On March 6, 1984, Lishan Semiconductor Co., Ltd. obtained the authorization of Xinchuang Electronics to trial produce XRM16 processors, and successfully produced 500 chips on the same day.

This news was quickly regarded as a major achievement in China, and was widely reported in news broadcasts, "People's Daily" and other media.

"The XRM16 reduced instruction set chip jointly developed by Hong Kong New Venture Electronics Group and Lishan Semiconductor Co., Ltd. achieved mass production this month. 95% of the production equipment and technology of the production line come from China, and the chip performance has reached the international advanced level, with a peak of more than 5 million floating point operations per second, which is more than 2 times more than Intel's 80286 chip......"

It is reported that the XRM16 chip is mainly used in Pangu computers, which are favored by consumers at home and abroad because of their high cost performance, and have achieved sales of 7 million units and sales of more than 2 billion US dollars in one and a half years after being listed...... With the mass production of XRM16 chips, it will share the dividends of Pangu Computer's growth, and develop into an internationally leading manufacturer with an international market scale and world-leading manufacturing process in the next ten years. ”

"Computers have gradually developed from mainframes to minicomputers, and now microcomputers, which are very convenient for people's study, scientific research and work. According to authoritative experts, not mastering the application of computers will be equivalent to illiteracy in the future. In order to share the dividends brought by the development of human science and technology, China is also actively deploying emerging computer technology. From the research and development of software and hardware in the computer industry, the cultivation of talents, and the application of computers, China has been catching up in recent years. At present, large domestic enterprises and government departments have begun to introduce computers to optimize office efficiency......

Computer-aided design, a lot of scientific research projects and design projects, has been inseparable from computer software assistance, in the past some R & D projects need a few months to carry out mathematical calculations, a great waste of manpower, now, after the use of computer technology assistance, only a few hours can be completed in the past few months or even years of workload, greatly improving the efficiency of R & D and design......

Computers are also widely used in the cultural industry, China's animation and film and television industry, and actively apply computer technology to improve the level of production, Shenzhen Felix Animation Company is such an enterprise, its creation of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" from painting to post-editing processing, completely on the computer operation, it is reported that many of the technology used by the company is the world's first......"

The news not only advertised Lishan Semiconductor, but also the subsidiaries and products of Xinchuang Electronics were also frequently unveiled. These publicity not only increased a lot of national pride for people from all walks of life in China, but also really enhanced the company's brand image. Due to the concentrated coverage of the news media, many grassroots units have also begun to respond positively, which has accelerated the popularization of computers. And, for a long time, a series of policies have been introduced to encourage the development of the semiconductor and computer industries.

This is also because Xinchuang Electronics has long emphasized the importance of the semiconductor industry in China. Otherwise, China may feel that computers are just expensive scientific research machines, rather than civilian products that are popularized in households, and it is better to introduce more short-sighted practices such as television production lines in anticipation of the development of the computer industry.

In fact, this was really the case in the 80s, because I felt that the computer was too high, and verbally advertised that the computer should start from the baby, but in addition to investing in a few computers in the children's palace of some administrative units at or above the county level, and setting up a computer interest group, it has already been implemented from the baby. The popularity of computers in the country, in fact, did not begin to get on track until the mid-90s. Due to the relatively slow development of the market, it has also led to the emergence of rare hardware and software giants in the PC era in China, and this negligence has virtually made at least 10 of the world's top 500 companies less in China. Assuming that the domestic semiconductor and computer industries developed relatively early, then there are a few more giants like Huawei in China.

At present, the speed of computer popularization in China cannot be compared with that of Europe and the United States, but at least it is not slower than that of Japan and South Korea. For example, starting with large cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, the top-down popularization of computers in China has spread to administrative and corporate units. Pangu computer, coupled with printers and photocopiers, is the standard configuration of paperless office in China. In a sense, the domestic paperless office is not very slow, and the word processor stage has been skipped.

