Rebirth 1984: Starting from the development of Hanka

Chapter 178 Borderless Computer (4.2k)

"The Tomahawk became popular in Japan as expected! "

Zhao Ye smiled and said to everyone, "The group company is now deploying aerospace, precision machining, semiconductors, communications, computers, and media, and it needs a lot of funds. The best-selling of "Tomahawk" can earn a huge amount of money for the group. ! "

"In the next few years, the international situation will be turbulent!"

"We at Wujiang must be prepared to face all difficulties!"

"From now on, the whole group must increase investment in research and development, and strive to win world-class technology in many aspects!!!"

The Wujiang Group has an incomparably rich cash reserve worth around US$250 billion!
There are also a lot of fixed assets, super IP, patented technology, major factories, machinery and equipment, flagship stores, a large number of Tokyo real estate, etc... are of great value.

Wujiang Group's ability to earn money is too strong, and it can't spend all the money.

Not to mention anything else, the PHS alone has made the Wujiang Group earn billions of dollars!

The game industry earns more than [-] billion U.S. dollars every year.

Other industries are also very profitable.

As a result, despite investing heavily in research and development, Wujiang Group still has a cash reserve worth about 250 billion U.S. dollars.And Zhao Ye played an extremely important role in this. His existence directly saved the group a lot of money in detours, resulting in research and development costs that were much lower than other companies.

Of course, three-quarters of the group's cash reserves are in RMB, and the remaining quarter is in the currencies of various countries such as the US dollar, Japanese yen, East German marks, and British pounds.

After all, the country is currently short of foreign exchange, so most of the foreign exchange earned by the Wujiang Group has been taken away by the country.The state compensated Wujiang Group with a large amount of RMB.

In addition, Zhao Ye calculated that if Wanjiang Real Estate cashed out all the real estate in Tokyo, it could earn at least 120 billion US dollars.

From the day the "Plaza Accord" was signed, Wanjiang Real Estate has been involved in Tokyo real estate, and its expansion mode can be called barbaric expansion.

Buy a house, then take out a mortgage, then continue to buy a house...

Bank interest cannot keep up with rising house prices.

In addition, Wujiang Group will also spend money to support the development of Wanjiang Real Estate, so that Wanjiang Real Estate has directly made its business No. 1 in the real estate industry in Tokyo.

Now, Wanjiang Real Estate is quietly running away, and there are so many takers, so there is no need to worry about not being able to cash out the real estate.

However, Wanjiang Real Estate cannot sell too many properties at one time, so as not to cause market turbulence, cause panic, and cause Japan's real estate bubble to burst early.

The closer the disintegration of the Soviet Union is now, the more panicked Zhao Ye becomes, and the more urgent he feels.

With the Soviet Union gone, the United States will turn its attention to China.

There is no doubt that Wujiang Group has become a thorn in the side of the United States.

It is expected that by then, Wujiang Group will definitely receive "special treatment" from Western countries headed by the United States.

This can't be a fluke!
Now, taking advantage of the fact that the big brother of the Soviet Union is still "alive", Wujiang Group hastened to practice martial arts hard and improve its technical strength as much as possible.

Of course, Zhao Ye also made a plan to evacuate "Big Brother".

The funds invested are huge. After all, if we want to compete with Europe, America, Japan and South Korea for talents, equipment, and technical materials, then we have to invest more funds than the other party.

Not much skill, just more money.

A large part of Wujiang Group's funds will be used for this plan, and success or failure depends on it.

Once successful, Borderless will take off!China takes off! !

Europe, America, Japan, and South Korea are definitely not as good as they were in the previous life because of the ebb and flow.

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One month later, the sales of "Tomahawk" game consoles exceeded 664.5 million, and the sales of game CDs exceeded 6840 million!

It can be said that "Tomahawk" is a mess in Japan!
Nintendo's FC, Sega's MD and other game consoles are almost completely unsalable.

The topics that players talk about are almost all "Tomahawk" and games on the "Tomahawk" platform. Among them, the most popular games are: "Pokemon II: The Classic of Mountains and Seas", "Dragon Quest II: Evil Spiritual Gods", "The Legend of Zelda II: Link's Adventure", "Final Fantasy II", "Calabash Brothers II: Prehistoric Gourd Vine", "Street Fighter II", "The King of Fighters II", "Sonic ", "Crash Bandicoot", "Metal Slug", almost every user bought these games.

It's really scary, the game is so fun, and word of mouth exploded.

Borderless Game Company is nothing but a blockbuster.

This happens every time, otherwise the game will not be released. Once the game is released, it will always bring huge surprises to people.

Japanese players simply cannot resist the charm of Borderless Games.

