The Grandmother in the Siheyuan

Chapter 204: Jealousy
People of that era had just experienced confusion, so they particularly liked to think about philosophical issues. It was said that the best-selling book on the market at that time was Hegel, and everyone talked about Rousseau all the time.

Everyone started to think about this circle, and Liu Hua put a period to it: "Su Weiqing, this is your circle. You know very little, and you are even more ignorant. Just this lecture note of yours, I have sent it back for revision seven times. I have explained it to you more than once. Is there any connection between what you wrote and what I said?"

Liu Hua opened fire on him, saying that he was really annoyed and tired. If he were to write such a lecture note, he would have finished it in a day or two, but this guy had been writing for nearly half a month and was still far away from the topic.

"If your lecture notes are included in the textbook, do you know what the consequences will be?" Liu Hua asked sternly, "After learning this paragraph, everyone will be confused. The lecturer will feel itchy all over, and the students will feel uncomfortable sitting on pins and needles."

"There is nothing wrong with what I wrote, it's your outline that has problems." Su Weiqing said excitedly: "Do you know what an integrated circuit computer is? Maybe the production of the first one was related to you, but did you do research later? I have participated in our country's supercomputer project. If I don't have enough knowledge, how can I join such an important project?"

Liu Hua turned around to look at the others and asked curiously, "Can this guy really join the supercomputer project team? Why am I so unconvinced? The country has no more people?"

A woman nodded. Liu Hua knew her. It was he who poured tea for him back then. He drank a whole thermos of water in the afternoon.

"Teacher Liu, there were actually two supercomputer projects."

The little girl is now a mother. She smiled and said, "The first time was when you proposed it to Professor Li. The project was called Jingwei, which means accumulating little by little to make a lot. The principle you proposed was to add more processors. It was successful that time, and the processing speed reached 80 million times per second."

"The second time?"

"The second project was called Red Sun, which was proposed five years later. Professor Li was still the chief engineer at that time, but most of the people involved in the first project had already dispersed to other places, so we selected new people from Huaqing University to join the project team."

This female colleague also said in a big way: "You also know the quality of education in those days. Many people who joined the project team were of mixed quality, so in the end the project failed directly, and even Professor Li was implicated. Su Weiqing was doing odd jobs and running errands in the project team at the time."

Liu Hua sneered: "So, Su Weiqing, you participated in a failed project and were just an errand boy. What is there to be proud of?"

"At least I have participated in supercomputer projects. Have you ever participated in one?" Su Weiqing said unconvincedly, "You have never even seen a supercomputer. You came to our Huaqing University and became the editor-in-chief of the textbook. Are you worthy of it?"

Liu Hua smiled, shook his head and said, "I proposed the theory and architecture of the supercomputer, so you can say that Professor Li is the actual chief engineer and I am the theoretical chief engineer. Do you think I am qualified?"

Without waiting for Su Weiqing to say anything, Liu Hua waved his hand and said, "Don't quibble anymore. I will discuss your specific work with Director Huang. Of course, you can also apply for a transfer yourself, which will save face."

"You are jealous of others' talents. I am going to sue you."

Liu Hua simply sneered at his incompetent insults and didn't even bother to refute them. He said that people like him would starve to death when they entered society. Liu Hua never liked to argue with the dead.

It was not known whether Director Huang knew about this or Su Weiqing applied for it himself, but he disappeared within two days and could not be found on the entire Huaqing campus. When Liu Hua approved the first draft of the textbook, Professor Li also returned from his business trip.

It was obvious that he was very excited when he saw Liu Hua: "Mr. Liu, I missed you so much. We haven't seen each other for nearly ten years."

"I know how to hide my shortcomings, so I have lived a very comfortable life in the past ten years." Liu Hua said with a smile: "I just heard a few days ago that you have carried out two supercomputer projects, and the second one failed."

"Alas, greed for success and recklessness, plus the uneven quality of scientific researchers." Professor Li sighed and said, "Originally, we only planned to research a supercomputer with a floating-point computing speed of 300 million times per second, but after the project started, the people in charge increased the requirements, and in the end, the computing speed had to reach 1 billion times per second."

Professor Li shook his head: "But we still have many problems to solve. If we rush to build a supercomputer with a capacity of one billion times per second, how can there be any chance of success?"

"It's okay." Liu Hua patted his shoulder and said, "The road ahead is long and hard, but we can start over again. Just because I couldn't do it then doesn't mean I can't do it now. Now I can officially join the project."

"I feel much more at ease with you here."

Liu Hua handed the textbook to Professor Li: "This is my first job since I came to Huaxing, compiling a textbook on integrated circuit computers. To be honest, I think it's a bit outdated."

"Outdated?"

Liu Hua nodded: "Although I don't know what the outside world has developed in recent years, but according to my estimation of the development of integrated circuits, ordinary integrated circuits have long been unable to withstand the current amount of computing. Foreign countries should have developed super-scale integrated circuits, right?"

"Indeed, in the late 70s, Da Meili began to develop very large-scale integrated circuits, and in the early 4004s, Intel designed a very large-scale integrated circuit chip, the ."

Liu Hua slammed the table and said angrily, "We finally had an advantage on this track, but now we're falling behind again. This is really unacceptable."

Professor Li smiled sadly, then cheered up and comforted Liu Hua: "Semiconductors were originally invented in the West. We are only one generation behind them now, which is already very difficult. We caught up at the beginning, and we can still catch up now."

Liu Hua shook his head: "It's probably impossible to make a very large-scale integrated circuit by hand. Professional equipment is required."

"Don't worry about that." Professor Li said with a smile: "I am going out on business this time to inspect the GK3 semi-automatic lithography machine. Although it is not up to the most advanced international level, we already have the tools. Are we still worried that we can't produce ultra-large-scale integrated circuits?"

Liu Hua nodded: "The laboratory must be built as soon as possible. If the GK3 model does not meet the requirements, we will improve it. If it really doesn't work, we can tear it down and rebuild it. I am very good at this."

(End of this chapter)