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"The Great Wall G1 Second Generation Professional Workstation is about to be released, expected to be equipped with the domestically produced second-generation flagship ternary processor, Huanghe Taowu A1000, featuring up to 24G of large memory and a 1000G ternary solid-state drive, with a starting price of 8999, and a new generation of Jingdongfang 17-inch IPS large screen, powering domestic ’core’ technology!"

"G5P low-power office and study laptop, 50W power consumption for ultra-long endurance, comes with a lifetime membership for Kingsoft Office and a generous 2000G cloud storage space!"

"Huawei Mate 10, Kirin959, triad to the extreme, offers you the ultimate data security experience."

"HarmonyOS Hackathon, with a top prize of 999,999 Yuan, waiting for you to claim!"

"Shenzhou Z3 laptop, powered by the Taowu C1020 chip, suitable for both work and gaming, +199 for a limited time offering includes 10000G of Meridian satellite internet traffic."

"Want to learn ternary technology? Come to the Modu White Horse Programmer Training Class!"

"..."

Qualcomm’s current CEO Steve stood next to the subway station, carefully examining the advertisements streaming on the big screen at the intersection.

On December 26th, the Huawei MATE 10 was released as the world’s first ternary chip smartphone, with its main selling point as security, and launched a one million Yuan hacker challenge around the world. Within three months after its launch on January 10th, any hacker who broke in would receive a reward, with no limit to the number of winners.

On the 27th, Yellow River Semiconductor released a new generation of domestic ternary TPU, claiming to redefine computing with a chip that serves dual functions.

Several domestic computer manufacturers followed suit, all obtaining a considerable amount of production capacity in preparation for releasing new computers with domestic chips in the new year, making ternary technology the hot topic of the moment.

Even though it was widely acknowledged that the nascent ternary technology was not yet perfect and was missing significant ecosystem support, its potential threat to the existing computer systems was deeply recognized.

And that following up with research was also a hassle, as the underlying architecture had all been patented, with the holders congregated at Yellow River Semiconductor, making obtaining authorization from them exceptionally difficult.

Because as soon as you looked at the list of shareholders, it was lined with conspicuously Chinese names, quite mysteriously.

Faced with such a closed attitude, several major chip manufacturers were extremely frustrated, and even TSMC and Samsung felt the impact, as they couldn’t figure out why there were suddenly far fewer orders from mainland China for processes below 28nm in 2017.

Even though mainland’s 90nm lithography machines could produce 28nm chips, the capacity and price were not right—it didn’t make sense!

The puzzled manufacturers were in a hurry, planning to put pressure on jointly, in addition to making another trip to the mainland.

As Steve landed in Modu City, a proposal was submitted to the Senate.

This proposal covered a wide range and contained too much content, so the Senate dared not make a hasty decision, deciding to postpone it until the new boss John took office for further discussion, as if they were avoiding it like the plague.

...

"Prince Swetan, our friendship is as firm as gold."

In the Capital, Academician She’s hand and Prince Swetan’s were tightly held together, embracing warmly in front of the media’s eyes before signing an agreement together.

On December 31st, Prince Swetan urgently flew to the Capital to discuss Abe’s unmanned lunar exploration plan.

The reason was naturally the water resources in Kuom Impact Crater; although cooperation with New Yuan included sending people up, they still wanted to secure a spot right away.

This time, the task’s contractor was the Aerospace Development Committee, and there’s a common saying about spreading benefits evenly. Prince Swetan was acutely aware of this, directly putting forward 1 billion US Dollars, demanding an unmanned probe be launched to the Lunar South Pole for Abe in the first half of 2017.

Demands? Since it was a last-minute plan, the only requirement from Prince Swetan was that the probe needed to be functional, no other demands.

Installing more equipment is useless anyway, and the main purpose of the collaboration plan is just to curry favor and improve relations.

The "Hila" space station had already welcomed its fifth batch of crew members, and while it brought Abe immense prestige, it also came with no small amount of trouble. Without a solid backing, Hamand couldn’t sleep at night.

And Abe was certainly not losing out; the influence of the Hila space station was significant among the faithful around the world. Devotees everywhere would pray as the station passed overhead, something that cannot be measured in mere US dollars.

Academician She’s suggestion to Abe was to purchase a special edition of the Explorer robotic probe, to be launched in March, hopefully hitching a ride on some rocket.

The Aerospace Development Committee planned to split the 1 billion US dollars with New Yuan, fifty-fifty. One would be responsible for the probe, and the other for the rocket. Both stood to make a killing; who wouldn’t be happy with an effortless big payday?

Having just signed a contract with West Sweden, the Aerospace Development Committee then received another request for collaboration:

The Russian Embassy sent a note, with RKA hoping to hitch a portion of Russia’s payload on the Aerospace Development Committee’s next lunar mission, as well as seeking more geological environment data about the vicinity of Kuom Impact Crater.

However, the Aerospace Development Committee was not nearly as enthusiastic about Russia as they were about Abe.

"Lin, what do you think?"

"I think the payload is just a guise; they really want the data."

At the B-level Base, several leaders of the Aerospace Development Committee and chief engineers from various offices gathered in a small building here.

The enormous surprise at Kuom Impact Crater made the Aerospace Development Committee eager to start preparing a detailed scientific research station plan. The preliminary preparation work was inevitably linked with New Yuan, so they might as well come here on a business trip to discuss it.

Of course, another purpose was to steal some tricks.

Technology, of course, could not be stolen; it wasn’t something that one could understand with just a glance. What they aimed to steal was the management method and research and development system.

In the first half of the year, the space agency only started to study New Yuan’s internal management system reform, of which the Sixth Institute was the first to have technical exchanges with New Yuan and also the first to conduct pilot reforms.

Staff streamlining, decentralization of power, technology-led initiatives—although limited to a few project teams, the results have been remarkable.

Capable individuals could easily take charge of the research team, as projects were not mixed with non-technical factors. Although it offended many, the higher-ups still pushed for rapid adoption.

Before this was even finished, New Yuan completed a major overhaul of the management system of a large factory with more than seven thousand people in just two months, using computers to take over all production. All commands were issued by the computer, supervising and directing uniform scheduling.

This further enhanced New Yuan’s already strong production capacity while also pushing down prices, influencing even its associated partner manufacturers.

When the Aerospace Development Committee staff were at the base, they would observe the operation logic of this system whenever they had time, pondering whether it was necessary to trial it within the space agency.

However, for some of the chief designers and chief engineers at the space agency, another advantage of being at the B-level Base was that the atmosphere was very relaxing, and inspirations seemed to soar when they came here.

Big Shot: "Russia is working on its own Luna-25 plan. They have even brought India on board. It’s indeed impossible for them to hitch a ride with us at this time.

The state of their economy is still pretty good. The Energy 2 plan must indeed have restarted. Under such circumstances, their main purpose should be to obtain data on the distribution bands of ice layers."

Lin Ju: "We can’t give it to them. Not to mention that we don’t have completely reliable data yet, even if we did, it wouldn’t be okay. Giving it away would mean leaking information."

Big Shot nodded and continued to ponder, suddenly realizing that Lin Ju seemed a bit absent-minded, with a sense of distraction in his eyes.