Chapter 101: Hematopoietic Ability
Kingsoft Technology released the WPS software under the Hongmeng SP version in a high-profile manner, in the same CD, buy the WPS software, and send the official pure version of the Hongmeng SP system image installation file.
This makes people who want to try the Hongmeng SP system addictive.
The global guide price of $19 a copy sold 300,000 copies on the same day, and the highest sales volume was in Microsoft's nest, with 70,000 copies sold in the United States.
"Anran,I'm really convinced of you,Originally, the WPS development under the Hongmeng SP system,I did it with the idea of losing less money.,I didn't expect to make money.,Earn more than WPS under Windows!"
"You're not mistaken, Mr. Qiu, the Windows version of WPS has been released for so long. β
"To tell you the truth, Anran, the Windows version of WPS, the market is only limited to the mainland market, you know, in the inland, people are not used to using paid software.
As for the international market, even if it is Hong Kong Island and Wanwan, the copy sold by WPS every day is not enough to pay the salaries of the staff, and this time please rely on your new system, otherwise there will be no such a large sales. β
Wang Anran nodded, he had the impression that Microsoft's Office and systems were bundled, and for many people, the original system naturally had to be configured with the original company's office software.
For WPS, under such circumstances, it is not easy to hold half of the mainland.
Now more than 5 million US dollars of copies are sold in a day, and in addition to about 30% of the publicity and distribution costs, Jinshan can enter more than 3 million US dollars, equivalent to more than 20 million yuan, which can be regarded as a big profit.
And Wang Anran can also get a data from the sales of WPS, that is, there are at least 300,000 users of the global Hongmeng SP system, although compared with the Windows system, it is not even a hair, but at least it is a gratifying progress, and this data is still rising.
But for Microsoft, that's not good.
Buy a graphics card, get a HarmonyOS CD, now buy a WPS software, and you also give a HarmonyOS operating system CD.
Are you selling graphics cards, office software, or buying HarmonyOS SP system image discs?
And Huaxin Technology's Hongmeng SP system mirror disc,It's too magical,I don't know how the Chinese came up with it,Compared with the installation of the Windows system,The installation of the Hongmeng SP system is as simple as an elementary school arithmetic problemγ
It can be operated manually, automatically, and with one button.
Bill sought out the company's legal officer, lawyer Klaus, who has extensive experience in inter-company litigation and has performed well in IBM's system patent battles, and is one of Bill's most important people.
"Mr. Klaus, the current graphics card driver carries the image file of the HarmonyOS SP system, and Kingsoft Technology's WPS software is also bundled with the HarmonyOS operating system, please come here, I just want to consult your professional opinion, whether such behavior involves illegal dissemination or unfair competition. β
Bill is very good at bundling, and Microsoft is also suffering from it, so naturally he is most concerned about this.
But seeing Klaus shake his head, Bill's heart sank.
"Oh, Mr. Bill, then I'll have to make sure if it's a bundle or a forced sale. However, the Hongmeng SP system is an open source system, which means that anyone and any organization can freely customize and use the Hongmeng SP system, which may need to think of other ways!"
"Whatever you do, Mr. Krauss, I just want to see them sit in the dock of the American courts, and it would be better to add a hefty fine, and it would be better if they could ban the sale. β
Klaus nodded and said: "Bill, Hongmeng SP system as an open source system, we can't help it, but WPS software is different, its interface has many similarities with our Office software, I think the technical department can check it, WPS software does not infringe on Office patents......
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In the world, Microsoft is the only one who wants to fight a patent war with Chinese companies.
S3, ATI, including Intel, every day a large group of scientific and technological personnel, carefully study Huaxin Technology's display chips, hoping to find one or two pieces of evidence that infringe their patents.
What can disappoint them is that Huaxin Technology's display chips and dynamic memory chips completely adopt a new architecture.
The professional barriers of traditional graphics manufacturers in 2D image processing have been completely avoided by Huaxin Technology in the mode of 3D to 2D.
Those who know a little about mathematics know that if you want to convert a three-axis spatial coordinate system into a plane mode, you can achieve a 2D figure by zeroing the projection on one axis.
However, if you want to upgrade 2D graphics to 3D graphics, that is, upgrading, it is undoubtedly much more difficult to implement in hardware.
Since the 80s, SGI, which has been engaged in 3D/2D graphics processing, has also shaken its head, and the implementation principle of SGI's flagship product, GE graphics processing chips, is a four-bit vector floating-point combinator located at the core, and the entire display core has dozens of such GE graphics chips for pipeline processing.
Compared with Huaxin Technology's GPU, SGI's chip splits the image at the beginning and hands it over to multiple GE graphics processing chips for processing, and it involves geometric changes and lighting calculations for 3D processing, which can only be achieved by software, and the execution efficiency is very low.
Huaxin Technology's GPU processing chip is a refined pipeline, and the special calculation is realized by a special pipeline processing unit, which is naturally much more efficient.
But what's the matter, I'm most afraid of focusing on the spotlight, no matter how perfect things are, problems can be found under the microscope.
SGI searched and searched, and finally found that the graphics card's graphics output auxiliary chip infringed its patent number FF1001.
Wang Anran was also wronged, in line with the purpose of supporting domestic production, he handed over some auxiliary chips that could be produced domestically to a chip processing factory in Wuxi.
This video output auxiliary chip contains only thousands of transistors per piece, and the cost price is only a dozen yuan.
Wang Anran had a headache.
Foreign industry giants have been deeply engaged in the semiconductor field for decades, and what they are facing is a patent minefield, and no matter how careful they are, they will inevitably not be recruited.
However, compared to two thousand years later, the current year of 1994 is also good, if it is another three or five years, you will see, even if Wang Anran has the ability to reach the sky, if people do not authorize it, you will be blind.
This is also the reason why the country's semiconductor industry is more difficult to develop in the end.
Hardware, software, manufacturing, all aspects, industry giants have set up many barriers for you, often your technology has a breakthrough, only to find that this road is not passable, someone has registered a patent in this area, want to pass, very simple, take money.
The patent fee paid is so heavy that you can't commercialize the product, you know, the R&D cost in the semiconductor industry is huge, and the national blood transfusion alone is far from enough.
Only commercial use can have a virtuous cycle and obtain a steady stream of hematopoietic ability.
The purpose of foreign industry giants is to cut off your own hematopoietic ability, so that you can completely abandon the idea of making chips independently.