In fact, the paperless office in foreign countries did not start with the computer, but in the early 70s, Wang An Computer Company launched the Wang An word processing machine series, that is, a computer dedicated to the office, integrating the minicomputer and the printer into one system. However, this set of special equipment is not only very expensive, but also can only be used for office work. When Wang An was young, he was an inventor and an enlightened person, but in his later years, he was very stubborn, and he was very disdainful when he saw Apple launch a microcomputer, because he felt that Apple computers wanted to be used for office, and the software was not as good as Wang An's word processors, and moreover, it was necessary to buy additional printers, just to solve the problem of printer drives, it was not something that ordinary users could do. Yes, it was true at the beginning, the Apple computer era, although it snatched a part of the market of Wang An's word processing machine, but, due to the factor of market inertia, Wang An Computer Company is still the boss of the office market. There is no doubt that the use of computer office mainly refers to the use of Wang An's PS system, and SP is not the abbreviation of the word processing system, but the abbreviation of Wang An's word processing machine, which shows Wang An's influence.

In the era of Apple computers, the market share of Wang An's word processors is still growing, and profits are increasing year by year. However, a few years after the advent of the PC, to the beginning of 85 years, Wang An Company fell into the first loss since its establishment, but because of the bull market in the US stock market, the computer is the subject of the market, Wang An's market value is approaching 6 billion US dollars, at the same time, Wang An himself is worth 2 billion US dollars to win the fifth place on the list of the richest people in the United States. However, the popularization of microcomputers has become a general trend, so that when the stock market crash in the United States in 87, many companies quickly recovered from a short-term plunge, but Wang An Computer was in a slump, gradually falling to a market value of less than $100 million in the early 90s, and then collapsed.

However, in the original history, the development of the domestic computer industry was vigorously imitated by Wang An's company.

Influenced by Wang An's company, Sitong Company was later established in China, and the production was similar to Wang An's word processing machine, which was later the same as in China, which was popular for a period of time in the late 80s and early 90s, but began in the 90s, because it did not conform to the technical development route, and was quickly eliminated.

At present, there is no garbage to be eliminated in China, such as automated office and word processing machine. On the contrary, the new venture electronics company spared no expense in the popularization of computer knowledge, coupled with the cheap sale of Pangu host, automated office is equal to Pangu host + printing equipment.

It can even be said that the biggest shortcoming of the domestic automated office is not computer technology, but - printers, pinhole printing, inkjet printing and laser printing, the country does not master the core technology, from the 80s to the 21st century, office printing equipment and consumables have been monopolized by foreign brands.

Moreover, the core components of domestic printers are still imported. In fact, this problem is not difficult to solve, pay a certain cost, acquire a printing equipment company with complete core technology, and then, with the domestic market, it is possible to cultivate several printer giants similar to Epson and HP.

There is also an easier way, the acquisition of Wang An Computer Company, Wang An Computer Company's word processing machine business is garbage, but. It is completely possible to transform into a printer manufacturer.

Lin Qi has a few copies of this plan in his drawer, but now go and tell Wang An, your company is not good, I will buy you, and you will listen to me...... will definitely be treated as a neurotic by Wang An. Only when Wang An Computer is going bankrupt in the future, at that time, although most of the talents have been lost, there will still be some technology that is enough to transform into a printer manufacturer.

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The XRM16 chips produced by Lishan Semiconductor have a yield rate of only 75%, which is even more expensive than Xinqiye Electronics' own factory. However, there is no doubt that with the successful trial production of Lishan Semiconductor, the CPU problem that limited the production capacity of Pangu host was gradually resolved.

Moreover, this is only a trial production, according to the chip factory jointly designed by Lishan Semiconductor and Xinchuang Electronics, this production line produces 100,000 XRM16 chips per month. It is expected that the cost of mass production within this year will be more than 70 US dollars. In order to make Lishan Semiconductor profitable, the initial purchase price reached 75 US dollars, and it was agreed that the ex-factory price of the chip would be reduced by 0.5 US dollars per month in the future.

In fact, the chip production cost of the new venture electronics company has been reduced to 55 US dollars, which is much cheaper than the purchase price of Lishan Semiconductor Company, but the key is that there is no way to solve the problem of production capacity independently. Then we will invest in the construction of a second chip factory - sorry, many equipment is temporarily out of stock, even if you order it now, it will be installed for you in two years.

