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These Chinese bosses who operate traditional industries have tasted obvious benefits from the application of a generation of Fangyuan computers, the most direct manifestation of which is that the spreadsheet software and database have increased the speed of generating their financial statements by an order of magnitude.

And with the title of American billionaire in their arms, they are a lot older, and they have to admit on the surface that Tang Huan is already at the same level, but fortunately, this young man behaves as modest and polite as always, and he is not annoying.

In addition, some subtle changes in social occasions are also obvious, such as celebrities no longer care about the rumors that he is entangled with female stars, and they frequently send autumn waves secretly.

In this regard, Tang Huan was afraid to avoid it.

The reason why he likes to search for celebrities in the original time and space from his memory is because like a listed company that regularly discloses information, whether it is good or bad, his privacy is exposed to the public eye, and his temperament can be inferred through those clues.

Take women as an example, Deng Lijun, Lin Fengjiao, Lin Qingfang, and Zhao Yazhi are all gentle women with mature thoughts, but they each have different sides, Deng Lijun is persistent, Lin Fengjiao is stoic, Lin Qingfang is literary and artistic, and Zhao Yazhi's tradition can completely follow the general strategy, get along with each other easily, and the initiative has always been in their own hands.

It can be said that what Tang Huan needs is order. But none of these people had a fuel-efficient lamp. If you get it, you will be in trouble

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Follow the historical trajectory. The border war between Iran and Iraq in the Middle East finally broke out on September 22, which is directly related to Tang Huan's tens of millions of dollars in personal income in the oil futures market that can withstand any degree of scrutiny.

In fact, many smart people have succeeded in speculating, after all, the border conflict between Iran and Iraq has been in place since April, even on April 5. Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Aziz was injured by an Iranian national, and the various military actions of the two sides have long been an open secret.

Putting down the newspaper, Tang Huan made a joke to himself, my brother can do it in a high-spirited manner, and only receive a dollar salary from the company under his name symbolically.

Seeing that the public relations activities that Xiangjiang had to attend had been dealt with, Tang Huan rushed to Singapore on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival on September 23 and had a reunion dinner with his aunt and Lin Fengjiao. Then we started to inspect the factory.

The second-generation Fangyuan computer has a number of new designs, such as memory modules and memory slots.

Now other types of PCs. The memory chips are directly soldered to the motherboard, and it is more troublesome for users to upgrade, while the second-generation Fangyuan computer can solve this problem through the combination of memory modules and memory slots.

However, the production process requirements of the interface circuit were also increased, which can be said to affect the whole body, and Tang Huan had to go to the scene to understand the situation in person.

Of course, he is also actively considering licensing the technical specifications in order to attract third-party suppliers to pass on all kinds of unnecessary costs downstream, and at the same time to create a larger industrial cluster and gather a group of new allies with related interests.

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When we arrived at Treasure Island, the same was true for the workflow, but the inspection content was more important.

Unlike when he was in Singapore, the attention mainly came from the official, Tang Huan, the influence of the American billionaire on the treasure island, is reflected in the industry, and the IT bigwigs who rose after more than ten years of time and space immediately gathered over, in addition to expressing their admiration, but also to receive orders for some second-generation Fangyuan computer peripheral parts.

It is no exaggeration to say that if Tang Huan's factory had a headache and brain fever, it was not necessarily him who was anxious at the beginning.

At the same time as distributing candy to the younger brothers, Tang Huan launched a bidding activity for the purchase of large-scale memory in the second half of the year, and compared with the last time, the purchase amount doubled to 120 million US dollars, and the six major semiconductors in Japan immediately flocked to it.

In this regard, the counterparts of Baodao could only watch dryly, unable to intervene, and in a hurry, they began to join hands to ask the government for support for the development of various semiconductor industries, which made the officials uneasy.

Tang Huan ignored the stimulus of this large order to Baodao, and seriously received the Japanese bidders represented by the six major semiconductor manufacturers, compared to the last time, these guys are obviously much more honest, and they don't care about the offensive and defensive alliances, they only look forward to getting a share of tens of millions of dollars.

In their previous lives, when they competed with their peers such as Intel in the United States, they dared to directly and blatantly shout that they would always offer a 10% discount.

Sharp, AMD, Hitachi, Fujitsu, the four companies that won the bid last time were the most active, but they have limited production capacity after all, and Sharp and AMD also have to undertake the chip production tasks of CPU and second-generation Fangyuan computer South Bridge, North Bridge, graphics card core, sound card core, etc., so they will inevitably choose from NEC, Toshiba, Panasonic, and Mitsubishi.

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Tang Huan first asked these guys who rushed to grab food to understand the bidding rules and intrigue with each other, and then he turned his attention to the situation after Deng Lijun returned to the treasure island.

The treasure island, which was abandoned by the United States last year, can be described as gloomy, so Deng Lijun, who was named for betrayal because of the fake passport incident, became a punching bag.

But the world is sometimes very good at jokes, and with the popularity of Deng Lijun's songs in the mainland, Baodao has to find a way to draw her back into her camp.

