What the hell is a private enterprise?

Chapter 378 Blizzard (2000 monthly votes in May)

Summarizing the experience of decades of domestic counterfeiting history, the key can be summed up in one word: delay.

Patent litigation is an extremely specialized and complex process that requires assessment by multiple professional institutions.

This involves the behind-the-scenes power struggle between the two parties involved, and it wouldn't be difficult for it to drag on for ten or eight years.

The question is whether we can seize the time, withstand the pressure, create a new situation, gain a foothold, and improve our product competitiveness.

Many companies that are sued for bankruptcy are not because of plagiarism, but because they have no other way to survive besides plagiarism, and are eliminated by the market.

When Hans came to Goose City to sue Flying Motors and won the case... Hmph, Tang Wen guessed that he might have been fighting the Pacific War with Old Mi at that time.

However, we still have to maintain appearances. Besides denying it, the most important thing is to develop new cars and rapidly improve our technology.

From Tang Wen's perspective, most cars nowadays are actually garbage, but the reserves of new energy technology and the market are far from sufficient, so let's just pile on the features.

……

Magic City.

Upon returning to Shanghai's semiconductor industry, the new joint research institute has already begun operations.

Besides Ni Zhenhai, Tang Wen also passively poached some people from the Beijing Computer Institute.

The reason for this passivity is that after pouring money into building joint laboratories at several top universities, those mentors and professors, though unable to come out in person, recommended many of their students and disciples.

Some of them were familiar faces—though not the best ones. But these recent graduates were still full of passion, so Tang Wen accepted them all.

Ni Zhenhai, the head of Shanghai Semiconductor, is now overseeing the development of the GS1 learning machine. Tang Wen's requirement is that it can run games based on a 3D physics engine at 720P resolution and 30 frames per second.

To be more specific: the CPU was copied to the level of a first-generation Pentium, and the Voodoo 3D graphics card released by 3DFx last year was a key imitation.

Of course, this is just a goal. In reality, it would be good to achieve 2.5D pseudo-3D. As long as it can run, it is a victory.

The GS1 prototype was required to be delivered to Gadget Network by June 1998, with plans to release it with games in early 1999.

Meanwhile, Gaijin Networks has already begun recruiting, with the plan to first launch a relatively simple racing game, develop an X86 PC version, and then go back to adapt it for GS1 and launch a more complex 3D world view and RPG.

However, Ni Zhenhai clearly had his own ideas.

“Ni Zhenhai, Ni Zhenhai, there’s no need to be so persistent. Just go straight for Intel.”

Tang Wen learned about what he had been doing recently and was both amused and exasperated:
After securing a massive amount of funding, Ni Zhenhai was able to start poaching talent, bringing in the former Lianhai Electronics Laboratory team, and then ambitiously preparing to develop his own chips.

That's right. After calculating Gaijin's internal needs and funding scale, he felt it was enough to create a closed-loop ecosystem, so let's go for true self-development!
He also significantly modified the GS1's specifications. In addition to adapting it for games, he also planned to develop office software and CAD software, and even intended to seize the corporate procurement market.

This was the first time Tang Wen had encountered a situation where the "natives" were even bolder than him, and he didn't know what to say for a moment.

However, this is only natural. A few years ago, Ni Zhenhai almost ruined his future for 500 million yuan in R&D funding. Now that he can access more than 10 billion yuan at any time, how can he not take a gamble?
Moreover, although the former employer, Lianxiang, wanted to cause trouble, Gai Jin's reputation was not weak either, and Tang Wen, a billionaire, was no ordinary person, so he could bring many of Lianxiang's old employees with him.

However, just as he was brimming with ambition, Tang Wen poured cold water on his plans:
"The combination of MIPS architecture and Linux will not succeed. Trying to compete with Wintel from the start will only result in a huge loss."

Ni Zhenhai was quite upset by Tang Wen's resolute attitude and tried to explain, but Tang Wen did not accept it.

Tang Wen is very clear about the future of the MIPS architecture. Although Linux is open source, its interaction logic is far inferior to that of Windows. These are huge pitfalls; once you jump in, you can forget about getting out.

“Imitating x86 is the only way we can quickly catch up with the mainstream level right now.”

Ni Zhenhai: "What if Intel sues us?" Tang Wen: "If our computers with counterfeit chips only account for 1% of the market, they will sue us; if it's 5%, they will threaten to ban sales; if it's 10%, even the US government will have to take it seriously; if it's more than 20%, they will reach a settlement with us on their own initiative."

Why does it change once it exceeds 20%?

"Because if the remaining chips were banned at that time, we would have been able to make up the remaining 80%, and then grow into a new giant more quickly and rapidly, and improve x86 to obtain a self-developed architecture."

"..."

Seeing that Ni Zhenhai remained silent, Tang Wen issued another small threat:
"Whether or not to purchase chips from Shanghai Semiconductor is up to Song Nan himself. He only wants domestically produced Pentium chips, not purely self-developed ones. If the game cannot be released on time because of the significant differences in your GS1 design, it will cause us to fall further behind and never catch up again."

"Compared to being the father of self-developed chips, I now hope you become the godfather of game consoles first."

"Okay, maybe you're right."

Ni Zhenhai was ultimately defeated, and Tang Wen breathed a sigh of relief.

It's not easy. Besides this one, he can't think of any other chip engineers who have the ability and conviction to lead the project. He can't just replace them.

……

After finally getting Ni Zhenhai on board, they almost led Shanghai Semiconductor down the wrong path of self-developed technology.

Tang Wen doesn't care about self-developed technology anymore. Just like the Los Angeles base, if it were a tech tree, he would unlock it directly and immediately help the US build another 100.

Thinking about this, he checked his experience and found that he had already fully unlocked the German submarine line, the French cruiser line 1, and the American aircraft carrier line 1, and the upgrade progress had reached 30%.

I still have a million experience points left, so I can add another X-ray.

After a casual glance, Tang Wen's gaze settled on the F-series technology tree:

French-class X-class destroyer Kleber.

A large destroyer with a displacement of 4000 tons and equipped with a 9.6-horsepower boiler is also a product of imagination.

With a base speed of 44 knots, it comes with a 25% boost to its engine afterburner, and can reach 61 knots with the addition of the flag and captain bonus.

This time, you can reach 60 points without any event bonuses.

If you find them too expensive, the previous VIII-class "Fantasy" and IX-class "Mogador" can also achieve 42.7 and 43.5 knots respectively, so they are not that different in essence.

Using it in the South Seas would be a waste of its potential, but it might have a surprising effect if used to outmaneuver a task force.

Seeing the high-speed destroyer reminded him of the "Shkval" torpedoes that were salvaged from the "Kosomoyets".

The supercavitating torpedoes manufactured by the Russians have a crazy speed of 200 knots and a range of 15 kilometers.

Will a destroyer with 60 knots combined with a high-speed torpedo with 200 knots produce some amazing results?

At a speed of 60 knots, coupled with the incredible rudder effect that allows for a 90-degree turn within seconds without disintegrating, it probably wouldn't even be able to hit a typical anti-ship missile.

He had considered mounting this thing on a submarine, but the Blizzard torpedo was a straight-running torpedo and could not be guided, so he gave up on that idea.

But what about a high-speed torpedo destroyer?
Imagine a destroyer charging at you at 60 knots, then unleashing a barrage of 200-knot torpedoes weighing nearly 3 tons each, traveling at the speed of light:

A missile with a range of 15 kilometers can reach its destination in just 270 seconds. Regardless of the actual threat, it will certainly cause great psychological pressure.

(End of this chapter)