Chapter 298 New Products Are Still Emerging
In fact, Atari's personal computer Atari 400/800 series was developed as the successor of the home game console Atari 2600.
Because midway operators realized the rise of personal computers, they turned temporarily and adjusted them to support more devices such as keyboards, thus breaking into this field.
The Atari 400/800 has some commendable features. For example, the atar bus interface for connecting external devices is somewhat similar to the usb that will not appear until the future.
However, the water in the personal computer industry is very deep, and the Atari 400/800, which wanted to make a fortune, stumbled in two places.
Because the prototype of the Atari 400/800 comes from a home game console, and this type of product must meet the relevant electromagnetic radiation regulations of the Federal Communications Commission, so it has some additional shielding designs in the circuit, but it is used as a personal After the computer, it has not been adjusted, so it is not cost-competitive.
Also, the Atari 400/800 has the same problem as the Atari 2600, and has always overestimated the trend of memory prices.
The capacity of the two models was 4kb and 8kb when it was designed, but when it was released, the price of the memory was greatly reduced, so it had to adapt to the trend and increase it to 48kb. As a result, the heat generation became a serious problem.
In the original time and space next year, Atari launched the Atari 5200, the next-generation product of the home game console Atari 2600, which was basically copied from the Atari 400/800 series of personal computers. But it failed because it was not compatible with Atari 2600 games.
It can be seen from this. The Atari gang is opportunistic. It's just too amateurish.
When Tang Huan developed the Fangyuan computer and Xiaobawang game console, he also adopted the method of homology and branching, but he did not make such a low-level mistake.
In addition, the fact that the Atari 400/800 and the Atari 5200 have the same origin shows that personal computers now have good game capabilities. For example, the famous Sierra Corporation has already developed games on the Internet.
But from another aspect, it also shows how chaotic the video game console market is, and even personal computers are rushing to grab food.
Commodore just launched the latest model of personal computer re64. It is such a shit-stirring stick. With its cost advantage, its products are priced at less than 600 US dollars. An advertising slogan is similar to "Do you only want a product that can only play games, or a personal computer that does not delay learning and games?" , so he fooled away many customers who originally belonged to electronic game consoles.
After listing the most likely remaining survivors of this round of market competition,
The working ideas of the participants are naturally much clearer.
"Although the Osborne first-generation machine is a newcomer in the personal computer market, its performance can be described as eye-catching due to its portability. Why is it not favored?" Someone expressed deep doubts about this.
"Our hardware equipment. The failure rate is very low. Don't take it for granted. It is the result of the cooperation and hard work of many people in many departments."
Tang Huan sighed, "As far as I know, Osborne Computer Company has been stunned by the huge order. It only cares about how to deliver the goods as soon as possible, but it is seriously behind in quality management. When this crisis broke out It won’t be too late, enough for them to be in a hurry. Moreover, Osborne’s first-generation machine has not set a technical threshold, and followers will appear soon. With internal and external troubles, can its prospects be called optimistic?”
After discussing for a while, Tang Huan saw that everyone gradually reached a consensus on this analysis and prediction, so he continued to preach: "There is no doubt that IBM is our biggest enemy, and the current fighting positions are mainly concentrated on the software here, and that The so-called patent lawsuit. But according to the development of the semiconductor industry, the cost of computer components will be further reduced next year. At that time, the second-generation Fangyuan computer after the price adjustment is bound to handover with IBM- on the hardware front.”
For mainstream personal computers in the market like app, the memory configuration is generally 48kb, while the basic model of the second-generation Fangyuan computer starts from 64kb.
In the original time and space, 64kb dram cost $50 per piece in 1981, and $5 per piece in 1982.
The reason for such a big dive is naturally due to the aggressiveness of Japanese semiconductor companies.
Tang Huan has been keeping an eye on the Japanese side. He is fully confident that this general trend will not change, and the huge memory demand brought about by the birth of the Xiaobawang game console and Fangyuan computer has further stimulated the Japanese ambitions.
In other words, the Japan-US semiconductor war will become more tragic because of Tang Huan's fueling.
For this excitement, Tang Huan is optimistic, the cheaper the memory, the more articles he can do on the platform of personal computer.
"Since everyone is essentially fighting for standards, we should make more efforts in this area. In addition to promoting the authorization of the ISA bus, we must also actively attract third parties to develop ISA cards. You know, every time a new product appears, This means that the second-generation Fangyuan computer has an additional application field. For example, with a factory information acquisition card, the second-generation Fangyuan computer can openly enter the production enterprise."
Tang Huanyang instilled his own ideas into the minds of his subordinates so that the entire IT industry cluster can maintain a steady pace while correctly responding to the current new market competition situation.
The function and significance of this meeting are very important, so it took a long time to hold it.
Afterwards, Tang Huan inspected the progress of various projects the company was developing.
Since there is a spring exhibition this year, which will be held in New York next month, Zheru, Fangyuan Computer, and ea, which have always been heavyweight exhibitors, must take each exhibition seriously and present valuable products.
Among them, it is worth mentioning that although it is because of the heat generation problem. As a result, the second-generation Xiaobawang game console cannot be introduced to the market for the time being. But the optimization and improvement of the first generation of Xiaobawang game consoles never stops. Its video and audio effects have been significantly enhanced.
