Vol 2 Chapter 1027: The progress of photonic computer research and development

"Nor take it lightly. Although they have not made a big move, it does not mean that their technology is really bad. As far as I know, at least more than 7 countries have not given up research work in this area every year. The investment in the research field is not less than that of our company.
So your laboratory can't slack off. The company's technical advantages are hard to come by. If you want to bring higher returns to the company in the long term, you can't lose this technical advantage!
Our company itself is eager to use a supercomputer with better performance. Of course, other countries and companies also need it. Even if it is not urgently needed now, it will definitely be needed in the future, otherwise they will not be able to do this. For research and development. "Lei Tiantang reminded with a smile.
"The boss who knows, if the company has such good research conditions, if other people can surpass it, then we will have no face to meet people!" Liu Lishuang said confidently.
"Okay! Looking forward to your early breakthrough! Go, see here on the chip lab, let's go to the future lab above!" Lei Tiantang smiled and nodded.
One nanometer is equivalent to four times the size of an atom, which is much smaller than the length of a single bacterium. It is indeed very difficult to build a chip on this scale, so Lei Tiantang does not intend to push them.
Although both he and the company have a higher pursuit of chip performance, the current performance of the company's own 3-nanometer technology chip is temporarily sufficient.
And he didn't put Baodu on the increase in computing power brought about by the breakthrough of chip technology in the conventional sense. This is what he will inspect next.
Accompanied by Liu Lishuang, Lei Tiantang came to the photonic computer laboratory on the 6th floor. Here and the 7th floor above are the photonic computer laboratory, and the upper floors 8 and 9 are the quantum computer laboratory. , There are also such as molecular computer laboratory, DNA computer laboratory and so on.
These computer laboratories together form the future laboratory of Infinite Gravity Group's next-generation computer research and development. Any breakthrough in these laboratories may change the future of mankind.
So although all of them are in a state of net investment so far, and the total investment of these laboratories in the past two years has exceeded 20 billion US dollars each year, neither Lei Tian Tang nor the company’s management have interrupted such investment. .
"Tell me about the development progress here, I haven't paid attention to it for a while!" Lei Tiantang said with a smile after looking around.
"At present, we are still solving more problems encountered in the research process. The light-emitting element has achieved certain breakthroughs, allowing our second-generation photonic computer to run at a speed from 5 billion times per second to the first-generation photon computer. Successfully increased to 50 billion times per second.
Not only has the computing performance increased by 10 times, the volume of the second-generation photonic computer has also been reduced by half, and the stability has also been greatly improved, and the environmental requirements have also been reduced. "
Liu Lishuang let Origin project a comparison chart of the first-generation photon computer and the second-generation photon computer, and showed the research progress of the laboratory while introducing.
"It's okay. It's not bad to be able to reduce the size from three bedrooms and two halls to a small apartment with two bedrooms and one hall, but this size is still too big, and the calculation speed is also very touching, but it is better to jump from the home computer level. It's at the workstation level!" Lei Tiantang waved and fiddled with the projection of the second-generation photon computer and couldn't help but vomit.
It's no wonder that he would complain. The calculation speed of 50 billion times per second seems to be a large number, but an ordinary workstation can probably have this calculation speed.
What's more, even if the volume of this second-generation photon computer has been reduced by half, the entire computer occupies more than 60 square meters. Obviously no one would want to use such a large workstation-class computer.
"There is no way. We need to make great efforts every step forward, because although this kind of computer research is being done at home and abroad, the progress is not as good as ours.
Therefore, our current research has no experience to learn from. We can only explore and move forward by ourselves. Any problems we encounter need to be solved by ourselves, and almost all the problems we encounter are very difficult. Solving these problems is not easy. thing. "Liu Lishuang said with a wry smile.
He also knew that the boss was not criticizing them by saying this, but he still couldn't help but want to explain that the research and development of such cutting-edge technology has never been easy!
The photonic computer is a new type of computer that performs digital operations, logical operations, information storage and processing by light signals. It is composed of lasers, optical mirrors, lenses, filters and other optical elements and equipment. It relies on the laser beam to enter the array of mirrors and lenses for information processing, replacing electrons with photons, and electrical calculations with optical operations.
The parallel and high speed of light naturally determines the strong parallel processing capability of the photonic computer and its ultra-high computing speed. The photonic computer also has fault tolerance similar to that of the human brain. When a component in the system is damaged or made wrong, it does not affect the final calculation result.
The information distortion and distortion caused by the transmission of photons in the optical medium is extremely small, the energy consumption and heat dissipation during optical transmission and conversion are extremely low, and the requirements for environmental conditions are much lower than that of electronic computers.
It is this kind of advantage that makes the world full of expectations for this kind of future computer~EbookFREE.me~Many countries and companies with strong technology have launched research work on this kind of computer.
Although as early as the beginning of 1990, a laboratory in the United States made the world's first photonic computer, which uses gallium arsenide optical switches and operates at a speed of 1 billion times per second, but after so many years, photons in the true sense Computers have not yet come out.
From this point, we can see the difficulty of research and development of this kind of computer. It seems that the photon computer is simpler than the above quantum computer and other future computers, but this does not mean that the research process is really simple, otherwise It is not that nearly 40 years have passed without a qualitative breakthrough!
"I know, but this also proves that our company has truly been at the forefront of the world's scientific research field. This is something we are proud of. I also know your efforts!
But to be honest, I’m at this level. Sometimes hard work is important, but ideas are more important. As long as the geniuses that our company is targeting have no anti-human character and no moral bottom line, they will be recruited for me! "
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