Chapter 1395 Door to the Future (Second update, please subscribe)
"According to the itinerary, after completing the inspection in Kuching, your next stop will be Yongning..."
Listening to the news coming from the car radio, Luo Mingjie glanced at the city outside the car window... No, it should be Silicon Valley.
Although he doesn't know your itinerary, he believes that this is definitely a place you want to visit.
However, this is not important!
Right now, the most important thing is here!
Staring at the office building in front of him and looking at the sign of the "Growth Ladder Innovation Fund", Luo Mingjie took a deep breath and said:
"Well, whether we can succeed or not depends on today!"
Talking to himself, Luo Mingjie picked up the report on the side and looked at it before putting it back into his briefcase.
If the general manager of IMD was here, he would not be unfamiliar with this report, because a few months ago, in the manager's office of IMD, Luo Mingjie personally threw the plan in his hand into the trash can, and then left angrily. The front door of IMD Company.
When New Year's Day came, Luo Mingjie resigned!
This is very rare here, so rare that twenty minutes later, in the office of the "Growth Ladder Innovation Fund", when the affairs specialist heard "resignation", his eyes widened and he said with astonishment:
"This... Mr. Luo, this is really rare. IMD is a very good company."
IMD is indeed a very good company - the 101 chip it developed last year became the darling of the market. Many business computers use this chip, and the radiation-resistant chips it developed are also used in Beidou satellites, radars, and missiles. In various military fields, IMD is definitely the best among many chip companies.
"That's great! But they are making a mistake!"
Luo Mingjie said without any concealment:
"Two years ago, I participated in the design of IMD's 101 microprocessor, which was a very successful microprocessor. While it was successful, I saw the vacuum that the 101 microprocessor brought to the market - Yes, the 101 microprocessor is indeed excellent, but it is too expensive, costing 1500 yuan.
To build an independent computer with a processor of this price range, it would cost at least 10,000 yuan. Even an ordinary BMW family car is only this price.
It is hard to imagine that any family or individual would be willing to spend such a huge sum of money to purchase such a strange and bloated machine that has no idea what it should be used for, so its buyers are mostly interested companies and universities. ”
As a startup fund specialist, Heisenberg nodded with deep understanding and said:
"Indeed, even ordinary enterprises will not buy electronic computers, after all, they are too expensive."
"So, price limits its development."
Luo Mingjie said:
"So, I thought that if the price of microprocessors could be reduced to 200 yuan, or even below 100 yuan, it would surely fill the huge blue ocean of home computers. So I told the company's upper management my idea. , the reply was very simple:
"Please give up, this is unrealistic." This is the answer they gave me. ”
Luo Mingjie said:
"So, I left, but I was not alone. I left with several members of the original 101 team."
"Is there anyone else?"
Heisenberg said in surprise:
"Yes, it is basically a team of mine. We are now designing new processors. I believe that we will be able to design a microprocessor that is cheap enough, of course, with your funding!"
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Looking at the project instructions in his hand, Heisenberg thought for a while, and then took another look at the man in front of him.
Indeed, as he said, if the price of microprocessors can be reduced to 200 yuan, or even below 100 yuan, it will surely fill the huge blue ocean of home computers.
Heisenberg thought for a while and said.
"Congratulations, Mr. Luo, for the investment you have received from the foundation. I hope we can see your results as soon as possible."
When Heisenberg made this decision, he didn't know what kind of changes it would bring to the world, but one thing that is certain is that three years later, a chip named 6502 will cease to exist because of his decision. This humble company was born and set off a prairie fire of home computers.
And that will definitely change the entire world and bring about earth-shaking changes to this world.
This day will be recorded in history.
Just when they signed this investment agreement with Growth Ladder Fund that changed history and even affected the course of mankind.
In the laboratory of GAD Company in "Silicon Valley", Zhang Jingye looked at the microprocessor in front of him, his eyes bursting with excitement.
He even kept rubbing his hands and said:
"Okay, okay, now I finally have something to go to see Your Excellency. With it... Your Excellency will definitely come to our company!"
The reason why Zhang Jingye is so excited is because of this microprocessor, which fully verified the "Li's Law" proposed by you. This was the bargaining chip for his invitation. Although GAD was the first company to invent the lithography machine, with the With the entry of many companies, especially after King's Laboratory launched the projection lithography machine, GAD began to go downhill, but Zhang Jingye did not admit defeat. While he organized efforts to research projection lithography machines, he also continued to develop integrated circuits. More energy has been invested in production research. The main focus is on improving the yield rate.
After more than a year of hard work, GAD's integrated circuit yield rate has been greatly improved, which has also attracted a lot of orders to the company. However, he is not satisfied with just being a "processing company". He also has more ambitious goals. .
