He has no plans to spread photonic chips. After all, the current chip industry system is still there and occupies an absolutely dominant position. There is no need to make himself uncomfortable.
However, the technology companies under his umbrella can use the super optical brain for scientific research, especially for companies like Future Space Technology Company, which can play a great role.
It's just that these tasks only need to be carried out secretly. As for whether the photonic chip will be exposed, he is not particularly worried, because just having a photonic chip is actually still far from a real super optical brain.
It can only be said that photonic chips are the basis of super optical brains, but if you want to create a super optical brain with photonic chips alone, there are still many technical obstacles to overcome, and the technical difficulty is also not low.
He asked Xuantian Technology Company to provide complete super optical brain products to Building Block Software Company, instead of just selling photonic chips, because holding the chip is of no great use.
And since he has planned to industrialize, he has no plans to purchase parts from Tiangong Precision Instrument Company, because with the robot, Xuantian Technology Company can do too many things.
If he had to rely on Tiangong Precision Instrument Company for everything, he would not be able to do many things in secret. The most typical example was the manufacturing of high-end robots. In order to keep it secret, he had to come up with many ways to do it, which was really troublesome.
If Xuantian Technology Company itself masters a complete set of sophisticated industrial technologies and industrial chains, many relatively private matters can be bypassed by other companies, making it easier to maintain confidentiality.
After all, other companies are more talkative than Xuantian Technology Company. Although they have a complete set of strict confidentiality systems, compared to robots, confidentiality is still much worse.
However, if the photonic chip industry is to be fully established, it must wait until the mass production of robots, that is, after June this year, before industrialization can begin.
In other words, the first batch of robots still use traditional chips. The robots will not be technologically upgraded until the photonic chip industry is completed.
In fact, the industrial system basically follows this rule. It first produces products with low precision, and then uses the produced products to produce products with higher precision, and then slowly upgrades.
This is why he didn't come up with particularly sophisticated product technology at the beginning. It's because industrial development cannot build high-rise buildings from the ground. It must be done step by step and slowly iterated up.
It's just that if you have the technology, the iteration speed is very fast. If you don't have the technology, you need to iterate while developing, which takes a very long time.
If the smart city brain of the Building Block Software Company uses a super optical computer, and the per capita computing power cost is 50 yuan, then the Building Block Software Company can charge 100 yuan.
Compared with the traditional computer architecture, the service life of the super optical brain is much longer. It can be used for 50 years casually. If you particularly care about the service life, special processing can be carried out. It will not matter if the service life exceeds 100 years. question.
If the benefits are maximized, the building block software company can calculate its service fee and the super optical computer together. Calculated based on the cost of 100 yuan per person per year, the final domestic market size will be about 100 billion yuan.
Although it is still small compared to Fanxing Software Company's annual revenue of trillions of yuan, this revenue is still a giant among software companies.
Moreover, Smart City Brain is just one of their projects. Currently, this project only involves too much energy. In the future, they can free up their hands to develop other businesses.
It is quite good for a single business to have such a large revenue, and it is still a business that has always existed. There is no need to worry about being snatched away by others, and the stability is very high.
This fee is only for the urban public service field. It is more reasonable to calculate the fee based on the population in this field. After all, public services are shared by all residents of the city, and the cost is naturally borne by all.
For a big city with a population of 10 million, the annual cost is only 1 billion yuan. The burden is actually not heavy. The government finances can completely afford it. The efficiency improvements brought by the smart city brain are not just that. cost.
As for the income of commercial enterprises, it is difficult to evaluate here. After all, it depends on what services the commercial enterprise uses, and fees are charged based on actual usage.
But it can be predicted that the income from the commercial field of smart city brain will definitely be higher than that from the public service field. The specific amount depends on the convenient services that the building block software company can provide.
However, what is certain is that in the future, the domestic business revenue of Building Block Software Company alone should not be less than 300 billion yuan. This is a relatively conservative prediction.
As for foreign business, it is even more difficult to predict. After all, the smart city brain is the center that controls all operations of the city. For many countries, this situation cannot be tolerated.
However, what should be promoted still needs to be promoted, but the smart city brains used abroad are not as advanced as those in China. Even the central computing system uses traditional computer technology.
