RPAGF #492 - The truth comes out
#492 - The truth comes out
Eight fifteen.
Qin Chu looked at the time on his watch. It was almost the appointed time, but there was still no movement on the sea.
It was dark all around. The scattered streetlights were dim and yellow. The entire dock was quiet. The sight of ships entering the port from time to time during the day was long gone. Qin Chu stood there alone, hiding his figure in the shadow of a freighter's hull.
After what seemed like a long time, Qin Chu heard the sound of a motor sputtering, coming from the direction of the sea. Qin Chu was overjoyed, and his tense mood relaxed a lot.
He quickly walked out of the shadows and headed towards an open space on the dock.
Sure enough, a speedboat was heading towards the dock.
Seeing the speedboat, Qin Chu felt relieved.
He waved his arms vigorously, signaling in the direction of the speedboat. At this time, Qin Chu didn't believe it was a passing speedboat.
Soon the speedboat docked.
"Are you Mr. Qin? John asked me to pick you up." A person jumped off the boat and asked with a strong local accent.
"Yes, I am Qin Chu," Qin Chu said happily. "I don't have any other luggage. We can leave now."
The man nodded and turned to guide Qin Chu onto the boat. At this moment, several people suddenly jumped out from the surrounding ships, raised their guns, and surrounded Qin Chu and the boatman, shouting loudly!
Hearing this sound, Qin Chu's body went limp, and he immediately collapsed to the ground! He couldn't muster any strength at all.
It's over!
After investigation, the whole thing was very simple.
Qin Chu was spotted and co-opted by the Rogue Eagle intelligence agency while studying abroad. Because of Qin Chu's outstanding ability and talent, they also arranged for a beautiful woman to have a child with him to lock him in firmly. The Rogue Eagle intelligence agency regarded him as a key training target, preparing to send him back to the Fruity Kingdom to mix with the upper echelons in the future. However, with the rapid changes in the Eastern Continent, this early plan failed to materialize. However, as the Eastern Continent massively recruited students studying abroad to return to the country to engage in technology, and the Rogue Eagle intelligence agency repeatedly created heaven-defying technological achievements, especially weapons of mass destruction like rockets, they originally wanted to insert Qin Chu into the Eastern Continent's aerospace research department.
However, because of his major, Qin Chu, who excelled in electronics, was quickly assigned to the electronic technology research department after being recruited back to the country. After the establishment of the chip technology research department, Qin Chu became a business backbone. If there were no problems, Qin Chu would have a place in the future selection of academicians.
But with the leakage of the chip design drawings, Qin Chu's remaining life was basically spent in prison.
With the outbreak of the Qin Chu case, the Dawn Research Institute will have a stricter background investigation and review system for recruiting overseas returnees in the future.
Before this, due to the shortage of manpower, the Dawn Research Institute considered professional ability more when recruiting personnel. It completely used talents in an unconventional manner. In addition, in this era, most of the personnel returning to the country to build the country were full of enthusiasm and did not care about personal gains or losses. Ren Zhong had always been very relieved about this.
Therefore, even though the Qin Chu case caused huge losses to the Eastern Continent's chip industry, under Ren Zhong's insistence, the impact of this case was quietly suppressed and did not affect other returnees, even those in the project team. There is no impact now.
Future preventive measures are also secretly implemented new security pre-screening. There are still no changes in the policies for personnel entering the project team.
This minimizes the negative impact of this case on the entire Dawn Research Institute. Except for the necessary personnel, most people are not even aware of Qin Chu's affairs. It is better to mend the fold after the sheep are lost, and things are done outside.
Of course, the relationship between the Situ family and its successors is now even more important. In order to normalize and standardize this work, the Situ family cut out some confidants and began to become consulting institutions such as law firms and headhunting research institutes. They can legitimately accept customers' commissions to carry out investigation and research work, so as to minimize the Rogue Eagle intelligence department's attention to people from the Eastern Continent.
