Li Yixuan set foot in the United States again, after the jet lag, he first went to Orange's direct store to have a look, business is booming, there is an endless stream of customers who come to the store to buy products, whether it is computers, hard disks, RAID, or office software sales are very good. Hard drives, in particular, are even more popular than computers.

Li Yixuan stood in the store for less than an hour and sold 100 hard drives. This is still the data of one store, and how much should the other two directly-operated stores, or those distributors, sell? The price of each hard drive seems to be less profitable than that of computers, but it can't afford a large amount.

Maintain this momentum, and in a year, the profit of hard drives will definitely far exceed that of computers. Think about the future generation of Seagate, just selling hard disks a year sales of more than 30 billion US dollars, you can see how profitable hard drives are.

Of course, the competition in the hard disk market is also very fierce, much more fierce than the desktop CPU competition in the 80s and 90s. In addition to the Seagate and Western Digital that we are familiar with, the United States also has IBM, Quantum (a sub-brand of IBM), Yiou (EMC), Maxtor, Cenda (Lijie), RB's Toshiba, Hitachi, Fujitsu, South Korea's LG, Samsung, Hyundai Daewoo Group, and many other hard disk manufacturers have joined in, and the entire hard disk market is as tragic as the Warring States Period.

In addition to these companies, Intel also began to enter the hard disk market in 2012, which shows how fierce the competition in this market is.

Orange doesn't look at the popularity of hard disk sales, but it just picked up a gap in the market, and when other companies reacted and joined this market, the good days of eating alone are gone.

Hard disk capacity is getting larger and lower, hard disk manufacturers want to make money, in addition to continuous upgrading, but also rely on scale effect. And hard drives are being replaced faster than CPUs. Think about it, from the birth of the first personal computer hard disk in 80 to 1990, in just ten years, the capacity of personal computer hard disk has skyrocketed from 5MB to 1G, and then it took less than 10 years for the hard disk capacity to break through 10G, and then it took less than 5 years for the capacity to break through 100G, 200G...... 500…… 1T…… 2T…… 3T, the rapid growth rate, far beyond everyone's imagination.

Li Yixuan decided, after going back this time, the construction of the hard disk factory should be accelerated, in order to ensure that it will stand tall in the fierce market competition in the future, the upgrading of hard disk capacity cannot be like another time and space with an annual capacity growth of 40%, and must be doubled growth.

By 1982 at the latest, the capacity of a single disk will exceed 100MB, 1G in 89 years at the latest, and 10G in 95 years. Only by running non-stop and running at the forefront will we not be eliminated by the market. In the IT era, only champions will survive.

Seeing that the time was almost up, he drove to the Chinatown of San Francisco, stopped at the door of another Chinese restaurant, and there were still ten minutes before the meeting time, Li Yixuan smoked a cigarette before getting out of the car and entering.

"Hello sir, do you have a reservation?" said a Chinese waitress at the door of the restaurant.

"There is an appointment. Li Yixuan took out the agreed schedule.

The waiter looked through the record book and checked it, and soon found it, "Mr. Li Yixuan, Block B on the second floor, Mr. Huang and Mr. Wright are already inside." ”

I didn't expect them to arrive first, "Can you ask when they arrived?"

"Only 5 minutes ahead of you. ”

"Thank you. After speaking, Li Yixuan went upstairs directly. Coming to the door of the room with B written on it, Li Yixuan knocked on the door.

The door opened, and it was Will Wright. "Very punctual boss. ”

"I was on time. Will Wright stepped out of the way, Li Yixuan walked in, and a middle-aged man in his forties stood up, with a typical oriental face, a little fat.

The two sides looked at each other for a moment, and then stretched out their hands at the same time, "Under Li Yixuan" and "Under Wen Bingxi".

After speaking, the two laughed at the same time, and Wen Bingxi stretched out to the seat opposite, "Please take a seat." ”

Li Yixuan nodded politely, and sat opposite Wen Bingxi.

The two sides looked at each other again, and Wen Bingxi spoke first: "Wright is my friend, and I was introduced to AMV by Wright." Wright found me a few days ago and said that his boss was also a Chinese and wanted to talk to me about cooperation, so I was very curious about what kind of person made Wright so interested. ”

Li Yixuan waved his hand and said: "Where am I a hero, the young man is real, he is very restless, and he eats mixed rice." It was Mr. Wen who was truly respected. I know how difficult it is for Chinese people in the United States to get ahead. ”

Wen Bingxi was very useful for Li Yixuan's praise, "Ha, ha, ha, why should Mr. Li be modest, this is the United States, and he is not modest." I've gotten to know you, you're good. It's simply the second Wang An. ”

"I have heard Mr. Wang An's name like thunder, but I didn't have the opportunity to meet him. ”

Wen Bingxi smiled, "I haven't met Mr. Wang An either, but ...... I think you'll meet sooner or later, after all, you're both computer makers. ”

Wen Bingxi's words made Li Yixuan feel a little, they are all computers, I don't know if they will be enemies or allies after meeting, after all, there are no fathers and sons in shopping malls, they are all computers, competition is inevitable, I hope it will not become an enemy.

Seeing that Li Yixuan's eyebrows were a little worried, how could Wen Bingxi, who was old and refined, not be able to see it, as the saying goes, peers become enemies, knowing that even if the two meet, they will definitely not be so harmonious.

So he went straight to the topic, "Wright gave me two scripts and I read them both, to be honest, it's very exciting, a robot that can transform, this entrepreneurship is just too second." and that "Prison Break", the plot is simply exciting, which makes me more and more interested in Mr. Li, but I didn't expect Li Yixuan not only to do well in computers, but also to be a screenwriter at the level of Hollywood's top screenwriters. ”

Even if Li Yixuan's face is as thick as a city wall, he is not only red, where can he write a screenwriter, and he is not copied from future generations.

However, I still have to admit that this is my own work, "If I hadn't entered the computer industry, maybe I would have become a writer." I used to submit a manuscript to a newspaper, but it was rejected. ”

As soon as the words came out, not only Wen Bingxi, but even Will Wright next to him was also interested, but he didn't expect Li Yixuan to be a writer before.

"Have you submitted to a newspaper?"

Li Yixuan nodded and said, "Hong Kong's "Ming Pao" is a science fiction novel called "The Three-Body Problem". ”

"Can you tell me the story?"

"I brought the manuscript. After speaking, he took out the manuscript he had written back then from his briefcase and handed it over.

Wen Bingxi took it and looked at it.

This is prepared by Li Yixuan in advance, if Wen Bingxi wants to cooperate with him, the first thing to figure out is to make sure that the script provided by the other party is not copied, which is especially important in Hollywood, once it involves plagiarizing other people's works, it will be a big lawsuit, Wen Bingxi can't help but be cautious.

In fact, when Will Wright found him, he investigated Li Yixuan, and Li Yixuan gave him two manuscripts, he went to the American Writers Guild and the Hollywood Writers Guild to investigate, and found Li Yixuan's work in the Screenwriters Guild Signature registration, and at the same time, he did not find similar works, and confirmed that Li Yixuan did not plagiarize, so there was this meeting.

Li Yixuan also knew that there would be such a process, so he also came prepared this time, the novel "The Three-Body Problem" was registered with the American Writers Association a few years ago, and bringing him this time was also to establish the other party's confidence.