Rebirth 1984: Starting with the development of Hanka

Since mid-April, Zhao Ye's main focus has been on the development of blade servers and Fuxi database software.

After pirated Hongmeng operating systems became popular in the United States, orders for CPU Kirin-3 and GPU Kunpeng-1 suddenly increased, and even retaliatory consumption occurred in a short period of time.

Is this the idea of ​​losing something and gaining something?

Chip companies like Intel are in bad luck, with sales plummeting.

It’s just that the prices of EDA tools and chip foundry have increased, but now they can’t even sell chips. This makes the already scarred chip companies even worse!

In the early 90s, the wintel alliance formed by Microsoft and Intel defeated IBM and Apple, but now they have become brothers.

Especially for Intel, Soviet Vladimir Pentkovsky, the soul of the Pentium series of chips, has now joined Loongson, taking with him a large number of chip design talents.

So much so that Intel's development has been delayed a lot.

On the other hand, Loongson is about to develop the "Kirin-4", or "Kirin Pentium" processor.

The reason why it is specially named "Kirin Pentium" processor is because the release of this processor will completely establish its invincible status and establish the invincible image of Kirin series processors. Its performance advantage will be far ahead of Intel. And AMD's processor!

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"Boss, the Ministry of Education of domestic universities hopes that we can develop a microcomputer to help students learn computer programming education!" Liu Yinyin walked to Zhao Ye with the file and said.

After all, China Computer was too expensive. Although Wujiang Group donated a batch of computers, there were too many students and the supply of computers exceeded demand.

If Wujiang Group can develop a relatively cheap microcomputer, the Ministry of Education is very willing to purchase a batch and then distribute it to various universities.

When Zhao Ye heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up. He thought of a product with a very low cost, mainly used for computer programming learning.

If more people learn programming, then Wujiang Group will not be too short of talents.

If more people in China can program, it will not only be beneficial to the development of the Internet, but it can even take over India's IT outsourcing or OEM industries.

In the past life, India's IT industry was very developed, and its IT outsourcing or OEM was the key to the development of the Indian IT industry.

In the previous life, India had the second largest number of IT companies in the world. Not only was the scale of software outsourcing companies huge, but it also became one of the world's largest. It has long occupied the top two spots in the world's software outsourcing market together with the United States, with a combined share of up to two-thirds. India's software exports have also reached 20% of global software exports. To use a common Indian saying: 90% of the software of American and European Internet companies is written by Indians.

India's software industry is mainly used to earn foreign exchange through exports, earning nearly 70 billion US dollars in revenue. More than % of software outsourcing sources come from the United States. Every year, millions of Indian IT personnel work for European and American companies, especially American companies. Provides online customer service, after-sales service, code entry, testing software, data entry and analysis, etc.

Zhao Ye feels that China can completely replace it.

"Okay, I get it. Tell the people in the Ministry of Education that Wujiang Group will soon come up with a product that will satisfy them!"

Zhao Ye said confidently.

Liu Yinyin responded and went to contact someone from the Ministry of Education.

Zhao Ye was immediately thinking about how to develop "Raspberry Pi", Chinese name: Raspberry Pi.

In the past life, the Raspberry Pi has been sought after by many computer enthusiasts and makers since its inception, and it was once hard to find a "Pi". There's no display, no mouse, no keyboard, and the price is as compact as its size: $35.

Despite its "petite" appearance, its internal "core" is very powerful. It has all functions such as video and audio. It can be said that "a sparrow is small but has all the internal organs".

Before Zhao Ye was reborn, the Raspberry Pi was very popular, with sales of tens of millions of units a year!

Zhao Ye does not require that he be able to develop the Raspberry Pi from his previous life, but he can develop a microcomputer for computer programming learning based on the design ideas of the Raspberry Pi.

In China, Xiaobawang’s learning machine is selling dog meat like sheep’s head.

The Raspberry Pi to be developed by Wujiang Group will certainly not be the same as the Overlord.

Zhao Ye quickly thought about it in his mind. He could use the Kirin 1 chip with a low-end version of the Hongmeng system to create a more suitable microcomputer.

This microcomputer has a USB interface. Ordinary computer motherboards rely on hard drives to store data, but it can use a USB flash drive as a hard drive to store data.

Wujiang Group can definitely develop a USB flash drive with lower capacity and cheaper price.

Zhao Ye quickly turned on his computer, created a Word document, and started writing his own ideas.

In less than ten minutes, he wrote it. After studying it carefully, he thought it was ok, so he sent it to Qiu Bojun, asking Wujiang Computer Company to immediately research a microcomputer, and then continued to develop the "Fuxi Database" .

Zhao Ye's familiarity with databases is not comparable to that of ordinary people. It can be said that no one in the current world understands databases better than Zhao Ye.

Zhao Ye has used databases from many companies in his previous life. Zhao Ye knows exactly what functions these databases have, especially the MySQL database. Because it is open source and free, Zhao Ye is very familiar with it.

Therefore, "Fuxi Database" is almost designed based on MySQL.

Moreover, Zhao Ye also wanted to "take the essence and discard the dross."

Establish the framework from the beginning.

IBM, Oracle and other companies probably never expected that Zhao Ye, a bad guy, would actually master the open source and free MySQL and be able to catch up from behind!

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December 1992, 5.

Wujiang Group announced internally that it would stop the production of BB machines and typewriters.

In fact, as early as the first half of 1990, Wujiang Group had already cut off the Hanka business.

Shenzhou Computer can already support Chinese, why do we still need to develop Hanka?

Moreover, the profit of Hanka is already very low. Due to the low technical content, any college student with some skills can develop Hanka. Therefore, the industry has become very complicated and there is no profit.

As for BB phones, with the popularity of PHS, who is still willing to buy BB phones.

The price of PHS is not very expensive, and now the price has been reduced to less than 2000 yuan. Although a BB phone is hundreds of dollars cheaper than a PHS phone, who is willing to buy a BB phone now? Wouldn't it be more convenient to use a PHS phone to make calls and send text messages directly? Moreover, PHS can provide domestic roaming, and the product is very attractive.

So much so that the cdma technology developed by Wujiang Group has no use for the time being.

Although cdma is much more powerful than PHS technology and has the advantages of good signal, multiple functions, and wide bandwidth, cdma is relatively expensive. China's current use of PHS is sufficient.

Furthermore, PHS technology can actually continue to improve.

It can be seen that it will take a long time for cdma to be widely used in China.