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Chapter 1551 The World's Largest Gold Mine (Third Update, Please Subscribe)

Silicon Valley, people come here every day.

Among the people who come here, there are some geeks who are electronics enthusiasts, businessmen, and of course, investors.

They came here for different purposes, but one thing is certain: it was these people who contributed to the rise of Silicon Valley.

However, at this time, Silicon Valley is just Silicon Valley, and no miracles have been born here.

At least those familiar miracles have not yet been born. Today's Silicon Valley is more of a place where large and small integrated circuit manufacturers and computer manufacturers gather.

There doesn't seem to be anything magical here.

At least now it doesn't look angry at all, just an inconspicuous valley.

However, no matter how inconspicuous it is, it will always attract some people's attention.

Standing in a small garden beside the road, Tang Yongying was holding a hamburger in his hand. He took a bite of the hamburger, then took a sip of Fanta, turned his head and asked:
"Do you know where this place is?"

Assistant Wang Lei beside him answered without hesitation.

“Silicon Valley!”

The place name is clearly written on the roadside landmark.

"Do not."

Tang Yongying shook his head and said.

“This is a gold mine!”

When he said the word "gold mine" again, Tang Yongying deliberately emphasized his tone, and even his gaze when he looked at the street changed.

"Gold mine?"

Wang Lei looked around with some confusion, as if he didn't understand why the manager said that.

Gold mine?

right here?

"You know what we as investors should follow? We should follow our own sense and see what we must see. The gold hidden in the sand."

When Tang Yongying, an investor, said this, there was a hint of regret in his tone.

"But I missed an opportunity. Now I understand one thing: Silicon is gold! And Silicon Valley is a huge gold mine."

Whenever Tang Yongying thinks about how he missed the Silicon Valley, he is filled with regret.

Having made this assertion, he went on to say:

"One gram of silicon is worth one cent. After being processed and purified into polycrystalline silicon, it becomes 1 cents. After being pulled into single crystal silicon, it becomes 1 yuan.
After cutting and polishing, a silicon wafer becomes 10 yuan..."

When talking about the change in silicon's value, Tang Yongying's tone was full of regret. From ancient times to the present, no product has ever had such a high added value as this one.

"Then the silicon wafer is implanted with circuits and made into a processor, which becomes 100 yuan! And this is the cheapest processor. The kind with only a thousand transistors.

In other words, from metal silicon to chips, the price can increase 10 times with each processing!
The chip industry is like turning stones into gold!"

While expressing his emotion, Tang Yongying continued.

"In comparison, a ton of steel can only be sold for 700 yuan, while a ton of chips can be sold for millions!

If it is made into a high-end processor for large-scale integrated circuits, the price per ton will increase tenfold to tens of millions of yuan.

In other words, one ton of high-end processors can be worth tens of thousands times the price of one ton of steel!"

After saying this surprising number, Tang Yongying took a bite of the hamburger, as if the hamburger in his hand affected his judgment, and even the strength of the chewing had a taste of venting.

Then he pointed to the streets of Silicon Valley and continued.

“In this respect, Silicon Valley is a place that can turn even the most insignificant raw materials into products that are dozens of times more valuable than gold.

It is precisely because of our leading level in this field that our company has been able to make progress in the civilian electronics industry.

Our televisions, washing machines, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, radios and other products are exported to the United States and Europe, establishing our position as the king in the consumer electronics industry. It is the silicon processor that makes all this possible. "

After taking a sip of Fanta, Tang Yongying pursed his lips and said:

“So, this is the biggest gold mine. Although we missed the initial discovery of the gold mine, it is not too late now. As long as we seize the opportunity, we may still get a share of it.

After all, there are all kinds of new inventions here every day, and the magic of turning stone into gold is in the minds of these people..."

Pointing to the people walking around in Silicon Valley, Tang Yongying said:
"We came here this time to find the right investment target and to dig out the real gold from this gold mine."

Sometimes investors have extremely keen sense of smell. As an investor, Tang Yongying just stood on the roadside, eating a hamburger and drinking Fanta, then stared at Silicon Valley, staring at this gold mine, trying to discover his own gold here.

To a certain extent, he was lucky because he soon found a suitable investment target. When he saw the "cheapest microprocessor ever" in the newspaper, Tang Yongying knew that he had found his target.

"It's him."

It was an intuition, or perhaps a gambler's instinct. Tang Yongying chose Luo Mingjie's company. After briefly understanding the superior performance of the 6502 processor, he immediately made a decision to provide it with a total of 300 million yuan in Series A investment.
When signing the contract, he looked at the company name and asked specifically:

"Mr. Luo, why is your company called this name? Does it have any special meaning?"