Now, with the rise of the Tang Ren system in the economic field, it is almost on par with the Squid. Relying on its deep influence in those years, the Situ family has abandoned the retreat strategy of the main world historical time and space under Ren Zhong's influence, and instead has penetrated deeply into the Rogue Eagle donkey and elephant mainstream, sending its own people to the core of the two houses of Congress without reservation, gathering people's hearts in the areas where the Tang Ren gather, and beginning to have its own mayors and state-level heavyweight representatives.
Coupled with the shipping system and most of the monopoly on trade with the Eastern Continent, the Tang Ren's economic strength can be said to be a three-legged stand with the Rogue Eagle local consortium and the Squid consortium.
Relying on strong economic strength and a pragmatic attitude, coupled with the good high-level relationships established by the Situ family in the early days, the strength of the Tang Ren in the Bright Sword world is far from comparable to that of the main world.
This is also the reason why, even though the Rogue Eagle is full of noise internally, there are always many heavyweight figures who stand up and directly veto it at critical moments.
With such a foundation, many things will soon take action after communication, as a link in our linkage.
Of course, at the grassroots level, they know nothing about this. They only know that this is a business, and the people who carry it out are genuine foreigners. They will be very happy to have such a good job opportunity.
After secretly completing the construction of the new security system, the Eastern Continent, as always, selects outstanding personnel to study at major universities in the great powers. After all, the university education in various majors in the great powers has developed one or two hundred years earlier than the Eastern Continent. Many basic majors are fully leading in the Bright Sword world. Even if the Eastern Continent has tilted a lot of investment in education, the construction plan of one hundred key universities has even used up the construction costs of many local government agencies, but it is difficult to change this backward situation in the short term.
Electronics, chemical engineering, machinery, metallurgy... Many basic majors require us to study abroad to make up for the shortcomings of domestic education. The students who can be sent out are now being funded by overseas relations to cultivate them. Even if some people want to stay outside, they can also work in overseas relations companies.
When MBI obtained that precious chip design drawing from the Western Ai Ai of the Rogue Eagle, the joy of the entire team was beyond words. This design drawing was like a map to a treasure for them. Although there were some errors in the drawing, this did not diminish its value. For MBI and Bell LAB, the arrival of this drawing meant that their research in the field of integrated circuits would take a crucial step.
In the research of integrated circuits, the teams at MBI and Bell Labs were nearing a technological breakthrough. The arrival of this blueprint was like a beam of light in the darkness, illuminating their path forward. Hundreds of engineers and scientists in the team began to study and research based on this blueprint day and night, conducting simulation calculations and design verification tests.
Using a pieced-together 5-micron production line, after countless attempts and improvements, they finally successfully taped out the 8080 chip. This was not only a technical victory but also an important symbol of MBI's independent production capability in the field of chip manufacturing. The successful production of this chip allowed MBI to gain a foothold in the chip market.
After rigorous alternative testing and verification, MBI confirmed the complete compatibility of this chip with the original 8080 chip. This discovery was a treasure to MBI, and they quickly began to undertake a large number of military electronic orders, providing strong support for the electronic upgrading of the Rogue Eagle's air and naval equipment.
For the Rogue Eagle military, this upgrade was an excellent opportunity to fully catch up with Dongda's avionics and marine electronics. The new integrated circuit CPU had a qualitative leap in power consumption, size, and weight compared to transistor computers, which significantly improved the performance of the Rogue Eagle's military equipment.
Although this upgrade was not achieved overnight, the Rogue Eagle planned to spend 5-10 years upgrading existing ships and aircraft. However, MBI obtained huge profits from these orders. These profits not only consolidated their position in the chip market but also allowed them to secretly invest in the research of the RISC computer architecture, attempting to bypass Dongda's X86 patent system and open up a new computer system.
