Silicon Valley is located in San Francisco, California, in a narrow valley of nearly 50 kilometers from Santa Clara to San Jose.

Therefore, its name contains the word "Valley".

Of course, you can't find the name "Silicon Valley" on the map, it's just an alias for a region.

In the early days, Silicon Valley was famous for the design and manufacturing of silicon chips.

Late eighties.

Research institutions for emerging technologies such as biology, space, ocean, communications, and energy materials have emerged one after another, objectively becoming the cradle of American high-tech.

After more than ten years of development, Silicon Valley has become synonymous with semiconductor industry clusters around the world and is also the world's most famous electronics industry cluster.

In the United States, universities are very involved in scientific research, and a considerable part of scientific research technology is born in university laboratories.

The main location feature of Silicon Valley is the nearby top universities with strong scientific research capabilities.

These mainly include: Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, as well as several other campuses of the University of California and Santa Clara University.

besides.

Silicon Valley also attracts the best technical talents in the world and gathers more than 60% of the venture capital in the United States.

Especially in the 1980s, after Apple went public, tens of thousands of technology companies sprung up here, and the world's greatest ideas were emerging all the time!

Likewise, this is also a pilgrimage site for countless technology enthusiasts!

"We are the cornerstone of the new economy, the cradle of prosperity, the benchmark for all other countries to follow, and the purest expression of capitalism."

This comment from John Doerr, the head of Silicon Valley venture capital, appropriately demonstrates the pivotal position of Silicon Valley in the modern technology and economic landscape.

It is precisely because of this that Chen Weidong decided to come here to visit whenever he had the opportunity.

We cannot tell others what the world is like from hearsay.

Only by seeing it with your own eyes can you make the most objective evaluation.

At the same time, we also need mirrors to know the strengths of others before we can realize our own shortcomings, so we can work hard and strive for the best.

West Coast of the United States.

A Conqueror commercial vehicle stopped slowly in front of a big tree.

Afterwards, several young people jumped down from above one after another.

He raised his right hand to block the scorching sun and looked at the gray asphalt road in the distance, the low European-style buildings, and several old Ford pickup trucks parked at the door. Li Yun and others had disappointed looks on their faces.

"Mr. Chen, before you came here, you said this was the largest high-tech industrial zone in the United States. Why is it just like this? I don't think it is any different from South China City, or even worse."

On the way, after listening to Chen Weidong's story about the development history of Silicon Valley, they all wanted to see the largest high-tech industrial zone in the United States with a cautious and humble attitude.

As a result, the scene before them disappointed them greatly.

"Their industrial zone is in the southern region, and this is just the office address of those companies."

Chen Weidong took a deep breath of fresh air, looked at the sparse figures in the distance and explained.

"Hey, for such a small company, there are a lot of them in our country."

Xiang Shaohua looked at the small wooden house in the distance and felt that the so-called high-tech in the United States was nothing more than this.

Judging from his attitude, it is obvious that he regards the company here as the same type as domestic leather bag companies.

Chen Weidong smiled and explained: "Silicon Valley is full of economic miracles and people who got rich overnight. Don't underestimate these small houses. Many world-renowned large companies were born in the garages of such small houses, such as

: HP, Apple, Google, etc..."

Silicon Valley is famous all over the world not because of how profitable it is, but because of its ability to "disrupt innovation."

Ordinary innovation is taking a step forward on the same track, while Silicon Valley's innovation capabilities open up a new track and attract more users and companies to join it, gradually becoming a mainstream track, while the old track

The track gradually fell into disuse.

For example, Sony launched a digital camera in 1981, which eventually replaced film cameras and became the mainstream of the market. This was a disruptive innovation.

Innovations that involve all walks of life and can shift the growth direction of the human technological tree are called "technological revolutions."

Obviously, this kind of innovation is much more difficult than ordinary innovation.

Moreover, many times it is something that can only be met and cannot be sought, and it is highly accidental.

But the skill of Silicon Valley is to turn chance into a high-probability event.

From Ethernet, graphical user interfaces, to personal computers, the Internet, etc., Silicon Valley continues to give birth to "disruptive innovations."

We continue to incubate companies that can open up new tracks and lead the times.

This is the most powerful place in Silicon Valley.

While Chen Weidong was talking about the core concepts of Silicon Valley, he walked towards a wooden independent house not far away. There were a few people in groups, and they all had Asian faces.

It attracted many passers-by's glances.

At this moment, a strange voice sounded behind them.

"Are you also Chinese?"

