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Chapter 1408 The Big Brother Who Likes to Make Wedding Dresses (Third update, please subscribe)
You might even go bankrupt faster!

"what?"

Yuan Jialiu was surprised and said:

"How can this be?"

“Opening up a new path for transistors and integrated circuits, a path that was theoretically feasible, might have led to a breakthrough, but it ultimately failed. The reason was simple: the Soviet Union was seriously lacking in market application scenarios that matched its advanced technology.

Even if his chip may be more efficient, what use will it have after it is made? The Soviet Union's civilian market is too small, and it is not worth the effort to make this thing, and it cannot enter the market. With excessive focus on military production, civilian products are always put last, and if it is an advanced gadget, the military will immediately ask for it to be kept secret and prohibit it from entering the civilian market.

In the Soviet Union, high technology was always a "scientific research acrobatics" that needed funding. When this blood transfusion system could no longer sustain itself, it would die, and even go bankrupt earlier than "copycat R&D."

Standing on the shoulders of historical giants, Li Yian understood the Soviet mentality to the extreme. He said softly:
"In addition, young Soviet students do not pursue electrical engineering degrees. They want to become a minister, a bureaucrat, rather than designing new products. Their motivation for designing new products is to gain recognition from their superiors and to transform from a technician to a technocrat, or even a professional bureaucrat, because this is the best reward for a technician. When they become a bureaucrat, their personal research stops."

This is exactly the problem that the Soviet Union could not get rid of from the beginning to the end: Why was Korolev great?
It was because he balanced the relationship between the two while focusing his energy on research. Of course, this was also directly related to Khrushchev's full support for him. Yumi Di was a rough man, but it was undeniable that he had great respect for scientists, but that was just him.

But only a Korolev can balance the two, and most of the time, when a technician becomes a bureaucrat, he is just a bureaucrat, and the result is obvious.

What is even more terrible is that there are some professional politicians who know nothing about scientific research but are good at scheming for personal gain. They do their utmost to exclude and attack talented people who are unwilling to go along with them, while giving the green light to those who flatter them.

"Here, the inventions and innovations of technicians are rewarded with wealth. When new inventions are put on the market, they will bring unimaginable wealth to individuals, but the inventions will soon be eliminated by the market. If you want to continue to get rewards, you must constantly launch new innovative inventions.

Two completely different paths determine two completely different results, so..."

Li Yian pursed his lips, put down a chess piece, and said:
"Even if they open up new paths, they will not threaten us. In the end, they are just making things easier for us."

Then Li Yiran said in an extremely conceited tone:

"Without widespread market application, even if they develop a process technology to replace silicon manufacturing, it will ultimately only be used to meet military needs and stop at the military. The Soviet Union's civilian market..."

With a smile, Li Yian said in a slightly sarcastic tone:
"It simply cannot support the market support needed for technological change. After all, that market is planned. How can there be a market for things that are not planned?"

plan!

There everything is planned!
With a slight smile, Li Yian said:
"So, the new path they opened up is just a path. As for overtaking..."

Shaking his head, Li Yian's tone became very affirmative:
“Not only will we not be able to overtake others, we may even fall behind in new areas. With the basic research they have completed and the promotion of market applications, we can achieve greater breakthroughs in new materials and processes. By then, it will not just be a wedding dress!

Instead, he handed us over to the new throne!"

In fact, didn’t the Soviet Union have enough technology to make wedding dresses?

The simplest example is that the concept of aircraft stealth was proposed by Soviet scientists, but it was in vain and was eventually shelved. Then, after American companies read the paper in a Soviet magazine, they immediately began related research.

Combined with the stealth coating that the United States was developing, the F117 was developed, and its stealth concept evolved into fifth-generation fighter jets such as the F22 and F35.

As for other fields, there are countless of them. Even the famous Pentium processor was developed by former Soviet engineers who went to the United States. Its technical basis is almost identical to the El-90 developed by the Soviet Union.

But it doesn't matter. Advanced design cannot make up for the backward production technology.

So in the end, it was all in vain.

Why bankruptcy occurs faster - because any "blood transfusion research system" that cannot convert into market benefits cannot last.

Independent research and development is more expensive, which means that in the face of an investment with no returns, they will eventually choose to give up.

