Silicon Valley is located in San Francisco, California, USA, through a narrow valley of nearly 50 kilometers from Santa Clara to San Jose.

Therefore, it has the word "valley" in its name.

Of course, you won't find the name "Silicon Valley" on the map, it's just another name for a region.

In the early days, Silicon Valley was known for the design and manufacture of silicon chips.

Late eighties.

Biology, space. Research institutions for emerging technologies such as oceans, communications, and energy materials have emerged one after another, and objectively they have become the cradle of high-tech in the United States.

After more than ten years of development, Silicon Valley has become synonymous with semiconductor industry clusters in all countries around the world, and is also the world's most well-known electronics industry cluster.

In the United States, university participation in scientific research is very high, and a significant part of the research technology is born in university laboratories.

The main location of Silicon Valley is characterized by the proximity of top universities with strong research capabilities.

These include Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, as well as several other UC campuses and Santa Clara University.

Besides.

Silicon Valley also attracts the world's best tech talent, gathering more than 60% of the U.S. venture capital.

Especially in the 80s, after Apple went public, tens of thousands of technology companies sprung up here, and the world's greatest ideas are emerging all the time!

It is also a place of pilgrimage for countless tech enthusiasts!

"We are the cornerstone of the new economy, the cradle of prosperity, the benchmark for all other countries to follow, the purest expression of capitalism."

This sentence from John Doerr, the head of Silicon Valley venture capital, aptly shows the pivotal position of Silicon Valley in the modern technology and economic map.

It is precisely because of this that Chen Weidong decided that as long as he has the opportunity, he must come here to have a look.

We can't hear about what the world is like about other people.

Only by seeing it with one's own eyes can one make the most objective evaluation.

At the same time, we also need a mirror to know the strengths of others, so that we can realize our own shortcomings, so as to work hard and strive for the top.

West Coast of the United States.

A Conquistador van slowly came to a halt in front of a large tree.

Subsequently, several young people jumped from it one after another.

Raising his right hand to shield himself from the scorching sun, looking at the gray asphalt road in the distance, the low European-style buildings, and a few old Ford pickup trucks parked at the door, Li Yun and the others showed a disappointed look on their faces.

"Mr. Chen, before you came, you said that this is the largest high-tech industrial zone in the United States, why is this it? I don't think it's any different from South China City, or even worse. ”

On the way, after listening to Chen Weidong's account of the development history of Silicon Valley, they all had a nervous and humble mentality, wanting to see the largest high-tech industrial zone in the United States.

As a result, the scene in front of them disappointed them.

"Their industrial zone is in the southern region, and it's just the office address of those companies."

Chen Weidong took a deep breath of fresh air and looked at the sparse figure in the distance and explained.

"Hey, such a small company, we have a lot of them in China."

Xiang Shaohua looked at the cabin in the distance, and felt that the so-called high-tech of the rice people was nothing more than that.

Judging by his attitude, it is obvious that he regards the company here as the same type as the domestic leather bag company.

Chen Weidong smiled and explained: "Silicon Valley is full of economic miracles and people who got rich overnight, you don't underestimate these small houses, there are many world-renowned large enterprises, all of which were born from the garage of such small houses, such as: HP, Apple, Google, etc...."

Silicon Valley is famous not because of how profitable it is, but because of its ability to "disrupt innovation."

Ordinary innovation is to take a step forward on the same track, while Silicon Valley's innovation ability is to open up a new track and attract more users and enterprises to join it, gradually becoming the mainstream track, while the old track is gradually abandoned.

For example, in 1981, Sony launched a digital camera, which eventually replaced film cameras and became the mainstream of the market, which is a disruptive innovation.

Innovations that involve all walks of life and can shift the growth direction of the human science and technology tree are called "scientific and technological revolutions".

Obviously, this kind of innovation is much more difficult than ordinary innovation.

Moreover, many times it is unavoidable and has a great deal of chance.

But Silicon Valley's ability lies in turning an accident into a high-probability event.

From Ethernet, graphical user interfaces, to PCs, the Internet ..... And so on, Silicon Valley has continuously given birth to "disruptive innovation".

We have continuously incubated companies that can open up new tracks and lead the times.

That's the best thing about Silicon Valley.

Chen Weidong said the core concept of Silicon Valley as he walked towards the wooden detached house not far away, where several people were in groups of three or five, and they were Asian faces.

It has attracted the frequent sideways of many passers-by.

At this moment, an unfamiliar voice sounded behind them.

"Are you also from Huaxia?"

"Huh?"

"You are...."

