At the beginning, Chen Weidong said to the people in the computer software department that in order to make the technical standards of Infinity's products become the technical standards of the world, it was necessary to give up some of the benefits.

Many people have a sense of loss.

But now, seeing those reporters in front of them, roaring with a red face and a thick neck in order to compete for sound cards and graphics cards, they understand that Chen Weidong's approach is correct.

If you want to get, you need to give first.

Only after the technical standards have been established can we talk about occupation.

Otherwise, no matter how advanced your technology is, you will be helpless if others don't use it.

Apple was in such an awkward position before the "iPhone" came out.

Bill looked at Lu Zhanhai and them with some embarrassment, and then whispered a few words to the nearest reporters, and when those reporters heard this, their faces immediately turned happy.

Other reporters rushed up to inquire and learned what Bill had said.

"After a long argument with the general manager of Infinity, I finally threatened to not allow Huaxia products to enter the American market, and asked him to open up all interface programs, so that manufacturers all over the world can participate in the development of supporting software."

"At the same time, the technical standards of sound cards and graphics cards, they will also be forced to be released to the world in half a year!"

Haha, it's only half a year.

Half a year later, our American products will quickly drive all the inferior products of Infinity out of the market!

Everyone was smiling and laughing with each other.

Dressed in suits and leather shoes, smiling, and graceful, they walked around the venue, greeting everyone they knew and talking in whispers.

The product launch conference finally returned to the atmosphere they were familiar with.

Because, the advantage of the Chinese people can only last for a short half a year!

Lu Zhanhai left the venue with the technicians of Infinity, they really didn't want to stay there.

When he got out of the press conference, in his mind, he recalled Chen Weidong's wild laughter: "Let them put the market?" Yes, it's too late for me to be happy to let a group of workers make money for me! ”

Open technical standards are open, and I can't be like Apple, holding on to the perfect product and struggling to get by.

Our Infinity Company is like opening a restaurant, making a sumptuous table of wine and food by ourselves, eating a few bites by ourselves, and then charging all the people who come in to eat.

Moreover, we can sit down and grab the dish with them, and at the same time, they need to pay us for every bite they eat.

I don't have to work hard to open up the market, they take the initiative to join in, and we only need to sit at home and collect money, which is my favorite thing to do.

When our technical standards become the standards they follow, then it means that all of them have long-term meal cards in our restaurant.

When they see other restaurants, they're already stuck in our restaurant!

Even if someone wants to change restaurants to eat, there are various costs to consider.

When the time comes, I will let all the other restaurants close down, or I will not invite a chef to order directly in our restaurant, and they will act as delivery clerks and delivery clerks....

Is open technology really so profitable?

Lu Zhanhai is a little confused.

His intuition told him that Chen Weidong's approach should be correct, and the boss had never made a mistake.

Suddenly, he suddenly understood.

What the boss has always said, to raise research with business, refers to this.

We only need to make our own technology the standard that most people follow, even if our own production technology has not yet been developed, we can make a lot of money.

Although it was only half a year, it was enough for us to recoup the cost.

At present, we only have 260 nanometers in the manufacturing process of graphics cards and sound cards, but that is also the result of the deliberate clumsiness of the group of people in the optoelectronic laboratory.

Or rather, it's just a balance point for commercialization and cost reduction.

This does not mean that Infinity can only make 260-nanometer integrated circuits.

When those foreigners think that Infinity is nothing more than that, let's introduce the next technical standard.....

Hehe, technology, it turns out that you can play like this....

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Bill was also frightened by the surprise attack of Infinity.

They're afraid that another company will come along and another supersoftware will come out and make a difference.

The interface code for the newly launched Windows+ was soon announced.

Multimedia drivers, sound drivers, video drivers, and interface standards, as well as gamepad interfaces, file compression formats, etc., are all published on the Internet.

The most important of these are Direct 3D data, QPENGL 3D graphics processing library, and multimedia data development kit.

The multimedia data development package is a complete multimedia solution, and the 3D data package is an enhancement of this multimedia, 3D graphics.

Dedicated 3D software can be developed for construction, machinery, etc.

True productivity!

It's a perfect solution.

