"Mr. Guan, are you really going to supply components and recording accessories to the public?"

In the lounge on the twenty-ninth floor of the Empire State Building, Guan Fei and others sat in the red sofa, casually crossing Erlang's legs, talking and laughing.

Feng Yingyuan, general manager of the New York branch of Suteng Commerce, took a sip of red wine and asked lightly.

At this meeting, not only the New York branch, but also Jiang Zeshui and Yu Dehai from the San Francisco branch also came with them.

Hearing Feng Yingyuan's question, the others all turned their heads and looked at Guan Fei with concern.

As insiders, they certainly know how significant this decision is, especially for the laptops that New Era sells on its own.

Guan Fei has always advocated the concept of modular manufacturing in products, and he not only advocates it, but also practices it.

Taiyu Technology's arcade machine opened the record.

In the old arcade games, companies came up with an idea and then designed a circuit board for a purpose. Each company has its own set of video signals, audio signals, storage, temporary data storage, and processing.

And the next game, as needed, will make another motherboard out.

This is the status quo of the industry as a whole.

Guan Fei is not like this.

Since Space Invaders, he has practiced the concept of modular manufacturing. Specialized audio circuits, special video signal circuits, and special circuits perform their own duties, and the layout is reasonable, standardized and unified.

When there was only this arcade machine on the market, everyone only saw that the various circuits of Taiyu Technology were clearly layered and reasonably designed.

But in the follow-up launch of "Bubble Bobble" and "Lianliankan", those pirates found that the circuit motherboards of these new games are exactly the same as those of "Space Invaders", but the data storage chips in them have been replaced!

This is an exemplary revolution for the game manufacturing industry.

Each game has completely redesigned the circuitry, which is a very complex system engineering. Moreover, the rush to launch a new game will also make there may be some defects in the circuit design that are too late to detect, making the game effect less than expected.

At the same time, this also increases the workload of hardware designers and increases the cost investment.

However, after Taiyu Technology pioneered the concept of "substrate", it greatly accelerated the development of new games. Game companies that use the same substrate only need to immerse themselves in game software design and development, and apply templates to quickly launch a new game.

At the same time, due to the unified specification of each interface, the hardware department of Taiyu Technology can have enough time to optimize and improve the characteristics of each circuit for the game console, so that the substrate is more and more professional and the performance is getting better and better.

Under the demonstration effect of Taiyu Technology, more and more game companies have tacitly adopted the concept of substrates. Those small and medium-sized companies can also develop legal game software openly after purchasing the substrate patent. Some large game manufacturers with strong capital have assigned special personnel to develop their own game boards.

And the market also recognizes that the substrate of Taiyu Technology is the best!

Although the Motorola 6502 is not outstanding in terms of performance, it is relatively slow compared to the 8080 and Z80. But Taiyu Technology has obviously completely eaten all the data of this chip, and the substrate designed for it has maximized the potential of 6502.

There are also substrates with 8080 and Z80, and the effect is indeed slightly stronger than the substrate of Taiyu Technology, but in terms of cost, it is one and a half times that of the substrate of Taiyu Technology, to twice as much!

This is tantamount to wiping out most of your profits.

Therefore, after more than a year of repeated use and comparison, the market has increasingly recognized Taiyu substrates. After careful consideration, many companies began to agree to pay patent licensing fees to Taiyu Technology in exchange for the right to legally develop new games for the substrate.

This has also led a large number of small and medium-sized companies and individuals who could not afford high development costs to devote themselves to the game development industry.

Today's games are small, such as Space Invaders, and the most streamlined version developed by Taiyu Technology itself is only 11K. If other companies do it themselves, it is only 30 K at most, and the program line is not long.

This amount of work can be done by a software developer in a week or two behind closed doors!

As a result, game developers and small and medium-sized companies based on the Terwoo substrate have sprung up. Driven by Taiyu Technology, arcade game development has rapidly evolved from a unique skill of a large company to an increasingly popularized one, with countless people devoting themselves to developing a popular game and re-replicating the history of Taiyu Technology.

