Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1442 Domestic 486
After getting the exact news, he immediately arranged for someone to go through the formalities for going to Hong Kong, and prepared to have an interview with Hu Zhengming.

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This time, besides his assistant Guo Kai, Duan Yun was accompanied by three bodyguards. As soon as he entered Hong Kong, Duan Yun was picked up by the manager of the Hong Kong branch, Li Guosheng, into the office building of the company, where he stayed temporarily.

Telling Group Hong Kong Branch has been established for nearly a year, and during this period, the scale of the branch has grown larger and larger. Now the company has more than 270 employees. Except for some system office staff, the rest All are technicians of the R&D project team.

As it is adjacent to the Hong Kong Management School, most of the staff working in the Duanyun branch are graduates of this school, and they all look quite young, and the entire R&D department is for 5 project teams, responsible for the software of the entire PC project. Hardware technology research and development work, and the person in charge of each project team is also an experienced expert. Several of them have worked in multinational technology companies before, and the strength of the team is still very strong.

Hong Kong is a city dominated by finance and real estate, especially the highly developed financial industry, so local college graduates are proud to be able to enter financial companies, but because of the lack of industrial foundation, it is relatively difficult for science students in this place to find jobs. Most of them can only study abroad or work in developed countries in Europe and America, and there are few suitable jobs locally.

In the conference room on the top floor of the office building, Duan Yun listened carefully to the work introductions of Li Guosheng and several project leaders. They gave Duan Yun a detailed introduction to the progress of product research and development in the past year.

In fact, Duan Yun has been in close communication with the Hong Kong branch through faxes and telephones. In addition to listening to reports, Duan Yun will also use some computer design principles and experience from his previous life to let them continue to improve the design plan, and to improve the design of the computer. All aspects of the design are optimized.

In fact, the computer has gone through 4 generations from its creation to the present. The first generation was from the 1s to the end of the 20s. At that time, the computer was characterized by the use of electronic tubes as logic components, which were very bulky, expensive and surprisingly efficient. It is also very low, and ordinary people cannot afford it.

2nd generation.Computers were developed from the late 50s to the mid-60s. The hardware part used transistors as logic components, which reduced the size and enhanced the functions. This generation of computers is also called transistor computers.

The third-generation computer appeared in the mid-3s to the early 60s. Small-scale integrated circuits replaced discrete component transistors. The price was still expensive, and only some large companies could afford it.

From the early 70s to the present, the fourth generation of computer technology has been quite mature, using large-scale and ultra-large-scale integrated circuits as logic components, using semiconductor storage as the main memory, and using large-capacity soft and hard disks for auxiliary storage. , and start loading the disc.

With the current international software and hardware, it is impossible for Duan Yun to develop the new type of computer that he will use later. At present, many key components of the computer designed by the Hong Kong branch, including CPU, hard disk and graphics card, need to be imported from the United States and Japan. Yes, to put it bluntly, it is an assembly.

In fact, Duan Yun also hopes to make all his computers localized, but now it seems that this is almost impossible. The main reason is that it does not have enough research and development capabilities, and the technology is not enough to support Duan Yun's avant-garde design and ideas.

In addition, the computer designed by Duan Yun will use Intel's latest 80486 chip to make a personal computer with the best performance.

Just in May of this year, the 5 chip of the Intel X86 structure was launched for personal computers. With the Windows 80486 graphics system, which was well received by most of the next year, personal computers gradually matured, and the price dropped to 3.0 US dollars. Great Wall Computer launched the domestic 2000 computer last year, and this year they will also use the 386 chip as the basis, and will officially launch the domestic 80486 computer next year.

Today's mainstream PCs are all open modular platforms, the core components of which are mastered by American and Japanese companies. Duan Yun has made a major breakthrough in NAND flash memory chips for the time being, but in the short term, he wants to produce a high-performance Personal computers are still inseparable from key components from the United States and Japan.

When he was invited to visit the United States last year, Duan Yun had contacted with Intel executives and expressed his desire to cooperate with their company to purchase their CPU chips to make domestic computers, and Intel also promised to provide chips to the commissioner. They also want to open up the Chinese market. Of course, in terms of price, it must be more expensive than European and American manufacturers.

Therefore, if Duan Yun’s core components are provided by American and Japanese manufacturers, the cost of the whole machine will definitely be more expensive than that of American and Japanese PC manufacturers. This means that Duan Yun’s computers have no advantage in terms of price if they want to export them. At most, it can only grab a certain market share in the domestic market.

For any product to sell well internationally, on the one hand, it must have advantages in performance and price, and on the other hand, it must make product differentiation and characteristics that can impress the hearts of foreign consumers.

Duan Yun's idea is to carry his own USB technology on the developed computer, so that it has the function of high-speed downloading. Once this kind of computer with USB technology is developed, it will definitely bring a huge shock to the entire international PC market.

Duan Yun intends to publicly display computers with USB functions at the CES exhibition in the United States next year, and use this as an opportunity to take the first step of domestic computer brands entering the international market...

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