Around the mid-1990s, the Republic's annual investment in the telecommunications industry was claimed to exceed the annual national defense expenditure. If we look into the root causes, the use of overseas interest-free and low-interest long-term loans accounted for a large proportion.

For example, in the three years from 1991 to 1994, the Republic used more than US$2.5 billion in overseas loans on a single device of digital switches, and introduced more than 10 million switches from various international brands.

In addition to imported switches, in the mid-to-early 1990s, the only joint venture company in Wusongbell could produce digital switches in the Republic.

If Liang Yuan had not been there, the joint venture would have grown into a monopoly giant enterprise in the Republic's telecom market in the 1990s. At its peak, Bell's products once accounted for 60% of the Republic's programmable telephone network equipment.

With the success of the supercomputing project, the benefits of focusing on large-scale cutting-edge technologies have begun to be reflected in the basic industry. For example, Inspur is currently 40 million times per second, with an external quotation of 2.4 million per unit, which can be regarded as an affiliated result of supercomputing research and development.

No matter how expensive a simple supercomputer is, it will be almost as high as 300 million or 400 million. In terms of volume, it is destined to be unable to compare with Inspur Workstation.

Due to the low yield rate of the high-frequency chips of the elite version of C3 processor, Yuanjia Supercomputer is expected to be within ten units per year. Even if the 2.0 micron process technology that has been quarrel with Motorola and Siemens for a year is immediately approved for introduction. It will be fast for the equipment to be officially produced for eight months after installation and commissioning. The yield rate of the new line reaches an acceptable commercialization level, which is already twelve or even fourteen months later.

At present, the supercomputer with a computing speed of 3 billion times per second can barely be considered a tail tip of the international mainstream level. However, in terms of the development speed of chips, one year later, that is, in the mid-1991, Inspur's supercomputer needs to maintain competitiveness, at least increase the computing speed to more than 6 billion times. In 1992, it must exceed the 10 billion mark. This is almost an endless marathon. A little relief means falling behind.

The development of the next-generation processor C4 of Hong Kong-based collectors has been on track. In the early stage, thanks to the technological accumulation of Fang Xingdong and Mips introduced, the expected development time for the new generation of processors is as long as 20 months.

If the c4 processor is successfully developed, the supercomputer system that has fallen behind at that time will definitely face upgrades. Fortunately, Inspur's supercomputer architecture is advanced, but the ability of supercomputer to process data after the upgrade has greatly increased, and the router will definitely be upgraded accordingly. Changing from the original router's elite version of the c3 main control chip to the elite version of the c4 main control chip is equivalent to a new round of cycles. The output of top supercomputers is still not enough, and there are still ten units per year.

To solve this bottleneck, unless you directly introduce 1.0 micron advanced process, unfortunately, the possibility of directly introducing top overseas process technologies is not as good as that of Liang Tuhao Krgyzstan Mongolia's domestic technology breakthrough.

Of course, the top-notch supercomputers are limited by production, and other high-performance workstations and other high-performance workstations are more expensive. However, the limited number of Hong Kong-based power collection 5.0 microns is already behind the international mainstream production line process technology. Inspur high-performance workstations consume a lot of power and heat. Basically, there is no need for heating in an ordinary room, and there is no need for heating in winter.

But even so, Inspur workstations will bring great benefits to Hong Kong-based power collection. The quotation range is from more than 20 million to more than 50 million. A small computing cluster with 300 million computing power per second, composed of eight to 19 Inspur workstations, is enough to cope with the demand for high-performance computers in more than ten industries such as the Republic of China, including finance, taxation, stock market, scientific research, geology, and telecommunications.

In terms of hardware performance, Inspur's current small technology cluster is basically equivalent to the low-end X-Series or i-Series products among the high-performance mainframes that ibm is well-known worldwide in the future. For example, it can fully meet the data processing needs of banks at both provincial and municipal levels.

Of course, for the data processing of backbone nodes of national-level finance, energy, and telecommunications, only supercomputers can be competent in Inspur’s product line, and software needs to continue to work hard. Fortunately, the 1990s is now in the 1990s, and ibm’s commercial mainframe has just started, leaving enough time for Yuanjia.

On May 18 last month, after Inspur announced that the Republic had successfully developed supercomputers with 3 billion times per second, less than 48 hours later, Wu Zhonghua went directly to Liang Yuan on behalf of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and found Liang Yuan's head.

Wu Zhonghua, who knows the inside story of Yuanjia, has long learned from Li Yuanling that the annual output of supercomputers is not high due to the fact that the high-traffic router is too difficult to produce.

The first supercomputer has been taken away by the military aircraft, and the second supercomputer Huachen is booked. The priority of these two is definitely unstoppable. Even Liang Yuan dares not express any opinions, but it is worth discussing who the third supercomputer gives.

