Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 234 Is This Helping Implement Standards?

It is naturally not difficult for those with a heart to perceive opportunities from it, and the difference between them is nothing more than the amount and strategy of betting.

Putting down the newspaper, Tang Huan made a joke to himself, that brother can do it in a high-spirited manner, and only receive a symbolic salary of one dollar from the company under his name.

Seeing that all the public relations activities that Xiangjiang had to attend were completed, Tang Huan came to Singapore on September 9, the Mid-Autumn Festival, had a reunion dinner with his aunt and Lin Fengjiao, and then began to inspect the factory .

The second-generation Fangyuan computer adopts many new designs, such as memory sticks and memory slots.

In other types of personal computers, the memory chips are directly welded on the motherboard. It is troublesome for users to upgrade. However, the second-generation Fangyuan computer can solve such problems through the combination of memory sticks and memory slots.

However, it also increased the production process requirements of the interface circuit, which can be said to affect the whole body. Tang Huan had to visit the site to understand the situation in person.

Of course, he is also actively considering licensing technical specifications in order to attract third-party suppliers, thereby passing on various unnecessary costs to downstream, and at the same time, he can also create a larger industrial cluster and gather a group of people with related interests. New allies.

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When we arrived at Baodao, the workflow was the same, but the content of the inspection was the more important main board.

Unlike when he was in Singapore, the attention mainly came from the authorities. The influence of Tang Huan, an American billionaire in Taiwan, is reflected in the industry. Various IT bigwigs who had risen more than ten years later gathered here immediately. , in addition to expressing admiration, it is also to take orders for some second-generation Fangyuan computer peripheral components.

It is no exaggeration to say that if Tang Huan's factory has a headache, he may not be the one who is anxious at first.

While distributing candies to his followers, Tang Huan launched a large-volume memory procurement bidding activity in the second half of the year. Compared with the last time, the procurement amount this time doubled to 2000 million U.S. dollars. Big semiconductors swarmed in immediately.

In this regard, colleagues in Baodao could only watch helplessly, unable to intervene, and in a hurry, they began to join forces to ask the government for support for the development of various semiconductor industries, causing officials to feel uneasy.

Tang Huan ignored the stimulation of this big order to Treasure Island, and seriously received the Japanese bidders represented by the six major semiconductor manufacturers. Compared with the last time, these guys were obviously much more honest, and they did not worry about the offensive and defensive alliance. I only hope to get a share of tens of millions of dollars.

The Japanese are very good at quality and cost control. In the previous life, when they competed with their counterparts in the United States, such as Intel, they dared to directly and blatantly clamor for a permanent [-]% price discount.

Sharp, AMD, Hitachi, and Fujitsu, the four companies that won the bid last time, were the most active, but after all, their production capacity is limited, and Sharp and AMD also have to bear the responsibility for the CPU, the second-generation Fangyuan computer south bridge, north bridge, graphics card core, sound card core, etc. and other chip production tasks, so they will inevitably choose from NEC, Toshiba, Panasonic, and Mitsubishi.

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Tang Huan first asked these guys who came to grab the food to understand the bidding details and scheming with each other. Then he turned to pay attention to Deng Lijun's situation after returning to the treasure island.

Treasure Island, which was abandoned by the United States last year, can be described as gloomy, so Deng Lijun, who was accused of betrayal because of the fake passport incident, became a punching bag.

But sometimes the world is very good at making jokes. With the popularity of Deng Lijun's songs in the mainland, Baodao had to find a way to win her back to his camp.

The song "Shanghai Beach" caused a sensation in Hong Kong, and the song "Drips of Dreams" successfully tested the waters in Japan, especially in North America and Europe. The prestige of the company has risen in a straight line.

This strong change in the situation has made Baodao's attitude towards Deng Lijun's wooing more firm. Ever since she got off the plane, she has been paying attention to by the media.

