Chapter 301: Pit Others

"I remember the bee, what kind of on-board computer is indeed a multi-functional dash cam, right?" Hearing Li Jiaming's ability to play, Liu Shumeng didn't hear the faint feeling of depression in it, but continued to ask.

"What kind of on-board computers are those BCs sold outside, they are just hanging on the car, and the car I am talking about is not sold to the outside world!"

There are three different series of ABC for the bee car computer, and in Li Jiaming's situation at that time, they can equip their cars with a low-end bee car computer, but they didn't like these low-end products at that time. And because he usually has people who have come into contact with the chip research group of the Bee Research Institute, Li Jiaming knows that the new CPU of Bee's real independence has passed the design verification, and when they are mass-produced in the future, most of the Bee hardware products need to be updated and replaced with a new generation of chips. Because of these "inside information", he felt that it was not cost-effective to configure the on-board computer that was about to become obsolete, so he decided to leave this item empty first, and wait for the new product to be launched before purchasing and installing the latest version.

As a result, the congested bridge in front of him really gave him a heavy blow to his head! Because he and Tong Li both entered the laboratory of Jiajing Precision directly after graduating from school and immediately began to research, becoming a scientific research otaku, which made Li Jiaming have a lot less work to carry bags on the street, resulting in him being a little blind to the road conditions on Ludao after not being on the street for more than half a year.

After all, the last time he drove around the streets of Ludao was a driver's license road test, this time it was also because of the roommates' party that he couldn't wait to drive his car out, but he was caught blind because he didn't have a rookie newcomer's must-have car map GPS navigator. Originally, he had a map navigation app installed on his sunflower phone, but because of battery life problems, he didn't turn it on all the time, just used it to query the route, but when he came back from the station, he was lazy and chose to return the same way and forgot to check the road conditions again, and as a result, he was stuck on the road.

At this time, Li Jiaming began to regret a little, he knew that he should have bought a bee C navigator, this car computer with the shape of a dash cam has both voice guidance and GPS navigation functions, and can obtain the latest traffic information through 3G network and FM radio. With the help of the voice interaction function of Bee in the world, the user does not use its small poor touch screen at all after booting, and can use voice control throughout the whole process, even if it encounters an occasional recognition error, it can also be quickly corrected through the self-learning function. Moreover, its built-in FM monitoring module can also monitor up to 5 radio stations/radio video channels at the same time, extract key information related to traffic conditions through voice recognition function, plus the path selection system from the Bee CC autonomous driving system, which has a miraculous effect on avoiding traffic jams.

However, for Li Jiaming, although the Bee C is good, it is not as good as the B series with large-capacity SSDs and "video retrieval" functions, which can automatically analyze video surveillance data with the help of keyframe separation technology and image search engine, so that users can avoid manual inspection of video content, and do not have to sit for hours or more to look through videos to find clues when needed.

The same image recognition technology has also been favored by the Ludao Public Security Bureau, and a tertiary production company that deals in security products under its name has cooperated with Bee to set up a company specializing in the production of police security cameras, Tianjian Video System, which sells well all over the country. Although for some reasons, Tianjian's operating profits have been consumed by the expanding workforce, and the bees have not received a dime from it so far, they have never cared about this well-received by the relevant departments, which is why the bee modified car is legal on the road.

Of course, compared with the BC series on-board computer system that emphasizes the video surveillance function and voice navigation function, the A series that makes Li Jiaming remember it is even more powerful. The first two just add one or two functions to the car, while the A series really makes the car "smart" and "smart", which greatly changes the car driving and handling experience.

It's a pity that the latter can't be put into practice due to policy reasons, Atletico Madrid and Bee have to put a lot of effort into "slicing and decomposing", and extracting a large number of "new functions" such as automatic generation of the best route, automatic warehousing and outbound, intelligent cruise, automatic opening and closing of doors and windows, in-car environmental management, voice driving suggestions, etc., although it is not as smart as the Pondike Firebird in the sci-fi TV series "Thunderbolt Ranger", but it is naturally no problem to be proud of the current ordinary car.

But those have become lofts in the sky, and now the three of them can only sit in the car and wait for the road ahead to be cleared.

