Video Game Empire

The emergence of the butterfly Li Xuan has completely changed the economic structure of Hong Kong. Originally, after a large number of factories moved north in the 1980s, Hong Kong's industry gradually fell into hollowing out. The real estate industry began to flourish and became a pillar industry driving Hong Kong's economy.

However, due to the unexpected rise of the Oriental Group, the electronics industry quickly replaced the original textile, clothing, toys and other industries, prompting the entire industry in Hong Kong to complete the upgrading and transformation. The huge industrial clusters formed around computers and games have made Hong Kong's manufacturing industry not only in decline, but instead flourished.

The capital market is undoubtedly the most sensitive to this change, because the return on investment in the electronics industry is very guaranteed, so commercial banks are willing to provide credit support for the scale expansion of electronics factories. Securities companies are also willing to provide guidance for the listing and financing of electronic companies, and even venture capital is very generous and willing to pay for various reliable or unreliable new ideas.

A market analyst like Ding Zeming naturally needs to keep up with the hot spots. He has already shifted his focus from real estate stocks to electronics stocks. In fact, it is not just him, the entire Hong Kong capital market will analyze and evaluate every move of the leader of the Oriental Group under the microscope. Therefore, Li Xuan was a little surprised that Ding Zeming continuously guessed the strategic layout of the Oriental Group, but he quickly took it lightly. There are always some smart people in this world.

"It's summer time now, and Hong Kong is seven hours faster than London. Even if Aikang releases the news as soon as they go to work at nine o'clock, it will be four o'clock in the afternoon here in Hong Kong, and it's still early." Li Xuan Shaking his head, he said something to Ding Zeming.

"Well, I also know that it's just that it's a little uncomfortable not to watch the news on TV. I have been strongly recommending Ikon's stock to clients since the beginning of this month.

Many old customers believe me. Specially let your account open the service of buying and selling London stocks. If they suffer a huge loss this time because of my misjudgment, I will really be to blame." Ding Zeming laughed self-deprecatingly.

The financial industry is a field that needs a big heart, and heaven and **** are just a matter of one thought. Just like last year's "Black Monday", there are not just one or two stock investors and stockbrokers who committed suicide by jumping off the building because of failed stock trading.

For example, Ding Zeming's judgment on Aikang this time is that if the customer makes a lot of money because of his recommendation to buy stocks, then he will not only get a lot of commissions. You can also brush up your own industry reputation, which can be described as fame and fortune. On the other hand, if the client loses money because of his misjudgment, then his reputation is bound to be disgraced, and in serious cases, he may not even have the chance to continue to live in the industry.

However, Li Xuan knew that the man in front of him had good luck. He was right. At seven o'clock this morning, that is, twelve o'clock in the middle of the night in London yesterday, Ikon's new generation of portable computer nbk, the global sales statistics of the first week of listing. After finishing. It was faxed to Hong Kong from the Ikon headquarters in London for the first time.

Li Xuan had already read the sales report sent to him by his assistant in the morning. The sales of nbk in the first week after its launch were very gratifying. The naming of the new computer did not follow the naming idea of ​​p4 and p5 before, called p6. The original "p" represented the abbreviation of "prb", which is the English word for "portable".

The original bp4 computer did look like a suitcase in appearance. Although the later P5 has been improved in size and weight, it is still too bulky.

The new generation of portable computers launched this time is 28 cm long, 22 cm wide and 6 cm thick. The total weight is about 2 kg and can be folded. Equipped with a 9-inch LCD screen. From the appearance, this computer finally has the prototype of the later notebook computer, so Li Xuan simply renamed this series "nbk".

The first batch of nbk series launched by Aikang is divided into three models: 1000, 1200 and 1500. The nbk1000 is a low-end model, priced at only $2,299. The mid-range nbk2000 is the main model of Aikon this time, priced at $2,999, while the top-end nbk3000 is priced at $4,599.

As the saying goes, you get what you pay for. The r3b processor frequency of nbk1000 is only 15hz, the memory is only 2, and the hard disk is only 20. And nbk1500 type r3 processor frequency is 30hz, memory has 8, hard disk has 60. 1000 type and 1200 type notebook display screen are monochrome fsn LCD screen. The 1500 model is a color dsn LCD screen.

Liquid crystal technology is one of the key research and development projects of the Oriental Group in recent years. Since the acquisition of the LCD project department from R Company in 1981, the Oriental Research Institute has invested a total of 400 million US dollars in just seven years, which is worthy of the pursuit. On the research and development progress of Japanese companies.

Although r company is the first company in the world to research and develop liquid crystal technology, but for one reason or another, r company has not been able to grasp this revolutionary display technology. On the contrary, Japanese companies began to rise rapidly under the impetus of the Japanese government's national will. Since 1979, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry of Japan has launched a seven-year optoelectronic basic research program with a total funding of 700 million U.S. dollars in cooperation with 16 companies in Japan.

