Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 1701 Integrated Circuits

Wang Xuexin turned around and went to the institute to find Turing.

When Wang Xuexin walked into the office and saw Turing, he couldn't help being stunned. He almost didn't recognize Turing sitting in the pile of documents in front of him: he had a sloppy beard, a thin face, long and messy hair, and bloodshot eyes. Like an old tree dying.

"What's the situation?" Wang Xuexin turned around and asked the translator, "Is it because the food is not good or the place is not used to?"

"No, no, neither!" The translator hurriedly explained.

Turing understood what Wang Xuexin meant, and he explained on his behalf: "It has nothing to do with them, Comrade Leader, the food and conditions here are very good!"

Wang Xuexin believed this, because he had specifically confessed that no matter how difficult the life of the Eighth Route Army was, he would do everything possible to satisfy Turing and his team's daily and dietary problems.

Wang Xuexin thinks this is very important. Now is the Eighth Route Army...it should be when Huaxia needs this group of people, and they can't be reluctant to give up small money to let them have ideological fluctuations and emotions.

Therefore, Wang Xuexin even spared no expense to ask Ying Jiang to help buy a batch of furniture that fits the living habits of Turing and others.

As for diet, Wang Xuexin doesn't need to worry about it.

Overseas diets are the same types, either bread or pizza, or sandwiches, hamburgers, cakes... Not to mention that it is not difficult to make these things, any cuisine in China can turn them over.

During this period of time, Turing and a group of scientists took turns to eat without repeating the same food. They haven’t eaten half of it yet. After eating the previous ones, they forget what it tastes like, and they have to do it all over again!

This made Wang Xuexin feel strange, and he asked, "Then Mr. Turing is..."

"It's because of me!" Turing said, taking out a transistor from his pocket and lighting it up in front of Wang Xuexin, saying, "Although the transistor is good, the production cost is too high now, one cost eight dollars!"

Turing sighed, and then said: "And the computer I made, do you know how many transistors it needs? 800, that is, a computer that can realize the most basic functions, only the cost of transistors needs 7000." U.S. dollars, if other materials and production costs are included, the cost of this computer will cost more than 12500 U.S. dollars!"

(Note: The first transistor computer was developed in 1955 and used more than 800 transistors)
More than US$1 was not a small amount in this era. In this era, more than US$1000 can buy a family car, and the monthly salary of a white-collar worker in Yingjiang is only US$300.

"Are you trying to find a way to reduce the production cost of transistors?" Wang Xuexin asked.

"Yes!" Turing nodded: "Only by reducing the production cost of transistors can mass production and development be possible, otherwise, it will only be exclusive to the rich!"

Wang Xuexin didn't expect Turing to have such a plot, just hope that the poor can enjoy the same things as the rich.

However, this does not seem to be surprising, because Turing was born between the poor and the rich... His ancestors were relatively wealthy and were businessmen in the upper class, but they declined in his father's generation, and his father was just an ordinary civil servant. .

Perhaps Turing hoped that at least someone like his father could afford it?

"Coincidentally!" Wang Xuexin said, "I also want to talk to you about the cost this time!"

"I know!" Turing replied: "The high production cost means that your military needs are far from being met..."

At this time, Turing asked curiously: "Which step have you used in the military? I asked this question, and they didn't want to tell me!"

This was actually confessed by Wang Xuexin.

Turing will return to the UK in a few years, how can he casually let him know the military secrets.

Wang Xuexin did not reveal too much, he just said something that is now known all over the world: "For example, gun detection radar, air-to-air missiles, anti-ship missiles..."

"Anti-ship missile?" Turing exclaimed: "You actually developed an anti-ship missile? To hit warships?"

"Yes, of course!" Wang Xuexin said: "You know the characteristics of transistors, they can withstand shocks, have good reliability, small size, and low power consumption, so why not use them?"

Then Wang Xuexin stopped his mouth in time: "Our transistors are mainly used in these two aspects. It has played a great role in the battlefield and helped us defeat the enemy time and time again!"

In fact, the application of transistors is far more than these, such as air-to-air missiles, laser rangefinders, laser proximity fuzes, etc. It can be said to be everywhere, as long as it requires computing or intelligent equipment, it is indispensable.

"Which step have you come to now!" Wang Xuexin then flipped through the documents in front of Turing and brought the topic back on track: "I mean, in terms of cost reduction?"

Turing shook his head dejectedly: "I tried many methods, such as using cheaper materials, or reducing the volume, reducing the production process, etc., but they all ended in failure! That is to say..."

Turing spread his hands in embarrassment: "Sorry, Comrade Leader! I can't do anything!"

Maybe that's why Turing looks so bad now, shattering Turing's confidence by not finding a way to reduce costs.

But Wang Xuexin knew that this was nothing.

Historically, after the transistor was invented, scientists all over the world were looking for ways to reduce its cost, but they couldn't find it for ten years.

Until ten years and one month later, in a research institute of Yingjiang, all other employees went on vacation, and a new employee stayed alone in an empty laboratory because he was not eligible for vacation. When he was bored, he wanted to do something alone... Two A week later, the first human integrated circuit was born.

Wang Xuexin dragged a chair and sat down in front of the office, and said, "Have you ever thought about it, maybe you are thinking in the wrong direction!"

"Direction?" Turing looked at Wang Xuexin in confusion.

Isn't it from these three directions to reduce costs?
Either use cheaper materials, or reduce the process, or reduce the volume, that is, reduce the use of raw materials.

Besides, what direction is there?

It's no wonder Turing thought so. This is the habitual thinking of human beings to reduce production costs for thousands of years.

And this inertial thinking has always been right, until the advent of integrated circuits.

Integrated circuits, to put it bluntly, use one chip as several, dozens, or even hundreds or thousands. Modern VLSI can integrate more than [-] electronic components in it.

Although the cost of this chip has not decreased, it has even increased.

Because it has an additional process of integrating electronic components into it.

However, it still costs much less than the sum of the electronic components it replaces!

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