Chapter 407: Millennium Reward

Not long after, a new underground space was opened up beneath the mansion. After the magic chip project team moved in, they would turn on a hundred-fold time acceleration for the entire space.

This newly opened research institute was called the "Future Research Institute," and all the researchers who moved in were called "Forerunners" because, in a certain sense, they were all pioneers crossing time to go to the future.

A few more days passed, and all the Forerunners underwent vampire transformation. Although the improved vampire potion hadn't been developed yet, they were underground anyway and didn't see sunlight, so they didn't worry about day and night reversal. The powerful recovery and perception enhancement brought by vampire transformation were still more cost-effective than the other immortality potion method.

"Time acceleration can be stopped at any time." After sending the Forerunners into the underground space, Murphy reminded them, "Your research progress and data can be sent out through the network at any time, and various material needs can also be sent out at any time. At any time, if you need to stop the time acceleration state, you can submit an application."

"The research on memristors has just started. We might need about ten years to develop advanced chips of commercial grade," Denzel Evans said. "Everyone has made up their minds; we won't come out of here without producing excellent chips. But if placed in the outside world, it won't even be two months. Wait for our good news."

Saying this, Denzel closed the door of the Future Research Institute and said to Murphy outside the door, "Then, see you in two months."

Murphy nodded solemnly, "Thank you all for your hard work. See you in ten years."

In September, the Magic Chip Future Research Institute officially entered the hundred-fold time flow.

At the same time, four other Future Research Institutes also began construction. They were:

Magic Energy Conversion Research Institute. This institute was dedicated to researching technology routes for converting various types of energy, most importantly electrical energy and light energy, into magic energy. They had already obtained some clues through research on various materials such as crystals. However, because the technology route was not yet clear, they were prepared to enter the time acceleration state intermittently to change technology routes and supplement experimental materials.

Magic Mind Research Institute. This institute mainly had two directions. One was the Artificial Mind project team, mainly researching spells and magic that could endow objects with minds, such as portraits, ghosts, and animated magic. Its application direction was mainly "automated dolls," i. e., magic-driven robots. Their research route was relatively clear, and they had already formulated a long-term research plan with an actual time of eight years.

The other direction was "Mind Magic," mainly developing applications of mind magic and understanding the more basic structure of the brain and nerves. It was responsible by Funes Bachmann and Omid Abbott, and its goal was to provide more application scenarios for Murphy's "Soul Seed."

Spatial Magic Technology Group. There were already many applications of spatial magic, such as various applications of the Undetectable Extension Charm, but Murphy believed that there were many possibilities for the development of spatial technology, such as the space rings and space doors he was always thinking about. The main goal of this research group was to manufacture space rings and space doors that could be commercially applied.

Others included the Transfiguration Path Research Group. Combining the Muggle genome and the wizard genome, they also proposed many ambitious research plans, including mapping Murphy's full genome, solving his genetic disorder problem, mapping the genomes of dozens of magical creatures, and investigating the possibility of applying them to the Transfiguration path, etc.

These research institutes would all be online before the end of October. If all were enabled, Murphy could expect that in the next few months, a technological explosion of magic would surely be ushered in. For this reason, solving the magic energy problem seemed even more imminent.

If there was still not enough magic by then, Murphy was prepared to shut down dozens of magic metal production plants and use the saved magic to support the Future Research Institute.

In October, the "Hive" project was completed, and the verification of the Artificial Magic Net was finished.

Because the magic torrent of the Magic Net would be blocked by the time acceleration effect, they could not speed up research by means of time acceleration. But the basic verification had been completed, and the second "Hive" magic experiment pile was already under construction. After construction was completed, it could be used to support the magic energy consumption of the Future Research Institute.

"The extraction of magic energy from the Magic Net is still limited," Haldane reminded. "Each magic node can at most extract about one-third of the total volume of the magic torrent flowing through it."

"But the Magic Net also has characteristics similar to Magic Stones. It can recover on its own. Therefore, the magic energy extracted at this node might recover to full value at the next node. Increasing nodes and extracting more magic energy from existing nodes is the best means to improve the total amount of magic energy."

"Currently, we already have three main nodes: the UK, the Soviet Union, and Denmark. Continuing to establish some secondary nodes similar to the Hive should be able to solve the urgent need."

"However, in the long run, we also need to let the Ministries of Magic of other countries join in. Otherwise, leaving so many main nodes unused is truly a waste."

Murphy frowned, "But other Ministries of Magic might not necessarily be willing to do so."

In November, the Magic Chip Research Institute ended the "time acceleration" state. A mature, commercialized magic memristor artificial intelligence chip was manufactured.

Murphy personally greeted the Forerunners who "exited seclusion" outside the research institute.

The magic chip research was more time-consuming than previously estimated. Although only two and a half months had passed in the outside world, for these Forerunners, it was a solid twenty years!

Therefore, even though they had long been prepared for such awareness, the Forerunners who walked out of the research institute were moved to tears, all having a feeling of being separated by a lifetime.

Denzel Evans handed a small chip to Murphy, "2-nanometer process, 16-layer neural network architecture, 30,000 by 30,000 cross-array, about 15 billion synaptic nodes. The performance under artificial intelligence algorithms is 400,000 times that of current classic chips."

"The computational power of ten chips is equivalent to one human brain, and its magic power consumption is only 12 Habers."

Denzel raised his face, his eyes, which had aged much more, looking at Murphy, "I have not failed the mission."

Although Murphy had been constantly receiving papers and research progress reports sent back by the research institute over the past two months, he was still a bit excited to truly see the chip at this moment.

This was already an achievement far surpassing the strongest brain-like chips before he traveled through time. For this, they even improved the photolithography process during the development process.

With such a chip, the problem of precision control was no longer a problem. With such massive computational power, if it formed a new supercomputer, it should be enough for him to control billions of intelligent tools as complex as humans.

He suppressed his excitement and held the other party's hand tightly, "Thank you for your contribution, Forerunner."

"I also happen to have good news here. The potion that can solve the negative effects of vampires for you all was completed a few days ago."

"Let the millennium of carefree time be the reward for everyone's completion of this feat."

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