Chapter 113 Opening up computer technology to the world

Li Yixuan knew that not all the members of the delegation from the mainland were engaged in electronics research. Even if you study electronics, you should know that electronics is a university subject, and it is not necessarily a study of computers. The investigator who asked the question just now was studying televisions and monitors, and he didn't know that the computer's mouse was normal.

After all, the country has been closed for a long time, the domestic scientific research personnel have been derailed from the world for too long, and coupled with the decades of technological blockade by Western countries on the mainland, many domestic scientific researchers have never seen what the advanced computers of Western countries look like, not even a small mouse, they have only seen what the Soviet computer looks like.

Besides, who would have thought that a mouse that was previously only used on Western high-performance computers would be used on personal computers today!

"Ah, it's a trackball, also known as a mouse, which is an input-output device for computers......" Helmer replied.

"The earliest mouse was in 1963 by Dr. Douglas of Stanford University and his colleague Bill Brown. Inglas invented it, and then gradually spread and was adopted by more computer equipment. However, the mouse developed by our company uses the latest scientific and technological achievements, and it has long been different from the original invention of Dr. Douglas, as well as most modern mice. At present, the mouse used by other companies still uses two round wheels fixed at a 90-degree angle to drive the gears to rotate, so as to achieve positioning. ”

He picked up the mouse from the table and turned it over to let everyone look at the bottom: "See, the rolling device we use is a rubber ball, and the end of the two hinges it drives has a circular decoder wheel fixed at each of them. When you hold the mouse in your hand, move forward, backward, left and right, the scroll wheel will drive the shaft to rotate in the same direction, and the decoding wheel at the end of the shaft will also rotate, and the brush on it will induce two signals, broken and on, and can be accurately controlled and positioned after computer processing. And it's not just about technology......"

As soon as he opened his mouth, he began to speak at length with gusto.

"Is this mouse hard to produce?" Vice Minister Li asked.

At this time, Li Yixuan spoke: "The technology is complicated at all. However......" pointed to the oval protrusion made of plastic on it, "and the precision of the mold is extremely high. ”

Li Yixuan knew the intention of Vice Minister Li's question. In addition to academic exchanges, they also hope to get some OEM orders.

Just now, when Vice Minister Li saw this little thing, he wanted to try to ask if it could be handed over to domestic production, but after listening to Li Yixuan's explanation, he knew that it could not be produced at all with the current domestic mold-making technology.

Many members of the delegation looked disappointed.

Li Yixuan whispered a word to Helmer, and the other party turned around and went out, and came back after a while, with a mouse and toolbox in his hand.

Li Yixuan took it, and the mouse in his hand was the same as the mouse on display.

Open the toolbox, take out a screwdriver, and disassemble it on the workbench next to you in front of everyone.

"Look, these are all the parts of the mouse. This is the roller, also known as the decoding wheel; This is a grating signal sensor, which generates a photoelectric pulse signal that reflects the displacement of the mouse in the vertical and horizontal directions, and then controls the movement of the cursor arrow on the screen through the processing and conversion of the computer program...... And this is the circuit board of the mouse, on which there is the CPU chip with the mouse empty......

In fact, these parts are not complicated, the real core is the decoder wheel and grating signal sensor, we have not built a related factory, is currently looking for a foundry, I don't know if you are interested? ”

Vice Minister Li asked a little uncertainly, "Are you willing to provide technology?" ”

Li Yixuan nodded and said, "We are willing to open our technology to you, but there is one condition. You produce a mouse and you can't sell it to a third party, you can only sell it to me. We will pay you the OEM fee at the OEM price. ”

Li Yixuan then explained the idea of OEM, including some international OEM rules. Finally, he said: "I can provide precision molds for the production of mouse housings." ”

"Are you in high demand?" Vice Minister Li asked. He couldn't help but ask, if the number of mice required by the other party was very small, and the many investments in the factories and production equipment that he had worked so hard to build would be all in his hands, the loss would be great, and he couldn't afford this responsibility at all.

Li Yixuan pointed to the computer next to him and said, "This mouse is the standard configuration of the new generation of computers, our first generation of personal computers, a total of 150,000 units were sold last year. So you don't have to worry about the factory going understaffed. In addition, we intend to fully open up all technologies related to the second generation of personal computers. ”

Open up computer-related technology! Everyone was in a stir.

It took a long time for Vice Minister Li to react and asked, "You have opened up your technology, what do you do to make money?" ”

"Spare parts!" Pointing to the various parts of the computer in front of him, he said: "After I develop the computer, they will definitely need related parts, such as CPU, graphics card, mouse, keyboard, monitor, power supply, etc., I believe they all need it, and our company can provide them with it at that time." ”

After listening, Vice Minister Li said: "It turns out that it is just an assembly with incoming materials without any technical content, who will agree?" ”

"Those small businesses, those small businesses that are interested in computer production, but don't have computer skills. As well as numerous companies from developing countries! Li Yixuan replied sonorously, "Besides, I don't plan to hold all the parts in my hands. I will develop all the motherboards of the computer, including the chipset above, as long as these companies can produce them, I will not charge any patent fees for the motherboard.

