Once Layla and I finished our back and forth, she went to look into the upgraded tools.
After a while she exclaimed, "They all run so much smoother! They even have higher precision. How did you manage that?"
"The software, I can apply AI to optimize its functions. It just takes a long time, because I have to use the technology enough to gather the data and find where I can optimize it."
"That's cool. I am more of a hardware type of person, so I don't really get the software side of things."
"Then I guess that makes us a pretty good team. You with hardware, me with software."
"That's true. I bet we can make some pretty cool things."
Today, Layla wanted to work on designing new car parts. She had a few ideas already that she had been working on for a long time. However, her note book was still at her parent's house and she wasn't about to go back there while her parents were there.
But, Layla still had some of them memorized. So, she got to work designing things in the 3D rendering and virtual durability testing.
While she was doing that I was using my AR glasses to look into the VR ideas I had yesterday.
One idea was related to reading or viewing dreams that was related to the Yamato Neural Decoding.
Which is where scientists are developing technology using fMRI and AI to decode brain activity during REM sleep. This system can match brain patterns to images, achieving 60-70% accuracy in identifying the content of dreams.
Not quite as accurate as you would need for full dive VR, but it is a start.
Now related to that is Prognostic Halo, a device designed to induce and measure lucid dreams using AI algorithms and EEG/fMRI technology to detect and influence REM sleep, allowing users to control their dreams.
These two devices are exactly what I need to get full dive VR going. They will definitely need to be upgraded a few times, but that will be easy.
I just need to sleep.
Both of the machines are actually pretty compatible. The Neural Decoding machine is a mesh cap worn on the head with an array of electrodes to measure brain activity. While Prognostic Halo is a band worn around the forehead, above the ears, and behind the back of your head.
Looking at them, they don't seem to be that hard to combine.
You really just need to get a helmet to hold both of the main machines in a secure fashion. The helmet will also be used to hold mini computer parts as localized processors.
This whole thing is heavily reliant on AI. So, I imagine that the main server for the central location will have to be really large and powerful.
The RAM production plan just keeps getting better and better.
Then again pretty much every piece of technology I want to make seems to need RAM or some other piece of technology. I guess I have a one track mind.
While I was on the RAM topic I looked into how and where I should manufacture my RAM.
As it would turn out, Yamato was indeed the place to set down my RAM manufacturing roots.
Yamato was the best choice because as of July 2023, Yamato implemented strict export controls on 23 types of high-performance chip-making equipment like lithography, etching, and deposition. These controls target equipment necessary for producing advanced chips (10–14 nm or less), which directly impacts the manufacturing of high-density RAM.
Yamato also has restricted the export of key semiconductor materials like photoresists, hydrogen fluoride.
While also electronics retailers have implemented restrictions on RAM purchases, specifically limiting the amount of PC memory (DRAM), SSDs, and HDDs customers can buy. They have done this to prevent hoarding and it is only a matter of time before the government steps in to back that decision.
Which will be to my benefit, because the goal has been to sell to the individual consumer.
What is even better is that Yamato is also offering significant subsidies for RAM (DRAM and NAND) manufacturing as part of its national strategy to revive its semiconductor industry. The government has provided, or planned, massive financial support—including incentives reducing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by over 50%—to attract foreign and domestic chipmakers.
This really is a boon for me because Yamato is spending over $65 billion on its overall AI and semiconductor industrial policy.
Which means if I go through the proper procedures I could double the size of my projected manufacturing facility.
However, with subsidies comes conditions.
From what I could find on Foolgle the Core Conditions for the Yamato Subsidies (METI) are as follows.
Long-Term Commitment: Companies must maintain production at the subsidized facilities for at least 10 years.
Security Measures: Stringent cybersecurity requirements, including controlling access to sensitive information and personnel confidentiality agreements, to avoid leaks to specific countries.
Investment Type: Focus on advanced manufacturing, such as EUV-based DRAM or HBM (High Bandwidth Memory).
Supply Chain Support: Projects must contribute to strengthening Yamato's overall semiconductor supply chain resilience.
Production Volume: Manufacturers may be required to increase production during shortages.
Regional Development: Incentives are often targeted at establishing manufacturing outside of major metropolitan areas.
These incentives are primarily managed by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) under the Act on the Promotion of Specified Advanced ICT Systems.
They are quite the conditions, but I don't have a problem with any of them. They were things I was already planning to do.
I want the factory to be around for the foreseeable future.
I will also make sure the security is one of the best in the world.
I had already decided on making higher end RAM using EUV technology.
For the supply chain it only benefits me to increase that as well, since my factory will be based there.
As for production volume, they will probably be telling me to slow down and not crash the market. Though I don't think that will actually be a worry.
Finally for the regional development I had already planned for the factory to be in a rural area as I don't really like cities.
So, in conclusion, I don't see a reason I should refuse the "free" money they are offering.