Chen Weidong turned around and saw a middle-aged man about fifty years old, wearing a white shirt and black square-rimmed glasses, not far away, who was staring at them up and down with excitement.

"Are you looking for a job in Silicon Valley?" The middle-aged man trotted a few steps and approached the crowd.

"Haha, this old man, we are indeed from Huaxia, but we are here to visit, not to look for a job."

Chen Jie grinned and took the lead in explaining to him.

"I see! I don't think you guys are academics. ”

The middle-aged man held the glasses on the bridge of his nose with his hand, smiled slightly, and glanced at Li Yun and the others behind them intentionally or unintentionally.

After some conversation.

Everyone knew that the middle-aged man in front of him was called Ma Jiancheng.

In the early eighties.

As the domestic economy has turned around, many people believe that there is no need to spend money on the construction of the pot because the world war cannot be fought, and that it is necessary to concentrate financial resources to carry out economic construction.

Therefore, a lot of scientific research projects, civilian industries, and other money-burning projects have been greatly streamlined.

Correspondingly, countless scientific research personnel have been laid off and transferred.

Ma Jiancheng told them that in the years of 80-84, Huaxia decisively chose the mainframe plan, that is: the first-generation Great Wall of the 863 project (the earliest predecessor of Shuguang).

And the island country, at this time, both technology and market, are basically synchronized with the United States.

However, the islanders, who have always been arrogant, feel that they can rise in Asia in terms of mainframes, so they unrealistically and blindly start the development of mainframe computers.

However, in the process of design and development, there are many technical difficulties that make it difficult for the island nation to move forward.

In order to achieve an early technological monopoly, the United States misled the development of mainframes in the island countries in the form of scientific and technological exchanges, hindered the development of large integrated circuits like XL, and caused the island countries to fall astray.

In 1982, Huaxia had completed the manufacturing and research and development of the Great Wall 1 mainframe and the Shuguang 1 mega machine.

At that time, because Huaxia had just opened up, it was very much curious to know the distance between itself and the international high-tech technical standards, for fear that it would enter the era of "making cars behind closed doors".

In 1982, the Great Wall No. 2 mainframe computer and its important technical data were brought to the "New York International Science and Technology Expo" and "Tokyo New Technology Exchange Conference" by the naïve Chinese people at that time.

At that time, they did not understand what technical barriers were, and adopted the consistent "inferiority complex" of the Chinese people, and walked into the so-called international science and technology hall with their heads down.

In Tokyo, when the experts of the island countries discovered that China's computer technology was far ahead of them, they were very ugly and used the many academic materials obtained from the United States to defraud the Chinese people in science and technology.

They told the Chinese people: "Your Great Wall has long been a very backward product."

However, in the United States, the Pentagon has paid very high attention to the mastery of China's mainframe computer technology.

The two entered the era of 100 million calculations almost at the same time, and they felt a lot of pressure.

However, the thinking of the Chinese people is different from that of Asians, linear, and singular, especially in the field of science and technology, which is a bit deliberately old-fashioned.

Therefore, they hope to secretly formulate an "advanced computer technology agreement" with Huaxia to control the flow of this technology into countries such as "Albania" and "Romania".

However, Huaxia did not agree.

The island nation, on the other hand, took the opportunity of this exchange meeting to develop the so-called mainframe computing system, "Showa No. 1", on its own the following year.

At that time, the precision machining of the island country was indeed better than that of Huaxia, so the appearance of the products was very beautiful, not as "rustic" as that of Huaxia.

Chinese experts evaluated and compared, and once gave up the Great Wall and Dawn.

At the beginning of 1984, after the full start of the 863 project, the project was not ordered to be discontinued due to the manpower protection at that time.

However, the report submitted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences said: The Great Wall and Dawn are in a backward stage due to their technology compared with Western countries, so they are recommended for civilian use.

It is precisely because of this move that his most advanced technology has been leaked into the outside world, all related projects have been shut down, and the research team of the project has to be disbanded.

In the following decade or so, island countries and the West have made breakthroughs in mainframe computers.

Computers have entered the era of 10 trillion operations per second.

And by the time Huaxia reflected it, it was already too late.

Even if the above wanted to restart the project, it was shelved because it could not find the researchers of the year.

And he is the researcher who participated in the Dawning 1 mainframe project back then.

Because he was unwilling to accept the transfer and did not want to learn all his life, he had no place to use, and in the end, like many researchers in that period, he regretfully left the country, and was introduced by a friend to come to the United States to continue to engage in the research of large computers.

Ma Jiancheng told them that there were not a few researchers like him.

He knew more than 20 people in Silicon Valley alone, and they all ended up here for various reasons.