The construction of the motherboard factory was already in Lee's plans, but Hong Kong's industries are mainly light industries such as textiles, garments and toys. The electronics industry is not developed, especially the high-end electronics industry, and Li Xuan has no way to start even if he wants to poach.

Therefore, if we can cooperate with Epson, Dongfang Electronics can quickly gain a firm foothold in the arcade industry, as long as we have our own motherboard factory, Dongfang Electronics' weakest board will be filled. The rest of the game ideas with Sega and Atari, Li Xuan has his own aura of rebirth, which is not false at all.

As for whether Epson is willing to cooperate with Dongfang Electronics, Li Xuan is not worried at all. If Dongfang Electronics produces 200,000 arcade machines a year, it will need at least five million processors and more memory. If Epson's fab could have signed such a large and stable order, it would have been enough for it to survive the difficult moment of low yield at the beginning.

For Seiko Epson, the survival of the wafer factory is not only related to whether the investment of tens of millions of dollars can be recovered, but also related to Epson's overall development strategy and choice in the future period. Wafer fab is an industry with obvious scale effect, and the yield rate will be affected by low operating rate, and the cost of the two will rise sharply.

If the fab continues to lose money, Epson can only reluctantly close down, which means that Epson's ambition to enter the semiconductor industry has completely failed.

Therefore, after Li Xuan made the condition to continue to purchase Epson chips, he was not worried that Epson would refuse at all. Dongfang Electronics does not have a direct competition with Epson, although helping Dongfang Electronics set up its own motherboard production plant, Epson will lose some of the arcade board profits.

However, after fulfilling the contract of 20,000 game console motherboards, Dongfang Electronics has no obligation to continue to purchase motherboards produced by Epson. If you give up a part of the profits that may not be able to eat your mouth, you can win the core chip order in the motherboard, and Epson will definitely make a win-win choice as long as it weighs it a little.

Of course, Kenshin Hattori is only a director, so he has no right to answer immediately on the matter of cooperation, and he needs to report to the company's board of directors and make a decision after discussion by the board of directors of Epson. Li Xuan was also very clear about this, and he did not continue to retain Hattori's humble letter.

The new semester has just started, but Li Xuan is not easy, compared with the college entrance examination results when he entered the school, his performance in the first semester has regressed significantly. After all, academic performance is directly proportional to the time invested.

Li Xuan's purpose in entering the university was not to become an excellent graduate, but more to get through the platform of Guò University, to start to contact and integrate into the high-end academic circle in Hong Kong, and to accumulate technical contacts for the future development of the company.

He himself was a little half-hearted about his attitude towards class, but some people who paid attention to him began to be secretly anxious for him. In the last two months of the first semester, Li Xuan was busy with the development of new games on the side of Dongfang Electronics Company, and many required courses could be escaped, not to mention the audit courses that he used to appear in the past.

Professor Zhao Weiming began to pay attention to this special freshman in the field of computing research after Li Xuan attended the weekend salon at his home. Although Li Xuan rarely goes to audit Professor Zhao's classes, his family regularly finds time to attend the weekend salon.

In Zhao Weiming's view, Li Xuan is this student who has good talent, but is a little lost in the colorful life of the university. After discovering that after the start of the new semester, the situation of skipping classes was still not much convergence, Zhao Weiming finally decided to talk to him as the deputy director of the Department of Electronics, hoping to save this misguided student.

"Professor Zhao, are you looking for me?" Li Xuan knocked on the door outside Zhao Weiming's office, and only after hearing the other party's answer did he push the door open and enter the room.

"Li Xuan, you sit down first, I'll finish correcting these texts first!" Zhao Weiming raised his head and smiled kindly at Li Xuan.

Li Xuan looked at his nose and his nose at his heart, so he sat quietly like this, looking like he was not distracted. Zhao Weiming secretly observed Li Xuan a few times, and saw that he was not in a hurry and calm, and he couldn't help nodding secretly in his heart.

Zhao Weiming finally put down the pen in his hand, reached out and pushed the glasses that had slipped a little on the bridge of his nose, and then said to Li Xuan, "I heard that you missed class on the first day of school, what's going on?"

"I'm sorry, Professor Zhao, I've bothered you!" Li Xuan stood up and made a sincere confession, "I opened a company by myself some time ago, and I was busy with some things on the company's side during this time. In the future, I will try my best to separate the company and school courses so that it does not affect my studies!"

Zhao Weiming's originally stretched brows began to wrinkle, he didn't like to start a business while he was a student. In his opinion, college is the time to study and lay a foundation, and it is never a correct arrangement to rush to make money if the foundation is not solid.

"What does your company do?" Although Zhao Weiming was a little unhappy in his heart, he was not willing to make a preconceived judgment.