According to Tang Huan's idea, Deng Lijun took her Silicon Valley No. [-] directly back to Treasure Island, but she did not agree and arranged the trip to be extremely low-key. She only accepted an interview with Taiwan TV at the airport. All subsequent public affairs were managed by two people. The blond-haired, blue-eyed foreign girl assistant came forward to deal with it on her behalf, and a language barrier blocked most of the unnecessary entertainment.

Deng Lijun's most recent public appearance was at a ceremony to donate NT$200 million for girls' education in Baodao.

This kind of aloofness and generous spirit of being passionate about public welfare has forced some undesirable operations to come to a halt, such as various oaths of allegiance when facing the public.

However, next month's concert will still have a similar session. Tang Huan asked someone he trusts to pass on the message, so that Deng Lijun doesn't have to worry too much, as long as he doesn't wrong himself, you have [-]% of Zheru's shares. At worst, go back to the United States and continue to be a rich lady.

After Tang Huan finished reading the major mainstream media's follow-up reports on Deng Lijun's strong return to the music scene, he casually threw the newspaper on the coffee table, with the corners of his mouth curled up, revealing a faint sarcastic smile.

At this time, the front desk of the hotel called to report that Gu Long came to visit.

Because Lin Fengjiao went to Singapore to raise a baby in order to avoid the media, Tang Huan simply stayed at the Grand Hotel. Anyway, he had no secrets in Baodao. Instead, he felt very strange staying in this top-notch hotel with a strong official background. .

Soon, Gu Long and Wo Longsheng entered the guest room led by the waiter.

"Datang, I was originally worried that after you became a billionaire in the United States, your status would be different, and you might not necessarily look down on our friends. But now it seems that I am worried too much." Gu Long grinned broadly. said.

"Identity is just a gimmick, but it's true that you're busy. If you didn't catch up with a time gap, you would really think that I am arrogant and don't recognize my old friend." Tang Huan smiled and fought with Gu Long and Wo Longsheng Say hello, and then tell the waiter, "Bring some bottles of XO and some snacks."

Gu Long was overjoyed when he heard the words, "After all, they are friends, and they know my heart well."

"Say something quickly, don't drink too much later, and forget it all over the place." Tang Huan joked.

Gu Long scratched his head and smiled, "Jin Yong's "Tian Long Ba Bu" has been made into a video game. Why hasn't there been any movement in my martial arts novel? When everyone discusses it, I feel a little embarrassed."

As the saying goes, literature is not first, martial arts is not second, and literary heroes are not exempt from vulgarity.

When Tang Huan heard about this, he couldn't help laughing, "Whoever said that there is no movement, it is already under development, and the boys under me need a process of training and quality assurance. Naturally, the progress cannot be as you think. It's that simple, and the game of "Dragon Babu" came out first because Jin Yong and I reached an agreement early."

"So that's what happened." Gu Long laughed happily.

After getting this satisfactory answer, the alcoholic Gu Long turned on the XO and drank heavily. During the period, he mainly chatted about some trivial matters of the three religions of the island, and finally left drunkenly.

Looking at the swaying backs of Gu Long and Wo Longsheng, Tang Huan shook his head, and then sighed again. Just now he talked about the 17th Golden Horse Awards, which will be unveiled in more than a month. ", due to political reasons, she didn't even get a nomination, I hope she doesn't get too frustrated.

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Needless to say, the work efficiency of the Japanese, the second round of contact soon began.

Tang Huan's only requirement is to reduce the purchase cost of memory under the premise of ensuring quality, and the characteristic of the semiconductor industry is that the larger the scale, the more advantageous it is.

As a result, the top ranked NEC and Toshiba defeated Panasonic and Mitsubishi, won the favor of Tang Huan, each took a share of 2500 million US dollars in orders, and the rest was given away by previous partners Sharp, AMD, Hitachi, Fujitsu Divide up.

Limited to the production process level of the CPU, its maximum operating frequency was around 1980MHz throughout the 20s, and it would have to wait until the middle and late stages. Therefore, the simplest and rude way to improve the performance of personal computers is large-capacity memory.

