Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1317 Spark Studio

For Duan Yun, the development idea of ​​the group company is completely different from when he only operated the electronics factory. If Duan Yun’s electronics factory could not make money, then his enterprise would be in a loss state, but the group company is different. Upstream companies within the group do not need to make money, but create profits through downstream companies, and ultimately maintain an overall profit of the group company. From this point of view, he needs to have a general direction and a relatively complete overall thinking, so that Only in this way can the group develop rapidly and stably.

To put it bluntly, the game console is actually a low-end product. Its technical content cannot be compared with products such as personal PC computers, VCD recorders, and MP3 players. At the end of the 83s, there were still good sales in the Chinese domestic market, because it was easy to use, highly entertaining, suitable for all ages, and naturally sold high. On the contrary, Sony developed Ps 90, ps 4 and Microsoft’s XBox in the future, but because of It is difficult to get started and the price is high. It is far less popular than red and white game consoles in mainland China.

However, the profit of producing this 6-bit chip based on 16-micron process technology is very low, because it is a product with backward technology in the world. Developed countries in Europe, America and Japan can mass-produce it industrially, and the price cannot be too high. Duan Yun is now using Toshiba's production line to produce This kind of chip is actually more or less overkill.

However, in the absence of orders for high-end chips, although the production of these low-end chips is not profitable, he can meet the needs of downstream companies, especially at present. It is difficult to import chips in large quantities in China. Duan Yun can completely rely on downstream companies to produce learning machines and Game consoles earn back the profits of chip factories in the domestic market.

For the next month, Duan Yun will go to the chip factory and product R&D center every day to check the installation of ASML lithography machines and the R&D progress of the R&D center's imitation learning machines.

The installation and commissioning records of ASML lithography machines are much slower than Duan Yun imagined. Dutch engineers have never worked more than 6 hours a day. They start work at 8:11 in the morning and leave work at 12:3 noon. Europeans do not have the habit of taking a nap After lunch, they worked from [-] o'clock to [-] o'clock in the afternoon. After get off work, Duan Yun immediately asked Duan Yun to arrange a car to take them to some bars and restaurants in Shenzhen and Guangzhou where there are many foreigners. I didn't return to the guest house until one or two o'clock in the evening, and the requirements for the quality of life were very high.

And during this period, Li Yun finally found an opportunity to copy the entire workbook of the two Dutch engineers, and after the two engineers left the workshop, he would call Wu Gang and others over to review as much as possible The work progress of the two engineers during the day, as well as some operational details.

Every night, when the Dutch engineers were enjoying themselves in the bar outside, Li Yun began to translate the engineer's manual, and drew out simple installation steps for some operational details seen during the day.

The more capable people are, the more they pay attention to details. Li Yun can fully understand Duan Yun's intentions. This is her great contribution to Tianyin Electronics Company.

In addition, the South Korean test order of 10 chips took only one week to complete the production. After receiving the initial payment of 225 million US dollars, Duan Yun immediately shipped the batch of 10 chips to Hong Kong, and then passed the The shipping company sends the goods to Korea.

After the Korean order was delivered, Duan Yun asked the chip factory to continue to produce flash chips at full capacity. These chips will eventually be used in the production of game console cassettes.

Now the cost price of each Flash chip is about RMB 40, and a cassette with only one game on the market also costs 200 RMB. The storage capacity of the Flash chip is 4 times that of the ROM card on the market. This kind of cassette can do 8-in-10 6, 1-in-30 or even 300-in-[-] games, almost one cassette can enjoy all the popular games on the market, such as Super Mario, Contra, Tank Wars, MapleStory and other games, even if Duan Yun sets the price at [-] It's also very good value for a plate.

Go your own way, leaving nowhere else to go.

Duan Yun's standard for game consoles was very high from the very beginning, which also prevented domestic peer companies from imitating Nintendo game consoles to form competition against him, allowing his own company to monopolize the domestic game console market.

Strictly speaking, this behavior of Duan Yun is illegal in foreign countries. If companies in the United States, Japan and Europe did what he did, the defendant would have gone bankrupt because of the crime of intellectual property infringement, but China generally does not have the concept of patent intellectual property rights. , Piracy is flying all over the sky, and only in such an environment, Duan Yun's imitated learning game console has the opportunity to dominate the domestic market.

In June, Duan Fang's research team was the first to complete the product development task. The sample of the first learning machine is almost exactly the same as the later Xiaobawang learning machine. There is a cassette slot on the top of the standard computer keyboard, and it comes with two A game controller with a cross key, from the appearance point of view, fully meets Duan Yun's requirements.

In addition, this learning machine uses a 6502 chip bought from Shenzhen Electronics Building. After plugging in the original Japanese cassette and connecting it to a TV, it can be used as a game machine. After the imitation chip is produced, Duan Yun will Will replace the 6502 chip with the chip produced by its own chip factory.

As for the software program of the learning machine, "Spark Studio" has completed the design of the software, and is optimizing the software and compressing the data, and the production will be completed soon.

If there are no accidents, Duan Yun's learning machine will be able to complete the finalization of the product and enter the stage of mass production in a week at most.

And last night, in the private room of Xi'an Hotel in Shenzhen, Duan Yun invited the heads of 11 companies under his company, including Xiao Qiang, He Shufen, Zhou Jianglong and others, to sit around a table, and the atmosphere was very lively.

"This is really a good thing. Speaking of which, I bought a game console for my son last year. I originally planned to give it to my son to play, but now my wife and I occupy the machine every day. There is no me at all." What’s the matter with my son, now we cooperate, Contra will definitely pass the level within 30!” At this time, Xiao Qiang used the TV in the private room to try the learning machine sample brought by Duan Yun, and said excitedly.

"You're such a big man, are you ashamed to say that?" He Shufen, who was sitting by the side, couldn't help but give him a blank look, only to hear her continue: "Manager Duan, can you give me one later? My house is also just right. Want to buy this kind of game console..."

"No problem!" Duan Yunwen said with a smile, and continued: "When the finished product comes out, I will give each of you here one. But I called you here today to assign you some tasks."

(End of this chapter)