Chapter 228 The Need for Optical Drives
Li Jian asked Lin Kaihe to come out, in addition to the two of them eating together, he also wanted to know how the situation of the Xunjie Factory was recently, and when Lin Kaihe came back, the workers of the Xunjie Factory should have returned to work.
The annual leave is put on the sixth day of the new year, that is, the workers will come back on the seventh day of the new year, and all the production lines will operate normally.
"Our workers are basically back, and the enthusiasm for production is also very high, and I have heard privately that the workers in our factory can have face after they go home, especially when they go home during the Chinese New Year, they are all holding eight gifts, and they have never experienced the feeling of being surrounded by people in their lives."
Lin Kaihe talked vividly about what he heard from the workers when he was in the factory and what happened after they went home, and those workers used to be at home, with their faces facing the loess and their backs to the sky, and they had a rare opportunity to raise their eyebrows once a year.
Especially at the moment when it is not easy to make money, even going to my mother-in-law's house for the New Year is a little embarrassed, and it is not easy to enter the door if I don't bring some good things.
During this year's Spring Festival, with the wages paid by the factory, which is equivalent to the total income of the past year, and this income can continue to continue, how can they be reluctant to spend money to save face for themselves.
So the few people also carried six or eight kinds of gifts, and the many even carried a few large boxes and packages back to them, and the New Year's money for the children was also hard to give.
It's not a piece of two, five pieces or ten pieces, but a lot of big unity at a time, these workers, the sense of belonging in the factory, can not be strong.
Li Jian was gobbling up food, and while listening to Lin Kaihe's words, he felt relieved. The workers are so motivated, and there must be no problems with this batch of orders.
This is Qianghua's optical drive. The first appearance in the world.
When Li Jian laid out the optical drive, the optical disc industry did not stop, but the first thing that needed to be solved in making optical discs was the content.
Miao Cui of Qianghua's public relations department has already contacted several film and television drama companies in Xiangjiang on behalf of Qianghua and purchased the rights of their best-selling TV series.
As for European and American film companies, they are also in the process of further negotiations, and they need to wait for the copyright to be purchased, and then burn the other party's video tape into a master disk first. Then go back to China to rip it.
Li Jian knew that the optical disc industry near Zhenshen was very prosperous back then, of course, it was not a genuine optical disc industry, but an underground production chain.
Purchased the master plate from Hong Kong. Underground factories can burn out tens of thousands of copies a day, these have no copyright, the cost is so low that only the cost of the master disc and the cost of the disc itself pirated disks, they continue to rush to the vast inland market.
Qianghua wants to make a CD. It's not for VCD discs. Sold in China, but aimed at foreign markets, those who like the feeling of personal home theater computer applications.
When they relax after work, they can use the computer's CD-ROM drive to watch some movies they like but don't have time to watch in the theater, or they can play some larger games that can only be played on CD-ROMs.
However, in this case, the graphics card is still a problem, and the computer plays disc games, and the requirements for the display effect are very high. If the CPU also maintains the operation of the system, it also has to control the display chip. With the current computer configuration, it is simply an impossible task.
Unless there is a separate display chip to control the image, and the computer's CPU and memory do not do anything else, it serves the game alone.
In fact, this is not difficult to achieve.
The current 286 and the subsequent 386, the graphics card is integrated on the motherboard, the video memory is small, it can be described as ignore, and the display effect is not even satisfactory.
So, if you want players to experience that kind of wonderful gameplay, at least a graphics card from the late 2D era is required.
286 One trillion or two trillion memory, not enough for the graphics card to eat, the graphics card alone exists, and it needs at least one trillion or even two megabytes.
And for those games that eat graphics cards in later generations, these video memories are just a fraction of the time.
Including a game that Li Jian knows, StarCraft, which was once very popular, although the requirements for the configuration of the computer are not high, but on 286, there is still no way to play.
As for the red alert that arose the popularity of domestic online battle games back then, it was also a game that appeared in the 486 and 586 eras, and 286 definitely can't be experienced.
However, if you put games like Prince of Persia, Raiden, and Wolfenstein on 286 and coarse the pixels, it should be possible to execute it.
It's just that this kind of game with a small capacity is run as a disc game, purely to promote the optical drive, which can be regarded as market operation, pit foreigners, and let them consume in advance.
I remember that there was a salesperson named Reds in IBN who also wanted to work in Qianghua's foreign agency, and was arranged by himself to Sunshine Trade in Tangyang, if he wanted to set up a graphics card company, he should be considered as an agent.
"Lao Lin, you eat slowly first, I'll make a call."
Lin Kaihe chatted with Li Jian while eating, and talked about the problem of the optical drive, and Li Jian remembered a place that he had originally imagined was not thoughtful.
