After completing the technology accumulation and verification, Li Qingsong immediately started to build a new chip factory. Compared with previous chip factories, this one is larger. The entire industrial park, including various supporting facilities, covers an area of 10 square kilometers. This is not only because the factory has a higher design capacity, reaching an annual output of approximately 20 million 45-nanometer process chips of various specifications and models, but also because, compared with the previous 800-nanometer chips, the technology of 45-nanometer chips is more complex, with more processes and higher environmental requirements. From the initial purification of silicon dioxide to the final chip packaging and shipment, all the processes add up to more than 1,000! There are hundreds of factories of various types that specialize in supplying goods, energy, or providing assistance to this factory. In the past, even Li Qingsong would have had to go through a lot of trouble and spend several years to build such a huge production base. But now, with the maximum number of consciousness connections skyrocketing to more than 5 million, this chip base has been fully built and all equipment installation and debugging has been completed in just half a year. All other auxiliary factories were also built, so it was immediately put into production. At the same time, the other chip factories built earlier with more backward technology did not stop production, but continued to maintain full production. The reason is simple. The 45-nanometer process chip is the most advanced one. It is good, but it is not needed everywhere.
It's like the oil circuit control chip of an excavator. Even a millimeter-level process chip is enough to meet the requirements, so what can you do with a 45-nanometer chip? There is no such a waste. In fact, in Li Qingsong's entire base cluster, the chips with the largest usage are those with lower process and more backward technology. In this way, chips of various different processes are produced at the same time and factories are operated at the same time. With the commissioning of this latest factory, Li Qingsong's overall chip production capacity has successfully exceeded the 500 million mark, reaching an annual output of 520 million chips. When the first batch of 45-nanometer chips had not yet been produced, Li Qingsong started construction of another key project. Supercomputer! Supercomputers use large numbers of chips to perform parallel calculations and can achieve performance far exceeding that of ordinary computers. They are key facilities that are indispensable in almost all fields, including industrial development and scientific research. The AI technology that Li Qingsong is about to develop is also inseparable from it. Li Qingsong had also built a supercomputer before. It used about 20,000 800-nanometer process chips and had a floating-point computing capability of about 100 billion times per second. This computing power was sufficient before, but it is not enough now. This time, Li Qingsong plans to build a supercomputer that uses about 130,000 chips and has a floating-point computing power of 400 trillion times per second! It's not that Li Qingsong doesn't want to build a bigger one. It's that the computing power of a supercomputer is not as simple as stacking chips. Compared with increasing the number of chips, what is more important is its parallel computing capability, that is, how to set up a set of algorithms, use the corresponding hardware, and effectively assign computing tasks to each chip. Making them work together is what matters. In addition, aspects such as memory bandwidth and capacity, storage system read and write speeds, data transmission and latency all restrict the computing power of supercomputers. In the absence of breakthroughs in other technologies, sometimes adding more chips will actually reduce the computing power of the supercomputer. Li Qingsong mobilized thousands of clones and carried out a lot of optimization before finally designing this supercomputing system. At this moment, the supercomputing center has been completed and is waiting for the chips to arrive. Within a few days, the specially designed supercomputer chip was finally manufactured.
After transporting them to the supercomputing center, Li Qingsong manipulated the clones to quickly begin the installation work. Li Qingsong divided the total number of about 130,000 chips into 65,536 nodes. Each node has two chips, which are connected to each other using specially developed optical fibers. The memory reaches 64TB. It is powered by a power station with an installed capacity of 15,000 kWh specially built by Li Qingsong. The power consumption of this thing is so terrible. In just one hour, it consumes 15,000 kWh of electricity, and in a year it consumes 130 million kWh of electricity. The power consumption is terrifying, and the heat generated is of course also extremely terrifying. Li Qingsong specially designed a water cooling system for this purpose and laid a large number of pipes around the supercomputing center, with a total length of thousands of kilometers and a coverage area of more than ten square kilometers. After the installation was completed, with a command from Li Qingsong, it finally started running with a roar. Instantly, countless calculations began to take place in each chip, and heat began to be generated as the most basic circuit units changed. The heat generated by a single chip is very small, but when hundreds of thousands of chips are added together, the heat generated is extremely terrifying. As a result, the cold cooling water in the cooling pipe began to be heated instantly and started to flow outward. The ground of Luoshen is at a low temperature of more than 250 degrees below zero all year round. At this moment, the heat from the supercomputing center is distributed to the ground of Luoshen through the pipes laid in it. After being cooled, the water flows back into the supercomputing center, carrying the heat out again. By repeating this cycle, the supercomputing center can always operate at a suitable temperature. At this moment, as the supercomputing center began to produce heat, the sensors placed nearby by Li Qingsong keenly detected that the land of this piece of Luoshen began to slowly warm up, and even some gases with low melting points began to melt and began to diffuse into interstellar space. If you observe with an infrared telescope, you can even clearly see that the color of this area of land is darker, clearly different from the surrounding areas. If there is an ecosystem on Luoshen, Li Qingsong can even say that this supercomputer alone can change the ecology of this land. After the test was completed and confirmed that everything was as expected, Li Qingsong immediately uploaded the learning algorithms written by thousands of programmer clones to the supercomputer. Afterwards, data generated by almost every chip from every factory, every power plant, every scientific research base, planting base and even livestock base, as well as every truck, train, tractor, excavator, spacecraft, satellite, and so on, began to converge on this supercomputer. This huge amount of data is the "food" for this set of learning algorithms. Fed by these high-quality data, this set of learning algorithms continuously iterates and optimizes itself, and matures rapidly.
