Los Alamos National Laboratory, founded in 1943 to bring together the world's top scientists, was founded by Auburnheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, and its first mission was the Manhattan Project.

At the same time, Edward Taylor, the father of the hydrogen bomb, and a large number of Nobel Prize winners, such as the famous physicist Lawrence, worked here.

However, this laboratory is not run by a state agency, but by the university, first the University of California, Berkeley, and later the University of California, but no one doubts its authority.

Now, with the people from Los Alamos National Laboratory also coming, Grove had to go to receive him, and he sighed, "Let's go, Moore, let's go and have a look." ”

Moore followed him into the reception room.

"Grove, Moore, congratulations, I really didn't expect you to develop a new generation of microprocessors so quickly, and the main frequency can reach more than 200 megahertz, which is amazing!" Daniel Hillis, the head of Thinking Machine, excitedly said, "You guys have shown me the future of our Thinking Machine! ”

Although their company is building supercomputers, their company is called Thinking Machine Company, which of course entrusts his ideal: to make machines think like human brains!

After all, when he was in college, his mentor was Marvin Minsky, the founder of artificial intelligence and artificial neural networks, so Hillis also set his own ideals: he wanted to have a computer that was fast enough, like neurons in the human brain, each relatively small, but able to solve problems collaboratively, even if the performance of the microprocessor was not strong, as long as it could be co-computed, the performance of the computer could skyrocket.

During his graduate studies, he worked on a parallel algorithm that made massively parallel computing possible, and he designed a massive parallel processing computer with 64,000 processors, called the Connected Machine.

However, as a college student, he did not have the money to put this kind of computer into practice, so in 1983, after receiving a venture capital from CBS, he immediately started his own business, and their company lineup is very luxurious, with a large number of talented people from prestigious schools, and even the chefs are French.

However, their company is only responsible for connecting a large number of microprocessors together, they are not responsible for making microprocessors, they need other companies to provide them with advanced microprocessors, and now, Intel's Pentium processors are powerful, and they immediately took a fancy to them.

However, with microprocessors, there must be customers, after all, the computers they build have to be sold to make money.

Fortunately, the United States has developed science and technology, and the need for computing has always been there, and soon, the people from the Los Alamos laboratory came to them, and they needed a powerful computer with a computing speed of more than 100 billion times!

The two sides hit it off and came to Intel.

For Hillis, it's still a long way to go by letting computers think on their own, but now, step by step, they are moving in this direction, and their future is bright.

For Grove, it was a real time to tell them the truth, and then see how they went from hope to disappointment, just like the ones he had been through.

"We need a computer that can do 100 billion operations." Eric Feynman, an engineer at Los Alamos Labs, spoke: "Only then can we simulate nuclear tests in the computer, and then we won't have to conduct annoying underground nuclear tests, we can study it in the computer, Grove, Moore, you should know what that means." ”

Since the explosion of the first atomic bomb, scientists have had to test the mushroom bomb again and again, and at the height of the Cold War, both the United States and the Soviet Union were crazy.

Lao Maozi once made a large-yield hydrogen bomb, and when it was detonated, it burned hundreds of kilometers of circuits, and the Yankees' nuclear test once destroyed the island bikini, which made a certain fashion designer very disgusted, and in order to commemorate this small island, he decided to call the costume he designed a bikini.

Later, however, no nuclear tests were heard. Only those big newcomers, such as India and Pakistan, such as the northern kimchi country, occasionally create a small earthquake or two, which attracts the disgust of the whole world.

What about the United States?

The Americans can make nuclear tests every day on their computers, and there is no need for real nuclear tests.

This requires a supercomputer to meet this, and to accurately simulate a nuclear test, it needs at least a hundred billion computers!

The Loongson No. 1 in the East, with a frequency of only 100 megahertz, can create a supercomputer with 50 billion computing power, and now, Intel's Pentium processor has a frequency of more than 200 megahertz, as long as the same number is used, that is, thousands, a computer can be manufactured 100 billion times!

Humanity's supercomputer will move forward a lot!

It is conceivable that there will be hundreds of billions of computers in the future!

"Of course, of course we do." Grove nodded: "The Galaxy 2 computer launched by the Oriental has temporarily taken the lead and become the No.1 supercomputer, but of course, we can't lag behind, we will be able to catch up soon!" ”

"That's right, for the sake of our supercomputer business, we want to be able to take a thousand Pentium processors with us right now." Hillis said: "We know that you are hiding it now, and you don't want this processor to fall into the hands of Loongson, but we promise not to leak the secret, we just want to win against the Orientals." ”

Grove's face was full of helplessness: "I'm sorry, everyone, we still have some problems with our current production line, and the yield rate is very low. ”

"Then give us a hundred first, there will always be a hundred, right?" Hillis frowned: "There are a hundred pieces, we can start the development, wait until we build the machine, and then plug in the remaining processors, so that it will not delay the production of our machine." ”

"I'm sorry."

