Chapter 231

Ha Gong Da, school-run factory.

"What did you say? Factory Director Wang really got hit by a brick?" Qin Miao widened his eyes, looking at Professor Yuan in front of him.

"Hmm, Old Wang is really impressive; after getting up, he continued pushing reforms. San Shui, how exactly did you fool him?" Professor Yuan's face showed a complex expression.

"This isn't fooling, Professor Yuan. After decades of development, our country has reached the point where reform is necessary. The country can't forever rely on a safety net; otherwise it will be dragged down. If enterprises want to avoid collapse, they must reform. Not to mention ten years— in five years, the Yellow River Factory will become the strongest automobile enterprise in the country!"

"Then, does our school-run factory need to reform in Russian?"

"A small boat is easy to turn. As for our factory, as long as we strictly control personnel authority and keep out anything unrelated to production and operation, there won't be any problems……"

"San Shui!" At that moment, another teacher ran over and said: "I just got a call from the school asking you to come back."

Anything else?

Qin Miao envied Sun Wukong, who could pluck a handful of hair and turn it into a troop of monkeys and grandsons, creating clones to do the work while he relaxed.

"What's the matter?"

"People from the Computing Institute have arrived."

"Who?"

"Engineer Huang......"

Whoosh!

The next moment, Qin Miao had already run to the side of the Range Rover; following that, the engine roared and the tires hissed. Qin Miao didn't want to wait a moment longer—he just wanted to hurry back.

Before his rebirth, Qin Miao hated many people—Liu Zhonglie and Yang Qingfeng, who had messed up the domestic high-tech industry into a murky mess, plus that bullshit saying, "Technology knows no borders!"

Damn it, why didn't they say the second half?

"Technology knows no borders, but scientists have their own motherland!" Those who say this emphasize the second half, while these people take quotes out of context, confuse right and wrong. If I really had contact with such people, I would definitely play them to death!

In the Crystal Core field, the first person Qin Miao admired was Engineer, who invented the Lenovo-style Han card; the Lenovo Company was entirely supported by him alone. However, when he was squeezed out by Liu Zhonglie and others, he possessed nothing, was utterly alone, yet he didn't care and continued to strive in the Crystal Core field.

Needless to say other things—take the early 1980s, for example: he went to Canada's National Research Institute as a researcher; when he returned, all his wages were exchanged for computer parts, so many that they even specially sent out shipping containers!

While those who went abroad stuffed suitcases with fridges, color TVs, and washing machines, desperately squeezing their brains to siphon foreign exchange, Engineer was struggling for the Eastern computer industry, selflessly devoted!

The second person he admired was Old Huang, not for anything else, just for that phrase: crawling on the ground, wiping clean the humiliation of the motherland!

These are all technical talents, but unfortunately they don't understand the market or know how to ingratiate themselves, which is why those so-called business elites can toy with them. Now that they've come, we can't let them leave!

The Range Rover whistled as it drove into Ha Gong Da.

On the campus, cranes stood thick as forest, a scene of bustling construction; in just one year, the campus could be completely transformed!

On the office building, President Liu pointed at the map and introduced it to the guests.

"This is the construction site of our Ha Gong Da Microelectronics Company, not far from the present school-run factory. Currently, construction is proceeding smoothly; the seven-story R&D building will soon be completed, and the production workshop is also under construction……"

"Seven stories? That's about the same as the Computing Institute's North Building!"

"Hmm, this was proposed by San Shui and designed by the Ha Gong Da Architecture Department."

Bang! The door was shoved open; President Liu frowned and said, "San Shui, you usually kick the door— that's fine—but now don't scare our guests."

Qin Miao rushed in enthusiastically and looked at the person on the sofa.

A woman in her forties, not tall, with ear-length short hair, wearing a patterned cloth dress and glasses; from behind the lenses emanated an unusual glow.

This person must be Engineer Huang.

Wait, beside her sat a thin middle-aged man with a side-parted hairstyle, wearing glasses, smiling as he looked at Qin Miao.

This…… is Engineer?

Having searched high and low in vain, it turns out to be effortless—since you've come, don't even think of leaving!

"Both of you, let me introduce: this is Qin Miao, San Shui; these two are experts from the Computing Institute; this one is Engineer Huang, and that one is Engineer."

"Hmm, nice to meet you!" Qin Miao stepped forward and shook hands warmly: "Both of you, let me first introduce our Crystal Core Project R&D plan."

Qin Miao didn't know what the two had come here for, but he believed that as long as he voiced his ideas, those two would definitely stay!

"Currently, the world's best-selling processor is the X86, which uses a complex instruction set. I think that as technology keeps improving, this approach will become increasingly useless, so we should take the route of a reduced instruction set."

Hearing Qin Miao speak of technical terms, Engineer Huang and Engineer listened attentively.

In a complex instruction set, one instruction requires multiple steps, needing several CPU clock cycles; the advantage is simple code, the disadvantage is complex execution. Thus, as time goes on, the X86's efficiency drops and power consumption rises.

In a reduced instruction set, one instruction does one thing; even a simple multiplication operation needs several instructions, making programming complex, but execution is efficient. Later generations' ARM is a typical representative of reduced instruction sets.

Looking ahead, Intel can hardly get by anymore; many computer processors are starting to use mobile phone cores, showing who's mainstream. We must not take the wrong path—right from the start we should adopt the most suitable technical solution!

"Comrade Qin Miao, you mean we should blaze a new trail?" Engineer Huang asked.

Exactly, we can't get an X86 license again; even if we had it, they'd later add instruction sets and not license them to us, leaving us in the dark; we can't keep following behind them, we need our own innovation.

Qin Miao looked at the two: "Engineer Huang, Engineer, our first task is to design our own architecture and instruction set; I want to call them Dragon Architecture and Dragon Instruction Set respectively, and our processor will be called Loongson, how about that?"

Engineer Huang was startled; Qin Miao and he had thought the same — the descendants of the dragon use Loongson!

Engineer had a complex expression: "We can handle the design work, but what about production?"

By the time we finish the design, the factory building will be about ready.

What about the equipment?

Our own equipment, Engineer, Engineer Huang — you're both in the Capital; you should know about Professor Xu's lithography machine project at Qinghua Daxue, right?

We've been screwed by those foreign-worshipping guys; our country has its own lithography machine project, and it's not far behind the world's advanced level!