Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1224 Great Wall Computer
When Duan Yun met Wang Zhi, the general manager of Great Wall Company, for the first time, he came with several other Zhongguancun bosses, but Wang Zhi didn't seem to be very talkative at that time, and he seemed very low-key.

There was a lot of chatter at that time, Duan Yun and Wang Zhi didn't say much, but after the dinner, the two exchanged business cards, and Duan Yun invited him face to face to have hot pot at Donglaishun Restaurant to discuss cooperation matters.

In fact, Wang Zhi is living a very comfortable life now. Their company's Great Wall brand computers are not worried about selling, but they just want to make friends with Duan Yun, a business upstart, so they agree to Duan Yun's request.

"Manager Wang is here, sit down, I'll let the waiter serve the meat." In Dong Laishun's private room, Duan Yun immediately greeted Wang Zhi with a smile on his face.

"It's been a long time since I've come to Donglaishun to eat hot pot..." Wang Zhi smiled, then sat down opposite Duan Yun, took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it over.

"Yesterday, Manager Wang and I hit it off immediately. If you want me to say, Great Wall is the strongest company that sells computers in China. Manager Wang is a good leader. Great Wall Computer is definitely the pride of domestic brands of computers. Those who sell computers are at best He can only be regarded as a second-hand dealer." Duan Yun said.

"Don't give me a high hat. We are a subordinate enterprise, and we rely on national policies..." Wang Zhizhi smiled, and then said: "Manager Duan's current Tianyin Electronics Factory is known to everyone in the country. The business is comparable to ours. There are a lot of things to do, and I still have to ask you for advice when it comes to doing business."

"We're just playing around."

"In addition to the electronics factory in Shenzhen, you also invested tens of millions of dollars to set up a joint venture chip factory with the Japanese. Can this be called a small business?" Wang Zhi smiled and shook his head, and then said: "Our Great Wall Computer The factory made a profit of more than 3000 million yuan last year, probably not a fraction of your company's profit?"

"Everything is difficult at the beginning. In the first year I came to Shenzhen, I only earned a few million. Your Great Wall Company is much better than us." Duan Yun smiled, and then said: "Speaking of our joint venture Chip factory, I asked Manager Wang to come here today because I want to cooperate with your company..."

"Cooperation? What kind of cooperation method? I would like to hear the details." Wang Zhi said.

"That's right, I want to ask, what kind of chip is your Great Wall company's computer currently using?" Duan Yun asked.

"You want to supply chips to our Great Wall Computer Company?" Wang Zhi suddenly understood.

"Yes, our joint venture chip factory has introduced Toshiba's advanced chip production line from Japan. According to the plan when the factory was built, it mainly produces flash storage chips developed by the Japanese side. However, this product is still a new product in the world, and there is no Market development, that is to say, when this chip factory is officially put into production, the production capacity will definitely be very abundant..." Duan Yun paused, and then said: "So I want to cooperate with our domestic manufacturers to receive some chip foundries business..."

"This... Let me tell you the truth. The chips used by Great Wall Computer are the 05 series chips jointly developed with Japan's NEC. This chip is imitated by Intel's 8088. The hard disk is produced by Japan's TEAC company. As for the domestic components, only the floppy drive control card produced by Hangzhou Magnetic Recording Equipment Factory, the 9-frame graphics card, the 14-inch spherical display, and such sophisticated chips, can your factory make them?"

"Our other domestic manufacturers can't do it, but our chip factory has no problem." Duan Yun smiled slightly, and then said: "Let's put it this way, Intel's 8088 chip has 4500 transistors, and the process technology is three microns. Our factory has introduced this Japanese production line, which can produce chips with a 5-inch 3-micron process, and there is no problem at all.”

"Is it so powerful?" Wang Zhi was shocked when he heard this.

Wang Zhi did not expect that Duan Yun's private joint venture chip factory would have such a strong chip production technology, which was completely beyond his imagination.

You know, at that time, the Ministry of Computer Science and Technology established a microprocessor research room, and one of the large groups was imitating the Intel 8088 chip, that is, the 05 series.

It took 1980 years from the start of the project in early 1985 to the completion of the research and development task in 5. However, at this time, the Fourth Ministry of Machinery was facing a very embarrassing problem, that is, there was no domestic manufacturer capable of producing the chips they developed. .

Originally, the Ministry of Electronics Industry could arrange for its subordinate factories to localize core components under the planned economic system, but the political atmosphere at that time was to tear down the planned economic system and reform towards market liberalization.

The Ministry of Electronics Industry has no money to invest, and the core components in the Great Wall 0520 are all imported.

At that time, the most advanced Wuxi 742 factory in China only mastered the 4-inch 5-micron chip process technology, and they could not produce chips with a 8088-micron process. A 05 model chip that imitates the 750, but the price of the purchasing agent is very expensive, and the price of each chip is as high as [-] US dollars.

要知道，70年代英特尔出产的8080芯片只有200美元，而用在全新 PC上的8088芯片也只有360美元。

However, due to the embargo of high-tech chips, domestic computer manufacturers cannot directly use Intel's 8088 chips, so they can only retreat and rely on high-quality imitations of 8088, and then OEM them by Japanese manufacturers. Only then did the domestic Great Wall brand computers .

Speaking of which, the total cost of Great Wall Computer is much higher than that of IBM Computer Company. It is only because of the domestic tariff protection policy that Great Wall Computer has a high profit margin. Otherwise, their computers would not be sold at all.

"Little Japan's business is very dark. I think Manager Wang should have a deep understanding of this. They just bully our country's poor technology, so the price of chips sold to us is so high. If your Great Wall company can cooperate with our chip factory , you don’t need to buy chips produced by the Japanese at a high price, and in this case, the cost of the whole machine will be further reduced..."

"Has your factory started production yet?" Wang Zhi asked suddenly.

"It should be officially put into production by the end of this year."

"Your suggestion is very good, I think you can consider it." Wang Zhi paused, and then said: "But apart from the low price, the quality of the chip must be guaranteed. I don't want to smash the Great Wall."

"This is impossible. Our factory's chip production line is imported from Japan's Toshiba. Japan's Toshiba is much stronger than that NEC in the chip market. The chips we produce will definitely not be inferior to them!" Duan Yun said confidently.

(End of this chapter)