Chapter 119: Stellar Supercomputer

Du Qiu specially prepared some of Blue Star’s real-world technological knowledge and some basic knowledge of human society for this artificial intelligence as a foundational database.

In the future, the artificial intelligence will learn on its own and create its own knowledge base.

As for the emotion module, the maintenance artificial intelligences completely lack it—any reaction they have to anything is the result of the core algorithm’s computations.

Producers and processors haven’t yet reached the level of strong artificial intelligence, their intelligence level is lower, and they definitely do not possess an emotion module.

Having read many science fiction novels and watched films about artificial intelligence, Du Qiu has always had many questions about whether artificial intelligence can possess emotions similar to humans.

This time, he finally has an opportunity to verify it for himself.

He added to the artificial intelligence program he designed a kind of emotional module he imagined, which is a function with a growth algorithm.

Of course, in the core of this module, Du Qiu added some constraints.

“Sovereign, the naming of the Star Ocean is complete. The intelligent program will restart; please wait a moment!”

Don’t underestimate the power of a name. Similar to the maintainer, Du Qiu’s created artificial intelligence program also has certain naming and level constraints.

After all, it’s a modification based on the maintainer’s foundation, and he hasn’t planned to remove the level restrictions for the time being.

The artificial intelligence Star Ocean seems to run on existing computer technology of Blue Star, but it has actually been comprehensively improved by Du Qiu.

Existing computer technology on Blue Star is basically under the control of Western countries.

Since Du Qiu is now starting to involve himself in this, naturally, he wants to change this situation.

When happy, time always flies, and the night passes just like that.

Early in the morning, Du Qiu hurried to his company’s laboratory.

He wishes to complete the final steps for Star Ocean and deploy it immediately in reality.

During the past period, Du Qiu’s most significant work has been replicating the technology for mass production of the third-generation semiconductors in reality.

And based on this technology, he developed a new generation of computer technology!

The core chip of this computer technology, though just a low-level chip manufactured by the processor, has an architecture similar to the maintainer’s quantum computer chip.

Therefore, it can fully take on the task of an intelligent chip.

What’s more important is that this chip is based on a type of crystal substance merged with carbon elements, produced by the processor using some kind of technique.

After arriving at the maintainer, Du Qiu easily controlled the processor and naturally also accessed the processor’s consciousness uploading module.

Now, in the Dreamland, Du Qiu can connect three intelligent machines without the worry of losing contact.

Through the processor, Du Qiu quickly mastered the chip’s manufacturing technology. Since its material is similar to silicon carbide—Blue Star’s third-generation semiconductor material—Du Qiu naturally used it directly without having to worry about being too advanced.

This production process using silicon carbide completely solves a series of problems with existing silicon carbide materials on Blue Star, such as microtubule defects, complex doping processes, and high-temperature resistance of matching materials.

Like all new technologies, high cost is the biggest issue. Its cost is 5-6 times that of mature silicon chips.

In summary, silicon carbide chips on Blue Star are still immature and cannot be used on a large scale in conventional computer chips. They can only be used in areas with high demand for power, frequency, temperature resistance, and radiation resistance.

However, this chip is considered a low-level chip in alien civilizations, only used in state sensors.

Therefore, the performance of this chip will inevitably crush all silicon chips currently on the Blue Star market.

Firstly, in terms of circuit switch size, this chip is already equivalent to 1 nanometer technology on Blue Star.

Presently, the best silicon chips on Blue Star are still striving to develop 5 nanometer technology and are not yet able to produce them on a large scale.

As for Tang Country, they are still exploring 7 nanometer production technology.

But now, Du Qiu directly produced chips with 1 nanometer technology, and their computing power is more than 20 times that of existing chips.

Not to mention the inherent advantages of silicon carbide.

Such chip technology not only leads current Blue Star technology but also does not exceed it by too much, becoming a moneymaking tool for Du Qiu.

But more importantly, only this kind of chip technology can initially support the operation of the artificial intelligence Star Ocean’s intelligent program.

For Du Qiu, he already faces many challenges in the real world. This time, it was Ning Yuzhe’s invoking of relationships behind the scenes, calling on Magic City’s top leader to resolve the relocation crisis.

