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A few days before the Spring Festival, Ni Guangnan finally brought good news to Duan Yun, that is, the prototype of the new notebook computer developed by his team was successfully produced, and it was named Tianyin 2800.At the end of last year, Ni Guangnan and his team launched the Tianyin 2400 notebook computer. At that time, all performance indicators of this notebook computer were the strongest in China, and it was not as good as the most advanced notebook computer in the world.

There is a particularly large gap, and in terms of price, it is also about 1/4 cheaper than imported notebooks.Even so, Duan Yun still feels dissatisfied. In his opinion, there is a certain gap in technology between domestic notebook computers and notebooks produced in Europe and America. Although the gap is not large, it is difficult to surpass it in a short time.

Therefore, European and American manufacturers can always firmly occupy the market share of high-end notebooks.However, the only thing Tianyin Group can do when there is a gap in technology is to highlight the price advantage. Based on Duan Yun's understanding of notebook products, the replacement speed of digital products is very fast.
In the high-end market, it is necessary to make efforts in the low-end market. Only in this way can the long-term profitability of the enterprise sector be guaranteed, so that more funds can be invested in research and development.

So Duan Yun proposed to Ni Guangnan to develop a notebook with a price of less than 1 yuan. Considering that there is still 10% of Lilan space in the sales process, the ex-factory price of this notebook must not exceed 9000 yuan.The reduction in cost means that the performance of the new notebook has declined. At the beginning, the Tianyin 2400 used the latest Pentium II series CPU chip launched by Intel at that time. This chip has very high performance.

Very strong, but also very expensive.In the United States, the price of Intel Pentium 2 CPU is about 300 US dollars, but when exported to China, the price becomes more than 450 US dollars. According to the current exchange rate, the price of the CPU alone is about 3700 yuan.
This accounts for almost 2400/1 of the total cost of the Tianyin 4, and other supporting components are also the most high-end in China, which is also an important reason for the high cost.Therefore, Ni Guangnan wants to greatly reduce the cost of the new laptop according to Duan Yun's request. Naturally, he will not use imported high-end chips and replace them with

Tianyin Group's self-produced chips.Since six years ago, the chip design team of Tianyin Group has followed in the footsteps of global high-end chip companies such as Intel to design and develop domestic CPU chips with independent patent property rights. As of this year, it has successfully designed

Out of the third generation.The first two generations of CPU chips of Tianyin Group have been used in their own mid- and low-end desktop computers, and high-end computers have been introducing CPU chips from Intel, including the earliest 80486 and the later Pentium-[-].
and Pentium II CPU chips, but Tianyin Group has never stopped the pace of independent research and development of CPU.At the beginning of last year, Tianyin Group launched the third-generation self-produced CPU chip, and named it "Lingyi 3000" after the head of the chip research and development department Huang Lingyi.
The Pentium CPU chip released in 2400, but slightly inferior to the Pentium [-] chip, has begun to be widely used in domestic PCs.When Ni Guangnan quit the Tianyin [-] notebook computer, he wanted to make it a tablet computer with the strongest performance in China, but he is a research and development person after all, and he is not sensitive to the market and product positioning...

Sex, just simply want to make a best computer.But after Duan Yun put forward the request for improvement, Ni Guangnan immediately gave up the original plan. The new Tianyin 2800 reused the self-produced "Lingyi 2000" CPU chip. The current cost of this chip is about 500 yuan, which is only about Since less than 1/7 of the imported Pentium [-] chips are used, and the price of the matching motherboard and other components is also much lower, so it took less than two months for Ni Guangnan to complete the process.
According to the task assigned to him by Yun, the Tianyin 2800 notebook computer developed is only about 8500 yuan.

And thanks to the re-optimization of the product, the weight of the new laptop is only 2.1kg, the appearance is more refined, and it is portable, which fully meets Duan Yun's requirements for the new computer.In addition, like other computers produced by Tianyin Group, Tianyin 2800 is also embedded with a domestic operating system. The default website of the browser is "Tianyin Surf". It can be seen that Duan Yun wants to establish an independent computer.

The sub-network ecosystem relies on the release of hardware products to drive the number of users of the software and make it have a strong user viscosity.Even in Duan Yun's plan, he doesn't expect this laptop to bring much profit. The ultimate goal is to make money from this network ecosystem, including software fees, online shopping, and products and services.

The after-sales maintenance of software can bring Tianyin Group far more benefits than selling computers. "Mr. Duan, at present, this machine itself cannot realize wireless Internet access, but I designed an external small device for him, which needs to be connected to our USB socket, and then it can realize wireless Internet access within a small area."
When Yun was explaining the new laptop, Ni Guangnan picked up a palm-sized small box with a folding antenna and said to Duan Yun.For Ni Guangnan, it is actually possible to embed wireless Internet access equipment and antennas into the laptop, but in that case there will be many problems, such as heat dissipation and volume problems, which will affect the work of the laptop Stability, so to greatly reduce the stability of the machine for a wireless Internet access function, which itself is not worth the loss, so in the end Ni Guangnan decided to design an additional wireless Internet access

external devices to solve this problem.

"Not bad!" After hearing the explanation, Duan Yun nodded in satisfaction.In fact, he also knows that it is not easy for you to make the new laptop computer appear like this. After all, with the technology of this era, there is a huge gap with the later generations. Many common technologies of the later generations,
It is unimaginable in this day and age. "We have tested this machine before, and its longest battery life can reach three and a half hours, which is not much worse than imported laptops, and it runs various office software smoothly. The software department

The engineers have also specially optimized the software of this device, but they cannot use some graphics software smoothly. "Ni Guangnan said. "That's enough." "Duan Yun nodded, and then said: "I will arrange relevant departments to mass-produce and launch this product later. In addition, I also want to bring this product to the United States to participate in this year's CES exhibition. "