In July, Zhang Shaojie ended his trip to his hometown in Anhui and came to Shenzhen by train. After that, we will return to Hong Kong by land from Shenzhen.

At this time, Longteng Technology Company has almost become synonymous with Shenzhen's high-tech. In fact, in Shenzhen in the 80s, most of them had some clothing, leather shoes, trading and other companies. In people's eyes, a computer manufacturer like Longteng Technology is already very powerful and technological!

In just over half a year, the Compaq 8086 notebook computer produced by Longteng Technology Co., Ltd. and Compaq OEM has been sold all over the world, selling 200,000 units.

With the 84 years, Compaq sent a representative to visit the foundry of Longteng Technology in China. However, it is deeply vigilant, because although the production design of China's foundry is very backward, the cheap and obedient labor force has given a deep impression to Compaq.

In the United States, skilled workers who need a monthly salary of $1,000 can pay an incredibly low salary of 200 yuan in China.

As a result, although Compaq continued to cooperate with Longteng, it only had 200,000 orders per year, and the profit of each unit was deducted by Compaq to less than $50.

Of course, because of the unreliability of Compaq's orders, Longteng Technology was forced to speed up the research and development of its own brand.

In the process of producing laptops for Compaq, Longteng Technology is also developing its own "Longteng brand" computers at the same time.

When Zhang Shaojie came to Shenzhen, the Longteng brand laptop had already been finalized.

"Boss, look! In terms of workmanship, Longteng brand computer has surpassed Compaq! The original version of Compaq's computer weighed 20 kilograms, which was not much lighter than a desktop. Even now, Compaq has continuously optimized it to weigh up to 15 kilograms! However, our Longteng laptop, because of the TFT-LCD panel, weighs only 7 kg! Chen Xunzhen, general manager of Longteng Technology Company, handed a sample machine to Zhang Shaojie.

Chen Xunzhen is from Longteng Technology, and he is recruited openly. He was a technician at the Yanjing Electron Tube Factory, an old electronics factory that was one of the first high-tech factories in China's 125 program at the end of the 50s and one of the first factories built with the aid of the Soviet Union. After the founding of the Republic, this factory was almost the Whampoa Military Academy and cradle of China's semiconductor industry, and over the years it has trained and sent tens of thousands of semiconductor industry engineers to China.

Of course, by the 80s, the technology of Yanjing Electron Tube Factory was already outdated. Many young talents, in the reverence into the Yanjing Electron Tube Factory, and finally found that the factory, the technology has been outdated, disappointed to leave the talent, I don't know how many.

Chen Xunzhen also gritted his teeth and resigned to Shenzhen because of the shortage of funds in Yanjing Electronics Factory and did not pay wages for half a year. As a result, Lucky was hired as the president of Longteng Technology Company, in charge of the company's R&D and production projects.

Longteng brand laptop is the notebook computer proposed by Zhang Shaojie, Sun Xunzhen is responsible for taking more than 20 technical personnel and spending 500,000 yuan on research and development expenses.

The main innovation comes from the fact that the weight of the laptop has been drastically reduced to 7 kg, which can be described as the thinnest and lightest laptop in 84 years.

A 7-kilogram laptop, if it were placed in the 21st century, such a bulky thing would definitely be laughed at.

But in the 80s, laptops used CRT monitors as the screen of the computer. Therefore, the display alone also accounts for more than 5 kilograms. If, combined with the hardware and shell of the computer, it is normal to weigh more than 10 kg.

Being able to do 7 kg is purely Zhang Shaojie's guidance, which made Longteng try to use TFT-LCD panels, which caused a significant reduction in weight.

"What about the surname?" Zhang Shaojie asked.

"Roughly similar to Compaq's, the 8088 chip, using a floppy disk to read data, DOS system, can run office software, can do, our computer can do it! Moreover, the cost is also very cheap, only about $1500, which is much cheaper than Compaq! Chen Xunzhen said, "The most expensive is actually the TFT-LCD panel, the 9-inch display, the display effect is not as good as a color TV, but it is sold for 400 US dollars, it is too dark!" ”

TFT-LCD panel, technically not complicated, the principle as early as the 70s, has been published in international scientific journals. Many of the core patents have long passed the patent protection period.

This product is easy to make in the laboratory, but the problem is industrial production, and now the only large-scale production of this panel in the world is Toshiba.

In fact, Toshiba's TFT-LCD is also quite rough, and the effect of color display is far from replacing CRT. The only advantage is that it is thin and light, which can greatly reduce the weight of the laptop.

The real key breakthrough of TFT-LCD is that after the 8th generation line in the late 90s, the display effect of LCD panels gradually surpassed the traditional CRT display.

In the future, there will be more than 30,000 international patents related to TFT-LCD. China's leading LCD panel enterprise "BOE Technology" has less than 1,000 core patents related to this field, and has been controlled by others in this field for a long time. This is the result of being one step behind and being constrained step by step.

Of course, the patents related to the core principle of TFT-LCD in the 70s have long passed the protection period. At this time, TFT-LCD-related patents mainly refer to the improvement of liquid crystal formulations, materials, software and other fields by major companies. Whoever can make the LCD get a better display effect, who has the greater the right to speak.

Zhang Shaojie said with a smile: "We will find a way as soon as possible to introduce the production authorization of TFT-LCD panels from Yueben." At the same time, the company should also establish TFT-LCD related research and development as soon as possible. This is a technical competition, and it is only a small step that has just begun to sell, and we are catching up quickly, and we may not be weaker than them in the future! ”

"The problem is that a TFT-LCD production line costs at least 100 million yuan!" Chen Xunzhen was a little worried.

What is 100 million RMB?

At the beginning of the 21st century, the 8th generation line, just put into production, at least 30 billion yuan, equipment depreciation, maintenance, at least 20 billion or more within 8 years, any simple production line, can burn 50 billion yuan.

And now the first generation of production line only costs 100 million yuan, which is simply too cheap. As long as there is a first-generation production line for the company to practice, the second-generation, third-generation, fifth-generation, sixth-generation, eighth-generation, and tenth-generation production lines will be consciously developed in the future.

Zhang Shaojie said: "If Toshiba is willing to transfer the production line, 100 million yuan is nothing!" Of course, we tackle our own problems, how much do you think it will cost to come up with a full set of production technology? ”

"The key to this TFT-LCD is the upstream materials such as glass substrates, liquid crystal formulas, polarizers, etc., which are provided to Toshiba by companies such as Asahi Glass, Zhisuo, Yudong Denko, Sumitomo Chemical, etc. If we want to independently develop and produce TFT-LCD panels, then we have to overcome these upstream materials. Billions of funds are smashed into it, and it may not be able to make a splash immediately" Chen Xunzhen pondered, "Of course, if there is a company that provides us with supporting facilities, we only do the cutting and assembly production line of the panel, maybe tens of millions of dollars can get the production line"

(To be continued)