Li Feng also understood that what Wu Ming said was indeed reasonable, and knew that it was unrealistic to let animation companies give up making adult animation, so he stopped talking.

"Can your Pokemon anime really boost the sales of Pokemon pet machines?" asked Li Feng with a little worry.

Li Feng knows that the sales of Pokemon pet machines have been declining recently, but he is still a little skeptical that a cartoon can increase sales.

Wu Ming smiled confidently and affirmed: "Of course, don't you see that the gunpla and mini four-wheel drive cars in Dad's company really became popular after the cartoons were broadcast! I believe that "Pokemon" can meet my expectations." ”

"That's right. Li Feng listened to Wu Ming's explanation and found that this was indeed the case, and the worry in his heart decreased slightly.

Four days later, "Pokemon" was officially broadcast, and it immediately attracted countless fans after it was broadcast.

"The elves are so cute!"

"Mom, Dad, I want to buy elf's rag dolls!"

"The comics can't fully show the charm of the elves, but the animation is good-looking!"

After the success of Xiangjiang, the "Pokemon" cartoon was immediately sent to Europe, the United States, island countries and other countries and regions for broadcasting.

After the broadcast, Wu Ming was not disappointed, and the sales of pet machines immediately stopped declining, and even increased, and other peripheral products such as dolls and stickers were selling hot.

……

In the morning, I received a call from Yu Youcheng, saying that he was looking for him. So as soon as Wu Ming finished eating at noon, he came to the laboratory of Aihua Electronics.

When he was about to walk in the door, Wu Ming shouted loudly: "Old man Yu, what are you looking for me?"

There was a hint of expectation in Wu Ming's voice.

"What's the matter?" Yu Youcheng saw Wu Ming with a smile on his face, "Isn't it just what you urge me every day!"

Wu Ming's eyes lit up when he heard this, his breathing was a little short, and he said, "You mean to say that 16 cPu have been developed?!"

"That's good!" Yu Youcheng nodded in affirmation.

"Great!" Wu Ming shouted happily.

This time, Wu Mingke is looking forward to the development of 16 cPu every day, and today he finally got his wish.

Yu Youcheng held a chip in his palm and stretched it out in front of Wu Ming, and said, "Look, this is the aRm16 chip that was just completed this morning!"

Wu Ming took the chip, looked at it carefully, and asked seriously, "How is the performance?"

"Far more than Intel released the Intel8088 three years ago," Yu Youcheng smirked, "This chip contains 106,000 transistors inside, the clock frequency is 21.5MHz, and it can be increased, and the maximum should be able to reach about 60MHz." Floating-point performance can reach 4.6 million times per second.

The internal and external data buses and address buses are both 16-bit, and the addressable memory size reaches 22MB. The overall performance is several times that of Intel8088. And the manufacturing process only needs 3 microns, and we can produce it immediately after the chip is inspected. ”

"Good! good!"

Wu Ming used three "good" words in a row to express his happiness.

No wonder Wu Ming is so happy, just 10 days ago, the computer industry giant IBM launched a personal computer with the model IBM-PC, which is often referred to as a PC in later generations. For this giant company, Wu Ming is regarded as a great enemy.

Even Apple, the leader in the personal computer industry, actually doesn't pay much attention to it. Because Apple started the PC trend and still occupies the largest market share now. But after Apple's success with Appleii, it made a lot of mistakes in the PC industry.

Let's just say that in May last year, Apple launched Apple's third-generation Apple III, which has been in development for two years. While on the surface Apple is proud of the Apple III, that's all appearances. In fact, many developers within Apple have a lot of grievances about this computer.

Because the original AppLei and II computers were basically done by Steve Woznick, one of the founders of Apple. However, because of Jobs's personal selfishness, the research and development of the Apple III project was deeply involved by him, a layman, and even abandoned the mature Applelei architecture, resulting in frequent product problems.

For example, Apple III's designers were forced to follow Jobs's extremely high and sometimes unrealistic requirements, and Jobs is said to have omitted cooling fans because he felt they were "unelegant," resulting in computers that were prone to overheating, forcing the earliest models to be recycled.

In addition, the price of Apple III is also very high, just an eight-bit computer, the price is as high as more than $4,000, and the highest one even reaches $10,000.

The eventual market reaction also proved that the Apple III was a failure. In the future, Apple will lose more than $60 million on the Apple III product line.

And Wu Ming also knows that Apple will not change its mind, and will still use the new architecture on the Lisa and mac computers in the future, and make the same mistakes repeatedly.

So Wu Ming is not worried that Apple will pose a great threat to Star Computer. In fact, the development of Star Computer is now smooth.

With a low price of $600 and the support of many office software and computer games, the first-generation Star Computer has sold more than 240,000 units in the United States in just half a year. More than 50,000 units were sold in other countries and regions.

Of course, because of the low price, Star Computer only made a profit of about $30 million, which is only Apple's profit in a month. And Star Computer must also give half of its profits to Polaris as software expenses. So Star Computer actually doesn't make much, and it's much worse than other computer companies.

But Wu Ming didn't care about the profits at the beginning, and the reason why he set the price at $600 was not to seize the market and make a name for himself under the banner of "Volkswagen in computers".

It's just that IBM's threat has always been like a thorn in the back, which makes Wu Ming not happy with the development results of Star Computer.

In the original time and space, the IBM-PC set a sales miracle in the year it was released, selling 25,000 units.

Keep in mind that IBM's PC is not cheap at $1,565 (equivalent to $3,500 today), and it doesn't include graphics cards and black-and-white monitors, and there are very few apps available.

But because of IBM's influence in the computer industry, it is very popular. In the second year of its release, 200,000 units were sold, and in the third year, it reached 700,000 units.

Later, IBM eliminated other types of personal computers by exposing the IBM-PC standard, leaving only Apple's Macintosh computer struggling, and then making personal computers and IBM-PCs synonymous, with extremely clever means.

As for IBM-PC being defeated by its own compatible machine, it does not mean that the open standard is wrong. It was because IBM was dizzy and greedily incorporated the personal computer department, which was originally an independent operation, into its traditional management system, and continued the idea of selling mainframes to personal computers, which destroyed its foundation.