The super optical brain will definitely not be allowed to be taken out of the country, and even its domestic use requires a certain degree of confidentiality. After all, compared to the existing computer system, the optical brain technology is much more advanced.
According to the general speed of technological development, it may take 100 years for practical optical brain technology to be produced. From here we can see how advanced optical brain technology is.
Although he told Zuo Daqian that Xuantian Technology Company would provide a complete set of advanced computing systems, he also said that they need to continue to develop traditional computing technologies to further reduce costs.
If the cost is still so high, it will be detrimental to overseas promotion work. Even if it is promoted, the profit margin they earn will not be very high, which is also a harm to their own interests.
After the meeting with Building Block Software Company, he took in the video of Qu Hengyang, the president of Byte Data Company. According to the process, it was not his turn yet.
However, since super optical brains have been mentioned, super storage is also needed. After all, cities produce a large amount of data every year, and the storage of this data requires a large amount of storage space. These are all costs.
He needs to know about Byte Data's current research results in the field of storage. As the world's top data storage company, their research results basically represent the world's most advanced storage technology.
But before that, he patiently listened to Qu Hengyang's report, which mainly focused on last year's revenue and future development plans or strategic directions. This is a report that must be done every year at the annual meeting.
If the company does not have a clear development direction, then there will be no specific goals for what the company will do in the coming year. This is very dangerous for business operations. The past achievements have passed, and the future development direction is the most important.
At present, Byte Data's business is still mechanical hard disk storage business and flash memory business, with annual revenue of up to 200 billion yuan, almost monopolizing the global digital storage market.
However, their business seems to be limited to these two fields. It's not that this is bad, but there are no surprises in their future development plans and research project plans.
Their research direction is still focused on these two fields. Not to mention that they are wrong, after all, there is still great potential in these two fields that can be tapped.
However, in terms of the massive storage currently required by smart cities, the current storage technology is obviously not keeping up. First, the speed of data extraction and storage cannot keep up, and second, the data storage capacity cannot keep up.
If you insist on doing it, there will definitely be no problem. The building block software company is currently using the current storage technology, but compared with the data processing speed of the super optical brain, storage is obviously a shortcoming.
If the data extraction speed and storage speed cannot match the computing speed of the super optical brain, a lot of additional costs will be needed to ensure the coordination of the two parts. The cost will naturally increase a lot, and the performance will also be greatly lost.
In addition, the current cost of storing data is still relatively high. It is acceptable for the current situation, but for data such as smart cities, it is a bit high.
And for robots, storage technology is also a big problem. The current solution is to clean up regularly, and the data storage time is not guaranteed. Basically, it is cleaned up when it is almost full.
Robots are actually the same as humans. When they see ordinary scenes, they are converted into massive amounts of data. This may cause robots to frequently lose their memory or adjust data from the background.
However, the backend data is not infinitely stored. After all, if the number of robots increases, the data generated every moment will be no less than the data of smart cities, or even much more.
The data of so-called Internet companies pales in comparison to the data of robots, so traditional storage technology will have big bottlenecks in these aspects.
The storage technology used in the high-end robots he developed is electronic inertial motion trajectory technology, which is an extended application of micro-magnetic field batteries. It is currently the most advanced storage technology with the highest storage density and the fastest access speed.
The technical principle is to use the magnetic field to affect the trajectory of electrons and directly transfer the information in the magnetic field to the electrons. The electrons will generate inertial trajectories that carry the information.
Although the principle seems very simple, it is extremely difficult to do it. If he didn't have a golden finger, he would not be able to describe it with such a simple principle.
This not only involves many detailed principles, but also requires particularly sophisticated technology to make such a product. For this reason, he has developed a lot of sophisticated equipment. Currently, only his laboratory has such equipment.
Obviously, he has no intention of using such advanced technology as a commercial storage solution. He is more cautious about any technology related to high-end robots. After all, high-end robots must not be discovered.
As long as more technology about high-end robots is leaked, the more dangerous the high-end robots will be, which will destroy his plan, and he will lose an ace in his hand to back him up.
Therefore, if we want to come up with a storage solution suitable for ordinary robots, we need to find another way. The first thing we think of is the human brain, and he has also done a lot of research on this.
Originally, he thought that the human brain's information storage method could be used as an advanced storage method, but after some research, he felt that the human brain was not suitable for accurate information storage.