Lin Qi naturally knows that the pressure from chip giants in Europe and the United States, coupled with political factors, has avoided the rapid development of China's semiconductor industry, and has taken away the interests of European and American companies with a low-cost advantage. You know, now there is a Japan, which has given the semiconductor industry in Europe and the United States a headache, if China also joins the ranks of dumping cheap chips at low prices, then, the high-tech industries in Europe and the United States are also pills.

At present, the CPUs produced by Lishan Semiconductor are also not sold to the market, and most of the qualified chips will be bought by new venture electronics companies. In addition, a small number of chips will be supplied to domestic scientific research projects, such as domestic supercomputer projects, at which time foreign high-performance 32-bit supercomputer chips are prohibited from being exported to China.

Historically, China's large-scale computers in the 80s ~ 90s were smuggled to obtain server and mainframe chips for a long time, and replaced them with PC chips. It was not until the 21st century that domestic chips were used in the field of domestic mainframes. Of course, the domestic CPUs of later generations have poor compatibility, and due to the gap in the level of domestic semiconductor technology, the CPU performance of the processed CPU is also far from the international advanced level, but the supercomputer with the performance of the domestic chip is not advanced, but it can hit the world's first, which is mainly based on the number of pile-ups, what if the chip performance is not enough - then more chips!

At present, China has embarked on the road of decades ahead of schedule, at least in the field of mainframes, most of the R&D units are already chips with XRM architecture. Because, over the years, the XRM architecture has accumulated a large number of applications in China. The longer the XRM architecture chips are used, the stronger the dependence of the domestic market on the XRM architecture.

As a result, even if some comprador bureaucrats insist on adopting imported technology from foreign countries in the future, they will not be able to implement it because a large number of domestic users are not accustomed to it.

As far as the later Internet is concerned, there are two Internet worlds at home and abroad. Foreign Internet giants are confident to bring their products to China, but they will find that Chinese users do not buy it at all, and Chinese Internet users have long had tools that are more in line with their usage habits.

For example, when Microsoft was in full swing, it launched MSN in the Chinese market, but it quickly died in just one or two years. Because, QQ occupies an absolute market share advantage and forms a natural monopoly. The relationship between acquaintances is on QQ, and to replace a software, you not only need to replace it yourself, but also need to persuade people to change it to MSN software one by one. It's almost an impossible task.

"An X16 chip produced by Lishan Semiconductor has a large fluctuation in performance, and the performance is relatively poor, which is 30% behind your company's parameter indicators, and some chips with higher performance may be about 10% more advanced than your company's chips. Shen Xubang, general manager and chief scientist of Lishan Semiconductor, said regretfully, "The performance of the same batch of products has fluctuated greatly, and we can't solve this problem in the short term." ”

"I had to supply your chips to the Hong Kong and mainland markets first. Lin Qi thought for a while and said, "To stabilize the overseas market, it is still mainly based on the original chips." ”

This is not because Lin Qi does not pay attention to domestic and Hong Kong consumers, but because the after-sales service system in China and Hong Kong is relatively perfect, and customer feedback has quality problems, and the solution is relatively fast. In addition, it is easier to solve the crisis in China and Hong Kong. Overseas markets, especially those like the United States, are giants like Atari, and the parent company is still the media boss Warner Group, but it was also destroyed by public opinion!

You must know that although the problem of backward hardware and poor game quality of the Atari platform exists, if there is no media hype, Atari will only slowly decline, and will not die quickly.

Crisis public relations in China and Hong Kong is relatively simple, and giants like start-up electronics companies can exercise some control over media public opinion through a good cooperative relationship with the government to avoid the expansion of negative public opinion. In Hong Kong, however, business giants do whatever they want, and big media basically don't offend the biggest advertisers.

However, this does not mean that Lin Qi is selling defective products in China and Hong Kong, in fact, the products, parts procurement and complete machine delivery of Xinchuang Electronics will be subject to strict quality inspection. By continuously optimizing the quality inspection process to control the quality of products, basically, products with quality problems rarely enter the market. Even if there is a quality problem after the sale, its after-sales service system to wipe the butt.