Chapter 74: A Pentium III Computer Worth 200 Million

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Liang Yuan watched as the HNA pilot left the hangar through the huge and heavy concrete gate, stood up from the flight seat, stepped on the edge of the cockpit to find the position of the boarding ladder, and carefully climbed down from the F14 fighter.

"Uncle Ning, how long do these pilots have to train before they can go out on missions. Liang Yuan asked casually.

Ning Lei smiled bitterly and said, "In a year's time, they can fly the plane to Nansha for a cruise, and then fly back safely, which is considered a genius." ”

Liang Yuan was stunned for a moment when he heard that it would take so long, and then realized that he had always ignored the fact that it would take a long time for the new equipment to enter service and the formation of combat effectiveness in the troops.

Ning Lei went to the United States in July last year until he returned to China in March, and he trained in the United States for nine months, and with the advanced training facilities in the United States, and in order to enter the military aircraft market of the Republic, the Grumman Company deliberately provided Ning Lei with a large amount of flight time, and only completed the F14 fighter take-off and landing at six airports and the visual range air combat, and there was no time to mention the content involving aircraft carriers.

With the backward level of training in China, how long will it take for the F-14 fighters to form combat effectiveness and complete combat readiness duty? At present, the Republic does not even have a flight simulator for the F-14 fighters.

Liang Yuan patted his forehead and got a little big, there are simply too many things that need to be done, and now it seems that the arrival of the plane is just the beginning of trouble, in the eighties, the Republic has not even fully mastered the flight characteristics of the second-generation fighter J-7, and the difficulty of directly going directly to the third-generation fighter can be imagined.

Based on the current remaining three to four thousand hours of service life of the F14 fighter. Before the fuselage is scrapped, it seems to be a very unreliable thing for the pilots of the republic to fully grasp the flight characteristics of the F14 fighter under various conditions and degrees.

Even Grumman, which produced and designed the F14 fighter, needs tens of thousands of hours of wind tunnel testing and hundreds of hours of finalized test flights if it wants to fully grasp the various flight characteristics of the F14 fighter.

Unless the air forces of some African countries learn from the example of later generations, they only take off, land, identify radars, launch missiles, and fly away with afterburner, it is impossible for the F14 fighter to fully grasp the combat potential of the aircraft during its limited life.

Without knowing the core number of the F14 fighter, the pilots of the republic could only fly in accordance with the flight manuals provided by the United States. Don't dare to do anything outside of the scope of the manual, or you will be in danger of crashing at any moment.

It is entirely conceivable that the United States will give the Republic a streamlined flight manual, and it is no wonder that the US Congress happily approved the export of F14 fighter jets.

"Uncle Ning, it takes so long to form combat effectiveness, what should I do over there in Nansha?"

Ning Lei laughed and said confidently: "Isn't there still Uncle Ning, in terms of the performance of the F14, unless Vietnam dispatches a large-scale fleet." Otherwise a two-plane formation will be enough. ”

"But there's one thing, if only I could do it. Ning Lei said.

"What's the matter?" Liang Yuan asked curiously.

"I heard you call the Science and Technology Park a few days ago, saying that you have imported an advanced processor from abroad?" asked Ning Lei.

Liang Yuan nodded. said: "It's an overseas Chinese, called Fang Dongxing, the new processor was developed by him in the United States, he just returned to China a few days ago, and he has joined the Science and Technology Park, and is now responsible for the processor work in the chip room." ”

"Xiaoyuan, do you have the ability to research a computer in that chip room?" Ning Lei asked with some expectation.

"What does Uncle Ning want a computer?"

"When Uncle Ning was training at Grumman, he spent a large part of his time in the flight simulation training center of the F14 fighter, where there was a high-fidelity flight simulator that had just been put into use. It can perfectly reflect the whole process of take-off, landing, and partial maneuvering of the F14 fighter. ”

Later, Uncle Ning learned that the flight simulator was made of a level computer as the core, and the various actions of the F14 fighter were simulated through guò projection, but unfortunately that set of equipment involved advanced computers The United States Congress banned the export, otherwise if you buy one back, the pilot's training time can be shortened by at least half, and there is no need to consume the precious life of the aircraft. Ning Lei explained the matter in detail.

Liang Yuan couldn't laugh or cry when he heard Ning Lei finish speaking. There are five flavors in my heart, and I don't know what to say, and now the fighter high simulation system in Ning Lei's mouth is about the same as the flight simulation games produced by Microsoft in the future. Of course, the effect is far inferior.

How many calculations can be performed on a current computer, Liang Yuan recalls the memorabilia of the 80s in the processor industry.

Liang Yuan vaguely remembers that in the early 90s, the world's first commercial-grade computer was put into use, and the price of the machine was about 3ooo US dollars, and the computing power obtained from nearly 2oooo processing parallel connections obtained 1.6 billion yuan per second.

According to Moore's Law (Note 1), the computing power of the current computer in Ning Lei's mouth is about 4o billion per second, which is equivalent to the high-frequency Pentium three processors produced by Intel in the future.

According to Moore's Law, the current price of that class computer will definitely not be lower than $3ooo.

Spending 3ooo US dollars or more than 200 million yuan to buy a Bensan computer, Liang Yuan suddenly felt that his brain was a little deprived of oxygen.

"Uh...... , Uncle Ning, this thing should be able to be developed in the Science and Technology Park, but the cost may be a little high. Liang Yuan said with a strange expression.

The current class computer in the Republic is the Galaxy-1 tube computer put into service in 1983, with a degree of 100 million operations per second, which is about slightly stronger than the 486 microprocessor that Intel put into production in 199o.

According to Liang Yuan's estimates, the processor of the world's first commercial-grade computer with an operation of 1.6o billion degrees per second should be a 486-level chip, and now the C2 processor in the chip room of the Science and Technology Park is equivalent to Intel's 286 series chips.

In the case of two generations of the same 486 chip, the level computer composed of C2 processors is fully capable of reaching 4o billion computing power per second, but the number of chips required should be between 2oooo tablets and 3oooo tablets, and the current price of 286 computers in the Republic of China is 27ooo yuan / unit for reference, and the cost of the chip alone is close to 100 million.

"Xiaoyuan, how much can it cost?" Ning Lei asked a little nervously.

Liang Yuan thought for a while and said, "At least 200 million is needed." ”

"Xiaoyuan, how sure can the Science and Technology Park be?" Ning Lei's tone couldn't help but rise, some high-end items, for the troops, as long as this thing can be solved in RMB, it is not a big problem.

Liang Yuan stretched out his thumb and index finger and gestured, and said, "Uncle Ning, you can probably be eighty percent sure." ”

Among the technical difficulties of the computer, the computing power of the chip is not the most important, but the heat dissipation and compatibility of the whole system, and this technical problem in engineering application happens to be the strength of the republic.

When the source of the chip is solved, as long as you are willing to invest money, the level computer does not have any technical difficulty for the republic.

Note 1: When the price remains the same, the number of transistors that can fit on an integrated circuit will double approximately every 18 months, and the performance will also be doubled.