Seeing Ling Shizhe looking at this sketch intently, Zhou Yuanhang introduced beside him: "The code name of this aircraft is YT-40, which was originally a medium/advanced training aircraft developed by Douglas for export to small and medium-sized countries, it is suitable for aerobatics, and can perform tasks such as ground attack, reconnaissance, escort, weapons training, electronic countermeasures and photography. +◆ Top +◆ Point + ◆ Small +◆ Said, I was in charge of this project, but McDonnell Douglas canceled it after it was established, and then the Spanish aviation manufacturing company found me and wanted me to work there, but I didn't promise to come to you, and by the way, I brought it over, how about it, are you interested? ”

Zhou Yuanhang said this, Ling Shizhe had a spectrum in his heart, this should be the original sketch of the Spanish C-101 trainer aircraft, I didn't expect the C-101 to have such a history, but with Spanish technology, it can't complete the research and development alone, it should go to other companies to complete it with him.

Since the birth of second-generation fighters such as MiG-21 and F-4, the world's military aircraft has completely entered the technical level of a new generation of fighters, and many countries in the world are trying to keep up with the trend of the times, but some small and medium-sized countries are weak and cannot afford expensive high-end fighters, so they hope that there is a new type of aircraft that can be used as a training aircraft and attack aircraft, and the original training aircraft is also time to be eliminated, so there are medium- and medium-sized aircraft like C-101 and K-8 on the market. Advanced trainer aircraft.

Historically, Spain's C-101 was developed in cooperation with Germany's MBB company and the United States' Jothrop, this kind of aircraft is a large model aircraft to put it bluntly, there is not much technical difficulty at all, and the same type of Chinese K-8 is not as good, just such a thing, the price is as high as more than 4.3 million US dollars, the international market is still rushing to want, and finally C-101 produced and sold a total of more than 800 units, discontinued in 1997, for a kind of high-level training aircraft, It is a quite successful model.

C-101 is just a large model aircraft, the performance is not excellent, but it solves the problem of whether small and medium-sized countries have jet military aircraft, otherwise it will not be directly withdrawn from the market by China's K-8 in the future, which shows that the success of C-101 is not a technical success, but the success of market positioning.

Thinking of this, Ling Shizhe took the drawing board and drew it directly, and after more than two hours, he handed over the drawings he had drawn to Zhou Yuanhang.

Zhou Yuanhang took a look, his eyebrows instantly wrinkled, he had long heard that Ling Shizhe was an excellent aircraft cartoonist, and the "Gripen" fighter and Phoenix Su-35 and Euro Typhoon fighter in the "Top Gun" comics were written by him, but he didn't expect Ling Shizhe to actually "design" the plane.

Of course, Ling Shizhe will not design any aircraft, he just drew the famous K-8E trainer aircraft in China, although the C-101 has achieved great success in the international market, but he is still too far from the K-8 of the same technical level, first of all, the architecture of the C-101 is not refined by K-8, and the body is not strong enough, and it needs to be patched a lot, which has caused a significant increase in weight and cost, on the contrary, K-8 is much better in this regard, the body is light and strong, The process manufacturing is simpler than the C-101, and the manufacturing cost will be much lower.

Second, the K-8's aerodynamic shape is much better than that of the C-101, and the wing load is much lower than that of the C-101, so the K-8 has extremely high survivability in comparison.

There is also the control system of the C-101, which is too backward, complex and cumbersome in Ling Shizhe's opinion, while the K-8 uses the popular multi-axis variable stability flight control system in the twentieth century - IFSTA.

This system simulates a complex flight state, has some characteristics of an advanced training aircraft, has a simple structure and high reliability, this system is developed by Hongdu Company itself, earlier, Hongdu Group had sought cooperation with Western groups such as the Carlsbane Company of the United States, but on the one hand, Western companies are restricted by the government not to export advanced aviation technology to China, on the other hand, the price is too high. The U.S. National Experimental School has expressed its willingness to cooperate, but only in terms of training.

