Of course, when the R&D personnel within Xingtu Technology were working hard on R&D.
Lin Feng is becoming more and more clear about how to develop brain-computer interface chips in the future.
In terms of brain-computer interface chips, it is best to have a certain level of computing power and not rely entirely on external computing power.
But to achieve all these, relying on traditional silicon semiconductor chips is not enough.
As the traditional silicon semiconductor manufacturing process reaches levels below 10 nanometers, problems such as electron migration effects and current leakage become increasingly prominent.
These problems not only limit the improvement of chip performance, but also lead to a decrease in chip reliability.
After all, if you have electricity leakage here, what does it matter how powerful the chip design is?
Moreover, compared with carbon nanotube chips, silicon semiconductor chips have a disadvantage that directly led Lin Feng to give up silicon semiconductor chips.
Because the power consumption of silicon semiconductor chips is 10 times that of carbon nanotube chips of the same volume!
The higher the power consumption, the greater the heat generated by the chip, and this brain-computer interface chip is implanted in the brain.
Not only is the brain-computer interface chip so small in size, but it also consumes so much power and generates so much heat. Which brain can withstand it?
Therefore, the power consumption and heat generation issues of brain-computer interface chips alone limit the application of silicon semiconductor chips in brain-computer interfaces.
It is even more difficult to completely implant it into the cerebral cortex, even if it can be completely implanted into the cerebral cortex.
Ultimately, due to power consumption and heat generation restrictions, the computing power of the brain-computer interface chip itself is naturally insufficient.
After all, if you want to improve the performance of a communication chip, besides increasing the frequency, you can also increase the number of transistors.
However, due to the small size of the brain-computer interface chip, it is naturally impossible to process too much information.
Under such circumstances, the difficulty of relying on silicon semiconductor chips to realize knowledge infusion technology and virtual world technology has been raised to the limit.
The only way left for Lin Feng is to use carbon nanotube chips as the core of the brain-computer interface chip.
Of course, there are still many problems to be solved in brain-computer interface chips, such as the serious energy problem.
After all, brain-computer interface chips definitely need energy to keep running, and this energy cannot rely on traditional ternary lithium batteries or lithium iron phosphate batteries.
Because these two things are notoriously bad-tempered, there have been cases of spontaneous combustion of both ternary lithium batteries and lithium iron phosphate batteries.
Among these cases, although the number of spontaneous combustion of lithium iron phosphate batteries is less, cases of spontaneous combustion still exist, but the probability of spontaneous combustion is lower.
Considering that everyone may have a brain-computer interface chip implanted in the future, these two batteries are naturally unacceptable.
After all, this thing is implanted in the brain. Once spontaneous combustion occurs, there is no way to save it even if you want to, and you can only wait for death.
Under such circumstances, how can Xingtu Technology sell its brain-computer interface chips?
Therefore, energy for brain-computer interface is also a big problem. If the energy problem is not solved, the brain-computer interface chip will be a luxury.
It can be said that it is not easy to develop a brain-computer interface chip that can support knowledge infusion technology and virtual world technology.
The difficulty of developing this thing is no easier than developing a 10-nanometer chip production line from scratch.
But no matter how difficult it is, we must develop it. Even if we can’t do it, can’t we still upgrade the panel?
What Raymond Lam has to do now is just to come up with a feasible first-generation version for promotion.
Then accumulate enough experience points to upgrade to a more powerful second-generation brain-computer interface chip.
Ultimately, we will find a way to solve the manufacturing challenges of the second-generation brain-computer interface chip so that it can be mass-produced.
Of course, it is still too far to talk about these things. Lin Feng and Xingtu Technology still need to work hard. After all, even if they want to make the first generation of brain-computer interface chips, it is not an easy task.
Time passed slowly, and in the blink of an eye, 2016 had passed, and it was September 2017, 9, a year later.
On this day, Xingtu Technology announced the world's first successful brain-computer interface chip implanted in a human body.
In this announcement, Xingtu Technology also formally invited major media and relevant experts from around the world.
They were invited to come to the Xingtu Technology headquarters on October 10, the National Day, to witness the first experimental test of the brain-computer interface chip.
As soon as this news came out, it immediately shocked the global media and attracted the attention of countless people around the world.
After all, it has been more than a year since Xingtu Technology launched the project to develop brain-computer interface chips.
Over the past year or so, Xingtu Technology has also released some important scientific research results from time to time.
For example, biocompatible flexible electrodes are made using single-walled carbon nanotube wires.
With it, you can avoid the problem of "sticking chopsticks into tofu" and causing large-scale damage to brain cells, and you don't have to worry about triggering an immune response in the human body, etc.
For example, Xingtu Technology has developed ultra-micro carbon nanotube supercapacitors.
With it, you no longer have to worry about the battery of the brain-computer interface chip exploding or spontaneously combusting.
It can be said that these major scientific research results that appear from time to time have successfully attracted the attention of countless people around the world and maintained the popularity of brain-computer interface chips.
Now a year has passed, and Xingtu Technology's brain-computer interface chip is finally ready for experimentation.
The anticipation that has accumulated over a year is finally coming to fruition, and those who have been paying attention to brain-computer interface chips are quite excited.
It's the passers-by and netizens who don't pay much attention to brain-computer interface chips. When they learn that the brain-computer interface chips are going to be experimentally tested.
They also paid considerable attention to this matter and decided to watch the live broadcast on time.
After all, this is the foundation for the birth of knowledge infusion technology and virtual world technology, and it is an experimental test of brain-computer interface chips that is enough to change the world.
So at this moment, the world's attention is all focused on this experimental test.
Among them, many overseas reporters naturally took the lead and arrived in Daxia Zhancheng in advance, instead of waiting until the day before the experimental test.
After all, the problems encountered during the development of brain-computer interface chips, the development stories, etc. are what people all over the world are concerned about and want to know.
Therefore, many reporters from around the world came to Daxia in advance, to the city where Xingtu Technology is located.
This naturally includes John Peter, who came to Daxia last time and reported that the living pattern of the people of Daxia has quietly entered the artificial intelligence social model.
“I didn’t expect that I would come back here again after more than a year.”
John Peter looked at the scene in front of him and felt a little sad.
Who would have thought that Xingtu Technology would once again make big news that attracted global attention.
With so much anticipation from everyone, it was natural for him, a veteran journalist, to come to Daxia again.
“Last time I was on the streets of Zhancheng, I discovered that the lives of Daxia people are transforming into an artificial intelligence society model.
This time, let’s take a look at the changes that the entire city has undergone in the past year.” (End of this chapter)