Currently, while Mercury-class battleships and Venus-class battleships have completely upgraded their thrusters with the introduction of zero fiber, and their armor has also seen some performance improvements, their weapon systems still rely on old-fashioned gunpowder guns and autocannons. Even their most powerful offensive method is merely an interstellar missile that uses chemical fuel as a propellant.

Their radar systems could barely manage to provide early warnings for targets with larger radar cross-sections. They couldn't detect tiny bullets or electromagnetic cannon projectiles at all, let alone effectively intercept them.

Without sufficiently advanced radar systems, interception systems are out of the question. Without interception systems, battleships can only rely on their armor to withstand attacks during combat.

With the Bluetoth Civilization's main fleet about to arrive, Tom knew that while it was impossible for him to elevate technology to the level of the Bluetoth Civilization in such a short time, he had to at least strive to maximize combat power within the realm of possibility.

Only then could he hope to protect the solar system.

Therefore, while retaining a significant portion of research power for thruster breakthroughs, Tom once again augmented the research teams already working on electromagnetic cannon technology, composite armor technology, high-speed precision radar technology, laser cannon technology, and automatic interception technology—all areas that could effectively enhance spacecraft combat power—with substantial additional research resources.

Beyond this, Tom also planned to attempt improvements in another area.

Goku AI!

Compared to the Bluetoth Civilization, Tom believed that the only area where he had hope of maintaining an advantage was artificial intelligence.

As long as the Bluetoth Civilization was a civilization composed of intelligent life clusters, they would inevitably encounter the same difficulties that the human civilization faced in developing artificial intelligence technology.

Low data quality, insufficient data volume, waste due to repetitive competition, insufficient overall investment and momentum, and so on.

The only difference would be the degree of difficulty.

However, in this regard, he could achieve optimal results.

High data quality, high total volume, no repetitive competition, and investment that could be pushed to the extreme.

Even if his computer hardware technology couldn't reach the level of the Bluetoth Civilization, the Goku AI he developed still had a chance to surpass the Bluetoth Civilization's war AI!

Of course, this also required him to continuously improve and optimize the Goku AI.

Based on this, Tom made this decision.

To launch a full-scale assault on chip technology!

Before the human civilization disappeared, it was already capable of manufacturing 2 nm chips based on silicon-based technology.

Tom knew that after 2 nm, further shrinking the manufacturing process to engrave more transistors within a limited chip area would face a series of complex, almost insurmountable obstacles.

For example, the quantum tunneling effect.

When transistor dimensions shrink to the nanometer level, electrons can tunnel through potential barriers that should block them, leading to increased leakage current and decreased performance.

This is determined by fundamental laws of physics and is unavoidable. In chips with manufacturing processes smaller than 2 nm, the quantum tunneling effect is already extremely pronounced.

While continuing to develop chips with smaller processes might involve some methods to circumvent this effect, they would be costly, technically difficult, and offer limited performance improvements.

Consequently, humanity began to shift towards quantum chips, gradually abandoning further research into silicon-based chips.

However, up until the disappearance of humanity, although quantum chip technology saw immense development, it never achieved practicality or widespread adoption, at most only showing advantages in some niche areas.

The 2 nm chip is basically considered the limit of silicon-based chips, and it is also the limit Tom can reach in the foreseeable future.

So... under the circumstances where a breakthrough in my quantum chip technology is almost impossible at this stage, let's push silicon-based chips to their limit first!

If he could mass-produce 2 nm chips and then build supercomputers from them, the computing power of the supercomputers supplied to the Goku AI could be increased by at least 40 times on the existing basis!

This would make the Goku AI's functions even more powerful, causing his overall combat power to climb accordingly.

Having determined this, Tom also included chip technology on the list of key breakthroughs.

Millions of clones specializing in chip technology research and iteration were now not only busy in research bases but also in chip factories.

Laboratories, production lines—every place related to chips was undergoing countless trials.

Can the chip packaging process be optimized to improve chip stability?

Let's try to find some optimization schemes and verify them in practice.

Can the energy density of the light source be increased?

Let's verify that too.

Can the photoresist formula be adjusted to better absorb light source energy and etch the chip?

Let's verify that.

Every moment, countless conjectures were born in the minds of numerous clones, instantly synchronized to Tom's mind, and then instantly synchronized to the mind of every clone involved in the chip breakthrough.

This vast mental power was constantly speculating, verifying, thinking, and integrating numerous solutions. With complete experimental tools, any solution, no matter how small its value, would prompt Tom to allocate resources for verification.

Anyway, resources are extremely abundant now, and industrial power has greatly increased, so what if some are wasted?

I can afford to waste!

Under these circumstances, Tom's chip technology experienced rapid development, just like his thruster technology before.

Soon, the next generation of chip technology after the 10 nm chip, the mass manufacturing technology for the 7 nm chip, passed all-round verification and was put into mass production.

But Tom was still not satisfied. The 7 nm chip was not the end of the research.

What a joke! I've invested almost the entire research power of a human civilization into a single field of research; does a mere 7 nm chip expect to satisfy me?

Rapid breakthroughs are what should happen; if there's no progress for a long time, that would be abnormal.

After the 7 nm chip, 5 nm and 3 nm chip technologies achieved breakthroughs one after another.

Amidst these repeated breakthroughs, the size of transistors etched on silicon wafers became smaller and smaller, their density higher and higher, and the number of transistors contained in a single chip grew increasingly large.

However, the 3 nm chip was still not the end of Tom's breakthrough efforts.

2 nm, it must be 2 nm, I must push silicon-based chip technology to its limit!

Only by reaching the limit, only by maximizing the performance of Goku AI in the foreseeable future, can I hope to protect the solar system from the Bluetoth Civilization's main fleet!

Feeling the immense pressure coming from the distant starry sky, Tom manipulated numerous clones, once again dedicating himself to tireless technological breakthroughs.

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