the world is at stake

China is willing to deal with Western countries including the United States, provided that it does not harm China's interests.

This basically broke Marshall's idea of ​​stirring shit.The Chinese attitude is 'If you want to fight, I will fight with you; if you want to talk, I will talk to you; if you want me to self-mutilate or even kill myself to please you, that is just a dream'.

Xiao Jinlang read the transcript of the meeting that was copied to Su Fang, and thought happily:

"Isn't this a replica of Sino-US relations nearly 70 years later? It's just that the relationship between China and the Soviet Union was changed at that time. The Chinese emperor was strong and Da Mao was weak. Da Mao became the one who needed a blood transfusion."

After several days of talks, Marshall looked through the memorandum and found that China's biggest expectation for the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States is to be able to do some business.He was surprised to find...

"The Chinese actually want to export high-performance computers to the United States?"

It is an agricultural country that is so poor that its houses are completely bare, and its steel production is not as much as that of the United States.

It actually stated in the memorandum of the meeting that it can export high-performance supercomputers with a calculation speed exceeding [-] operations per second to the United States?

Does Marshall think the Chinese side is joking?Or is it that the person who wrote the memo was confused, and made a mistake in asking for a US computer?

The American diplomats also felt that the two sides may not understand the language, and the person who wrote the memo made a low-level mistake.But when they negotiated with the Chinese side, they were told—yes.

China has indeed developed a supercomputer with [-] operations per second, and is willing to export it to the United States.

It's just ridiculous.

Human's first electronic computer 'ENIAC' was born in 46. So far, American computers are no better than Soviet ones—everyone is a vacuum tube, which is clumsy, heavy and power-hungry.

Although transistors appeared, they were still extremely primitive and failed to solve the problem of mass production.The first transistor computer in the United States was 58 years ago.

At present, the large-scale computer that can be mass-produced in the United States is the IBM'52' that was launched in 701. It is limited by storage and input and output devices, and its calculation speed is less than [-] times per second.

But the price of '701' is very expensive. It is rented to scientific research institutions and commercial companies, and the monthly rent is 1 US dollars.

Now the Chinese want to sell supercomputers to the United States, and the quotation is 500 million US dollars for each "Eastern" supercomputer. Marshall can't help but be very interested in this supercomputer.

"I want to see the supercomputer you plan to sell." Marshall is visiting informally and is not in a hurry to return to the United States.After he made the request, the Chinese side readily agreed.

For the sale of supercomputers to the United States, this is Xiao Jinlang behind the scenes.

After all, "Master Yang" collected a bunch of western equipment, smuggled raw materials and chemicals from the United States, and spent a year "copying the answers" to complete the mass production of transistors.

Even if the Americans get the finished product, it will take five years to complete the same route at the fastest.With such a five-year gap, the Chinese side might as well sell their products to earn foreign exchange.

First, what China currently lacks is not computers, but basic industrial products such as steel, coal, electricity, and cement.Second, the domestic foundation is too weak, and only with money can we continue to develop.

It's like a starving ghost wants a bowl of rice, not a dragon knife.

Taking advantage of the fact that the opponent has not come up with the correct answer, the team of 'Master Yang' can continue to copy.With a good foundation, the speed of copying will only get faster and faster.

As for the faster development of the enemy because of obtaining the 'artifact', there is no need to worry about it at all.As long as we can develop faster, the 'Holy Light' team is very confident about it.

Since the Vostok supercomputer was actually developed by Academician Lebedev's team, there were only a few novice college students on the Chinese side to help.If the Chinese side wants to sell the 'Vostok' supercomputer, it has to obtain the consent of the Soviet side.

When the information was reported to Stalin, Uncle Steel didn't have any concept of intellectual property rights, so he easily approved it.He only cares more about his long face, and it's nice to be able to show off to the US side rarely.

A week after Marshall arrived in the imperial capital, the Chinese invited him to visit the Semiconductor Research Institute.He was not allowed to see the production line with too many secrets, mainly transistor devices, and the 'Eastern' supercomputer that was still in the testing stage.

'Dongfang' covers an area of ​​less than one square meter, and it is just a taller cabinet.If it weren't for the many input and output peripherals next to it, Marshall wouldn't think it was a computer at all.