Since the microprocessor has the concept of performing general functions - the central processing unit is the cpu, then there will naturally be their own proprietary concepts in the audio and video fields: - the sound processor is the apu and - the graphics processor That is, GPUs.
It's just that because of the problem of vision, people nowadays haven't paid attention to it.
The reason why Tang Huan maintains the continuous enhancement of the first generation Xiaobawang game console is mainly to take advantage of its demand, stimulate the research and development of apu and gpu, and test the actual results of its conversion into products, until finally expanding to the personal computer platform.
Such a height is naturally beyond the reach of Atari, Nintendo, and Sega. And they can only watch EA crazily absorbing money and feel jealous without knowing it.
As for the second-generation Fangyuan computer, a special ultra-high-end new model was launched. Its main board is equipped with two microprocessors, and a special chip is used for communication and cooperation in the middle. The operating system fr it uses needs to be loaded. An additional driver is required to exert the power of dual cpu.
Obviously, this kind of personal computer with multi-processor architecture will be the highest-end product in the entire product line of the second-generation Fangyuan Computer, and it means at the same time. The desktop publishing system has a more powerful hardware platform.
However, even with two cpu. The execution efficiency of the entire second-generation Fangyuan computer will not be doubled, it can only reach about 150%.
It seems that there is a distance from the cognition of "11=2", but this achievement has not come easily, and it can be called a perfect technical attempt.
Zheru's new product is more professional. It is a new programming language development tool——c.
C supports object-oriented programming and was invented and implemented by Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup of Bell Laboratories.
In addition to asking about the new products on display, Tang Huan also focused on the telecom switchboard project.
The long-awaited technicians, after being dealt with by Yi Peng r of the structure, quickly launched the official sample of the telecom switch, and placed it in the R&D center building for testing.
In addition, they found two hotels that were willing to be guinea pigs to try out the device.
Tang Huan personally experienced some new functions, such as the caller ID that he was accustomed to in time and space.
In fact, the biggest difference between this telecommunication switch and other traditional telecommunication switches is that, in addition to transmitting voice, it also fully supports data transmission.
In other words, the speed of data communication through the public telephone network with a modem will be significantly improved.
Of course, the premise is that the line passes through this kind of telecommunications switch.
Tang Huan, who was very satisfied, praised the entire project team and said bluntly: "Your product will be the next gold-absorbing monster."
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In fact, although the IT industry is extremely risky, Tang Huan, as an expert, can always make the most favorable layout for himself, so Zheru and other affiliated companies in the center of the storm are more at ease than outsiders guess much.
After Tang Huan let these Silicon Valley elites collect their intentions, he began to deal with the affairs of the Shennong Foundation.
The first phase of Baozang Hospital was completed and put into use.
To this end, Tang Huan held another dinner party and invited various dignitaries and celebrities to celebrate.
According to the usual practice, Baozang Hospital also needs to implement information-based office. Zheru has developed medical record management and other systems for it, which can be regarded as opening up a new application field.
The Wang family of Baodao had already opened the famous Chang Gung Hospital earlier, so Baozang Hospital received professional staff from there from the beginning of its preparation, and with the abundant financial support from the Shennong Foundation, its formality far exceeded that of the hospital. Tang Huan's expectations attracted many elites in the American medical field.
In Tang Huan's view, Baozang Hospital is mainly for the Shennong Foundation to spend more money, so he used "professional work and professional people in charge" as an excuse, did not express any opinions, and just visited it casually again.
However, the acupuncture department of Baozang Hospital is an exception. Tang Huan made it clear that under the framework of relevant California laws, clinical research on traditional Chinese medicine should be encouraged.
In addition, the laboratory has since then had its own exclusive building, and the research results such as rapid diagnosis have also received great attention from the US officials.
It is not difficult to see that Tang Huan has been busy in this field, all of which are throwing money out, so he has always been curious about Viagra, a project that should attract money like crazy.
How is the Viagra project going? Men all over the world are looking forward to you.
Unfortunately, even if the ingredient of sildenafil is known, the necessary and rigorous clinical research process cannot be overcome.
In other words, Viagra still has a long way to go if it wants to enter the market.
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During this period, James Cameron, who hadn't seen him for many days, came to visit.
Tang Huan couldn't help being very curious seeing the other party's depressed look.
The Wang family of Baodao had already established the famous Chang Gung Hospital earlier, so Baozang Hospital received professional staff from there from the beginning of its preparation, and with the abundant financial support of the Shennong Foundation, its formality far exceeded that of the hospital. Tang Huan's expectations attracted many elites in the American medical field.
In Tang Huan's view, Baozang Hospital is mainly for the Shennong Foundation to spend more money, so he used "professional work and professional people in charge" as an excuse, did not express any opinions, and just visited it on a whim again.
However, the acupuncture department of Baozang Hospital is an exception. Tang Huan made it clear that under the framework of relevant California laws, clinical research on traditional Chinese medicine should be encouraged.
In addition, the laboratory has since then had its own exclusive building, and the research results such as rapid diagnosis have also received great attention from the US officials.
It is not difficult to see that Tang Huan has been busy in this field, all of which are throwing money out, so he has always been curious about Viagra, a project that should attract money like crazy.
How is the Viagra project going? Men all over the world are looking forward to you.
Unfortunately, even if the ingredient of sildenafil is known, the necessary and rigorous clinical research process cannot be overcome. (to be continued...)
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