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"This is indeed the case. Now, the control of our R&D expenditure is much stricter than before." Liu Yijiu nodded.

In the past, the annual funding did need to be consumed by more projects. After all, the Ninth Institute had a lot of money, which is equivalent to a certain period when the government found that there were a lot of fiscal surpluses at the end of the year, and it needed to rush to spend money.So project approval is much easier.

Now that there is no funding provided by the civilian product unit, even if they still have half of the funding available for research, the management committee personnel think that there is too much less.

Liu Yijiu had to agree to their proposal to open fewer projects.

"Of course, if a major breakthrough has been made in the research of memristors, it is certain to increase investment." Liu Yijiu comforted Yao Bingqian."The memristor is related to our research breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, which is the core key part of the artificial brain..."

Yao Bingqian didn't say anything.

Whether a major breakthrough has been made, the management committee believes that Liu Yijiu is required to evaluate

This project was arranged before Liu Yijiu, and Liu Yijiu knew about the transfer of personnel and many basic theoretical studies.

The memristor research project is also laid out in the cave. These areas are expanded after Liu Yijiu took over the entire base. They are mainly used for electronic research. The core project is the memristor and the application of graphene in the electronics field. , Molybdenum-based chips and other research laboratories.

All are clean rooms.

In this mountain, it is much easier to build a clean room than outside.

The cave is more than 30 meters wide and extends straight forward. There is a passage several meters wide on the outside. Electric lighting is used inside, and no natural light is introduced through the mountain.The thick rock layer can also block a lot of radiation.

Liu Yijiu and Yao Bingqian put on anti-static work clothes more than ten meters after entering the entrance of the cave, and blew all the dust off their bodies at the entrance area, even wearing a prescribed hood on their heads. Just walk inward.

When you enter the laboratory area, you can hardly feel that it is inside the mountain. There is a thick layer of paint in front of the rocks on both sides. Just like the decoration of ordinary houses, the ceiling is also suspended, which looks like ordinary There is no difference in the building.

The only difference is the fluorescent lamp on the ceiling, which does not stop lighting 24 hours a day.

No windows can be seen on the surrounding walls.

Most of the equipment in the laboratory comes from Germany. No one cares how the equipment is shipped back. However, these equipment are not the top-notch in Germany. They are definitely top-notch in China.

There are not many researchers here. Many of the equipment in the laboratory are turned on, but no researchers are in front of them.

"Where is our solid product of memristor?" After Liu Yijiu came in, he asked about it.

Not for the memristor, he will not come.

"The 800,000 times electron microscope in front." Yao Bingqian said to Liu Yijiu, "most of our researchers should be there."

Liu Yijiu nodded and walked straight ahead.

In the previous laboratory, the width of more than 30 meters wide was finalized after the cave was dug out, but the length was isolated and decorated according to the needs of use. In the electronic observation room, there are not only high-power electron microscopes, but also There are many electronic optical instruments, many things, and there is only one in the mountain in China.

Entering the electronic observation room, I saw several researchers wearing white airtight suits and also wearing dust-proof and anti-static caps gathered around the station. The number of people who took advantage of the opportunity of the merger of East and West Berlin to be transported back through the Soviet Union a few years ago was 800,000 times. The front of the electron microscope.

Liu Yijiu and Yao Bingqian came up, and everyone greeted Liu Yijiu and invited Liu Yijiu to see their results.

"So big?" Liu Yijiu grinned, a little unbelievable.

Because the finished solid-state memristor in front of me actually has the size of a thumb.

According to Liu Yijiu's idea, how could it not be so big?

I remember that in 2013, the memristor developed by Dr. Andy Thomas, a senior lecturer in the Department of Physics at Bielefeld University, was built into a chip that is 600 times thinner than a human hair through a complex project. It is a milestone in the development of the memristor. .

I saw the size of the fingernail and the thickness of the fingernail before my eyes. I told Liu Yijiu that this was a memristor. Director Liu was no longer as simple as running over a hundred thousand Dragon Guard tanks or Destroyer tanks.

