Liu Lang told Shao Mingtao and Sun Desheng a few months ago about his views on the construction of the national army. The core is to speed up the construction of informatization. He also "predicted" that the Americans had initially realized the informatization of the military, at least in the information system.
aspect.
At that time, Liu Lang also predicted that Iraq and Kuwait would go to war. As a result, his prediction has now come true. Of course, many people can think of this prediction. After all, the two countries have been in constant conflict in the past two years. In addition, Liu Lang also predicted that the United States will send troops.
, and will completely defeat Iraq in just two or three months, achieving an almost perfect victory in this war.
This view was unacceptable to Shao Mingtao and Sun Desheng. Even if Liu Lang explained the power of informatization, they could not imagine what role this power would play in war, and this view also reached the ears of senior officials.
Liu Lang's cognitive ability is naturally unmatched by others. Everyone admits this. He has put forward many priceless views on national construction.
However, the idea of applying informatization in the military seems somewhat inconsistent with the current reality, and not many people can put it into practice. After all, it is not intuitive. Even the country believes that the computer industry is the most important part of informatization construction.
Just do this well.
Therefore, not many people paid enough attention to Liu Lang's proposition at that time, and felt that it was enough to do it step by step without being too anxious, until the book "Digital Survival" appeared.
In this book, Liu Lang explains in detail how informatization is applied in all walks of life, and he specially writes a chapter to describe how war is conducted in the information age. Of course, many people find this description a bit confusing.
Science fiction should be impossible to realize within thirty years.
Bai Weiren liked this book very much, and even asked some scientists and generals to discuss the technology in it. Most people agreed with Liu Lang's description of the information world, but it was hard to say when it would be realized. The most optimistic view was that
It will take 30 to 40 years, and a more conservative estimate would be 50 to 60 years. But in fact, 70% of the content of this book has been realized in 20 years.
Bai Weiren is not sure when the information age will arrive. It may be thirty or forty years later, but shouldn’t we do it now? Of course not. Since information technology will change the times, the country cannot fall behind.
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It happened that Liu Lang proposed the idea of building a campus LAN in the university at this time. Bai Weiren had of course agreed to this idea, and he was relieved to leave this matter to Liu Lang.
Liu Lang spent more than 20 minutes introducing information technology to everyone, and most people understood it somewhat. This was due to Liu Lang's super expressive ability.
"Liu Lang, you said you want to build a local area network on campus, please tell me how to implement it!"
Bai Weiren asked next.
"A LAN may seem simple, but in fact there are very complex technologies behind it. First of all, there must be a terminal, which is a computer. This is the simplest, but the structure of the computer must be modified and a LAN access system must be added.
The terminal is simpler. The most important thing is the transmission media system. For example, when we make a phone call, we need to convert the sound signal into an electrical signal, and then transmit the signal through the telephone line and switch. What is transmitted in the local area network is a digital signal. This kind of
Signals cannot use traditional lines and switches, but require optical fibers and so-called servers.
Everyone should have heard about optical fiber. Our country can manufacture it, but servers are very difficult and involve many technical difficulties. This is a system project and cannot be completed by a single enterprise or department independently."
After Liu Lang finished speaking, Bai Weiren nodded slightly.
"By the way, Liu Lang, you mentioned a state-owned company before and said that this company has certain technologies. How are they?"
"Very good. The person in charge of Guowei Company is called Ren Weitian. He was a college student in our country in the 1960s. He studied communications and has a strong professional level. In addition, this person has seen the technology of Americans and knows where our gaps are.
More importantly, I saw the qualities of Mr. Zhou, Mr. Huang and Mr. Xiong in him, so I chose to believe in him."
Hearing Liu Lang's evaluation of Ren Weitian, Bai Weiren's heart moved. He knew Liu Lang very well. Even though he was very young, he respected the older generation very much and used these seniors as examples. He followed his own example.
The evaluation of Ren Weitian is obviously very high standard, which is rare.
"Liu Lang, you have a very high opinion of Ren Weitian! But after all, it is a private company with very few resources. Why isn't SMIC doing such an important project?"
In Bai Weiren's eyes, SMIC has the best semiconductor technology in the country, so they should take the lead in this matter.
"There are many types of chips. The terminal chips made by SMIC are more complex in terms of technology alone. The ones made by Ren Weitian are base station chips, which are less complex. However, the current base station chips use the American framework. Any
Chips with this type of framework require authorization from the United States. If it is a private company, it is relatively easy to authorize.
Each chip requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and it needs to be constantly updated. SMIC's terminal chips are now very difficult. If you spend some energy to develop base station chips, you will undoubtedly be asking for trouble, so I suggest that it be done by
Let Weitian do this."
Liu Lang directly expressed his support for Ren Weitian.
"Haha, you are very confident in Guowei Company, but you just said that SMIC has a hard time making computer chips. I disagree. Last year, SMIC's profit was four million U.S. dollars, and it was sold for 12,000 U.S. dollars.
Chip, is this still difficult?"
Bai Weiren said with a smile.
"Last year, more than 500,000 computers were sold in the United States, and Wan'an alone sold nearly 200,000 units. The chips provided by SMIC are less than one-tenth of those of Wan'an. The entire world's computer sales
Sales volume is growing at a rate of 15% every year, but SMIC's sales volume only increases by 10% every year.
In fact, most of Wan'an's chips are provided by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., and their technology is already better than ours.
Therefore, SMIC’s technology is no longer world-leading.”
Whatever Liu Lang said, he would not hide objective facts.
The scene was completely silent. Many people had always thought that SMIC's technology was already leading the world. But today they heard what Liu Lang said and realized that this was not the case.
"What………?"
Bai Weiren was also surprised. He had the same idea as others. He always thought that SMIC's technology was at the first-class level. But when Liu Lang heard it, it was not the case. He didn't believe it, but the sales volume would not lie. Liu Lang
The several data points mentioned by Lang objectively show the facts and cannot be refuted at all.