Because it was an experimental project, not too many clones were bred from this new generation, only 1,000. After switching bodies again and testing the quality of each clone, and finding the one with the highest quality, Li Qingsong's maximum number of consciousnesses increased slightly again, reaching 5,002,264. Li Qingsong's heart was filled with joy. "This is just an experiment, and there will be more refined optimization and improvement in the future. It is expected that after the technology is truly fully mature, my maximum number of consciousness connections will increase further, and it is estimated to be around million. At this stage, it is enough!" At this moment, those clones that had been produced in advance and had been eating for at least a month and at most three or four years finally had their place to be used. Many new bases and new factories appeared on Luoshen like mushrooms after rain. The poles, equator, canyons, mountains, plains, no matter where they were on Luoshen, as long as there was value, there would be clones. The maximum number of consciousness connections is 5 million. Taking into account rest, illness, daily losses, etc., the number of commonly used clones reaches 10 million. 10 million clones are enough to launch a comprehensive development of the entire planet of Rosene. With more abundant resources and manpower supply, Li Qingsong launched larger-scale technological research and development work.
Li Qingsong would not let go of any aspect involved in the modern industrial system and modern scientific system, whether at the theoretical or applied level, and arranged more or less clones to conduct research on them. Moreover, any aspect and any branch of research has been integrated into the whole under Li Qingsong's special ability. Perhaps it was just the progress of a very branch of research on topology in the mathematical system that brought a breakthrough in the research on insulators in the seemingly unrelated field of chemistry; Or a tiny breakthrough in materials science may result in a huge advance in optical physics. Industry barriers? Knowledge barriers? They don’t exist. As a result, Li Qingsong's overall scientific and technological progress once again showed a rapid development. After this went on for several years, Li Qingsong gradually realized a problem. The resources on Luoshen seem to be insufficient. Thousands of early mines have been abandoned due to resource depletion. New mines have to go underground to mine resources, sometimes even having to drill several thousand meters deep to barely extract a little bit of resources. Even the surface of Luoshen was no longer the dark red color as before, but turned into light red. Because too many Thorins had been taken away by Li Qingsong like scraping the ground. But even so, the supply of resources is beginning to become somewhat tight. After all, it is just a dwarf planet, with a surface area only a few tenths of the Earth's and a mass only one-six hundredth of the Earth's. Li Qingsong has always been relatively frugal in the use of resources. After all, these clones don’t have any entertainment needs, they just need to be full. However, even if it is just scientific research, the energy and resources required are huge enough. In order to verify the reliability and efficiency of a process, Li Qingsong would often build a large factory, consuming billions of kilowatt-hours of electricity, as well as large amounts of water and chemical raw materials to run it; In order to develop a new type of propulsion material, Li Qingsong often conducts large-scale propulsion tests, consuming unknown amounts of methane and oxygen. Not to mention that sometimes when tackling a key technology, Li Qingsong would regardless of cost, directly mobilize hundreds or thousands of factories to participate, and mobilize tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of clones to join in, and the resources consumed were even more astonishing.
“The progress of scientific and technological research and development cannot stop, nor can it slow down. In the future, it may even accelerate again. In this case, developing the enemy planet is inevitable. However, in order to develop Enemy Planet on a large scale, several prerequisite technologies are still needed. First, more efficient propulsion technology. Second, more advanced intelligent AI and chip technology. Third, primary electromagnetic catapult technology. Then, we will prioritize the development of these three technologies!" Li Qingsong made up his mind. As the research on these three technologies began, the resource consumption rate on Luoshen Star not only did not slow down, but increased again. In the chip factory built by Li Qingsong, the mature near-ultraviolet lithography technology is used. The clones go through a series of processes and finally place the wafer into the lithography machine for exposure operation. The wavelength of the light source it uses is about 400 nanometers. Using this technology, Li Qingsong can mass-produce chips with a process of 800 nanometers. Although the 800-nanometer chip is still too backward compared to the human era, it is still a real nano-level chip, which is a huge improvement compared to the past. This type of chip has played a huge role in Li Qingsong's technological development. It not only improves the automation level of all factories, but also builds supercomputers, playing a huge role in scientific computing. But now, 800-nanometer chips can no longer meet Li Qingsong's needs. To develop the enemy star, a certain level of AI technology and more powerful computing power are inevitably required. To this end, Li Qingsong built a larger and more technologically advanced base in addition to the original chip technology research base, and launched comprehensive research on the next generation of lithography machines and chip technology. After two years of research, a new generation of photolithography machines was finally manufactured. With a little excitement, Li Qingsong began the trial production of a new generation of chips. Highly pure silicon wafers are fed into the photolithography machine. After the photoresist coating is completed, a photolithography machine with a higher frequency deep ultraviolet light source is used to expose them using ultraviolet rays with a wavelength of about 200 nanometers. According to the chip design plan that had been completed previously, countless tiny circuits appeared on this small chip. After subsequent processes such as doping, cleaning, etching, and packaging, a small chip finally appeared in front of Li Qingsong. This chip is exactly the same size as the chip made using the old process. But Li Qingsong knew that the number of transistors integrated on this chip reached 1 billion, while the number of transistors in the previous chip manufactured using 800 nanometer technology was only about million. An increase of more than 300 times! Although the increase in the number of transistors cannot be directly equated to an improvement in performance, a rough estimate is that the performance improvement is at least a hundred times! Not only that, its reliability, energy consumption, heat generation and other aspects have also seen huge improvements. Looking at this small chip, Li Qingsong's heart was filled with joy. “Although the 45-nanometer process chip is not very advanced, it has at least touched the threshold of AI technology, and we can develop AI technology based on it!”