Chapter 21 Product Development
Author: Baisha
A month later, Imagination Technology moved into a new office building.
At this time, Hanka's sales were no longer as strong as some time ago. The peak period had passed and sales were becoming increasingly stable.
The popularity of Hanka gradually decreases as time goes by.
However, Imagination Technology has made a lot of money.
Up to now, sales have exceeded 18 million yuan, and annual sales are estimated to be between 40 million and 50 million yuan, which means more than 10,000 Han cards have been sold, but not many.
Zhao Ye gave Wang Anshi a task, which was to open a flagship store of Imagination Technology in the capital, and then summarize the experience and promote it nationwide.
Only when the middlemen make a difference can the company make more.
Of course, in cities without flagship stores, we will still cooperate with other merchants.
Zhao Ye left all the market matters to Wang Anshi, and he became the boss of the hand. The title of "the God of Sitong Company's Management" is not a prank. In the traditional marketing field, Wang Anshi does have extraordinary abilities.
When Zhao Ye started his business, e-commerce emerged, and online was more important than offline, so Zhao Ye didn’t know much about the traditional market.
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The new office building has three floors, so Zhao Ye arranged that the first floor is the Han card department, the second floor is the Chinese electronic typewriter department, and the third floor is the BB computer department.
The office space is large and each floor looks very empty.
Waste is indeed a bit of a waste, but Zhao Ye is too lazy to move again.
Once the Chinese electronic typewriter and BB machine are developed successfully, then people will have to be recruited again.
At this time, there was a research room on the second floor.
A group of people gathered around a table and were discussing something. There were a lot of manuscript paper scattered on the table.
"The screen of the typewriter uses Sharp 640×400 LCD and a background light LCD, which can display 1 page of A4 paper, which is equivalent to the VGA display mode, which realizes what you see is what you get, so there will be no additional CRT display! It is not only beautiful and fashionable, but also cheaper!"
"RB printers use soft interrupts to save costs, but the soft interrupt response is too slow and the user experience is not good. The boss recommends that we use hard interrupts. Although this will increase the cost of interrupting chips of a few dollars, the user experience is higher!"
"The motherboard designed by the boss himself is worth mentioning. It is not only compatible with IBM-PC, but also externally connected to a modern modem to transfer files over a telephone line. In addition, the dual floppy drive files are also compatible with PCs, with built-in specially designed dual-port RAM memory, and the print output speed is higher than that of parallel interface transmission. In addition, the word processing software WPS is also compatible with WordStar! It's so powerful!"
Everyone praised it.
As an independent printer device, Chinese electronic typewriter requires its own word processing software.
In his previous life, Qiu Bojun developed WPS by imitating Sitong Company's word processing software.
In this life, Zhao Ye directly developed the relatively mature word processing software in the 1990s and named it wps.
Of course, he is responsible for software architecture design, just like designing the frame of a house in reality, and the specific content is left to others to build. These people were also commonly known as "coders" in their previous lives.
Qiu Bojun is now a genuine "coder" who is responsible for writing several functional programs of wps.
In addition, when Zhao Ye was developing a Han card, he wrote the input method and used it when developing a Chinese electronic typewriter.
Therefore, the development progress of Chinese typewriters is much faster than everyone expected.
In fact, when it comes to specific research and development content, Zhao Ye did not do much. He mainly focused on the high-level and pointed out the direction of research and development for everyone. Then, when everyone encounters technical difficulties that are difficult to break through, he will take action to solve them.
Just one month, the overall development progress has exceeded half.
Third floor.
The development difficulty of BB machines is actually simpler than that of Chinese electronic typewriters. It is mainly composed of superheterodyne receivers, decoders, controls and displays.
In fact, as long as you know the principle, many more technical electronic engineers can develop BB machines.
By the early 1990s, BB aircraft was crazily copied by domestic factories, snatching food from Motorola's tiger mouth, snatching a large share of the market share.
Of course, the quality problems of counterfeit brand BB machines are serious.
When Imagination Technology Company develops BB machines, it is naturally responsible and serious about consumers and needs to develop a product with advanced technology and mature technology.
This is a little bit difficult.
There is no need to think about the Hanxian BB machine for the time being. If the hardware does not support it, it is not impossible to make it. However, the size of the BB machine will increase dramatically. Others are small and exquisite, you are bloated, and the price is expensive. Who can buy it?
Therefore, currently, only digital BB machines can be developed.
Motorola will not launch digital BB machines by the end of this year, and Imagination Technology is completely possible to take the lead in launching its own products on the market.
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Zhao Ye’s office is also located on the third floor. Those who are the boss must be condescending.
Wang Anshi started chatting with Zhao Ye in the office at this time.
Wang Anshi suggested: "Boss, you can no longer hand over the OEM business to Kyoto Radio 18 Factory, which is equivalent to sharing part of the profits in vain. At the beginning, the company started and lacked funds, so it could also allow Kyoto Radio 18 Factory to OEM. But now we have tens of millions of cash flow and can invest and build the factory by ourselves. The factory sells directly, and the cost is lower, and our products will have a more competitive advantage!"
After pausing, Wang Anshi said with a little concern: "I heard that the Han card development team led by Ni Annan of the Institute of Computing of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has recently made a huge breakthrough. I think it is about to launch Han card. At that time, we will face severe competition. After all, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has a different identity, but we are private enterprises..."
Zhao Ye nodded after hearing this: "What you said makes sense. I had this idea before, but the key is that we can't buy chips ourselves."
Wang Anshi had a serious expression and frowned slightly: "I have thought about this question, and the best way is to open a branch in Hong Kong, purchase chips by ourselves, and then ship them to China!"
"This method is indeed good, but there are still problems. If our branch does not have foreign exchange, it still cannot purchase things." Zhao Ye nodded first, then shook his head, and then thought about whether Hanka, Chinese typewriter and BB player can open up the market in Hong Kong???
Of course, Chinese typewriters can also print in English. If you want to come to Hong Kong, Baodao and Southeast Asia, you also need a cheap and affordable typewriter.
Dingling dingling dingling dingling dingling ding...
Just then, the phone rings in the office.
Zhao Ye picked up the phone and asked what was wrong.
"Boss, there is a big businessman from Hong Kong below. He said he wanted to cooperate with our Imagination Technology Company!"
Hong Kong businessmen are looking for us to cooperate?
Zhao Ye was a little surprised.
"Okay, I get it. You can bring him to my office!"
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