Chapter 196: The prototype is out
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After settling Jia's father, he called Peng Guohua again and asked Peng Guohua to find someone to help Jia's mother and others apply for passports.
When Jia Mu and the others came to Kyoto, Li Qing settled Jia Mu and the others, and left Jia Jingwen 500,000 yuan before leaving Kyoto for the magic capital - the prototype of the Dream Clan VCD came out.
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At this time, the Dream Clan Electronics was very different from when Li Qing left the Demon Capital.
After Li Qing smashed hundreds of millions of yuan:
The administrative and scientific research complex has been built, with four square-shaped four-storey buildings connected by a modern steel and tempered glass sky corridor.
A staff housing complex has been planned and a high-end apartment building has been built.
A factory area rebuilt on the basis of the 35th factory has been built, and has production capacity, if you want to increase the production capacity, you only need to introduce a few production lines and corresponding equipment.
The second plant has also been planned, but due to financial constraints, construction has not started.
The lawn in front of the plant was reorganized, and a wide asphalt road was paved on the muddy clearing between the road and the road.
The whole factory is surrounded by a red brick wall with a height of a few feet, and it has been plastered, and a layer of light yellow paint has been added, and the identification system has been added, such as warnings and prohibition signs.
A 20-meter-wide pointed arch gate makes Mengzu Electronics Factory more noble!
Although there are only seven or eight hundred employees in Mengzu Electronics Factory, there are 12 senior engineers and more than 150 technicians, and the proportion of investment in technology is quite amazing, and the proportion of high education is also the only one in China.
Indeed, although DreamWorks has only been established for a few months, Li Qing has invested nearly 20 million yuan in the development of prototypes.
Of course, this is a drop in the bucket compared to international companies such as Texas Instruments and Scober, which often invest tens of millions of dollars in the research and development of a certain product, but compared with other domestic companies that have entered the DVD player manufacturing industry at the same time, Dream Clan's handiwork is absolutely unparalleled.
Because the three engineers of Mengzu are directly involved in the development of a new generation of decoding chips of Texas Instruments, at the same time that Texas Instruments has developed a new generation of decoding chips, Mengzu Electronics has also produced the most powerful and stable prototype at present.
However, although a prototype based on Texas Instruments' next-generation decoder chip has been developed, it does not mean that this kind of VCD can be produced now - Texas Instruments' plant has only just begun construction, and it will not be ready for production in three or five months.
Does that mean that the machinery and equipment of Mengzu Electronics Factory and nearly 1,000 people have to be idle, waiting for Texas Instruments to build a factory to produce a new generation of decoding chips before entering the VCD market?
Are you kidding.
No matter how rich Li Qing is, he can't do this!
Moreover, the Dream Clan VCD cannot be produced without Texas Instruments' new generation of decoding chips, don't forget, there is already a new generation of Scober decoding chips on the market, as long as the new generation of Texas Instruments' decoding chips are replaced by Scober's new generation of decoding chips, everything has the Dream Clan VCD can be put into production, and then enter the VCD market.
The explosive profits of the DVD player market have begun to show their heads.
At present, there are not only Wan Yan, the ancestor of VCD, but also a DVD player just launched by Samsung on the market.
In just five months in the first half of the year, Wanyan and Samsung have sold more than 20,000 VCDs.
The market price of DVD players is still above $4,500 per unit, which is a spread of almost $2,500 per disc player compared to the manufacturing cost.
However, Wan Yan and Samsung's products are all based on the first generation of decoding chips assembled - Wan Yan has developed system control software and complete assembly technology based on the first generation of decoding chips in 93 years, which is also the reason why Samsung can quickly launch products.
In order to catch up with the time, Samsung completely imitated Wan Yan's technology, using the first generation of stereotyped decoding chips, and the quality was unstable, which was also one of the key factors for Samsung to withdraw from the DVD player market at the earliest, but this did not prevent them from using brand advantages at this time to occupy the mainstream market of video players at once, and the sales volume even exceeded Wan Yan several times.
After six or seven months of preparation, the conditions for trial production were just ready at this time, because the second-generation decoding chip was directly used as the core component, and it took a lot of manpower and financial resources to independently develop system control software.
This move is to distance itself from other DVD player manufacturers in the early days of the DVD player market.
Now that the Dream Clan is ready, it's time to make the Dream Clan Electronics famous.
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Mengzu Electronics Factory, comprehensive office building, conference room.
The prototype is still relatively ugly, and a new mold factory has been selected to produce the chassis.
Du Zishi personally demonstrated the functions of the prototype to Li Qing, and then compared the Wanyan VCD and Samsung VCD that have been on the market, and after the function was introduced, he did a performance test.
Li Qing doesn't know much about technology, but he can see, and it is obvious that in terms of function and quality, Mengzu VCD is much better than Wanyan VCD and Samsung VCD.
Yu Shaoyuan said: "TI's plant construction is going very smoothly, but it will not be until October at the earliest, c-cube knows that we have a strategic cooperation with TI, we purchase a new generation of decoding chips from c-cube, not impossible, but must be purchased according to the market price, there is no discount, and this is because no other company buys a new generation of decoding chips from c-cube, if it is in short supply, we may have to face more stringent conditions." If the movement is made of Philips, the price is very expensive, and you have to pay an additional $5,000 in copyright royalties, but there is a Hengyuan Electronics in Guangdong, and they buy bald heads from Philips to open molds for racks, and the cost can be reduced not much, of course, the quality will also be reduced......"
Li Qing didn't even think about it and said: "Since we have invested so much in the early stage of technology, we have to distance ourselves from other companies, and now we don't have the technical ability to open molds and make racks, and no matter how expensive the movement is, we have to buy it from Philips...... As for the c-cube side, don't worry about it, at least by the end of this year, there won't be a second DVD player company using a new generation of decoding chips, it's just that we can't cooperate with TI or not with it. ”
Du Zishi said: "This is the first DVD player of our dream clan, how to determine the model?"
Li Qing said: "PY-329." Seeing that the engineers in the technical department looked at him suspiciously, Li Qing added: "My birthday ......."
Everyone suddenly realized, only Xu Peiyu blushed, because Li Qing's birthday is actually November 23 of the lunar calendar, March 29 is her birthday, and PY is also the English abbreviation of her name "Peiyu"!
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