This is a natural thing. Of course, as long as economic conditions allow, they will continue to invest. However, when economic conditions are good, they will invest. Once economic problems occur, such investment will continue to shrink and eventually stop the entire project.

Will the research in this area be stopped due to funding issues after coming to Russia? I have no idea. However, it is estimated that the investment in costs will eventually come to a halt.

After a moment of silence, Yuan Jialiu said with a helpless expression:

"This is costing Russia more money."

“This is for all mankind!”

Li Yi'an said:
"They have always said that investing more power in chips is for the common interests of all mankind, isn't it?"

Once again, Li Yian took out the righteousness of "all mankind"!

Isn't this politically correct?

Yuan Jialiu was so shocked that he was speechless. After a long while, he said:
"What if they fail?"

fail……

This possibility is not ruled out. On the other hand, the Soviet Union entered the transistor era almost at the same time as the United States, but what the Soviet Union developed was not silicon transistors, but germanium transistors.

Germanium was the first material used to make transistors, but germanium has a natural weakness: it is not heat-resistant. Once heated to 75 degrees, germanium will lose its semiconductor properties.
Moreover, the limited reserves of germanium are also its Achilles' heel. Despite this, the Soviet Union plunged into the germanium transistor route, but it was not until six years later that scientists discovered that this route was a dead end. When the research direction turned to the silicon route again, they had already been nearly ten years behind the United States.

So... since I've failed once, what's the harm in failing again?
Anyway, it was the Soviet Union that tried and failed!
After thinking for a while, Li Yian said:
"At least, their failure proves that silicon process technology is the only choice for mankind, at least for now!"

Then he added:

"Big Brother, isn't it for sacrifice?"

As he finished speaking, Li Yian dropped a chess piece.

"General!"

……

Make a wedding dress!
For Vitrov, he now has a feeling that Silicon Valley is making wedding dresses for the Soviet Union.

Here, as long as you have money, you can buy the best chips.

After all, everything here is market-oriented. You won't be asked to provide an ID card or get a certificate from a security agency just because someone buys a chip.

This is nonsense!
What's more, for those businessmen, what they care about most is selling their products. They think if they can sell at least 100, they will definitely celebrate with champagne.

So here – money is king.

For this reason, just one week after arriving in Silicon Valley, Vitrov purchased hundreds of chips, which were used in electronic computers as well as in fields such as CNC machine tools.

These chips are all displayed in the display cabinets of Silicon Valley companies. Just like now, Vitrov saw two young men holding the instruction manuals, comparing and calculating something.

“This is too expensive,”

"We can use a worse processor. After all, what we want to make is not a computer."

The young man wearing glasses was talking there.

"We need the cheapest processor..."

Listening to their conversation, Vitrov couldn't help but feel grateful to these young people.

Because of their existence, these processors in Silicon Valley are placed on the counter like candies, for everyone to choose and buy.

There are many young people here who buy various processors from the market and conduct their research. They will design new electronic computers and research new processors.

Hundreds of young people flock here every year, and they realize their dream of getting rich.

"Get rich..."

Vitrov smiled and talked to himself.

"They are the ones who daydream here every day. They eat the cheapest food, sleep on the floor, and pursue the most unattainable dreams..."

Of course, Vitrov hopes that all this will continue. As long as these young people exist, those processors here will always be placed in the display cabinet like candy.

As long as you have money, you can buy them. Although those processors are for civilian use, they can always be used in related fields.

A few hours later, Vitrov arrived at the airport. He did not buy a ticket to Moscow, but a round-trip ticket to Star City. While he was waiting to board the plane in the terminal hall, he suddenly felt a sense of danger.

Someone seemed to be watching him from a distance. Vitrov's intuition told him that he was being watched.

The people who were targeting him included passengers, cleaners, and... They were coming towards him from several directions.

What should you do in such a situation?
Is it resistance to the end?

Of course not. There was no need to even consider escaping, because there was no way to escape at all - the several exits had been controlled by someone.

In other words - I was exposed.

Facing arrest, unlike what many people imagined, Vitrov had no intention of struggling at all.

After all, as an agent, he was well aware of the current situation—there was no room for struggle at all.

Vitrov just sat there quietly waiting for the coming transportation, but compared to his quietness, the arrest seemed a bit rough - the person who came out from the side directly pressed him to the ground.

Then his captors said in Russian:
"Sir, you're under arrest for espionage—"

(End of this chapter)