In this way, Hongdu company has to develop its own IFSTA, they use two redundancy, mechanical support fly-by-wire flight control system, in three axes to achieve stability, this way compared with the United States Carlsbane and British aerospace IFSTA system, Hongdu company's IFSTA structure is more simple, reliable and easy to control, and the cost is only a quarter of them, so that the K-8 trainer has good maneuverability, especially the lateral control level is particularly excellent.

K-8 has developed a variety of models in history, the most classic of which is the K-8E aircraft, and the K-8 aircraft handed over by Ling Shizhe to Zhou Yuanhang is the famous E-type in history. In fact, he wants to take out the "V" type directly, because the "V" type only uses five axial stabilization, and the installation of optical fiber transmission flight control system is better than the "E" two-redundancy and mechanical support fly-by-wire flight control system, but in terms of the existing almost zero technology of the China Aircraft Corporation, it is still impossible to get it out, so it has to retreat to the second-best, first get the two-redundancy and mechanical support fly-by-wire flight control system, and then upgrade to five axial stabilization technologies.

Compared with C-101, K-8's market positioning is more accurate, directly facing the small country market, since Ling Shizhe has decided to engage in medium/advanced jet trainers, he must squeeze its maximum value, he doesn't want his trainer to be like C-101, one day in the future by China's K-8 eliminated, if so, it would be too sad, so it is better to get on K-8 at the beginning, so as not to be eliminated by tragedy in the future.

And the most important point, C-101 is a medium/senior training aircraft project established by Spain in 75 years, aimed at the market of small and medium-sized countries, when the time comes, the two of them will inevitably collide, if there is no absolute advantage in technology, Ling Shizhe without government support will definitely not be able to compete with Spain, so from the beginning on the K-8, first in terms of technology and performance to completely crush C-101, but also to lay the foundation for entering the international market in the future, otherwise it will die ugly.

Only when the training aircraft market is opened, Ling Shizhe's series of follow-up plans can be better realized, and Spain's C-101 will be used as a stepping stone to his success. Only one of the two can live, and the one who hopes to survive is his Ling Shizhe's Chinese aircraft company, but the Spanish aviation industry company.

In terms of engine, Ling Shizhe still decided to use Honeywell's TFE731 series engine, which is a small turbofan engine specially used for civil aviation or junior and intermediate coaches, with stable and reliable performance.

In the early stage, just use TEF731 for the time being, and then replace it with a light engine after its own light engine is successfully developed.

TEF731 civil engine is a very successful classic engine in the market, in the small engine market has long been firmly established, if you also develop a light civil engine, it must be unable to compete with Honeywell, so he decided to develop a special for unmanned jets or junior and intermediate trainers, attack use of light military turbofan engine, this engine is also very marketable in the future, like the United States Global Hawk and X-47B with this type of engine.

Anyway, I want to develop UAVs, so I simply started to develop military-type light turbofan engines from the beginning, so as not to worry about what kind of engine to choose in the future.

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The next day, Ling Shizhe got up early in the morning, ran a few laps in the yard and did a set of radio gymnastics, then returned to the living room and turned on the TV to watch the morning news.

Unexpectedly, as soon as I opened it, it was a bombshell news, and I saw the beautiful hostess on TV say: "Yesterday, U.S. Foreign Secretary Simon and many OPEC member countries finally reached an agreement that all global oil transactions in the future will be settled in US dollars......"

Seeing this news, Ling Shizhe breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, the dollar finally stopped its downward trend, and returned to and maintained its status as the only international currency, and the era of petrodollars is coming! From now on, the United States' global economic hegemony will be thoroughly consolidated.

Before the outbreak of the oil crisis, the international price of a barrel of crude oil was 3 US dollars, after the outbreak of the oil crisis, the international oil price rose to 13 US dollars per barrel in just a few months, the high cost of oil prices, so that the Western economy presented an overall recession, and now the establishment of the petrodollar indicates that the United States since the disintegration of the gold dollar, will get out of the quagmire of economic recession, and the US economy has begun to recover.

