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The "Aurora One" matrix computer that Lingxun Company aims to start selling to the outside world, except for the parts connected to traditional electronic computers, the rest of the system functions including input and output, calculation, storage, etc. are realized through the matrix.

Among them, the core calculation matrix group requires the largest number of matrices, because this module contains control and computing functions similar to those of a traditional computer central processor, which is the core of the matrix computer.

Classified according to the design architecture, "Aurora 1" belongs to the million-matrix level. It is not that higher-level core computing modules cannot be implemented, but under the current design architecture, one million matrices is enough, and any more is just equivalent. Just opening a new machine will not improve the performance of a single machine.

Electronic computers can form supercomputers by connecting countless individual computers, and matrix computers can also be used, but when measuring the function of one computer, the overall capabilities of countless of them are not calculated.

If there were no breakthroughs in matrix computer-related technologies, the million-level computer would have almost reached its bottleneck.

In addition to the core computing module, the number of basic matrices required for other functions of an "Aurora One" is also in the millions. These millions will not change much when it is updated in the future.

In other words, the current "Aurora One" computer contains nearly 10 million basic matrices. If one spiritual stone can only engrave one matrix, nearly 1 cubic meter of matrix carrying material will be needed.

The best matrix material currently is the spirit stone itself, which costs nearly ten million.

As the accuracy of the matrix engraving machine increases, the cost, that is, the number of spirit stones, will also be greatly reduced. If it is processed by a 20-matrix-level inscription machine, the matrix body of the final matrix computer will only be 50,000 cubic centimeters (the volume of 50 liters of water).

Others such as fixed frames, decorations, etc. are ignored.

The volume of such an "Aurora One" machined with a 20-matrix-level engraving machine is quite scary. Just imagine how big a 50-liter water heater is, that's about it.

But now Lingxun Company itself only uses products processed by 6-matrix-level engraving machines. You can imagine the size.

But there is one thing not to worry about. Whether it is a 20-matrix process or a 6-matrix process, it has little impact on the actual performance of the matrix computer. There is only a big difference in energy consumption.

The higher the machining accuracy, the lower the energy consumption.

In front of Xia Chengyue, the processing technology of "Aurora No. 1" transformed from the origin of the original world has reached the 150 matrix level (1 standard spiritual stone inscription has 150 basic matrix), and the theoretical processing bottleneck of the mana-level inscription machine has been easily broken through.

This is just what Xia Chengyue showed with his hand, and he cannot pursue high precision.

So how big is this "Aurora 1"?

The main body of the matrix only has a volume of about 6.6 liters of water, which is about the size of a 10 cm tall laptop. This is quite practical. It is much faster than the shrinkage speed of electronic computers when they were first born.

Although the performance is not much different from its larger counterparts, its energy consumption has been reduced a lot. Xia Chengyue estimates that several spiritual monks can input mana at the same time to power it without using Extra psychic reserves.

In the future, as processing technology is further provided, smaller, single-person matrix computers will certainly appear.

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When Xia Chengyue was erasing the traces of the jump in the starry sky, he still manifested "Aurora One" in the original world, in order to design the jump ship. He couldn't wait to fly the jump ship.

Having previous experience in building a personal spaceship for Yu Min, Xia Chengyue began to familiarly list the major elements that a jump spacecraft must have.

First of all, since it is called a jump ship, a jump engine is definitely needed. The jump engine is a "magic weapon" engraved with a space jump matrix group. It contains tens of millions of basic matrices and is the core part of the spacecraft.

Secondly, conventional power, fusion reactors, produce conventional energy - electrical energy to drive ion thrusters. Xia Chengyue has experience in this area. Last time he built a fusion battery with a length, width and height of about 20 centimeters, which is enough to propel a small spacecraft. .

The core of the fusion battery lies in the gravitational matrix group, which generates a gravitational force similar to that inside a star and drives the fusion of elemental hydrogen all the way to iron, which requires millions of basic matrices.

After that, there is the gravity lock, an important component for the spacecraft to accelerate and decelerate near celestial bodies. Conventional power thrusters will eject a large number of ultra-high-speed ions during takeoff and landing, which will cause great damage to the take-off and landing platform. Therefore, the gravity lock is essential and small. For a spaceship, only nearly 10 million basic matrices are needed to realize this function.

and psychic reserves.

If it's a beggar's version of the spaceship, it's almost enough to go here.

There is no need for earth-like artificial gravity, spacecraft interior decoration, weapons, control computers, etc. All functions need to be controlled by the driver himself. Generally speaking, only those who have achieved Yuan Shen can control it so finely.

Otherwise, just the reaction rate control of the fusion battery will be finished.

Xia Chengyue still had his usual design idea, build the beggar's version first, and then add whatever is needed, step by step. However, this time he already had experience in designing spaceships, so Xia Chengyue still added the main control computer and used " "Aurora 1" is enough, and the control system previously designed for the Yuman spacecraft can also be used.

In this case, a simplified version of the jump ship would require more than 100 million basic matrices to implement.

This number seems large, but in fact it is too small compared to a spacecraft capable of jump navigation.

When modern electronic computers were first born, they only used less than 20,000 electron tubes. Now, the central processing unit of any computer contains hundreds of millions of transistors. The speed of development can be imagined.

Of course, the analogy between transistors, electron tubes and basic matrices is somewhat inappropriate, but it also illustrates the speed of technological progress. Xia Chengyue believes that with the continuous development of matrix technology, the number of basic matrices required for a spacecraft will increase exponentially.

In the past, people could send people to the moon with computers that were inferior to a small calculator today. Now it is not surprising that Xia Chengyue has designed a jump spacecraft with only more than 100 million basic matrices.

However, these jump ships with more than 100 million basic matrices cannot be easily built by countries on the earth. Let’s not talk about the jump matrix group for now. Just integrating countless small standard spirit stones and the matrices in them is an extremely huge one. engineering.

Xia Chengyue does not need to consider such issues. For other people, excellent psychic affinity materials such as spirit stones are only 1 square centimeter in size, but for Xia Chengyue, they can be as big as they want.

Not to mention the manufacturing difficulty, the design difficulty is greatly reduced, and there is no need to consider the issue of discrete matrix integration.