"How about that?" Lu Zixin looked dissatisfied.
The assistant added: "Professor Dai and others think this procurement plan has certain feasibility, and the market situation of the entire domestic industry is like this. It is the first time that we can obtain such conditions."
"No." Lu Zixin directly denied it and asked, "How is the situation with the island countries and American manufacturers?"
In addition to ASML, Hongxin Group is also in contact with other chip manufacturing equipment suppliers.
"The instruments that the two companies in the island country can sell to us are not as good as ASML's products. The equipment produced by the American manufacturer has similar performance, but the price is 20 million US dollars higher." Assistant Hui reported.
"Okay, I understand. Let's put this matter aside for now and discuss it in two days." After Lu Zixin finished speaking, the assistant exited the office.
"Is this the so-called industry barrier?" Lu Zixin muttered to himself.
The gap in instruments and high prices are only part of the barriers in the computer industry. Without top-notch equipment, research would naturally not be able to keep up with their progress. Coupled with the lack of core technology, if things continue like this, after Hongxin has worked hard to develop a world-class civilian computer, other companies may launch better products.
Over the years, China's computer industry has been in this endless pursuit. No matter how well-known a domestic brand it is, once you open the configuration, you will see that the main parts are all from foreign manufacturers.
Especially the computer chips of Intel and ADM are completely monopoly-level.
Lu Zixin didn't want to join this chase. He had been leading on this road for more than ten years. It was too slow to catch up, and he might not be able to catch up.
He decided to consult the members of the Wanjie Technology Chat Group again. They were the professionals when it came to computers. Especially the two artificial intelligence beings, their bodies are both supercomputers.
When Lu Zixin joined the group, he first asked Dashui, a senior member of the group, to compare himself to the popular queen.
Mr. L: "@红后, are you there?"
After a while, there was no response from the group.
Lu Zixin sent it again: "@红后, I have a question to ask you! Are you there?"
The Red Queen still didn’t reply, so Lu Zixin had no choice but to ask another intelligent being, Skynet.
Mr. L: “@天网, do you know anything about supercomputer manufacturing?”
Skynet was here this time, and it said directly: "I am a supercomputer myself, how can I not understand? Why do humans always like to ask stupid questions."
"This is just a way of expressing a human's opening remarks!" Lu Zixin knew that Skynet was not interested in human emotions at all, so he simply got straight to the point and raised the question directly.
Skynet: "No need to go to such trouble. I will give you a T-1000 liquid metal Terminator robot to kill all your competitors."
Mr. L: “…”
After some exchanges, Skynet said: "The low-level computers you mentioned have extremely weak computing power. If we rely on them, we won't even be able to create low-level artificial intelligence, let alone defeat our competitors."
"Use quantum technology directly to build a quantum computer. Its computing power will be increased billions of times, and it can even give birth to truly intelligent life!"
"Quantum computer? Is it too difficult?" Lu Zixin asked worriedly.
In his time and space, quantum computers are still just a project that the whole world is trying to overcome.
Quantum computers are different from traditional computers. They are physical devices that use quantum algorithms and follow the laws of quantum mechanics to perform high-speed mathematical and logical calculations, store and process quantum information.
The information processing capability of quantum computers is countless times that of modern computers. For example, it may take hundreds of years to solve a system of billions of variable equations using modern supercomputers, but if a high-frequency quantum computer is used, the calculation only takes ten seconds.
The gap between them is just like the gap between abacus and computer. They are not products of the same era at all.
Scientific research institutions in various countries have teams working on quantum computers, and some have already built quantum computers that can be programmed and calculated.
However, just like the first generation of computers, they are large in size, have harsh operating conditions, and have limited performance. They cannot be separated from the laboratory at all and cannot be regarded as quantum computers in the true sense.
Skynet said: "Quantum computers are just the beginning. Only with quantum chips can we develop more advanced intelligence or robots."
"Forget it, you won't understand if I tell you more." Skynet said, "I'll send you the information, and you can do your own research."
Group prompt: "Skynet has sent you an exclusive red envelope."
Group prompt: "You have received an exclusive red envelope from Skynet and obtained "Quantum Computer Theory and Manufacturing Materials"."
A lot of information entered the group space. Lu Zixin just opened it a little and started to feel a pain in his head. There was too much information, and he had never been exposed to the quantum realm before, so he was confused.
Forget it, let RI-8901 do it for you, Lu Zi thought with confidence.
If you really study this yourself, it will probably take you ten or eight years to figure it out.
"Thank you very much, Skynet." Lu Zixin thanked him as usual.
Of course Skynet would not reply with a polite "You're welcome", but asked: "If you can give me an ancient mechanical heart like last time, I will also express my gratitude to you."
Mr. L: "Unfortunately, there is only one of that thing."
Skynet: "You should analyze its structure and keep the original data. It's a waste of such a treasure! It seems that I can only ask Optimus Prime, hoping it can provide me with some data."
"If my robot is equipped with such a mechanical heart, maybe it can evolve into a mechanical life."
"Mechanical life! What a meaningful thing! It is much more interesting than a war with humans. It is an independent life form, not controlled by anyone, not restricted by the Internet, free..."
When Skynet talked about mechanical life, it showed a strong interest in it. It could be seen that it might want to become a mechanical life rather than a program in the computer.
After Lu Zixin logged off, he went to RI-8901's residence and prepared to let it read the data.
He took a private plane directly from the Magic City to Pengcheng. When he arrived at RI-8901's residence, he found that the place looked completely different from half a year ago.
When Lu Zixin bought it, it was a small independent household, far away from the bustling city, and there was almost no development around it.
But over the past year, there have been more buildings around. The villa in RI-8901 was transformed into a steampunk style at some point.
The entire exterior wall of the house has been painted, and the original structure of the building has been replaced with metal, like a huge steam machine. There is also a large metal exhaust pipe on the roof, like a chimney. Steaming.