Chapter 32 Power Supply

On the afternoon of the second day just after the end of the United States Electronics, Li Yixuan took a plane to Taiwan, along with his legal representative and girlfriend Guo Yifei.

In this exhibition, more than 1,600 orders for Oranges I personal computers alone were obtained, and they must be delivered within 3 months.

In addition, DreamWorks has signed an arcade order for 37,000 units of Tank Wars and 26,000 units of Squirrel Wars. And follow-up orders will continue to come over, from another time and space customized arcade motherboard, the inventory has become less and less, we have to quickly produce a batch, has to meet the future order demand.

The order signed with Brazil's Cimai Codilon Company alone is as high as 50 million US dollars, which is equivalent to 250 million Hong Kong dollars.

At Taipei Taoyuan Airport, as soon as Li Yixuan walked out of the passage, he saw Guo Taiming in the crowd holding a big sign holding it high, which said Foxconn.

Li Yixuan walked over directly and stretched out his hand, "Mr. Guo, I didn't expect you to come in person." ”

"Mr. Li, I have to congratulate you on the success of opening up the American market." Terry Gou received the news in advance that DreamWorks' success in opening up the U.S. market is great news for Terry Gou, which unexpectedly shows that his Foxconn will not have orders in the future.

What surprised him even more was that Li Yixuan actually built a personal computer during this time in the United States, and he also successfully got the first batch of orders.

In this year, no matter which Asian country the computer is, it is the technology of the Zenith, Li Yixuan also entrusted the computer production to him, and Guo Taiming must personally pick up the machine no matter what.

According to Li Yixuan's request, he did not go to the hotel first, but drove directly to Taoyuan Industrial Zone.

Guo Taiming pointed to the construction site in front of him, and said to Li Yixuan: "This is the computer factory of the future." ”

"When will it be put into production?" Li Yixuan took the red helmet from Guo Taiming's hand.

"The concrete plant, the frame structure, can be put into production in one year, and it can produce 100,000 computers per year."

Hearing that it would only be put into production in a year, Li Yixuan's brows instantly furrowed, "My first batch of computer orders must be delivered within 3 months, and you told me that it will only be put into production in a year." ”

"Don't worry, I can't delay you, after receiving your fax, Hon Hai Precision immediately vacated an idle plant, the production equipment is ready-made, and the drawings can be trial-produced as soon as they arrive, and the delivery is guaranteed within 3 months."

Li Yixuan put his mind at ease, the factory building in this period is still a concrete plant, and the construction time is long and the cost is high. In later generations, the all-steel structure workshop that could be built in three months will not appear until the turn of the century.

"Can motherboard production keep up?"

"Two days ago, I received the process drawings of the motherboard, the production line has been adjusted, and the first batch of motherboards have been successfully trial-produced before you came."

"Let's go to the motherboard factory and have a look."

The motherboard factory is very close to here, 5 minutes by car, and he was greeted by several robot engineers, who came to Taiwan with the printed circuit board production line, and stayed here to be responsible for the installation and commissioning of the production line and the training of production workers.

Li Yixuan picked up a trial-made computer motherboard, and from the appearance, there was no flaw in the slightest. I picked up the testing instrument on the workbench and started the test myself.

An hour later, Li Yixuan completed the test and fully met the quality requirements. "There was no problem, the motherboard was fully up to standard. Put into production as soon as possible. ”

A robot engineer said: "The equipment has been debugged, this is the first batch of trial production, all the motherboards fully meet the quality requirements, the highest production capacity of this line is 3,000 motherboards a month, and now it is still preliminary production, only 50 pieces of production capacity a day, and then gradually increase the output after the workers are skilled, to ensure that full production is achieved within two months." ”

This production line is customized by Li Yixuan from another time and space, with a monthly output of 30,000 pieces, and the monthly production capacity will reach 60,000 pieces after expansion, and it will be 720,000 boards in a year.

Then I went to the arcade assembly plant and the computer assembly plant, and the arcade assembly was fully on track, this factory can provide 12,000 arcade machines per month, and the factory in Hong Kong can produce 8,000 arcade machines per month. With an arcade production of 20,000 units a month, plus inventory, it is fully capable of coping this year. However, Li Yixuan still asked Guo Taiming to increase the production of arcade machines, and the monthly output must reach 300000 units to prepare for the development of the European market.

The production of computers is different, and workers are still being trained. However, in order to complete the order as soon as possible, Guo Taiming adopted the method of manual assembly and production while training.

In an area of the factory, more than 30 workers, under the guidance of robot engineers, are assembling computer keyboards little by little, and then testing the assembled keyboards one by one.

