Chapter 889 - Total Return on Investment

In December 1994, Pangu Computer Co., Ltd. originally planned to achieve an annual sales target of 70 million ~ 80 million units, but as of December 17, it had completed the sales performance of 100 million units.

Among them, the Pangu 7th generation accounted for 27.67 million units, the Pangu 8th generation sold 34.45 million units, and the Pangu 9th generation sold 6 million units. Cumulative sales of desktop computers were 68.12 million units. Pangu laptops, with sales of 31.89 million units.

At the same time, the total shipment of desktop and notebook computers in the global computer industry will exceed 550 million units. The Pangu camp is expected to ship 320 million computers during the year, while the PC camp's computer shipments shrank to 220 million units during the year.

The Pangu computer camp surpassed the PC market share in the first three quarters of '94. The main reason is that the global computer incremental users, the requirements for entertainment far exceed that of the office.

Compared with traditional entertainment electronic devices, computers can be called all-round entertainment terminals, which can read, listen to music, watch videos, and experience games and Internet functions......

Perhaps future generations of users will no longer find computers new. However, in the 90s, there were still a large number of users who were new to computers, and various functions of personal computers were all new to users.

It may be difficult for ordinary users to understand the performance gap between computers with different hardware and operating system platforms, but the Pangu system is easy to use, and the PC system is not easy to use, which is the first impression of ordinary users after getting started.

The operating system on the PC is either DOS that needs to memorize a bunch of commands, and the DOS system is more suitable for professional users, and it will feel particularly cumbersome when used ordinarily. Therefore, in the late 80s and early 90s, after the gradual improvement of PC hardware, the PC camp gradually abandoned the DOS operating system and mainly promoted the IN system.

However, the Pangu computer was a graphical operating system from the beginning, and in the early days, in order for the operating system to not only realize graphical operation, but also to run on a limited hardware platform, the programmers of the Pangu operating system were streamlined and streamlined for the system capacity to avoid system bloat and inefficiency. Because it has been hammering and refining the Pangu graphics operating system, the Pangu operating system after continuous improvement has not become inefficient with the growth of volume, and the efficiency and function are constantly evolving.

With the PC camp, after the computer is fully upgraded to the IN system, the inefficient X86 chip, coupled with the inefficient IN system, makes users in the early 90s feel that the performance of the PC is poor and there are many bugs, and it is not as easy to use as the Pangu operating system.

Compared with PC and Pangu, word of mouth is more and more inclined to Pangu.

Coincidentally, Intel's flagship Pentium chip has a floating-point operation bug, which has helped the Pangu camp a lot. Originally, users who had difficulty choosing between Pangu and PC, in the last two months of 94, most of them no longer hesitated and chose Pangu.

At present, compared with Pangu, the experience of PC is already a huge difference that can be seen with the naked eye. Not to mention, professional running scores, floating-point operations, in comparison, Pangu is more stable and stable to beat PC!

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As the Pangu camp surpassed the market share of the PC, it also triggered a fierce backlash from American political and business forces. In the U.S. Congress and local legislatures, members of the U.S. Congress continue to put forward bills that are unfavorable to Pangu computers.

Of course, at the moment there are only a small number of forces.

After all, in the current Sino-US trade environment, the United States has more capital to benefit, and it is actually an extremely limited minority that suffers from benefits.

As far as the computer industry is concerned, compatible machine manufacturers feel that it doesn't matter who has the advantage between Pangu and PC, the two are fiercely competitive, and compatible machine brands can fish in troubled waters and get benefits from both ends.

The same is true for other hardware manufacturers and software vendors, who can be a supply chain manufacturer to make a profit. Only manufacturers whose core interests are tied to the X86 architecture chip will be determined to fight against the Pangu camp.

"Why are Pangu computers allowed to be sold in the United States? In China, they basically don't buy PCs, but we have to buy tens of millions of Pangu computers a year!"

"The sale of Chinese technology products in the United States should be stopped, not only by the government and the military, but also by expanding to the whole United States and even its allies!"

An unreliable real estate firm constantly connects the anti-Pangu forces in the United States, giving speeches and submitting bills on different occasions.

As a result, at the end of December, Clinton had to go to Congress and give a speech.

"Ladies and gentlemen,

Today, a real estate developer and some lawmakers proposed that the United States ban the sale of Pangu computers in China. In fact, most of the Pangu computers sold in the United States are not imported from China, but by the XRM architecture CPUs produced by AMD and a large number of Pangu compatible machines produced by American compatible machine manufacturers.

Although, due to local protectionism and information security considerations, the government, finance, education, military and other departments did not adopt Pangu. But it's not that Pangu is insecure, in fact, the hardware architecture of Pangu computers, basically, is licensed to manufacturers all over the world, AMD has enough ability to understand the XRM architecture of the chip, at present, it has not been found to have an insecure backdoor or other problems.

Pangu OS is a free and open source operating system. The code is public, and for this reason, it is more transparent than other software, and if there is a problem, computer experts around the world will find it as soon as possible. Therefore, it does not make sense to ban the sale of Pangu on security grounds.

From the perspective of U.S. interests, we need to consider the pros and cons of banning Pangu in a holistic manner.

Banning the sale of Pangu computers seems to have allowed PCs in the United States to gain more sales. But at the cost of America's core values, free trade and international division of labor, the United States has gained more benefits than ever before. The Chinese market is developing rapidly, and the United States has gained a lot of profits from China. If we think about it calmly, if we have trade frictions with China, and Sino-US trade has regressed, then the happiest should be other competitors, such as Japan and European countries, who will soon cooperate with China and earn a lot of orders and orders. And the United States deliberately does not do business with China, and it has lost a lot of orders, profits, relief growth and profits!

Perhaps, some people use the Cold War mentality and see China as an enemy, but I don't see it that way, we are trading partners who cooperate more than compete. At present, China is opening up little by little, and it is not the same thing as the Soviet Union, and there is no indication that China is in a fierce confrontation with us. The current pattern is that the Cold War is over, the world is dominated by free trade, and economic development is more important than anything else.

If we suppress Chinese companies, then China will sanction our companies in turn. In the end, it will only be the United States that loses the Chinese market, and other competitors who gain the Chinese market will gain more benefits than the United States and China...... There are not only China in the world, but a large number of countries, such as Japan, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and other countries, whose economies are much larger than China's, and their countries' industrial and technological levels are much ahead of China's.

The main reason for the current economic stagnation in these countries is that they have not been able to grasp new trade channels and obtain more orders.

The United States should not be like those European countries, we should do business with the whole world, as long as we ensure that we can do business with the whole world, with the current comprehensive economic, scientific, technological, and military strength of the United States, we can share in the growth dividends of all countries. Sharing in the world's economic growth is the long-term interest of the United States in the future. ”

Although Clinton is not a kind person to China, although during his term of office, he agreed to China's accession to TO. But in reality, Clinton has tightened the technological blockade against China. All kinds of small actions to knock China are continuous. It can be said that after reform and opening up, the major humiliating incidents that China encountered were all caused during Clinton's term of office.

However, after all, the new entrepreneurship department has made a heavy bet on Clinton and the Democratic Party, and has also mastered a bunch of handles, which leads to the fact that at a critical time, Clinton still has to escort the business of the new entrepreneurship department in North America with high-sounding reasons.

Many years later, a real estate developer became the new president of the United States and began to dig over old accounts, directly comparing Clinton to a traitor, the evidence is that Clinton did not ban the sale of Pangu computers, which led to China's technology field catching up and developing to the point of world leadership.