Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1371 USB
Great Wall Computer is an important chess piece for the future industrial layout. Once the positive cycle of investment and profit is realized, the Chinese electronics industry will accumulate enough technology and energy to catch up with the Moore cycle of two-year waves, and domestic enterprises will be the core of industrial upgrading. As for those dumped by the United States, they can't even see it, and even South Korea and Taiwan dare to step on it.

In fact, in Duan Yun's original plan, he planned to set up a brand by himself, or cooperate with Lenovo, which has more development potential, but Duan Yun quickly gave up this idea.

First of all, it is impossible to cooperate with Lenovo. Lenovo is now the agent of IBM in mainland China. Apart from Hanka, Lenovo currently has no core technology that can be sold, nor has it established its own brand of computers. Looking at the future development trajectory, Lenovo Group is more keen on importing electronic components from the United States. As an assembly OEM factory, it has never planned to cooperate with domestic manufacturers to build a product that truly has national industrial technology.

As for Duan Yun creating a computer brand by himself, even if the core chips can be produced, he also needs to import a large number of electronic components, including hard drives, graphics cards, soft channel control cards, etc. Duan Yun cannot achieve self-sufficiency in the entire industrial chain self-sufficient.

Moreover, creating a computer brand is a time-consuming, energy-intensive and financially consuming task. Now that Tianyin Group is large enough, Duan Yun has never managed so many enterprises by himself, and doing so will easily lead to bloated organization and complicated management. In the absence of sufficient capital, talent and technology accumulation, this kind of greedy approach will only lead you into a trap, and you will be in danger of collapse at any time.

And now Great Wall Computer is the biggest seller of domestic computers. Although most of the core components come from abroad, at least it is a domestic brand, and it is a subsidiary of the Ministry of Machinery and Electronics Industry.

"It should be me who learned from Mr. Wang. Now Great Wall Computer is well-known in China, and it has firmly occupied the first place in sales of domestic computer brands all year round. This cannot but be called a miracle." Duan Yun also said modestly.

"Don't dare! Now everyone knows that Tianyin Group is the largest private enterprise in China, with an annual profit of more than [-] million yuan. Compared with your company, Great Wall Computer is nothing." Wang Zhi chuckled and continued: "Is Manager Duan coming to BJ this time to discuss some business?"

"It's not about business. I came to BJ this time mainly to seek cooperation..." Duan Yun and Wang Zhi described his visits to several electronics factories in BJ these days, and finally added: "Actually speaking, Yes, I just want to expand the exchanges and cooperation between our Tianyi Group and various domestic counterparts. Now the domestic electronic market is developing faster and faster. Only when everyone coordinates and develops together can we make this market bigger and bigger."

"It's still Manager Duan who has far-sightedness." Wang Zhi praised, and then said: "In fact, Great Wall Computer also very much hopes to cooperate with Tianyin Group."

"I came here this time just to discuss cooperation with Manager Wang." Duan Yun smiled slightly, and continued: "When we met last time, my joint venture chip factory hadn't been completed yet, and it has been in operation for almost a year now. , I think the time is ripe, so this time I would like to discuss our cooperation with Manager Wang in detail.”

"The situation of our Great Wall Computer, I think Manager Duan should understand that the current CPU chips and hard disk graphics cards are imported from Japan. If the quality and output of the chips produced by your Tianyin Group are okay, I can send them The order for the CPU chip is handed over to your company." Wang Zhi said simply.

In fact, Wang Zhi also very much hopes that the parts of Great Wall Computer can be localized. In the past, there was no way to import parts from abroad. Because the technical level of domestic manufacturers was not up to the standard, he could only import them from foreign countries at high prices. .

Moreover, when the two met last time, they had already negotiated the cooperation on the localization of the main chip, so this was a meeting with Duan Yun, and he simply proposed that he would hand over the order of the CPU chip to Tianyin Group.

"Thank you so much, Manager Wang." Duan Yun said gratefully.

"It's nothing. I've always hoped that our country's PC industry can develop. Your Tianyi Group has the technology and ability. Naturally, I want to support it." Wang Zhi also said with a smile.

"Actually, I think the cooperation between the two of us is not limited to CPU chips. I also plan to cooperate with your company to develop a new PC computer technology." Duan Yun said seriously.

"New PC computer technology?" Wang Zhiwen was stunned, and asked Duan Yun: "Then tell me, what new technology do you plan to cooperate with to develop?"

"My plan is that we jointly develop a new data transmission interface, temporarily named USB, so that the computer's data transmission will be 10 times or even a hundred times faster than it is now!" Duan Yun said with raised brows.

"USB?" Hearing what Duan Yun said, Wang Zhi was stunned for a moment.

USB is no stranger to future generations. It is the English abbreviation of Universal Serial Bus. It is an external bus standard used to standardize the connection and communication between computers and external devices. It is an interface technology applied in the PC field.

The USB standard was born in the mid-90s. At that time, personal computers were already quite developed, but with the development of the computer industry, several contradictions appeared.

The first is the mechanical hard disk revolution in the 80s. Since the 1981-inch mechanical hard disk in 3.5 and the 1988-inch hard disk in 2.5, the development of the entire mechanical hard disk industry has embarked on a fast track. The growth rate of capacity can be said to be changing with each passing day. In 1991 IBM released the first 1GB civilian 3.5-inch hard drive, which is a milestone in the history of hard drives.

While the storage capacity of the hard disk continues to expand, many users find that the transmission speed of their interfaces is still calculated in bytes. 1KB is equal to 1024bytes, which is almost the speed of a snail.

So faster speed has become the first requirement of the new standard.

The second is that with the development of the semiconductor industry and the guidance of Moore's Law, civilian computers have been able to provide higher performance in the 90s, which allows computers to be expanded to do many tasks that previously required special equipment. Such as tuning, drawing and so on.

Therefore, in addition to faster data transmission and better compatibility, it has become the second goal of the new standard.

The third is that in the early 90s, the computer world was flooded with a large number of interfaces, such as the PS/2 interface introduced by IBM, the LPT interface often used to connect to printers, and so on.

Therefore, better versatility has become the ultimate direction of the new standard.

Based on the urgent needs of the above three PCs, Intel finally developed the USB standard in the mid-90s.

Duan Yun wants to use his own storage chip as a mobile USB flash drive. The first thing he needs to solve is the problem of fast data transmission. USB is undoubtedly the best solution.

(End of this chapter)