Chapter 182: The launch of a major product
Just like that, Zhang Lingxi was abducted by Lu Shan, and they rented an apartment a little far away and started to make improvements. The computer was run on the server of Jiyue Company, and Lu Shan had the authority to mobilize it anyway.
Lu Shan bought a lot of supplies in advance, so food and drink were not a problem.
Zhang Lingxi would bring it to him every day. If Zhang Lingxi was not available, he would eat instant noodles and bread by himself.
There is not much takeout these days, so just make do with it. It’s only during this period of time anyway, so just bear with it and it will pass.
The first thing they had to do was to review the experimental process and streamline the process on the model again, improving efficiency while also improving accuracy, so that the deviation between the experimental results and the model would be smaller. This meant that once they had the experimental results, they could improve the accuracy of the model.
This time, Lu Shan introduced more mathematical theorems to build a computer model.
Mr. Turing played a decisive role in this reconstruction of the model.
As a master of computers and logic, his abilities made Poincare take notice. This young man was so powerful that it was terrifying. He combined one logic with another, slowly linking them together, and he made the most of mathematical theorems.
One mathematical theorem solves multiple problems, and the reactions in the experimental model are like tamed pets, obeying the mathematical model obediently.
More importantly, Turing was very familiar with the topological semimetal semiconductor materials this time, and he had many ideas, which were highly consistent with Lu Shan's ideas.
You have to know that Lu Shan is a reborn person, and Turing came up with these things through learning. Even if a smart person is born decades later, he can still kill ordinary people in seconds.
"Based on the characteristics of new materials, we can manufacture products with performance far superior to current products, but we can't do this." Turing came to this conclusion after several days of research.
"Why?" Lu Shan instantly became interested. He had been committed to simplifying the process and making the material performance better. Was he heading in the wrong direction?
"Current technology determines this matter. Based on my observation of existing computer-related hardware, existing technology is simply unable to fully utilize the performance of new materials."
"So we have to start from the simple, accumulate technology and then improve manufacturing equipment to enhance product performance. Industrialized production has always been like this. This is how the Eagle Country developed little by little after its industrial revolution." Turing drew a few pictures for Lu Shan and quickly explained the matter.
Lu Shan immediately understood what Turing meant.
It's like Lu Shan traveled back to ancient times and gave Emperor Barrett's drawings, explaining the principles of gunpowder, bullets, and guns, but can they be made?
Certainly not.
Technologies need to be superimposed. To make a gun barrel, you have to develop high-performance special steel.
In order to produce the corresponding bullets earlier, the gunpowder had to be upgraded from black powder to smokeless powder, and the manufacturing technology of copper bullets had to be mastered.
So if we go back to ancient times and tell the emperor those principles, what would be created in the end?
Only products that meet the productivity of the time will be produced.
If we enter a feudal society, we will invent iron guns.
The gunpowder is naturally poor. It's okay to make some fixed gunpowder and put in iron balls, but don't even think about modern bullets. The primer is not good, and the bottom of the bullet can't be pressed down firmly, so it will explode in minutes.
Seeing that Lu Shan listened attentively, Turing straightened his body and continued to draw pictures and explain.
"Our materials can indeed be used to make high-performance chips, but Xiaguo currently does not seem to have the photolithography machines, etching machines, photoresists and other industries that can match these materials. Combining a large number of tiny collections of integrated circuits together to form circuits and logic is the most complex product that humans can make, and it is not so easy to make."
"So my suggestion is to start step by step, first make good use of the materials and make simplified versions of the materials."
"In this case, all our previous models will have to be updated, and those things will be idle."
Turing shook his head. “That’s not the case. We can use the simplified version of the material in today’s production to improve performance, reduce costs, and earn more money. The complete version of the material will be reserved for making some fine products for internal research and development.”
Lu Shan suddenly realized that he was wrong. After Turing's guidance, he suddenly understood.
Then, Turing said one last thing: "This material is not the end. We still need to find a way to replace the material. Although platinum is very good, it is too expensive. It is inherently impossible to expand production and the cost cannot be reduced, so we must find a cheap new material to replace it!"
"Okay! I understand!" Lu Shan was also decisive. After perfecting all the original models, he stopped immediately and turned around to look for new materials. After thinking for a long time, he decided to use copper to replace platinum metal.
Because the characteristics of platinum are high melting point, high strength, stable electrothermal properties, high resistance to electric spark erosion, excellent corrosion resistance, and strong high-temperature antioxidant activity.
Many of the characteristics of copper match those required, and those that do not match are processed using special techniques.