"Can this thing run [-] times per second?" Marshall wondered if he had been deceived—American technology is invincible in the world, and they didn't make such a small computer!

The small auditorium where the supercomputer was placed was requisitioned by the research institute. A large number of instruments, equipment and lines have been stuffed into the space of a few hundred square meters. Dozens of Soviet experts work here day and night.

For this 'Eastern' supercomputer, Maozi researchers like it more and more.

First of all, it has a magnetic core as a memory, and the access speed is very high-an important bottleneck of computing is storage.However, the current mainstream storage uses mercury delay tubes, and the name is not easy to fiddle with.

In addition, the power consumption of transistors is low, so that the entire working environment will not become like a big oven-the electronic tube computer can move tens of hundreds of kilowatts, and it is really a huge "heating fast" when it is turned on.

The power consumption is low, and the reliability is high, so there is no need to stop the machine from time to time to check whether the electronic tube is broken.Even if there is a problem with the device, replacing the corresponding module is just a matter of unplugging and plugging.

This greatly improves work efficiency and saves a lot of time.

Under the bright chandelier, Academician Lebedev came out wearing a white coat and was in charge of receiving the former US Secretary of Defense Marshall.

Although academician Lebedev was already old, he was very happy about the five-star general's question.He pretended to be indifferent and said: "Your Excellency, it's a pity that you only have some diplomats around you, and there are no professionals who understand computers.

It's hard for me to tell you how powerful this revolutionary device is.

However, I have a newly completed simulated hydrogen bomb explosion calculation data, which can be provided for you to take back as a reference.With the old calculations, this simulation would have taken months to complete, but now it takes just under 48 hours. "

Simulated hydrogen bomb explosion?

Can this kind of confidential experimental data be given away?

Marshall was extremely angry at the thick calculation results that Academician Lebedev sent as a 'gift'.He scowled, feeling slighted.

How dare these bastards be so arrogant, they clearly can't see our great America clearly.

"Thank you very much." Marshall instantly lost interest in continuing to visit, gritted his teeth and squeezed out this sentence from his mouth.He didn't even stay for 10 minutes before turning around and leaving the institute.

When the retired American military and political leader left, the entire auditorium erupted in roars of laughter.A group of Maozi were so happy that they could find out vodka and drink a few bottles immediately to celebrate this moment.

Afterwards, the Ministry of Internal Affairs wrote a report describing the scene of "friendly" exchanges between the two parties. Even Stalin was beaming with joy, feeling that it greatly added luster.

Marshall left the Semiconductor Research Institute, and soon let the plane send the 'gift' sent by Academician Lebedev back to the United States.Three days later, a team of nuclear and computer experts was allowed to fly to the imperial capital.

Because the 'gift' shocked the Pentagon—Academician Lebedev provided an unfeasible way of hydrogen bomb nuclear explosion, even the Americans could not verify it within 48 hours.

If the Soviets really ruled out this error with supercomputers, the cost and time-consuming of nuclear tests would be greatly reduced, and they might be able to build a hydrogen bomb before the United States.

This is unacceptable to America.

For the improvement of national strength, supercomputers that can save time and effort in scientific research are too important. It is false to say that Americans are not tempted.It allows scientific researchers to obtain more results in the same time, which is equivalent to expanding the scientific research team.

Competing in computing power in the future will be an important part of scientific research competition.It frees the brain from complicated calculations and allows it to do more innovative work.

However, IBM's computer experts expressed great doubts about what Marshall saw and heard in the imperial capital. It is possible to say that the Soviets built a computer with [-] operations per second by stacking electronic tubes.

But this computer must be extremely large, maybe as big as a basketball court, and most of the city will have a power outage after it is started, and its reliability is extremely poor.

A cabinet less than one square meter and more than two meters high?

This black technology is too dark, and it doesn't talk about scientific laws at all.

However, the Pentagon couldn't ignore the report issued by the five-star general, plus the "gift" from the Soviet Union, and immediately sent a team of more than 20 people to find out the truth.

