In September 1951, the world's first transistor radio was launched. It was launched three years earlier than the original transistor radio in history, and it has low production costs, making it small, exquisite and convenient to carry. The shell of this radio is made of plastic, with red, black, blue and white colors, and looks very futuristic.

This radio, the size of a soap box, costs $65.5, which is equivalent to a blue-collar worker's income per week. It is more expensive than a tube radio, but its performance, appearance and various data are much better. It costs $10, and Carpenter Electronics can earn about $55 for every one sold.

When every revolutionary product is launched, it is time to make huge profits. The same is true for this transistor radio, which is very profitable.

Carls is a businessman. He is forty-three years old and has gained a little weight.

He was walking home, thinking about what gift to buy for his wife, tomorrow will be the 20th anniversary of their marriage.

"What gift should I give? Ring? Well, I've already given it last year. Or a gold necklace?" Carls thought to himself while looking at what jewelry stores were around.

As he walked, he suddenly heard a sound of music. He looked carefully at a black man coming towards him, and the sound was coming from him.

"Strange!" he thought to himself, so he looked closely and saw that the black man was holding a black box in his hand. He wanted to ask, but for some reason, he couldn't ask.

Carls shook his head and walked past the black man. After a few steps, he turned around and listened.

He confirmed that it was music played on a radio station.

"Is it a radio?" Carls immediately realized that he had never seen such a small radio. In his impression, the radio was the same size as a wooden box and was heavy.

When he thought of this as a radio, he felt itchy and almost chased after the black man and asked. Fortunately, he didn't catch up because he heard another piece of music. No, more than one piece, it seemed that there was music moving everywhere on the street. The streets, which were usually quiet, were filled with these music.

This time, he saw several white young men, both men and women, talking and laughing, holding a small black radio in their hands.

Carls immediately went up and stopped them, and asked anxiously: "Is this a radio in your hands?"

"Yes! This is a newly launched transistor radio, which is so lightweight that it can not only be held in your hand but also put it in your pocket." A young man in his twenties demonstrated it to him and put the radio in his pocket. The music still did not stop, but it was still so clear and loud.

"So where did you buy this radio? How much does it cost?" Karls asked hurriedly, he wanted to buy one for his wife.

When the young men heard this, they all laughed. This made Carls wonder why. He didn't know why those people were laughing. Is this a coke question?

Another young man explained to him: "It's gone, these radios are not expensive, only $65.50 per unit. We bought them in the store in front. Many people were grabbing them just now, but they didn't get them."

A young man said, "Several people have asked us this way. They want to buy it like you, but they are one step late."

Carls was stunned. He didn't expect that this kind of radio would be so easy to sell and would be snatched up in one go.

The young men were about to leave, and Carls quickly grabbed them: "Can you sell me one? I'm willing to pay double the price."

One of the young men looked at the money Carls took out, thought for a while and said, "Okay, I'll sell my one to you."

Karls, who got what he wished, happily left with the radio. He turned on the radio along the way, turned the sound to the maximum, and walked on the road arrogantly. Passers-by around him looked at him with surprise, and Karls felt indescribable comfort.

Carls twisted left and right, and changed the radio channel over and over. When he saw the trademark on the radio, he whispered: "Carpenter! Well, it turns out to be called Carpenter Radio."

When he got home, before he entered the house, he heard the music from the radio. Carls was a little strange, and had a bit of an ominous premonition. He opened the door and saw his wife standing at the door, holding a "Carpenter" radio in his hand.

"Why are you..."

"Hey, I saw this radio on the road good, so I bought one and came back. Unexpectedly..."

The two of them looked at the radio in each other's hands and felt a sense of laughter and crying.

"I'll take it to return it tomorrow!" said Carls.

But unexpectedly, his radio was not returned in the end and was eventually bought at a high price.

At the same time, in the marketing department of Carpenter Electronics, phone calls continued to come in. The employees were busy, and their job was to appease the anxious sellers and let them patiently wait for the workers on the production line to produce the radio.

The employee picked up the phone and said, "Sorry, our company's radio is not available yet, please wait a few days."

As soon as I put down the phone, the ringtone rang immediately.

The employee explained to the customer on the phone, almost saying that he had drooled.

