Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1644 Falling to the altar
Although the computers produced by Lenovo Group have always been hailed as "the light of domestic computers", in fact, this is not the case at all.

In the computer market at that time, Lenovo was undoubtedly the most dazzling star. He became a model for Chinese companies to "go global". Computers, minus importer discounts, tariffs and marketing costs, and 1990% net profit."

Anyone can figure out the huge profits of this industry. Liu Chuanzhi, who is quite far-sighted, went to Hong Kong to set up a trading company in the name of "going global", and then got rid of his partner AST and launched his own Lenovo microcomputer to sell back to the inland market. Go soft.

But in fact, Lenovo's so-called domestic computer is actually an assembled product, and there are not many independent technical patents at all. In this regard, Lenovo is even far inferior to Great Wall Computer, at least the electronic components used by Great Wall Computer are still It was imitated by itself, with some of its own technology, and Lenovo is completely an IBM computer with a domestic computer shell.

Backed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lenovo Group has a large number of top Chinese microelectronics talents. The company has been established for many years, but there are not many technical patents that can be obtained. Most of them rely on purchasing ready-made parts from abroad. With the benefits of policies and compradors, it is essentially an assembly plant. Even so, it is still called "the light of domestic products", which cannot but be said to be a kind of irony.

When Duan Yun wanted to cooperate with Lenovo, the reason why Liu Chuanzhi rejected it was very simple, that is, Liu Chuanzhi never thought of creating a real domestic computer brand. He relied on American technology companies, so he naturally disdained domestic technology companies. After all, Liu Chuanzhi is a pure businessman.

What really made Lenovo Group rise in the later period was not his management skills and company technology, but relying on his family's strong connections to win a large number of government orders. At that time, domestic government departments basically used Lenovo computers. Sending money to Liu Chuanzhi, without the comprador of the Chinese government, it would be impossible for Lenovo Group to rise strongly.

Now that Lenovo Group is in a trough, it is an opportunity for Duan Yun. As the saying goes, you will die while you are sick. Since Duan Yun and Liu Chuanzhi broke up last time, they have become competitors in the domestic PC computer market. Great Wall Computer has been making no progress in these years, and its technology has been seriously backward. Up to now, the main product is still 286 computers. It is inevitable that it will be eliminated by the domestic market. As the country lifts tariffs on American computers, Great Wall Computer will soon collapse, so Duan Yun didn't regard him as an opponent at all.

Relying on the Chinese Academy of Sciences and his profound family background, Liu Chuanzhi was able to win orders from the government, and Duan Yun could also rely on several shareholders of the company, including the SZ Municipal Government and Poly Company, to obtain corresponding government purchase orders, so He has to work faster.

In addition, in terms of products, Duan Yun can self-produce some computer chips, including storage chips and most of the integrated circuits of single-chip microcomputers, but the core CPU chips still need to be imported, and there is no breakthrough in related technologies in the short term.

However, because he has established cooperative relations with American companies such as IBM and Texas Instruments, he can also obtain American chips at a more favorable price than Lenovo Group, and Western Digital's Shenzhen factory will be officially put into production by the end of the year. If that is the case, Duan Yun will be able to get the hard drive of Western Digital at the ex-factory price, and the final finished computer will be assembled by Tianyin Group and become a new domestic computer brand.

At present, Duan Yun has made samples of domestic computers. These samples were developed by the Hong Kong R&D Center. After several months of testing and optimization, the cost and performance of Tianyin computers are quite satisfactory, which can be regarded as the current international computer. A more advanced model.

The Tianyin computer developed by Duan Yun this time directly uses the I486 chip produced by Intel Corporation. This is a new chip released by Intel Corporation in the late 80s and early 90s. The 80486 processor integrates 120 million Transistors, the clock frequency is gradually increased from 25M Hz to 50M Hz. 80486 integrates 80386, digital processor, 80387 and an 8KB cache in one chip, and uses the reduced instruction set technology for the first time in the X86 series, which can be used in Executes an instruction in one clock cycle.

This chip also uses a burst bus method, which greatly improves the data exchange speed of the memory. Due to these improvements, the performance of the 80486 is 80387 times higher than that of the 80386 with the 4 coprocessor. The early 486 is divided into coprocessors. The prices of 486DX and 5sx with 486 coprocessors also differ a lot.

From this point of view, the first computer developed by Duan Yun started very high, and it can be regarded as the first 1 computer in China.

At the same time, the computers produced by Lenovo still use the 386 chip. Although the cost is relatively low, the performance is four times worse than that of the 486.

In addition, IBM, which Lenovo Group has always relied on, has fallen into a major loss crisis since the 90s.

In the 80s, the competition among PC manufacturers was also very fierce. In 1985, Compaq, a PC manufacturer that produced IBM PC compatible machines, was founded by former employees of Texas Instruments in Houston, Texas, and gradually replaced IBM's PC. status.

The reason why IBM will be surpassed is because when Intel's latest product 80386 came out, IBM has not purchased it. IBM is the largest user of Inkel CPU. If IBM does not buy 80386, it is a matter of life and death for Intel. In desperation, Intel The company can only open this chip to other PC makers.

At that time, IBM was a little too arrogant. They thought that IBM had mastered the PC standard, and other companies did not dare to use the 80386 to develop new models, but IBM was wrong. Compaq launched its own 80386-based PC and cooperated closely with Intel. As soon as the 1986 specifications appeared, Compaq began the design of the 9PC. 80386 CPU 80386PC, Compaq obtained huge profits as a result, and quickly surpassed IBM to become the leader in the PC industry.

At the end of 1986, Compaq entered the Fortune 500 list of the world's top companies. Since then, other PC manufacturers have followed up and produced 80386PCs based on 386. In the early 90s, Intel Corporation fell into a huge loss. Completely lost its dominance in the PC industry.

At the same time, Lenovo Group still uses IBM computers that have been repackaged, and the new PC developed by Duan Yun based on 80486 has already been ahead of Lenovo computers by a whole generation in terms of technology.

(End of this chapter)