The executives of many high-tech companies in the United States still habitually think that the price of memory is extremely expensive, and they don't realize that the Japanese semiconductor industry across the Pacific is sharpening their knives and preparing to launch an attack.

Tang Huan knew the details and used it to meet the large demand for memory in his products. His two centralized purchases in Asia also sent a signal invisibly. The current trend of the semiconductor industry is very obvious, that is, Memory is king, which has stimulated the Japanese to frantically expand production capacity.

It can be foreseen that the upcoming Japan-US semiconductor war will be even more tragic. Tang Huan is optimistic. Anyway, he only invests in EEPROM in this field.

After the purchase was confirmed, all the losers, including Panasonic and Mitsubishi, were not in a hurry to go home, because almost all Japanese companies had another purpose, which was to obtain authorization to produce Fangyuan computer compatible machines.That's why I tested Tang Huan's tone after finishing the business.

Japan's official purchase of 5000 Fangyuan computers can be described as killing birds with one stone. It not only expresses a positive reconciliation gesture in the Japan-US commercial frictions caused by the trade deficit, but also meets the needs of the domestic education system for informatization. guide the direction of the industry.

As far as Tang Huan knows, many Japanese companies have begun to crack Fangyuan computers and try to imitate them, but so far, no one has jumped out first.

It is not due to the limitation of the patent threshold, because the problem of infringement can be avoided by creating another proprietary hardware architecture, but precisely if this is done, it will be difficult to achieve the goal of [-]% compatibility in software.

The Japanese Hanka on Fangyuan computer platform, as well as three key application software: spreadsheet CGrid, word processing software WordEasy, and database EBase are powerful. Needless to say, in order to enhance efficiency and prevent piracy, some core codes are also placed in read-only files. In the memory, the software and hardware are well coordinated, which makes many reverse engineering companies give up halfway.

Everyone wants a copycat because they are interested in the big cake of personal computers and want a piece of the pie, but if the products they develop are not as good as the original products, or they are close in all aspects but take too much time, then the gains outweigh the losses. up.

It's not that the Japanese are not smart enough, but that after all the weighing, they found that it is the most cost-effective way to get the authorization honestly, but they don't know what the boss of Fangyuan Computer thinks, and whether they are willing to share some benefits.

Tang Huan almost laughed out loud when he understood the meaning behind what these guys said. Is this going to help me promote a unified industry standard?

In fact, Tang Huan has already begun to consider authorizing the Acer company of Taiwan Island to produce a generation of Fangyuan computer compatible machines in order to further expand the market share of this hardware platform. I did not expect these Japanese companies to post it, but we can think about it.

Compared with hardware, the profit margin of software is undoubtedly greater. If the first-generation Fangyuan computer, which has been reduced to a low-end product, is authorized to a third party to produce compatible computers, although it will eat up the original hardware sales, it will get more software profits. .

Moreover, among these Japanese manufacturers, NEC itself has the ability to launch personal computers independently, but it currently lacks the support of the three major commercial software.

In the original time and space, IBM eliminated other types of personal computers by disclosing the IBM-PC standard, leaving only the struggling Apple computer, and then made personal computer and IBM-PC synonymous, which can be described as extremely cruel.

As for IBM-PC being defeated by its own compatible machine, it is not because the open standard is wrong, but because the personal computer department, which was originally operated independently, was greedily incorporated into its traditional management system by IBM, and the idea of ​​selling mainframes It continued to the personal computer, and this self-destructed foundation.

Tang Huan, who had already known about it, pondered for a moment and then gave a vague reply, "It would be good to have more partners, but there are still some details that need to be considered."

Hearing this answer, the representatives of each company couldn't help but be overjoyed. Naturally, they didn't have the vision of Tang Huan to implement standards, but they just intuitively thought that it would be very difficult to share the benefits that were originally guaranteed to be profitable, but they did not expect that the other party would have such a clear Cooperation intention.