In just over a year, although Taiyu Technology has not yet become the leader of the arcade industry, it has stood at the forefront of leading the trend and guiding the next development direction.

Even those manufacturers who develop their own substrates are also eager for Taiyu Technology to develop the substrates they need for better 8080 and Z80.

When necessary, they also pay a small royalty for it.

In order to avoid the pain of self-development and R&D investment, it is worth paying a little patent fee in the eyes of everyone.

Even some hardware manufacturers have begun to research a special circuit for Taiyu substrates, and are ready to specialize in this line and use it as a substrate to develop exclusive audio circuits, video circuits, data processing circuits, etc.

I heard that the circuit designed by Taiyu substrate based on 6502 has even attracted the attention of chip manufacturing companies and computer companies such as Motorola due to its high efficiency, fast data transmission speed and high stability. They seem to have the intention of buying its patents or developing efficient computers based on it.

The above total is still the modular application of Tianyu Technology arcade machine manufacturing.

Now, Guan Fei has transplanted this set to the manufacture of tape recorders, and the magnetic head, audio circuit integrated circuit, mechanical transmission mechanism, etc., all adopt strict unified standards.

Each component has different grades such as high, medium and low, and dozens of different parts can be combined to create dozens or even hundreds of products of different grades, and the product line is rapidly enriched and extended.

This is a further refinement under the rough product division!

Under the unified standard, the new era launched a variety of tape recorder parts and modules, making product development easy and fast, and the cost is lower.

It is precisely because of this huge advantage that Guan Fei invited many audio manufacturers this time will be happy to come.

Whether it is strong or not, R&D investment is always a high-cost game that only rich people can afford.

The cost of an audio circuit from proposing design ideas, to designing circuit diagrams, to laboratory research and development, to actual trial production samples, and finally to production line manufacturing and worker training, can cost millions of dollars!

Except for a few large enterprises, the vast majority of small and medium-sized enterprises cannot afford to play!

If an investment fails once, it can be fatal for many companies.

This investment failure does not mean that product development fails, but also includes competitors launching similar products, manufacturing costs exceed expectations, market acceptance is not as widespread as expected, etc., any of which may make R&D investment go down the drain.

Only large enterprises that are strong enough to not be afraid of failure, or who accurately judge the absolute return on investment, dare to invest heavily in special research and development every year.

Just like Japanese companies, they are afraid of investment failure.

So they are very smart, and they concentrate their funds on integrated circuit manufacturing technology, which is to take it to death, and this technology definitely has a bright future. Indeed, they have also tasted the sweetness in it, and various integrated circuits have gradually caught up with or even surpassed the United States, and began to sell back to the United States in large quantities.

From the 70s onwards, they began to concentrate on semiconductor storage again, and with great success, they defeated the American semiconductor memory manufacturers one after another, and they were unable to fight back.

The same is true for the tape recorder market.

When tape recorder manufacturers across the United States had basically begun to collapse and were ready to abandon this market, a new era of technology emerged.

Their product line is more extensive to meet the needs of all levels.

The most important thing is that these parts and modules are cheaper, so cheap that even Japanese people can only hope for them!

This is like a ray of light suddenly revealed when the dark clouds are at the top.

It's so exciting!

Feng Yingyuan, Jiang Zeshui, Yu Dehai and other people who were so excited that they couldn't help but have other thoughts.

With so many rich modules, they themselves can hire someone to cobble together a tape recorder and put it on the market without spending too much money. With so many modules, the market can be further refined beyond the rough high, medium and low grades.

For students, for children's toys, for the elderly ......, these business elites, as long as they are given enough material support, they can immediately come up with more than a dozen kinds of further refined markets with a casual turn of their brains.

Guan Fei looked at their expressions, and understood, and smiled: "Yes, if you have money, you can also find someone to open a small factory or something, and then assemble the tape recorder yourself and sell it." Since I openly sell all kinds of components and components, I am not afraid of many competitors. ”

Feng Yingyuan and the others had a glint in their eyes, and they couldn't hold back the excitement in their hearts.