However, this is just wishful thinking on the part of the United States, the petrodollar has only embraced its status as a single international currency, and there will continue to be several oil crises in the next few years, only in 74 years because of the Middle East war, 80 years of the Iranian revolution, and then the Iran-Iraq war, which triggered a financial crisis, until Reagan came to power, the implementation of the "supply school" economic policy, coupled with the prosperity of the personal computer market, the US economy did not improve.

In the headquarters building, Ling Shizhe obviously felt that everyone's face showed a happy smile, looking through all the newspapers today, they were all applauding the US economy, optimistic that the global economy would recover, and the US stock market also stopped falling and began to rise in an all-round way.

Seeing everyone so happy, Ling Shizhe didn't bother to pour cold water on them, because no one believed it even if he said it, and he was very excited today, the agreement signed with the quantum fund has expired, and the first $200 million dividend fund hit Ambrera early this morning, this is only the first dividend, and the follow-up dividend quantum fund will be fully settled, and the money will be sent over one after another, and in the entire economic crisis, Ling Shizhe's investment is very successful, and a total of 800 million US dollars in profits has been obtained.

However, Alison is a little unhappy, he thinks that if we do it ourselves, we will get more and we will not have to pay arrogant commissions to the quantum fund, but now the biggest benefit is not Ambrera, but Soros's quantum fund.

But Ling Shizhe couldn't deny it, and said to Alison: "This is already very good, we are not professional financial people after all, if we operate it ourselves, it is very likely that we will not make a penny, and it is not impossible to even lose all the capital." We hand over the money to a financial expert like Soros to operate, although we will pay a large commission, but it can ensure that our own legitimate interests will not be lost, and it has also helped us make a lot of money, not to mention that we are also shareholders of the quantum fund, don't forget that we own 20% of the shares of the quantum fund, the more the quantum fund earns, the more dividends we will pay in shares. Allison don't dwell on this problem, don't worry about boldly handing over the money to Soros, he will earn more profits for us, we seem to make less on the surface, but on the whole, we are the biggest gainers, and we are still hiding behind our backs, let Soros rush in front to block the wind and rain, we just hide behind and count the money, I don't have to bear the burden of conscience, no one will accuse us, they will only blame Soros, do you think this is not the result we want most? ”

"Quietly enter the village, don't shoot. Oh, Chinese philosophy is wonderful! He smiled helplessly and said, this is what Ling Shizhe said to him, and it is also Ambrera's consistent business policy, let third-party companies rush to the forefront to open up the market, and Ambrera just hides behind to provide them with ammunition and quietly make money.

All along, Alison thought that he had fully understood the true meaning of this sentence, but today he realized that he still did not fully understand it.

"Okay, let's not talk about that, how is the PC going?"

Alison replied: "It's going very well, it's ready for sale, the spreadsheets, word processing, and the database are all open and ready for commercial use." ”

Andy Grove got the new CPU design data designed by Ling Shizhe, and taped out at the fastest speed, which found that there were more than 300 design errors, and after modification, it did several tape-outs before it was finally finalized, and the finalized POVOS processor has undergone the most rigorous environmental tests, and various indicators have performed very well, and the new CPU uses the newly developed VEE instruction set, with a total of more than 300, making its clock frequency reach 8MHz per second.

You must know that this is an 8-bit CPU, the clock frequency of the Intel 16-bit 80286 processor was only 6MHz at first, but it was gradually increased to 20MHz later, and its stability and reliability are enough to get rid of the previously developed C8080CPU ten streets, and the compatibility is also very good, and it can be compatible with all programs running on C4004, C8008 and C8080.

Its only drawback is that the heat generation is very high, and a cooling fan needs to be installed for him, but in Ling Shizhe's opinion, this is not a problem at all, you must know that the heat dissipation of the complex instruction set CPU in the future will be higher, and a more powerful cooling fan is needed to solve the problem, so the heat is much lower than he estimated in advance, but now Ling Shizhe is concerned about the yield rate of Povoscpu, and the difficulty of making this CPU is much higher than that of Arm reduced instruction set CPU.

