The unparalleled talent of the country started from Harbin Institute of Technology

Chapter 240, Alliance of the Rich and Sad (asking for monthly ticket)
December 1983, Motorola headquarters in Schaumburg, Illinois, USA.

In the conference room, a group of executives sat together with sad faces.

Because they have learned the exact news from several telecom operators such as AT&T: Huaxin Company has developed the latest mobile communication products.

This time it is a mobile communication product in the true sense. It is not limited to the 300-meter range of the host computer, but can be taken out and used to make calls anytime and anywhere.

Huaxin's cordless phones were already very popular. With a series of promotions such as free phones when you top up your phone bill and installment payments, Motorola 8000X was completely unable to cope with the competition, and its monthly sales could not even exceed units.

Now they have come up with a real mobile communication product. Doesn’t this mean that God wants to kill Motorola?
“Lower the price!”

An executive spoke up:

"While Huaxin's new product hasn't been released yet, we should hurry up and cut prices to boost sales. Otherwise, our Motorola 8000X will be completely unpopular."

With sales of less than 1995 units per month and a selling price of US$, that means revenue of less than US$ million.

Once Huaxin's new products are launched, I'm afraid the revenue data will continue to decline.

If you don’t change, you will die, so you have no choice but to change!
"How much lower can we go? Our profits are only a few dollars to begin with. If we continue to lower them, won't we lose a lot of money?"

"Idiot, won't your production department continue to optimize the production process? Why can Huaxin's products reduce costs, but our costs are so high?"

"Yes, that makes sense. I agree. Could we outsource the production of some of our components to developing countries? Take China, for example. Their labor costs are very low right now. I saw a news report a while ago that Nike is about to sign a factory agreement with mainland China."

"Fuck, are you all idiots? How can mainland China have such good workers? They can definitely make shoes, it doesn't require much technology, but we're a high-tech company, how can we be the same? Use your pig brains to think carefully, is this possible?"

Since the price cuts began, the topic of Motorola's executive meetings has begun to shift.

In fact, there are quite a few smart people among their group of executives.

China has been in reform and opening up for several years, and during these years, companies affiliated with Harbin Institute of Technology have successfully expanded overseas and sold their products around the world.

The impact of cordless phones on Motorola is the best proof of this.

Why can they come up with such a brilliant marketing strategy of giving away a phone machine for free by topping up phone bills?

That's because the cost of this product itself is very low. If the production cost of Motorola 8000X can also be reduced, it will of course have better advantages.

Unfortunately, there is a $100 million R&D cost and ten years of R&D time, so even if they are willing to rely on low prices in exchange for sales to ensure profits, it is difficult to do so.

What should I do?
The only option is to change the venue!
The executives' quarrel lasted for several days, but they finally agreed on a strategy to reduce costs and increase efficiency. They also sent several executives to different places such as mainland China, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore for inspection.

Motorola needs to change the status quo. They need to make money instead of being defeated by their competitors.

While the dispute was going on at Motorola, Cray also held a rare meeting.

"Seymour, across the Pacific Ocean in a large Eastern country, a university has announced that it has mass-produced a Nebula supercomputer. This supercomputer utilizes massively parallel processing technology, which is almost identical to the technology used by Thinking Machines."

The person who was speaking was Cray's third-in-command, Cord Pierce. He had just been to mainland China and said seriously:
"This supercomputer has 80,000 processors and uses the most advanced mechanical system. Its floating-point computing speed is 3 billion floating-point operations per second."

Seymour Cray is the founder of Cray Technologies and is undoubtedly the number one in the global supercomputer market.

So when he learned that there was such a university in the distant Eastern country that had developed a supercomputer with a floating-point computing speed of 3 billion times, his expression instantly became very exciting.

"Damn it, that's impossible. Three billion floating-point operations per second? And what the hell is massively parallel processing technology?"

Thinking Machines' connected machine theory is just in its infancy. The company was established in May this year. Although it received $16 million in angel investment, Seymour Cray did not take it seriously at all.

So he naturally disdained the theory proposed by Sirius, the founder of Thinking Machines, and made a very famous statement:
“If you were plowing a field, would you choose two strong bulls or 1024 chickens?”

