Chapter 352: Monitors

In July 1986, the hot weather could not stop the enthusiasm for the construction and production of the newly start-up semiconductor company.

Because of the dividends brought by the monocrystalline furnace hot screen technology, it is expected to save 100 million yuan in costs for new start-up semiconductor companies. As this technology becomes more and more widely used, it is expected to contribute more economic benefits next year and the year after.

This technology, which greatly saves energy and reduces costs, is no less significant in the semiconductor industry than advanced lithography machines. Moreover, it can be promoted and applied faster than lithography.

Because this technology is too simple, it is far more difficult to keep it secret than that of lithography machines. Even if the lithography machine understands the principle, there are not many companies in the world that make it. Even if you build a lithography machine that is not the most advanced, it requires the cooperation of thousands of supporting manufacturers to build it.

As for the single crystal furnace, it is relatively simple, even with the addition of a hot screen, it is not too complicated. This secret, basically, as long as it is known by the opponent, should be able to free up similar techniques without much effort.

So...... In the first place, the hot-screen technology will not be patented at all, but it is planned to enhance the secrecy measures to prevent opponents from knowing that the technology exists.

"The secret of hot screen technology must be kept for at least three years!" Lin Qi also clearly realized that after a technology came out, it would be leaked out sooner or later.

In ancient times, due to the inconvenience of transportation, the diffusion of technology could take hundreds or even thousands of years. For example, spinning wheel technology has existed in East Asia since at least BC, but it was more than a thousand years before European colonization brought advanced textile technology from Asia to Europe by European colonization.

After the Industrial Revolution, transportation and communication became more and more developed, and the speed of technology diffusion became faster and faster. It is precisely because of the increasing difficulty of confidentiality that technology patents have become the main means of safeguarding the interests of inventors.

It is impossible to keep the hot screen technology a permanent secret, even if the technology is not leaked, in the early 90s, the semiconductor industry in the United States has successfully developed a single crystal furnace hot screen.

It is precisely for this reason that Lin Qi has fought for technical secrecy for more than three years. Use three years to fully develop and accumulate more scale and technology dividends. After gradually shortening the scale and technology gap with the international semiconductor giants, the gap in the technical level in the future is not large, and everyone fights for production capacity and cost, which is the field that the new venture group is better at.

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On August 1, 1986, a new product launch conference of Xinchuang Electronics Group aroused the curiosity of the global technology industry.

In the past, most start-up electronics companies chose the Hong Kong headquarters to hold new product launches, but the biggest difference between this conference and the previous ones may be that the world is synchronized - Hong Kong, Beijing, Tokyo, Singapore, London, Paris, Sydney, San Francisco...... A global simultaneous press conference was held in different time zones and markets around the world.

"Thank you fans and media for joining us for this global launch. Lin Qi wore a T-shirt printed with the logo of Xinchuang Electronics Group, and personally gave the new product platform at the Hong Kong headquarters, "This new product is an epoch-making product." It is very important for our new venture electronics group, especially for the users of Pangu host......"

"For a long time, our new venture electronics group has not pursued absolute windfall profits from hardware, but has adopted relatively low profits to sell our products. Because, we believe that the hardware products sold to users are not a one-time consumer goods, but can provide users with services, performance upgrades and peripheral products for a long time to obtain long-term profits. The success of the Pangu console is largely due to the absolute price-performance advantage, and it is difficult to find a $698 machine on the market......"

"Of course, compared to a full computer, our Pangu console still has certain shortcomings, such as - it is not sold with a monitor like Apple computers and PCs. As a result, many users have to choose a TV or a third-party monitor on the market as the screen of our Pangu console...... These monitors that are not factory-matched may have compatibility or other issues.

We could have partnered with traditional TV manufacturers to easily launch a computer monitor with a CRT screen, and we were able to get more sales by selling the monitor with the main unit. But...... In the end, I rejected the plan! Either we don't do it, we have to make a screen, we have to make a screen that is different from the market, no, it has to be the best screen-"

The screen supporting the Pangu host is also a plasma screen. At present, there are not many traditional CRT screens that can reach 480P, and the plasma display that is currently equipped with Pangu computer has a default resolution of 720P, which is much higher than the resolution of mainstream TVs and monitors on the market.

"We use the latest plasma technology for the display that is matched with the Pangu console, and its most obvious advantage is the resolution, that is, the higher definition. At present, the default resolution of our screen is as high as 720P, and watching movies and television, animations or games with such a display is completely different from the experience of that kind of low-resolution monitor! I believe that some viewers may have experienced the effect of plasma screen application on large-screen TVs and high-end arcade machines......

"In addition to higher resolution,Have better audio and video effects,Our screen,It's a more professional choice for friends who have been using computers for a long time! At present,Most of the screens on the market,Are made by traditional TV manufacturers,These displays are not too professional! According to our research,Most of the screens will be shaky、Shaking and unstable phenomenon。 This is mainly due to the fact that the number of screen refreshes per second is too low...... The mainstream screen on the market is only refreshed 30 times per second. The research in our laboratory shows that the close range of office computers, at least 60 times per second to refresh more than the human eye can not find the screen is shaky and unstable, the refresh rate is too low screen is easy to make people dizzy, and 60 times per second refresh the professional non-flickering screen, is a great improvement in the user's comfort......"

In the early days of the microcomputer promotion, a large number of users in the market still used TVs as monitors. The refresh rate of TVs is generally below 30, because standard movies and TV series are shot at 24 frames per second. In order to save costs, some TV animations have reduced the number of frames to 12 frames, and some TV animations that cut corners do not even have 12 frames.

For watching film and television、Animation,A TV with a refresh rate of 30hz is enough,Because film and animation are generally lower than 24 frames。 Moreover, it doesn't matter if the distance is relatively long.

However, if you work close to the computer and the refresh rate is too low, you will feel that the screen is shaky and unstable.

After a long period of exploration, later generations of computer manufacturers found that the refresh rate should not be lower than 60hz, of course, the higher the refresh rate, the better, 60HZ is only the minimum threshold...... It is Lin Qi who knows this, so he took the lead in launching a 60HZ screen!