When people talk about the Republic in the 1990s, they may use adjectives such as simplicity, vitality, and hard work. However, poverty and backwardness are definitely one of the top vocabulary, but it is hard for some people to believe that the Republic is actually very fashionable in pursuing the application of advanced technology, but it is just that many beautiful ideas cannot be supported by the national strength.

For example, in the mid-1980s, the future Prime Minister of the Republic proposed the possibility of a fully electronic office in the government. However, the Republic had neither technology nor funds at that time. Compared with the foreign exchange assets that could be used, there were countless more important directions waiting to be invested than electronic offices.

Mr. Wu was indeed right. As soon as he found Liang Yuan, he had just finished speaking and said a few words, Su Liangyu directly chased into Liang Yuan's study room by phone.

The Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank are both very interested in Inspur’s supercomputing. The central bank did not even ask about the price of the supercomputing. After crossing the Inspur’s relationship at the front desk, it found Su Liangyu and directly stated that he could book two units in full.

No matter which year or month the Republic officials were, there were those who were busy waiting to die and were naturally promoted. It is obvious that the supercomputing matter has not only been paid attention to by the Republic's military since its development, but it was limited to the military's confidentiality system. Countless other government agencies only knew that there was a high chance of success in this project, and they would definitely not know other details.

But as Inspur announced the news, smart people who are prepared will naturally try to seize the opportunity in advance. What's more, under the strong push of someone, the Republic has more national-level data departments than in history. Now, with the development of the Torch Plan, the power of the Data Department has already shown a trend of moxibustion and hand-heat in the Republic's science and technology field.

At that time, the judgment that the Huaihe River Basin might have flooded directly to the central level. After several rounds of fierce debates between experts in related fields, facing huge pressure, the meteorological engineer who first discovered clues chose to give up his own views and hand over the final choice to God. Unfortunately, the world is unkind and regards all things as straw dogs.

There is nothing to blame for the final choice of this meteorological engineer. Although human forecasts in the meteorological field are much better than those in the earthquake field, that is after the computer performance of the new century has been greatly improved. And it is limited to a small area of ​​a certain city. Accurate forecasts of long-term trends in large areas are still a world-class problem.

It is also easy to understand from a technical perspective that the larger the region, the more gas molecules it needs to be monitored, and the stronger the computing power it requires. Compared with the total number of gas molecules in the world, it is still far from enough.

For an industry like the Central Meteorological Administration, which has been fighting on the cutting-edge frontline of human scientific research since its establishment, it can almost be regarded as a direct research unit of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Liang Yuan did not hide his intentions and directly told Wu Zhonghua about his original plan. Finally, after the Central Meteorological Bureau had to obtain at least 25% of the supercomputer usage time, Liang Yuan sold the third supercomputer produced by Inspur to the Chinese Academy of Sciences at a 30% discount.

Then, when someone was facing the almost surging wave of supercomputer buying, he completely became disheartened. After he turned the blame to Su Liangyu, Liang Yuan ran to the homework room prepared by He Yunwei for the three of them in the Shangri-La Hotel without even going back.

With industry elites like Wang Xin, naturally, they will not turn a blind eye to switches when developing routers. Due to the high correlation between these two technologies, Inspur has solved high-difficulty routers, and it is natural to develop switches on the peak. Even due to the high starting point, Inspur is in a state of unstoppable situation in switch research and development, with almost no lag and directly breaking through the current international mainstream 100,000-line technology mark.

To a certain extent, Liang Yuan directed the Hong Kong-based power collection and Inspur's supercomputer project to fight against the United States. Although the cost is huge and the risk is high, the harvest will be extremely rich once it is successful. For example, Inspur has become a telecommunications equipment manufacturer with the world's first-class level almost overnight through the development of top supercomputer projects.

"In addition to supporting Jiajia and Feifei to prevent them from becoming eggs these days, I have to prepare for the final of the Youth Science Competition in Wusong in July. I didn't look at the experimental data of the program-controlled switch recently. The group's product tests have to pass by you. Comrade Xiao Nie told me the truth about the switch test. I won't tell Wang Xin and Liu Feiyang if there is any bad thing." Liang Yuan said with a smile.

"The progress of routers and supercomputers is the best, but I have time to ask about the progress of the switch. I have never heard of the oldest ask about the progress of the switch in the past two years. I thought the youngest looked down on the small market of programmable switches."

Nie Xiaotian sighed and continued: "The switch with 10,000 wires is left for testing by me. At present, it is great, both the sound quality, the connection rate and the disconnection rate are excellent. There is also a top product, 100,000 wires, and sent to the Municipal Postal Bureau for testing. There has been no problem with the equipment itself, but because the switch brands in the city have three countries and four standards, the disconnection rate of the telephone is very high, and the voice distortion problem is also very prominent."
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