Chapter 196: Quantum Chips and Geniuses (4K)

If you don't aim high, why step on the top of the cloud. With the sea far in mind, you will see the nine heavens.

After feeding the pigs with great ambitions, Boss Gu and other workers sneaked to the back mountain with a certain sow's baby.

At noon that day, the Gu family's family banquet had an extra delicacy - roast suckling pig.

"It's just our family, the whole roast suckling pig is too wasteful." Gu Yingchao was used to it, so he added another word.

Gu's mother immediately slapped the old man in the family: "The baby is still eating long food, so many pigs don't eat, so I will keep them as pets for you?"

Since the swine fever is still prevalent, the Gu family will celebrate the Spring Festival at their pig farm this year.

I didn't go to the elders to pay New Year's greetings, and I also declined the younger generation's New Year's greetings, so the atmosphere at home became much colder.

But ever since the baby came back, the old couple had been smiling.

He has grown taller and stronger, and even his gray hair has almost disappeared.

Liu Qingqing looked at her child, and the more she looked at it, the more comfortable she felt.

The young man has a neat cropped hair, looks very energetic, and has a high nose bridge, as if he was carved out of the same mold as the grandfather in his memory.

"The baby is getting more and more handsome, are you playing with friends?"

"Mom, I've only graduated a few years ago. Let's talk about it after my career is done. Besides, there's no rush to talk about fate."

Gu Qing sandwiched a piece of roasted suckling pig skin on his mother, in order to get through this test.

At the end of the year, from various perspectives, everyone has to face their own difficulties.

After a golden pig year in the pig farm, I ate all pig-related foods such as roast suckling pig, braised pork, cured pork, and sausage.

Due to the good absorption and development, Boss Gu managed to gain five catties in just one week.

2019 is the year of the golden pig, and it is destined to be a legendary year from the beginning of the new year.

A controversial figure said: This year will be a very difficult year, and the southern border of the United States needs "a wall".

After the Spring Festival, An Hetang and others also returned to the company ahead of schedule. After checking in and reporting, they set off to pick up the boss in Gu's hometown.

Five off-road vehicles, the back seats and the roof are loaded with piles and piles of New Year's goods.

The heavy sausage and bacon is also the heavy love of parents.

That night, the four staff canteens and staff family canteens in Jiuzhou Science and Technology Park all had one more free dish and one soup, stewed potatoes with cured pork ribs and fried bacon with green peppers.

If the general ingredients want to enter the major kitchens of Kyushu Science and Technology, Chef Zhang has to check all kinds of quarantine and food certification.

But this time Boss Gu's three-no products are unimpeded.

Chef Zhang also said: "This bacon is really delicious!"

During the Chinese New Year feasting and drinking, Gu Qing didn't believe what the cook said.

After eating and drinking enough, Boss Gu started the first round of "inspection work" for the new year.

The Spring Festival homework of the semiconductor department, Titan Star Machinery R\u0026D team and software engineering department is the same, doing hand-made or math problems.

It's just that after reading the details of the homework, they all chose to be "problem writers" by coincidence.

Whose figure is a self-made CPU?

It's not that they don't know how to do this job, but it's a meticulous job, from the underlying language to the instruction set, and there are countless welding jobs.

In contrast, doing the questions is simply a reward.

Randomly flipping through a few homeworks, Gu Qing looked at the crowd and said with a smile, "How about it, you're pretty bald doing the questions, right?"

Zhang Tianhao shook his head and smiled wryly, Li You frowned and remained silent.

The former is just a graduate student who has graduated from Harbin Institute of Technology for a few years, and the latter is just a college student with a "backward knowledge system" who has been struggling in society for many years.

It's okay to do ordinary advanced mathematics, but it's really uncomfortable to do a lot of quantum mechanics problems.

"Okay, this question is not random, I have talked about quantum mechanics and related materials before, but I didn't give you too much homework, so I let you remember it and consolidate it.

Now that domestic chips are on the right track, our company also needs a second development line to fight for the future market, so quantum chips are the top priority.

Zhang Tianhao will recite the difference between quantum chips and ordinary digital integrated circuit chips, and briefly express your views on the logic of the two operations. "

With a casual finger, Gu Qing named the student Zhang who got rich.

Zhang Tianhao used to be a bully in elementary school anyway, so he could answer such superficial questions with ease.