What this means is that Sirius and his fellow child soldiers want to stack up a large number of processors together and then use them to defeat the omnipotent Cray series supercomputers?
The answer is obviously impossible!
However, now that such a supercomputer has appeared in the Eastern superpower, Seymour Cray can no longer remain calm.

Because of such an excellent supercomputer, it is bound to attract the attention of Los Alamos National Laboratory, San Diego Supercomputer Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and other institutions.

The entire conference room was filled with gasps of shock at Code Pierce's words.

Obviously everyone was shocked by his words.

After everyone realized what was happening, they all expressed disbelief. It must be false advertising. How could there be anyone more powerful than their company, Cray?

"That's right, three billion times per second!"

Cord Pierce said with great seriousness:

"The Nebula supercomputer not only supports serial data, but the processor architecture they use is absolutely beyond your imagination. The connection structure technology between the processors of this supercomputer is also very advanced and is a genius concept."

"As for whether they are engaging in false advertising? Haha, next month, they will have a Nebula supercomputer delivered to Azure's US headquarters in Los Angeles to enhance the speed of their Fluent software."

Upon hearing this, all the Cray executives, including Seymour Cray, were shocked.

This is absolutely amazing, incredible!

However, after accepting this shocking news, they immediately began to worry: how to deal with it?

Yes, they can now almost imagine how wonderful the expressions of scientific research institutions such as Oak Ridge National Laboratory will be when they learn the news.

Supercomputers involve security issues in national defense, military industry, scientific research, etc., which can be a big deal or a small matter.

Logically speaking, given the current international situation, institutions such as Oak Ridge National Laboratory should also purchase the Nebula supercomputer. After all, as long as it is not connected to the Internet, it will definitely be safe.

No matter how powerful a hacker is, he can’t be more powerful than physically cutting off the Internet, right?

Alas, what an alliance of the rich and worried!

In addition to Cray, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and other units really couldn't believe it after hearing the news.

They sent scientific researchers to Harbin Institute of Technology for academic visits, especially to the supercomputing center of the University of California, San Diego. After they learned the news, they actually called Smale directly.

The latter was still confused when he received the call.

"Are you saying that Harbin Institute of Technology has developed a supercomputer with a speed of 3 billion floating-point operations per second?"

"Okay, that must be it. You ask me why? Damn it, you don't know that Harbin Institute of Technology has a top mathematician, right? He's a top scholar who just won the Fields Medal."

"Fuck, I can't explain it to you idiots, believe it or not!"

After cursing, Smale hung up the phone, stood there thinking for a while, and then immediately decided to buy a ticket and go to Harbin Institute of Technology.

He is not Shing-Tung Yau, and he did not stay at Harbin Institute of Technology all the time.

John Milnor, David Bryant Manford, Charles Fefman and others were very interested in the geometric Langlands conjecture and wanted to complete the Langlands Program, but Smale did not want to.

He is already 53 years old this year, but he doesn't want to work so hard anymore. He just wants to slowly do some scientific research projects that interest him and enjoy life.

In the past ten years, he spent so much time and energy but failed to deduce and solve the four-dimensional Poincaré conjecture. Instead, Wang Duoyu solved it quickly.

After that, he no longer had such great ideals and beliefs.

But he was indeed curious about Wang Duoyu, the mathematical genius: Why was it so easy for Wang Duoyu to succeed in everything he did?

With this question in mind, he has already boarded the flight to Ice City.

The person in charge of the San Diego Supercomputing Center on the other end of the line was still confused. Wasn't it just a few extra questions? Why was he so angry?
In addition to the United States, scientific research institutes in Japan, Europe, the Polar Bear Empire and other places all expressed incomprehension and disbelief after learning the news.

Isn’t China a poor and backward country?
Where on earth did they find the funds and resources to develop such an advanced supercomputer? How was it possible to achieve such a leapfrog development so quickly?
It's not theoretical research, anyone with enough talent can do it. This is a supercomputer, one of the most powerful technological products in the third technological revolution of mankind.

Especially the "aristocratic" gentlemen in Europe, all of them were so self-important that they commented on the news and did not believe it at all.

