While Guan Fei was presiding over the OEM meeting, some counterfeit manufacturers in Tokyo, like their Hong Kong counterparts, were trying to disassemble and analyze "Space Invaders" for reproduction.

There's no way, wealth is moving!

"Space Invaders" is priced at HK$9,080, or 405,000 yen, in Hong Kong. However, after shipping to Japan and adding the 4.7 percent tariff, the price reached 4.24 million yen.

In this regard, Tokyo Commerce and Trade also said that they actually suffered a loss.

Because Taiyu Technology has not yet calculated the shipping costs, land transportation costs, terminal loading and unloading costs, storage costs, and profit commissions of agents. In fact, although the price of "Space Invaders" in Japan is higher than that in Hong Kong, the profit has decreased by a large amount, and each unit has lost at least nearly 100,000 yen.

This kind of strange logic, the panic buyers can only accept it with a smile.

Why?

Because this is an exclusive business, don't buy it if you're too expensive, and the people who rush to buy it are lining up in the back!

Whether it is from Yamada or the news obtained by Tokyo business insiders, it is confirmed that they have signed orders in the past two days, and they have received advance payments with sluggish expressions.

I heard that in two days, more than 9,000 units have been ordered for which advance payment has been made, and this number is still skyrocketing. Seeing the income of the arcade hall grabbing money, and seeing that other companies that have paid the advance payment have begun to lease the space and are ready to open, many merchants who still want to wait and see can't help it, and they also open their money bags and frantically put money into the account of Tokyo Commerce.

And that's just the Tokyo metropolitan area!

This pie is so big that some old game console manufacturers can't help but grab it and eat it!

At the rate at which this trend is spreading, I am afraid that this game will not be able to sell hundreds of thousands of units! (Historical facts: more than 500,000 units, genuine and pirated copies account for half of each) The total revenue will be as high as tens of billions of yen, and if the arcade operating income is included, the income of related industries will exceed 200 billion yen.

Damn, I'm not afraid to die!

Countless Japanese manufacturers have bloodshot eyes in their eyes, desperately trying to crack the "Space Invaders" arcade, ready to launch their pirated arcade machine, and bite a piece from this piece of pie.

Japan is a very delicate people.

They lack a long-term, overall strategic vision, but they can always strive for perfection and do their best for what is in front of them. This is something that many major countries that need to look at more regions and are distracted cannot do so.

In the process of dismantling "Space Invaders", they did it more meticulously and carefully than their Hong Kong counterparts. At the beginning, I didn't disassemble the machine immediately, but took pictures first, and the front, side, back, and even the top cover were strictly photographed.

After that, every specific data is measured, such as length, width, height, and even how thick the board is, and the material used, all of which are recorded and analyzed. There are also technicians who conduct detailed demonstrations and write a thick stack of technical reports.

In the process, they have gained more than their Hong Kong counterparts.

"Taiyu Technology is a large company with strong strength, they are definitely not a small factory with hundreds of people on the surface, there must be a very strong technical team behind it! Its scope is not only the electronics industry, but also includes human sciences such as ergonomics and psychology. ”

Technicians in many companies have similar comments in their submitted reports.

The cracking work proceeded slowly, but smoothly, with each part being numbered sequentially, dismantled and carefully placed aside. The drawings drawn were immediately handed over to the factory to make imitations.

After the circuit board was photographed, the circuit diagram was drawn, and the parameters and models of various components were determined again and again, and the technicians started to dismantle the components.

When they saw the circuit board, the technicians had also been driven by habit to simulate the circuit diagram during the mapping process. They were horrified to find that although they claimed to be masters, they were a little in awe of this circuit board.

It's perfect!

Whether it is the circuit layout, wiring, and component arrangement, they have reached the theoretical limit they think and can be said to be a perfect work. If they were asked to redesign the circuit diagram to avoid copyright disputes, they simply couldn't find a place to change it. If it is really to be modified, it will inevitably weaken the electrical indicators, there is no doubt about it!

All they can do is complete plagiarism, nothing at all!

This made them extremely frustrated.

But no matter how frustrated you are, you can only continue to do it, and what the company wants is profit. Under the temptation of sufficient profits, they can ignore the law and abandon morality, whether it is a professional pirate or a genuine arcade operator, they are all doing the same thing at the moment.

"Let's get started!"

In a high-clean laboratory far beyond the technical department of Hong Kong Qingyue Entertainment Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd., a technical supervisor wearing a suit said to his subordinates.