"Mr. Tang, our company was originally called "Tomorrow Electronics Company", but considering that our products will enter the international market in the future, my partner and I thought about it for many times and finally decided on Intelligence. This word is very similar to Integrated Electronics, so we finally named it: Intel."

The world may have some coincidences and some accidents. At this time, Grove, Noyce, Moore and others in the United States did not know that their company had been cited by others, and they did not even have the intention to set up their own company.

But in any case, in Silicon Valley, the butterfly's wings have flapped!
As for what kind of changes this butterfly's wings will bring to the world, I'm afraid only God knows.

As the butterfly's wings flapped slowly, the world was changing silently.

The end of each year and the beginning of the next year is the rainy season. The climate becomes humid and rainy. Sometimes, it rains continuously.

In the heavy rain, a British Overseas Airways Corporation VC-10 aircraft took off from Yongning Airport and flew northwest towards the South Asian subcontinent.

The VC-10 aircraft is the most advanced aircraft manufactured in the UK. It was launched by the British Vickers company to compete with the C707. Its power system uses four British Rolls-Royce Convair turbofan engines. The engine has a large thrust and is suitable for take-off and landing capabilities in the high-temperature and high-altitude British Africa region.

It adopts a tail-mounted engine layout, with four jet engines suspended on both sides of the tail, and looks very similar to Tu-4.

As the most advanced passenger aircraft in the UK, the sales of VC10 have not been very good in the two years since it was put into use.
However, just last year, Vickers welcomed its largest customer. Dongda was very interested in VC10. The two sides hit it off and reached a letter of intent for 10 standard VC-10 aircraft. After several struggles, McMillan finally agreed to the contract.

As a result, VC10 entered the Asian civil aviation market, but its largest operator is still BOAC. As a long-range aircraft, BOAC uses it on Asian routes such as London to Chang'an, with stopovers in Singapore or New Delhi.

This plane stopped in New Delhi. Although there were not many passengers on board, there were enough - almost a hundred passengers, some going to the UK and some transiting through New Delhi.

Among the nearly 10 passengers on this VC- aircraft, there was a Canadian citizen named Arthur Chris. He flew from London to Yongning with pockets full of money. He was in Yongning to carry out a procurement mission - purchasing integrated circuits.

The UK was certainly not on the list of prohibited sales, so Arthur easily purchased microprocessors worth more than 300,000 pounds. It seemed like a lot, but in fact, it was just one suitcase.

This is the biggest feature of a microprocessor - it is small in size, but incredibly expensive!

After the plane took off, as usual, Chris sat there with his eyes closed, as if he was taking a nap, and sitting next to him was a man of medium height. The man seemed to be Russian and he was on a transfer in New Delhi. The two of them had not spoken to each other from the time they got on the plane until now, and hadn't even looked at each other.

When the flight attendant came, the man communicated with her in stuttering English and asked for a glass of water.

Apparently he didn't speak English.

Arthur glanced at him when he woke up, and that was all. The two of them didn't communicate at all during the journey until the plane landed at New Delhi Airport. Arthur watched the man open his luggage compartment and take away his suitcase.

It was Arthur's suitcase, the one containing three hundred thousand pounds' worth of microprocessors.

But Arthur didn't say anything, he just watched the other person leave. Soon, another passenger got on the plane and sat next to him. His suitcase was exactly the same as Arthur's.

Everything is so magical, or rather, everything is so easy.

More than an hour later, on a taxiing Tu-114 at New Delhi Airport, a man who had gotten off a VC10 took a look at the VC10 at the airport and said to himself:
"It was just a "switch"..."

This was just a deliberately arranged substitution. As a KGB intelligence officer, his mission was to obtain the microprocessors needed by the country in Yongning. Due to the embargo on the Soviet Union, they could only obtain them through special channels.

And Arthur is one of the channels. There are many such "middlemen" in the UK and other Western countries. Some of them are just simple middlemen, and some are KGB informants. They purchase various microprocessors in Yongning in the name of Western businessmen, and then use the transfer in the middle to hand over the microprocessors to the KGB. Although this process is a bit cumbersome, it allows them to obtain enough processors.

"Perhaps, in a few years, we won't need to smuggle integrated circuits from here anymore, and by that time, the Soviet Union's own integrated circuits will replace their products."

Sometimes people are really full of imagination about the future, and think there are countless possibilities...

(End of this chapter)