During this time, the company went to San Francisco to participate in the Western Electronics Show, and I personally led the team there, so I missed the class a few days before the start of school!" Li Xuan didn't hide too much, and said in a decent manner.

"I'm not saying that you're against starting a business while you're in college, but there's a premise that it doesn't interfere with your studies. I was originally very optimistic about your talent, whether it was a solid professional knowledge or a keen sense of prediction, it made my eyes shine. But your recent performance has disappointed me a little, you haven't cherished your talent properly, and skipping class is a very bad thing!" Zhao Weiming began to educate his students out loud after thinking that he had understood enough of the situation.

Li Xuan sighed secretly in his heart, his goal in life was not to be a scientific research worker. The so-called studying hard every day is even more of a floating cloud for him.

"Professor Zhao, I'll pay attention to it in the future!" Li Xuan didn't stiffen his head, and admitted his mistake very readily, "I know that you are leading a team to do research on processor design. If my company, Dongfang Electronics, wants to entrust you to improve the 6502 processor of MOS Technologies, what do I need to do?"

Zhao Weiming recognized Li Xuan's attitude of admitting his mistakes, but when he heard him suddenly change the topic, he didn't react for a while. It took two or three seconds before he looked at his student with a slightly puzzled look.

The most well-known application of the 6502 processor is as a CPU for Apple computers and Nintendo red and white machines. However, Nintendo did not directly purchase the original chip of MOS Technology at that time, but used the 6502 chip authorized and imitated by Ricoh of Japan - 2A03nmos processor.

This is a processor redesigned and developed by Ricoh based on the original 6502 core, and a pseudo-sound processing module is integrated into the chip, which can save additional sound effects when used as a game console CPU. When Li Xuan originally designed the game motherboard of Hong Kong Cube and Tank Wars, he originally planned to use this chip like the later Nintendo, but after calling Ricoh, he received a reply that the other party did not produce this chip product at all.

Li Xuan only remembered that Nintendo's red and white machines were only launched in 83 years, but he really didn't know exactly when Ricoh was authorized by MOS to produce its own 6502 chip.

So after he learned that Epson had been authorized by the 6502 chip, he temporarily decided to use Epson's chip, and simply flew to Japan to say that Epson would make arcade motherboards for himself.

Li Xuan has already found someone to go to the United States to discuss with MOS Technology about the licensing of 6502 chips. But after obtaining the authorization, Li Xuan did not plan to directly develop a new chip by himself. Developing a new processor is much more complex than designing a gaming motherboard.

Even with the original structure of the 6502 processor as a reference, it is not an easy task to redesign a 6502 suitable for console applications. Although Li Xuan has an aura of rebirth, he is not omnipotent. This kind of work is more suitable for a dedicated processor research and development team to take over, and the team of Professor Zhao Weiming of Chinese University is undoubtedly his best choice.

"Professor Zhao, we at Dongfang Electronics are willing to fund 1,000 Hong Kong dollars to support CUHK to carry out relevant research on processor design, and hope to work closely with CUHK in the transformation of relevant scientific research results!" Li Xuan said his plan very seriously and solemnly.

The conditions for Dongfang Electronics to set up its own scientific research team on a large scale are not yet mature, and cooperation with universities is undoubtedly the best choice. Li Xuan's ambitions don't stop at the arcade industry. In fact, the glory days of the arcade industry were very short-lived.

In the late 80s, with the fierce competition between computer games and video games, the largest consumer market for arcades in North America, the main places for arcade machines - grocery stores and small shops in the streets and alleys disappeared after the emergence of Wal-Mart's one-stop large-scale shopping chain shopping malls. Under the superposition of many factors, the arcade industry has shrunk rapidly.

In stark contrast, the semiconductor industry has begun to grow exponentially, driven by the wave of personal PCs. Li Xuan is naturally reluctant to give up the semiconductor industry, which is known as the cornerstone of the electronics industry.

But his current career has just started, and the first thing to do is to expand horizontally and quickly take a solid foundation in the game industry, and not rush to expand vertically, and immediately extend to the upstream and downstream industries, but some foreshadowing can be laid first.

In the face of a large amount of scientific research funds, Zhao Weiming completely forgot the real theme of looking for Li Xuan today. When Li Xuan introduced the basic situation of Dongfang Electronics to Professor Zhao and confirmed that Li Xuan did have the ability and intention to invest a large amount of money in his alma mater, Zhao Weiming, who was very stable on weekdays, was also a little unable to sit still.

This is 10 million Hong Kong dollars, although it is only 2 million dollars when converted into US dollars, and it is natural to disdain it for world-class universities such as Berkeley and Stanford. But for the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1980, it was already a huge amount of money. CUHK's annual tuition fee income is only tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars.

In front of a lot of real money, Li Xuan's previous skipping class suddenly became a trivial matter.

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