Rebirth 79: I opened a bank in the United States

Chapter 772 Hardware Supply Selection
After staying in New Haven for nearly a week, Carter returned home after roughly arranging the business matters for the new school year.Moved with family to California.

Melis and Jenny count as a family, and so do Anna and Joy.The living supplies of the two families, even when the old Douglas house was still preserved, took three pickup trucks and a trailer to fully load them.

All the way to the west, stop and go, it is rare for the family to get together.Even for Melis's graduation trip, she took Joey, the son-in-law of the Black family, to Texas to visit relatives.
Efficiency is obviously not considered in this way.When the family was settled properly and Carter set off to return again, it was the day before the start of Yale University!
"I heard that you quietly did something big during the summer vacation?"

The plane stopped at Cincinnati Airport for a while, and then took off again after a certain big head boarded the plane.
"Are you well-informed?! Who told you?"

"My fourth uncle told me that he knew we were roommates! Listen to him, Mr. Stevens seemed to have made a fortune in those few days, and he walked a lot more arrogantly!"

After talking about the routine with a smile, after the plane entered the cruising phase, Rick picked up a package in his hand:
"Come on, take a look at the big things I've done this summer! Samples of hard drives, processor chips, and quotations from various companies. I paid special attention to the z80 you said is indeed very cheap!"

"How cheap? Wait, why did you also buy 6502?"

Taking a handful of chips of different shapes handed over by the other party, Carter flipped through them one by one.
"Last time I heard you mention that the positioning of Motorola's 6502 seems to be close to the z80, so I looked at them. In comparison, the two are indeed similar, whether it is Zulong, or Motorola, or some The chip sold by authorized agents, the price of this chip is about 25 US dollars. Intel's 8080 costs 200 US dollars! The difference is eight times! In addition, this is the purchase price, you can see and I will talk How are you doing?"

"Let me take a look. Put these chips away first. I have an idea for a high-end branch. Maybe it will be used in non-mass-produced models or high-end models. But now, what about Texas Instruments' TMS32010 Ah, or Intel's 8088, none of that applies"

While receiving the quotations from various manufacturers, Carter couldn't help laughing out:

Computers that can be loaded with various software and complete various tasks are completely common sense in the eyes of future people.What computer can't do this?

In addition, the compatibility of hardware and software must also be considered.Just like back then, the Apple II that used the 6502 chip of the Mostek Company could not run software such as Worldstar at all, and had to connect an external chip card. How much software is supported!

But in this era, or even earlier, in the 70s when Wang An Computer made his fortune.There is a clear delineation between this universal computer and functional computer.

There is no way, who let the previous life always suffer from the "swordsman in leather"?
"It's up to you, you can decide. You should check the price first, is it reasonable?"

There is still some lack of unified standards, and the chip specifications of each company are so varied.And in the field of storage, floppy disks and hard disks fly together, and the compatibility between them basically approaches zero!

"Okay, I'll go. The high-end chips."

"Isn't that right, just this 8086 cost me a thousand dollars. Obviously, the 88 is bigger than it, but it is cheaper than it. I heard from Intel that what 8088 is, but it is a castrated version of 8086. I I don’t understand this logic. Shouldn’t the newer generation of products have better performance?”

Compared to Rick, Carter is too accustomed to Intel's products that launch high-performance versions first, and then lower the performance step by step to launch low-priced products.

"I don't need to think too much about this. I don't think I can sell many high-end phones. It doesn't matter if the price is a bit expensive. Anyway, it can be passed on. Just finalize the chip supply for low-end phones. This is the real profitable business line!"

Even without the support of future knowledge, it is not difficult to judge that the future must be dominated by all-purpose computers just by looking at the trend of becoming more and more mainstream in the US market!
Under such circumstances, Carter naturally cannot turn back the wheel of history!

"It's also to explore the market! As I just said, I have thought about it these few days and found that we still have to have high-end mobile phone products, and even release high-end mobile phones from the beginning, so as to bring up the brand style first. Then launch low-priced products. If the image is changed to look like a street stall from the beginning, this will deal a serious blow to the brand value!"

A computer without software support can only be a computer, not a computer at all.Just like Wang An Computer!
Wang An Computer is also a legend!
You can tell from the name that this is a computer company founded by Chinese descent.It can even be said that when IBM did not end in the personal PC field, Wang An Computer was the god in the US personal PC market!
But until now, Carter has not considered Wang An Computer as a competitor or partner, and Wang An Computer has almost no reputation in the future. The root cause is that Wang An Computer only has a single function type computer!

After talking about the supply of chips, Carter looked at the memory again.
Determining the selection of computer components in the 80s was undoubtedly a hassle!

"You said you too. Why did you buy so many samples? You even bought 8086. Isn't this thing cheap?"

"It's okay. If you use z80, Ziglow's is good. You don't need to think too much about this kind of low-priced product. Anyway, it's an old chip five years ago, and the production process should be perfected. , It’s nothing more than the quality control link to see which one is doing better. As long as there are no problems in quality control, it’s good to choose whichever is cheaper, and you can go to the factory to visit the factory later on this matter!”

Even, the first generation of Windows encountered Waterloo that year, to a large extent. It was the loss of software!
It's interesting to think that Microsoft, a company engaged in software, has suffered from insufficient software supply!
"Hey, this company's hard drive. Why is the quotation so low?!"

Getting back to the topic, looking through the memory samples in his hand one by one, and comparing the quotations of each manufacturer, Carter suddenly found a strange thing in it.
"How come the ST-506 of Shugart Technology Company only costs more than 800?!"

"Let me take a look. I seem to have the impression that the price of the old model was reduced to make way for the new product. You see, the original price is marked at 1500 dollars! It can be used on high-end machines, but even low-end machines... The purchase price of [-] is still too high!"

"Of course I know it's too high, but I'm just a little bit emotional. IBM only launched 5MB hard drives two years ago, which was quite expensive. Now the price has come down."

(End of this chapter)