Mid-December 1980. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Rongjian spent 3 million US dollars in the United States to introduce the TN LCD production line of the American Radio Corporation (RCA), which was officially settled in Beijing.

It can be regarded as a production line that was authorized to buy a patent, although it was an experimental production line that was shut down around 72 years. However, it is much more efficient than the domestic TN liquid crystal that stays in the laboratory preparation state.

The U.S. shut down the production line because it needed 30 workers, and the monthly output income was not enough to pay wages. This production line, which was eliminated in the United States in 72 years, is not the same when it is transferred to China!

At present, the cost of Chinese labor is only one percent of that of the United States, and the experimental production line that the United States felt was uneconomical and cost-effective at the beginning, the cost was expensive mainly not because of equipment, but because of labor! The output is small, and the labor cost is expensive, of course, it is not cost-effective!

Moving to China is different, with a monthly production of 500,000 TN LCD panels, each of which is 2 yuan, which can create a monthly output value of 1 million yuan. The monthly salary cost will not exceed 10,000 RMB, which is completely negligible relative to the output!

This set of equipment can be afforded and used in China, and after understanding the technology, it can also be produced independently, and there is nothing more suitable for China at the moment.

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On December 28, 1980, Xinai Electronics' first TN LCD production line was put into trial production in Beijing, and on the same day, it successfully produced 5,000 pieces of LCD screens required for the handheld computer of "China Cube", although the yield rate was only 50%, and the cost was as high as 4 yuan, but it was already half cheaper than the current quotation of Japanese manufacturers!

With the gradual full production of this production line, it can solve the partial supply of LCD screens for the handheld computer of "China Cube".

Because the TN LCD production line of Beijing Xinai Electronics can be regarded as filling a gap in domestic industrial technology, it was reported for more than 30 seconds on the news broadcast on the same day.

Overnight, many people in China knew: "Chinese can mass-produce TN LCD panels by themselves, and the price of electronic watches and calculators will be greatly reduced in the future!"

An electronic watch in the domestic market is sold for about 20 yuan, and because it cannot produce TN LCD panels independently, the price has not been reduced for a long time.

Once TN LCD panels can be produced independently, the ex-factory price of an electronic watch can be reduced to 2 yuan or even lower. The price of an electronic calculator will also be reduced from more than a hundred or even hundreds of dollars to more than ten dollars!

The sensational effect of this news in China is unexpectedly big!

Originally, the electronic watch was a pickle girl artifact, almost the same as the Apple mobile phone of later generations, an electronic watch can soak a class flower beauty, and now the news says that China has mastered the TN LCD screen mass production technology, that is to say, this thing will be forced to decline in the future, and it will be expelled from the ranks of the pickle girl artifact!

The news of the start of this TN LCD production line was reported by the news network. Two days later, the price of TN LCD panels produced in Japan plunged rapidly, plummeting by 50% in one day. Since then, there has been a small price reduction every day, apparently ......

Japanese LCD panel suppliers know that it is impossible to rely on the monopoly advantage of TN LCD panels to card the necks of Chinese manufacturers!

"Boss, the price of LCD panels has fallen, and Japan's Panasonic Company said that it is willing to sign a supply agreement with us for handheld LCD panels at a price of 3 Hong Kong dollars. Zhang Ru handed a document to Lin Qi.

The supply price of 3 Hong Kong dollars a piece is already very cheap.

After all, the screen of the calculator used to cost 2~3 Hong Kong dollars. The screen area of the "China Cube" handheld is larger, and the supply price is 3 Hong Kong dollars, which is definitely dumped by Japanese manufacturers at a low price, in order to suppress the power of China's independent production of TN LCD panels!

You see......

The market price is so cheap, and you have to consider the input cost of machinery and equipment to build yourself, so it is better to buy it...... It's better to buy it directly, don't make it!

If you are too short-sighted, it is naturally easy to fall into the trap of Japanese manufacturers!

Lin Qi said disdainfully: "Reply to Panasonic, 1 Hong Kong dollar a piece, I signed a 5-year supply agreement, 500,000 pieces per month." ”

"This ......" Zhang Ru couldn't help but wonder and said, "Can Panasonic agree?"

"It doesn't matter if you agree or not, if you say 3 Hong Kong dollars a piece, I would rather send an order to China for 3 Hong Kong dollars a piece to cultivate domestic suppliers. Lin Qi said, "Although TN LCD is important, it occupies a very low proportion of the hardware cost of the handheld computer after all." We can completely let the profits to support the domestic suppliers, the more suppliers, the more choices, the more control over pricing!"

Soon after, Zhang Ru sent the message to Panasonic through the fax machine.

Less than half an hour later, Panasonic replied: "Deal!"

Lin Qi couldn't help but be stunned, 1 Hong Kong dollar a piece......? Panasonic is completely dumping at all costs, so that China's TN LCD production capacity cannot grow!

Of course, Lin Qi will only sneer at this -- he has eaten all the low-priced products of 1 Hong Kong dollar! Eating 500,000 TN liquid crystal at a low price every month is regarded as a benefit given by the Japanese Panasonic Company to new entrepreneurs!

The future market of "China Cube" will not be as small as 500,000 per month? "China Cube" is a game with the potential to sell hundreds of millions of units!

Two months ago, the handheld LCD panel that cost eight or nine yuan a piece has finally been reduced to the lowest price ever!

HK$1 per piece!

This is the bargaining power brought by Xinchuang Electronics after it has the ability to independently produce TN LCD panels!

After the sharp price reduction of LCD panels, the procurement of 6502 chips of Xinchuang Electronics Company is not limited to Ricoh Company of Japan.

Even Lin Qi himself felt surprised, Yu Youcheng joined the new venture electronics company as the company's vice president and director of the chip development department, and the first thing he did after taking office was to persuade Intel to OEM 6502 chips......

Because Xinchuang Electronics spent 1 million yuan to purchase the production authorization of 6502 chips, and then, entrusted Intel to help Xinchuang's competitor MOS Technologist OEM 6502 chips at a price of $7.5 per chip.

Of course, Intel was not dissatisfied, on the contrary, Grove readily agreed, and felt that Lao Yu was a good person, even if he didn't work at Intel, he still took care of his old boss if he had a business.

It seems that Intel is in a miserable situation at this time, and its memory business has been maliciously dumped by Japanese semiconductors, and at present, at least half of its factory capacity is idle. The process of these memory chip factories has fallen behind, and it is impossible to produce 8086 chips. However, it is more than enough for OEM 6502 chips.

After Intel became the supplier of new venture electronics, the "Chinese Cube" handheld computer is expected to increase to 1.5 million units per month by March 1981!