Chapter 524: A New Era Is Coming
Liu Lang stayed in the United States for more than a month, and it was already early April when he returned to China, he went to SMIC to take a look, everything was going well, and SMIC could complete the transformation of the equipment again in a month at the shortest, and the new generation of chips developed by Wanhe could be manufactured.
This is a gratifying thing, in the United States during this time, Liu Lang has faintly felt that the American computer market is brewing that huge storm, from the price can be seen, VIE company's computer has dropped from 3,200 US dollars to 2,800 US dollars, and the price is still declining, the reason is that the price of related raw materials has fallen rapidly, such as semiconductor materials, transistor materials and various components, the price is slowly decreasing, even Wanan feels a little incredible.
This is the impact of productivity improvement, when a bottleneck is broken, the whole world will enter the era of personal computers, and this will herald the arrival of a new era.
SMIC and Wanhe's companies are preparing for the arrival of this new era, although they don't know what this era means, in fact, not many people in the whole world know the true meaning of this era, only Liu Lang knows that this era will completely change the development process of mankind and has immeasurable significance for the future of mankind.
SMIC has been on the right track, everything can be developed step by step, but the core of SMIC still depends on the research and development of VIE, of course, Liu Lang now also owns 30% of the shares of VIE Software Technology Co., Ltd., although so far the company has not made any investment, and few people in the whole world know that there is a group of people in Shanghai, China, who are secretly engaged in the development of new programs, and these programs are about to shake the whole world.
"Brother Wanhe, how is your program development?"
"Liu Lang, now the enhanced version of PS has entered the final testing stage, and the stability needs to be further strengthened, but this is not a problem, I believe it will be officially launched in two months!"
Manga was very happy.
Liu Lang sat in front of a computer and tried this new type of software, although it was still much worse than the software twenty years later, it was much stronger than before, and the functions were at least doubled.
"Yes, this enhanced version of PS is definitely the most powerful word processing program in the world today, and our software capabilities are already at the forefront of the world!"
"Well, I can now imagine the despair of the IBM gang when they saw this kind of program!"
Wan He said with a smile.
"Brother Wan, we have surpassed IBM in terms of software, but we can't underestimate them, once our software begins to promote, I believe that the other party will crack our C language in a very short time, and then be able to make corresponding countermeasures.
In fact, our advantage is only less than half a year, during this time we have to keep improving, they have compiled a word processing system, we have developed a new program, they have to catch up, and when they catch up again, we have a new product, only through continuous suppression, keep accumulating advantages, and finally can really defeat them. ”
Whether it is a computer company or an Internet company more than 10 years later, it seems to be very beautiful, a listing can get tens of millions of millions of dollars, but the risk of these enterprises is much greater than those industrial companies, today you may still have unlimited scenery, but once the strategy is wrong, it will be crushed by those nameless companies in a short period of time, VIE is the most typical example, the previous life reached its peak in eight or six years, but unfortunately the personal computer was also launched in this year, VIE did not carry out the transformation, this behemoth that took 30 years of painstaking management was completely eliminated by the market in just two years。
Twenty years later, Nokia was at its peak in occupying half of the world's mobile phone market, but with the emergence of Apple's smartphone, it only took two or three years to go bankrupt and be acquired.
Such examples abound, so don't look at VIE Software Technology Co., Ltd. now has mastered the world's most advanced software technology, but if it stops, it won't be long before the advantage will be exhausted.
"Liu Lang, your understanding is indeed one step ahead, and this proposal reminds me......... But don't worry, we people can't do anything else, only software development, we can not eat or drink, but we can't do research and experiments, and now we are ready to upgrade the image processing program developed before!"
Wan He said with a smile.
"Did you have a name for that program?"
Liu Lang asked.
"Not yet, Liu Lang, how about you like a name!"
"Okay! Let's call it Photoshop!"
Liu Lang replied.
"Wow, Photoshop, good name, that's what this picture software will be called from now on!"
This world-famous image processing program in the previous life became a product of VIE in this life.
"Brother Wanhe, the original intention of your image processing program was to develop for the stock market K-line chart, and now it seems that it will not take long to come in handy, but this is still far from enough, the current stock market data exchange is still very primitive, once the stock market is abnormal, it is likely to lead to data paralysis, so you should start researching a new data processing program!"
At present, the U.S. stock market uses a data processing program called DOT, which is also functional, and can process 50,000 commands a minute, which fully meets the needs of the U.S. stock market.
Although we can now develop more powerful data processing programs, we may not be able to occupy this market, after all, DOT has been cooperating with the US stock exchange for five years, and can meet all the operating conditions, if we want to replace them, I am afraid that the effort will be far greater than the effort to develop software, and it seems that some gains outweigh the losses!"
Wan He is right, the United States stock trading in the late seventies introduced computers, and at the same time IBM specially developed a DOT data processing program for them, this kind of program is of course nothing in the eyes of VIE, they can also compile it, but the product is like this, once the first to enter the market and occupy a sufficient share, then the difficulty of the latecomer to enter again will be several times more than the first, unless the first product has major defects, or the function of the latter product greatly exceeds the former, otherwise it is basically impossible to defeat it。
This is the case with the DOT data processing system now, although there have been occasional minor problems over the years, but there have never been major mistakes, and all stock traders have long been accustomed to the performance of this software, and it is almost impossible for other software to replace it at this time.
"Hehe, Brother Wan, in less than two months, the DOT handler will be in big trouble, let's prepare in advance and wait for the opportunity, I believe that we can take advantage of this opportunity to replace the other party to become a partner of the US stock exchange, as long as we win this deal, our VIE Software Technology Co., Ltd. will become popular!"
Liu Lang's reminder is not untargeted, in the process of the US stock market crash, due to the number of transactions soared dozens of times, resulting in a near-collapse of data processing, resulting in tens of millions of losses, the main reason is that the DOT processor is too slow, there is no problem under normal circumstances, but it can't be played in the case of a surge in trading volume.
"Well, you can also give it a try, anyway, this kind of data processing program is very easy, and now our technology can develop a program that is several times more powerful than DOT in four or five days, and it is good to be idle, and it is good to get it out easily!"
With the latest computer language, Wanhe is confident that he can make a set of the latest programs in the shortest possible time, but he is still skeptical that the American stock exchange can use their programs.