Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1319 Cow Shit Chip
That night, Duan Yun had already divided the supply of raw materials for all parts of the learning machine, and assigned the assembly work to three electronic assembly factories at the same time, and set a deadline and task for them, requiring them to complete within three months. Within this period, 100 million learning machines and 300 million game console cassettes must be produced.

This kind of production capacity was unimaginable when Tianyin Electronics Factory was fighting alone in the past. However, after forming a group company, Duan Yun's group company has an extremely strong production capacity. Now Tianyin Electronics Group , in the domestic electronics industry, it is definitely a "monster".

In addition to the subordinate companies and holding companies within the group, Duan Yun also controls the Shenzhen Chamber of Commerce for Small and Medium Enterprises. If possible, Duan Yun can recruit more than 100 companies to jointly produce this learning machine, and the production capacity can be increased by more than 10 times. .

In the fifth year after entering Shenzhen, Duan Yuan's company development strategy has completely changed, from the previous single-handed operation to a group operation. In the past, Duan Yun's Tianyin Electronics Factory was a company integrating R&D, production and sales, but Today, Telling Electronics has gradually begun to occupy the upper reaches of Shenzhen's electronics industry, controlling products, researching and developing core components and key technologies, gradually stripping out some low-profit production links or contracting them to subordinate companies, and firmly grasping the profits The highest industry upstream link.

In the next few days, Xiao Qiang, He Shufen and other holding companies began to trial-produce some learning machine parts according to the tasks assigned by Duan Yun, and quickly calculated the cost price of various parts and products, plus 10% After the profits, the final pricing was handed over to Duan Yun.

After calculation, the cost price of each learning machine produced by Tianyin Electronics Group is about 180 yuan, and the cost price of the cassette is 70 yuan, of which the cost price of the game cassette chip is 40 yuan.

Each learning machine comes with two cassettes, one textbook cassette, and one game cassette. The game cassette comes with 4 games, including the current popular Contra, Tetris, Tank Wars, and Super Mario.

In fact, compared to selling learning machines, Duan Yun's most important thing is the market for game cassettes.

Because of the simple structure, the FC game console is durable, and it will basically not be damaged if there is no major bump, and it can be used for a long time.

It is not easy to upgrade products that are too strong. After a batch of game consoles are sold, these consumers will need many years or will never buy similar game consoles again. Therefore, the sales of game consoles are bound to have a ceiling. .

However, game cassettes are different. Consumers will look for another game when they are tired of playing a game. This is the same as video tapes and tapes. It is on a par with game cartridges that cost two or three hundred yuan.

In the early years, game cassettes such as "64 in 1", "100 and 1" and "200 in 1" appeared. In fact, with the cassette technology at that time, it was impossible to store so many high-quality games. Without an algorithm and gameplay, there are only a few built-in games, which are completely fraudulent electronic waste.

In fact, the internal storage capacity of the ROM cassette used in this era is only 128K, and at most it can only have 1 or 2 high-quality games built in. In the later period, there have been game cassettes with dual memory cards, which can make the advantages of "4 in 1" and "8 in 1" products, but the price is also very expensive.

And Duan Yun adopted. The cassettes made of Flash flash memory chips have a storage capacity of 512K, and can contain about 4 to 8 high-quality games, which also makes their cassettes have strong competitiveness.

At that time, the genuine cassettes imported from Japan generally only had one game, or 4 simple games, and the price was around 200 yuan, but Duan Yun’s cassettes that could have 4 high-quality games built in were priced at 300 to 400 yuan. able to sell.

In fact, there were already some smuggled red and white machines in China at that time, and the cassettes produced could also earn money from these genuine users. After all, game console cassettes are all compatible. With the advantages of quality and price, Duan Yun can easily Squeeze the genuine card out of the domestic market.

Moreover, Duan Yun can further reduce the cost price of the cassette, making it impossible for other domestic game cassette pirate manufacturers to compete with it.

In the previous life, in order to further reduce the cost and price of cassettes, some places even sold some "naked cards" without casings. No one knows the contents of these cards, and you can only find out after buying them home for inspection. Good or bad game content.

This may be the earliest "blind box" or "gambling stone" game in China. If you are lucky, you can buy high-quality games at a very low price. If you are unlucky, you can only buy some "64 in 1"" 100 in 1", and even more exaggerated "9999 in 1"...

In addition to selling bare cards, in order to save costs, pirated cassette manufacturers also did everything possible. Many game cassettes in that era used "bullshit chips".

The so-called "bull shit chip" is because the circuit board of the game cassette at that time was not a common neatly planned circuit board composed of a rectangular array of integrated chips, but a circuit board that was almost empty. Suddenly, a lump of round, not even round "black bump" appeared. This black bump was called cow dung because of its ugly appearance.

Back then, when many children bought bare cards, they even judged the quality of the game content based on the size of the “bullshit” on the bare card, thinking that the bigger the “bullshit”, the more games there were, the better.

But in fact, this is just a cheap and simple chip packaging method used on pirated cassettes to reduce the cost of the cassette. It is 1/2 or even 2/3 cheaper than traditional packaged chips, so it is very suitable for pirates who pursue the maximum benefit Manufacturers produce.

Of course, there are many disadvantages in doing so. Chips packaged in "bull dung" are prone to problems such as poor hormones and poor sealing when exposed to heat, humidity, cold, and freezing.

In addition, due to the connection between the chip and the circuit board, its resistance to moisture and static electricity is also poor, and the aging speed is too fast.

There is also the last point that it cannot be disassembled, and the difficulty of maintenance is increased. Once this chip is broken, it can basically be thrown away to buy a new one instead of choosing to repair it.

After Duan Yun's flash chip was packaged with "bull dung", the cost of the chip was immediately reduced by half, from 40 yuan per chip before to more than 20 yuan.

It is precisely because of this that Duan Yun’s game cassettes were produced in this way from the very beginning, and in order to avoid that too many high-quality games on a cassette will make consumers “once and for all”, so Duan Yuan’s first batch of products are all "1-in-4" cassette, and the first batch of 1 versions of "16-in-4" cards, there are always 1~1 repetitive games...

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