When Chen Weidong told the people in the computer software department that in order to make Infinite Company's product technical standards the world's technical standards, he had to give up part of his interests.

Many people feel a sense of loss.

But now, when they saw the reporters roaring in front of them in front of them in order to fight for the sound card and graphics card, they realized that Chen Weidong's approach was correct.

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

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

Otherwise, no matter how advanced your technology is, there is nothing you can do if others don’t use it.

Apple was in such an awkward position before the "iphone" mobile phone came out.

Bill looked at Lu Zhanhai and the others with some embarrassment, and then whispered a few words to the reporters closest to him. When the reporters heard this, their faces suddenly lit up with joy.

Other reporters quickly went to inquire and learned what Bill said.

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

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

Haha, only half a year.

In half a year, our American products will quickly drive all the inferior products from Infinite Company out of the market!

Everyone was smiling and chatting and laughing with each other.

They wore suits and ties, walked around the venue gracefully with smiles on their faces, greeted everyone they knew and talked quietly.

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

Because the Chinese people's advantage can only last for a short half a year!

Lu Zhanhai left the venue with the technical staff of Infinity Company. They really didn't want to stay there any longer.

After leaving the press conference, he recalled Chen Weidong's wild laughter in his mind: "Leave the market to them? Yes, let a group of wage earners make money for me. It's too late for me to be happy!"

Open technical standards mean openness. I can't be like Apple, holding on to perfect products but struggling to survive.

Our Infinite Company is like a restaurant owner. We prepare a sumptuous table of food and wine, eat a few bites ourselves, and then charge fees to everyone who comes in to dine.

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

There is no need 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. Such a beautiful thing is what I like to do the most.

When our technical standards become the standards they follow, then it will be equivalent to all of them having a long-term meal card in our hotel.

When they saw other restaurants, they were already stuck on our restaurant!

Even if someone wants to change a restaurant to eat, they still have to consider various cost issues.

At that time, I will make all other restaurants close down, or else they will not hire chefs and come directly to our hotel to order, and they will act as takeaways and delivery people...

Is open technology really so profitable?

Lu Zhanhai is a bit of a lost lake.

His intuition told him that Chen Weidong's approach should be correct. The boss has never made mistakes.

Suddenly, he suddenly understood.

This is what the boss has always said, using business to support research.

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

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

Now our manufacturing technology for graphics cards and sound cards is only 260 nanometers, but that is also the result of the deliberate clumsiness of the people in the Optoelectronics Laboratory.

In other words, this is just a balance point of commercialization and cost reduction.

This does not mean that infinite companies can only manufacture 260-nanometer integrated circuits.

When those foreigners think that Infinite Company’s technology is nothing more than this, let’s launch the next technical standard...

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

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Bill was also frightened by Infinity Company's sudden attack.

They are afraid that another company will come along and launch another super software, which will cause problems.

newly launched windows

The interface code was soon announced.

Multimedia drivers, sound drivers, video drivers and interface standards, even game controller interfaces, file compression formats, etc., have all been announced on the Internet.

The most important of them are direct 3d three-dimensional data, qpengl three-dimensional graphics processing library, and multimedia data development kit.

The multimedia data development package is a complete multimedia solution, and the three-dimensional data package is an enhancement of this multimedia and three-dimensional graphics.

Special 3D software can be developed for use in construction, machinery, etc.

Belongs to real productivity!

This solution is perfect.

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

computer games.

In addition to the office software package launched by Microsoft itself, as well as the professional-level graphics processing software jointly developed with Infinity Company, windows

It has become a comprehensive and powerful system software.

With so many software vendors joining, Windows

Within six months of its launch, an astonishing six million copies were sold!

And in the next year and a half, it successfully occupied more than 90% of the world's personal computer operating system market.

Bill's wish to unify the operating system was successfully realized.

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

To be precise, his ambition was only partially realized.

windows

Open technology standards attract hardware manufacturers from all over the world.

The sound cards and graphics cards of Infinite Company, with their relatively low prices and extremely high cost performance, quickly became popular in the United States, and were even purchased in large quantities in Europe and the United States.

If they hadn't divested their business and authorized manufacturing to some factories in South China, I'm afraid the market would be in short supply.

same year.

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

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

The more famous ones include Toshiba, Diamond, Yamaha, etc....

For example, the sound quality characteristics of Toshiba hardware boards that use optical fiber digital interfaces are even better than some 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 semiconductor manufacturers in Southeast Asia, such as Leadtek, GALAXY, Geng Sheng, etc., have also joined this battle.

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

After all, the domestic manufacturers that were OEMs for Infinite Company were not manufacturers specializing in the production of computer hardware. They had a weak foundation and did not have strong technical strength. They were quickly defeated in this battle.

Thanks to its low price advantage, it is able to hold on to 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 after suffering so much, many domestic manufacturers have realized the importance of technology and began to learn from the pain.

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

The conclusion is that, to be honest, Infinite Company's products are not enough to occupy the international stage.

However, through the early stage of monopolizing the market, it won back a large amount of research and development funds, and through confrontation with major international manufacturers, it understood its own weaknesses and shortcomings.

In the following years, after acquiring some small and medium-sized manufacturing companies in Europe and the United States, their technology was supplemented and improved to a certain extent.

The era of fierce competition for multimedia hardware 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 entry qualifications for this market, new manufacturers are always pouring in, trying to seize part of the market.

The multimedia hardware market has always been in a situation of calm on the surface, but in fact there is an undercurrent.

The Infinite Optoelectronics Laboratory and the Materials Laboratory are working hard on research and efforts to improve the technical level. After ten years of dormancy, the second fierce market competition has finally begun.

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

At that stage, users were often worried whether the manufacturing company of the graphics card they bought would go bankrupt tomorrow.

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

After the second market battle ended, Infinite Company finally became 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 company.

Of course, this conclusion is not completely wrong.

After all, in the software industry, thanks to Infinity's first step and Chen Weidong pointed out the right path.

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

It was only later that a major change in the company forced many ongoing projects to stop, and a large number of technical personnel were laid off and replaced.

Due to lack of stamina, the software department has gradually fallen behind in world-class competition.
Chapter completed!