Rebirth 1984: Starting from the development of Hanka

Chapter 52 The advent of digital BB machine

Right now, many projects of Wujiang Company are being carried out at the same time, and the funds are burning like crazy!
Wujiang Company is still a small company with sales of only a few hundred million RMB. It is really difficult to support such a large plate.

It is almost impossible to develop semiconductor production equipment now.

Ni Annan is indeed a tech giant obsessed with chip development, poaching people, investigating the status of various domestic semiconductor industry chains, and presiding over the development of "Godson" CPU. He is very busy, but he enjoys it.

It’s just that Zhao Ye was suffering. Ni Annan came to him from time to time, either asking for money to buy equipment, or urging Zhao Ye to participate in the design of Godson, because Zhao Ye proposed a lot of feasibility analysis, such as architecture exploration, circuit design and layout, etc. Ni Annan was amazed every time.

It's a bit unbelievable to know so much in your early 20s.

But in reality, Zhao Ye is a super genius in everyone's eyes.

But Zhao Ye had to find ways to get money, otherwise many researches would be unsustainable.

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At the end of December 1984, the factory worked overtime for production, and the warehouse has already stocked 12 digital BB machines.

Therefore, Zhao Ye decided to hold a product conference on January 1985, 1, and officially release the digital BB machine.

Because of the last press conference of Wujiang Company, it was very shocking.

Therefore, this press conference has attracted the attention of many media and electronics industry personnel, which can be described as highly anticipated.

The night before the press conference, Zhao Ye and others tested the use of the digital BB machine again.

Zhao Ye picked up the phone and dialed 126 paging station.

The 126 paging station was opened only recently, and was jointly invested by the Capital Wireless Communications Bureau and Wujiang Company, with Wujiang Company holding 49% of the shares.

It is actually more profitable to run a paging station. BB machine users pay a monthly service fee, which is not a small sum.But Wujiang Company has no intention of this, the main purpose is to sell BB machines.

BB machines are more profitable.

How high is it?

The price is 2500 yuan, and the cost is less than 500.

The profit is four times the cost, such a huge profit!

It was so ruthless, the capitalists were in tears, the Jews were heartbroken, and the RB plutocrats felt guilty after watching it!

"Boss, the test is all normal. My BB machine has received a digital message—8848." Secretary Liu Yinyin looked at the pink BB machine in her hand and said to Zhao Ye.

Upon hearing this, Zhao Ye nodded in satisfaction.

He just called the 126 paging station and told the paging station staff the number of the BB machine he needed to contact.

The staff input Zhao Ye's said information into the computer, and then sent it to Liu Yinyin's BB machine;
Liu Yinyin's BB machine quickly received the message, and she could go to a nearby phone booth to call Zhao Ye back.

This time it was just for testing, Zhao Ye didn't ask the other party to call back, so he just sent 8848.

8848, the height of Mount Everest, implying that this Imagine-BB machine has reached the pinnacle and become the overlord of the BB machine market!
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January 1985, 1 at 1 o'clock in the morning.

The Borderless press conference officially started, Zhao Ye stepped onto the stage, and everyone's eyes were instantly focused on him.

Today, Zhao Ye is still dressed in a suit and leather shoes, gentle and elegant, and extremely handsome.

"Hi everyone, welcome to Wujiang Company's product release conference. I am Zhao Ye, the boss of Wujiang Company!"

"Today, I want to introduce a product to you."

"In 1955, Motorola developed a new wireless communication product that can transmit wireless signals to a designated person. This product is a small wireless receiver for pagers. Later, with the development of technology, Motorola developed a A small, lightweight pager, a little black box called the 'beeper', later shortened to 'BP' or 'BB'."

"In 1983, BB machines began to enter China. However, at this time, BB machines were relatively backward. They could only passively receive a call message. phone number, very troublesome!"

As Zhao Ye said, he took out a black digital BB machine from his pocket.

"But it's different now. Our Wujiang company has developed a digital BB machine with more advanced technology. The thing I hold in my hand is small and exquisite. It can be worn on the waist or put in a pocket. This digital BB machine , The difference with the analog BB machine is that it can receive numbers. Simply put, the digital BB machine can directly display the caller's phone number, so that you don't need to call the paging station to ask the other party's number. Just take the BB machine and go to the phone booth to contact the other party."

When Zhao Ye said this, he paused for a moment, glanced at everyone, and asked with a smile, "How about it, is such a digital BB machine very convenient?"

"convenient!!!"

The audience immediately responded in unison.

Some people are hearing about BB machines for the first time, but there are also many people who have been in contact with BB machines before.

But no matter what it was, after hearing Zhao Ye's introduction at this moment, everyone was greatly surprised.

"With such a BB machine on my body, others can contact me at any time!" A guest said with emotion.

"I saw other people using an analog BB machine in Shanghai. It is very cumbersome to use. It is really incomparable with the digital BB machine developed by Wujiang Company. This digital BB machine is really convenient. If the price is cheap, I am willing to buy it. One..." A reporter looked at the BB machine in Zhao Ye's hand with extremely hot eyes.

"..."

At this time, Zhao Ye began to demonstrate the functions of the digital BB machine to everyone.

When finally seeing a set of numbers really appear on the digital BB machine, the audience suddenly burst into warm applause.

"Wujiang Company is awesome, this digital BB machine will definitely sell well!"

"Wujiang Company is going to make money again like crazy!"

"..."

Some people in the industry in the audience couldn't help showing envy.

After a pause, the applause faded away.

Zhao Ye continued: "This digital BB machine from Wujiang Company is called Imagine-BB machine 1.0. The national unified retail price is only 2500 RMB.

Just finished speaking.

There was boos from the audience.

"God damn it only costs 2500 yuan, it's a shame it's so expensive, I can afford it!"

"Every time I say that the production is insufficient, I want to buy as soon as possible. This is a routine, forcing dealers to scramble to place orders!"

Everyone complained.

Now they can be regarded as quite familiar with Wujiang Company. Although the products developed are good, they are sold very expensively, and the quality is cheap!
Seeing this, Zhao Ye couldn't help but smile bitterly. The Motorola BB machine was sold for more than 2000 yuan. This time, he really sold it cheaply. The domestic retail price is only 2500 yuan.

The price of the Imagine-BB machine in the United States is as high as 1500 US dollars, which is almost 3700 RMB.After all there are taxes not.This time, the price of Wujiang's bb machine is not low, let's see what the United States says about dumping.

Right now, Motorola has not yet developed a digital BB machine, so he just took the opportunity to make a fortune!
"Zhao Ye, your BB machine is too expensive, can you make it cheaper!"

At this time, a reporter suddenly couldn't help shouting that he really liked this BB machine, but the expensive price made him discouraged.

Zhao Ye was taken aback, cheap?Impossible, absolutely impossible.It was hard to set the price, how could it be easily revised?

What's more, Motorola's analog BB machine sells for more than 2000 yuan. Our Wujiang digital BB machine is much more advanced than it, but it only sells for more than 2000 yuan, which is really not expensive.

Zhao Ye said slowly: "The production cost of this thing is quite high, and it is still considered a luxury at this stage. However, I still recommend that everyone buy a BB machine, because it is not only convenient for people to connect with each other, but also easy to take out. It’s very face-saving. You can imagine, put BB on your waist, and say something domineering on the street: 'Call me if you have anything to do', look, this looks so cool..."

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