Chapter 143: Shanghai Fantasy
Half a month later, within a base located deep inside a mountain range in the Qinling Mountains, Wu Hao finally completed the core part of the quantum computer after nearly two weeks of research and experimentation in the laboratory.
“Now that the core is done, the remaining work will be relatively simpler,” Wu Hao remarked with a look of joy.
Immediately, Wu Hao instructed the intelligent core of the laboratory, ‘Zero,’ to start the manufacturing process of various components according to the designed blueprints. This task was certainly tedious, but fortunately, Wu Hao’s base now possessed extremely advanced manufacturing technology. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that, aside from production capacity, quantity, and space limitations, Wu Hao’s base’s ability to manufacture any high-tech product in small quantities far surpassed those of current world-leading high-tech manufacturing research centers.
After all, Wu Hao’s base was a product of his breakthrough black technology, incomparable to traditional research centers.
Thus, Wu Hao spent another week or so to complete the construction of the vast quantum computer. This quantum computer occupied an area similar to that of the world’s supercomputers, taking up a huge room divided into many independent sections.
The moment Wu Hao finished building and booting up the quantum computer, the base’s energy system issued an alert, indicating insufficient energy supply. However, the energy stabilized after temporarily halting some of the base’s expansion work.
“It seems we’ll need to build a fusion generator for the base; otherwise, once this quantum computer is operational, other base activities will have to be suspended.” The energy consumption of quantum computing is significantly higher than that of traditional supercomputers, as their internal structures are completely different. Wu Hao’s quantum computer was of a super large-scale model, akin to the difference between an ordinary computer and a supercomputer.
This highlights the enormous disparity. Traditional supercomputers worldwide can process billions of operations per second. For instance, Tianhe-2’s peak speed reaches 549 million operations. In contrast, Wu Hao’s quantum supercomputer has a processing speed thousands of times greater.