"Hey! Then I'll get started! ”

The technician inserts the memory into the reader, which is also more sophisticated and reliable than similar products on the market.

The power is turned on for data reading.

Burst!

Green smoke rises and the chips burn out.

"Nani?"

The technician exclaimed, and quickly understood faster than his Hong Kong counterparts: "This chip has been encrypted!" ”

European and American manufacturers attach great importance to intellectual property rights, but they also know that as long as there are enough benefits, even the guillotine will not stop people from trying to grab benefits that are not allowed by law. In order to protect their own interests, a protracted war was waged between piracy and anti-piracy.

In the data chips they produce, corresponding encryption devices are added.

A data chip usually consists of two parts: a control system and a data storage system. The former is the key link, which determines the data reading method, current size, data interpretation and other general settings, and there is also an encryption setting.

After the chip is encrypted, it is necessary to have a key to read the data, and if there is no key or the key is wrong, the chip will load a special fuse with high voltage and blow the circuit. Once the fuse is broken, the data reader can no longer extract data from it.

If only that's it, because the chip is always mass-produced, its key storage area is also fixed. As long as there is a means to shield or directly erase the data in this area, then the fuse burning program will not be started again.

However, the technicians found that this is the latest memory chip newly launched in the United States, and its circuit technical data has not been cracked, so the specific storage area of the key is not clear. To understand the storage area, it is necessary to grind through the chip housing, observe its internal circuitry through an electron microscope, and then analyze it to locate it.

Yaga!

With this idle time, what kind of key is there to crack, and it is faster to conduct data analysis directly according to the exposed circuit!

The technicians were a little confused.

To be honest, Japan's electronic reverse engineering capabilities are not strong, at least not as strong as those of the United States, China, and the Soviet Union.

The three major countries each occupy a corner, and they are hostile to each other and blockad. In order to understand the current status of the opponent's scientific and technological development and the design ideas of some high-precision chips, the three major countries have invested huge manpower and material resources in reverse engineering research.

But Japan is different.

In order to support it in its confrontation with the Soviet Union, the United States gave it the greatest advantage. As long as it is not military technology, Japan can easily import any civilian technology, including the most cutting-edge chip manufacturing technology, from all over the world, and they can buy any high-precision equipment.

There are original drawings, who is still going to do reverse engineering, isn't this taking off his pants and farting - is it a superfluous move!

The technicians and electronic engineers hired by various manufacturers are a little numb.

After each of them burned N data chips, they finally decided that they couldn't handle this thing themselves, and they couldn't read the data inside the chips unless they opened the shell and looked at it with an electron microscope.

The entanglement of each company, the resentment.

The conscience of these bastards of Taiyu Technology is really bad, and they are unable to make decisions for a long time.

The first step in reverse-engineering a chip is to uncover the shell. This shell is very thin, and in order to dissipate heat, it is also glued to the core, and if you are not careful in the process of unraveling, you will damage the internal circuitry.

This is only the first step, and it is necessary to use an ionizer to remove the glue on the surface, which is a more subtle operation, not like polishing other things, and it will be done in a while. This process will be quite long, and if you are not careful, you will also damage the kernel, and all the previous work will be in vain.

That's it, but there is more than one layer of chips!

The circuit comes layer by layer, and if you grind off the layer, you have to see each subtle circuit clearly through an electron microscope, and then draw the circuit diagram by hand. The next layer is grinded off, and again, the job can be said to be quite painful, and the failure rate is quite high.

It's over, and I'm going to analyze!

In the process of chip making, not all original components and circuits can be guaranteed to be successful, and there will always be defects and damaged parts. In order to ensure that the chip can be used, a certain amount of redundancy will be set.

Post-mortem analysis is to find out the unwanted and redundant circuits in the circuit, and finally to dissect the correct circuit diagram.

Well, even if it all goes very well, they still have to make a mask and open the film!

If this set is down, it will be three months if it is fast, and if it is slow, it will not be able to be done in half a year or a year.

"Space Invaders" is good, but no one knows how long it will live. It's hot now, will it still be as hot after half a year?

What if they spend a lot of money and finally come up with their own arcade machine, what if Space Invaders is not popular at this time?

Hundreds of companies are struggling with whether or not to reverse crack.

Countless company decision-makers and technicians have issued such an angry roar: "Where are the once simple Chinese, why have they also learned badly!" ”