The team came to the Semiconductor Research Institute, saw the "small and exquisite" "Dongfang" supercomputer with their own eyes, and quickly cracked the mystery - the Chinese actually mass-produced practical transistors.

The diodes and triodes that are common in later generations are very small, and people will feel that such devices should be so bulky.But in fact, the volume of the transistor was very large when it first came out, and it became smaller after continuous iterative evolution.

There are many other technical routes for producing transistors.The earliest was a germanium tube, and scientists took a lot of effort to evolve to a silicon tube.The choice of materials alone required a lot of time and money.

'Master Yang' copied the answer, and directly copied a series of processes such as silicon crystal cutting and doping.In the eyes of the American experts who came here, this is a miracle!

Thinking of the hydrogen bomb simulation explosion test data sent by Academician Lebedev, the visiting Americans couldn't sit still—this is a military weapon, and it is very useful.

Nuclear explosions, aerospace, meteorology, prospecting, molecular materials, and geophysics all require high-performance computers.

Hurry up, buy, buy, buy, and never let the Soviets enjoy this technology exclusively.This thing must invest a huge amount of money, first ten units.

What?I haven't established diplomatic relations with China yet, so I can't buy it?

So what are you waiting for?

Establish diplomatic relations!

Chapter 110 Marshall will also be deflated

The establishment of diplomatic relations is a serious matter, and it cannot be negotiated in three or five days.

However, the Chinese side took out the big weapon of 'supercomputer', and the prime minister in charge of foreign affairs said that the US negotiators became more talkative.On some topics that could not be discussed originally, the other party voluntarily backed down or expressed to put aside the dispute.

For example, the United States also wants to create obstacles on the Taiwan Strait issue to leave a way for Lao Jiang to survive.The Chinese side demanded that the U.S. return the Ryukyu Islands under its control.

Because Ryukyu is China's inherent territory, sacred and inviolable.

Originally, there would be no breakthroughs if these things were not discussed for a few months, but the Americans seem to be in a hurry-don't underestimate the computing power of [-] times per second. The Chinese have even used an abacus and a hand calculator to calculate the nuclear bomb equation. thing.

The "Eastern" supercomputer is an epoch-making progress in terms of reliability and computing power.It could make time-consuming and costly nuclear weapons testing cheap and efficient.

It is really possible for the Soviet Union to build a hydrogen bomb ahead of the United States. This situation has caused widespread anxiety among politicians and the military in Washington.

The starting point for a hydrogen bomb is 30 tons of TNT equivalent.Compared with fission bombs, it is easy to increase the yield of fusion bombs, and it is not difficult to produce millions of tons.

The United States produced the first atomic bomb, and the improvement of its national confidence was immediate.If the Soviet Union was the first to develop a hydrogen bomb, it would be a proper proof of the superiority of the socialist system.

It is also a testimony of Sino-Soviet friendship.

Considering that the Soviet Union may drop tens of millions of tons of hydrogen bombs on Europe, the military forces stationed in Europe will have to collapse collectively.In contrast, Taiwan and Ryukyu are not worth mentioning.

But in Maozi's view, the United States should surpass itself in hydrogen bomb research.Because Zhou Qingfeng first entered the copy last year, he submitted the US hydrogen bomb research progress to the Soviet side.

Maozi provided the computer simulation explosion test data of the hydrogen bomb, nothing more than to show the US that his research progress is not bad, but he did not expect to make the Americans scream.

Xiao Jinlang accurately grasped the mentality of the US side, and reminded the Prime Minister not to rush and talk slowly, because the Americans are feeling uncomfortable now.He went to the Semiconductor Research Institute to give his opinion to those American experts who were obsessed with the 'Eastern' supercomputer.

"The 'Eastern' supercomputer was manufactured by Academician Lebedev based on the improved design of the Soviet 'MESM' computer architecture. In fact, the full performance advantages of transistors have not yet been brought into play.

We are preparing to design a new architecture of the 'Dongfeng' supercomputer, to tap the advantages of transistors as much as possible.It is preliminarily estimated that the same 20 tubes can produce a speed of [-] per second, and will have better floating-point computing capabilities.

