I ask you to build tractors, but you build rockets?

There is no doubt that China's semiconductor industry has undergone tremendous changes.

But in the eyes of foreign colleagues, this huge change is completely confusing.

Everyone knows what ternary system is, but this is 2016, not 1956, the era when computers were just beginning to flourish. Is it bullish to turn around and engage in ternary system at this time?

Then it suddenly dawned on me that I took out the X321 series of chips that Xinyuan had been selling for almost a year.

Since the X321 series of chips are mainly used in automobiles and use the 28nm process, major manufacturers that have been working in the consumer market have not paid much attention to it. Only now are they completely paying attention to this chip that has quietly entered the market.

At this time, Intel, which had been unable to hold back, finally responded first. One of its technical directors published a report, which contained a technical analysis of the X32115 chip.

After testing by this technical director, the computing power level of the X32115 chip has exceeded this year's E5 2600 V4 processor, which is mainly focused on the server market.

And the technical director also speculated that because of the use of symmetric ternary architecture, the X32115 can simulate the characteristics of some quantum computers and has miraculous effects in artificial intelligence calculations. This is why it can support its XW151 intelligent driving with the current mainstream computing power. key reasons for the system.

The core conclusion of the report is: Longevity! The ternary system is back again, and it is much more powerful than the binary system!

This report instantly caused a huge storm in the industry, and everyone went to dismantle the chips. Anyway, Xinan Automobile is not a sensitive item that can be bought casually, resulting in a large increase in Xinan Automobile's overseas sales.

After that...it will be an earthquake in the semiconductor industry.

On August 11, Qualcomm President Steve Mollenkopf flew to Maple Leaf Country, where six foreign mainstream chip manufacturers and three foundry companies will hold a "regular" exchange meeting for the world's semiconductor industry.

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There were still 22 hours before the launch of Long March 10. Yun Hongjun led the entire R\u0026D team in the still busy assembly building, carefully avoiding the hurried staff.

In addition to them, there are also people from several other institutes who participated in the Long March 10 part.

At the top, they met experts from the Fourth Academy.

The Fourth Institute is the Solid Propulsion Technology Research Institute, so the question is, solid rockets are more expensive than the price reduction, so what kind of rockets can be used?

Of course it is some kind of small rocket that needs to be transported by vehicle, so it is obvious that the main job of the Fourth Institute is to send people to the west.

But the escape tower part was still developed by them. The new-generation manned spacecraft is different from Lao Ma’s second-generation spacecraft. It still continues the escape tower design. It’s hard to say which one is better.

The advantage of the spacecraft's own escape system is that it reduces costs and makes reuse easier, but the disadvantage is that it increases dead weight and structure.

Moreover, the safety factor of escape towers is theoretically higher, and it is not too expensive anyway, so it is better to be safe.

But experts from the Fourth Institute were very impressed when they saw Yun Hongjun: "I really didn't expect that I would be able to participate in the moon landing project in my lifetime. I originally thought it was to develop a booster, but I didn't expect it to be an escape tower."

Yun Hongjun knew what he meant. In the early days, the space agency's plan for the moon landing was to use the Long March 9, the successor of the Dawn Project giant rocket. One of the old Long March 9 configurations at that time was to use four large thrust rockets. Solid rocket boosters can definitely be used to land on the moon.

It is a pity that Changjiu has changed to a polished all-liquid engine rocket for recycling, and does not need expensive solid propellers.

"By the way, where's Old Tang? He's not coming to take a look at Chang Shi's first flight?"

Experts from the Fourth Institute suddenly mentioned Tang Weitian. As a key figure in the development process of YF130, it would be strange not to come and take a look at this time.

Yun Hongjun: "Old Tang? He seems to be training. He is about to go to heaven. He may need to take more care of his body."

"..."

"Mr. Yun is probably not far from heaven, right?"

"Whether I can go up depends on whether the Long March 10 can go up. In fact, I would rather sit on the Long March 10."

Yun Hongjun suddenly remembered John Blevins, who as the SLS chief engineer was announced by NACA to send to the moon.

Although he didn’t know what Blevins thought, Yun Hongjun found it quite exciting anyway. Being sent to the moon by a rocket he designed was simply more romantic than poetry.

Regarding Yun Hongjun's Versailles behavior, which was a slap in the face, the others were full of negative thoughts and simply changed the subject abruptly:

"I don't know how the YF77 performs. The specific sprint is 430 seconds. In fact, if you work hard, you can increase the lunar orbit transportation capacity to 50 tons. It will burn a little longer."

"Theoretically yes, but I don't think we should rely too much on the YF77. This is our first open hydrogen and oxygen machine. Although the thrust of 70 tons is not small, the structure of the turbopump caused by liquid hydrogen... I hope it will be fine."

"Any problems with YF77 are trivial. As long as there are no problems with YF130."

"You mean..."

The little thing about YF77 is naturally meaningful, because the ideal second stage of the Long March 10 is actually the YF90, a single-combustion chamber 220-ton high-pressure supplementary combustion liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen engine, so it can also be replaced with a single engine.

If something goes wrong with the YF77, a replacement is easy to find: the H240.

Xinyuan's 240-ton supplementary combustion hydrogen and oxygen engine has flown twice on the second stage of Xinyuan-3 and Xinyuan-2A. The reliability seems to be good, and it can be regarded as an alternative option.

At the same time, Tang Weitian, who was training in the HD area, was thinking about the Long March 10. He had no worries about the YF130. The benefit of the mediocre performance was that it was relatively stable, but the YF77 Sixth Institute could only say that it was 90% fine.

After all, the space agency does have relatively little experience in the area of ​​high-thrust hydrogen and oxygen machines.

He set an alarm clock for himself at 6 o'clock and got up early tomorrow morning to watch the first flight of Long March 10.

Until late at night and early in the morning, planes continued to land at Qiongzhou and Sanya airports, all of which were temporarily added flights, filled with people coming to watch the rocket launch.

Compared with Xinyuan, the space agency's appeal in people's hearts is still very strong. Looking at the crowded passenger passages, the staff of Qiongzhou Airport estimated that the number of people coming through this airport alone at night would exceed 20,000.

The Launch Administration also knows that the number of people watching in the surrounding area may exceed 500,000 tomorrow.

Since last year, Qiongzhou’s almost non-stop medium and large rocket launches throughout the year have become one of the features of the promotion. Basically, you only need to stay here for a week to ten days to encounter a rocket launch, and the number of tourists is rising.

What is even more surprising is that according to internal customs statistics, among the foreigners who entered Qiongzhou this time and intended to go to Qiongzhou to watch the rocket launch, the number of tourists from the island country surged to 20,000!

Twenty thousand people!

Under the example of Zhang Chuanyong and Xiao Gangtian, more and more people from all walks of life have gone to China with the intention of staying in China in the past four months.

The news that the Long March 10 is about to make its first flight has no less impact on the island countries than on the mainland. In the past few days, even their national TV stations have focused on the report, and supporters of Greater Asia are rapidly expanding.

There was no organization to watch the first flight of Long March 10 this time, it was all a spontaneous act!