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MBI's strategy showed their determination not to become a supporting role in the computer wave. Their research in the RISC field, although it had a long journey in the main world's history, in this world, Ren Zhong's changes advanced everything by many years.
If MBI had not obtained the chip design, their research might have been delayed by 2-3 years. In this time difference, Dongda's computer technology might have been updated by a generation, and it would have been difficult for MBI to obtain a large number of high-profit military orders with an outdated computer chip. Without the financial support brought by these orders, MBI would not have been able to invest enough funds in the research of the new RISC architecture CPU chip, thereby failing to take a new path to compete with Dongda's computers in advance.
However, the wheels of history had already rolled forward. MBI's move not only changed its own destiny but also unknowingly changed the development pattern of the entire computer industry. And all of this, Ren Zhong at the time was not aware of. He did not know that Qin Chu's personal interests had a far more profound impact on the overall computer landscape than it seemed on the surface. In this long river of history woven from countless decisions and accidental events, every small ripple could trigger huge changes.
However, these effects are not visible in the short term. Under Ren Zhong's intervention, the new generation 8086 (8088) will be announced at the Second Global Computer Conference, and Dongda will continue to lead the development of computers.
Ren Zhong's layout on another track, with the breakthrough of chip technology, is now also beginning to bear fruit.
The early layout in the field of computer network technology, with the breakthrough of chip technology, began to show its far-reaching impact. In terms of network connection, the research team, based on the technical data that Ren Zhong moved from the main world, completed the technical breakthroughs of the local area network TCP/IP protocol, network card, and the first-generation data switch. This achievement not only marked the entry of personal computers into the local area network era but also was an important layout of Dongda in computer technology.
After rigorous testing, the transmission rate of the first-generation ISA network card and switch reached 10Mbps, which was a huge leap for the technology at the time. Dongda plans to announce the ISA network card and TCP/IP protocol at the Second Global Computer Conference as a major technological breakthrough, declaring that the computer industry has officially entered the network era.
Although this technology is still in its early stages, there is still a distance from the Internet era, and there are technical obstacles such as routers that need to be overcome. However, Dongda's TCP/IP standards and technology have entered the practical stage, providing strong support for the development of office digitization.
Prior to this, although personal computers had developed the RS232 interface standard to cope with the connection of peripherals such as fax machines and printers, as well as the connection with other equipment in the factory, there were few cases of using the RS232 interface to achieve interconnection between personal computers. Dongda's network connection technology changed this situation. By adding network cards, switches, and network cables, data transmission can now be achieved between two machines at a distance of 100 meters. If there is a switch for transfer, this distance can be further extended, so that the vast majority of personal computers for office use can be connected to achieve internal network file transfer.
A network can connect up to 254 personal computers, greatly improving the group collaboration ability of computer office work. This technological breakthrough not only brought Dongda a technical lead but also pointed out a new direction for the development of the entire computer industry. Ren Zhong's realization of this layout will undoubtedly have a profound impact on the future of computer technology.
Considering the huge commercial value of this technology, Ren Zhong also raised the confidentiality level of network technology research to the level of top secret.
According to the monetization method of new technology, Dongda will create a new company to develop this new technology field.
This time Ren Zhong directly named this company 3Com (Chinese: Sanjia Network Technology Co., Ltd.), because Ren Zhong believes that the future development of computer technology will mainly revolve around the three words: computer, communication, and compatibility.
This is Ren Zhong's expectation for the future development trend of computers.
After the company is established, the products produced in the early stage are basically dedicated to institutions and military use, so the first batch of products are confidential products. Used to test the production line and test production capacity.
With these products, the connection methods of airborne avionics equipment and shipborne electrical equipment have better channels, which greatly improves the efficiency of data transmission. It should be known that the maximum transmission rate of the RS-232 interface is 19.2 Kbps, and the speed of the new TCP/IP transmission network is directly increased to 10Mbps, which is more than 500 times!
Obviously, the new network transmission protocol has revolutionary advantages! (End of this chapter)