Only buy, buy, buy, buy! ! !
Moreover, the Japanese at this time were very rich and were at their peak, so they could naturally afford the "Tomahawk" game console.

In the past month, there has been a long queue at the entrance of the Wujiang flagship store every day, especially at night, it is almost overcrowded.

The Japanese media went crazy, never seen such a hot scene.

The popularity of "Tomahawk" in Japan was of course reported by European and American newspapers, and immediately caused a huge sensation among European and American gamers, causing heated discussions.

"Oh my God, is this too much of a stretch?! Is Tomahawk really that much fun?Why is it so popular in Japan?Simply incredible! ! ! "

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo L L L L L L ] I hope Wujiang Game Company will let us list "Tomahawk" sooner! ! ! "

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Players in Europe and the United States are looking forward to "Tomahawk", and every day they are appealing to Wujiang Game Company to make "Tomahawk" available in their countries as soon as possible.

Everyone looks forward to the stars and the moon, and finally they are looking forward to it.

April 4st is April Fool's Day.

The "Tomahawk" home game console was officially launched in Europe and America.

As soon as it went public, the Wujiang flagship store was almost overwhelmed by the swarming users, and the straight line couldn't see the end at a glance.

""Tomahawk" is so popular, so many people came to buy it as soon as it was launched, Wujiang Group is making crazy money..."

"The game industry is really profitable. If we knew our company should have developed games! I heard that the revenue of the Wujiang game industry exceeds the sum of the income of all American TV stations!"

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Many people who saw this scene sighed.

On this day, "Tomahawk" swept everything and sold well all over the world. In the US market alone, 135 million game consoles were sold, which is astounding!

The speed of the rise of "Tomahawk" can't help but make competitors feel desperate.

Many potential competitors who originally wanted to enter the industry have canceled their plans.

Sega is now a living example.

The MD game console originally made many people think it was good, but once the "Tomahawk" came out, the MD couldn't be sold.

Even if MD cuts the price again now, it still doesn't help.

The reason why players buy "Tomahawk" is not only because of the powerful functions of "Tomahawk", but also because the games on the "Tomahawk" platform are fun.

Right now, third-party game developers all over the world have taken a clear stand on the "Tomahawk" platform, and even the vast majority of game developer companies have expressed their willingness to sign exclusive agreements.

It may be extremely difficult for latecomers to open up the situation, even for Nintendo.

Players have limited funds. If you buy a "Tomahawk" game console, it is unlikely that you will buy another Nintendo game console.

The monopoly advantage of "Tomahawk" will far exceed that of "Qingqi"!
In fact, Sega has already regretted it at this time. If they had known that Wujiang Group had developed "Tomahawk", they would not have developed MD.

Well now, a heavy loss!
Not to mention that the research and development costs are as high as [-] million US dollars, the hundreds of thousands of unsalable MD game consoles in the warehouse alone are worth hundreds of millions of dollars...

Sega has now given up its intention of continuing to compete with Borderless in the future. In the field of games, Borderless's status is already unmatched!

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At present, Wujiang has not set foot in the field of PC games for the time being.

But this is not to say that Wujiang does not pay attention to PC games, but that the current output value of PC games is not high.Borderless has limited energy, so it can only seize the relatively profitable game market first.

However, as long as Wujiang is willing, it will soon be able to occupy the PC game market, even if its game products are transplanted to the PC, it can also occupy a place in the PC market.

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"Boss, this is the personal computer we designed. Unlike other computers today, our personal computer has a CD-ROM drive, a GPU graphics processor, and a USB port!

CD-ROM drives support playing music CDs and VCD videos, and can run software on CDs. Its appearance will open the era of PC multimedia and make PCs more entertaining!
In the past, no one would think of using a PC to watch movies, because the floppy disk was only a few megabytes, the hard disk capacity was not large, and the operating system did not have a video player.Therefore, when the CD-ROM drive is applied to the computer, it will definitely be very popular! "

"The existence of the GPU graphics processor can make the resolution of the computer higher, and be able to display and process high-definition images, which will definitely promote the vigorous development of the PC game industry!!!"

"The USB interface is a serial bus standard produced by our Wujiang Group. It has a hot-swappable function and supports the connection and communication between computers and external devices, such as mice, keyboards, and NAND FLASH flash memory cards developed by our group company."

"We have formulated the USB 1.0 standard. The transmission rate of the high-speed mode is 12Mbps, and the transmission rate of the low-speed mode is 1.5Mbps. At present, it is sufficient to meet the speed requirements of most peripherals. However, we are still working hard to improve and strive to make USB transmission The speed has been increased to a higher level!"

Qiu Bojun introduced Zhao Ye in detail.

At this time, Qiu Bojun is the general manager of Wujiang Computer Company, and only this boss can endure loneliness and devote himself to developing the computer of Wujiang Group!
Ten years of sharpening a sword, Frost Blade has never tried.