That's giving them an opening!

This business is done!

As a senior employee of Suteng Trading Branch, this is also their own business, and of course they will not make tape recorders by themselves. But with the abundant module support, they don't need to do it themselves, let their wives and children do it, or find a reliable relative to watch, it is also not a problem.

As long as you find a slightly better technician, and then recruit dozens or even a dozen workers at will, rent a private house, and they can do their own product development.

This is the gospel of the majority of small and medium-sized enterprises!

Guan Fei looked at the sparkling look in everyone's eyes, and he only felt funny.

His modular design is planned with reference to the later famous copycat mobile phone market. As long as there are core chips, copycat mobile phones emerge in an endless stream, which not only gives birth to a large number of emerging enterprises, but also activates the market, so that more people can enjoy the fruits of science and technology.

The purpose of his trip was not to promote portable tape recorders.

It is his original intention to sell the self-made components of the military division, so that every step of the development of the military division can get a solid return, so as to go more stable and faster.

The more people devote themselves to the tape recorder manufacturing industry, the better the sales of self-made components and spare parts in the military division.

So many people are willing to come forward to help him develop the market, he just needs to make a fortune quietly.

Why not?

There was a knock at the door, and a staff member invited by the Empire State Building pushed open the door and said to a group of Orientals whose faces he couldn't recognize: "There is a Mr. Edmund outside the door, saying that a Mr. 'Fat Gan' has invited him, I wonder if I can let him in?" ”

Fatty?

Hearing the non-standard pronunciation of the staff, all those who thought of its Chinese homonym secretly laughed, but because of Guan Fei's face, they did not dare to laugh out loud, and even their expressions had to remain calm, either turning their heads to look at the city scenery outside the window, or looking down at the wine glass and carpet, and suddenly felt how attractive the pattern was, and couldn't help but focus on studying it.

"My surname is Guan, you can call me Mr. Guan. This Mr. Edmund ...... "Guan Fei said very generously, people have big tongues, this is not a sin, and if you learn Mandarin well in the future, you will still be good friends." He was about to reject this uninvited person who took his name, but after thinking about it, he got up again and said to Feng Yingyuan and the others: "I'm going to meet this Edmund, everyone!" ”

"No problem, Mr. Guan can do it himself!" Feng Yingyuan and the others were polite again and again, and got up and watched Guan Fei enter another small lounge next door.

As soon as the door closed, they gathered together excitedly.

"Do you think this business of assembling tape recorders is to be done?" Jiang Zeshui was the most anxious person and immediately asked.

"Promising business! Not to mention the hot sales of portable tape recorders, desktop audio and cassette recorders have sales of tens of millions of units a year, which is a big business! Let's go in and take a bite and it's absolutely no problem! Feng Yingyuan also replied without hesitation.

Some manufacturing predators in Europe and the United States still have to consider whether it is cost-effective to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in business turnover every year, but for Feng Yingyuan, a business elite who is a senior wage earner and does not actually have their own business, it is already an incomparably huge wealth.

Different footholds, different visions are naturally different.

Besides, with the support of the company's various modules, they don't need to invest much. The investment is not large, and the future is expected to be high. To succeed is to enter the ranks of the rich, and failure is only to lose a little money. In this way, the industry that has minimized the risk does not dare to do it, that is completely incompetent!

"Shall we go our separate ways, or will we work together?" Even Yu Dehai, who is accustomed to scheming, is no longer reserved.

"Now that the company is booming, I think we can take advantage of the situation. We are all senior employees of Suteng, and we are all in the same trench, and our net worth is also invested, and we know each other's roots. In this case, the benefits of going it alone are far less powerful and rewarding than combined, what do you think? In order to climb up, Jiang Zeshui couldn't bear it for a long time, and he was the first to speak at this time.

"Yes!" Feng Yingyuan is not an inkblot person either.