Just now he suddenly remembered that there should be a wireless charger for mobile phones in the car, so he hurriedly rummaged around, and finally found a round charging tray in the door storage box, which has several small clips on the upper and lower sides, which can fix the mobile phone on the top and the charging disk on the bottom. Put the charging wheel on the dashboard and fix it, connect it to the car's power supply system, and Li Jiaming turned on the mobile phone and put it on and clamped it. Then he said, "Open the map and navigate now!"

The logo of the bee map soon appeared on the mobile phone screen, and after the launch screen, the red and orange congested road markers on the navigation map made Li Jiaming, who was selling the voice control function, suddenly have the idea of jumping into the sea.

"If everyone thinks that the products on the market are outdated if they are bought like you, then the manufacturers are still alive?" After listening to him explain the reason, Liu Shumeng couldn't help but complain.

The training department he is now running relies on teaching people to use computers and networks to make money, Li Jiaming's kind of thinking is really painful in his opinion, when they took the first computer class, the teacher said that the computer is updated very quickly, and it is normal for it to become obsolete just after getting off the production line, and the key is to grasp the judgment of availability, reliability and economy. Of course, if it weren't for the fact that he had to prepare for the lesson, he wouldn't have remembered this sentence when he went back to these textbooks from four years ago.

The reason why they forgot this sentence is, in the final analysis, the credit of the bee collaborative acceleration technology. Because computing power can be borrowed from the Internet at any time, the pain caused by the lack of computer performance is weakened a lot. As long as the system remains stable, the old computer with 256 megabytes of memory can still fight for another three or five years, which makes them subconsciously forget that the computer is updated quickly.

Although the acceleration network only covers East Asia due to the problem of node construction, and on the surface it has no impact on PC manufacturers in Europe, America, Africa, and Latin America, who makes the mainland have the world's top three PC giants? Because the mainland PC market has entered a period of stagnation in growth ahead of schedule, the company has to increase its marketing efforts abroad, forcing other manufacturers to reduce their profits with price cuts, and at the same time, because of the difference in pricing between China and foreign countries, it has further strengthened the nickname of "the conscience of US imperialism."

Of course, collaborative acceleration slows down the speed at which users upgrade their computers,Not only affects other manufacturers,Bee computers are also"suffered",The original beeX86The bumblebee computer of the platform was first launched, in addition to emphasizing the highlight of doubling the combined performance,It also used the strategy of providing official windows installation support with Apple to attract win users"PC+"mode,Allow users to install a Windows as a dual system and turn Bumblebee into a PC through quick switching。

However, although there are more and brighter lights behind Bumblebee, they are still not as attractive as Apple's logo light, and the contribution of the "PC+" mode to sales is not obvious. By analyzing the user tracking data, Bee Computer was depressed to find that the vast majority of Bumblebees are running in Beeos mode, and there are very few cases of installing dual systems or deleting the original Bee system.

After all, for ordinary users, the highlight of Bumblebee is its infinite combination and performance amplification, but after switching to PC mode, this ability is lost, and it suddenly becomes obscure. After all, on the PC platform, relying on the bee collaborative acceleration client can still achieve performance enhancement, but the operation is more troublesome and the effect is worse.

Now many domestic users have gradually developed the new "three military rules" of "sex can be used, good looks and comfort are the most important, and of course the network must be good", and according to these standards, Bumblebee in PC mode is completely uncompetitive. In that case, why buy your new computer?

Faced with this situation, Bee Computer can only try to ensure performance growth by avoiding the mud pit of the PC, and it is natural for them to focus on the in-vehicle system that they can always see when commuting to and from work every day. The in-car environment is undoubtedly more closed than the commercial and domestic environment of the PC, and the car owner and passengers will not care too much about the number of software and games on the on-board computer, they are more concerned about cost and performance, as well as safety, which is obviously more suitable for the new system to make a side-road breakthrough.

And the fact did not slap them in the face this time, the bee on-board computer series products are selling quite well, although the monthly sales have not exceeded the bee's tablet and bumblebee all-in-one machines, but because the gross profit margin is higher, the actual profit contribution has exceeded them.

