Chapter 215 CD-ROM drive
New Year's Day has no special significance for the Chinese people, but it is just the beginning of a new year, and the Spring Festival is the traditional festival that the Chinese people pay the most attention to.
Approaching the Spring Festival, Tang Yang, who was in the United States, also returned to China, but did not go to Mr. Tang's side, but got together with Li Jian again, and the two of them ran to the Xunjie factory located in the Zhenshen Rota Industrial Zone.
The name of the factory was taken by Li Jian, so Tang Yang and he fought fiercely for a while, because Swift is the name taken by Li Jianwei for a commercial pager, and now it is used as the factory name, which is not appropriate.
But the name he got was too rustic, Hanlang, Fuhua, and Jin Yuan all sounded like the names of the big hotels.
"It's called Swift, the pager is called Swift, the communication is convenient, the optical drive, and you will find out after a while, speed wins."
Li Jian and Tang Yang wore protective clothing and walked slowly in the workshop of the optical drive, as if patrolling their territory.
The connection between optical drives and personal computers turned the other side of the ocean upside down in the first month of '86.
A 600 trillion storage amount is simply an artifact for data that does not need to be erased frequently.
Especially compared to a floppy disk with only a few megabytes of capacity and very easy to break, it is a super artifact.
Floppy disks, which had just become standard on personal computers, were destined to become history the moment the Compact Optical Drive appeared.
The launch of the optical drive caused a much more far-reaching sensation than the launch of the cordless phone, especially after Li Jian published a large advertorial in the Times of his old friend Tyfuller.
With the help of Japanese technology. Qianghua creates a new myth"
"Qianghua cooperates with Japanese companies to occupy the Japanese pager market"
These two reports published in the Times have made the launch of the optical drive and Qianghua's bid for the Japanese pager market supplier appear in front of the American people almost at the same time.
The American public, who originally didn't care about cordless phone and pager brands. Attention to Qianghua has risen.
Attention to optical drives has increased, especially for potential customers who are interested in buying PCs, and their willingness to buy is stronger when they know that a single disc can be loaded with countless software.
And the report of Qianghua's occupation of the Japanese pager market does not seem to have any impact on them and change their impression.
"I said how the Chinese suddenly became powerful, it turned out that the Japanese technology was adopted, and the Japanese economy could not be allowed to continue to erode our American economy."
"Our industry has been hollowed out. Are they going to take possession of our souls? ”
"So backward China, with the introduction of Japanese technology, can beat our American Motoraro?"
lightly filled in the trap of the Japanese side's diverted attention. On the contrary, it helped several Japanese companies with bad intentions, and caused a wave of remarks about the rise of Japan. Will you cry or laugh at this time.
"This year the Internet company launched the 386 processor. Personal computers have officially entered the 386 era, but the configuration is still not high enough, the core of graphical processing is not enough, if there is a separate display processing core, you can make disc games, so that the attractiveness of personal computers will be infinitely amplified, and our optical drive business will only be better. ”
Li Jian looked at the optical drive assembly. Turned his head and walked to the laser head production workshop.
After the import of a batch of laser heads from Nisso. Qianghua's laser head production line has finally been assembled, which is also to start production before the Spring Festival, after all, the Spring Festival is a big festival, and at most one-third of the workers can stay, otherwise these workers would rather quit their jobs.
"But what about the disc game console you talked about last time, the disc game console that uses the TV as a monitor, if they can afford a computer of several thousand dollars, the price is much lower, why would the customer refuse."
Tang Yang remembered that Li Jian inadvertently mentioned the disc game console last time, but then Li Jian used a computer CD-ROM to play the game, and then he remembered it again.
"Our production line is too open, and we are not good at making content. The design of the game is okay, but the graphics need people to draw, how to design these characters, how to unify their images, we don't have a professional team, we can't set up a studio. ”
Li Jian shook his head, when he proposed the computer CD-ROM game, he didn't want to make his own content, unlike the early computer games, the CD-ROM game is because the storage capacity is large enough, and the whole computer is for the CD-ROM game when it is called, so the requirements for the picture are much higher.
He has a Qianghua software laboratory to do programs, but how to fill in the content, art, literature, he doesn't have the talent in this area.
"In this way, the disc game console will be handed over to me, you just need to give me the technology, and I will find someone to do the rest of the content."
Tang Yang stretched out his hand with thick gloves and patted Li Jian,
"I play the red and white cassette machine of the little devil all day long, and I also want to play our own game."
Li Jian knew that Tang Yang was feeling, and at this time, Ren Tang's game console had begun to become popular with the popularity of television.
And Ren Tang's games, such as the popular Mario and Contra, have been killed in the United States, Europe, and the mainland with Ren Tang's red and white machines.
