Great warships

Chapter 1232 054 Upgrade

"Our program is well designed. Once you enter, you really don't want to come out." Qin Tao took off his VR glasses and said to the person next to him.

"Yes, Mr. Qin, this is the latest masterpiece of our Loongson Artificial Intelligence Center. We have spent a huge amount of money and manpower on this project." Mr. Ni said with a smile: "Especially the operation of the entire system. Even with the strength of our Loongson Company, it is just enough."

It is not easy to create a virtual town in the computer world. A large number of computers are needed to perform calculations. Loongson is a hardware company and has this inherent advantage. However, it still consumes a lot of resources.

"Really? This computer is huge?"

"We used a total of 5,000 graphics cards and 1,000 processors," said Mr. Ni. "In order to ensure the heat dissipation of the entire system, we immersed the huge processors underwater."

These hardware devices are enough to make miners jealous. With so many devices, the computing power must be incredible. If used for mining, it is estimated that a block can be mined in a few minutes. However, Mr. Ni and his colleagues use these to play in the virtual world, which is not as reliable as Bitcoin.

However, they can only be jealous and cannot say anything else. After all, the chip originally belongs to Loongson Company and they can use it however they want.

"If we want to realize artificial intelligence, we need high enough computing power. It's still a bit difficult for our equipment to run the whole town. When more people move into this online community, we will have to continue to increase the computing power of the server." Mr. Ni said, "Boss Qin, is our town really meaningful?"

"Of course!" Qin Tao glanced at Mr. Ni and said, "You should know that many people with empty hearts will put all their energy into the virtual world. What they cannot get in the real world, they can get on the Internet. Our online eco-city will become their best spiritual home."

Look at those online games and see how many people are playing them. However, they are not real and are operated with keyboard and mouse, which is too backward. You need to use VR technology and see it with your own eyes!

The Eco-City imitates the future world and is also the world's first VR social gaming platform, providing countless players with extremely realistic immersive and social experiences. Qin Tao treats it as a huge virtual reality world.

Now, this place is just for sightseeing, but in the future, various other projects will be added. There will be various game and entertainment venues in each community here, where you can socialize, play games, and have fun. There will also be various goods for sale, which can be delivered to your home after purchase.

"Mr. Ni, you probably don't know that in the future, there will be brain-computer interfaces. Humans can use these interfaces to enter the virtual world and gain a more realistic experience. Humans can even gain eternal life in the virtual world."

This is a bit sci-fi, but how many science fictions have become reality? Wanting to fly to the sky, wanting to fly to the moon, hasn’t that been realized?
This virtual world can also move towards humans step by step.

People in the real world need to eat, drink, defecate and urinate, and they get sick, and they only have a lifespan of a few decades. But if they go online, in the virtual world, as long as there is no power outage, they can exist forever. Even if there is a power outage in the virtual world, as long as the information is still stored, it will be back the next time it is restarted.

Only people in the virtual world can achieve eternal life.

Mr. Ni smiled and said, "Boss Qin, this is not your style."

How could Mr. Qin do such a meaningless thing? Do you believe that you can gain eternal life in a virtual world? It's just a string of 0s and 1s. Is it really immortal?

Mr. Qin is a realist, not a theorist.

"On the one hand, it is to exercise our artificial intelligence technology. With such a project, we can develop artificial intelligence on a large scale, so that our technology in this area will be in the world's leading position."

"On the other hand, this is indeed a trend in the future. Whoever lays out the plan first will have an absolute advantage. We have built an eco-city on the Internet first, and players from all over the world will come in. They are used to it, have friends, memories, and emotions here. Even if there is a new VR community in the future, they will not go there."

Whoever plans first will have the advantage. In this field, if you develop it first, others will not be able to reach your scale.

You have to know that it costs money to play games. When the players come here first, they think everything is new and want to go in and take a look, so they have to spend money. For example, there are maid halls, cat halls, etc. You can also shop and trade here. In the future, this will become a huge social platform with many places to make money.

"Well, Mr. Qin, the reasons you gave are quite good. We will definitely work hard." Mr. Ni said.

Qin Tao smiled. Actually, there was another reason he didn’t tell. In his previous life, he watched "The Three-Body Problem", which contained such a huge virtual world. Every time the protagonist entered, he would have a different experience.

Now, we can do it too. There are no three suns in our world, but we have an eco-city town!

This virtual world in the East was soon discovered by players all over the world. They started their own new journey, while those technological elites fell silent.

In this field, it is impossible for them to catch up, and this artificial intelligence technology determines the future!
They all had a premonition that the future belonged to the East, which was rising rapidly and leaving them far behind!

Even if they had the idea, they couldn't realize it because the computer resources needed to build such a town were beyond their affordability.

But they also have to work hard for it!
A few days later, Silicon Valley.

"We can do what the Orientals can do. We also want to build a virtual community using artificial intelligence and VR technology!"

"That's right. In Silicon Valley, one-third of our engineers are from India! Among the foreign executives of the Fortune 500 companies, India has the largest number!"

