Chapter 268: Military Chips
"Oh my God, why are there so many chips?" Zhong Xiaomo looked at the dozens of different kinds of chips in the bag that were well packaged and neatly stacked together, and couldn't believe his eyes, and then held the bag with both hands, a pair of small eyes instantly opened the boss, but then his brows immediately furrowed, his steady and rigorous face showed deep reluctance, and even the tone of his voice became a little distressed:
"Director Lu, how much money does it cost us to do this!"
"Don't worry, Chief Engineer Zhong, it didn't cost us much money!"
"It didn't cost much, then there has to be a number!" As soon as Liu Haotian's voice fell, Zhong Xiaomo took over the conversation, with the persistence of intellectuals and a rigorous and realistic attitude towards everything, looking at Liu Haotian and Lu Jiadong opposite, there was also a trace of inexplicable excitement between the words, but more was a deep consolation:
"Director Liu, Director Lu, it is not easy for the country to support our artillery radar project in such a difficult situation, because of this, we must save more, we must not blindly spend money in order to rush the progress, looking at a large package of chips, not to mention tens of thousands of dollars, if our funds continue to be spent like this, even a gold mountain is not enough!"
"If it's really as expensive as Chief Master Zhong said, then I'm really a loser!"
"Loser, this is a little too much!" Listening to Lu Jiadong's words, Zhong Xiaomo nodded slightly, and her face softened slightly: "But we have to save Director Enlu no matter what, what do you mean just now?"
Before he finished speaking, Zhong Xiaomo immediately reacted, after all, he has been the director of the Electronic Radar Institute for many years, how can he not know the meaning of Lu Jiadong's words, but some authorities are confused, and they are suppressed by such a large number of chips with advanced performance, so they are a little preconceived when they speak, so Zhong Xiaomo understands it. His eyes suddenly widened, and he asked Lu Jiadong:
"Director Lu, how much do these chips cost?"
As soon as Zhong Xiaomo's words fell, an indifferent smile flashed on Lu Jiadong's face. Unhurriedly, he said, "Less than two thousand dollars!"
"Less than two thousand dollars?" After hearing this figure in Lu Jiadong's mouth, Zhong Xiaomo couldn't believe his ears, not only Zhong Xiaomo, but even Song Xiaoxu, who was standing behind him, couldn't help but open his eyes wide!
Because in their memory, the import price of an ordinary control chip is at least tens of dollars. Converted into renminbi, it would cost hundreds of yuan, which was an average of only thirty or forty yuan for Chinese scientific research workers at that time, and its high degree can be imagined.
And this is just an ordinary civilian chip, high-performance military chips are even more ridiculously expensive, a high-performance military chip, as little as hundreds of dollars, more than thousands of dollars, converted into RMB, so the value of a small piece of things that are not the size of a palm is several times more expensive than gold.
But even so, under the blockade of the West. These high-performance military chips can be described as a piece of hard to find, and it is not too much to describe it as priceless, not to mention a dozen pieces at a time, even if you can get a small piece of second-hand chips, it is like getting a baby, and I am very happy.
But I didn't expect that the bag of chips in my hand now not only has dozens of pieces, but also looks brand new, and more importantly, its price is less than two thousand dollars, which is no longer cheap for high-performance military chips, it is simply the price of cabbage. Because of this, Zhong Xiaomo couldn't believe what she saw in front of her, and couldn't help but raise her head and look at Lu Jiadong and Liu Haotian in front of her in surprise, and then looked down at the bag of high-performance chips in her hand. The words are full of incredible:
"How could this chip be"
"Chief Master Zhong, we have our special channel, and the purchase price is the same as the domestic selling price in the United States!" Looking at Zhong Xiaomo's shocked expression and listening to his incredible words, how could Lu Jiadong not understand what he meant, so before he could finish speaking, he opened his mouth with a faint smile and explained. The special channel Lu Jiadong mentioned is nothing else, it is the secret channel of Sino-US military trade established by Blomberg as an intermediary.
Not long ago, it was through the help of this Mossad agent under the cover of an international arms broker that Lu Jiadong obtained a batch of high-performance military chips, which are 80% lower than those chip dealers in the international market who use technical barriers to raise prices because they are all calculated according to the domestic selling price in the United States Above, calculated in this way, the price of a military chip in the international market is only tens of dollars, and Lu Jiadong can only get it for dozens of dollars, because of this, Lu Jiadong can purchase so many high-performance chips with less than two thousand dollars!
