existing materials, manufacturing and chips on the earth.

For example, the control chip, even if there is a mature artificial intelligence software algorithm library in the technological treasure house that can be copied and applied, but the most powerful chips of the two major CPU providers on the planet at present, the computing power cannot meet the requirements.Not only that, but the overall power consumption is particularly high.

In this way, Wu Tao seemed to be too powerful to do anything.It is impossible to set up a ternary intelligent computer production line for this purpose, which will not only take a long time, but also require a huge investment.

Swiping away the thought of ternary computer chips, Wu Tao's eyes fell on the word 'multi-core' on the manuscript paper.

Suddenly a flash of light flashed in my mind, yes!

It turns out that the current multi-core architecture on the earth is unreasonable, and the parallel computing advantages of multi-core integration have not been brought into play, and today's software systems do not provide good support for the multi-core mode.

As long as this multi-core architecture is improved, a super control chip is developed, and the advantages of multi-core parallel computing are brought into play, supplemented by sufficient software scheduling support, the performance of the chip can be improved geometrically!

Thinking of this, Wu Tao searched in the treasure house of science and technology and found that the neural network multi-core architecture was the perfect solution he wanted.

(End of this chapter)