In fact, he has developed storage technology based on brain memory principles. He uses bionic technology to create components similar to brain neurons. If information is stored, the state of the components will be changed.
These are not critical. The key is to save storage space. Every time information is stored, the entire storage unit will be dynamically updated to form a new overall memory, which will produce some information deviations.
In other words, when more and more information is stored, more details of a lot of information will be lost, and for information that accounts for a relatively small amount, it will be impossible to remember it in the end.
This is why we remember the information that is impressive and may never forget it in our lifetime. This is also because when we receive the information at that time, our memory is strengthened and more memory neurons are occupied.
During the continuous adjustment of the overall information storage, it can still be avoided from being completely cleared out, but as the stored information increases, some details will be lost.
It is not difficult for him to create such a bionic brain. After all, the nanorobots used in his suit have a structure smaller than cells, that is, smaller than memory neurons.
The biggest advantage of this overall memory method is that you never have to worry about the storage space being full, because the memory information is constantly superimposed, and then special algorithms are used to extract special information from the overall information.
The disadvantage is also very obvious, that is, there will be memory loss, which is a fatal flaw for scientific storage and can only be used in fields that do not require high accuracy of stored information.
But there is a problem with machines obtaining information. They don't know which information is important and which information is secondary. For machines, the equality of all information is consistent.
Unless humans tell the machine which information is important and which information is secondary, this can only be done in specialized fields and cannot be universal.
If the equality of information is consistent, after a limited number of information storages, the holistic memory method will completely forget some time instead of forgetting detailed information, which is not much different from the current complete erasure.
This storage technology is actually also used on high-end robots, and it exists at the same time as the electronic inertial motion trajectory information storage technology mentioned above.
The reason why two sets of technologies are used is mainly because there is no guarantee that the storage device space made by electronic inertial motion trajectory information storage technology will never be full.
Therefore, this holistic memory technology needs to be used to ensure that the storage space is never full, and also to ensure the final residual memory of some information.
The most important thing is that the two sets of information storage systems can verify each other. When the accurate information storage module does not have enough space and needs to be deleted, the inaccurate information storage module has a certain amount of information backup.
Conversely, accurate information storage modules can also be used to strengthen the memory traces of inaccurate information storage modules, thus ensuring that no pictures or information will be completely forgotten.
As for imitation DNA information storage technology, it is actually not fundamentally different from magnetic tape. The density is definitely higher, but the reading speed and storage speed are not very satisfactory.
In the past, many backup data were stored using tapes, which were only suitable for the field of information backup. In the field of high-speed access, tapes did not play a big role.
As for the use of biotechnology to construct real DNA to store technology, the density is definitely much higher than that of imitation DNA, but the access speed is also slow because the construction efficiency of living organisms is not high.
In fact, the most efficient storage is to store light information directly, which does not require any conversion. However, photons are difficult to control, which is why it needs to be converted into other forms of information for storage.
The quantum USB disk in the previous life actually allowed light to be temporarily stored in the crystal. When it was read out, the information was intact. However, optical storage still has its shortcomings, that is, it cannot be copied.
Information that cannot be copied will be gone after use, and the optical information will no longer be stored in the memory. Although such technology has a wide range of application fields, it is obviously not suitable for current needs.
Like the electronic inertial motion trajectory he used, when reading information, the electronic motion trajectory is quickly redrawn without changing the original electronic motion trajectory, so as to obtain the information contained in it.
In fact, not only light, but any technology that uses waves to store information will not be able to be copied. Just like electromagnetic waves, even if there is technology that can store electromagnetic waves, after they are taken out, the electromagnetic waves disappear and the information is still in other forms. save.
Therefore, he has never thought about storing optical information in its original form, because the physical properties cannot be violated, and trying to work in this direction is purely to make himself uncomfortable.
After the meeting with Byte Data Company, I was not in a hurry to solve this problem, but continued the meeting. As for whether new storage technology will be handed over to Byte Data Company, the answer is definitely no.
It is more appropriate to keep this kind of high-end technology in Xuantian Technology Company, which means keeping it in your own hands, so that it can be guaranteed to be foolproof.
As the morning meeting ended, Zhao Yi used his lunch break to immerse his consciousness in the Zeoling space, trying to find the right technology to achieve high-density storage and high access efficiency.