Of course, it is inconvenient for Lu Jiadong to say the specific details involved, and Zhong Xiaomo, who has been fighting on the front line of military scientific research for a long time and has rich experience, naturally knows very well that there are some things that cannot be asked in detail, but even so, Zhong Xiaomo still said excitedly to the two leaders in front of him with excitement:
"Director Liu, Director Lu, thank you so much, with these high-performance military chips, the performance of our artillery radar is definitely stronger than that of the British!
"The chips for the prototype are enough now, but I don't know if the supply will be sufficient in mass production in the future, even if the supply is sufficient, what if one day these foreigners are like those British, what will we do if we get stuck in our necks?"
"Chief Master Zhong is right!" As soon as Zhong Xiaomo's voice fell, Lu Jiadong nodded and said: "With the development of military equipment and the national economy, our country's demand for high-performance chips will be more and more.
It is a long way to go to step into the world's advanced ranks, and the establishment of our country's own chip industry is the fundamental solution, so we need a long-term plan to achieve it, so I think we should catch up in accordance with the way of small steps and gradual development!"
"Run in small steps, develop gradually?" said that, Zhong Xiaomo's eyes couldn't help but light up, and Liu Haotian, who was standing opposite him, said:
"This process is relatively long, and the specific plan and planning are still being carefully studied, but as far as our current chip supply is concerned, it is still possible to ensure the development of artillery radar!"
After listening to Liu Haotian's words, Zhong Xiaomo knew that there were many things that were inconvenient to talk about, so he stopped asking, and at this moment, Lu Jiadong lost no time in changing the topic:
"Master Zhong, I don't know a lot about this kind of chip!" Lu Jiadong did not directly answer Zhong Xiaomo's words, but pointed to the chip in the bag with a humble and confident smile on his face and said slowly:
"So this time, I'll take everything I can get in my hands, just to see if these chips can be used on our artillery radar!"
"Yes, yes! Yes! Absolutely!" As soon as Lu Jiadong's voice fell, Zhong Xiaomo nodded like pounding garlic, and his excited look was even more overflowing, and then he carefully took out a chip from the bag and held it up in front of him like a pearl in his palm, his eyes were even more excited, and even his voice trembled slightly:
"Take this Z80 chip as an example, it is of great help to the control and basic operation of the radar, with it, the circuit of our radar can be made smaller, and the calculation speed will be doubled!"
As she spoke, Zhong Xiaomo carefully put the Z80 chip into it, and then took out a boxy chip, with golden light in her eyes:
"There is also this DSP-1 digital signal processing chip, the signal transceiver and processing of the radar is a very core technical problem, originally our radar uses the traditional analog signal processing method, the response speed is very slow, and the maintenance is also very troublesome, if this digital signal processing chip is used, these problems will be solved, the efficiency of the radar will be doubled, and this chip"
Zhong Xiaomo is worthy of being an expert in radar and electronic technology, and he is very familiar with the performance of various chips that can be used on radar, and he is very familiar with the performance of chips, and the whole person is happy like a child showing off the hard-won "baby" in his hand to his friends.
In this way, Zhong Xiaomo, who was extremely excited, introduced several chips that could be used for radar in a row, until he took out a long strip shape with neat interface protrusions on both sides, Zhong Xiaomo's original unaware words suddenly stopped, and then flipped over the chip, looked at the clear numbers engraved on the back, and said suspiciously:
"What kind of chip is this?"
"8088?the latest 16-bit microprocessor launched by Intel Corporation in 1979!" Before Zhong Xiaomo finished speaking, Song Xiaoxu, who was standing behind him, suddenly let out an exclamation, and then opened his eyes wide, staring closely at the 8088 chip in Zhong Xiaomo's hand, as if he had finally found the treasure he had been looking for for many years, and then smiled as if others were excited:
"Haha~~~ With the 8088 chip, then I am 100% sure that the DJS-140 computer will be smaller and more powerful!"
"Can the performance of the DJS-140 computer be further improved?" As soon as Song Xiaoxu's voice fell, Lu Jiadong couldn't wait to ask, and the same words came from the end of the corridor at the same time. )