Regardless of the reactions in Europe and other places, Harbin Institute of Technology has indeed been quite lively these days.

The number of flights landing at Yanjiagang Airport in Ice City has increased significantly recently.

Due to an unexpected plane landing last month, Yanjiagang Airport and relevant civil aviation agencies have updated more flight safety standards in recent times.

In order to transport passengers more safely, civil aviation agencies and airports have tried their best. Who can blame Tong Jianwei, the top leader of Ice City, and other leaders for paying close attention to this matter?

Because the safety issue is no longer just a problem for the airport itself, it is also a major issue related to the development of the Ice City and must be taken seriously.

Originally, it was already difficult for Ice City to attract foreign investment. If something unexpected happened, it would be even more tragic.

Harbin Institute of Technology, Secretary's Office.

Liu Deben smiled bitterly and advised earnestly:

"Duoyu, what are you thinking? So many customers have come, and you don't want to see any of them. Aren't you trying to sell supercomputers? You even rejected the customers' requests to meet with you. What kind of thing is this?"

That's not a business attitude at all!

Lu Gongliang, Han Jue, Jin Lirong and others beside him also echoed, but Wang Duoyu remained unmoved.

There have indeed been quite a few guests in recent days, but so what?
Wang Duoyu is not a businessman and cannot handle the business of welcoming and seeing off guests. If they want to buy something, they can just place an order. Why do they have to meet him?

You know, because of his retreat, he didn't even meet Shing-Tung Yau and the others. Even if they came to the lecture hall in the mathematics department's teaching building to block him, it would be useless.

There are only two classes a day, and he is quite busy, so the most he gives them is ten minutes of break between classes.

"Secretary, what's the rush? Our Nebula supercomputing project's production site has only been officially put into operation not long ago. Even though Professor Ci Yungui and others have joined us, there's no way to speed up the production progress all at once."

"Also, at the moment, we're definitely prioritizing supply to the domestic market, not the international market. We're not in a rush!"

"The people who are most anxious now are probably the guests who have already come to our Harbin Institute of Technology. They must have already known the superiority of the Nebula supercomputer. As long as we can keep updating this technology, why should we worry about them not buying it?"

Hearing Wang Duoyu's words, Liu Deben was about to speak, but then he heard Wang Duoyu continue:

"Besides, there's no point in them being anxious now. Everything is based on first come, first served. Why should they be anxious?"

"I'm very busy myself and don't have time to deal with them. By the way, Secretary, has the Pioneer Technology Manufacturing Plant's aviation engine project been approved?"

The Pioneer Technology Manufacturing Plant is the civil aircraft manufacturing plant project that Wang Duoyu mentioned to Liu Deben and Ma Sijie last month. He said he didn't care, and he really didn't care.

Liu Deben was diverted from the topic and could only shake his head helplessly.

This passenger aircraft manufacturing plant, named Pioneer Technology, was established at the end of last month, and relevant persons in charge, engineers, researchers, etc. were recruited one after another after December.

Of course, it has definitely not been completely built yet. We can only say that the skeleton of the company structure has been built, and we need to continue recruiting and adding more people.

The first project to be launched was the noise reduction equipment project, because this thing itself was already being developed by a team of professors from the Department of Aerospace and the Department of Materials.

The second is the aviation engine project. This project is still an empty shell with only a few cats and dogs. I don’t know whether the personnel can be fully replenished before the end of December.

The relevant equipment has been purchased, and the domestic equipment has been shipped back to the Harbin Institute of Technology Research Park. As for the foreign equipment, it is still on the way to sea transportation.

Last year, Tong Jianwei, the top leader of Bingcheng, and his colleagues held a meeting and allocated a large piece of land in the south of Harbin Institute of Technology to build a science and technology park.

The so-called science and technology park is actually equivalent to the scientific research center of Harbin Institute of Technology, and it can also be regarded as a scientific research internship place for students.

This is also a helpless solution. Harbin Institute of Technology has developed too fast and has too many projects. The original Harbin Institute of Technology campus cannot accommodate so many projects.

Can only expand outward.

After learning about the situation, Wang Duoyu said:
"Okay, Secretary, please talk to Director Ma for me and urge him to quickly secure the R&D personnel. We have so many researchers and graduate students in the country. We should recruit those who are needed and poach them directly."