After some calculations, he finally found a more suitable technology. In fact, it did not use physical properties such as light, but broke through directly from the field of materials.
He found a special molecular structure material that records light information at the molecular level and can make regular changes based on the information state of light waves.
In other words, only light waves need to pass through these molecular structures to perfectly copy the information in the light waves. When reading, only need to inject light waves of a specific frequency to read the stored information in the form of light. .
In terms of macroscopic expression, light directly passes through this crystal-like crystal, and the information contained in the light can be stored in the "crystal". After light of a specific frequency is used to pass through the "crystal", what comes out is the light carrying the stored information.
The storage principle is that light passing through the "crystal" will produce a resonance effect with the electrons inside, allowing the electron orbit to copy the information in the optical signal, thereby storing the information.
To be honest, the way this crystal stores information is more advanced than the information storage technology he uses on high-end people. This is something he did not expect.
Now they face a choice, that is, whether to use this technology on high-end robots and use the stored information of high-end robots on existing ordinary robots.
At present, the number of high-end robots he has released to the outside world has exceeded 50,000. Replacing them is not an easy task and takes a long time.
Fortunately, the two technologies still have some similarities, that is, they both use electronic motion trajectories to store information, so only the storage part needs to be replaced, and other aspects do not need to be changed.
So the replacement work is actually not complicated. What is complicated is that after replacement, the surface needs to be restored to its original state, and the robot itself needs to slowly recover, which takes a long time.
If you want to recover quickly, you need special equipment, and this equipment is only available in his laboratory, and it is not small in size and cannot be moved at will.
Therefore, high-end robots must be constantly recalled, modified, and then put back. This requires careful arrangements and cannot be recalled at will.
Because almost every robot now has its own identity and has integrated with the surrounding society. It does not exist in isolation. If it suddenly disappears for a period of time, it is necessary to find a reasonable reason.
It would be better if there were only one or two, but if they were all recalled at once, the risk of exposure would be very high, just like the way he released them, they were released piecemeal.
Although there will be certain difficulties, as long as the arrangements are made well, there won't be any big problems, so he feels that it is okay to implement the replacement plan. After all, this storage technology is much better.
The density of information storage is actually about the same. After all, the essential principles are similar. However, there is no need to use electromagnetic waves in the middle, and naturally there is no need to convert midway, and the access efficiency is much higher.
It may seem like a microsecond-level gap, but in fact, when faced with unexpected situations, or when a large amount of information needs to be processed instantly, the gap will be infinitely magnified.
In other words, the gap is not visible at ordinary times, but at critical moments, the gap is reflected. As his secret method, high-end robots naturally need to be in the best condition at all times.
After figuring it out, he immediately passed the relevant information to the private laboratory, and asked the laboratory to immediately set up a small-scale production line to produce this material.
After a certain amount has been reserved, plans will be made to bring back high-end robots located around the world to replace them. As for those that cannot leave, a replacement method will be used, so that they can leave quietly.
After arranging these, he also asked Xuantian Technology Company to start preparing to establish a storage industry chain originally used by high-end robots. Technicians still use high-end robots directly to avoid technology leakage.
The world is so wonderful. There are materials that are so suitable for optical information storage. This is something he had never thought of before. He had taken great pains to achieve high density and high access speed.
He originally proposed the idea, and then conducted deductions through the Zeoling Space. The mature technology he obtained was considered to be the best at the time, and he did not continue to think about it.
This deduction was completely done by Zhou Ling. He did not put forward any ideas because he himself did not know what kind of method could be done, and his head was empty.
He just didn't expect that he would get such a good thing. He had done this before, but the deduction without any additional conditions took too much time and the answers he got were too complicated.
This resulted in him rarely using deduction methods without any additional conditions, which were inefficient and mixed with information. This time, he was completely trying it out, and the result gave him such a big surprise, which can be said to be a stroke of luck.
So with the attitude of trying again, Zhou Ling was asked to deduce under unrestricted conditions whether there is any robot technology that can surpass the current high-end robots. He wanted to rely on this luck to try his luck again.
However, after half an hour of deduction, no results satisfied him, so he simply exited the Zhou Ling space. Zhou Ling continued the deduction and would take a look at the situation when he was free. (End of chapter)