In this way, copper-tin-iron alloy film was born. Its performance was much weaker, but its cost was also much lower.
Platinum itself does not play a dominant role in it, and after copper replaced it, things became simpler.
In just a few days, the mathematical model and experimental model were perfected.
Zhang Lingxi went back to the laboratory to verify, while Lu Shan continued to simplify the process.
The materials and chemistry team has nothing to do right now. It's already graduation season, and they've just finished their sub-thesis projects, so no one has really come back to their senses yet. No one has noticed what Zhang Lingxi is doing.
"It worked! It went very smoothly. I thought there would be a lot of problems!" Zhang Lingxi took the experimental results to Lu Shan's residence and was very excited.
"Of course, our concept is already perfect, and now we have sacrificed performance and lowered the requirements, so the experiment is easier to do." Lu Shan began to think about what to do next. Most RAM memory sticks use 3V or 5V DC voltage to ensure that each circuit can get enough energy.
Semiconductor RAM is volatile RAM, but the stored information will not be lost as long as the power is not turned off.
But if there is a sudden power outage, everything will be gone, so later products developed DDR3 and DDR4. These two different interface power supply methods have their own advantages.
DDR3 relies on the motherboard for power, while DDR4 is more independent.
This also makes DDR4 memory sticks superior in power supply stability and supports faster data transmission speeds.
However, in addition to RAM, there is also ROM storage, which can save data after power failure. This is the so-called memory (hard disk). However, due to process reasons, its read and write speed is much slower than RAM.
What Lu Shan needs to do now is to change RAM through materials so that it has the stability of ROM, its own convenience, and super-fast reading and writing performance.
With an idea, the following things will have a direction.
Turing even focused on the electronic properties inside the material in order to make it more consistent with the material's performance during storage and maximize its efficiency.
Rom still produces electronic storage principles, similar to solid-state drives, not mechanical drives, so this direction is very targeted.
Today, Turing works day and night on models to improve product performance while keeping material properties relatively constant.
Every time Lu Shan was exhausted and wanted to quit, Turing felt reluctant to leave, but there was nothing he could do about it, as people always need to rest.
Poincare still tried to find ways to improve the performance of the material as much as possible. Both of them wanted to achieve more so that Lu Shan would have enough points to keep them.
Twenty days of a month passed quickly. With the assistance of Poincare and Lu Shan, Turing had perfected the production model of copper-tin-iron alloy film. All that remained was to enter the practical stage.
Lu Shan is very much looking forward to the actual production.
The power of this product can be seen just from the model.
First of all, the size of the memory stick has been reduced by at least half, which means that a memory stick of the same size can store more things, so it can be equipped according to existing production specifications.
The second advantage is that it is super light, which is also important for memory sticks. No one wants to buy a heavy thing. This is attributed to the reasonable combination of materials.
The third advantage is that the energy consumption is extremely low. In 09, the computer host consumed 100W of power when it was turned on, of which the memory consumed only 10W.
Now it can be reduced to about 1W. Lower energy consumption means that things are more durable. If high power is used to burn memory all the time, don't expect its life to be long enough, at least not longer than low energy consumption.
The fourth is the large capacity per unit volume. In the laboratory, 10T of memory can be produced in a piece of memory as small as a fingernail!
Fifth, the reading and writing speeds are super fast. Under the default frequency, the memory reading speed of the new material can reach 70000MB/s and the writing speed is 65000MB/s.
Of course, today's computers are limited by chips and motherboards, and their actual maximum reading and writing speeds cannot reach this level.
Therefore, the memory produced by this material can directly bring out the maximum performance of the chip and motherboard, regardless of its reading and writing speed.
If this happened in the previous life, even after ten years, it would still be a killing spree.
However, Lu Shan did not plan to give so much at once, so 8G was already very conscientious.
The mainstream is only about 2G, and many people still only have 1G, so why give so much? You have to squeeze the toothpaste to have room for upgrading.
As for pricing, it will definitely be more expensive.
Lu Shan has no psychological burden about this, even if the cost is lower.
The model has been finalized, and all that remains is production.
Lu Shan will not go to the school laboratory for the time being.
It’s not that he is afraid of those people in materials chemistry, but he wants to leave Jiangzhou University out in the cold and prepare for greater benefits in the future.
Lu Shan also spent time designing some mechanical equipment for producing products.
Because it is a brand new material and a brand new product.
It is quite troublesome to develop production equipment.
Lu Shan still lamented that he had too few people under his command.
At this time, Xia Guangming also hurriedly came to Jiangzhou University from Yanjing.
(End of this chapter)