When Liu Deben, Lu Gongliang, Han Jue and others heard this, their faces immediately turned black.

My goodness, if Wang Duoyu’s words were heard by outsiders, he would definitely be criticized.

In the evening, Wang Duoyu returned to the teachers' villa area. The house was very lively today because it was Wang Junhong's birthday.

Zhu Ling, who had disappeared for more than three months, finally arrived at Harbin Institute of Technology yesterday to attend her son's birthday party on time.

Liu Xiaoli's belly was getting bigger and bigger. At this time, she was in the bedroom, discussing stretch marks with her two sisters Wang Meili.

Women don't necessarily get stretch marks after giving birth, but if they do, they will definitely be very unsightly.

Liu Xiaoli's due date is next month. Her belly is very big now, but there are no stretch marks to be seen, which makes Wang Meili and her sister very envious.

In fact, the stretch marks of Wang Meili and her sister are not obvious, but they can still be seen a little bit.

According to the doctor, the stretch marks will disappear after a few months.

But they ate a lot during the confinement period and their weight has not come down yet, so these stretch marks have appeared.

Ugh!
worry!

"Happy birthday!"

After Wang Duoyu returned home, Liu Xiaoli and the others also came out, and the whole family of relatives celebrated the little guy's birthday.

After dinner, the birthday cake was immediately brought out.

Birthday cake is a Western-style pastry and a dessert that has become popular in mainland China in the past one or two years.

It is quite popular abroad, but not so popular in China yet. However, people in big cities like Shanghai have already done this.

Wang Duoyu's family has no shortage of money to buy pastries, so celebrating the little one's birthday is more about gathering with family members, and also taking pictures and recording life with a camera.

Especially the little guy Wang Junhong, there have been records since he was born until now.

And not just photos, but also vinyl videotapes.

Who made Wang Duoyu rich? It’s no big deal to give a little more to the children.

The little kid was the happiest, and the smile on his little face never stopped throughout the entire evening.

Last month, his father went to Beijing on a business trip and did not take him with him. When his father came back, he cried, and his father's video recorder recorded it. This will be the black material in the future.

After celebrating her child’s birthday, Zhu Ling left Ice City the next day.

Wang Duoyu was very happy about her initiative to avoid suspicion and did not take the matter too seriously.

Time flies, and it is almost the end of December.

At this time in late December, the temperature in Ice City had dropped even lower, likely reaching over thirty degrees Celsius below zero, and it was snowing heavily that day. "Huh, I've finally proven the geometric Langlands conjecture."

In the office, Wang Duoyu finished writing the fifth paper and put it on the bookshelf.

In fact, if his office caught fire, these books, scientific research results, etc. would definitely be reduced to ashes.

Logically, he shouldn't do this, but he wasn't worried because the possibility of a fire was low, and there were security staff patrolling the door, so how could anything go wrong?
"Next, we can finally begin working on the fundamental lemma of the Langlands program."

Wang Duoyu's eyes were gloomy, but he was not too anxious. It would not be too late for him to take action after next year.

The cordless phone on the desk suddenly rang.

"Professor, you are truly amazing. Three American laboratories and universities have already ordered five Nebula supercomputers from us. They are the San Diego Supercomputing Center,

The person who called him was Song Xinwen. He had just signed contracts with the San Diego Supercomputing Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Brookhaven National Laboratory. After nearly twenty days of negotiations, he finally finalized the specific details.

From this moment on, the monopoly of Cray Inc. in the United States was completely broken, and Harbin Institute of Technology would once again be the leader in breaking the ice.

The price of exporting the Nebula supercomputer to the three companies at the San Diego Supercomputing Center is US$5.99 million per supercomputer. Because Harbin Institute of Technology has always been reluctant to sell, the price was set by the three companies themselves.

Originally, Wang Duoyu planned to sell one unit for US$4.99 million, but there were indeed a lot of orders from China, so he had no choice but to temporarily reject them.

However, facing the bid from the San Diego Supercomputing Center, Song Xinwen and his team did not hold out for long.

Even so, the price of $5.99 million per unit is much cheaper than Cray's $12 million or $15 million.