Seeing the good prospects of the on-board computer market, Bee Computer also has a new ambition, that is, to completely abandon the embarrassing x86-compatible PC architecture and use it to build a completely own new system! The new version of the A-series on-board computer that Li Jiaming is waiting for will be of this type.

Intel's dominant x86 architecture dominates PCs and microcomputers, while the ARM architecture dominates microdevices and mobile devices, and both sides have been trying to invade each other's territory, but neither has succeeded. For the bee chip that is about to embark on the challenge of the PC battlefield, except for Li Jiaming and their internal employees, outsiders have little confidence.

PCs and microcomputers are not the same concept, microcomputers include PCs and Macs and other products such as Bumblebee, but the former occupy the vast majority of the market so much that ordinary people usually treat them as equals.

Interestingly, PC was originally the special name of IBM's microcomputer products, but then IBM did a "self-destructive Great Wall" thing, in order to recruit younger brothers, they chose to open up the PC's architecture standards and interface protocols, any company can produce compatible hardware for IBM's PC in the future, of course, using all compatible hardware can also bypass IBM to create a complete "IBM compatible PC" ,The only thing that can't be avoided is the Windows system.,Even if the CPU doesn't use Intel, you can buy AMD or VIA.。

So soon IBM compatible PC with the price and even performance advantages to beat the main PC, in 1987 the small company Compaq, with the help of Intel, the first to launch the 386 computer using 80386 CPU, the limelight for a while. Compaq's success has spurred countless computer companies to follow suit, and the combination of PCs has led to the rapid development of PCs, and new models and new features have emerged one after another.

However, IBM is not happy, the main owner was defeated by the compatible machine, and he only received a small license fee, so it is strange that he can be happy!

So IBM, which has deep pockets, learned a lesson and redeveloped the second-generation PC, and renamed it PS/2 because the PC name was rotten. However, the closed PS/2 failed again, and in the end, the PC borrowed its six-pin keyboard interface from the past, and called it the PS/2 interface.

On the contrary, the OS/2 operating system used by the PS/2 has been a great success to some extent. Originally, this system was jointly developed by IBM and Microsoft, but later the two sides parted ways, and each continued to develop and bring it to the market, of which IBM continued to develop 2. X version, but later in the launch of the 4. After version 0, choose to give up completely. And Microsoft continues to develop 3. The X version, which was later renamed WindowsNT when it was released.

The NT system was so successful that the Windows system that was introduced since then was an improved version of the NT kernel. Among them, 2000, XP, and color RVE are based on NT5. 0, and Vista, Win7, Color RVE, and the next-generation operating system Win8 that is already under development are all based on NT6. 0。

In the field of computers, sometimes it is not necessary to have the technology and funds to be able to succeed, IBM finally chose to give up the PC department, packaged and sold to the "tattered king" face to think, and turned to use PowerPC processors to build supercomputers, there was a period of time when a large number of IBM blue gene supercomputers ranked at the top of the global supercomputing list, of course, now it is more wealthy domestic "Tianhe No. 1" surpassed.

However, tens of thousands of processors used in IBM's supercomputing are self-produced, and "Tianhe No. 1" may only have the motherboard and power supply made in China, and other important components CPU is Intel, GPU is AMD, and the hard disk is either Western Digital Seagate or Hitachi, although the whole system is up to 98TB of memory, although I don't know the specific manufacturer, but I can't escape Samsung hynix, Elpida, Infineon, these Korean, Japanese and German memory particle manufacturers.

As for the memory module manufacturers such as Kingston, Apacer, and Corsair, they actually just buy the memory chips sold by the previous memory chip manufacturers and solder them to a PCB printed circuit board.

The previous collapse in the price of memory modules caused a lot of scalpers who speculated on memory, which was the result of the melee-fighting of memory particle manufacturers and the deliberate price reduction of Samsung, which had the advantage, in order to squeeze the opponent. This is also a good time for consumers to share the dividends of technological progress on a limited number of occasions, and when other giants fall behind and die, and memory particles become like CPUs, GPUs, and mechanical hard disks, only two or three manufacturers can produce them, their prices will become very stable, and from time to time they will use the excuse of insufficient capacity and tight supply to raise prices openly. For mobile phone users, please visit http://m.piaotian.net