Seeing Liu Yijiu’s face weird, Yao Bingqian also knew that it was too far from the memristor Liu Yijiu had in mind. He said with some embarrassment, “At present, if you want to realize nano-level component manufacturing, there is basically nothing Great possibility. Theoretical research is now also due to the limitations of the electron microscope and manufacturing technology. We can't continue... We can only change the direction, so there is this thing."

"Yes, Director Liu, it is basically impossible to realize nano-manufacturing technology now." A thin middle-aged man in his forties smiled bitterly at Liu Yijiu, "Don't talk about nano-level manufacturing technology. , We have not even reached the micron-level manufacturing technology, and the entire world has not entered this field..."

Liu Yijiu nodded.

It is estimated that their research in this area is indeed unable to find a solution, and this is the idea.

"The discovery of graphene, we can't understand the specific circumstances. The manufacturing of this material has always been an important factor in our development. If we have nano-manufacturing technology, all problems will be solved." Liu Yijiu is not. Denying their rhetoric, "But what application can such a solid-state memristor be in front of you?"

If any product has no application direction, it will be useless if it is researched out.

If this nail-sized thing can have an immeasurable effect and has a broad market application prospect, Liu Yijiu will not deny their research results.

"It has the ability to calculate Boolean logic, and at the same time, it has a memory function, which can be memorized without energy. We can use this feature to develop a storage device with lower energy consumption... At the same time, we can also incorporate this component into the processor In the circuit..." Yao Bingqian introduced to Liu Yijiu.

At the same time as the introduction, he turned on a computer monitor beside him.

The first thing that appears above is the simple model of the memristor proposed by Liu Yijiu before.Subsequently, more complicated circuits appeared.

"These are some of the design schemes we have made based on the memristor that we have found to change the performance of the resistance when the current is passed. We can fully utilize such characteristics and special circuits to develop a completely different from the current computer processor. The use of technology..." The previous middle-aged researchers pointed to the models on some computer monitors and described the future application prospects of this pseudo-memristor to Liu Yijiu.

Liu Yijiu doesn't know much about memristors.

This kind of field is completely different from his.

The only thing he knows is that the memristor is a key component of the nanorobot processor.

"Currently on the market, our processors, whether molybdenum-based chips or graphene circuits, have very broad prospects. Adding another of this type, and it is a brand-new technology, the development cost will be very high. And it's impossible to put it into use for a long time..." Liu Yijiu frowned and said.

According to the current research theory, it is most likely to be used as a storage element with low energy consumption.

At present, low-energy storage devices are not competitive.Storage capacity is the core competitiveness of pure components.

This is the current market situation.

military?

There is no real memristor, and the cost is too high for military use.

"No, if we use a chip made of this kind of component to form a neural network, it can completely make our artificial intelligence have faster processing power..." Yao Bingqian shook his head and told Liu Yijiu that this product was not what Liu Yijiu thought. Kind of."Single processing power is very poor, but according to network technology, countless processing elements work at the same time, and work tasks are distributed under the work of the core processor, the processing speed will be very fast..."

"Have any experiment been conducted in this area?" Liu Yijiu's eyes lit up suddenly.

If this is the case, their artificial intelligence can be realized very quickly.

This is equivalent to a central processing unit, and then a large number of processing elements are arranged around it to carry out preliminary calculation processing.

The entire data processing network is entirely the processing mode of artificial intelligence.

Like humans, the central processing unit becomes an artificial brain, and the processing chip formed by these components becomes a component in the neural network. The brain assigns tasks according to the different positions and functions of these components, and then these components have different functions. The components of the memory function handle their respective tasks.

Central processing unit-substation processing unit-workstation, this is the neural network working model that Liu Yijiu proposed at the beginning, and now, it can make this easier to implement.

"We conducted theoretical verification and believed that this is very likely to be achieved, so we want to apply for a batch of experimental funds." Yao Bingqian shook his head. They are currently rejected by the management committee for funding applications. Naturally, they are not capable of conducting such experiments.

Liu Yijiu secretly cursed in his heart that these guys probably wanted to convince the management committee to describe to themselves such a theory with broad prospects that could realize his artificial intelligence ideas.

"According to our theoretical research, if realized, we can make a current personal computer size and volume computer have higher performance than our best supercomputer..."

This alone made Liu Yijiu completely moved...