Chapter 364: Pangu Notebook 2nd Generation

On November 11, 1986, although the new venture electronics also released a number of new products as usual, most of them only upgraded the configuration of the old platform for free. Others are more promoting products such as games, office and application software, etc.

Of course, most of these software are third-party products, and Xinchuang Electronics is mainly as the largest channel provider, earning 20%~50% of the share. For many third-party software developers, the best way to get the market on the Pangu platform as quickly as possible is to sell themselves to Xinchuang Electronics and sign a sharing agreement. Some software vendors even sell part of their equity to Xinchuang Electronics in exchange for more resource support.

It can be said that the net profit brought by the development of third-party games and application software has far exceeded the profit of the game and application software developed by the new venture electronics company. The net profit of the software business also far exceeds that of hardware.

In addition, through the advantage of industry discourse, at least hundreds of start-up companies should be invested every year, which is also the long-term interest of new start-up electronics companies.

These short-term, medium- and long-term benefits are ultimately built on the basis that the Pangu platform can maintain and continue to expand its market share.

At present, the average retail price of computers in the world can be as high as more than 1,200 US dollars, including PCs and Apple and other camps, and the gross profit of the whole machine is very high. Manufacturers with 30% gross profit are counted as conscience, and manufacturers like Apple have a gross profit of more than 50%.

Although the sales of the whole hardware of Xinchuang Electronics cannot be said to be zero gross profit, the overall gross profit is less than 10%. This rare low profit is mainly to maintain a high cost performance. With high cost performance, to maintain the continuous growth of shipments.

There are very few hardware products released by Xinchuang Electronics this year, and the only bright spot may be the Pangu notebook 2nd generation.

Pangu laptop 1, released in 84 Double 11. With a weight of 2.35kg, XRM16CPU,512KB of running memory and 20MB of flash memory, the display panel is a black and white TN panel. The cumulative sales of the first generation of Pangu notebook have also exceeded 1.3 million units in the two years since its launch. In the Pangu series of hosts, it is a very niche model.

Even though the sales of Pangu 1st generation laptops are very average and meet Lin Qi's expectations. However, Lin Qi did not give up the notebook market, but instead invested a lot of capital and technical resources to make the technology of Pangu laptops continue to develop.

In terms of laptop products, Xinchuang Electronics did not adopt the tactics of machine sea, and released a bunch of products with configuration and pricing for users to choose.

Because the current notebook computer market is still in the pioneering period, the new venture electronics focuses on word-of-mouth and adopts a strategy of less and fine. Only when the hardware platform is truly upgraded will a product based on the new platform be released.

For example, there is only one laptop based on the XRM16 chip, the Pangu notebook generation.

And the Pangu notebook 2 generation is currently only ready to release one.

"Pangu Notebook 2 is an upgraded product of the previous generation of laptops. In this generation of products, we not only consider the needs of office users, but also the needs of games, videos and other entertainment. The Pangu Notebook 2nd generation CPU uses a more advanced XRM 32-bit processor, and it is a processor optimized for mobile platforms, which is only about 10% lower than the desktop computer in terms of performance. But in the 32-bit chip, it is still in the top position of performance. Compared to Intel's 386, our XRM32 is at least 50% better than the 383! In terms of battery life, Intel's 386 series chips consume at least 15 watts, while our XRM32 desktop version surpasses it with only 5 watts. As for the XRM32 mobile version, the power consumption has been reduced to 3 watts...... "Lin Qi said.

"Oh my God!3 watts of power consumption is more powerful than 15 watts?!"

"How?"

"Bragging, huh?"

Lin Qi said indifferently: "These performance data are not our words. Rather, it's data provided by a number of third-party review agencies. We welcome third-party review organizations to conduct various tests on our XRM32 chips against other chips on the market...... Of course, the low-power version is thanks to AMD, which has the world's most advanced 1-micron process, which allows us to have a smaller chip size and lower power consumption while maintaining the same design specifications. More suitable for laptops, this kind of mobile and portable terminal!"

Lin Qi has an extremely clear positioning of the hardware platform of the new venture electronics company. For example, the desktop of Pangu computer pursues high performance price, high performance price, and power consumption does not care too much, after all, desktop computers can have more space and better heat dissipation conditions.

Laptops, on the other hand, would rather sacrifice performance than do a good job in power consumption, heat dissipation, and so on. It is precisely for this reason that the Pangu notebook 2nd generation, while the performance has been greatly improved, the battery life has been greatly improved compared with the previous generation.

Originally, in the 90s, Intel and AMD paid more attention to the competition for performance and ignored power consumption.

This caused the X86 architecture chips to become more and more bloated, and they could only rely on more advanced processes to increase the number of transistors to pile up performance. However, the number of transistors is not infinite, and the more transistors work, the more power consumption will be generated, and at the same time, the higher the temperature will be generated.

It wasn't until they encountered technical obstacles such as temperature walls and power consumption walls that Intel and AMD gradually slowed down and no longer blindly increased the main frequency and upgraded the process. Instead, they gradually stopped and began to streamline and optimize the original architecture, trying to optimize performance while reducing power consumption.

However, the X86 camp has developed too far on the wrong route because it has grown crooked from the beginning, and it is reluctant to abandon vested interests. By simply improving the framework of the x86 architecture, it is unlikely that it will be able to achieve a power consumption comparable to that of a chip with a reduced instruction set.

"Pangu notebook 2nd generation, the screen is upgraded to a 12-inch TFT-LCD panel, it is not only very thin and light, but also, has 720P high-definition display performance!" Lin Qi showed to the users on the scene to watch, "Of course, the LCD display currently has a certain gap with plasma in terms of color and so on, but even so, it is also the best laptop display." With this display, laptop users will also be able to enjoy high-definition audio and video and high-quality gaming ......"

"It comes standard with CD-ROM and integrates 2MB of video memory, and the running memory is upgraded to 1MB, making the Pangu 2 generation configuration the flagship. The storage is upgraded to 100MB flash memory, which reads data much faster than hard drives...... Compatibility is more important than use, and most of the applications of the Pangu operating system, it can be perfectly compatible. The weight was reduced to 2.1 kg. Basically, if you're just using it for work and you turn on the power saving mode, you can last up to 8 hours. If you use it to watch movies or play games, you can also watch them for 4 hours in a row, which is equivalent to watching 3 movies. With such a sincere upgrade, we are now cheaper than the previous generation, and its retail guide price will be $1,998......"

There was fierce applause!

Because, high configuration is nothing, and low price is nothing. However, the combination of high configuration and low price is enough to make the Pangu 2nd generation notebook the king of laptops!

Of course, in the 80s, there were few companies that could play notebooks, and according to the weight, battery life, performance, experience, and other indicators, users could not find a better choice than the Pangu notebook 2nd generation.