Facts have shown that the on-board computers used by military fighters are not simply improvements to personal PCs, and the difference between the two alone is enough to make Yaoguang electronic technicians engaged in civilian technology development scratch their heads.

Wang Zhengguo was dragged to Factory 123 by Tu Zhenyin, and after learning about the relevant requirements, the whole person was quiet, because she understood the importance of the on-board computer.

But it is precisely because I am too clear about the on-board computer that I don't know how to give reliable advice for a while, after a long period of silence.

"Mr. Tu, the on-board computer is indeed very important, but Yaoguang Electronics will never be able to do this thing, and even if it has the ability, it cannot engage in this kind of work. ”

Compared with Yaoguang Electronics' positioning, this is actually a company specializing in the development of consumer electronic products, which is essentially not much different from the Great Wall and Lenovo.

Once Yaoguang Electronics is mixed with the military, if you want to enter the foreign market in the future, you will encounter a lot of trouble, coupled with the existence of Chambers, the Yankee, let Yaoguang Electronics develop airborne computers, that is not to think.

Of course, someone knows what the consequences will be if he refuses to develop an on-board computer, but he knows better what the consequences of taking on this task will bring, so he simply makes it clear.

Of course, Mr. Tu was very angry, he thought about various possibilities, but he didn't expect Wang Zhengguo to choose to refuse.

It must be understood that being able to get military projects in the eighties, when defense spending was tight, is a good thing that other units can't think of, and this guy is actually pushing it out.

If it weren't for the good technical ability of Yaoguang Electronics and the execution ability of Wang Zhengguo, how would he take out the airborne computer project and hand it over to a unit outside the system, which is too risky.

"Don't do it? Why, this is a military project, and units all over the country and all systems can't even think of it. ”

In the 80s, although the military industry shrank in an all-round way, when it comes to the production of military products, this is still a goal worth striving for by all units, and the word "military products" is still a very attractive golden signboard.

For a person like Tu Jida, who has been working in the 123 factory to do scientific research and design, it is even more ingrained that the military brand will be invincible, and he probably hasn't thought that there will be an outlier like Wang Zhengguo in China.......

"Let me put it this way, Yaoguang Electronics is a company that makes civilian products, and it now has capital investment from the United States, according to the meaning of American investors, they will definitely not agree to the company to put a more profitable civilian market not to do, but to transfer manpower to make military products, this is not a question of whether to do it or not, but whether it is suitable or not. ”

Someone naturally made a decision at a critical moment and directly cut off the possibility of letting Yaoguang Electronics make an airborne computer, but this does not mean that he has no idea about the airborne computer market.

It is also a military order, and as long as it works well, it is actually a promising project.

Anyway, there are many units engaged in the development of military electronic equipment around Shudu, and the professional research institutes of the military industry are all clustered, and the problem will naturally be easier to solve if these units are developed together.

He added: "Yaoguang Electronics has no possibility of developing an airborne computer, but we can change to other units to do it, the core part of the computer is the central microprocessor, as long as this is solved, other research institutes that have experience in military electronic products can try to develop it." ”

No matter what kind of computer it is, the most important and core part will always be the central microprocessor, and the same is true for on-board computers.

In fact, the earliest central microprocessor was actually born in response to the needs of the military industry, and the MP944 chipset was used as the data processing core of the early airborne computer, which can actually be regarded as the earliest microprocessor, which was born two years earlier than Intel 4004.

This MP944 is a proper military project, which was first used in the space rocket control domain, and then the F-14 on-board computer, so the microprocessor is actually a typical military-to-civilian project.

In fact, the modern electronics industry is formed by the pull of the aerospace field, and this can probably be regarded as one of the greatest contributions of the aerospace industry to mankind.

Speaking of the on-board computer, the on-board computer developed based on the MP944 chipset is the earliest airborne computer, which was carried on the F-14 and used for decades, until the nineties, the U.S. Navy made public the existence of this product, the reason is that the MP944 chipset has been in service with the U.S. military for more than 20 consecutive years.

For the electronics industry, it is a miracle that a product can last for more than 20 years.

You can summarize the reasons for the miracle, think about it carefully, the most important thing is that the airborne computer has almost no high requirements for data processing capabilities, and it is a flight data processing and comparison task over and over again, and people really can't find any tasks that eat too much computing resources.

In addition, the first priority of military products is reliability and safety, generally as long as they can meet the computing needs, who is willing to take the risk to develop new products, especially electronic equipment, every time a new product is launched, there will be various hidden dangers that make people unable to prevent it.

Then again, since the on-board computer does not have high requirements for computing speed, it is easy to say that the opportunity of Kaiyang Electronics has finally arrived.

"First of all, in China, the most cutting-edge computer microprocessor scientific research, the foundation has established a new semiconductor company, specializing in computer microprocessor research and development and production, related to airborne computing development work, this unit can try to win the computer microprocessor research and development task. ”

When it comes to computer microprocessors, Chief Engineer Tu Jida is confused, and if you tell him about airplanes, it will certainly be difficult; when it comes to airborne computers, he can also say two sentences; but when it comes to talking about central microprocessors in depth, he really doesn't know.

Embarrassedly touched the top of his bald head, and smiled and asked Wang Zhengguo to make it clearer: "Wait a minute, what does the central microprocessor you are talking about, what does it have to do with the on-board computer, and can it be made?"

Wang Zhengguo was very confident, and he was very sure: "The relationship between an aero engine and an aircraft is very important and very important! There is absolutely no second unit in China that can develop it, and this thing is strictly controlled in the international community, and it is usually very difficult for anyone to imitate it." ”

For military central microprocessors, this thing is actually different from civilian microprocessors, but these differences can probably be overcome in the eighties, especially after the introduction of 65C02 related production technology.