From black technology to super engineering

"Brother, do you represent Guoxin's opinion, or is it just a personal interest?"

In a teahouse outside the Electrical Engineering Department, Professor Ye put down his mobile phone, made a cup of tea for Dr. Qin Weimin who was sitting opposite, and asked with a smile.

"Both." Dr. Qin picked up his teacup and chuckled: "It seems that Laomei is going to get serious, now...whether it is the international situation or the accumulation of existing domestic technology, domestic fabs It is difficult to achieve a breakthrough under the existing technical framework."

"Isn't there still TSMC?"

"That's not Guoxin, and who knows what TSMC will become? You know?"

Professor Ye smiled and shook her head, of course she didn't know.

"So you see, for NationalChip, no matter what the situation is, the outcome will be different. To break through, the only way is to break through the existing semiconductor framework."

"So you persuaded Mr. Meng?"

"I persuaded a ghost and got scolded."

Professor Ye smiled unconsciously: "Then why are you here again?"

"Because last month, Samsung started to take action, and then Jiutian seemed to have received guidance, and came to talk about the issue of this kind of hybrid chip in the future. In addition, the theoretical physics community has also frequently released rumors recently, so everyone realized it. It is possible that hybrid chip-catalyzed materials will be a direction in the future.”

The two were chatting while drinking tea, and about an hour later, a young man full of travel and dust appeared at the stairs of the teahouse.

...

"Uncle Qin, this is our initial function."

Ye Ming opened the notebook and pushed it to Dr. Qin: "It is inevitable for chips to be carbon-based, but the technology of carbon-based chips is still in the laboratory, so this hybrid mode is the only way to go."

Dr. Qin nodded while looking at this simple EDA software.

As Ye Ming said, the current initial function is really rudimentary, and the interface is very simple, very 90s style. At first glance, I thought it was Protel resurrected.

But after clicking on the command bar, Dr. Qin realized that he had underestimated this "intelligent technology".

"This is what you developed in three months?"

"It's been less than half a year. Actually, I mainly wrote it." Ye Ming didn't blush at all when he said this: "Currently, the function is only used in hybrid chips—well, some people call them brain-computer chips and biological chips, but those are all It is easy to cause ambiguity."

"Well, I have read your paper, and I have read other similar articles, and I can probably understand your circuit design—the main difficulty is not the silicon-based chip part, but the connection between the silicon-based chip and the carbon-based chip and the electrode array. part, right?"

"Yes!" Ye Ming nodded heavily: "We used to think that this could be divided into two parts and combined, but later we realized that this would not work at all, because the degree of integration will only get higher and higher..."

"Then how many manufacturing processes can you design..." Dr. Qin paused after speaking: "It seems that it can no longer be expressed by traditional manufacturing processes? It should be the electrode density?"

"Hehe, almost. In theory, microelectrode arrays on the order of tens of millions can be designed, but the field of neuroscience is still making breakthroughs. The specific integration step depends on the future. It's just that the application of neurons and chip integration in the future It must be a spiral and complement each other."

...

Here, Dr. Qin and Ye Ming were chatting enthusiastically, and Professor Ye was not listening to the scriptures. She had long since given up on higher academic pursuits, and only wanted to raise her children well. So after pausing for a while, she took out her phone and scrolled through Weibo boredly.

She doesn't follow many people. Apart from her former students, there are only some friends in the education circle. However, she generally doesn't understand the topics of the students, and friends... generally rarely post on Weibo. .

Therefore, she usually just looks at the trending searches.

Fortunately, you can still take a look at the current trending searches. Before, it was really a mess.

Just after she refreshed it once, a topic instantly parachuted to the top of the hot search list. # my country achieves quantum supremacy # Seeing this super arrogant topic, Professor Ye was taken aback.

She is a professor of computer science, even if she is not "motivated", she also knows that "quantum supremacy" is easy to say, but it is realized...

Although the theory of quantum computers has been proposed for decades, it has only been about 20 years since the real start of the track.

Anyone who works with computers knows that this track is not a 100-meter track, but a century-old track.

Now that the track has just started, dare to call "hegemony"...

Let's put it this way, whoever shouts will be slapped in the face.

For example, in China, it has never been shouted.

Arrogant topics will definitely bring traffic, even if Professor Ye is suspicious, she can't help but click on it.

This is an article published by Science and Technology Daily.

"Report from our newspaper. Recently, my country's quantum computer has made a historic breakthrough. Academician Pan Jian, Professor Lu Qichen, Professor Wu Tian of the Jiuzhang team of HKUST, and Ye Ming, a special assistant researcher of the Provincial Communication Intelligent Computer Research Group, have jointly completed an epoch-making project. Design and realize the miniaturized photon quantum confinement well."

"Under superconducting conditions, the research center has completed the design of a calculation matrix of two thousand optical qubits, and is the first to complete the perfect solution of classical computer problems by quantum computers."

"This means that Chinese scientists are the first to open the door to classical commercial use of quantum computers..."

Then below is a photo.

In the photo, a young man who is obviously much younger is standing on the edge, smiling very flatly.

Professor Ye sat up straight in an instant.

This is an article published by the Science and Technology Daily, not self-media's nonsense for traffic—although the word "quantum supremacy" is not mentioned throughout the article. But everyone has to admit that these four words are the best summary of the entire article.

However, this is not what Professor Ye saw.

What she saw was that the Science and Technology Daily would name Ye Ming!

You must know that reports of this level must come from relevant parties, not random writing by reporters from the daily newspaper - being able to appear on the list means that they must have made a contribution.

This guy, the quantum computer also got involved?

...

Sensing Professor Ye's eyes, Ye Ming and Qin Weimin stopped talking.

"Ye Ming."

"ah?"

"Is this you?"

Professor Ye handed the phone to Ye Ming.

Taking the phone, Ye Ming glanced at the report - he didn't know it was on the hot search, so he coughed embarrassedly: "After the last game, I went back and gave a report, in the process of sorting out my thoughts I thought of a new model, and then I asked there to do an experiment.”

"Let me take a look." Dr. Qin also took the phone, and after looking at it a few times, he was stunned on the spot just like Professor Ye.

But his mind turned very fast, and he immediately asked: "You are not a quantum annealer, are you?"

"No, it's entangled qubits."

Dr. Qin almost missed his heels in one breath!

Professor Ye also stared at Ye Ming: "Have you really realized the calculation of classic problems?"

"It's true. Only..."

"Just what?"

The two asked at the same time.