"Quantum chips perform quantum calculations, while silicon-based digital integrated circuit chips perform digital calculations.

For example, for a function f(x), we need to bring in 100 x values ​​and obtain 100 results. How many times do we need to calculate?

In normal calculation logic, the answer is simple, count 100 times, and count once with an x ​​value.

But in quantum computing, it only needs to be calculated once.

Since in the process of quantum computing, the calculation unit is a qubit composed of quantum states, all x values ​​are quantized, and 100 x values ​​can be superimposed into a mixed state, which is brought into the quantum chip and calculated once. The mixed state of 100 results can be obtained, and after corresponding measurement, the result corresponding to the x value can be found.

From the perspective of scientific development, silicon-based chips are about to be capped, while quantum chips have just set sail, and quantum chips can perform quantum state superposition on a large number of initial values, enhancing computational efficiency. "

After Zhang Tianhao finished answering, he looked at Gu Qing, with the expression that some students wanted to be praised after answering the questions.

Boss Gu nodded slightly, and said: "This answer is very common, but it is not profound.

When the current integrated manufacturing precision of traditional silicon-based electronic chips is as small as the atomic size, the natural principles relied on have moved from the macroscopic world to the microscopic world, and will inevitably approach the critical point of classical macrophysics, that is, from Newton’s classical mechanics to Einstein’s microscopic physical world.

From the last century to the present, the development of the traditional chip industry has indeed strictly followed "Moore's Law".

But after 13 years, the time required to double the density of transistors has become longer and longer. As transistor circuits gradually approach the performance limit, this law will eventually come to an end.

As the level of integration increases, so does the speed. The chips in today's high-performance computers and smartphones are constantly introducing more advanced chip technology, and the process accuracy has gradually dropped from tens of nanometers to 7 nanometers.

The Kirin 980 that Xiawei carried on last year's Mate 20 was manufactured using TSMC's 7nm process, with a maximum frequency of 2.6GHz.

But I can conclude that the next-generation HiSilicon Kirin 990 processor developed by Xiawei will still be manufactured using TSMC's 7nm process.

With luck, it will take 20 years to use the 5nm process to manufacture chips.

The closer to the atomic size, the integrated circuits that can be accommodated by traditional chips will eventually approach the critical point in classical physics, and it will be difficult to improve computing power.

So I am not optimistic about silicon-based chips four or five years later, and now we need to enter the development of quantum chips.

Only quantum chips that can integrate a large number of quantum logic units can perform quantum information processing and break through the computing power limit of traditional computers.

So next, sign the NDA. "

After Gu Qing finished speaking, except for the people in the software engineering department who were present at the scene, they were a little dazed, and the eyes of other veteran drivers were shining.

They signed a lot of confidentiality agreements and confidentiality regulations, but every time they signed these things, they would definitely come into contact with more cutting-edge and even more sci-fi knowledge.

This is true of domestic wafer manufacturing technology, as is the technology of Titan Star bionic mechanical prosthetics series.

Although Zhang Tianhao and Luo Yunjia were "normally excited" like everyone else on the surface, they were more excited than others in their hearts.

The big guy in the underground laboratory hasn't moved for a long time.

The most important reason for the stagnation of research and development before is that the chips carried by the big guys cannot process all the information transmission and cracking of neural signals for a long time.

At that time, Gu Qing deduced that the only way to start this big guy again was to wait for the quantum chip to mature.

At this moment, Gu Qing started the quantum chip project. Does that mean that the big guys in the basement will soon be able to continue research and development?

As for the concern that the research and development of quantum chips will be hindered or even the project will be cut off, it does not exist in Kyushu Technology Company.

As an ever-victorious general, Boss Gu has a 100% success rate for each R\u0026D project he leads, and the time is very short, so he can pinpoint the problem every time.

After everyone signed the non-disclosure agreement and chatted for a while with the glaring "hungry wolves", Boss Gu returned to the central office building of Kyushu Science and Technology Park.

Although the research and development of technology is the most important thing, and Xuanwu handles daily affairs, he still has to attend some important company meetings.

After all, it is not the same world anymore, some things still need to check for omissions or verify the differences, and listen to other people's reports.

For example, Vice President Dong’s summary of major events in the high-tech industry in 2018.