"Huh?"

"Who are you...."

Chen Weidong turned around and saw a gentle middle-aged man not far away who was about fifty years old, wearing a white shirt and black square-rimmed glasses, staring at the group of them up and down with excitement.

"Are you here to find a job in Silicon Valley?" The middle-aged man jogged a few steps and approached the crowd.

"Haha, brother, we are indeed from China, but we are here to visit, not to find a job."

Chen Jie grinned and explained to him first.

"That's it! I don't think any of you are academics."

The middle-aged man adjusted his glasses on the bridge of his nose with his hand, smiled slightly, and glanced at Li Yun and the others behind them intentionally or unintentionally.

After some conversation.

Everyone knew that the middle-aged man in front of them was called Ma Jiancheng.

In the early eighties.

The domestic economy is turning, and many people believe that since a world war cannot be fought, there is no need to spend money on construction, and that financial resources should be concentrated on economic construction.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Therefore, many scientific research projects, civil industry, and other money-burning projects have been greatly streamlined.

Correspondingly, countless scientific research personnel have been laid off and their posts have been reassigned.

Ma Jiancheng told them that in the years from 1980 to 1984, China decisively chose the mainframe project, namely: the first generation of the Great Wall of the 863 Project (the earliest predecessor of Shuguang).

As for the island country, at this time, both technology and market are basically in sync with the United States.

However, the islanders, who have always been arrogant, felt that they could rise in Asia in terms of mainframe computers, so they blindly started developing mainframe computers unrealistically.

However, in the design and development process, many technical problems have made it difficult for the island country to move forward.

In order to achieve an early technology monopoly, the United States used the form of scientific and technological exchanges to mislead the development of mainframe computers in island countries, hinder the development of large-scale integrated circuits like XL, and lead the island countries into a wrong path.

In 1982, China had completed the manufacturing and research and development of the Great Wall 1st generation mainframe and the Shuguang 1st supercomputer.

At that time, because China had just opened up, it was very interested in knowing how far it was from international high-tech standards, for fear that it would enter an era of "making things behind closed doors."

In 1982, the Great Wall 2 mainframe computer and its important technical data were brought to the "New York International Science and Technology Expo" and the "Tokyo New Technology Exchange Conference" by the naive Chinese people at that time.

At that time, they did not understand what technical barriers were, and they adopted the Chinese people's usual "inferiority weakness" and lowered their heads into the so-called international science and technology palace.

In Tokyo, when Japanese experts discovered that China's computer technology was far ahead of theirs, they used a lot of academic information from the United States to cheat the Chinese people in a very ugly way.

They told the Chinese: "Your Great Wall is already a very backward product."

But in the United States, the Pentagon pays great attention to China's superb mainframe computer technology.

The two entered the era of billions of calculations at almost the same time, and they felt great pressure.

However, the thinking of Americans is different from that of Asians. It is linear and simplistic. Especially in the field of science and technology, it is a bit deliberately rigid. One is one and two is two.

Therefore, they hope to secretly formulate an "Advanced Computer Technology Agreement" with China to control the flow of this technology into countries such as "Albania" and "Romania".

However, China did not agree.

The island country took the opportunity of this exchange meeting to develop its own so-called mainframe computing system, "Showa 1", the following year.

At that time, the precision machining of the island country was indeed better than that of China, so the appearance of the products was very beautiful and not as "rustic" as that of China.

Chinese experts made evaluations and comparisons and once gave up on the Great Wall and Shuguang.

In early 1984, after the 863 project was fully launched, the project was not ordered to be canceled because of the human resources at the time.

However, a report submitted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences stated that the Great Wall and Dawn are recommended for civilian use because their technology is at a backward stage compared to Western countries.

It was precisely because of this move that his most advanced technology was leaked to the outside world, all related projects were shut down, and the project's research team had to be disbanded.

In the following ten years, island countries and the West successively made breakthroughs in large-scale computers.

Computers have entered the era of ten trillion operations per second.

And by the time China reacted, it was already too late.

Even if the higher-ups wanted to restart the project, it was shelved because they could not find the researchers back then.

And he was the researcher who participated in the Shuguang 1 mainframe project.

Because he was unwilling to accept a job transfer and did not want to put all his lifelong learning to use, in the end, he had no choice but to regretfully leave his hometown like many researchers of that period. After being introduced by a friend, he came to the United States and continued to work on large-scale computers.

research work.

Ma Jiancheng told them that there are not a few researchers like him.
Chapter completed!