Chapter 343 (1/2)
After a week, the matter of Xiangjiang black cloud group was basically handled. For the battle between Swire and foreign banks caused by the siege of reporters at the airport, the Charter King took the blame and resigned the chairman of the Jockey Club, and heiyun group cancelled all HSBC accounts. It can be said that there was no winner, baozixuan did not achieve its strategic goal, the schweiya family increased its liabilities, HSBC lost 150000 customers and 100 billion deposits. If it were not for the rapid development of black cloud group, HSBC would not have so many cash reserves. Now I can take out so much money, thanks to baozixuan. The only beneficiary may be RB Sumitomo Bank, but who can tell the future!
Baozixuan understands the historical trend, with the deepening and acceleration of China's reform and opening up. Many large-scale equipment and industrial computers are needed in the future. At present, a full set of technical data has been purchased for large-scale equipment in Germany and the United States, together with the supply of raw materials from the Soviet Union. Production and assembly in Xiangjiang is no longer a problem. The only deficiency is that baohuodong mining company has not been put into operation, and the steel output may not go up. Fortunately, there is not so much demand in the market, and everything is mainly based on technical reserves.
Seeing IBM enter the notebook computer industry without wasting profits! Baozixuan has long wanted to enter the field of large-scale industrial computers. This is an opportunity, but in order to confuse Americans, the CPU used in this large industrial computer is all Motorola chips. Black cloud is also discussing whether to use its own chips, but baozixuan should not expose his strength too early after careful consideration.
In addition, the operation of Motorola chip is very stable, and the performance of the chip designed by black cloud itself can not meet the requirements. We can only wait until arm grows up and gradually improves. Now, heiyun's own engineer reserve is not in place.
At the same time, in order to meet the need of confidentiality, there are two teams in black cloud developing large-scale industrial computers. One in the United States and one in Xiangjiang. The information on both sides can be shared. Once the required equipment is finalized, mass production will begin immediately. At the same time, the purchased parts are also transported back to Xiangjiang for storage in large quantities.
After the good news came from the American team, baozixuan left Xiangjiang and boarded the charter plane to the United States. The main reason is that large industrial computers will appear at the Los Angeles electronic technology exhibition. Baozixuan also needs to be familiar with it in advance and improve the system.
At the end of February 1981, baozixuan returned to the United States again. Now for him, he will choose charter flights every time he travels, which is more convenient, and there can be more accompanying people. After all, with the increase of wealth, the security problem can not tolerate any carelessness.
When he came to the black cloud computer headquarters in Cambridge, baozixuan looked at the final assembly and debugging. The behemoth in front of us is the large-scale industrial computer developed by the black cloud engineer team in recent two years. This is also based on many IBM design concepts and the future development direction of industrial computers instilled by baozixuan into the whole team; To have this epoch-making product.
Bao Zixuan looked at Professor Harry Roland and and said, ”is the professor satisfied with the performance of our computer?”
This time, the computer is still thanks to the assistance of professors and graduate students at MIT. Without them, it will take at least two years to achieve this performance. For fear of patent disputes, baozixuan paid the school $20 million in R & D funds. And after the completion of research and development, donate 10 mainframe computers to the school free of charge; It is estimated to be more than $20 million.
Technology is controlled by others, and there is no way. But fortunately, the first batch of enrollment of Yulin Institute of technology is mainly computer science, which can be regarded as filling the gap.
Harry Roland: ”I didn't expect you to develop this big guy. Now it seems that the blue giant has a strong opponent. This is not a bad thing for them, but you should be careful in the future. When they reflect it, they don't care. ”
Harry Roland said that since the advent of the IBM 360 large-scale industrial computer and its later improved models, the blue giant has occupied more than 90% of the market share with its technical advantages. This was a serious violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, so IBM began to be investigated. It was not until 83 that the case ended, which to some extent restrained the development of IBM. Otherwise, with their technical reserves, they must be the first to develop the first home computer.
Bao Zixuan: ”society is developing. We can't always look ahead and backward. Now I just want to change the world, others will comment. ”
Harry Roland: ”let me introduce you to the performance of this computer! The computer weighs 2.5 tons, uses 8000 Motorola 68000 chips, and has an average computing speed of 3.8 million times / s; The peak computing speed can reach 5.18 million times / second. ”