If you want to talk about the graphics card business of PC computers, in the 80s, this is still a rising field, even if it is pushed back 20 years, it is still the era of competition, and there is still a difference between the situation of a dominant company in the CPU field.

And if you put the timeline in '84, that's not even a single company that specializes in graphics graphics cards at this time, and you can't find it in all of Silicon Valley.

After all, the PC computer market in the eighties was still dominated by the DOS system in general, and the display of English characters did not even need to be drawn like Chinese, which shows how little attention was paid to graphics cards in the early eighties.

Or to put it more bluntly, at this time, there is no concept of a graphics card at all, and some are just a small circuit on the motherboard, and its technical content is not even as complex as that of Hanka.

But then again, in the early PC computer field, in terms of text and graphic display, IBM is indeed the most powerful, in addition to the early MDA/CGA, this guy later launched the EGA standard, until 87 years after the VGA standard, which finally established the status of its predecessors.

VGA display drawing array, its drawing mode can reach 640x480x16 colors, and 320x200x256 colors, at this time the graphics card can finally display 256 colors at the same time, which can really make the computer can display brilliant colors smoothly.

After the VGA standard, entrepreneurs gathered in Silicon Valley realized that a huge graphics acceleration graphics card market had been put on the table to continue this path, and then there were Trident and S3, two graphics card manufacturers that developed in the late eighties.

At this time, IBM, as mentioned above, played the role of its predecessors in planting trees, since the launch of MDA in 81, the blue giant has been silently planting trees, and finally made the market, but he failed to stabilize his position.

Almost along with the establishment of the VGA standard, it is almost also IBM's retreat in the field of graphics cards, which sounds incredible, a company that has established the industry standard on its own, but has quickly lost in this field.

It sounds funny all of a sudden, but IBM is really familiar with this, this company really doesn't do too many things like this, in a sense, it is indeed a great company, heroically great!

In the 80s, the graphics card business did not need to involve tall 3D graphics processing, for the graphics operating system and simple flat graphics display, including CAD-aided design, these only need to have 2D capabilities, with the accumulation of technology in the 80s, the product development cycle will not be too long.

Kaiyang Semiconductor and Yaoguang Electronics are based on the Republic market, where the demand for graphic visual display is far stronger than that of the United States, and only in this case, it is more possible to independently develop graphics cards, after all, demand drives production.

As for the question of "graphics", it seems to have become a curse at this time, and it is everywhere in Wang Zhengguo's various plans.

CMOS sensors need to solve the conversion between digital signals and images to make camera products, and the laser printer business needs only this part of the ability to fill, and now it is indeed too important to add a graphics card for PC computers.

Achieving a quick conversion between digital signals and graphic displays is already a top priority for someone's optoelectronic empire, and as long as this aspect can be solved, it is completely possible to achieve a product explosion and technology blowout.

Fortunately, there is still time to wait at this time, and the current market can also be occupied by 6502 Chinese character office computers, and it will not be so easy to be crushed by the IBM-PC system in a short period of time.

Looking at the entire Asian PC market, it was in a state of chaos in the 80s, and both the Apple computer system and the IBM-PC system could not be popularized on a large scale outside the English-speaking countries because of the problem of text display.

In this case, there are also a variety of locally developed computers, 6502 Chinese character office computer can be regarded as the republic's attempt in this regard, CCDOS is the representative of the Chinese operating system.

The same small book on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean,The situation faced at this time is actually similar,The IBM-PC in the 80s and its accompanying MS-DOS operating system could not display Japanese characters,This also gave the small book the same market gap。

NEC launched the PC-98 computer in 82, the reason why this series of products can dominate the domestic market of small books for more than ten years, accounting for more than 60% of the share, basically monopolizing the domestic microcomputer market.

The reason why IBM-PC and its compatible machines, which were popular all over the world at the time, did not enter the Japanese market, probably because this PC-98 computer was equipped with a display controller that could display Japanese.

The so-called display controller has the same function as Hanka, but the products with the same function have different names.

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With a complete set of mature business systems brought by Wang An Computer Company, the young Yaoguang Electronics began to quickly get on the right track, of course, a mere one million US dollars is not enough, but fortunately, the subsequent foundation injected funds again, plus the Shudu government came forward to guarantee that part of the funds were obtained directly from bank channels.

That is, in June 84, the first computer in the factory of Yaoguang Electronics was successfully rolled off the assembly line, and after the request of all the participating developers, it was officially named "Yaoguang Type 1".

After the first batch of computers passed the test, they were directly packed and shipped to the Shudu Government Office Building, and together with the printers imported from Wang An Computer Company, the office of the Shudu Municipal Government jumped into the electronic era.

Yaoguang 1 is successful, with its ability to perfectly display Chinese characters, coupled with good text and table processing cassette, at this time, it has no opponent to beat.

When the first government document was spit out from the printer connected to the Yaoguang 1 computer, even Wang Zhengguo was excited when he saw the familiar machine-typed Chinese characters and the accompanying table graphics and texts.

And this document, entitled "Plan for Promoting the Development Plan of Shudu High-tech Industry", as the first Chinese character document typed by a computer, has since taken on a deeper meaning.

This document, which was not stamped with the seal of any government department, was quickly put away, and Ni Guangnan, as the chief hardware engineer of the Yaoguang 1 computer, was more touched by this moment, and knew better than anyone how difficult it was to be able to print this document.

Decades later, when this document was turned out from the bottom of the box by Ni Guangnan, Shudu's high-tech industrial park has become an existence comparable to Silicon Valley, and it has naturally become a cultural relic that witnesses this history.

Shudu, far away in the southwest, produced computers that could perfectly display Chinese, and could also greatly improve office processing efficiency, which suddenly exploded up and down the republic.

CCTV's "News Express" program sent reporters to interview and gave three minutes of news space to report, calling it the beginning of the Republic's independent PC computer.

In the report, it was even used three times in a row to "break the monopoly of XX foreign technology" and twice to "fill the XX gap", and even when the host spoke, he was a little more excited.

"People's Daily", "Guangming Daily" and other national key newspapers and periodicals, their influence in the 80s was far greater than that of news broadcasts, but when evaluating the Yaoguang Type 1, they were not stingy with praise.

Purchase orders from all over the country flew to Shudu like snowflakes, and the computers provided for the government procurement in Shudu had not yet been delivered, and the new orders had already broken the threshold.

Seeing that the situation is very good, capacity expansion was immediately put on the agenda, and the Shudu High-tech Industrial Park has just begun to plan, and the engineering construction team has directly entered.