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At first, the street was mainly duck farming, but over time, it gradually developed into an electrical industry.

In the 60s~70s, most of the people engaged in electrical and electronic related industries in Hong Kong were closely related to Apliu Street. Not only can you buy cheap second-hand electrical appliances, but you also have a wide range of components for repairing them.

Gradually, it has even developed into a well-known retail and wholesale market for electronic components in Asia.

In fact, it is very suitable for the research and development of electronic products, as long as there is enough research and development and hands-on processing capacity, relying on the support of parts in Apliu Street, it is enough to include radios, televisions, home game consoles, computers, arcades and other products.

In the 80s, Apliu Street was arguably the most complete electronic component district in Asia. If the components that cannot be bought in Apliu Street, it is estimated that the whole of Asia will be out of stock.

At this time, Yaliao Street is equivalent to the Huaqiangbei of later generations!

In the later generations, Huaqiangbei, make a drawing, find a few people, and you can make the product. Computers, mobile phones, VR, unmanned aerial vehicles...... As long as you design it, Huaqiangbei can find relevant parts and manufacturing technology.

How strong is Huaqiangbei?-- The technology giants that are ready to enter the smart phone have been unable to come up with products for several years, and the product manager is anxious and flew to Huaqiangbei overnight, and the next day, it has developed the world's most advanced smart phone, with XXX unique technological innovations. Next month, mass production will be achieved......

Intel, Apple and other companies have praised the R&D speed of Shenzhen Huaqiangbei, even surpassing Silicon Valley. As long as you are willing to spend money, even if it is an unreliable idea, someone will seriously help you design it.

Although Yaliao Street has not yet reached the level of Huaqiangbei, it is very ideal in this era!

"Boss, is the 6052 chip in stock?" Lin Qi is personally working as a purchasing staff, purchasing parts on the market according to the list of the company's technical personnel.

"How much?" a middle-aged man with gray hair looked at Lin Qi and asked nonchalantly.

"What's the price?" Lin Qi asked.

"Buy a single piece for 120 Hong Kong dollars. More than 10 pieces, the discount is 100 yuan. The owner of the electronic components store said.

"If it's 100 pieces, can I get another discount?"

"......," the white-haired middle-aged man thought for a while and said, "There may not be 100 of them, I'll go to the warehouse and take a look." If you buy so much, you will be given a discount of 95 yuan. ”

In fact, 95 yuan still has profit margins, you know, the price of bulk purchase of 6502 chips in Silicon Valley in the United States can be as low as 10 US dollars, even if the freight is added, it should not exceed 60 Hong Kong dollars to Hong Kong.

Of course, the price increase in the retail channel is more expensive than purchasing in bulk from the manufacturer, which is also acceptable. After all, if you only purchase 100 pieces, manufacturers are reluctant to ship.

Lin Qi nodded and said, "Okay, I want to have a spot!"

After a while, Lin Qi followed the middle-aged man into the warehouse and swept away the dust in some boxes. Then, after taking stock of 6502 CPUs, it seems that there are more than 100 of them. Of course, Lin Qi only buys 100 chips, these chips are used for experiments, and he will buy them after they are used up.

Anyway, the 6502 chip has been mass-produced, and it has been authorized to many companies to produce, and there will never be a shortage of goods on the market.

Next, Lin Qi purchased another batch of picture tubes, 14-inch black and white and color picture tubes, 10 each. The black and white ones are cheaper, 80 yuan each. But the color picture tube is more expensive, the price is 1300 yuan.

In addition to these, a batch of 8K and 16K memories has also been purchased. The memory of 8K is relatively cheap, only more than 60 yuan a piece, but the price of 16K immediately increased to more than 300. This is mainly because the effect of using one memory chip is definitely better than multiple chips. If you buy 2 8K memory, you can also store 16K programs, but after all, it is two, and it must be as easy to use as one.

With the purchase of goods in large quantities, the owner of this store was a lot more enthusiastic about Lin Qi, and left a contact number, so that Lin Qi would need what parts in the future, make a phone call, and in fact, let Lin Qi saddle up the horse and purchase parts, because there is no one left in the new venture electronics company. Six employees, all of whom are invested in the R&D team.

The R&D project is the topic assigned by Lin Qi.

This time, Lin Qi did not provide a circuit diagram, but let the company's employees design it independently.

This is also Lin Qi's third test task for employees, which is to test the design ability of employees. After the completion of the project, the person who leads the entire project designer will become a formal designer, responsible for leading the team to conduct research and development, and the minimum monthly salary will also be increased to 20,000 Hong Kong dollars, not including the project bonus. Employees who participate in and cooperate with the completion of tasks will also receive a monthly salary of 5,000 yuan a month.

Because, the salary has been improved again, and these employees are full of enthusiasm.

Although everyone is unhappy with Gao Tian, the leader of the final research and development is still in charge of Gao Tian. After all, after the completion of the project cooperation, although Gao Tian has the most salary increase, each participant can also get some benefits.

Gao Tian is different from other employees in that he originally returned from studying at Stanford in the United States, and without Stanford, there would be no Silicon Valley.

The whole of Stanford, and the entrepreneurial environment of Silicon Valley, are almost integrated. Many students have participated in entrepreneurship projects and mingled with those entrepreneurial bulls.

In this era, the entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley is still hardware-based, so the gold content exceeds that of later software entrepreneurs and Internet entrepreneurs.

In later generations, a bunch of programmers copied code, fooling investors with cobbled together products. However, entrepreneurs in this era need to be proficient in software and hardware, and make real hard products to be convincing.

Gao Tian said disdainfully that Jobs's Apple is not a big deal. At the beginning, the team that Gao Tian participated in also made personal computers at about the same time, but after making three computer samples, they didn't sell them for half a year, and the team broke up.

In addition to luck, Jobs' team had another factor - persistence!

At the beginning, Jobs was forced to doubt life, and it took them almost 10 months to sell more than 20 computers at the beginning of their business, and the future was bleak at this stage, and there was no hope of success, but they persevered, and won the appreciation of venture capital, and then, with channel support and financial support, mass production of AppleII, and since then they have reached the peak of their careers.

Gao Tian boasted that his technical ability surpassed Jobs's team, although Lin Qi was a little skeptical. But squeeze out the water, and you are definitely a technical expert!

Therefore, the hardware of the arcade machine has a high-level dominant design, and as for the game to be carried, it is "Chinese Cube". Lin Qi only gave the idea, not the program code. But this is not difficult, as long as you make a suitable hardware platform and find a programmer who understands assembly, you can program this program.

The originator of the elimination game "Chinese Cube", the most suitable platform should be the handheld. But considering that the handheld is a small profit and quick turnover, it relies on production capacity to win. And if the funds are insufficient and the production capacity is insufficient, it will soon startle the snake and attract competitors to imitate, so Lin Qi is ready to enter the arcade market with relatively high gross profit first.

Since arcade machines are sold to game halls for business, as long as they prove to be profitable, the game hall owners will naturally be happy to buy them. And the profit of a single arcade machine is far more than that of handheld computers and home consoles with small profits and quick turnover.

The cost of a single arcade machine is expected to be about the same as that of a low-end computer, and a low-end computer on the market costs only a few hundred dollars, and the price is more than 1,000 dollars, which is already a lot of profit.

Arcade machines typically cost more than $1,000 at wholesale, which is about the same as low-end PCs.