Chapter 1551 The largest gold mine in the world (third update, please subscribe)
Silicon Valley, people come here every day.
Among the people who come here, there are some geeks who are electronic enthusiasts, businessmen, and of course, investors.
They come here for different purposes, but one thing is certain, it is these people who contributed to the rise of Silicon Valley.
However, at this time, Silicon Valley is just Silicon Valley, and no miracles have been born here.
At least those familiar miracles haven’t been born yet. Today's Silicon Valley is more of a place where large and small integrated circuit manufacturers and computer manufacturers gather.
There doesn't seem to be anything magical here.
At least it doesn't look angry at all now, it's just an inconspicuous valley.
However, no matter how inconspicuous it is, it will always attract some people's attention.
Tang Yongying stood in the small garden beside the road, holding a hamburger in his hand. He took a bite of the hamburger first, then took another sip of Fanta, turned around and asked:
"Do you know where this place is?"
Assistant Wang Lei beside him answered without thinking.
“Silicon Valley!”
The place name is clearly written on the roadside landmark.
"No."
Tang Yongying shook his head and said.
"This is a gold mine!"
When he said the word "gold mine" again, Tang Yongying deliberately emphasized his tone, and even his eyes changed when he looked at the street.
"Gold mine?"
Wang Lei looked around with some confusion, as if he didn't understand why the manager said that.
Gold mine?
Is this it?
"Do you know what we as investors should follow? We should follow our sense of smell and must see that. The gold hidden in the sand."
As an investor, Tang Yongying said this with a hint of annoyance in his tone.
"But I missed an opportunity, now. I want to understand one thing, silicon is gold! And Silicon Valley is a huge gold mine."
Whenever he thinks about how he missed Silicon Valley, Tang Yongying is filled with regret.
After making this conclusion, he went on to say:
“One gram of silicon is worth 1 cent. When processed and purified into polysilicon, it becomes 1 cent. After being drawn into monocrystalline silicon, it becomes 1 yuan.
After cutting and polishing, a silicon wafer becomes 10 yuan..."
When talking about the changes in the value of silicon, Tang Yongying's tone was filled with regret. From ancient times to the present, there has never been any product with such high added value as this product.
"Then the silicon chip is implanted with circuits and made into a processor, which costs 100 yuan! This is still the cheapest processor. The one with only more than a thousand transistors.
In other words, every time the metal silicon is processed to the chip, the price can increase by 10 times!
The chip industry is simply the Midas touch! ”
While feeling emotional, Tang Yongying continued.
“In comparison, a ton of steel can only be sold for 700 yuan, and a ton of chips can be sold for millions!
If it is a high-end processor made into a large-scale integrated circuit, the price per ton will increase tenfold, reaching tens of millions of yuan.
In other words, one ton of high-end processors can produce tens of thousands of times the price of one ton of steel! ”
After telling this surprising number, Tang Yongying took a bite of the burger, as if the burger in his hand affected his judgment, and even the intensity of chewing had a sense of venting.
Then he pointed to the streets of Silicon Valley and continued.
“In this regard, Silicon Valley is a place where stone can be turned into gold. It can turn seemingly insignificant raw materials into products that are dozens of times more expensive than gold.
It is precisely because of our leading level in this field that our company has been able to develop its efforts in the civilian electronics industry.
Our televisions, washing machines, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, radios and other products are exported to the United States and Europe, establishing our position as the king in the civilian electronics industry. It's the silicon processor that makes it all possible. ”
After taking a sip of Fanta, Tang Yongying pursed his lips and said:
"So, here is the largest gold mine. Since we missed the time when the gold mine was first discovered, it is not too late. As long as we seize the opportunity, we may still get a share of it.
After all, there are all kinds of new inventions here every day, and the Midas touch here is in the minds of these people..."
Pointing at the people walking back and forth in Silicon Valley, Tang Yongying said:
"We came here this time to find suitable investment objects. Real gold was discovered in this gold mine."
Sometimes investors have an extremely keen sense of smell. As an investor, Tang Yongying stood on the roadside eating hamburgers and drinking Fanta, and then stared at Silicon Valley and this gold mine, trying to Discover your own gold.
To a certain extent, he was lucky, because he quickly found a suitable investment object. When he saw the "cheapest microprocessor ever" in the newspaper, Tang Yongying knew he had found his target. .
"That's him."
It's a gut feeling, maybe a gambler's instinct. Tang Yongying chose Luo Mingjie's company. After briefly understanding the superior performance of the 6502 processor, he immediately made a decision to provide it with a total A-round investment of up to 3 million yuan.
