Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1369 Based on China
Duan Yun has always wanted to use his own flash memory chip to develop a solid-state drive SSD, but at this stage, this is basically impossible.

The main issues are technology and cost.

In fact, solid-state hard drives became popular all over the world after 2000. Before that, home PCs mainly used mechanical hard drives.

Take the 1986 launched by IBM in 386 as an example. This kind of PC uses a 9332 mechanical hard disk with a storage capacity of 35 MB, and the price of the hard disk is only more than 200 US dollars.

However, if Duan Yun uses his own NAND flash memory chip with a capacity of 1MB to make a solid state drive, at least dozens of flash memory particles will be needed, the volume will become very large, and the price will be very expensive, even if a flash memory chip costs 20 US dollars. In terms of price, it also costs hundreds of dollars, and the cost is much higher than that of mechanical hard disks. Therefore, it is simply not feasible to produce SSDs before flash memory technology has achieved a major breakthrough.

Perhaps in the eyes of many people in later generations, a hard disk is only a few tens of megabytes, and it will be full if you put a few MP3s on it. It is impossible to install the system at all. However, in fact, the operating system and software at that time were very small, and the DOS system plus On windows3.1 and Chinese character system, it is less than 30MB, games are basically only a few megabytes, and most ordinary application software are dozens of KB.

As for the current multimedia era, it actually appeared after IBM486/586. Before that, the biggest challenge for software development engineers was not the content, but how to save space.

However, although the current flash memory chips cannot be used to make PC hard disks, they are usually used to save setting information, such as saving data in BIOS, PDA, and digital cameras in computers, etc., especially in this era of computer BIOS, NAND Flash chips have very strong advantages.

After Duan Yun applied for a patent for the product in the world and released it, he also hopes to cooperate with foreign manufacturers and become a supplier of the world's major PC manufacturers.

In fact, in the 90s, in addition to IBM in the United States, countries around the world also had their own PC manufacturers, and the market potential was still very huge.

But if Duan Yun cannot cooperate with international manufacturers, then based on the domestic market, there is still great potential.

The best-selling computer in China is undoubtedly Great Wall Computer. Duan Yun has established a preliminary cooperative relationship with Great Wall Computer before, but this cooperative relationship is only a verbal agreement, and no substantive cooperation has yet begun. The next step is, Duan Yun plans to discuss the specific matters of cooperation with Great Wall Computer Company.

Although IBM is the absolute leader in the world's PC computer market, due to the domestic tariff protection policy, domestic electronic manufacturers also have a certain room for development.

In fact, if Duan Yun's Tianyin Group is located in developed countries such as Europe, America and Japan, it will not have any competitiveness at all. No matter in terms of integrated circuit technology or the R&D and production of other products, Tianyin Group's products cannot compete. It is comparable to the products of the United States and Japan.

However, relying on China's tariff protection policy, Tianyin Group's tape recorders, walkmans, video recorders and repeaters can all sell well, and even learning machines that imitate Japanese red and white machines can bring him hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Such a high profit has even surpassed the profit earned by Nintendo's Famicom in Japan.

This may sound ironic, but it is a reality.

For example, like Lenovo Group, which first started by producing Chinese cards, and then obtained the Chinese agency rights of IBM computers. In 1996, the first Lenovo microcomputer was put on the market. Lenovo started as an agent of imported computer products. Transform into a manufacturer and seller of computer products with its own brand.

From the 386 computer to the 486 computer to the Pentium 586, except for the early Chinese cards, Lenovo did not have any technology that could be obtained. All computer parts were imported from foreign countries. He was only responsible for a simple assembly, and then Paste your own brand and enter the domestic market for sales.

For more than 10 years, Lenovo Group's largest profit has always come from domestic sources, but it is such a company. Lenovo Group acquired the IBM PC Division in 2005 and became the world's largest PC manufacturer. In order to swallow up his original parent company.

It can be said that if there is no domestic market in China, Lenovo will be an assembly plant abroad without much technical content at all.

It can be seen that the potential of China's domestic market is huge, so for the current Duan Yun, if he cannot successfully develop the international market, as long as he can occupy the share of the domestic market, it is enough for him to earn a lot of money and complete a huge amount of money. accumulation of funds.

But he will not learn from Lenovo Group. In the end, Lenovo is only a packaging design, assembly and OEM company, and has already been controlled by American capital. Without the US industrial supply chain, Lenovo is just an empty shell.

Duan Yun wants to support a domestic computer brand and become an upstream supplier of this computer brand, control the brand with technology, and at the same time help other domestic integrated circuit manufacturers find a way to develop.

However, this is not an easy task, because in addition to technical aspects, there are also physical problems. Great Wall Computer is still a state-owned enterprise affiliated to the Ministry of Machinery and Electronics Industry. Duan Yun wants to carry out in-depth cooperation with such an enterprise. Support at the national level is still needed.

In the history of Great Wall Computer in 1991, due to the country’s loosening of restrictions on the approval of imported computers, the price of imported computers dropped rapidly. In just one year, it disappeared in the domestic market and completely disappeared from the sight of the Chinese people.

Duan Yun may not necessarily keep this brand, but he can use the policy protection period of the past few years to build up the domestic supply chain system of PC computers first. In this way, even if Great Wall Computer disappears in the future, relying on the complete domestic supply chain, he can It is also possible to re-establish a domestic PC computer brand.

Considering the importance of cooperating with Great Wall Computer, Duan Yun decided to go to BJ in person to have a talk with Wang Zhi, the general manager of Great Wall Computer, to discuss specific cooperation matters.

In addition, Duan Yun will also visit several integrated circuit factories in BJ. Earlier, the relevant persons in charge of BJ Electronics Factory 5, Factory [-] and Factory [-] also came to Shenzhen to visit Tianyin Group. At that time, Duan Yun To the utmost advantage of the landlords, they were given high-standard hospitality. Correspondingly, the managers of these factories also invited Duan Yun to visit BJ's factory, and Duan Yun readily agreed.

(End of this chapter)