"And how many of you have there?"

Feynman suddenly reacted: "You don't even have a piece, right?" ”

If you don't have a piece, then it's a piece of! The update speed of Intel processors is impossible to be so fast! Their press conference was nothing more than bragging.

But...... It's impossible to blow it all the time, otherwise it will blow out, but if the computer is not on the market for a long time, there will still be problems, so ...... It should be coming out soon, but it hasn't come out yet.

"We were planning to tape out, but suddenly we found that there were still some problems with the design, so we are working on intense revisions, so please rest assured that this processor will come out soon." Grove can only tell the truth.

If the news gets out, their stock price will collapse immediately!

"At the same time, we need your help." Grove continued, "I hope you'll soon be able to announce that we will be using our Intel Pentium processors to build a new supercomputer that will be done more than 100 billion times!" ”

Grove can tell these truths, but also to let these people help, after all, so many friends, so many reporters, if no one can get the Pentium processor, after a long time, there will definitely be all kinds of rumors.

If the thinking machine company stands up and publicly announces that they have purchased a large number of Pentium processors and are developing a new supercomputer, then these problems will be solved!

Why aren't there any advanced Pentium processors on the market? Because it was purchased by Thinking Machine Company! How much did Thinking purchase?

Thousands, even tens of thousands! After all, a machine costs thousands of dollars, and it is possible for them to get an order for several or even a dozen units at one time.

In this way, the voices of the outside world will disappear and they will be able to get through this dangerous period.

"Now, to help us, is to help you, after all, only our Intel company has such an advanced processor, other manufacturers do not have this strength, if our Intel company has an accident, then our United States in the field of computers, will be completely behind the East!" Grove said.

It's to tie them to a chariot!

Feynman was a little annoyed, you guys were actually deceiving the world!

Hillis, on the other hand, thinks differently.

Now, Intel has not built the Pentium chip, so it is useless to complain, now what they have to do is to get the maximum benefit!

They claim that supercomputers have the power of 100 billion calculations, and they can definitely sell more, and if they help Intel, it must be beneficial.

"Then we demand that the chips provided to us by Intel need to be 20 percent lower than the market price!"

The Pentium processor has not yet been officially priced, but it is definitely higher than the 486, the 486 was still $950 a piece when it was first released, and the Pentium processor is likely to cost two thousand dollars, how much does it cost to buy a thousand dollars?

You have to get the goods at a low price! Take this opportunity to negotiate terms with Intel!

"Okay." Grove nodded.

So, the cooperation was reached, and on the same day, Thinking Machine officially announced that it had ordered a large number of Pentium processors from Intel and was about to develop a supercomputer for hundreds of billions of times!

East, Meteorological Observatory.

"Mr. Qin, this is the supercomputer we developed using Loongson No. 1, with a computing power of 50 billion times, the world's first!" Director Lu's face was full of excitement.

After Qin Feng came back from the land of abundance, he ran over to look at the computer.

Galaxy 1 is a polyhedral pillar shape, and this Galaxy 2 has finally become a cabinet shape, and when you enter the door, you can see two rows of cabinets, and countless indicators inside are flashing.

"Well, that's good." Qin Feng nodded: "The appearance of this computer has finally brought us to the pinnacle of this industry, Director Lu, you have worked hard." ”

"It's not hard, the key is our Loongson No. 1, now we are looking forward to the more advanced Loongson No. 2, Loongson No. 3, we will continue to work hard in the later stage, and strive to always be at the highest peak."

"Well, our Pacific Group will also work hard, Loongson No. 2 should appear next year, with more advanced technology, lower calorific value, when the time comes, only five hundred processors, or even less, can achieve the same computing power."

"No, we need to use the same number of processors to achieve hundreds of billions of computing power!" Director Lu said: "Our national defense cause needs supercomputers and more powerful computing power, and if there are hundreds of billions of times, we can accurately simulate the operation of nuclear bombs in computers!" ”

"Okay, then make a hundred billion times!" Qin Feng's face was full of smiles.

"Distinguished guests, please put on your shoe covers, we are about to visit the world's most advanced supercomputer!" At this moment, a sweet voice suddenly sounded at the door.

Qin Feng's face changed slightly, even if he couldn't hear who made this voice, he could guess what the situation was.

