I ask you to build tractors, but you build rockets?

In the first hour after the G series notebooks were released, this batch of 1,500 notebooks was sold out within 3 minutes.

Half of the purchasing users are consumer electronics manufacturers, a small half are media people and laboratories, and the remaining ones are real users.

Users who can buy G1X now can only say that they support domestic products, because the supporting environment is too rudimentary and there are few supported functions.

In addition to word processing and watching audio and video, although XOS3.2 also has a browser, it also has great limitations, such as not supporting flash plug-ins...

Such a notebook sells for 8,599, which is indeed too expensive. Buying a Lenovo netbook in the same period only costs 3,000 to 4,000.

It is expensive, but everyone knows the potential of domestic products, not to mention the AI ​​function support that can be called a cross-generational one, which makes people feel that the money is well spent.

More importantly, the emergence of G1X effectively proves the feasibility of ternary technology, which is at least no worse than binary!

Of course, this is all for ordinary people to see. High-end laboratories are constantly researching ternary chips.

Beijing University of Science and Technology, Space Quantum Laboratory.

In front of Peng Jianfu was a messy wiring harness, which was connected to a modified motherboard. Most of the original components on it had been removed or replaced, and were connected to test equipment through flying wires.

This is an XC4 car motherboard, which was lying here two months ago.

They first tried to crack the XW151 intelligent system, but due to the cross-system and deliberate encryption, the cracking process was extremely difficult, and they finally gave up.

Then he changed direction and started directly from scratch, first talking about the basic structure of X32115 physically, and then trying to compile the underlying operating environment by himself to explore the potential of the ternary chip.

After more than a month of hard work, the laboratory finally found a way to establish a simple basic environment, or operating system, which can be used for some tests.

The reason why Peng Jianfu wants the laboratory to work hard to develop X32115 is because he believes that ternary chips may have quantum computing potential and directly surpass traditional computers in principle.

Just two hours ago, the laboratory had just used 9 qubits and successfully performed a quantum operation.

Are quantum computers coming soon?

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"G1X? Not as good-looking as our X16."

Serev glanced at the G1X prototype sent by Great Wall with disgust, and then picked up the X16 notebook equipped internally by Xinyuan this year.

The X16 is of course powerful. It is equipped with the X320 series chip that has been slightly improved three times, 14nm silicon carbide, and the overall workmanship is also CNC-processed ultra-light aerospace alloy material, making it thin, light and portable.

There is still very little software installed, almost the same as G1X. However, the microelectronics department is now working hard to develop industrial software and is sorting out the rich database accumulated by Xinyuan. The first version of the design and analysis software will be available in another month.

And the successor of Xingchen 1, the Xingchen 2 supercomputer, is also under development.

Xingchen 2 is much more powerful. It will use the newly upgraded X32045 chip. Although it is still 14nm, the architecture has been specially optimized, and 20,000 CPUs form a new supercomputer.

In addition to the exponential improvement in computing power, Xingchen 2 will also support quantum computing on a small scale for the first time. Certain design aspects will be specially optimized. The calculation speed in certain scenarios will be thousands of times that of traditional computers, which is very exaggerated. .

Of course, the power consumption has also increased tenfold, and we have to contact the power supply bureau to add more lines.

More than half a month later, Serev has completed the transformation of the production links of the two bases. Now each workshop is independent and only accepts computer instructions to complete processing within the specified time. The independence between departments has been strengthened again.

Now, in addition to overseeing the operation of the entire base, Serev is also directly involved in several projects.

First of all, it is the "Xingxiu" deep space exploration project that Xiao Okada is responsible for.

After more than two months of research, Xiao Gangtian already had a preliminary plan.

"Ke Luo... Chief Xie, I think that for deep space exploration, the first thing we need to pay attention to is cost control. Controlling costs can also improve efficiency.

I plan to design a universal satellite platform with an output power of around 15 to 30KW that can operate for at least 20 years. "

Xiao Gangtian turned on his computer and showed Serev the "Xingxiu" universal satellite platform.

At first glance, Serev saw that it was almost a very large satellite weighing 6 to 10 tons. Because it is mainly used for deep space exploration, the most powerful part is the signal transmitter, and the payload is various detection functional components for the target planet.

In addition, another highlight is that it can be equipped with an optional nuclear reactor and the 50N-class super-thrust Hall thruster currently owned by Xinyuan, which can maintain mobility for many years. This is a feature that past deep space detectors did not have.

Although the weight is about the same as the "Alpine" series, the "Star" is more sophisticated and complex, so there is a problem: it cannot be launched by a rocket.

The maximum acceleration of the rocket can reach about 5G, and it is best to use the H2M series space shuttle.

Compared with rockets, H2M has a huge mass. If it is launched by Xinyuan-2A, not only will the thrust-to-weight ratio be smaller when the rocket is launched, but it will also need to continuously deflect the engine nozzle to adjust the yaw caused by the center of gravity. The acceleration process is relatively long, so the overload is more serious. Small, only about 3G.

As for the Xinyuan-3 launch, H2 was used as a third stage to hit the moon, which is not usually used.

But here comes the problem. Even to reach the orbits of other planets, the rocket LEO required has a capacity of up to 20 tons, and the cost of a single launch is less than 100 million.

However, one launch of H2 requires the use of Xinyuan-2A, and the launch cost is 500 million, which is too expensive. To launch seven planets seven times, the launch cost is almost 4 billion, far exceeding the budget.

However, if the load resistance of the detector is strengthened, it will bring a lot of dead weight, and some ultra-precision detection instruments may not be installed, so Serev needs to solve this problem first.

Although he had previously presided over the launch of landers and flyby probes to Venus and Mars, times have changed. At that time, there were no powerful and sophisticated instruments like today.

Controlling the budget... has always been a specialty of the Alliance people.

Serev carefully looked at the technical information and design manuals compiled by Xiao Gangtian in the past period, and first nodded in affirmation:

"Okada, your design work is very good. It is really good to use at least 6 tons of mass for so many functions. It is very good. There is no need to add additional weight.

As for vehicles, why are we limited to what we have? "

Xiao Gangtian: "You mean..."

Serev: "You know, after the end of the Cold War, many of the Alliance's advanced weapons were declassified, and the world evaluated us this way: Alliance scientists can always integrate a bunch of garbage into excellent machines.

But now the base has so much technology, but you have not used it. What I see is that we only need less than 35 million to send a 20-ton space shuttle into orbit. If it is an unmanned space shuttle, it will be so crowded. It is possible to carry a load of 10 tons in one squeeze. "