Alison said: "BOSS according to your plan, the CPU of the CISC architecture is all produced by the chip factory in Hong Kong, in January this year, the first chip factory in Hong Kong was completed, it can process 30,000 24-inch wafers per month, the annual output of the new CPU can reach 10 million, the yield rate has reached 90%, the technicians are improving the process, Foster let me tell you, it only takes a month, he can increase the yield rate to 99%. ”

"Very good, tell Forster, he did a good job, the chip factory in Hong Kong continues to be built, remember that our annual chip production will reach 1 billion!"

Alison pursed her lips and said: "Boss, is the factory in Hong Kong planned to be built too much, after the chip factory in Raccoon Town was fully renovated last month, the annual output of chips in the entire industrial park increased to 300 million at once, I am worried that we will face the problem of insufficient operating rate at that time, this new factory can be more than 10 times higher than the previous factory in terms of construction costs, the manufacturing cost of the lithography machine alone is as high as 15 million US dollars, such an expensive lithography machine in addition to we dare to use, At present, no company will use such an expensive lithography machine, and the development of semiconductor technology is very fast, this new type of lithography machine will only be eliminated in 5 years, such a high depreciation cost, once we can not guarantee that there is enough operating rate, we will face huge losses. ”

"What? Are we already facing the problem of insufficient operating rates? ”

"That's not true, the chips needed for computer cameras and scientific function calculators, our previous production was seriously insufficient, and now the output has increased significantly, and the number of computer cameras and scientific function calculators on the market is many times more than before, fortunately, the market is large enough, and it is in a state of growth, and these products can be consumed, I am worried about the ...... It's a recession, and I'm worried that the market will shrink. ”

Ling Shizhe was silent, the economic recession caused by the oil crisis lasted for nearly ten years in history, for such a long time, it is not surprising that the computer camera market has shrunk, and the annual production and sales of point-and-shoot cameras in history can exceed 10 units, that is because of the huge market of China, which digests a lot every year, and now China is still in a closed state, and it will be necessary to wait until the late 90s to completely open up.

Letting a third party open up the market is indeed a rapid expansion of the camera market, but now it seems that this market expansion is a bit too fast, which is never a good thing, MD, damn the seventies, damn the global recession!

Thinking of this, Ling Shizhe asked again: "Didn't we develop an electronic door and window system for automobiles last year, and it also needs to use ARM processors, how about its sales?" ”

"Sales are quite good, last year we sold 100,000 sets, 10,000 US dollars each, the market is simply in short supply, there are already many people who buy a car first to see whether the car is installed electronic door and window system, our set of electronic door and window system is very cheap, reliable and stable performance, even if it is a low-end car also bears, many car companies in Europe, America and Japan have signed contracts with us, and we cooperate with several foundries, are 24 hours a day of overload production, they have borrowed from the bank to build a new factory, By the end of the year, all of these new plants will be completed, with an annual production capacity of 600,000 units."

At the end of the year, the production capacity will be fully developed, and we will have to wait until this time next year, what is the annual production of cars in the world now? Not to mention, General Motors alone, the annual production and sales of cars reached 10 million, Ford is also about the same number, Chrysler is less, the output is also 9 million, this is okay with the production of cars in Europe and Japan, so many cars have to install electronic door and window systems, the annual output of 600,000 sets, far from meeting the demand, those foundries will be busy for many years in the future.

"Alison, such a large market demand, the annual output of automotive electronic door and window systems is only so little, which will seriously cause the price of automotive electronic systems to be inflated, which is very unfavorable to us. Let's put this set of technology out, let more auto parts manufacturers participate, this is a huge unimaginable cake, everyone will go crazy about it, we must divide it out, can't eat alone, otherwise we will have a lot of trouble, or the same as before, we only sell chips. ”

Alison nodded, the market is very huge, and the production is seriously insufficient, which will inevitably attract some speculators to speculate on the automotive electronic door and window system, which will cause extremely serious damage to the reputation of Ambrera at that time.

Putting the technology out can not only quickly improve the contradiction between supply and demand, greatly increase CPU sales, but also win a good reputation, why not.

"In this way, I am worried that those foundries will have independent ideas, and they will get out of our control." Allison voiced another concern.