The area of the electronics factory under the command of Aihua Electronics Company is not very large.

In order to free up space to set up a fab, but also to reduce production costs.

In the past month, Aihua Electronics has successively handed over the production line of Pokemon pet machines in the factory to Taihua Electronics in Pengcheng.

On this day, Wu Ming and Huo Jianning, under the leadership of Yu Youcheng, inspected the wafer fab that had been successfully established.

Seeing that the production line had begun to produce A8 chips, Wu Ming couldn't help but nodded, and asked with a smile: "Old man Yu, has the equipment been checked? This batch of chips will be used to produce block machines, but there can be no quality problems." ”

As the next heavyweight product of Xingchen Entertainment, Wu Mingke attaches great importance to it, and there can be no loopholes.

Hearing this, Yu Youcheng couldn't help but blow his beard and glare, and scolded with a smile: "Little ghost, do you think I'm you, I'm careless every time." How dare I produce without being inspected. We have also checked all the chips produced, and the yield rate has reached 92%, and it can reach more than 99% in two months at most. ”

Wu Ming nodded and asked, "How much does each chip cost?"

Yu Youcheng replied: "Now it is about $12 per piece, which is several times higher than the cost of the MOS 6502, but I am sure that it will be reduced to $5 in half a year." ”

Hearing this, Wu Ming was surprised: "So fast!"

In half a year, the cost can be reduced by more than half, and it is no wonder that Wu Ming will be surprised.

Yu Youcheng said with a smile: "This is also because there are orders for tens of millions of chips from Xingchen Entertainment, and all the production lines in our factory can be full." Otherwise, it would be nice to get it down to $10. ”

Since then, many companies have developed advanced CPUs, which are much more powerful than Intel's CPUs.

However, because there are not enough orders, they can only be eliminated from the market in the end. The situation of bad money chasing good money makes many developers feel helpless.

If Yu Youcheng hadn't looked at Xingchen Entertainment, he could have provided a large number of orders. Even if Wu Ming is his student, no matter how good the relationship is, it is impossible to agree to Wu Ming to develop a CPU for him all at once.

After a while, Yu Youcheng took Wu Ming and Huo Jianning to visit all the production workshops.

At this time, Yu Youcheng asked suspiciously: "Since I met you, I have also paid a lot of attention to the game market. Now that the island country has a company called Nintendo, but it also has a handheld on the market, aren't you afraid that they will steal your market?"

In April of this year, Nintendo's first handheld and the world's first LCD screen gaming handheld Game Watch was launched.

This handheld was developed by the famous Gunpei Yokoi in the game industry, who later developed the most famous Game Boy in the history of handhelds.

In the original time and space, the Game Watch sold a total of 32 million units worldwide in three years, saving Nintendo 4 billion yen in liquid cash, and these proceeds became a powerful capital for Nintendo to expand in the game field in the near future.

"Hahaha!"

When Wu Ming heard this, he couldn't help laughing and said, "Since even Old Man Yu knows about this, how can I not know." ”

After speaking, Wu Ming showed a trace of disdain on his face, and said with a smile: "As soon as their handheld machine was listed, the branch of the island country reported to the headquarters of Xiangjiang, and also sent a few to Xiangjiang. After I played with Uncle Jianning, I didn't pay attention to them at all. ”

Huo Jianning took over the topic and explained: "Brother Yu, Xiao Ming and I were also worried at first, this would disrupt our plans and make us have to go public in advance. It's just that in that case, the CPU of the cube computer can only use the MOS 6502 chip. ”

"When we played the handhelds sent by the island nation, we found that they could only play one game each, and there were only four games in total. It's completely incomparable to our block machine, and we don't have to worry about it after that. ”

While the Game Watch is good to play, you can only play one game per device, which will be the biggest weakness of the handheld. Especially if the block machine can play more than a dozen games.

Wu Ming smiled slightly and asked, "Old man Yu, you have also played with our block machine." We have a dozen games in total, but we only need the price of a handheld. Lets you choose which one you'll buy?"

"Buyer block machine. Yu Youcheng blurted out.

Wu Ming nodded and said with a smile: "So we don't worry about them at all, now that our CPU has started production, the cube machine can also be put into production." We'll be on sale next month. At that time, the Game Watch produced by Nintendo, I'm afraid it won't be sold. ”

Although Nintendo is still a small company, it cannot be compared with Xingchen Entertainment at all, but Wu Ming knows how brilliant this company will be in the future, and he can't let his guard down.

As long as there is any chance to hit Nintendo, Wu Ming will not give up.

Yu Youcheng was stunned and laughed loudly: "Haha, you kid is so insidious, but I like it!"

Wu Ming raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "They are our competitors, this is fair competition, how can it be called insidious!"

"You little ghost, you're still so thick-skinned!" Yu Youcheng said helplessly.

"Hehehe!"

Wu Ming smiled, then turned his head to look at Huo Jianning, and asked, "Uncle Jianning, the cube computer was originally designed with a MOS 6502 chip, and now it should be no problem to change to an A8 chip!"

Huo Jianning nodded and said with a smile: "The person in charge of the unit in the platform technology development department has been changed, and some problems that have arisen after a lot of testing have also been solved, and they can be officially produced at any time." ”

The cube machine is not very technical, and any problems that arise can be solved quickly.

Wu Ming asked again: "How is the research and development progress of 'Phantasy Star'?"

Now the research and development time of "Phantasy Star" has been more than half a year, although the Atari 2600 can be used as a reference, but because there is no A8 chip, the progress is not very fast.

Huo Jianning smiled and replied: "Since the A8 chip was developed, their development speed has accelerated a lot. According to them, it can be developed by the end of the year. And because the performance of the A8 chip is close to that of the 16-bit complex instruction set CPU, they guarantee that the performance of the 'Phantasy Star' can complete the Atari 2600 in all aspects. ”

Wu Ming smiled: "That's good, every day watching Atari's home machine conquer the city in the game market, I feel a little anxious." Now it's a sigh of relief, and next year we can compete with Atari. ”

Huo Jianning also looked longing and said: "Yes, the more you know about the game industry, the more you can know how great the potential of this industry is." I'm finally convinced by what you say, and the gaming market is going to be tens of billions of dollars in the future. ”

Now Huo Jianning is also a veteran driver in the game industry, the more he understands this industry, the more surprised he becomes, and the more motivated he is, after all, he has a dry stock in Xingchen Entertainment.