The song "Shanghai_ Beach" caused a sensation in Xiangjiang, and the song "Bit by Bit of Dream" successfully tested the waters in Japan, especially the seven-stop concerts in North America and Europe were full, which made Deng Lijun's music career recover strongly, and her reputation in the world's Chinese circle rose sharply.

This strong change in the situation made Baodao's attitude towards Deng Lijun more and more firm, after she got off the plane. has been concerned by the media.

According to Tang Huan's idea. Deng Lijun sat directly on her Silicon Valley No. 1 and returned to Treasure Island. But she didn't agree, and arranged the itinerary extremely low-key, only accepted an interview with Taiwan TV at the airport, and then all public affairs were handled by two blonde and blue-eyed foreign assistant assistants, and a language barrier blocked most of the meaningless entertainment.

Deng Lijun's most recent public appearance was to attend the ceremony of donating NT$2 million to the education of girls on the treasure island.

This kind of arrogance, as well as the generosity of being keen on public welfare, made some operations that could not be put on the table have to be stopped. For example, the various oaths of allegiance when facing the public.

However, next month's concert will still inevitably have a similar link, Tang Huan asked the people he trusted to talk, so that Deng Lijun didn't have to worry too much, as long as she didn't wronged herself, you have 10% of Zheru's shares, it's a big deal to go back to the United States and continue to be a rich sister.

After Tang Huan finished reading the tracking reports of these major mainstream media on Deng Lijun's strong return to the music scene, he casually threw the newspaper on the coffee table, and the corners of his mouth curled. A faint sarcastic smile appeared.

At this time, the front desk of the hotel called to report. Gu Long came to visit.

Because Lin Fengjiao went to Singapore to raise a baby in order to avoid the media, Tang Huan simply stayed in the Yuanshan Hotel, anyway, he had no secrets to speak of in Treasure Island, but stayed in this top hotel with a deep official background, which felt very amazing.

Soon, Gu Long and Wo Longsheng entered the guest room under the leadership of the waiter.

"Datang, I was worried that after you became a billionaire in the United States, your identity would be different, and you might not be able to look down on our friends, but now it seems that you are too worried." Gu Long said with a big grin.

"The identity is just a gimmick, it's true that I'm busy, if you don't catch up with a time gap, you really have to think that I'm too big and don't recognize my old friends." Tang Huan greeted Gu Long and Wo Longsheng with a smile, and then ordered the waiter, "Bring a few bottles of XO and some snacks." ”

Gu Long was overjoyed when he heard this, "It's a friend in the end, and I know my heart very well." ”

"Hurry up and say something, don't drink too much for a while and forget it." Tang Huan quipped.

Gu Long scratched his head and smiled, "Jin Yong's "Dragon Babu" has been made into a video game, why haven't my martial arts novels seen any movement yet, when everyone is discussing, I feel a little lose face." ”

As the saying goes, there is no first in literature, no second in martial arts, and heroes in the literary world are not exempt from vulgarity.

Hearing this, Tang Huan couldn't help but smile dumbly, "Who said that there is no movement, it is already under development, those young men under my command need a process of exercise, and the quality must be guaranteed, and the progress is naturally not as simple as you think, and the game of "Dragon Babu" came out first because I reached an agreement with Jin Yong early." ”

"That's what happened." Gu Long laughed happily.

After getting this satisfactory answer, Gu Long, who was a heavy drinker, opened XO and drank bitterly, during which he mainly chatted about some miscellaneous matters of the three religions and nine streams of the treasure island, and finally left drunk.

Looking at the swaying backs of Gu Long and Wo Longsheng, Tang Huan shook his head, and then sighed again, just said that the 17th Golden Horse Awards, which will be unveiled in more than a month, Lin Fengjiao's "Native People", because of political reasons, did not even get a nomination, I hope she will not be too disappointed.

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Needless to say, the Japanese were efficient, and soon the second round of contact began.

Tang Huan's only requirement is to reduce the procurement cost of memory on the premise of ensuring quality, and the characteristics of the semiconductor industry itself are that the larger the scale, the more advantageous.

As a result, NEC and Toshiba, which ranked highly, defeated Panasonic and Mitsubishi to win the favor of Tang Huan, each taking a share of $25 million in orders, and the rest was divided among previous partners Sharp, AMD, Hitachi, and Fujitsu.

Limited to the production process level of CPUs, their maximum operating frequency was around 20MHz throughout the 1980s, and it had to wait until the middle and late stages, so the simplest and crude way to improve the performance of personal computers at present is large-capacity memory.

The executives of many high-tech companies in the United States are still accustomed to thinking that memory is extremely expensive, and they do not realize that the Japanese semiconductor industry across the Pacific Ocean is sharpening its knives and preparing to attack.

Tang Huan knew the details and used them to meet the large demand for memory in his products. And his two centralized purchases in Asia. also invisibly sent a signal. The current trend in the semiconductor industry is very obvious, that is, memory is king, which has stimulated the Japanese to expand production capacity frantically.