When signing the contract, he looked at the company's name and asked specifically:
"Mr. Luo, why is your company called this name? Does it have any special meaning?"
"Mr. Tang, our company was first called "Tomorrow Electronics Company", but considering that our products will enter the international market in the future, my partners and I finally settled on the word Intelligence after many thoughts. It is very similar to Integrated Electronics, so it was finally named: Intel ”
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In the world, there may be some coincidences and some occasional events. Grove, Noyce, Moore and others who were in the United States at this time did not know that their company had been quoted, and they did not even plan to set up their own company at this time.
But no matter what, in Silicon Valley, the butterfly wings are already flapping!
As for what kind of changes this butterfly's wings will bring to the world, I'm afraid only God knows.
Just as the butterfly's wings flapped little by little, the world was changing silently.
Every year at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, it is the rainy season, and the climate becomes humid and rainy. Sometimes, it rains non-stop.
In the heavy rain, a British Overseas Airways VC-10 aircraft took off from Yongning Airport and flew northwest towards the South Asian subcontinent.
The VC-10 aircraft is the most advanced aircraft manufactured in the UK. This aircraft was launched by the British Vickers Company to compete with the C707. The power system uses four British Rolls-Royce Convair turbofans. The engine has a large thrust and is suitable for taking off and landing in the British African region with high temperatures and plateaus.
The layout of the engine is installed on the tail of the aircraft. Four jet engines are suspended and installed on both sides of the tail. It looks very similar to Figure 114.
As the most advanced passenger aircraft in the UK, the sales of the VC10 have been poor in the two years since it was put into use.
However, just last year, Vickers still welcomed its largest customer. Dongda was still very interested in VC10. The two parties hit it off and reached an intention contract for 10 standard VC-10s. After several struggles in the end, Macmillan nevertheless agreed to the contract.
As a result, the VC10 has entered the Asian civil aviation market, but its largest operator is British Overseas Airlines. As a long-range aircraft, British Overseas Airlines uses it on Asian routes such as London to Chang'an, stopping at Star City or New Delhi. .
This plane stopped in New Delhi. Although there were not many passengers on board, there were enough passengers - almost a hundred passengers on board. These passengers were both going to the UK and some in transit from New Delhi.
Among the nearly a hundred passengers on this VC-10 plane, there was a Canadian citizen whose alias was Arthur Chris. He flew to Yongning from London. When he came, his pockets were full of money. He was Carrying out a purchasing task in Yongning - purchasing integrated circuits.
Of course, the UK was not on the list of prohibited sales, so Arthur easily purchased microprocessors worth more than three hundred thousand pounds. It seemed like a lot, but in fact, it was only one suitcase.
This is the biggest feature of microprocessors - small size, but amazing price!
After the plane took off, as usual, Chris sat there with his eyes closed, seemingly taking a nap, and sitting next to him was a man of medium height. This man seemed to be Russian. He was in New Delhi. In the transition, the two of them had not spoken or even looked at each other from the time they got on the plane until now.
When the flight attendant arrived, the man communicated with the flight attendant in halting English and asked for a glass of water.
Apparently he doesn't speak English.
Arthur woke up and glanced at him, that's all. The two of them never communicated with each other along the way. Until the plane landed at New Delhi Airport, Arthur watched the man open his luggage compartment and take it away. took his suitcase.
It was Arthur's suitcase, the suitcase that contained a microprocessor worth three hundred thousand pounds.
But Arthur didn't speak. He just watched the other person leave. Soon, another passenger got on the plane and sat next to him. His suitcase was exactly the same as Arthur's.
Everything is so magical, or in other words, everything is so easy.
More than an hour later, a man who got off the VC10 aircraft on a taxiing Tu114 aircraft at the New Delhi Airport glanced at the VC10 aircraft at the airport, and then said to himself:
"It's just a "package swap"..."
This was just a deliberately arranged package swap. As a KGB intelligence officer, his mission was to obtain the microprocessors needed by the country in Yongning. Due to the embargo against the Soviet Union, they could only obtain them through special channels.
And Arthur is one of the channels. There are many such "middlemen" in the UK and other Western countries. Some of them are just simple middlemen, and some are KGB informants. They work in the name of businessmen from Western countries. , purchased various microprocessors in Yongning, and then used intermediate transitions and other methods to hand over the microprocessors to KGB. Although this process was a bit cumbersome, it allowed them to obtain enough processors.
"Maybe, in a few years, we won't need to smuggle integrated circuits from here. By that time, the Soviet Union's own integrated circuits will replace their products."
Sometimes people are really full of imagination about the future, thinking that there are countless possibilities...
(End of chapter)