Ordinary people may have wanted to be transferred a long time ago, but Qiu Bojun was willing to lead the computer team, defying hardships and overcoming difficulties one after another.

Since the 32-bit Kirin 3 microprocessor has not been developed before, the entire computer team has been constantly improving the operating system and hardware.

Whenever there is a new technology, it will be applied to the computer, such as CD-ROM drive, USB interface and GPU graphics processor.

None of the other computers have these three items.

This is the advantage of Wujiang Computer.

However, in order to successfully promote Wujiang Computer, the group company will first promote VCD, and when there are a large number of VCD discs on the market, the CD-ROM drive of Wujiang Computer will also have a place to play.

Then, U disk and CF card (mainly used for cameras) are developed. At that time, they will be launched together at the press conference, which must be very sensational.

At this time, the floppy disk of the computer was only a few MB, and the storage capacity of the U disk was far greater than that of the floppy disk, and its development potential was huge. However, all computer enthusiasts who saw the U disk for the first time did not like it.

As for the GPU graphics processor, it should also be used to develop PC games.

Other computers can't play it, only the Wujiang computer with GPU installed can play it.As long as PC games are fun, they will definitely attract a large number of users.

As for this GPU, also commonly known as graphics card, in this life, the concept of GPU graphics processor was first proposed by Wujiang Group, and it was applied to the "Tomahawk" game console, which achieved great success.

Wujiang's GPU brand is called "Kunpeng", and like the "Kirin" CPU, it is also named after a mythical beast.

As for the operating system of Wujiang Computer, it is called Hongmeng.

Youdao is the first creation of Hongmeng, and the beginning of heaven and earth!

Then various mythical beasts were born!
In order to bypass the patents of Microsoft and Apple's operating systems, Zhao Ye directly took out macOS, the operating system of the previous MacBook, with full-screen window mode, mission control, launch pad, app store, etc...

Of course, it is impossible to completely bypass it, such as desktop icons, dragging and double-clicking, etc...

But fortunately, Apple is going downhill at this time, and the relevant patents can be obtained as long as it costs a certain price.

Zhao Ye encouraged Qiu Bojun. Right now, the 32-bit Kirin 3 microprocessor has been successfully developed, and the launch of Wujiang Computer should also be promoted.

Qiu Bojun was very excited at this time, his eyes showed anticipation, and he thought to himself: "I have been watching the other departments of the group, and now it's our computer department's turn!!!"

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"Boss, look, our "Kirin 3" is several times stronger than the same 32-bit ARM chip, with a computing speed of up to 80MIPS and an operating frequency of 60MHz, which also exceeds Intel's 80836 processor. "

Zhao Ye then came to Godson Design Company.

Fu Feipeng told Zhao Ye about the data of Kirin 3.

Zhao Ye had already seen it in the report, but he still felt a little excited when he heard Fu Feipeng's introduction.

There is no doubt that the advent of Kirin 3 has directly established Wujiang Group's top position in the chip field!
Zhao Ye thought for a while and said: "Kirin 3 can continue to be optimized, there is no need to develop a 64-bit processor for the time being, and I estimate that the 64-bit processor will not be used for a long time...

At the same time, we will further improve the Loongson architecture, especially the modular design, so that it will be convenient for Loongson Design Company to enter electrical chips, industrial chips, automotive chips, and aerospace chips in the future..."

"Okay, boss, I understand!" Fu Feipeng nodded.

After Zhao Ye explained, he immediately went to the NAND flash memory department.

As soon as Fujio Masuoka saw Zhao Ye, he walked forward involuntarily and greeted him with great enthusiasm: "Boss, you are here!!!"

For Fujio Masuoka, Zhao Ye not only has the grace of knowing him, but also Zhao Ye is his idol. The multi-layer storage MLC structure proposed by Zhao Ye has been verified.

Masuoka Fujio led the team to develop a new generation of NAND flash memory using the multi-layer storage MLC structure.

The capacity of a flash memory particle is as high as 50MB, and the cost is less than 10 dollars!

If mass production, the cost will be even lower.

As long as 20 NAND flash memory particles, the size of 1GB can be achieved.

At this time, the capacity of IBM's mechanical hard drives has not exceeded 1GB.

If Wujiang Group launched a 1GB SSD with a price of more than [-] US dollars (made of flash memory), would consumers accept it?
Fujio Masuoka feels that many people may be able to accept it.

However, at this time, mechanical hard drives are still much cheaper than flash memory, and NAND does not have much advantage on desktop computers.

Currently, NAND is mainly used to make U disks and CF cards.

Perhaps, SSD solid-state drives can be more widely used in notebooks.

(End of this chapter)