Rebirth 1999: Opening the Age of Black Technology

Chen Xiao also got the news that Dell was secretly using carbon crystal hard drives.

Sun Dong was more anxious. He advocated to immediately investigate how this batch of carbon crystal hard drives was revealed.

And require all agents to be warned that they are not allowed to sell carbon crystal hard drives to other third-party PC manufacturers.

Because of the agreement between Changtian Technology and Shenchuan, carbon crystal hard drives can be retailed, but if there is a contract with a PC manufacturer, only Shenchuan is the one.

Chen Xiao smiled and called out to Sun Dong.

Chen Xiao said to Sun Dong, "Don't you think this is a good phenomenon?"

"Let's not care whether Dell uses carbon crystal hard drives for the time being, whether it was done by Dell's head office, or by the sellers below them. This has already proved one thing."

"Carbon crystal hard drives have begun to affect the pattern of the entire PC market."

"In the PC market, the most important hardware is definitely the CPU and motherboard."

"But the status of hard drives is not worse than these two."

"We don't need to care where Dell got these carbon crystal hard drives, we just sell the products in our hands and make money."

"Since Dell is willing to use carbon crystal hard drives, I believe other manufacturers will also be eager to try it."

"What we need to do in Changtian Technology is to increase production as soon as possible and cover the entire market as soon as possible."

During this period of time, the influence has increased quite well. With the promotion of the product, the influence will definitely become weaker and weaker, but as the number of users increases, the total influence will definitely increase.

Chen Xiao's choice was to turn a blind eye, and this decision was completely correct.

Some PC sellers saw that Dell was also secretly using carbon crystal hard drives, and they also secretly upgraded their Lianxiang, HP and other brand machines to carbon crystal hard drives for sales.

The cost after this modification is definitely much higher than the original, and it is not as cost-effective as the Shenchuan T1 series.

However, because the brands of Lianxiang and HP are more influential than Shenchuan, they still have a certain premium ability, and the sellers can really make money from them.

In the personal PC market, performance-hungry consumers have become accustomed to it.

When looking at your computer configuration, the first thing is to see if your CPU is a Pentium 3, or even a Pentium 4, the memory should be more than 256, and the hard disk should be a carbon crystal hard disk.

Carbon crystal hard drives have almost become standard in performance computers.

In late June, an incident happened in Huaqiangbei, Shenzhen, which surprised the entire PC industry in Xiaguo.

Lianxiang's second-level agent in Shenzhen made 300 units of Lianxiang's latest series of PCs (the price is almost over 9,000 yuan), and replaced all their hard drives with carbon crystal hard drives, and then sold them directly at a higher price.

Not to mention, this kind of sales is pretty good.

The matter reached the ears of Yanjing Yang Qing.

Yang Qing was trembling with anger.

This kind of practice by the dealer is definitely not in line with the requirements. One is to hurt the image of Lianxiang, and the other is to infringe on Shenchuan.

If Shenchuan sued Lianxiang for infringing its patent on carbon crystal hard drives, it would be a verdict.

Yang Qing is now anxiously waiting for the response of the United States.

From the perspective of national feelings, Yang Qing hopes that the carbon crystal hard disk can be carried forward.

But from the perspective of the company's own interests, he hopes that the US Semiconductor Association and related departments can take measures as soon as possible.

Or give you a direct letter, whether the carbon crystal hard disk conforms to the relevant technical rules of the American Semiconductor Association, and whether PC manufacturers can purchase related products?

Sure enough, Dell's relevant letter to the US Semiconductor Association was highly valued by the association.

The content of the letter is disseminated among the member units of the association.

This has been strongly opposed by IBM, Western Digital, Seagate and other companies.

If the Semiconductor Association relaxes and agrees to the major PC manufacturers to purchase carbon crystal hard drives, then the days of these hard drive companies will be over?

Under the strong demands of these manufacturers and the capital behind them, the National Computer Association and the Semiconductor Association finally took measures.

They first found Microsoft, hoping that Microsoft could shield the carbon crystal hard drive from a technical level.

Microsoft is also a member of the American Computer Society and is currently working on the system.

Whether it is the previous masterpiece WIN95 or WIN98 in recent years, and WINXP that is under development and will soon face the market, it has a good market share.

And because of the cooperation with major PC manufacturers (including cooperation with Lianxiang), Microsoft still made a lot of money.

But during this time, Microsoft got a message.

Xia Guo's newly emerging PC manufacturer Shenchuan actively helps users install pirated Windows 98 systems.

Microsoft has long known about the use of pirated systems by Xiaguo users.

But Microsoft has not taken measures, which is based on two considerations.

On the one hand, Microsoft cooperates with Xia Guo's Lianxiang, Founder, Tongfang, etc. The PCs produced by these companies are all genuine systems, and this part of the profit can meet Microsoft's demand for the Xia Guo market.

Another reason is that although the majority of Xia Guo users are using pirated systems, this can increase Microsoft's influence.

After all, in 2001, Microsoft did not have absolute dominance, and piracy would increase Microsoft's market influence.

Microsoft believes that this part of users who use pirated systems will definitely use genuine systems in a certain period of time in the future, which is Microsoft's potential profit point.

However, Shenchuan is a PC manufacturer that directly helps users install pirated systems. This nature is too bad~www.readwn.com~ Moreover, Microsoft has extensive cooperation with Seagate, Western Digital, IBM, and the US Computer Association and The Semiconductor Association in the United States has a deep entanglement of interests.

At the request of the association and related capital, Microsoft began to study and systematically block carbon crystal hard drives.

In fact, there is not much technical difficulty in this matter.

After all, the system can identify the relevant codes of the hard disk. Different hard disks have different codes. Coupled with the unique control chip of carbon crystal hard disks, this is very different from traditional mechanical hard disks.

Therefore, it is too simple to completely block the carbon crystal hard disk from the technical point of view.

Moreover, Microsoft's engineers are very convinced that as long as the system is patched, there is no way to crack it with the technical ability of the people of Xia.

In late June, the micro-transfer technology department completed the identification and blocking of carbon crystal hard drives and other related technologies.

The US Computer Association and the US Semiconductor Association solemnly announced this time: Since Changtian Technology did not provide the relevant technical information of the carbon crystal hard disk within the specified time, it was impossible to prove that the carbon crystal hard disk was safe and reliable. Therefore, the two associations and Relevant departments in the United States will not recognize stand-alone hard drives as computer storage technologies and means.

At the same time, the relevant units of the association, including a large number of hardware manufacturers and system supplier Microsoft, will not recognize the carbon crystal hard disk as a computer storage technology and means.

In order to maintain the data security of users, Microsoft will take relevant technical measures for carbon crystal hard drives. It is hoped that users who have already used carbon crystal hard drives can transfer their data to mechanical hard drives or other storage tools in time to avoid data loss.