Talking about this, they became excited again, as if they had really gained absolute advantage over the East.

"That's right, our online virtual community is called New Silicon Valley! We mobilize all the engineers in Silicon Valley and have them write programs for our New Silicon Valley, just like Linux. It will definitely develop!"

"Ladies and gentlemen, our software is the best in the world, but we lack hardware support and computer systems with strong computing power. Our new Silicon Valley cannot run at all."

"This is not a problem. We can write a simple program first, without going into detail, and then develop it slowly in the future."

This is definitely a big problem!

A few months later, when the new Silicon Valley came out, many people went up to take a look. All the buildings were made up of triangular structures, many of which were not even rendered. The people inside were all high-caste Indians. That was fine, but the most important thing was that as long as they exercised, the people inside would split into two, with one leg stepping out to run while the other half of the body remained in place...

As for the AI ​​inside, it gave irrelevant answers, which immediately caused countless people to criticize it. It was as if we had returned to the Contra era, it was too crude!
The New Silicon Valley had only been open for two months when it ended in failure. Everyone who entered would point out what was wrong and how bad it was. The entire system was forced to shut down due to the criticism.

In fact, when Qin Tao heard about the new Silicon Valley project, he had already made his inference.

"What new Silicon Valley? Silicon Valley is going to be doomed. This new project won't survive more than three months!"

"Boss Qin, Indian engineers are very capable. They account for one-third of the workforce in Silicon Valley."

"He's just a screwdriver." Qin Tao said, "If you really have the ability, then go back to China and start your own business. In Silicon Valley, you are not an employee of the capitalists. Even if you become a CEO, you are just a high-level employee."

When India is proud of how many talented people there are in Silicon Valley, they seem to have forgotten that these talents were trained by them and then sent to the United States. These talents were not used in the development of their own country, yet they are still complacent about it?

Look at our East, talents are willing to come back! Even foreign talents are willing to come to our East to develop! We rely on this method to develop high technology. Otherwise, if our Loongson company wants to set up an artificial intelligence center, a large number of people will come in a short time, and an eco-city in the virtual world will be developed in a short time?

Talents from all over the world are gathering here!

"Mr. Qin, a batch of warships are about to be launched at the Qiongzhou Shipyard. Would you like to go over and take a look?" Xu Zhengyang continued to talk about business.

"What's so good about this? It's not like I haven't been in the water before." Qin Tao said: "Of course, if the navy strongly requests, I will go and take a look."

The so-called navy’s strong request is, of course, the father-in-law’s request.

"It's not something the Navy strongly requested, but this type of frigate was something you paid special attention to at the beginning."

Frigate?
Qin Tao reacted: "054B?"

The navy is constantly increasing its fleet of ships, not to mention the 052D, even the 055s are being launched continuously. Most of them are produced at the Qiongzhou Shipyard. Qin Tao has long been accustomed to it, but the 054B still has important significance for the navy.

This is a low-end warship, which means it can be equipped in large quantities. The navy's main warships need to accompany the aircraft carrier in operations, and patrols and the like can naturally be left to the frigates.

The previous 054 was a very mature frigate, but after all, its displacement was too small and it was not suitable for ocean voyages. By increasing the displacement to 054 tons, the has become a frigate suitable for long-distance voyages!

In the future, when dealing with certain situations, destroyers will be a bit overkill, and 054B can take on this mission!
When Qin Tao arrived at the Qiongzhou Shipyard, four 054Bs were about to be launched.

Although the displacement is large, there are still many differences between frigates and destroyers. For example, the shipborne radar does not use the luxurious four-sided phased array radar, but uses a back-to-back rotating phased array radar. This type of radar is not only used on 054B, but also on other warships. As equipment for second-line warships, it is cheap, has first-class performance, is located at the highest point of the warship, and has a good ability to deal with ultra-low-altitude targets.

Of course, the most important improvement is that it can carry the new generation of Hongqi 16 missiles! The biggest feature of this missile is its long range!
"Mr. Qin, why are you here?" When seeing Qin Tao, Meng Fansheng, the military representative of the shipyard, came up to him with a smile.

"What's wrong? Can't come?"

"No, no, of course I can come. It's just that the Navy leaders didn't pay much attention to the launch of the 054B. I didn't expect that it would alarm you."

"The navy leaders don't take it seriously? They are really rich!" Qin Tao sighed.

"Hai Dafu? From Wei Xiaobao?" Meng Fansheng was curious: "What's the relationship between the Navy and Hai Dafu? Kongtong Sect?"

Qin Tao smiled. It seemed that Meng Fansheng had been quite free recently and even had time to watch the TV series "Wei Xiaobao". He knew that Hai Dafu, the old eunuch beside Shunzhi, was a martial arts expert and was from the Kongtong Sect.

When I say this, I mean it literally.

"By the way, has the Hongqi-16F been finalized?"