The key is the speed of 3 billion times per second and other super powerful performance, which is enough to make the three companies including Oak Ridge National Laboratory very happy, as if they had picked up a huge bargain.

I made a fortune!

"Oh, you placed the order so soon?"

Wang Duoyu was a little surprised, but Song Xinwen on the other end of the phone froze: Is this what you call fast?

This group of flat-headed guys from the United States took more than twenty days to complete.

At the beginning, Song Xinwen strictly followed Wang Duoyu's plan, but later the person in charge of the San Diego Supercomputing Center asked them to name any price they wanted, hoping that they could get a supercomputer in San Diego immediately.

After all, the speed of 3 billion floating-point operations per second is really exciting.

Song Xinwen did not make an offer, and in the end it was the head of Oak Ridge National Laboratory who quoted a price of seven million US dollars.

However, this offer made the head of the San Diego Supercomputing Center very dissatisfied, as did several other companies, who even walked out of the meeting room.

In the end, it was another extreme tug-of-war, and then it became the current situation.

The price is US$5.99 million, with a total of five units, and the delivery time limit is three months. The initial deposit is US$3 million.

"Professor, it's not fast anymore."

After chatting with Song Xinwen for a few words, Wang Duoyu hung up the phone and put the matter behind him.

Nebula supercomputers have begun to be exported abroad, which is the inevitable path to take.

The delivery time of three months is not too slow, but it is not too urgent either.

After Ci Yungui and his team joined, the Nebula supercomputing project team was fully staffed.

Therefore, some people helped to monitor the production and increase the monthly output of Nebula supercomputers to ten units, which will be enough to cope with the current huge market demand.

According to Wang Duoyu's prediction, the demand for Nebula supercomputers will reach its peak after the Spring Festival. After all, units such as the San Diego Supercomputing Center need to take the Nebula supercomputers back before it can trigger new market demand.

Of course, on the other hand, Azure, a company far away in Los Angeles, USA, will also have a supercomputer. When this supercomputer appears, it will surely surprise everyone.

When these supercomputers begin to bring new and unlimited vitality to various industries, they will surely attract more people's attention.

No one wants to be left behind by the times. It’s a simple truth: if you can’t beat them, then choose to join them!

It's better than being thrown out of the car, right?
In the next few days, Wang Duoyu was busy with his own things. In addition to the research and development of projects such as the sub-combustion ramjet engine, and teaching students like Zheng Baodong, he also answered some questions for Maxim and others. Finally, he had to promote the proof of the fundamental lemma of the Langlands program.

In the lecture hall, Wang Duoyu suddenly said:
"I see that many of you have trouble understanding this mathematical tool. So, I'll give you a very simple algebraic equation of degree 5 to change your thinking."

He was clearly giving a lecture to everyone about a mathematical tool in a paper proving the geometric Langlands conjecture.

Students like Zheng Baodong, Mai Zili, and Wei Yuanchao were all tortured to the point of ecstasy.

此时的黑板上上，王多鱼已经飞快地写了一道题目，非常简单：x^5+10x^3+20x4=0
When they saw the questions, Zheng Baodong and others hurriedly started to solve them.

Wang Duoyu took the opportunity to come down and take a walk, just to see how they solved the problem.

None of the students who can sit in the lecture hall are students, because they are all allowed to attend the class after passing the assessment.

When faced with high-dimensional equations, many students will first think of using factorization to solve them, which is also a common operation.

After all, factorization is actually a process of reducing the degree. The equation is replaced by several factors and multiplied together, and the solution is achieved by finding which of the factors is equal to 0.

But unfortunately, this quintic equation cannot be solved by factoring at all, because there is no way to start.

Look, Wang Duoyu saw many classmates scratching their heads and frowning.

It's just a very simple quintic equation, why can't I solve it?
Isn’t this high school math knowledge?

Why can’t I solve it?

Professor Wang's suggestion to change our thinking should have reduced the difficulty, but I didn't expect that I still underestimated Professor Wang. His words cannot be believed at all.

Soon, some top students came up with the idea of ​​converting the equation problem into a function problem to solve it.