"We want to become a company like an international electronics company!"
Everyone has their own ambitions, or wishes, and now, this microprocessor is the stepping stone for Zhang Jingye! "But, manager, our yield rate is still very low now. To a certain extent, it does not even have production value, it is only 12%."
Listening to his subordinates' words, Zhang Jingye smiled and said:
"12%? It's not low anymore. The yield rate of our first photolithography machine back then was less than 10%! But so what? The military and space exploration technology companies don't mind the price, and this is only now, It’s just a product from the laboratory. Soon, we will solve the problem of mass production..."
If what Zhang Jingye said were heard by the Soviet integrated circuit experts in Zelenograd, they would probably collapse, because until now, their yield rate has still not exceeded 10%. If what is here is just an experiment The products in the Soviet Union were made by hand.
Rubbing his hands with some excitement, Zhang Jingye said:
"Okay, let's send the processor's data to the official residence. I think with it, your Excellency will definitely come over!"
Indeed, just as Zhang Jingye had guessed, on the high-speed train to Yongning, Li Yian looked at the report in his hand and was more surprised. He even specifically checked whether CAD was on the inspection trip. After that, Li Yian immediately ordered:
“Add CAD to your inspection itinerary!”
There are such good things, of course you have to go and take a look!
Afterwards, after giving a few simple instructions, Li Yian turned his attention to the report in front of him. Even if he was in the field, he could not stop the work at hand. Reading intelligence briefings was still a necessary task every day.
In the intelligence briefing, in addition to the intelligence from Washington and London, the intelligence from Moscow is naturally indispensable.
However, compared to the first two, the intelligence from Moscow was pitiful. This was the biggest advantage of the Iron Curtain. The Iron Curtain blocked almost everything. In fact, during the entire Cold War, in addition to using reconnaissance satellites to obtain intelligence In addition, the intelligence work of the United States and other Western countries on the Soviet Union can almost be described as a complete mess.
Except for a few traitors who occasionally provide intelligence to them, most of the time, the United States can only obtain the information it needs from open channels, that is, by obtaining local newspapers and magazines.
In fact, these public information are basically what Moscow is willing to make public. In other words, if they are unwilling to make it public, Washington will basically turn a blind eye.
Just like after the death of Steel, Washington took it for granted that Malenkov was the successor of Steel. They never thought that the winner in the end would be Corn Cob.
It can be seen from this how useless Washington’s intelligence work is.
But later, as more and more people chose to betray because of money or other reasons, their intelligence work naturally became better and better.
While complaining about the United States in this way, similarly, the Investigation Department's intelligence work on Moscow is not necessarily very good.
After all, to a large extent, Ironwood is almost impenetrable unless someone actively defectes there.
But the information in front of him now made Li Yian couldn't help but smile.
"This is really interesting..."
The reason why Li Yian said this is because this intelligence is not about Moscow, but about one person.
"A Soviet intelligence officer would actually betray?"
This guy didn't defect, but took the initiative to get in touch with us and expressed his willingness to provide information to us.
Although this kind of thing is not common, it was a very common thing during the entire Cold War. The Soviet Union even had their UN deputy secretary-general become an American spy, and chose to defect after the incident was exposed. As for the United States, many people have chosen to betray.
However, it is somewhat rare for someone to take the initiative to defect here. After all, from the perspective of betrayal, the rewards for them to defect to the United States will be more generous.
"It's interesting..."
While muttering in her heart, the door on the other side of the box was opened, and a girl wearing a men's shirt came out. When she saw Li Yian, she smiled:
"When did you wake up?"
Looking at the girl Li Yian coming towards him, he closed the report in his hand and said:
"I didn't call you because you were tired."
While speaking, Li Yian looked at the woman's body. It must be said that this woman felt that she had a broad mind.
What happened before?
Li Yi'an was also a little confused. Everything was natural, and it was easy for a man and a woman to accidentally misfire.
This kind of thing is always inevitable.
Looking at the girl, Li Yian patted the seat next to her. The girl immediately sat over and then lay on the man's lap docilely. When looking at him, Nancy's eyes were filled with little stars, as if she were looking at an idol. generally.
For her, this was an extremely novel and alternative experience. At this time, she had completely forgotten about her boyfriend and Paul Pelosi, and was completely immersed in this novel experience, even if he So what if I have a wife?
He has many lovers, so what if he has one more!
This is the simplest thought in her mind at this time. In fact, although she likes politics, she is just a simple girl now. It was so simple that now she only had this man in her eyes.
Touching the girl's hair, Li Yian was thinking about something else...
(End of chapter)