Chapter 3: 100~999x Phone
*Ding*
[Your personal computer (iPhone 16 Max Pro) has received 100 times critical strike and the host has received 1 trillion units.]
*Hiss!*
Sun Zan took a deep breath of cold air.
No matter how you think about it, 100 times quality enhancement on an iPhone 16 Pro Max is something that is hard to imagine.
I mean, just the processing speed would already pose a very high technological bottleneck.
But such a device appeared in front of him. What's more, there were 1 trillion units of them.
Sun Zan took out one to see but he was quickly disappointed. He couldn't see any changes at all… maybe the half-eaten fruit was gone?
'System, what is the difference?'
[In this level of enhancements, the system tries to enhance the materials, energy, functionality, performance, hardware and software technology, aesthetics, and many other subtle traits and characteristics.
The 100x Phone is still within the manufacturing capability of current companies, it is just a bit more expensive.]
Indeed.
The more Sun Zan looked at the phone in his hand, the more he felt like it was on a completely different level from the original phone.
For example, due to the aerospace-grade aluminum alloy used on the original, the phone was always a little too cold when he picked it up.
It is still okay when it is hot, but when it is cold, even his nerves get sensitive.
The other thing is that the feel gets old pretty fast.
Once the novelty wears off, the phone is almost always covered with a casing to prevent scratching and whatnot.
Sun Zan always felt that this was not a minus… but all this changed after he touched the 100x phone.
Let's not talk about anything else, the look has not changed from its midnight black finish, but you can clearly see impressions on the surface that add a layer of class on top of the design.
These impressions are different from machine and laser engravings and feel very natural.
And instead of metal, it felt more like warm jade in his hand.
Sun Zan looked at the phone for a long time before getting all the information he could with his eyes before turning on the phone.
Don't say, he was already satisfied with the phone before it was turned on, but he was even more satisfied after it was turned on.
Sun Zan could swear that it did not take a second to complete the boot-up process.
Just the startup interface and the smooth transition to the user interface made Sun Zan feel like he was handling a very high-end machine.
What are aided processes? This is it!
He did not have to adjust anything and everything was sorted out, right from the font to the brightness, to the layout of apps and accessibility tools.
Sun Zan played for a whole ten minutes before he put the phone down with an endless aftertaste.
Even Douyin is not as smooth as the operating system of this phone.
Sun Zan could not wait anymore and started criting at 150, 200, 250, …, 900, 950, 999 times.
Each time there would be 1 trillion units.
Sun Zan looked at the different phones that did not look too different from each other with a complicated look.
100 times was already 10 years ahead of the world's total production capability, don't think about 200 times and above.
Something like 500 times has already crossed the realm of conventional mechanics and electronics.
Just the materials used take a drastic change from metal alloys and circuitry to Carbon and Silicon-based components.
The chassis for instance is made by 3D layering of graphene in a clever and abstract spatio-geometrical matrix.
This configuration is also applied to all other components including the screen, chips, PCB boards, Batteries…
There was hardly any metal used when it got to 550 times.
To the back, Sun Zan did not even know what was going on anymore.
Have you ever heard of Carbon Chips? Well, pretty common concept… but the human imagination limits the capabilities of said chip.
Even Sun Zan only thought that a Carbon Chip was just a change in materials and maybe a manufacturing method from a Silicon chip.
Otherwise, there is not much difference. Maybe an increase in performance?
But all these were just vague guesses.
After seeing the real thing, he was dumbfounded.
The carbon chip in the 600x phone for example housed the processing, storage, and power unit in one chip.
Such a small chip that was not even as big as his smallest fingernail could power the phone for a full 3 months under heavy-duty consumption!!
This made Sun Zan feel dizzy for a while.
What about RAM, ROM, and Secondary Storage? What are those?
The whole architecture seemed to have been compressed into a single chip.
Processing speed is measured in Zettabytes per second and storage space in Yottabytes.
How many chips can the surface area of a 6x3x0.6 inch phone hold? How many layers can be stacked?
And that is just a single phone!?
What if we change it into a tablet, a laptop, a 32" 64" screen?
Sun Zan felt like his brain was not enough.
There were still the 700 ~ 999 times phones behind?!
If we talk materials, the casing alone is made with an Extreme Multi-dimensional material that even higher civilizations would cause wars for.
The material used on the 999x phone for instance has its own awareness!?
You have to know that this multi-dimensional material can change its form and state according to the number of dimensions set during manufacturing.
From what he understood, such material can generally be used to make anything material as long as the right configurations and doping elements are introduced.
Tell me, would WW3 start immediately for such a material? Hell, a doomsday alien invasion is more like it.
If we talk energy… Sun Zan did not even know how to compare it.
From what he understood, one phone should be able to meet the demand of the planet for several years just fine.
Forget about charging. The solar system does not have anything with the kind of energy density needed to charge it once.
If we talk functionality…