After everyone looked at each other, they all said: "We really need to consider the details. Mr. Tang, why not go to Japan and conduct on-site inspections while discussing with each other."

"Okay, my next stop is going to Japan to inspect the company." Tang Huan nodded in agreement, and he will handle a lot of business there next.

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Epson's 9-pin printer MX-80 is selling like crazy, but before its market value has been fully exploited, Tang Huan urged the R&D team to come up with a 16-pin printer, which will be upgraded to a new generation in less than a year. The members of the project team were almost exhausted.

It’s not that Tang Huan is being unkind to these Japanese, it’s just that although the MX-80 can also print out the output effect of 16x16 dot matrix, the 9 needles need to be divided into odd and even points, and they need to be typed back and forth twice, which drags down the speed of printing a document. Come up, it really affects efficiency.

Well now, a 16-pin printer has been produced, and the efficiency has been increased by half in theory.

Seeing the satisfaction on Tang Huan's face, Hideaki Yaskawa couldn't help but feel a little worried, "Don't rush to upgrade the printer from 9 pins to 16 pins, the current market share of MX-80 in Japan has almost reached 60%, the prospect is unlimited, so soon It would be a shame to be replaced.”

"Then use the price strategy to distinguish between mid-range and high-end," Tang Huan replied with a smile. The second-generation Fangyuan computer equipped with a 16-pin printer is simply invincible in the office.

However, when Tang Huan came to the Taitung office to accept the handheld game console developed in imitation of GAME & WATCH, this good mood disappeared. He actually saw Nintendo's boss Hiroshi Yamauchi and senior engineer Gunpei Yokoi, with Shigeru Miyamoto, who returned to Japan not long ago, was talking and laughing happily.

Damn, are the two of you here to avenge your revenge and poach someone?

Seeing Tang Huan with a displeased face, Hiroshi Yamauchi, who had passed the age of destiny, took the initiative to greet his relatives regardless of the age difference, and at the same time expressed his admiration for the brilliant achievements of the current Xiaobawang game console.

"Mr. Yamauchi, why do you come to Tokyo from Kyoto when you have time?" Tang Huan endured the goosebumps on his body and made excuses.

"Deliberately to reminisce about the past, Miyamoto's works "Donkey Kong" and "Mario" are amazing. I didn't expect him to make such progress after leaving Nintendo for only a year or so. As an elder, I deeply appreciate it. I'm glad." Hiroshi Yamauchi replied with a sincere face.

"Is it as simple as reminiscing about the old days?" Tang Huan looked a little disbelieving,

"Of course." Hiroshi Yamauchi replied without thinking, then turned to Miyamoto Shigeru and said: "Miyamoto, since Mr. Tang is here, you must have business to talk about, so I won't interrupt you anymore. Let's have dinner together sometime. .”

Shigeru Miyamoto agreed foolishly, without noticing the subtlety of the atmosphere.

Hiroshi Yamauchi patted Shigeru Miyamoto's shoulder with satisfaction, got up and said goodbye to Tang Huan, and after he left Taito's office building, waved to Tang Huan who had sent him out, he got into the car.

"President, Miyamoto is a bit stubborn. We have come several times in a row, but there is no result. If we continue like this, it will embarrass everyone." Yokoi Junpei reminded.

"Of course I know Miyamoto's temperament, but this kind of open and aboveboard continuous visit is still indispensable." Yamauchi Hiroshi showed a complacent look on his face, "The purpose is to let Tang Huan see that Miyamoto and I Ben remains in close contact."

Junpei Yokoi suddenly realized, his eyes lit up, "The president wants Tang Huan to become suspicious and drive away their trust."

"That's it." Hiroshi Yamauchi laughed, "Since I can't poach Miyamoto, let Tang Huan help and drive Miyamoto away."

"President Gao Ming." Junping Yokoi complimented him sincerely.

(End of this chapter)