Although we currently have no way to buy supercomputers for the United States, are American researchers willing to join our research team?Let's contribute to human scientific research together. "

When Xiao Jinlang made this suggestion, all the computer experts in the United States stared at him blankly.

John von Neumann, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the father of modern computing, grabbed Lao Xiao's hand, "Mr. Xiao, are you serious? We can work in your semiconductor research institute? Has this been officially approved?" ?”

"I represent the official." Xiao Jinlang smiled like a chicken thief.

God Neumann grabbed Lao Xiao's hand again, "Sign the contract immediately, and I can serve as a visiting professor in your research. All research funds will be paid by the US government, as long as you can provide enough transistors. Don't go back on your word!"

This posture is wishing that he could immediately sign and draw a pledge to settle the matter.

The expression of the Great God is repeating a sentence - do you know who I am?I just build computers.I have long expected a revolutionary device to replace the tube.If you dare to let me join the research, I dare not leave!

Xiao Jinlang and 'Mr. Yang' laughed together, their faces were full of joy, and they complained in their hearts: "Who doesn't know your name, Von Neumann?

The structure of modern computers is designed by you, and it has not changed for decades.

We didn't expect the US officials to let you, a great god, come here.But since you're here, we don't intend to let you go easily.You can bring your own funds to join the research group, there is nothing better than this in the world. "

Win-win!

Both parties are happy and set cooperation norms.

Americans realize the importance of supercomputing, and their first reaction is to invest money in people.The U.S. Congress knows that it has been blackmailed, but it can only hold its nose and allow American universities to cooperate with China.

Not only did Princeton University, where von Neumann works, set up a research group at the Imperial Semiconductor Research Institute, but seven or eight other universities also sent well-known scholars to rush to cooperate.

At this time, the rich and powerful posture of the Yankees came out.

Also lacking a research site, Mao Zi used the railway to transport building materials and equipment from the Far East Military Region.The Yankees who did the 'Berlin Airlift' shipped it directly from Japan with the Air Force.

Not only did they bring in building materials, but they even simply presented a set of cement production lines as a gift. They just asked the engineers in the imperial capital to act quickly.

Academician Xia, who just came back from the UK, doesn't have to start computer research from scratch, and Director Hua of the Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences doesn't have to worry about computing equipment.

A group of domestic researchers joined the semiconductor research institute of 'General Master Yang', which expanded the number of people in this institute to more than 300. With the equipment and materials donated by Americans, more than ten research directions were added.

Except for "Academician Xia" who followed von Neumann to study and design a new generation of "Dongfeng" supercomputer, the others mainly focused on the domestic substitution of production equipment, raw materials and chemicals.

The United States is currently unable to figure out the details and shortcomings of domestic technology, and is seeking domestic supercomputing for scientific research. It has relaxed the export of equipment, materials and pharmaceuticals.

Marshall came to the imperial capital in early December, and by the end of December 12, the United States used transport planes to transport the transistor production equipment and raw materials needed by "General Master Yang" to the imperial capital.

The newly independent semiconductor device factory quickly broke through the production capacity of [-] transistors per month, and marched towards a million transistors.

In the absence of mass production in the whole world, transistor technology is like a cash cow, which will bring huge benefits to New China.

It's just that some things have to work out eventually.

Before Marshall left China, he summoned 'Chanders' who was also at the State Guesthouse.After staring at it for a long time, he asked in a deep voice, "Before I came to China, the FBI gave me a report saying that you had secretly joined the American Communist Party."

There were also several American Secret Service in the room, simply surrounding 'Chanders' with cold eyes.

Zhou Qingfeng, wearing the 'Chanders' filter, smiled at this, and said calmly: "Yes, it used to be."

"And now?" Marshall continued.

"I'm working for New China now." Zhou Qingfeng confided the truth without hesitation.

Marshall's eyes sharpened instantly, and the temperature in the room seemed to drop a few degrees.The veteran who has made great contributions to the United States whispered angrily: "You are treason."

Zhou Qingfeng shook his head, "The situation is a bit complicated, but I have not betrayed my motherland."

"Are you planning to defect when you come to China this time?"

"Of course not. I still want to go back to the United States to continue my work."

"You still plan to return to the United States? I can arrest you now and send you back to China for trial immediately."