Mai Zili used this method to solve the problem as soon as possible, that is, to find the function corresponding to the equation, and then analyze how to solve it by judging the properties of this function.

只见他在稿纸上面写道：f(x)=x^5+10x^3+20x-4，这个时候就需要通过导函数来判断那个函数的性质。

求导之后，麦自立很快就得到了f(x)=5x^4+30x^2+20>0，这是在实数范围内是恒大于0的，那么原函数f(x)就是单调递增。

According to the properties of the derivative, if f(x) is monotonically increasing, then this function can only have one intersection with the x-axis.

In other words, this equation has only one real root, and the rest are imaginary roots.

Since it has only one intersection with the equation, let's find that intersection point: x(0)=a
Wang Duoyu, who was standing by, saw that Mai Zili had solved the problem up to this point, and couldn't help but laugh and shook his head. If he continued to solve it this way, it would be very complicated and almost impossible to solve.

Even Wang Duoyu would not be able to solve it because there are at least five parameters, which is too difficult.

Of course, Wang Duoyu would not use such a silly method to solve the problem. Almost all mathematical geniuses are like this. They will not take such a detour, but choose to go a straight line.

Then Wang Duoyu continued browsing, and saw that Zheng Baodong was using the general genius thinking: Cardano formula.

This formula is actually the method that many mathematical geniuses use when solving cubic equations. It is of course very common in the gifted class of Harbin Institute of Technology.

Therefore, Zheng Baodong, Wei Yuanchao and other genius class students all chose the Cardano formula at the first opportunity.

Zheng Baodong immediately wrote on the paper: Let x = a-1/a
Then he used the binomial expansion, and Zheng Baodong quickly discovered that many terms had been canceled out, but there was still no way to solve the problem.

Wang Duoyu almost laughed out loud while watching from the side. The direction was right, but the method was wrong.

While Wang Duoyu was busy teaching, on the other side, in the Bingcheng Municipal Government Office Building, Motorola executives were negotiating with Zhao Guobin, the third-in-command of Bingcheng.

As a representative of the Alliance of the Rich and Sad, Motorola executives have been traveling back and forth between China and the United States over the past period of time.

Because before that, after Motorola had clarified its next response strategy, it began looking for new sites to reduce production costs.

After inspecting many places including mainland China, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Japan, we first eliminated the latter options and then conducted multiple rounds of inspections on the first two.

Then Taipei was also kicked out as an option.

If it were ten years ago, Taipei would have been among the candidates for Motorola executives.

Of course, if it were ten years ago, they would not have come to this country.

Several delegations of Motorola executives conducted inspections in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, Ice City and other places. After comprehensive consideration, they finally chose Ice City.

Why not choose Shanghai and Guangzhou?
The investment attraction strategies of these two places are not too bad, especially Shanghai, which has a pretty good industrial base.

But compared with the industrial city of Bingcheng, it is far inferior.

On the other hand, there are also lithography machine factories and chip factories in Ice City, and their costs are much lower than those of chip factories in the United States.

Of course, the Ice City is located in the inland area after all, and its transportation is not as good as that of cities such as Shanghai and Guangzhou. But is this a problem?

The low chip cost alone and the large number of high-tech industries gathered in the Ice City are enough to attract Motorola executives.

It was based on this consideration that Motorola executives took the initiative to contact Bingcheng, and finally Zhao Guobin, the third-in-command of Bingcheng, personally negotiated with them.

Zhao Guobin has offered many preferential policies, including a direct tax exemption for five years, and the land will be allocated according to the plan of the First Department of Harbin Institute of Technology.

Different strategies will definitely be given depending on the location.

Motorola directly chose to build a factory near the Harbin Institute of Technology Science and Technology Park and asked for 2,000 acres of land.

To be honest, two thousand acres of land, how much?

Not much!
Zhao Guobin even hoped that the other party would ask for more land.

After all, the Ice City is nominally a heavy industrial base, but in reality its development is very backward. Not to mention compared with other cities in the world, there is also some gap with cities like Shanghai and Guangzhou.

Especially for those lands in the suburbs of Ice City, it doesn’t matter if they are given away for free.

Motorola did not expect that the land costs, tax costs, etc. in Ice City would be so favorable. It is simply great for the company.