Although he is an accountant, Dong Qi's report is not a chart, but a lot of text descriptions.

"In the blink of an eye, 18 years have passed, and the technology industry has undergone tremendous changes in this year.

Baidu's unmanned vehicle appeared in the Summer TV Spring Festival Gala, and completed the difficult figure-of-eight cross-running movement, bringing a visually stunning black technology performance to audiences across the country

But in March, the self-driving car industry was hit hard when Uber's self-driving test vehicle killed a pedestrian in the United States, the first fatal traffic accident involving a self-driving car.

At the Google Developers Conference in May, Google released the latest AI system Duplex, which can complete tasks such as booking a table in a way close to human communication.

In September, Ali's "City Brain 2.0" was officially released in Suzhou and Hangzhou.

The "city brain" is equivalent to a smart city system, which can connect data scattered in every corner of the city, and through the analysis and integration of a large amount of data, the city can be deployed globally. According to the data, in the list of the most congested cities in the country, Suzhou and Hangzhou dropped from No. 5 in 2016 to No. 57 in the second quarter of this year.

In the same month, our bionic mechanical prosthesis CSDYX was released, and the first large-scale personnel test was carried out.

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Boss Gu was sitting at the top, with a lot of thoughts in his mind.

It’s true that Ari is a mortgage company, but their big data training and Ari cloud technology are made with real money.

And Baidu's unmanned vehicles and the unmanned driving technology these companies are developing?

Honestly not enough to watch.

Unmanned driving requires the strong cooperation of enough detectors, big data, and logic chips with top computing capabilities.

What Baidu makes, Xia Wei and Dami can create out of nothing in two years and surpass it.

If Kyushu Technology does it, sorry, more than one month is too much.

No matter how powerful big data operations or logic operations are, their foundations lie in chips and detectors.

Without hardware such as chips and detectors, these data items are just castles in the air and useless.

For hardware manufacturing, industrial software is an unavoidable hurdle.

After listening to Vice President Dong's report, there are also reports from several other managers.

Boss Gu expressed some "humble opinions" and then the meeting adjourned.

Now the executives in these departments of the company actually don't have much power.

Sometimes a R\u0026D employee in the R\u0026D department has a stronger voice than them.

For example, a young genius is a vegetarian. After he took office in Kyushu Technology, every employee cafeteria in the park has an additional vegetarian area.

The chefs who make these vegetarian dishes don't even stick their fingers to the meaty taste of pork. They are absolutely vegetarian, not halal.

Time gradually came to the evening, Boss Gu looked at the sunset in the distance and waited.

The quantum chip project cannot be exposed for the time being. In terms of industrial software, the implementation progress of the talent hunting plan has just been closed at the first stage.

Some talents have already reported to the company and entered the job.

And some special talents need to be "brought back by human flesh".

After being checked by the most peripheral relevant departments and the security department of Kyushu Science and Technology Company, a convoy drove into Kyushu Science and Technology Park.

Zhang Yuanfeng swiped his face, swiped his ID card, and scanned the QR code all the way, and finally arrived in the park safely, thinking of his daughter who was studying in the Titan Star Park, it was like an arrow in his heart.

Of course, his daughter is not physically handicapped, she just has the opportunity to practice oral English in the special atmosphere of Titan Star Park.

American pronunciation English, British pronunciation English, Italian, French, Russian, many foreign native speakers live in Titan Star Park, and many top students and teachers from the foreign language department of surrounding universities are "earning extra money", simply practicing oral English or The strongest training place to feel the atmosphere of other languages.

At this moment, the young man in the back seat of Zhang Yuanfeng said abruptly: "Uncle Zhang, your heartbeat is a little fast. At your age, after sunset in the evening, Yin Qi is stronger than Yang Qi, so you need to calm down and nourish your heart." Yin-jin in the body."

Zhang Yuanfeng nodded with a smile, and planned to be self-willed for a while, not to listen to the advice of this magic stick boy for the time being.

And in this train, there are quite a few people with this kind of strange brain circuit.

There are magic sticks who talk about memorizing the Book of Changes all day long, teenagers who can't tie their shoelaces, and problem girls who eat candy all the time and can't say a word.

Most of them are quite special, and some even cannot leave their parents, so Zhang Yuanfeng is needed to take care of the whole family, big and small, like a nanny.