Tang Yang usually plays a few Contras when he is fine, and he often complains about Li Jian, obviously he has a game, but why don't he develop it, but instead play the game of these devils.
Li Jian actually didn't want to develop, but he didn't play many games in his last life, at the beginning of computer games, card games, Tetris accounted for the market is okay, and now Ren Tang's red and white machine is out, he must make high-quality products, in order to seize the market for video game consoles.
"Okay, Qianghua software group, I can help you, but the content supplier, you need to find it yourself, and when the time comes, you can distribute it according to their respective merits, but if you lose money, the software team of Qianghua Lab will not accept it."
Li Jianbai glanced at Tang Yang, he knew that everything should be focused, and he couldn't see what to make money to do, such as the current China, color TV sets must make money. Refrigerators, washing machines, air conditioners are just as profitable, but these things, if developed now. It can only be an assembler, making money from the domestic people and delivering benefit value to foreign upstream manufacturers.
If you want to do something now, you will find that there is one way or another, which cannot be completed by the current level of science and technology in China.
A small spring used to snap the inner ring of the disc. Because the hardness is not enough, it often can't be stuck, and if you use a spring with high hardness. It will jam from time to time.
Such a small object, Mr. Lin Kaihe, an expert in materials science, ran to the manufacturer from Huaqing Laboratory with the latest research results. They carried out the optimization of the material for free. This is to ensure the quality of the small spring.
Even a small spring, a small screw, you need it, not to mention other parts.
Therefore, Li Jian's current focus is to prepare to focus on basic industries, that is, fine chemicals and materials.
Fine chemicals have started at present, but materials have not yet moved. It's because he hasn't found the right place to start.
Silicon material. There is no doubt that it is the trend of future development, but the huge investment, with the current Qianghua is still unable to bear, but steel materials, these things, a single application is too narrow, domestic construction is still ordinary rebar, strip steel, as for what aviation aluminum, bulletproof steel plate, have their specific applications and sources.
Especially in terms of national defense, what Li Jian can do is only make free contributions, or get some specific small returns.
What he can do is to make changes on top of fine chemicals.
ABS plastic, nylon, pps, etc., with the improvement of domestic consumption level, the large consumption of refrigerators, televisions, washing machines, the amount of engineering plastics will definitely increase geometrically.
The rapid development of the foreign communications industry and the electronic audio-visual industry will also drive the large-scale consumption of engineering plastics, and the amount of these materials is not enough to meet the current output.
"Tell me about you, I don't know what you're thinking, you don't do so many things to make money, waste a lot of opportunities, I know you want to develop, not just to make money, you must have something we can't understand, but you do pagers, do communications, you can't deny that making money is one aspect, so, in the final analysis, you still have to make money, then let go and do it, I think the game console market you said is promising."
Tang Yang looked at Li Jian, eager to try, Li Jian nodded,
"Your judgment is right, this market is very large, I'm afraid that as long as you launch this product, you will be able to sweep the entire market immediately, but these entertainment consumer products, I am really not very interested, I am ready to return to Chunjiang in the next step, go to the paper mill and chemical factory to do it again, and strive to double the output, and then expand the product line."
"What a weirdo, you make those chemical products, and you can still make money with what we are doing now, a game console costs fifty dollars, you sell it for three hundred dollars, and those old beauties will not feel pain, this is five times the profit, in fact, the cost is less than fifty dollars at all, as long as we eat the bald head technology more thoroughly, the cost can still be reduced, so that the profit can remain the same, not compared to you make a ton of plastic, only a few thousand dollars, what's the point."
Tang Yang looked at the optical drives passing by the assembly line in front of him, picked one up casually, and put it in front of him to observe carefully, the manufacturing process of the optical drive was quite exquisite in this era, the blue and white iron shell wrapped the plastic inside, and the slightly heavy feel showed its real material.
"This thing,You also need a disc to match,Now there are not many people who are equipped with optical drives just for the use of software,As you said,The software industry has basically begun to develop,Many software companies have begun to use your red shield as operating system research software,But all the software only needs to be installed,They don't need to equip themselves with an optical drive,It's too wasteful。
"That's the reason why there is no content yet, now you have to watch movies according to the arrangement of the movie theater, and watching TV also needs to be arranged in advance according to the TV station, but if you use this, you only need to buy a movie CD, you can watch it when you want at home, you can watch it whenever you want, enjoy the taste of freedom, many people are willing to experience."
Facts can prove that the optical drive will develop, although Li Jian has advanced the time of the appearance of this thing a little earlier, but the trajectory of history will still follow the original route. (To be continued......)