"Yes, it has been finalized." Speaking of this, Meng Fansheng was very emotional: "When Secretary Zhao led the team to develop it, the range of this missile was only more than 20 kilometers. I didn't expect that it has a range of 160 kilometers now!"

The navy at that time was really miserable. It didn't even have a decent anti-aircraft missile and could only rely on anti-aircraft guns for air defense. So, when Qin Tao brought back the Shiqili air defense missile, the relevant departments began surveying and mapping and imitation, and Zhao Ling was the backbone of the project at that time.

Meng Fansheng's words reminded Qin Tao of the past scenes, as if it happened just yesterday.

"Our Hongqi-054 was originally designed to intercept ultra-low-altitude sea-skimming targets and supersonic targets on the sea surface. We never thought that this missile could also evolve into a regional air defense missile. With this missile, our B can perform regional air defense missions!"

As Meng Fansheng and Qin Tao talked, they walked towards the direction of the slipway, where a simple launching ceremony was being performed. There was also a bottle-throwing ceremony, colorful flags and fireworks. However, the ceremony still looked a bit shabby.

The former sweet girl has long since become Mrs. Niu. Even such a good warship as 054B is no longer valued by Hai Dafu!
"Boss Qin, is Secretary Zhao okay?"

"Well, she's been busy in the capital recently." Qin Tao said, "She has to worry about all the big and small things in the group."

Qin Tao likes to be a hands-off boss and he doesn't like to worry about other people's affairs, so Zhao Ling took the initiative to take on all of this. Now that he thinks about it, it seems like he hasn't seen his wife for a long time.

Well, I can’t neglect my wife. After inspecting here, I have to go back to see her.

"It's a pity that the latest Hongqi 054 missile has a longer body, otherwise our previous could also be modified with this type of missile." Meng Fansheng brought up the issue of equipment again.

"Yes, as our navy's strength continues to grow, the warships we built previously have quickly become outdated and inconvenient to modify. If they are no longer needed, they will be given to the Coast Guard."

Qin Tao thought again of the batch of law enforcement ships that were recently built. They are not as good as the early 054. If the navy feels that they are useless, it would be better to eliminate them directly.

"How is that possible? The Type 054 is still young and cannot be retired so early. It still needs to play its remaining role in our navy." Meng Fansheng said, "Boss Qin, if we raise the launch cover by one meter, can we use the existing missiles on the Type 054?"

The interior cannot be modified, and the depth of the silo has been fixed. If one wants to fit the current modified Hongqi-054 missile into the early-built 16 frigate, then one must solve the problem of the missile being too long to fit.

If you can't dig deeper, then you can only raise it.

Anyway, the frigates built in the past often had a second-deck platform in the front, so we could just raise the HQ-16 missile and place it directly on the second deck, so that there would be enough depth!

"It's not enough to just change this. We also have to change the radar and the fire control. If we have to change it, it will be a big change."

"It's fine if it's a big change. It's almost time for mid-term improvements anyway."

Qin Tao looked at him again. Hai Dafu was indeed Hai Dafu. He wanted to make mid-term improvements so soon?

Generally speaking, the navy's destroyers and frigates will serve for about thirty to thirty-five years. Halfway through their service life, they must undergo mid-term improvements, install new equipment, and thoroughly repair old problems.

However, the Type 054 frigate has only been in service for a little over ten years, and there is still four or five years before the mid-term improvement! The Navy wants to improve it now? It really is a waste of money!

"If the navy wants to modify it, of course it can, but our Mingzhou Group doesn't have the time and we don't have a slipway, so we'd better have it modified at another shipyard."

It's not that Qin Tao is unwilling, it's just that there are no slipways. The slipway at the Qiongzhou Shipyard is full, the slipway at Mingzhou is used to build foreign trade and civilian ships, and there has recently been an order for law enforcement ships. The slipway at Chongming Island is building civilian ships, mainly liquefied natural gas ships, and they have always been full, so there is no time for the navy to transform them.

"Oh, Mr. Qin, then the design plan has to be decided by you." Meng Fansheng said.

"No problem... Lao Meng, this doesn't seem to be your personal idea, right? Did your superiors arrange you to say this?" Qin Tao reacted.

The superior wanted to change to 054. He knew that Mingzhou Group was too busy and did not think highly of this small business, so he asked Meng Fansheng to test Qin Tao?
"Of course not. The superiors don't have the time to care about such trivial matters. The 054B is now launched, and the superiors don't even come. How can they care about these things? This is all my idea. Mr. Qin, since you have already agreed, you can't go back on your word."

Qin Tao glanced at him. Sure enough, the superior still cared about 054, but he used this special way. Xu Zhengyang suggested that he come over. Could it be that he also wanted to cooperate in this scene?
Yes, we designed and built the Type 054, but we no longer care about such trivial warships, so why would we want to benefit from the modification? We, the Mingzhou Group, don't care about those trivial things.

"After I get back, I'll have someone design a modification plan and send it to my superiors for review."

(End of this chapter)