A Day In a Japanese Fishing Village

   The way of importing bluefin tuna from the Atlantic Ocean can still be done, after all, there is a lot of profit to be made.

   But he knows that there will be competitors in a few years, but he is not afraid. There won't be many bluefin tuna left on the other side of the Atlantic anyway over time. In the future, we still have to rely on the fishery to speak!

   On the second day, Shuichi Minano went to Fujitsu.

   Came to Fujitsu and went all the way to the research institute. He wanted to see what kind of progress the researchers had made recently.

  Fujitsu's current business is mainly an export-oriented company of technical equipment such as telecommunication technology, computer development, semiconductor production, etc.

   For this company, Minano Shuichi is very fancy. After all, the future communication industry, IT industry, semiconductors, etc., and computers are all relatively popular industries. He must let his Fujitsu company start to develop now!

  We will kill Siemens in the future!

  When he entered the institute, these researchers all said hello to Minano Shuichi, and the attitude was respectful. No, because when he acquired Fujitsu, he directly allocated $2 million to the research institute as research funding. This huge sum of money makes these researchers grateful. They like to study things, but they don't do it without funding.

   Anyway, they think this new boss is very arrogant!

   "Hello, Chairman!" Sawajiri, as the director of this research institute, greeted him very respectfully after seeing Shuichi Minano's arrival.

"kindness."

   "How is the recent research on semiconductors and computers?" Minano Shuichi asked. He cares more about these two things.

   "Semiconductor research is still relatively slow, but computer research has made great progress." Sawajiri said.

   "Oh, talk about it."

"Before you have been emphasizing abandoning transistor calculator research and directly studying integrated circuit computer research. We now find that using integrated circuit calculators will make the computer smaller, faster, and better in terms of heat dissipation. Although it has not yet succeeded An integrated circuit computer has been developed. But we are confident that this research task will be completed by the end of this year." Sawajiri reported the truth.

   In fact, Fujitsu has been working on transistor computers before it was acquired. After all, crystal computers are still mainstream research objects in this era. As for integrated circuit computers, research in this area has not yet begun. However, the technology of integrated circuits has been studied in recent years, but no one has yet applied it to computers.

   When Minano Shuichi acquired the company, he asked their institute to start giving up research on transistor computers and jump directly to research on integrated circuit computers. To be honest, Sawajiri was very opposed to it at the time!

   The main reason is that integrated circuits are not yet mature, but transistors are relatively mature technologies at present.

   But his arms can't fit his thighs. Who is Shuichi Minano is the chairman. Therefore, he could only give up continuing to study transistor calculators and started zero-based integrated circuit computer research work.

   After more than a year, he found that the integrated circuit into the computer is definitely a very good way!

   "Very good, we must continue to work hard in this area, and at the same time, we must speed up the research on semiconductors!" Minami Shuichi pondered.

   "Yes, Chairman!"

  Minano Shuichi, who knows the development trend of history, knows that the development history of computers is divided into five stages!

The first stage, that is, the electronic tube computer era (1946-1957), the main feature of the computer at this stage is that the electronic tube element is used as the basic device, the light screen tube or the mercury delay circuit is used as the memory, and the input and output mainly use punched cards or paper. Belts are bulky, power consumption, slow, storage capacity is small, reliability is poor, maintenance is difficult and expensive. In software, application programs are usually written in machine language or assembly language. Therefore, computers in this era were mainly used for scientific computing. At this time, the computer volume was the size of a house!

The second stage, transistor computer (1957-1964) In the mid-1950s, the appearance of the transistor made the computer production technology fundamentally developed. The transistor replaced the electronic tube as the basic device of the computer, and the magnetic core or drum was used as the memory. In terms of overall performance, it is a big improvement over the first generation of computers. At the same time, programming languages ​​also appeared accordingly, such as Fortran, Cobol, Algo160 and other high-level computer languages. While transistor computers are being used in scientific computing, they have also begun to be applied in data processing and process control. At this time, the volume of the computer is about the size of a wardrobe!

   Phase III Small and Medium Scale Integrated Circuit Computer (1964-1971) In the mid-1960s, with the development of semiconductor technology, integrated circuits were successfully manufactured. Small and medium-scale integrated circuits have become the main components of computers, and the main memory has gradually transitioned to semiconductor memory, which makes the computer smaller and greatly reduces the power consumption of computer calculations. reliability. In terms of software, with standardized programming language and human-machine conversational Basic language, its application field has been further expanded. At this time, the volume of the computer is about the size of a computer desk.

   Phase IV, Large Scale and Very Large Scale Integrated Computers (1971-2016).

   The fifth stage, the fifth generation computer refers to a new generation of computers (future) with artificial intelligence!

   In other words, this era is still in the second stage, and humans are still keen to study transistor computers!

  Integrated circuits were not used until the mid-1960s.

   In other words, it will take five or six years to open.

   So Fujitsu is currently the same, they were all researching transistor computers before.

   Minamino Hideyoshi directly asked them to give up research on transistor computers and directly research and develop integrated circuit computers after the acquisition. Because there is nothing wrong with studying crystal computers, it is a waste of time!

   He not only asked the institute to study integrated circuits and computers, but also emphasized the study of semiconductor technology, because semiconductor technology and computers are inseparable. Fortunately, Fujitsu has a background, and these researchers are still relatively powerful.

  An integrated circuit is a tiny electronic device or component. Using a certain process, components and wirings such as transistors, resistors, capacitors and inductors required in a circuit are interconnected, fabricated on a small or several small semiconductor wafers or dielectric substrates, and then packaged in a package. , into a microstructure with the required circuit functions.

The emergence of    integrated circuit is a new type of semiconductor device developed in the late 1950s and 1960s.

   So now is 1959, the integrated circuit has appeared, so Minamino Shuichi is not calling those researchers to research and develop it out of thin air, but on this basis, it is more perfect and used in the computer.