Technological research and development is a very resource-intensive task. In other words, Li Qingsong's current productivity is large enough and the resource supply is abundant enough, so he is able to build a special research and development institution at this moment, invest tens of thousands of clones, and ignore everything else and focus on researching technology. Therefore, at this stage, this science and technology research and development base has become the "top" of all production chains at this moment. All production is aimed at supplying the consumption of the R\u0026D base. The output of the R\u0026D base will in turn increase the productivity of the entire base. While expanding its own scale, it will also have the ability to supply more materials to the R\u0026D base. Then the R\u0026D base can start the next step of research with greater resource consumption. This cycle will be repeated, and scientific and technological progress and productivity will be continuously improved. During this process, the scale of the base will become larger and larger, and the population will increase, so the number of fully self-cloned bodies that can be invested in research and development will increase, and Li Qingsong will be able to mobilize more brain power. The entire base cluster is combined into an integrated organism because of this R\u0026D base. Luoshen is full of vitality and everything is developing rapidly. In the blink of an eye, another half a year passed, and a new batch of 50,000 clones were born. As a result, Li Qingsong could finally barely achieve the situation of "110,000 clones online at any time", without having to let his consciousness connection quota go unused when the clones needed to rest. Under such circumstances, the first major scientific research breakthrough occurred after the construction of the R\u0026D base was completed. Modern chip manufacturing technology has finally been successfully researched!
In a laboratory somewhere in the computing building, a cylindrical silicon rod made with highly purified technology was carefully brought to the cutting workshop under the control of a machine. Here it is cut into a thin sheet of silicon. The silicon wafer is then sent to the oxidation workshop, where a thin layer of silicon dioxide is formed on its surface. The silicon dioxide layer can act as an insulator or as a mask required for subsequent processes. Then comes the next production process, where a layer of photosensitive material is applied to it, then exposed to ultraviolet light, soaked in chemicals and subsequently etched, and tiny circuit patterns appear on the silicon wafer. After that, after a series of processes such as doping, deposition, multi-layer interconnection, segmentation, testing, and packaging, a larger silicon wafer is divided into multiple smaller individual chips. Obviously, this method can make circuits on silicon wafers smaller than the circuits and transistors previously populated using hand soldering. Therefore, more transistors can be integrated per unit area. With more transistors, the chip will have stronger performance, faster computing speed, and can process more and more complex data. At this moment, the first generation of modern chips produced by Li Qingsong, each small chip with an area of only 10 square centimeters, can integrate 10,000 transistors! Previously, chips were manufactured by manual welding, and each chip with an area of 200 square centimeters could only integrate one thousand transistors. Its area has been reduced to one twentieth of its original size, but its performance has been improved tenfold! Not only that, there have also been huge improvements in power consumption, heat generation, reliability and other aspects. Looking at this chip that he had produced himself, whose manufacturing process could be considered to have reached the micron level, although it was still extremely backward compared to the peak era of mankind, Li Qingsong still smiled with satisfaction. The foundation has been laid, and subsequent iterations and optimizations are all that is needed. After a series of subsequent process fine-tuning, the original chip factory that produced iron shell chips finally underwent a comprehensive upgrade and transformation. All sorts of new equipment were installed in it and production began. After adopting industrialized and large-scale production, this chip factory will be able to produce 10 million micron-level process chips a year! At the same time, the production process is also a process of continuous research on chip technology. Many details of chip technology will be born in the process. At the same time, new ideas, new methods and processes will continue to be tried in chip factories in research institutions. The combination of the two will enable the continuous development of chip technology.
After the chip factory went into production, a large number of newly produced chips completely changed the original production pattern. Many iron shell chips were recycled and destroyed, and a new generation of chips with more powerful functions were put into use, which further optimized the production process, improved the degree of automation, and increased production efficiency. This is just a technological advancement in chip technology. In addition to chip technology, there are many more technologies in the science and technology research and development base, and breakthroughs have emerged thanks to the hard work of professional scientific research clones. High-precision machine tools, high-strength steel, new casting processes, new internal combustion engine manufacturing technology, high-voltage power supply technology, more efficient generator technology... And so on. Almost every day, new technological breakthroughs appear. New technological breakthroughs will be applied at the fastest speed and tested in actual production. Then the relevant data will be fed back to the R\u0026D base for further optimization... The originally clumsy and crude style of the Luoshen base group has gradually evolved into a precise, exquisite and efficient construction style with the continuous emergence of new technologies. Under such circumstances, the biotechnology that Li Qingsong has always valued has continued to achieve breakthroughs. At this stage, he can finally actively adjust the formula of the nutrient solution, purify the monster bird's body fluids with higher precision, remove harmful impurities, retain beneficial ingredients, and at the same time create higher-precision breeding devices that can allow clones to develop better. As a result, Li Qingsong's consciousness connection number broke through again. Now he can connect to 500,000 clones at the same time! After years of continuous production, the total number of clones under Li Qingsong's command has exceeded one million for the first time, reaching million! Moreover, the newly upgraded clone breeding factory is still breeding at an average rate of 200,000 clones per year. At this moment, the number of bases under Li Qingsong's command has skyrocketed to 535. If they are regarded as a cluster, the area covered by this cluster has increased to more than 5 million square kilometers. The entire surface area of Luoshen is only about 15 million square kilometers. The total length of the railways connecting these bases has reached millions of kilometers. Every moment, a large number of trains are running on them, transporting huge amounts of supplies. At this moment, Li Qingsong's gaze finally looked towards the vast space. "Now I am finally qualified to develop aerospace technology..."