If we only look at the performance improvement of a single chip, it is only a doubling, which seems to be nothing. But don’t forget that the performance improvement of a single chip also means that Li Qingsong can develop more advanced and intelligent parallel algorithms and use more chips in a supercomputer. Therefore, a one-fold performance improvement of a single chip will result in a supercomputer with at least a ten-fold performance improvement! This means that the performance and intelligence of all the AIs used by Li Qingsong, such as Jade Emperor AI, Shennong AI, Mining AI, Metallurgical AI, Transportation AI, etc., will once again be greatly improved. As reflected in the production efficiency, Li Qingsong's industrial strength has once again skyrocketed by at least twice without any expansion in scale or increase in the number of clones! At the same time, with the investment in a large number of supercomputers dedicated to scientific computing, modeling and simulation, our progress in scientific research will be further improved. Li Qingsong did not hesitate. After adjusting the production process, he immediately put the 10-nanometer chips into mass production at the fastest speed. The 10-nanometer chips have entered mass production, and another batch of chip factories are about to come to an end. About 10 factories that specialized in producing 100-micron chips were finally shut down. Equipment was destroyed, buildings were demolished, and land was prepared for the construction of other factories. The 100-micron process chip is so outdated that even for the simplest industrial scenarios, such as a remote control or a washing machine, Li Qingsong has smarter and lower-cost chip alternatives. There is really no need to produce it anymore.
With further improvement of intelligence, further expansion of industrial capacity, and further strengthening of scientific research capabilities, Li Qingsong finally turned his attention to an extremely critical and extremely important field. Miniaturization of nuclear fission secondary pressurization propulsion modules. A nuclear fission secondary pressurization propulsion module consists of three parts. The first is naturally the nuclear fission reactor, the second is the internal combustion engine system, and the third is the secondary pressurization module. Li Qingsong regards these three parts as a module and conducts subsequent research and development as a whole. Nowadays, the smallest nuclear fission secondary pressure propulsion module that Li Qingsong can manufacture has a total mass of about 3,000 tons. This mass means that it can only be used on large spacecraft. As for warships, even the largest Venus-class spacecraft cannot be used. The total mass of a Venus-class spacecraft fully loaded is no more than 1,000 tons, and a propulsion module weighs 3,000 tons? What a joke. But compared with traditional chemical thrusters, secondary pressurization propulsion has incomparable advantages. Once we are able to equip Venus-class and Mercury-class spacecraft with nuclear fission propulsion, to what extent will the maneuverability of these two types of spacecraft be improved? How much will this improve the overall combat capability of the spacecraft? This is an almost earth-shaking improvement. Therefore, in order to maintain the stable production of the industrial system while maintaining the steady progress of all other disciplines, Li Qingsong drew on all his spare resources and invested them in the research of this module. With more intensive research, many small technological advances appeared again. But after three years of research, Li Qingsong realized a problem. It seems that I am short of manpower. This lack of manpower does not mean that the current production scale and scientific research system cannot be maintained. In fact, if the current level is maintained, the current approximately 30 million clones - after arriving in the Jupiter system, Li Qingsong has produced approximately 15 million clones locally intermittently - are already fully sufficient. But if Li Qingsong wants to go further, further expand the scientific research system, invest more manpower and brainpower in each scientific research branch, and at the same time, further expand the industrial system and provide more resources for the scientific research end, the existing manpower will not be sufficient. Because nuclear fission propulsion involves almost every discipline, the overall shortage of manpower has become the biggest obstacle to the miniaturization of nuclear fission propulsion. “Alas, when technology develops to a certain level, it will inevitably become more and more complex, with more and more branches. If you look into it carefully, mathematics can probably be divided into hundreds or even thousands of branches.
Algebra, geometry, topology, analysis, logic, sets, probability, statistics, numerical analysis... There are so many branches, and each branch has smaller branches, and each smaller branch has many different topics... The entire scientific system has become so complicated that any tiny branch may exhaust the life energy of an excellent scientist and still fail to make any further progress. There are huge obstacles between any two tiny branches. It is hard to imagine how the human world in the past advanced science and technology to a level more advanced than mine now..." Now, Li Qingsong has also temporarily encountered obstacles due to the complexity of the scientific system. It is necessary to further expand the manpower in order to have enough brainpower to devote to each increasingly subdivided scientific field and maintain sufficient scale of production to provide resources for these studies. After a rough calculation, Li Qingsong believed that in order to achieve a level sufficient to support the further miniaturization of the nuclear fission propulsion module, or even to miniaturize it enough to fit into a Mercury-class battleship and make it have practical combat significance, his maximum number of consciousness connections would have to be increased to at least 15 million. At this moment, he has about 30 million clones, and after the maximum number of consciousness connections is increased to 15 million, it is completely sufficient for use. In fact, when Li Qingsong was producing clones, he prepared according to approximately this number. "50% increase?" Li Qingsong was thinking silently. Although he encountered obstacles at this moment, he was not too worried. The reason is simple. With the rapid development in the previous period and the construction of the most important 10-nanometer supercomputer, which has greater computing power, breakthroughs in biotechnology are just around the corner. Supercomputers cannot truly simulate reality. But after providing enough parameters, supercomputers can provide a meaningful reference to reality in simulation. At this moment, Nuwa AI, the biotechnology supercomputer specially trained by Li Qingsong, simulated and calculated an almost new gene editing plan after the clones provided enough parameters. If this plan is really successful, then the new batch of clones will have a more adequate supply of brain nutrients, more neurons, faster signal transmission speed, and their physical fitness will be greatly improved. Obviously, this clone will have a greater number of consciousness connections. Theory shows that the number of his consciousness connections will even double, skyrocketing from 10 million to 20 million!