It is foreseeable that the upcoming semiconductor war between Japan and the United States will be more tragic, and Tang Huan is optimistic that he will succeed, anyway, he only has EEPROM investment in this field.

After the purchase was confirmed, all the losers, including Panasonic and Mitsubishi, did not rush home, because almost all Japanese companies had another purpose. That is, it is hoped to obtain the authorization to produce Fangyuan computer compatible machines. That's why after finishing the business, I tested Tang Huan's tone.

Japan's official purchase of 5,000 Fangyuan computers can be described as killing several birds with one stone, which not only expresses a positive and conciliatory posture in the commercial friction between Japan and the United States caused by the trade deficit, but also meets the needs of the domestic education system for informatization, and also invisibly guides the direction of the industry.

As far as Tang Huan knows, many Japanese companies have begun to crack Fangyuan computers and try to imitate them, but so far, no one has jumped out first.

It is not a limitation of the patent threshold. Because the problem of infringement can be circumvented by coming up with another proprietary hardware architecture, but precisely if it is done. It is difficult to achieve the goal of 100% compatibility in terms of software.

In order to enhance efficiency and prevent piracy, part of the core code is also placed in read-only memory, and the software and hardware are coordinated together, which makes many reverse engineering companies give up halfway.

Everyone wants a copycat, it is nothing more than a fancy to the big cake of personal computers, and they want to get a piece of the pie, but if the developed product is not as good as the original, or it is close in all aspects but it takes too much time, then the gain outweighs the loss.

It's not that the Japanese are not smart enough, but after a thorough weighing, they found that it is the most cost-effective way to get the authorization honestly, but they don't know what the boss of Fangyuan Computer thinks, and whether they are willing to share some benefits.

After understanding the meaning of these guys' words, Tang Huan almost laughed out loud, is this planning to help me implement a unified industry standard together?

In fact, Tang Huan has begun to consider authorizing Acer on the treasure island to produce a generation of Fangyuan computer compatible machines, in order to further expand the market share of this hardware platform, but I didn't expect these Japanese companies to also post it, but you can consider it.

Compared with hardware, the profit margin of software is undoubtedly greater, if the generation of Fangyuan computer that has been reduced to a low-end product, authorize a third party to produce compatible machines, although it will encroach on the original hardware sales, but will get more software profits.

Moreover, among these Japanese manufacturers, NEC itself has the ability to launch personal computers on its own, but it currently lacks the support of the three major commercial software.

In the original time and space, IBM eliminated other types of personal computers by exposing the IBM-PC standard to the point that only the struggling Apple computer remained, and then made personal computers and IBM-PCs synonymous, which can be described as extremely ruthless.

As for IBM-PC being defeated by its own compatible machines, it is not that the open standards are wrong, but because IBM's personal computer division, which was originally an independent operation, was greedily incorporated into its traditional management system, and the idea of selling mainframes was extended to personal computers, which destroyed its foundation.

Tang Huan, who had already known in his heart, pondered for a while, and gave a vague reply, "It is naturally good to have more partners, but there are still some details to consider." ”

Hearing this reply, the representatives of various companies couldn't help but be overjoyed, they naturally did not have Tang Huan's vision to implement standards, but intuitively thought that it was very difficult to share the benefits that were originally guaranteed to be profitable, but they did not expect the other party to have such a clear intention to cooperate.

After everyone looked at each other, they said: "It is really necessary to consider the details, Mr. Tang might as well go to Japan and discuss with each other while conducting field investigations." ”

"Yes, my next stop is to inspect the company in Japan." Tang Huan nodded in agreement, he had to deal with a lot of affairs over there next.

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Epson's 9-pin printer MX-80 is about to sell like crazy, but before its market value has been completely squeezed, Tang Huan urged the R&D team to come up with a 16-pin printer, and the members of the project team are about to be tired of being dogs.

It's not that Tang Huan is unkind to these Japanese, it's just that although MX-80 can also print out a 16x16 dot matrix output effect, 9 needles need to be divided into odd and even points, and they need to be played back and forth twice, which drags down the speed of printing a document and never improves, which really affects efficiency.

Now, a 16-pin printer has been built, and the efficiency has been theoretically increased by half.

Seeing Tang Huan's satisfied face, Yasukawa Hideaki couldn't help but be a little worried, "Don't be in a hurry to upgrade the printer from 9 needles to 16 needles, the current market share of MX-80 in Japan has reached almost 60%, and the prospects are unlimited, it is a pity to be replaced so soon." ”

"Then use the price strategy to distinguish between mid-range and high-end," Tang Huan replied with a smile, the second-generation Fangyuan computer equipped with a 16-pin printer is simply invincible in the office.

However, when Tang Huan came to Taidong's office to accept the handheld game console developed by imitating GAME &WATCH, this good mood disappeared, and he actually saw Nintendo's boss Hiroshi Yamauchi and senior engineer Gunhei Yokoi, talking and laughing with Shigeru Miyamoto, who had returned to Japan not long ago.

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