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Wang Qinian took the e-paper book of the small partner company, a 7-inch e-ink screen, and the memory in it is 1G, which can download and save hundreds of millions of texts. People who read a relatively small amount of www.biquge.info pen "Fun" may not be able to read hundreds of millions of words in their lifetime.

Because at this stage, the small partner company has not developed a touch screen with a better experience, so the input and operation of e-paper books mainly rely on a keyboard similar to a feature phone.

"The advantage of our e-book is that once it is fully charged, it can be on standby for a month! Secondly, the copyright protection is very good, because the system is closed, and you can only access the websites designated by our system, so there is no need to use e-paper books to search for pirated content. Basically, we can guarantee that the users who use our e-paper books are all genuine users. The larger the sales of e-paper books, the more our genuine e-reading market will expand. "Plus, the text on the screen won't disappear after the power goes off." This is one of the great advantages of e-ink screens! ”

"Very good!" Wang Qinian nodded approvingly, and continued to ask, "What about cost control?" ”

"If it is mass-produced this year, it will cost 700 yuan per unit." ** affirmatively said, "If you expand production in the future, you can eventually reduce the cost to less than 500 yuan!" Back then, this was not the cost of R&D, only the cost of hardware! ”

Wang Qinian nodded and said, "Is it possible to be lower, such as about 200 yuan?" ”

In the future, touchscreen mobile phones, tablets and the like, low-end ones will have less than 200 yuan. And e-paper books, even in 2015, the price decline is very slow. Wang Qinian didn't understand this!

"Impossible!" ** Stunned for a moment, and then said. "The screen alone is 300 yuan, plus the e-ink screen, it has not been able to mass produce like the LCD screen, so the price of a single screen cannot be reduced!"

"So the cost is mainly the screen?" Wang Qinian said.

"Yes! Any other piece of hardware. Alternative products can be found, only e-ink screens, and only one can be selected, so it is more difficult to negotiate the price!" ** said, "At present, almost all electronic screens on the market are provided by Yuantai Technology. There are only a few million dollars of global consumption a year! ”

"Yuantai Technology, isn't it an eink company?". Wang Qinian said curiously. It seems that Eink was created by a team from the United States.

"Yuantai Technology is the parent company of Eink, and has invested tens of millions of dollars in Eink, and finally takes control of this company! Although the core technology is Eink, the industrial production is carried out by Yuantai Technology, and the production line is also in Taiwan. ** said.

Wang Qinian nodded, knowing that this is also a general trend, and many economies in Europe and the United States are deindustrializing. That. Research out a lot of electronics, hardware and assembly. Most are conducted in Asia.

For example, if the eink screen is produced in the United States, it is impossible to have a price advantage and the ability to mass produce it. Because the United States is deindustrializing, except for a limited number of factories such as IBM and Intel, which still mass-produce high-value-added electronic hardware, most other companies have shifted their production capacity to Asia. Any region in China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan can be mass-produced at a low price.

In addition, Asia has long been the largest consumer market for electronics, and brands that are far away from Asia and produced in Europe and the United States have begun to collapse. Basically. Companies with markets in Asia, production in Asia, and companies far from the world's largest consumer markets and industrial chains are definitely becoming more and more marginalized.

Of course, the future trend is that the mainland's electronic production lines are dominant, and most of the world's production lines are concentrated in the mainland. Even if the production lines of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are combined, it is impossible to compare with the mainland in terms of production capacity. The reason is very simple: as long as the mainland engages in a project, it will definitely have more overcapacity than all the countries in the world combined. The production capacity of the electronics industry determines the cost, and China's production capacity explosion will always hit the price of electronic products to a low point that was difficult to think about before.

Turn competition into a brutal price war, forcing high-priced overseas companies to go bankrupt or withdraw from the market. Therefore, the production capacity of various products will be more concentrated in China.

Bursting production capacity as much as possible is also a mystery to the rise of the domestic economy.

Of course, there are some things, because of patent restrictions, can not explode production capacity. For example, the patented technology of Intel's x86 chip cannot be licensed to Chinese manufacturers in any case, because if it is authorized, Intel, which started with explosive production capacity, may be attacked by more terrible production maniacs.

In the early years, Intel's x86 technology was licensed to a small number of manufacturers, mainly because IBM purchased Intel's chips in order to prevent Intel from becoming a monopoly, and the condition was that Intel authorized AMD and other companies to use these technology patents. IBM was trying to cultivate a second supplier so that it would not be subject to Intel.

And if Intel is not to hug IBM's thighs, seize the opportunity to develop. Who would be so brain-dead as to authorize their exclusive patents to competitors, carefully cultivate competitors to grow, and compete with themselves for the market.

The eink screen cannot explode the production capacity in the mainland, because the technology is monopolized by eink, and Yuantai Technology is the exclusive production. A company that has a monopoly on technology patents will be authorized to competitors if they are nervous.

The e-paper book developed by the small partner company for two years, the core operating system program, is still based on the open source Linux operating system, independently developed, and developed the hardware driver and the operation interface of the e-paper book, as for the hardware, it is basically purchased externally.

The entire e-paper book has access to the Internet through wired and wireless networks, and you can subscribe to download the books in the official book store of e-paper books.

In addition, e-paper books are also bundled with genuine music websites, so users can not only subscribe to e-books, but also order genuine electronic music at a price of 1 yuan per song.

In addition, the e-book is bundled with the client of "Internet Book of Heaven", and users can search for encyclopedia entries on the website of Internet Book of Heaven.

The current hardware cost of the entire e-book is about 700 yuan, and the other costs can be compressed, the only problem is that the 7-inch eink screen costs as much as 300 yuan, and there is only one company in the world that produces it.

Although it is said that there is more than one technology for e-paper books, there can be various technologies that work in the same way to achieve similar functions. But only the Eink screen has received venture capital and achieved commercial mass production.

"Purchase eink screens for the time being!" Wang Qinian said, "However, do you want to find other electrophoretic display technologies that can be replaced? ”

The various technologies in the e-paper book are all very mature technologies in the world, such as batteries and chips, and there are a bunch of companies available for alternatives. The only problem is that the screen currently only has an eink screen. It is foreseeable that if it has always been its starting price, the screen of the future e-paper book, the space for price reduction in the future must be very small.

Only a bunch of e-ink screen manufacturers compete, it is possible to reduce the price of e-paper hardware! For example, LCD screens are produced by a large number of manufacturers in China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, and users have many choices, so the potential for LCD screen price reduction is huge.

"This, due to the relatively small market, therefore, only eink screen has a production line!" **Denote.

"In the next three years, we will find a replacement product!" Wang Qinian said. (To be continued......)

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