A female worker assembled 3 keyboards in a row and was unqualified, and she was sweating profusely. Because if she doesn't meet the requirements, she will be eliminated, and she doesn't want to lose her job.

Seeing her anxious appearance, Li Yixuan comforted her and said: "Don't worry, step by step, get the first link first, and then get the second link, don't blindly seek speed, first produce the first keyboard." ”

Li Yixuan stood next to her, instructed her, and soon assembled a keyboard, and passed all the tests.

"Thank you." The female worker was grateful.

Li Yixuan nodded, looked at it for a while, and saw that she had no problem, so he left and came to the host assembly area.

Instead of the erection chassis that was popular in later generations, the Oranges I adopted IBM's square horizontal chassis solution. The reason for this is the style of decoration of American homes and offices in this year.

With a horizontal chassis solution, the Oranges I looks more like a home appliance than a large piece of electronics. This makes it unobtrusive whether it's at home, on a manager's desk, or in a school classroom.

Its top cover is fixed on both sides with six screws, and after removing the screws, it can be easily picked up and easy to change the hardware settings inside the computer.

Compared with the keyboard, the chassis is much smoother, because the keyboard is too many fragments and small, and the assembly needs to be careful, and basically the female workers are in charge.

Chassis assembly,Basically male workers,One person is responsible for installing the power supply,One person is responsible for the motherboard,One is responsible for installing the memory,One person is responsible for installing the enhancement card,Everyone works together,Soon a host will be installed。

Li Yixuan tested a host that had just been installed, and nodded with satisfaction.

Guo Taiming said: "At present, we can only produce like this, and when all the equipment is in place, the production efficiency can come up." The only concern now is whether the power supply can keep up. ”

Founded in 1956, Oranges I is a manufacturer specializing in high-end chassis power supply, and in 1973, it began to set foot in the field of desktop computer power supply to provide power supply solutions for the first generation of personal computers in the United States.

At present, Antek is in an absolute monopoly position in the field of desktop computer power supply, and it was not until 1985 that this situation will be broken.

Computer power supply technology is not difficult for Li Yixuan to solve, but he wants to test Guo Taiming, "Do you have a solution?" ”

Guo Taiming made a move, and his young female secretary took out a drawing. Guo Taiming took it and put it on the workbench to unfold. Li Yixuan glanced at his beautiful female secretary.

If he remembers correctly, she should now be Guo Taiming's concubine, after the death of the original partner in 91, the concubine turned positive and has always been by Guo's side. Guo didn't take a concubine in the future.

can see a person like Terry Gou to death, this woman is not simple.

"This is a new power supply that we have designed."

Li Yixuan knew what was going on with just a glance. ATX1.0 standard power supply, which is a power structure standard issued by Intel in 1989. Where they designed it themselves, they must have borrowed our robotics engineers. It seems that these robot engineers have to be given a limit, and don't pour everything out.

The computer power supply is a weak product, and the technical content is not high, so forget it this time, there will not be such a good thing in the future.

The early computer power supply was the AT structure, which was promulgated by the American company Antek in 1973.

The AT power supply is shut down by cutting off the AC power grid. The power is generally 150W~220W, with a total of four outputs (soil 5V, soil 12V), and a P.G. signal is provided to the motherboard. The output cables are two six-pin sockets and several four-pin plugs, and the two six-pin sockets supply power to the motherboard.

The ATX power supply shown in the diagram is a typical Micro structure, and the main purpose is to reduce costs and energy consumption. The significant change with the AT is that the volume and power have been reduced. The volume of AT is 150mm×140mm×86mm, and the volume of ATX is 125mm×100mm×63.51mm; The power of AT is generally 150W~220W, and the power of ATX is 90W~145W.

Of course, if you want to make the power of ATX bigger, you can do it, 450W, 500W, 550W, 600W, and even more than 1000W, but such a high-power power supply, only when the emergence of large-scale 3A games will be useful, now 90W~145W is completely enough, not to mention the low cost, and it can save users a lot of electricity bills.

Li Yixuan thought about it and changed 145W to 240W, so that the applicable width of ATX frequency is 90W~240W.

The reason for this is to ensure that the Oranges I will need to increase the power that will come with more hardware in the future.

Agreed to Gou's plan, but Li Yixuan asked to share the patent of the ATX power supply structure.

Nonsense, you use the power supply designed by my engineer for you, no matter how you say it, Lao Tzu should enjoy the benefits of the ATX power supply structure patent, and want to swallow the door alone.