If Japanese companies conduct basic research in the optoelectronics industry on their own, the government can provide 30% of R&D funds. It is precisely because of such a good environment that Japanese companies have come all the way from n, sn, fsn and dsn to build strong technical barriers in the liquid crystal industry.

In another time and space, the LCD industry was monopolized by Japanese companies throughout the 1990s. Later, enterprises in South Korea and Taiwan rose rapidly after entering the new century, and their related technologies actually all originated from Japan.

Japanese companies are very strong in the field of liquid crystal, but Li Xuan also has his own advantages, that is, he knows the future direction of industrial development. Therefore, when catching up with technology, the Oriental Research Institute directly skipped the fsn and dsn that were destined to be eliminated soon, and made all-out efforts to tackle the f-LCD technology.

There is a very different difference between f liquid crystal and n liquid crystal. Simply put, it is to configure a semiconductor switching device for each pixel. So fd's substrate manufacturing technology actually has a lot in common with the production of semiconductor wafers.

Relying on Li Xuan's generous capital investment and semi-cheating guidance, the Oriental Research Institute finally reached a tie with Japanese companies in FD. Because in the face of nearly 20 years of technological accumulation by Japanese companies, it is impossible for the Oriental Research Institute to break through all the technical barriers they set up before.

So the only thing the Oriental Research Institute can do is to use some of its own patents on f. To exchange the basic patents that cannot be avoided in the hands of Japanese companies. Among all Japanese companies, the three giants Sharp, Toshiba and Sony are undoubtedly the ones with the most say in the field of liquid crystal. In addition, companies such as Xiang Casio and Epson also have a certain strength.

Among them, Sharp is known as the "father of liquid crystal", and the partner of the Oriental Research Institute is Sharp. Every business has its own inherent character, and character often determines its destiny.

The future development of Sharp, the "father of liquid crystal", is very bumpy. Before Li Xuan's rebirth, its proud liquid crystal business has fallen into huge losses and is seeking restructuring. The most likely acquisition of Sharp is Foxconn. The boss of Guo Taiming.

What is Sharp's corporate character? Too much respect for the powerful and too much disdain for the weak. Dominant times are too conceited. In difficult times, sometimes "sickness goes to the doctor". Tactically shows extremely shrewd strategy, but often loses market initiative strategically.

For example, Sharp has always proudly claimed that it produces the best LCD screen in the world, but its competitors are producing the best-selling LCD screen.

Another example is Sharp's selected partners, which will always be competitors who directly threaten itself among the parent companies of Samsung and Foxconn, not partners like Shinco and LeEco, who can only be technically slaughtered by him.

And when Li Xuan's Dongfang Group was selecting partners in the computer industry, the priority to support must be Hong Kong's Lu's Electronics, Taiwan's Acer Company, and China's Lianxiang Company. These junior companies that are not a threat to themselves at this stage.

And the reason why Oriental Group cooperates with international giants such as B and Deyi. The purpose is to consolidate the absolute authoritative position of b technical standards in the global computer industry. But behind the cooperation, Li Xuan will always be careful.

Sharp is not the case. His respect for the strong is just like the character of the Japanese nation. As long as you beat it, he will respect you. Therefore, the Oriental Research Institute successfully reached a cooperation with Sharp Corporation by relying on the technical advantages obtained by its own efforts to tackle the fd in advance.

Although the Oriental Research Institute has also released many key technologies to Sharp, the technology it obtained through Sharp can help itself completely untie the shackles~www.readwn.com~ has truly become one of the major players in the LCD industry.

On the just-launched nbk notebook computer, Aikang still uses fsn and dsn LCD screens. But in fact, the Oriental Research Institute has gradually matured in f LCD technology.

At the beginning of this year, the Oriental Research Institute invested NT$1 billion to build the world's first fd production line in Hsinchu, Taiwan. This first-generation production line can produce 10,000 300x400 substrates per month.

It's just because the fd has just been put into production. The yield rate is still relatively low, so neither Aikang nor the Oriental Research Institute have considered using the f LCD screen on the first model of the nbk series of notebook computers. The first practical product of the f LCD screen is actually the handheld TV that Ding Zeming is holding now.

A 300x400 substrate can only be divided into two 9-inch screens at most. And as long as there are some flaws on the substrate, it is very likely that even a qualified 9-inch display cannot be segmented.

But if it is a 2-inch screen, one substrate can be divided into 100 screens. So even with more flaws, there's always a lot of usable screen left. So for LCD screens, the larger the size, the lower the yield and the more expensive the price.

If nbk directly adopts the f LCD screen now, in addition to the possibility of becoming a bottleneck in terms of output, the cost will definitely be much higher than that of the fsn and dsn LCDs whose technology is basically mature, and the price is often an important factor that determines the success or failure of a product one. To be continued.