The same goes for mice, as long as they can be produced, I also charge any royalties. This includes the chassis, power supply, keyboard, and even the graphics card. As long as they buy three things from me, one is the CPU, but the GPU, and the third is the raster signal sensor for the mouse. Of course, my company will also produce the relevant computer accessories, but I will not force them to buy them. As long as you buy the above three things produced by our company, you can do it! ”

Vice Minister Li's brain couldn't turn around, he didn't understand the reason why Li Yixuan did this, he gave up the biggest profit!

At this time, Wang Haihua of Hong Kong University spoke, "Mr. Li, why did you give up such a big profit and not make it, can you tell me the reason?" ”

"It's simple, because I'm Chinese, but I came up with a computer! This is actually nothing, the real key is ......" Li Yixuan looked at everyone, "What really matters is that we have designed and generated CPU chips that are afraid of Western countries!" You must know that Western countries have always only held CPU chip technology in their hands, although they have opened up some less important CPU production technologies, such as 6502.

But my Core processor is different, this is a 16-bit high-performance CPU, which makes Western countries see the possibility of Chinese producing high-performance computers, and they will definitely do everything to destroy my chip factory. Li Yixuan might as well make the matter more serious, "I can tell you the truth, my scientific research team and I are even ready to be assassinated by Western agents!"

Wang Gangqiang said: "Mr. Li, your words are too serious!" ”

"Why don't you believe it?" Li Yixuan replied expressionlessly: "Now they haven't done anything to us, because I haven't threatened him yet, once my computer threatens them, or they think I have a threat, they will do it." You know, this is Hong Kong, it's a place ruled by the British, and they won't take any care of it.

But I'm not going to sit still, I have to find a way to protect myself, my family, my research team, and my company. How to protect? It's about opening up my computer technology.

There is a proverb in the West that if you want to hide a small leaf so that others can't find it, the best way is to hide the leaf in a pile of leaves, and you won't find it; If you want a grain of sand to hide yourself, it is best to hide in the sand.

Open computer technology standards is the best way to hide myself! So that Western countries will not pay attention to me, because there will be a lot of computer companies in this world, and they don't know who to turn to. In addition, chip design, R&D and production, as well as the improvement of production equipment, require a large amount of money.

Although Western countries have more advanced CPU chip manufacturing technology, their computers are all technological islands that are not compatible with each other. Many computer companies in Western countries produce CPUs, which are basically produced and sold by themselves. They have a huge national market and are not afraid of not being able to sell them.

But Hong Kong is different, Hong Kong is too small, only five or six million people, which greatly limits its future development potential, it can only be used as the headquarters of Oranges, but it cannot become the real support of Oranges.

And once Western countries suppress and blockade me, they can completely strangle Oranges. Once trapped in tiny Hong Kong, we can die. Hong Kong cannot support the huge upstream and downstream computer industry chain, and it is impossible for us to establish a complete computer industry chain.

And if Hong Kong's computers want to survive, and if Hong Kong's CPU chip factories want to survive, what should they do? There is only one way, and that is to open up computer technology and computer-related accessories, including computer operating system software!

Only in this way can Hong Kong's computer industry and Hong Kong's chip industry gain room for survival.

And this space is much larger than the market in the United States and Europe, because I won the market all over the world!

CPU chips have extremely high technical thresholds and financial thresholds beyond everyone's imagination, and not all countries and companies can participate, especially developing countries.

Think about the world, is there more developing countries or more developed countries? Difficulty: They don't want to develop their own computer industry? If developing countries want to develop their own computers, the first thing they need to solve is the heart of the computer, that is, the CPU!

Will they be able to produce a CPU on their own? The answer is no! Is it possible to buy CPUs from Western countries? The West can sell them some low-tech CPUs, but high-performance computer CPUs will never be sold to them. But we in Hong Kong can, and my Oranges company can sell them advanced high-performance CPUs.

In addition, I have opened up computer technology, especially the motherboard technology of computers. That way, they don't have to think about how to design the computer vendors, they just need to produce it according to the technical standards I provide.

They also do not need to worry about the fact that their country does not have a complete computer industry chain. Because the whole world has joined in, developed countries, developing countries. Although they can't produce everything they need for a computer, as long as they can produce one or two things, there will be a variety of different computer parts on the market, and they don't need to worry about not being able to buy computer parts that they can't produce.

And my chip factory doesn't have to worry about not being able to survive, because I have the global market as my backing. As long as my chip factory can survive, I will be able to continuously update and iterate on technology to produce better and more advanced CPU chips. Western countries can't block me if they want to! ”

In the end, Li Yixuan borrowed a sentence from *** and said: "A spark can start a prairie fire!" ”