The feeling of entrusting one’s fate to others made Du Qiu very uncomfortable.

The key is that he knows too little about his enemies.

Whether on the battlefield or in the business world, the most important thing in a struggle with others is intelligence.

Only by knowing oneself and the enemy can one possibly defeat any opponent.

In today’s mobile internet era, artificial intelligence can become the best intelligence master, and Du Qiu is eager to develop artificial intelligence for this purpose.

Du Qiu doesn’t believe that just because Magic City’s top leader intervened, his opponents would completely lay down their arms.

Because he understands that human desires only grow stronger for the things they can’t have.

Du Qiu first produced new silicon carbide materials in the laboratory this time and then “developed” a brand-new integrated circuit production technology.

That’s right, Du Qiu directly replicated a mass integrated circuit printing technology from the processor.

A small and exquisite device, the overall size is like an office copier, can rapidly print designed chip circuits on silicon carbide chips.

During the past New Year’s holiday, Du Qiu completed assembly and testing of the new generation supercomputer. This includes not only different chip technology but also improved network technology and image processing technology, among others.

The new generation of chips completely changes the existing computer chip architecture on Blue Star. Unlike the original computer chips which are just CPU, it incorporates large-scale integrated circuits in the chips, realizing the integration of CPU, GPU, and storage.

This is in line with the computer systems of alien civilizations—where their computer systems operate on a single chip that wins the world; there’s no need to be divided into multiple parts.

There’s no helping it; it’s just that powerful.

When Du Qiu replicated that chip circuit printing machine, Yu Donghua happened to visit.

Du Qiu patted the device and said to Yu Donghua, “Big Fish, do you know? This thing will become Tang Country’s future ban weapon against the Western world, just like they currently ban us from 7-nanometer photolithography machines.”

That small country, Helan, dares to enforce a ban against Tang Country; isn’t it just because the United States is backing them?

Over this past year, Du Qiu has been infuriated by the various suppressive acts of Western countries led by the United States against Tang Country, and he’s been harboring a fire inside.

Du Qiu plans to one day let these Western countries also taste what it’s like to be banned by the Tang Country.

In Du Qiu’s laboratory, the newly assembled supercomputer isn’t very large; it occupies just over 100 square meters.

Compared to most supercomputers in the world today, it can be called the “smallest” supercomputer.

It contains 10,000 new silicon carbide chips. Although that seems much fewer than the 41,000 chips in Tang Country’s Shénwēi, its computing speed surpasses Shénwēi by 200 times, reaching 2500 quintillion floating-point calculations per second.

This makes the United States’ recently crowned world number one supercomputer, which just surpassed Shénwēi by twice the compute speed, look meek in comparison.

It has become the undisputed number one in computational power among supercomputers on the entire Blue Star.

However, this computational power is just the minimum requirement to support a strong artificial intelligence program!

In other words, currently on Blue Star, a strong artificial intelligence is unlikely to be born.

The existing chip technology on Blue Star needs much more time before it can achieve such computing speeds.

Having alien civilization’s technological support is different—Du Qiu completed the design and construction of this supercomputer in just a bit over a month.

This speed is staggering!

Because the chip production technology recorded in the alien processors could be directly replicated in reality.

That device, akin to a high-speed chip printing machine, is of the utmost importance.

If one were to use the current chip manufacturing technology of Blue Star, even just 10,000 chips would take a considerable amount of time to produce.

That’s the magic of technology!

Of course, if not for Du Qiu establishing a virtual environment in the maintainer’s intelligence core and having verified the entire process in the virtual environment, he wouldn’t have been able to complete it so quickly.

The last time the top leaders visited, they also brought leaders from the power supply bureau. Du Qiu not only applied for a dedicated power line for the R&D center’s machine room but also constructed a dedicated power line for his laboratory.

Although Du Qiu’s supercomputer uses alien civilization technology and consumes much less electricity, it is still a major power consumer.

These past few nights, Du Qiu has been simulating in Dreamland and constantly inputting the basic code program of artificial intelligence Star Ocean into the supercomputer in reality. Now he only needs the last update and core replacement.

“Mmm, Star Ocean can finally root down in its homeland. This is like seeing the first light in the vast starry sea, let’s call this big guy Stellar Supercomputer.”