Chapter 137: Developing Photoresist

"Your brain is now the most top-tier thinking organ in the history of this planet." Andrew said, "None."

"Currently, the number of neurons in your brain has reached more than four times that of ordinary humans. This is all thanks to the characteristics of bird neurons."

Knowing that Murphy's Patronus was a raven, the Transfiguration Research Group conducted research on this creature.

They did many experiments and found that ravens are indeed very smart, but didn't understand why they were so smart. Until they used fluorescent markers to detect the neural structure of the raven's brain, they found that the raven's neural density was very amazing.

Compared to mammals, the raven's brain nerves are smaller, so the density is greater. In the same space, the number of neurons in their cortex is more than four or five times that of mammals. Therefore, even if a raven has only a very small brain, their number of neurons is about the same as a monkey's.

This was also the reason why Murphy thought that through the High-level Animagus transformation of a raven, he could enhance his brain power.

"Not only that, smaller neurons also bring faster thinking speed. Without changing the basic structure of your brain, this transformation is equivalent to turning each of your neurons into four. Four times the neurons, you can possess 24 times the synaptic connections. The physical upper limit of your memory and learning ability is also 24 times higher than that of ordinary humans."

"The multi-layered nature of the senses you mentioned earlier is one of the manifestations of this reinforcement. It is not only because your senses have been enhanced, but also because the brain that can process sensory information has become stronger. You can get more effective information from various sensory organs."

"According to our tests, your reaction speed, memory, comprehension, and logical ability have all had a huge leap. We currently have no way to measure your IQ, because the current test framework may no longer be applicable to you."

Murphy waved his hand. This didn't matter. The IQ value had no meaning to him. In contrast, the enhancement of memory, comprehension, etc., he could also feel more clearly himself. It didn't feel like a four-fold or twenty-four-fold enhancement in numerical sense, but he did have a feeling of being able to re-examine this world.

This feeling was actually similar to his feeling about magic power during his second awakening last time.

It was as if some rules of the world were originally hidden in the fog of chaos, but now, he could see or even touch them more intuitively.

However, just as Andrew said, he now possessed the most top-tier thinking organ in the world, but the improvement of brain power didn't represent the expansion of knowledge. Leaving such an excellent brain, but just letting it idle based on instinct, was too wasteful.

"I need knowledge." Murphy said suddenly.

If brain power or computing power is internal strength, then knowledge is the skill to use computing power and brain power.

So, the day after completing the High-level Animagus transformation, Murphy dived into the library.

…

A month later, when Murphy walked out of the library, he was still holding a stack of materials.

He first came to the Transfiguration Research Group, "I have read all your previous research, and feel that High-level Animagus transformation still has these places that can be improved. You go and let Winston test it. If it succeeds, come back and tell me."

"Also, research on Magic Animagus and Polymorphic Animagus can begin. I have a few suggestions. The first is to find those that are not very different from ordinary animals, but have some special magical abilities, such as Transfiguration Lizards."

"Second, the 'breath' of magical creatures — let's use this word for now — might conflict with the wizard's breath, or have greater interference with the transformation potion, making it harder to transform successfully. You can try to experiment in this direction."

"Third, try to change Peter Pettigrew's Patronus and let him try to become another Animagus to see what happens."

"Oh, by the way, the transformation mechanism of werewolves might indeed have a very great connection with rabies. Here are some models, go verify them. Their characteristics of transforming during the full moon, besides the influence of the moon's magic tide, should also have some psychological suggestion factors. I designed several experiments, go and do them urgently."

Then, he came to the Chip Research Group and found Derrick Preston, "How is the photoresist problem solved?"

"We have developed several new materials, with better photo-etching performance than before… but we haven't found a good method for the cost problem…"

Murphy nodded, this was also within expectations, "I'll give you an idea."

"Try developing solution."

"What?" Derrick didn't quite understand, "That thing that can make images active? What's the use of it?"

"The reason why photoresist is used so much is because every time the mask is changed, it needs to be reapplied to the entire wafer. After use, it needs to be washed away completely. The photoresist in the positions that were not etched is wasted."

"But if there is a way to make the photoresist automatically gather in one place, they won't be wasted."

"And developing solution is something that can make images cycle periodically. Photos can be made active by developing solution, and isn't the photographic paper that forms photos also a photosensitive material applied to a smooth surface? It's the same in nature as photoresist."

"Developing solution can make photos move, so it can make photoresist move, so naturally it can make it achieve self-leveling or re-concentration."

"It can even make photoresist form complex patterns of periodic movement on the wafer, which, combined with the mask, might be able to form more precise photolithography processes."

"This…" Derrick was greatly shocked. As a researcher in the institute, he certainly knew about developing solution, but had never thought that it could be used this way. "I understand, I'll start the experiment immediately."

If the experiment succeeded, not only would the problem of photoresist usage be solved, but their photolithography process could also go a step further.

After arranging the photoresist problem, Murphy Apparated to Umbrella's subsidiary "Turing Technology" and found Bob Henderson, who was in charge of desktop system development.

"Call all senior engineers and project managers, let's have a meeting."

Not long after, more than seventy senior engineers and project managers responsible for the key technology R&D of the desktop system at Turing Technology were called to the conference room.

"Everyone, I am Morpheus Anon. The purpose of my coming today is to communicate with you about the R&D situation of the desktop system. Everyone, talk about which part you have finished, and then what the difficulties of the remaining content are. Let's work together, think of ways, and speed up the project progress."

"Let's start from…" Murphy glanced at the list in his hand, "Graphics Interface R&D Group, Mr. Albert."

Thanks to the tips from Good Big Coat, Dancing with the Wind, and Silver Gold Three. Thank you for the support.

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