Sure enough, when he turned his head, a large group of foreigners appeared at the door.

White-skinned, blue-eyed, yellow-haired, tall foreigners, beside them, followed by several oriental leaders, all of them very respectful, and the voice that spoke was a beautiful female translator.

"Who allowed them to come?" Qin Feng asked with a frown.

"It should be the director, but the director probably also received an order from his superiors and had to allow them to come in." Director Lu said.

This computer was developed by their National University of Defense Technology, so Director Lu can casually bring Qin Feng and others in, under the pretext of the manufacturer's after-sales service, but what about those people outside? You can only come with the permission of the director, and although the director is the leader here, there are many people on top, and the superior has spoken, can you not bring someone to visit?

At this time, the director was on the side, cautious.

"Leader Pan, be careful, come, or I'll help you put on shoe covers."

"Hey, why are there any unrelated people in your computer room?" Leader Pan glanced at Qin Feng and the others, obviously didn't know each other, frowned and said: "Our foreign friends are coming to visit, these irrelevant people are waiting, let's let them out!" ”

The director glanced at it and hurriedly said: "Leader Pan, these are not unrelated people, they are the mother's family of our Galaxy No. 2 computer, this Director Lu is the designer of the computer, and these young men next to him are Mr. Qin of the Pacific Group, and Loongson No. 1 was made under his leadership." ”

Leader Pan was stunned for a moment, then a smile appeared on his face, and he walked over with his feet in shoe covers: "Lao Lu, hello, Xiao Qin, hello, yes, you are young, you have such a great achievement, you are just right, introduce your computer to our foreign friends!" By the way, this is Seymour Clay, the father of the world's supercomputer, to introduce our computers to them, and let them point out. ”

Seymour Clay is a tall American, he didn't have a good year this year, because of various differences of opinion, he quit the CDC company and formed his own Clay computer company, his design goal is to have a computer of 100 billion operations per second, however, this goal was not achieved, and by 95 years, his computer company had to go bankrupt.

However, the name of the father of the world's supercomputer is still very loud, so when he heard that it was him, even Director Lu's eyes showed respect.

At this time, Seymour Clay strode up: "I didn't expect you Oriental people to have such an achievement, we heard about it, and we were very interested, so we came to take a look." ”

After speaking, he enthusiastically stretched out his hand and shook Director Lu's hand.

"I'm sorry, but these foreigners can't touch our computers, they can only look at them, they can't touch them." Qin Feng's voice sounded.

Everyone present was instantly dumbfounded, what do you mean?

At this moment, Qin Feng's mind thought of Liu Lao, when he went to see the American aircraft carrier, he was obviously just a casual observer, and the Americans didn't let him touch it, so he could only put his hands behind his back, like a primary school student.

Now, it's the turn of the Americans!

"Xiao Qin, what do you mean by this? These people are world-class supercomputer experts, and we in the East are hospitable, you ......"

"I don't want them to steal our technology." Qin Feng said: "Their current fastest computer has just been 10 billion times per second, and ours is 50 billion times per second, so our technology is the most advanced, our technology is the first in the world, and we still need backward experts to give us guidance?" This leader, you don't have anything wrong with your brain, right? ”

It doesn't matter what kind of leader you are, if you worship foreign people, don't want to get a good face here in Qin Feng!

Leader Pan's face changed instantly: "Xiao Qin, how are you talking?" Even if we take the first place by chance, it is also accidental, there is no doubt that the technology of the West is advanced, and it will not be long before they will catch up and surpass. ”

"They're never going to catch up unless some guy leaks our technology to Westerners." Qin Feng said: "We will never allow this kind of thing to happen, if Westerners want to learn our technology, then please spend money to buy it, if you want to use the banner of mentors, learn our technology in a grand manner, and then turn around and sell it to us at a high price, then how stupid people can do this kind of thing!" ”

Leader Pan's face flushed.

"Director, I want to remind you, although this Galaxy No. 2 computer is here, but the technology is ours, you must protect these computers, without our permission, no one can open the cabinet and look at the structure inside! If there is a leak from you, then we will hold you responsible, you should go to jail, and you should eat peanuts! Moreover, if it leaks out of you, then you will never want to get any after-sales service in the future! ”

The director hurriedly nodded: "Yes, yes, we know, Leader Pan, let's not bring foreigners here, save leaking secrets......"

Leader Pan's face darkened: "Xiao Qin, if you do this, can you still show that our East is a state of etiquette?" Diplomacy is no trivial matter, you do this, it damages the image of our country, you, you just wait to be held accountable! ”