The land that Li Yixuan wanted to buy was in a remote location in Hong Kong, and after the application materials were handed over, the British government of Hong Kong quickly agreed, and it took only one month to complete the measurement and transaction of the land.

At the same time, an application was placed on the desk of the secretary for Hong Kong's industry, Raymond Kwok.

Henry Kwok is the new Secretary for Hong Kong's Industries, responsible for guiding and planning Hong Kong's industrial development. When I got to work this morning, I saw the application report sent by the secretary.

The application comes from Oranges to convert two acres of land it had just bought from the Hong Kong government into industrial land. This made Guo Yingnian very interested in Oranges.

You must know that the land purchased by Oranges is in the lower part of Yuen Long, where it is very desolate, and no factory owner in Hong Kong is interested in that place, but Oranges bought it.

Judging from the application materials, these two acres of land will be used to build a chip factory, which makes Guo Yingnian's interest in this company even stronger.

In fact, as one of the four Asian tigers, Hong Kong as early as the early 70s, the British government of Hong Kong formulated a development plan for the semiconductor industry, and its semiconductor industry started not much behind South Korea and Taiwan at the same time, and even started earlier than Taiwan.

At the end of the seventies, Hong Kong also gave birth to the first enterprise specializing in the production of CPUs - Hong Kong Wealthking Electronics Industry Company.

Even without interlopers like Li Yat-hin, by the early 80s, there were more than five local computer production companies in Hong Kong.

One of the peculiarities of Hong Kong computer companies is that they do not produce IBM-PC standard personal computers, but copy the Apple II computers of Apple in the United States. It is not only supplied to Hong Kong, but also sold to Southeast Asia. After the mainland was reopened, the Hong Kong version of the Apple II computer was also sold to the mainland.

In fact, most of the so-called Apple II computers used in the mainland are copied by Hong Kong enterprises. At that time, Apple had not yet established a branch in Hong Kong, and the Apple II computer had not entered the Hong Kong market.

Not only Hong Kong, but the whole of Southeast Asia, except for RB, there are no Apple II computers at all. At that time, Apple did not care about this or did not pay attention to the Asia-Pacific market, and the economy of the Asia-Pacific region has developed rapidly since the 70s, and there is a great demand for personal computers, and Apple does not pay attention to it, which provides conditions for Hong Kong's imitation.

How to say it, the Apple II belongs to the second generation of personal computers, and Woznick, one of the founders of Apple, redesigned it in 1977 on the basis of the Apple I, this personal computer was revolutionary at the time, and he redefined the new concept of the personal computer, just as Apple redefined the mobile phone many years later.

Truth be told, the Apple II isn't that advanced, but it has support for a wide range of applications on the market (the Apple II can support more than 60 printers and copiers of different sizes on the market) and the Apple II is also the world's first multi-function personal computer, and the IBM-PC standard personal computer will not have multi-function support until the 90s.

Coupled with the fact that the Apple II is the cheapest and easiest to use of all computers of its type, the performance is reliable and stable, and the operation is convenient, which makes the Apple II a commercial success.

The success of the Apple II in the European and American markets has brought it to the attention of Hong Kong companies. Since Apple has not set up a branch in Hong Kong, the price of the Apple II computer is several times higher than the price in the US market after several turnovers to Hong Kong, and even the lowest configuration is equivalent to more than 30,000 Hong Kong dollars.

As a result, a small number of computer-savvy and ambitious people in Hong Kong began to hack Apple II computers.

It only took them a year to crack the BIOS program and operating system program on the Apple II motherboard, and they also figured out the design idea of the motherboard architecture. In fact, these things are very simple, simpler than IBM-PC, as long as you have the heart to crack it, the personal computer at that time was not complicated at all.

It is precisely in this way that we can feed a company specializing in the production of 6502 CPU processing: Hong Kong Huake Electronics Industry Company.

Wealthking Electronics Industry Co., Ltd. is the only semiconductor CPU manufacturer in Hong Kong. If you want to talk about the complete processor development and production process, it is definitely impossible to do, but the bad people have also launched a series of single-board computers developed around the 6502 processor, which can be regarded as having a certain technical strength, which is stronger than South Korea at the same time.

As for Taiwan, not to mention, at this time there is no so-called "foundry" at all, and the artifact of "one nuclear is difficult, and nine nuclear onlookers" is still in a state of chaos, and Taiwan's electronics industry in the 80s is no better than the mainland.

The famous TSMC was not established until 87 years, and before that, Tai UMC and Taichung Power had just eaten up the technology of the 6502 processor, while Hong Kong Huake Electronics Industry Co., Ltd. had all the 6502 CPU technology as early as 80 years, and developed various technical applications around 6502. The difference between the two is not half a star.

There are so many issues involved in why Hong Kong's electronics industry is slowly and completely abolished, while Taiwan and South Korea can rise, and it is really impossible to say for a while.

Having said so much, it's a bit off-topic, to get back to business, when Guo Yingnian saw that there was another company on the application report to build a chip factory, he was a little uneasy, you must know that chips are not high in technology that everyone can play, does Oranges have this strength?

Then he turned over his resume at Oranges, starting as a game arcade machine and now as a computer. For example, the CPU produced by Huake Electronics Industry Co., Ltd., this company also purchases, and they have been purchasing CPUs from Taiwan's CLP in the past.

Now that the other party wants to build its own chip factory, it is difficult for him not to purchase CPUs from Huake Electronics? Hong Kong cannot afford to support two CPU manufacturers.

Guo Yingnian decided to meet with the other party and wanted to persuade the other party to dispel this idea.

Li Yixuan was planning the next step of the development of the memory company, and as a result, he received a notice from the Secretary for Industry of Hong Kong to come to visit.

This is the first official level of Oranges since its establishment, Li Yixuan certainly did not dare to slack off, and greeted the other party at the door of the hard disk factory.

As expected, Guo Yingnian was first attracted by the modern steel structure workshop, which captured his heart with a concise, bright and strong modern style. When he walked into the ultra-clean workshop, he thought he had entered the future world. Li Yixuan focused on introducing the high-tech equipment in the factory, because there was too much information, Guo Yingnian only remembered key words such as constant temperature and humidity, ultra-clean air purification, efficient shock absorption technology, and epoxy resin self-leveling ground in large-span factory buildings.

However, this made him more convinced that Oranges wanted to get rid of Huake Electronics and produce its own CPU.

Li Yixuan didn't know that he was doing this, but led himself into the pit.

looked at Guo Yingnian in surprise, "Where did Director Guo hear the news?"

Guo Yingnian didn't answer directly: "You just said that you don't have this plan, right?"

No matter how stupid Li Yixuan is, he knows that if the answer is not good, the chip factory plan is likely to fail, although Hong Kong is a capitalist society, but the other party is always his own parents, if the use of this land is stuck, any grand plan is equal to zero.

"I don't know where Director Guo heard the news, but I can tell you that my chip factory is not the same thing as Huake Electronics, and our company will continue to purchase CPUs from Huaking Electronics, and we have no plans to produce desktop CPUs by ourselves. ”

"If you don't produce CPUs, then what are you doing in building a chip factory, and it is difficult to produce memory chips?"