The premise of a disc drive game is that both the memory and the graphics card are at a certain level, and at the moment, it is clear that it has not been reached.
In terms of memory, there is no need to promote it, computer manufacturers are developing a technical process for the large-scale production of memory particles to reduce costs, but if the independent graphics card is to wait for natural development, it will take a year later, when Dingtai was established in Silicon Valley, there will be a glorious 8900 graphics card in the 2D era.
To promote the optical drive by yourself, you have to make this point in time a year in advance.
"Tang Yang, give me the phone number of your U.S. sales department, I ask you for someone, that IBN jumped over from Rides, I am going to set up a computer company in Silicon Valley, USA."
Tang Yang's lazy voice sounded,
"I'll help you get in touch, there's just an opportunity to come out, where are you, I'll look for you."
Li Jian knew that he had found an excuse for Tang Yang to escape.
After the old man Tang asked Tang Yang to stay at home until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Qian Xiaobei also used the lame reason of being homeless to stay in the Tang family, and it is estimated that Tang Yang has been tortured to death in the past few days.
If he hadn't taken the initiative to call over, Tang Lao would definitely not let Tang Yang out.
"Okay, let's go to the Yifu restaurant at the entrance of Huaqing, you better hurry up, we're almost finished."
"Who else are you? Oh, Lao Lin, I see, I secretly ran away myself. ”
Tang Yang hung up the phone quickly, Li Jian also returned to his seat, Lin Kaihe didn't ask Li Jian what phone he called, and talked to Li Jian about the battery.
"Li Dong, the power of this lithium battery should be very large, about twice that of the same volume of nickel-cadmium batteries, if industrial production, the cost will be reduced, put on the market, will definitely cause a sensation, are we ready to go on such a production line? Is it in Chunjiang or in Zhenshen? ”
"Zhenshen, I am ready to import raw materials from Australia, as for biochemical materials, I am ready to set up a branch factory in Zhenshen, papermaking and biochemical integration, production in Zhenshen, the current policy is very open-minded, there is no need to apply for approval from the Planning Commission, and it will not be detained to disrupt the social economy.
Li Jian ordered two more dishes, saying that Tang Yang would come over later, Lin Kaihe also prepared a glass of liquor, and let Li Jian, Li Jian waved his hand and refused.
"I won't drink the wine, and there will be work to talk about later, the family of the forester was used to living by the sea, and now they are still used to it in the spring? If you want to go to Zhenshen or Yanjing, this is a big city. ”
"No, no, originally we were also poor and remote in the east of Yingdong, all of them were rural, there was nothing, although Chunjiang is the county seat, but it is much more prosperous than ours, there is no opinion, this matter has to be thanked to Li Dong, still hanging at home, and the work has been solved."
When Lin Kaihe spoke, he sincerely thanked Li Jian, if there was no Li Jian, he would probably still be a technician in the Shengli Factory, running around all day long, and the quality of life was not a grade worse than now.
Not long after, Tang Yang came, Li Jian looked behind him, and sure enough, there was no tail of Qian Xiaobei, and said strangely,
"Where's your little tail? How did you get rid of it? ”
"I'm scared to death, the little tail doesn't follow me now, pestering the old man, serving tea and pouring water, beating his back and legs, coaxing the old man to smile every day, originally saw me blowing his beard and staring at his eyes, I can't wait to pick up a cane to smash twice, but now I will go aside when I see it, and I don't care how to talk about the seniority when I meet with Lao Qian in the future, treat Qian Xiaobei as a treasure."
After Tang Yang sat down, he grabbed the wine bottle that still had half a bottle left, and poured it into the glass in front of him.
"I'll follow you in the future, I can't go back to home."
"Don't, you'd better mess it up by yourself, call you, see if it's time and don't disturb people's rest, and then talk to Reds, I want to invest in a technology company in Silicon Valley and make him the CEO, anyway, whatever he does, he is in charge, and then recruit me and buy horses, I want to make computer devices."
Li Jian handed PHS to Tang Yang, although Tang Yang knew that Li Jian had used PHS to call him these days, but it was the first time he saw it, and he immediately took it in his hand and played with it.
"Yes, the size is just right, I can hold it with one hand, it's just too heavy, it's okay for a man to pretend to be on his body, and a woman is definitely too heavy to hold, and it has to be changed, otherwise even a foreigner girl can't hold it."
"You know the foreigner girl, hurry up and call, hurry up, the optical drive is a joint venture between you and me, and it can't be sold, hehe, I'm not the only one who loses money."
Li Jian knew what Tang Yang was most worried about and what he liked the most, as soon as he spoke, sure enough, Tang Yang pressed the number button on PHS with the quickest movement, and a number representing international long-distance appeared on the display screen.
"Hey, I'm Tang Yang, look for the ...... of Reds in the sales department" (to be continued......