You know, in the United States, although land prices are not expensive, it depends on who you compare them with.

If compared to big cities like New York, the land prices in Schaumburg, Illinois are of course very cheap.

But compared with Ice City, it's no different from giving it away for free.

Besides, the exchange rate between the RMB and the US dollar is already one US dollar to two RMB, and this is just the official exchange rate, which does not include the corporate export exchange rate.

Originally, one US dollar was spent as if it were two RMB, so Motorola executives were naturally very happy and didn't know what to do.

After a period of negotiation, Motorola signed a 50-year contract in one go. Of course, they were also required to complete the factory construction within two years and start production within five years.

Who would have thought that after signing the contract, Motorola immediately arranged for personnel to move in and began looking for people to level the land.

It’s so cold, the ground is frozen, and they’re still working?
Why not start work?
Not only will the construction not start, but it will also need to be accelerated because Motorola needs to race against time to build the factory as quickly as possible and put it into use.

Once Huaxin's PHS mobile phone is launched on the market, Motorola's Motorola 8000X will suffer a devastating blow.

So they can only reinvest in building factories as soon as possible to reduce production costs.

The R&D cost is already fixed, and this is a fact that cannot be changed, but if the production cost is not reduced, it will definitely not work.

At the same time as the factory was being built, Motorola also leased several buildings, which were put into use directly after simple leveling.

What to do?

Recruit workers and provide technical training.

In the United States, not to mention the salaries of technical engineers, the monthly salary of ordinary workers is several hundred or even thousands of dollars.

But when they saw that many technical staff in Bingcheng were only paid around 100 yuan, the eyes of Motorola executives were all red.

That's one of the reasons why they are in such a hurry.

When one dollar can be spent as two yuan, especially according to the dual-track exchange rate system, the internal settlement price of one dollar's trade exchange rate is one US dollar to 3.2 yuan.

It's so exaggerated!

Of course, Motorola and others don’t know that the dual-track exchange rate system will not be implemented for long, and by next year, such discounts will be cancelled.

So they have caught the last wave of opportunities.

On the other hand, Cray, one of the members of the Alliance of Rich and Sad, also came to the Ice City in late December, entered the campus of Harbin Institute of Technology, and visited the Nebula supercomputer.

Code Pierce personally led a team, along with several Cray shareholders and executives, to visit the Nebula supercomputer. After confirming that Harbin Institute of Technology's supercomputer was indeed very impressive, they had to admire it deeply.

Although Harbin Institute of Technology's Nebula supercomputer did not follow the same route as their Cray company, but instead used the shortcut of stacking processors, there is no doubt that the low cost and ultra-high performance of the Nebula supercomputer still conquered people like Code Pierce.

They never imagined that Harbin Institute of Technology could actually surpass Cray and develop a floating-point computing speed of 3 billion times per second.

At the same time, in other performance aspects and application levels, the Nebula supercomputer also beats the Cray series supercomputers.

On the way back to the United States, Code Pierce and others were still discussing how to deal with it next.

"We must convince Seymour Clay to stop being so stubborn."

One of Cray's shareholders expressed his opinion, but Code Pierce and others shook their heads.

Because Seymour Cray is the founder of Cray Corporation and the undisputed big boss, do you want to convince him?

How easy is that?
Soon, they returned to the United States and found Seymour Clay to discuss the next response strategy.

"Are you saying that their supercomputer can really reach a speed of 3 billion floating-point operations per second? And its other performance is also not bad?"

Seymour Clay frowned, his disdain had disappeared, and he began to take it seriously.

Code Pierce and others nodded repeatedly. They would try to persuade Seymour Clay, but they soon found that their ideas were a complete joke because Seymour Clay didn't listen at all.

"No, I trust my own judgment. They're just stacking processors together. That's the upper limit. Supercomputing still needs to develop in the direction of vector machines."

"However, the large-scale parallel processing technology proposed by Harbin Institute of Technology is not completely useless if we can use this large-scale processing technology to build a vector machine."

After hearing what Seymour Clay said, Code Pierce and others' eyes suddenly lit up. This was truly a genius idea, so awesome, he was worthy of being Seymour Clay!
(End of this chapter)