Digitized, information-based troops, just assigned to the combat terminal at the squad level, with the current level of technology in the Soviet Union, it is already difficult to do, not to mention the computer processing massive data, as well as the satellite positioning system that is taken for granted!

Although the pressure is not only on the 35 institutes, other scientific research institutions will be assigned certain tasks, but these systems need to use digital systems to transmit, and the Soviet Union is still the main body of analog, basic circuit components, or need 35 institutes to develop, which is a cumbersome and huge project. For example, according to the description in the project book, the combat terminal needs to have www.biquge.info a CPU chip!

Hearing that it would take so long, Ogarkov's face instantly darkened.

The construction of digital troops, information-based troops, first equipping a division, allowing the top to experience the huge increase in combat effectiveness brought about by this army reform, and then continuing to implement a larger reform plan, these were already made up in his mind when Ogarkov became a marshal, this is a huge plan, which will change the entire Soviet!

However, right now, this basic technical problem will take years to solve, how can I wait so long!

"yes, we're a lot behind in electronics, and now, even though we're trying to catch up, it's going to take a long time." At this time, Andrei on the side spoke: "In this case, we might as well import some ready-made ones from the West." ”

Andrey's words, to the surprise of everyone, imported from the West? How is this possible! The West was completely technologically blockaded by the Soviets, advanced military electronics. How could it be exported to the USSR!

"What we need now is digital, information-based equipment. A large number of microprocessors are required. "The gap in our own electronics makes it impossible for us to overcome this," Andre said. Therefore, I think the best way for us to deal with it now is to buy their civilian chips from the civilian market in the West, for example, I think Intel's 8080 chip is relatively good and meets our use needs. In the name of civilian use, we can still import it, but we can't get it, we can get it from the black market in Europe, and it is easy to get it from island countries. Once we have it, we use these chips to develop our various devices, and then we imitate them on the basis of these chips. ”

The key component was the microprocessor, although the Soviet Union did not lag behind in supercomputers. But those are big guys, and if you want to achieve the goal of digital terminals, you need a small microprocessor, and Intel's 8080. is the most suitable choice.

As the leader of the microprocessor chip industry, Intel made the first real central processing unit in human history in 71 years: 4004. It integrates 2250 transistors. The distance of each transistor is 10 microns, and it is capable of processing 4 bits of data. 60,000 operations per second at a frequency of 108kHz. The birth of this CPU. It marks a new era for computers. Later, Intel launched the Intel8008.

In '74, Intel8008 evolved into Intel8080, which became the second generation of microprocessors. This is a relatively successful processor, until later generations, Intel8080 is still widely used in various application circuits and equipment as a device to replace electronic logic circuits, just like the 51 series microcontrollers, with tenacious vitality.

If there is a choice, Andrei certainly hopes that the Soviet Union can copy the 8086, which is the first 16-bit processor, which can be said to be the ancestor of the entire Intel X86 CPU in later generations. It's a pity that this CPU will not be able to come out until next year, and the integration level is 29,000 transistors, which is not at all possible in the current industry of the Soviet Union.

A few thousand transistors, that's the level of 8080.

Intel, 8080 chip? Susanna's eyes lit up when she heard this, this kind of chip does not need to be imported from foreign countries, and she is already researching it!

Andrey is not an all-powerful and it is impossible to know the state of affairs in the USSR in all aspects, in history, the Soviet imitation of the Intel 8080a processor, which was introduced in 78 years, was designated kp580nk80А, and the military model was designated 580Вm80.

And now, with Andrey's crossing, to the Soviet Union electronics technicians to broaden their horizons, they have long begun to study the new Western electronic technology, this kind of 8080 chip obtained from the civilian field, in the current 35 institutes, they have long begun the study of reverse mapping, has overcome the main difficulties, if there is a superior document down, it can be mass-produced within a month.

Intel's technology patents? In the Soviets did not recognize this set! Nor will they pay U.S. patent fees.

"If it's this kind of chip, we can put it into production at any time, though." Suzanne voiced her concerns: "This is an ordinary civilian chip, which is not resistant to electromagnetic pulses, let alone can be used in nuclear war." ”

The reason why the Soviet Union insisted on using electron tubes is that the electron tubes can survive the strong electromagnetic pulse of the nuclear explosion in a nuclear war! And now, although the thinking is changing, and new electronic technologies are constantly being adopted, this indicator still exists.

Nuclear war, hearing the word, Andrei is no longer as disgusted as he was at the beginning.

Andrei, who came from later generations, knew that a large-scale nuclear war had never broken out at all, and that both the United States and the Soviet Union were restrained and would not destroy the global village. However, when Andrei came to this world, after more than a year, he deeply realized how serious the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union was in the Cold War, and it was really possible for a full-scale war to break out, especially now, under Andrei's promotion, it was more like being in a crater.

However, even so, Andrei is still firm, the electron tube is destined to be eliminated, and the integrated circuit is the direction! , let's try to build a single-handed, digital terminal out of an electron tube!

"The equipment we seized from the Americans should be enough to inspire us, right?" Andrei said.

Inside the EP-3 reconnaissance plane, there are integrated circuits, how did the Americans prevent the attack of the electromagnetic pulse? There must be a way for them!

"The Americans' military chips are all ruggedized, with a large current margin on the line, and a thick aluminum shield." Suzanne said.

"We will do whatever the Americans do." Marshal Ogarkov on the side finally spoke. (To be continued.) )