You were told to build a tractor, but you're building a rocket? Chapter 296 - 289 Preview1

"The Great Wall G1 Second Generation Professional Workstation is about to be released, expected to be equipped with the dostically produced second-generation flagship ternary processor, Huanghe Taowu A1000, featuring up to 24G of large mory 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 dostic ’core’ technology!"

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

"Huawei Mate 10, Kirin959, triad to the extre, 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 ti offering includes 10000G of ridian satellite internet traffic."

"Want to learn ternary technology? Co to the Modu White Horse Programr Training Class!"

"..."

Qualcomm’s current CEO Steve stood next to the subway station, carefully examining the advertisents 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 dostic ternary TPU, claiming to redefine computing with a chip that serves dual functions.

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

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 nas, quite mysteriously.

Faced with such a closed attitude, several major chip manufacturers were extrely 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.

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"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 dia’s eyes before signing an agreent 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 ti, the task’s contractor was the Aerospace Developnt 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 requirent from Prince Swetan was that the probe needed to be functional, no other demands.

Installing more equipnt 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 welcod its fifth batch of crew mbers, and while it brought Abe imnse prestige, it also ca 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, sothing that cannot be asured in re 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 so rocket.

The Aerospace Developnt 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 Developnt 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 Developnt Committee’s next lunar mission, as well as seeking more geological environnt data about the vicinity of Kuom Impact Crater.

However, the Aerospace Developnt 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 Developnt Committee and chief engineers from various offices gathered in a small building here.

The enormous surprise at Kuom Impact Crater made the Aerospace Developnt 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 co here on a business trip to discuss it.

Of course, another purpose was to steal so tricks.

Technology, of course, could not be stolen; it wasn’t sothing that one could understand with just a glance. What they aid to steal was the managent thod and research and developnt system.

In the first half of the year, the space agency only started to study New Yuan’s internal managent 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 managent 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 Developnt Committee staff were at the base, they would observe the operation logic of this system whenever they had ti, pondering whether it was necessary to trial it within the space agency.

However, for so 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 seed to soar when they ca 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 ti.

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 ntion that we don’t have completely reliable data yet, even if we did, it wouldn’t be okay. Giving it away would an leaking information."

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