Not to mention that Cao Changjiu made a guest appearance as a teacher in Hong Kong, which was extremely distressing, and Dr. Yu was also exhausted on the plane.

These days, Dr. Yu has traveled back and forth between the two continents, juggling around politicians and businessmen, suffering both physically and mentally, even a man with iron can not stand it.

But these are just small things, nothing more than some hardships, and Dr. Yu is not in his eyes. What really pained him was that he couldn't find the direction of development, and it was more uncomfortable than failing in the previous business.

In the past, I was chasing the market, and if I failed, I was not good at learning and had nothing to say. But now that he has an incomparable advanced design in his hand and wants to serve the motherland with enthusiasm, Dr. Yu feels that his future is worrying and there is no way out.

Dr. Yu closed his eyes for a while, but he couldn't sleep, and he couldn't help but think of what happened to him in the United States not long ago.

At that time, he ambitiously came to the United States to apply for a patent with the long-term design of microprocessors, and waited for a response with hope, but did not expect to encounter unexpected difficulties.

The U.S. Patent Office delayed giving him a reply from the patent application materials submitted by Dr. Yu, and the answer was always one word—no comment.

Every time Dr. Yu asked, the Americans always found this and that reason to prevaricate, and the doctor was furious, but there was nothing he could do.

This is not the first time this has happened, and the Chinese have to pay some price if they want to get the benefits of the Americans.

The United States prides itself on being a free society with endless opportunities for fair competition, and vigorously promotes the American dream of making a fortune.

It's a pity that this is a myth that only works for Americans, or rather, only for white Americans.

On the one hand, the United States is trying its best to attract the world's best talent to work for itself, but on the other hand, it is doing everything possible to prevent the outflow of technology, especially for people of Chinese descent.

The Chinese have a bright mind and a spirit of hard work, and they are present in a large number of research departments in the United States, and the Chinese have made immeasurable contributions to the development of science and technology in the United States.

However, due to cultural differences, it is difficult for Westerners to communicate with them, and they are even more hostile to Red China, so Chinese Americans are often treated unequally.

What Dr. Yu encountered was a very common troublesome incident, and there had been such cases before, that is, the famous Wang An Company.

Wang An Company was founded in 1951 by Mr. Wang An, a Chinese student from Shanghai, and the main product in the early days was magnetic core memory.

At that time, the memory used in computers was magnetic drums, which can be said to be extremely backward. In 1949, Wang An, who was still a student in the computer laboratory of Harvard University, invented the magnetic core random access memory on his own, which was a breakthrough in the field of memory.

This invention attracted the attention of the computer field as soon as it came out, and Mr. Wang An was quite satisfied, but he did not expect that the disaster had just begun.

In 49, Wang An filed a patent application for the newly invented magnetic core storage technology, but the US Patent Office made it difficult to give the patent to a Chinese.

How to say, take the present as an analogy, all random access memory in the world is based on integrated circuits, and Mr. Wang An's invention is DRAM now.

If he gets the patent, then all the memory manufacturers in the world will have to pay, and that's it.

How could such an important technology be in the hands of a Chinese? That's what the Americans thought at the time.

Therefore, the Americans tried their best to obstruct Wang An from obtaining the patent for the magnetic core, and the main point was one word - drag.

This dragged on for 6 years, during which Wang An founded his own company to produce magnetic core memory.

Because the core technology is simple and the imitation is easy, Wang An's company almost went out of business in the days when it did not obtain a patent.

Later, due to social pressure, the U.S. government still granted the patent to Wang An, but there was one condition, that is, Wang An sold out the patent of the core memory to IBM, otherwise it would not be authorized.

To live or to perish, everyone can imagine. People had to bow their heads under the roof, and the down-and-out Wang An had no choice but to give in and sell the core technology to IBM for $2.5 million, finally fulfilling the wishes of the US government.

As for Wang An's use of this money to develop an advanced word processing machine, which is a big sell, it will be a matter of later, and we will talk about it when we have the opportunity in the future, and now Dr. Yu has encountered the same problem.

Thankfully, Dr. Yu soon realizes that something is wrong and enlists the help of some friends, including his old boss, Andy Grove.

Boss Ge is a Jew, and he is very sensitive to this kind of thing, let alone when it happens to an apprentice he admires.

Born as a mechanic, Ge Laoda has worked hard all his life, and he is convinced that only paranoia can survive, and he hates this kind of thing that has worked hard but has not been rewarded.

With a fiery temper, he immediately ran around for his apprentices, contacted the heroes of the rivers and lakes to demonstrate to the government, and caused a lot of turmoil.

In view of the bad impact, the US Patent Office was forced to step down, so it had to deny the patent on the grounds that Dr. Yu's patent application did not have pictures or physical objects, and did not comply with the patent application regulations.

This hit Dr. Yu's dead end, and the long-term microprocessor at that time did not produce samples, and only existed on drawings.

This time, everyone couldn't help the fist, and Dr. Yu had to return to the mainland gloomily.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he returned to the mainland, he got Cao Changjiu's sample, which made Dr. Yu very happy, and felt that there was no endless road, and he set foot on the road back to the United States again.

At this time, the U.S. Patent Office had to act in accordance with the rules under the pressure of public opinion and reviewed the information submitted by Dr. Yu. However, it was still delayed, which meant that it would take at least six months for Dr. Yu to get the patent for Cao Changchang, but this was already the best result.

With the excellent performance of the finished microprocessor, Dr. Yu is ready to strike while the iron is hot and find an investor to promote it. Who knew that no one was interested, and there were a few large companies that wanted to buy technology, but their conditions were very harsh, and they actually wanted Dr. Yu to authorize them unconditionally.

Where can this work, Dr. Yu flatly refused, he still wants to rely on this to strengthen the country, and the technology is better in his own hands.

Dr. Yu is a tough man, and he runs around selling his microprocessor, but unfortunately he also runs into walls everywhere, and in the end, it is his old boss who gives him guidance.

Boss Ge is indeed amazingly talented, he has been in this industry for many years and has rich experience, and he can see the mystery at a glance: "No one will do anything without profit, those venture capitalists are not stupid, they only like things with low input and high output." This processor of yours is really good, but there is no software, no technical support, no market, nothing. You have to get them to invest in production, develop software, open up the market, impossible!"

Dr. Yu actually knew it, but he dreamed of a miracle happening, but unfortunately he didn't.

Before returning to the mainland this time, Dr. Yu talked to his old boss again and poured out his ideal of serving the country with industry.

Boss Ge also deeply understood: "You still have your own country, but I am a rootless person, and the descendants of Isaac are wandering in all directions. But you also know that microprocessors do not see the prospects for development now, everyone is betting on the future, whether it is research and development or manufacturing requires a lot of funds, you can not succeed without the support of the state, even Intel is relying on the profits from selling memory to support the microprocessor department. Yu, you better come back, with your talents, you will be the object of retention. ”

Dr. Yu reluctantly rejected the kindness of his old boss, since he embarked on this road of serving the country, he could not easily retreat, the more the opponent did not want you to do, the more you had to do it, this is Dr. Yu's consistent creed.

Seeing that he couldn't persuade him, Boss Ge had to give one last piece of advice: "Since you have made up your mind, then bless you." If you really want to do it alone, make a memory first, it's a gold mine forever. ”

Thinking of the stubborn elder, Dr. Yu couldn't help but smile, but where was the road?