Chapter 21 Imitation
Wanhu China's R&D team, with the support of sufficient funds, has achieved remarkable results. The light-emitting diode www.biquge.info has been successfully miniaturized and can be stuffed into the Tetris handheld.
On the other side of the ocean, in California, the appearance of the backlit Tetris machine is the product of this technological breakthrough.
Compared to the original Tetris handheld, the backlit handheld is not much different in principle. There is no need for the voltage amplification device that is commonly needed for small bulbs, only two jumpers and a small bulb are needed to complete the transformation.
If you use the renminbi to calculate, these additional costs are less than ten yuan, and if you use the dollar and yen, it is almost negligible.
Of course, you can't just calculate the cost of materials, but even if you calculate the cost of R&D, with the advantage of China's low wages, it can still be said that there is almost no cost.
Because for 10,000 households in China, which is equivalent to a foreign exchange cow, the RMB that is difficult for other Chinese companies to get, does not require money at all for 10,000 households.
From the very beginning, the LEDs were fully localized, so the amount of foreign exchange used was extremely small.
And the success of this research and development, after obtaining the patent, the most significant result is that the price of the "Tetris" machine increased by a full ten dollars when the additional cost of the "Tetris" machine was less than ten dollars.
You must know that the FOB price of the "Tetris" handheld is only ten dollars, and the ten dollars that have been raised all of a sudden are almost all profits.
And the market's response to the new Tetris handheld is also well received. The players not only talked like hammer fans, but also voted with their wallets, and although it was ten dollars more expensive and nearly 3,000 yen, the enthusiasm of the players was still high.
The market share of Wanhu, which has been chased and blocked by various piracy manufacturers, has increased significantly. Those pirate manufacturers can almost only watch the backlit version sweep the market. Because they don't know anything about this new technology.
The upstream parts suppliers of pirate manufacturers also do not have the reserves for this technology.
The technology has always been weak, and the 10,000 households that can only get the market by taking the sword to the edge finally taste the sweetness of technology for the first time.
However, although a high profit has been achieved in a short period of time, it does not mean that the profit can be maintained for a long time.
The commercially available light-emitting diode technology is already very mature, and some component manufacturers, buying back a few samples, it is estimated that they can reverse engineer a complete structure and imitate it.
However, the big companies don't risk patent infringement to produce such diodes. However, how can those companies that are already on the fringes of the law, those regions that already regard the law as nothing, not immediately copy and join the ranks of making super-profits.
Therefore, despite the phased success, the atmosphere within Wanhu's R&D department and product design department has become more tense. Because they have only achieved a phased victory, if they want to maintain their current advantage, they must continue to innovate this technology.
When someone else can achieve the effect of emitting light from the screen by embedding a light-emitting diode under the screen, you need to make the backlight even.
When someone else can make the backlight even, you need not to leak the light.
If others don't leak light, you have to pay more attention to energy saving and brightness adjustable functions.
In short, technology is constantly improving, and if you don't have the heart to keep moving forward, you can't go through the road of technology.
The ham sausage mobile phone, which used to almost represent the Android camp, was eliminated by other manufacturers by various means because it didn't care about the underlying technology.
If you want to be uncontrolled by others, you must have hardware production and research and development capabilities.
It's not an easy path to take, nor is it an easy one.
If it weren't for the fact that he was backed by an entire Chinese talent team, Takahashi's choice might have been like that of Nintendo and Sega. We choose to cooperate with technology manufacturers to develop a variety of hardware.
When Wanhu China's backlit "Tetris" handheld achieved excellent results, Wanhu said that there was bad news from the headquarters.
Nintendo unilaterally announced that it would stop all cooperation with Wanhe.
The reason is that Nintendo found pirated red and white machines in circulation in Chinese mainland.
Thousands of households from the high-rise to the grassroots, from the high-level to the grass-roots employees, all looked confused.
You know, although Wanhu has the ability to produce 6502, and intends to produce 6502. But the prize was only given to computer research institutes affiliated with a few domestic universities in China to study how to develop cheap learning machines.
The pirated red and white machines circulating in Chinese mainland actually point to one place, that is, Taiwan (Harmony) Bay.
Even, the chip manufacturer of Taiwan (Harmony) Bay has integrated the 6502 CPU with the PPU graphics processor.
Although this is not surprising, after all, the chip used in the red and white machine is already a technology ten years ago. However, this move has also greatly reduced the manufacturing cost of the red and white machine.
For the whole machine manufacturer who assembles the red and white machine, this is definitely a very big benefit.
The only thing that restricts Taiwan (Harmony) Bay pirated game consoles to the world is the production capacity, with the increase of production capacity.
Whether it is Chinese mainland or Hong Kong (harmony) port, whether it is South America or Africa, as long as it is not a developed country, there are pirated red and white machines.
There is a reason why non-developed countries do not pay attention to patents. The reason is simple, that is, there is a sound patent system, which is a completely devastating blow to domestic enterprises.
Because patents are the walls built by developed countries, and they are the weapons that developed countries use to harvest the whole world.
Therefore, when the pirated red and white machines originating from Taiwan ravaged the world, it was 10,000 households who took the blame.
The "Space Warrior" project team stopped directly after learning the news, because their programming was based on the red and white machine.
In addition, the game mode of this game is not suitable for arcades at all, and if you want to port arcade machines, the changes are so big that it is almost no different from making another game.
Takahashi once again came to Sega's headquarters to welcome Takahashi's Sega at any time, although he also learned the news of Nintendo's termination of cooperation with Manho, but he did not fall into the ground.
Although Takahashi knew that the mall was full of business and could not talk about feelings, he was still a little moved.
After an hour of secret room memories, Manhu and Sega reached a cooperation intention, and the game "Space Warrior" is in production. It is expected to be launched on Sega's home platform, SMX.
As soon as the news came out, the gaming circle was shaken.
At the same time, Wanhu China has also been notified by Takahashi to fully imitate the red and white machine integrated chip produced by Taiwan (Harmony) Bay.
If you don't do it, you don't stop it.
You say I'm a replica of a red and white machine!
I'll copy it!