They are all people from Suteng Trading, and in order to become the general manager and deputy general manager of the branch, they have invested their decades of savings and bought shares. Instead of finding some people of unknown origin to cooperate, it is better to co-fund a few people in front of you, test the water on a small scale first, and then make a decision on whether to make it bigger.

"So, what are our respective proportions......" Yu Dehai said slowly.

……

Guan Fei entered the small lounge next door, and after a while, the Empire State Building staff brought a young man about thirty years old and pushed the door in.

Guan Fei leaned in front of the fireplace and looked at the visitor calmly.

It was a brown-haired white man, not very tall, about the same size as him, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, and looking very sven and somewhat bookish. However, his expression was very calm, without a hint of shame after lying, and his eyes were very serene.

Carefully analyzed, there are also some stubborn underlying emotions.

The staff was a little surprised to see them look at each other, but they didn't speak. After Guan Fei glanced at him, he suddenly closed the door and left quietly.

"Mr. Gan, I want to ask you to help me!" As soon as the door closed, the brown-haired young man spoke, his voice a little low, but unhurried.

“why？” Guan Fei took out Ashima, which was his biggest hobby after crossing over, and it did not change because of the change in wealth and status. He never felt embarrassed to smoke a piece of Ashima in front of others.

He shook out a cigarette and gestured to the other party.

Edmund hesitated for a moment and reached out to take it, but refused his lighter, just holding the cigarette and letting it turn back and forth between his fingers.

Guan Fei smiled, lit a fire by himself, looked at him, and waited for him to answer.

"I can't give you anything right now, but I can give you expectations. From the moment you were ready to supply all kinds of components openly, I knew that you were a long-term person and that you were smart. If you rush into the recording equipment market, you are likely to be suppressed by other manufacturers and the US government. So although your portable tape recorder is selling very well, you still restrain your inner ** and make friends in order to establish an interest group with your company as the core, which is a point I appreciate very much! ”

The young man had a calm attitude, spoke neither humbly nor arrogantly, and was very good at using words, and had the potential to pull the form between the two to his side.

Is this America's business elite?

Guan Fei smiled dumbly.

He could understand it, but he knew very few English words, so let him go, he was just curious and wanted to come and see. If this kid only sells his tongue, then he doesn't have to waste any more time.

"My father used to be in the tape recorder business, but he couldn't compete with the Japanese, so he went out of business. However, our network is still there, and the sellers from all over the world also have contacts with my family, so it is not difficult to start again...... as long as you help us, I am confident to revive the family business! And, as long as you give me an investment of $80,000, you can have a seventy percent stake in it. It won't take long, maybe a year, two years at most, and I can scale the business to a few million, and your $80,000 investment can get a return of no less than a million dollars. I will even look for an opportunity to take the company public, and the return will be even more amazing, maybe even hundreds of times! $80,000, $80,000! ”

Edmund saw Guan Fei's coldness, and finally couldn't hold his breath anymore, and began to keep promises.

It turned out to be a poor child whose family was bankrupt and wanted to revive the family business.

Guan Fei took a few puffs of his cigarette and walked silently towards the door that connected to the large lounge next door.

Edmund was anxious and said quickly: "Sir, if you have any other conditions, as long as they can be met, I will agree!" If you don't have $80,000, $70,000, no, $50,000. At least 50,000, otherwise I won't be able to get this company up and running! ”

Guan Fei opened the door and said loudly to Jiang Zeshui, who was talking lively: "Lao Jiang, come here, high-speed kid, he wants me to make venture capital, yes!" But I have one condition, let him open the company to Hong Kong! ”

“what？” Edmund couldn't understand Chinese, so anxious that sweat came out of his forehead, pulled Guan Fei's sleeve, but kept talking.

“gohongKong！” Guan Fei was annoyed by him, and came out with a sentence of English.

If you want me to invest, then come to Hong Kong!

It is also an interesting attempt to build an Oriental Silicon Valley with Taiyu Technology and the new era as the core in the future.