Seeing this situation, Lao Qiao quickly found Bart and asked him to find a way to solve the production capacity problem.

"We can't continue like this anymore. We must add production lines! Use all the equipment and workers to produce radios." Lao Qiao said, knowing that the longer it drags on, the higher the customer's dissatisfaction will be.

Bart thought about it and agreed to Lao Qiao's method. He was not very good at managing it, so he had to leave it to others to manage it. Bart is now focusing on developing new products, and he is mainly focusing on the progress of the R&D department. Under Alex's reminder, he is now busy using transistors and integrated circuit boards to other home appliances.

Lao Qiao is Bart's old friend. When he and Bart were in the factory, they were a low-middle manager. Since Lao Qiao was a black man, no matter how capable he was, he could not go further. When Bart proposed to ask Lao Qiao to work with him, Lao Qiao immediately agreed.

With Bart behind his back, Old Joe is doing well in Carpenter Electronics, almost as the top leader. Only major issues will be discussed, and it is usually enough. Bart will not interfere with Old Joe's decision too much.

At first, some veterans in the company were not convinced by Lao Qiao. One or two of the white executives were very discriminatory against black people and deliberately found faults for Lao Qiao. Lao Qiao remained silent and found the faults of these people and fired them all in one breath. Just when everyone was silent, he promoted several people who stood on his side and replaced those killed.

When those people found out that Bart was completely obedient to Lao Qiao's opinion, they realized that they would either get out or honestly cooperate with Lao Qiao's work. At this time, Lao Qiao used another gentle method to soothe people's hearts. In just a month, the people in the company were managed by Lao Qiao.

Under Lao Qiao's management, Carpenter Electronics Company is in order, with continuous improvement in production efficiency, and the cost of products has also been decreasing. Their company's radio is so popular. At the beginning, people from a state were buying, followed by people across the country, and finally, the whole world needed it.

Their production capacity has not been kept up, and other radio manufacturers have been putting pressure on Carpenter to release patents and at least authorize them to produce. There is no way, Bart can only authorize other companies to produce "Carpenter" radios together.

At this time, they had not authorized the patent for integrated circuit boards, and other manufacturers also believed that they could bypass this patent. However, Bart and others did not expect that this patent alone could stop everyone. It can be said that without the invention of integrated circuit boards, there would be no later computer era, and there would not be a large number of cheap electronic products.

The integrated circuit board was originally developed by Kilby until 1958. It only places electronic components such as resistors, capacitors, transistors on a semiconductor monolith, but it can greatly reduce the volume of the entire circuit and greatly reduce the cost of electronic products.

The invention of integrated circuits paved the way for the development of various functions of electronic products and opened a new era in the history of electronic technology. This is an invention that can change the world. Kilby won the Nobel Prize with just this invention.

Alex knew that the integrated circuit board he made was a very simple thing and it still had great potential for development. So he asked Bart to concentrate manpower and material resources to explore the possibility of integrated circuits, and pointed out several key points.

For example, using the diffusion technology of silica and the isolation technology of PN junctions, aluminum strips are made on the oxide film, so that the components and wires are integrated, so that integrated circuit boards can be produced in large quantities for industrial production.

Originally, Alex could make these by himself. When he was in college, he had made circuit boards by himself. He had only used the simplest knife-carving method, but he also studied other methods of plate making, such as paint plate making, mimeoprint plate making, etc.

However, he felt that if he did everything himself, he would do so much money. Isn’t it just for enjoyment to make money? If he had money, he could ask someone to do things. He simply wrote down these things and gave them to Bart, and asked Bart to find someone to study.

"Money is a good thing!" Alex couldn't help thinking when he saw a group of staff being told to go around, "No wonder Jobs likes money so much. It turns out that after he has money, he can let others do things according to his own ideas. And if the things he makes are loved by the world, glory can still belong to himself."

Alex always believed that Jobs was not a technician, but a rich man with ideas. Jobs just threw out his ideas with money and sold the smashed things to others. He relied on other talented people. In other words, Jobs spent money to buy the time of those talented employees and let them help them realize their ideals.

Now that Alex does this kind of thing, only fools will do it themselves. He is not idle and has nothing to do. Alex is busy writing books, studying and recording now, so don’t bother him about these trivial things.
Chapter completed!