In less than a year, educational multimedia courseware, industrial software developers, and game manufacturers have announced that they will develop computer games specifically for Windows+.

Coupled with Microsoft's own office software package and professional-grade graphics processing software jointly developed with Infinity, Windows+ has become a comprehensive and powerful system software.

The fact that so many software vendors have joined has also led to an astonishing number of six million copies of Windows+ being sold within half a year of its launch!

And in the following year and a half, it successfully occupied more than 90% of the market of personal computer operating systems in the world.

Successfully realized the good wish of Bill's unified operating system.

However, Chen Weidong's attempt to rely on this standard to wipe out all software vendors is still wishful thinking.

To be precise, his ambitions have only been partially realized.

Windows+ is an open technology standard that attracts hardware manufacturers from all over the world.

The sound cards and graphics cards of Infinity Company, with relatively low prices and high cost performance, were soon sold in the United States, and even purchased in large quantities in Europe and the United States.

If they hadn't divested their business and licensed it to some factories in southern China, I am afraid that the market would have been in short supply.

In the same year.

HARMAN International has launched their "Soundcraft Mixer 16", which integrates a dedicated sound driver chip.

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Subsequently, dozens of manufacturers around the world have launched their own multimedia hardware boards.

The more famous ones include Toshiba, Imperial League, Yamaha, etc....

For example, Toshiba's hardware board with optical fiber digital interface has even better sound quality characteristics than some slightly inferior CD players!

The market competition for graphics cards is particularly fierce!

In addition to the graphics cards launched by Infinity, there are also ATI, ADM, NVIDIA, and other European and American systems, and many semiconductor manufacturers in Southeast Asia, such as Litai, Yingchi, Gengsheng, etc., have also joined the battle.

For a time, the multimedia hardware market launched a very fierce battle.

After all, the domestic manufacturers who OEM for Infinity are not manufacturers specializing in the production of computer hardware, and their foundation is thin and their technical strength is not very strong, so they quickly lost in this battle.

Fortunately, it has a low price advantage to keep the low-end market.

Otherwise, they will be completely eliminated.

It is precisely because of this fierce competition that has lasted for several years that many domestic manufacturers have realized the importance of technology and begun to learn from the pain.

As for the manufacturing technology of sound cards and graphics cards, they have also been fully demonstrated in the test of the market.

The conclusion is that the products of the Infinity company, to be honest, are not enough to occupy the international stage.

However, through the early stage of monopolizing the market, it won back a large amount of R&D funds, and through the confrontation with international manufacturers, it understood its weaknesses and shortcomings.

In the following years, after acquiring some small and medium-sized manufacturing companies in Europe and the United States, their technology has also been supplemented and improved.

The era of fierce competition for multimedia hardware only came to an end in 2005.

In the sound card and graphics card market, only a few companies are left to dominate.

However, due to the low access qualifications of this market, there is always an influx of new manufacturers in an attempt to seize a part of the market.

The multimedia hardware market has always been in a situation where the surface is calm, but in fact the undercurrent is surging.

Infinity Optoelectronics Laboratory and Materials Laboratory are working hard to improve the technical grade content, and after ten years of strangulation, it has finally set off a second fierce market battle.

And that time the competition was even more fierce and cruel, and countless small companies were squeezed out of the market one after another, either going out of business or being acquired.

At that stage, users often worry about whether the company that made the graphics card they bought will go out of business tomorrow.

As a result, the market share gradually moved closer to the large companies that survived.

By the end of the second market battle, Infinity has finally become one of the world's top hardware manufacturers through clever marketing, high-quality technical indicators, and perfect after-sales service.

However, at the end of 2002, in Chen Weidong's mind, Infinity Company should have become a world-class large company.

Of course, this assertion is not entirely wrong.

After all, in the software industry, due to infinity being one step ahead, coupled with Chen Weidong pointing out the right path.

The computer software division took the lead and rushed to the front, winning huge profits for the company.

It was only later that the company's major changes forced many projects to be stopped, and a large number of technical personnel were laid off and replaced.

Due to the lack of stamina, the software sector has gradually fallen behind in the world-class competition.

I have to say that it is a pity.