Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1198 Great Wall Computer
"Do you have time tonight? I'm going to treat Manager Duan to dinner, and then we can talk while eating." Hou Weigui took out a cigarette from his pocket at this time and handed it to Duan Yunhou and said.

Hou Weigui took the initiative to invite Duan Yun to dinner. He obviously wanted to make friends with Duan Yun. Although the two of them had a 20-year age difference, they had business friends regardless of size.

Moreover, the cooperation between the two that Duan Yun talked about today really touched Hou Weigui a lot.

For a long time, Hou Weigui also wanted to start a technology-based enterprise. As long as an enterprise has its own core technology, it does not need to be controlled by others. Previously, it helped Hong Kong people install telephones, because their company did not have core technology, so they had to bow their heads and work for others to make money. , although he earned 1 yuan in his first year in Shenzhen, he just made a hard-earned money to put it bluntly. This is a kind of sadness for Hou Weigui, who comes from a technical background.

It is precisely because of this that Hou Weigui set up a research and development team with the money he earned in Shenzhen in the first year, and developed a small telephone switchboard. However, this small telephone switchboard has little commercial potential in the current domestic market. Can it be promoted on a large scale? The initiative lies with the Post Office.

Duan Yun's new product research and development plan this time really made his eyes shine. He has been in Shenzhen for more than a year to install telephones, and he has seen with his own eyes the astonishing penetration rate of Hong Kong telephones, especially the telephone answering machine, which is almost the same as that of Hong Kong. A must-have product for every company, if this research project can be successful, there will undoubtedly be huge commercial potential.

"Then I will drive to you tomorrow afternoon. Let's go out for a drink and have a good chat." Duan Yun also took out a business card from his pocket at this time, and handed it to Hou Weigui with a smile.

"No problem, I'll wait for you!" Hou Weigui took the business card from Duan Yun and said simply.

Afterwards, after the two chatted for a few more words, Duan Yun got up and left his company.

Walking out of ZTE's office, Duan Yun lit the cigarette that Hou Weigui handed him, and blew a smoke ring into the sky.

Since the flash memory chip is a new product, Duan Yun needs to develop part of the market by himself. In addition to using this Flash memory chip to make repeaters, this time he cooperated with ZTE to jointly produce telephones with caller ID and voice storage functions. It can be regarded as finding a new use for flash memory chips.

The domestic communication industry is developing rapidly. Duan Yun has always wanted to get involved in this industry, but it is very difficult for private companies to enter the high-profit area of ​​the communication industry. They can only take some assembly work from state-owned enterprises, and the profits are meager. Cooperating with ZTE also gave him the opportunity to get involved in this field.

In the future, Duan Yun will cooperate with enterprises such as Huawei and ZTE to develop products such as CNC switches and PHS. Through the joint research and development model, his own chip factory can find more profit growth points, and owning these communication products The strongest domestic chip production line with core chip production capacity.

In addition to the domestic market, Duan Yun also intends to expand into foreign markets.

From the history of previous lives, flash memory chips are widely used in various U disk storage cards, and also directly promote the emergence of solid-state drives.

That is to say, the PC computer is the most used place for this chip, so Duan Yun plans to promote this product internationally in the future, and cooperate with computer companies such as IBM to become a supplier of IBM computers.

Speaking of which, in the 80s, domestic computers also began to rise.

As early as in BJ Zhongguancun in 1984, there have been a large number of companies selling computers and various spare parts, and these computer components are mainly smuggled from Hong Kong.

Acting as an agent and reselling approval documents were the main business of most early enterprises in Zhongguancun. At that time, Hong Kong Jinshan Company mainly did business with ministries and commissions. Backed by the signboard of "Zhuzhou Institute of Electronics", it helped various ministries and research institutes import computers and accessories from Hong Kong. .

At that time, importing computers needed import licenses, commonly known as approval documents. Private enterprises could not obtain approval documents for importing computers from abroad. State-owned enterprises had them, but most of them were idle. BJ resells computers. The buyers are mainly enterprises, schools and government agencies. At that time, the price of a computer exceeded 3 yuan, which was definitely not affordable by ordinary people. Moreover, approval was required to buy it. It was only sold to units and not to ordinary people. A computer can make a net profit of thousands of yuan.

At the same time, the Fourth Ministry of Machinery Industry, the predecessor of the Ministry of Electronics Industry, which is in charge of the electronics industry, started microcomputer public relations work. Two large groups led by Ding Shilong, director of the Microprocessor Research Office of the Electronic Technology Research Institute of the Fourth Ministry of Machinery, One group imitated Intel chips, namely the 05 series, and the other imitated Motorola chips, namely the 06 chips. They cooperated with Japanese companies to carry out micro-level research. By 1983, the Ministry of Electronics Industry determined the 05 series, named it 0520A, and arranged Produced in BJ738 factory, in 1985, with the assistance of all parties, this model became the first computer in China with complete Chinese characters and was named 1CH.

At the end of 1986, Wang Zhi, former deputy director of the Computer Management Bureau of the Ministry of Electronics Industry, led the 0520 computer development team and founded Great Wall Computer Company.

In the next few years, under the protection of the import license system, Great Wall lived very well. At that time, the price of IBM's PC in Zhongguancun was 3 yuan, and the Great Wall 0520ch sold for more than 2 yuan. More than 1.5 units have been sold, with several hundred million in revenue.

Originally, the Ministry of Electronics Industry could arrange for its subordinate factories to localize core components under the planned economic system. However, due to the serious comprador thinking at that time, the Ministry of Electronics Industry had no money to invest, so all the core components in the Great Wall 0520 were imported. The CPU is the 8088 imitated by NEC in Japan, the hard disk is from TEAC in Japan, and the domestic parts are only the floppy drive control card produced by the state-owned Hangzhou Magnetic Road Computer Equipment Factory, the 9-pin Ega graphics card and the 14-inch spherical display.

In fact, the period when Great Wall Computer was selling well in China was also the best opportunity for China to establish a localized computer industrial chain in the past 40 years. At this time, the gap between China and Europe and the United States was not that big. Energy catching up, the Moore cycle of two-year waves, but in the end, the domestic industry did not seize this opportunity, and the investment window was fleeting.

Of course, the good days of Great Wall Computer did not last long. In 1990, the state announced the formal cancellation of the computer product import license approval and greatly reduced tariffs. A few years of good money, but it has not made a big contribution to China's electronic chip industry.

But no matter what, the domestic sales of Great Wall Computer were indeed considerable, so Duan Yun also planned to cooperate with Great Wall Computer in the next step to get a share of it...

(End of this chapter)