Rebirth of the Cyber ​​Hegemony

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"No way, really come?"

Wu Haijun was taken aback, and took the computer design drawing that Chen Yu handed over.

With just one glance, Wu Haijun was dumbfounded.

"Chen Yu, you won't play tricks on me, will you?"

"How did you play tricks on you?"

"Isn't this just a laptop? How did it become a new type of computer product?"

Looking left and right, this blueprint is exactly the same as the laptop.

To say that he is a new type of computer product is a lie.

"Mr. Wu, look carefully, there are words next to me."

Pointing to the words next to the design drawing, Chen Yu said.

"What word?"

Wu Haijun was a little confused, and followed the handwriting Chen Yu pointed at.

There are three words written on it - netbook.

Chapter 577: Even Intel's processor moves

"Netbook?"

Wu Haijun blinked his eyes. This was the first time he had heard of such a thing as a netbook.

"What's a netbook for?"

"It's very simple, it's a notebook for surfing the Internet."

"What's the difference between that and a notebook?"

"This...the difference is not very big, but the main purpose of netbooks is to surf the Internet."

Speaking of the netbook is also a notebook.

However, netbooks are not as powerful as notebooks.

"I understand a little bit."

After all, it's for computers.Although it was the first time I saw this netbook, after thinking about it, Wu Haijun understood: "This netbook of yours can only be used to play games on the Internet, and there may be problems with other operations."

"Correct."

Chen Yu nodded, and then added: "It's not a problem, mainly browsing the web and playing small games, but some large games can't be played, because the performance can't keep up, but it's still possible to use some office software."

"But why don't I buy a laptop?"

Wu Haijun asked again.

"Because we're cheap."

Chen Yu said: "The price of our netbooks can be half or even a third of that of ordinary notebook computers."

"You make me think about it."

Wu Haijun feels that the concept of netbook is relatively new.

However, he still has some confusion about whether this thing is popular in the market or not.

In theory, the performance of netbooks is naturally inferior to that of ordinary notebooks.

In the same way, if the performance is not comparable, the cost must not be higher than that of a notebook.

The cost is not high, and the final terminal price will be cheap.

But cheapness is one thing, and whether it can be sold is another.

Just like their Shenzhou computer.

Although their Shenzhou computers are cheap, their performance is no worse than others.

Not only are they not worse than others, but their performance is better than others.

This is the advantage of Shenzhou.

But now it focuses on low-cost, low-performance netbooks, which seems to be the opposite of Shenzhou's strategy.

Most importantly, he was afraid that no one would buy such a notebook.

"Chen Yu, do you think anyone will buy such a notebook?"

"Of course, if it were me, I would definitely buy it."

"why?"

"One is because it's cheap. Anyway, I just use the computer to play Lianliankan online. I don't need anything else. Although this kind of netbook can't satisfy all users, it can satisfy some users."

"That's true."

"There is another one. Our netbooks can be made smaller and lighter. Ordinary notebooks are generally about 2.5KG, and our netbooks can be less than 1.5KG, or even 1KG."

"1 kg?"

Wu Haijun touched his chin.

He took a book and weighed it in his hand.

This book weighs about two kilos.

If a netbook weighs about the same as a book, or a little bit heavier, that's absolutely fine.

"There is another one, we don't need to use the Windows operating system."

"If you don't use windows operating system, what system should you use, linux?"

"Yes, it is Linux. If you only want to play small games on the Internet, there are quite a few Linux systems that are enough."

"The main reason is that users are not used to the operation."

"Then find a Windows-like Linux system."

In fact, there are many linux systems imitating windows now.

It's just that they didn't completely imitate it, but only partially imitated it.

But even if it is a partial imitation, in fact, for many users, they don't have too many unaccustomed operations.

Friends who have used the linux system may know that at a glance, it is difficult for you to find the difference between this and windows.

Besides, if it is only used by ordinary users, just go online to chat and play YY games, it will not have too much impact.

Of course, this is also the reason why Chen Yu will cooperate with Shenzhou.

His purpose is to launch his own linux operating system.

The netbook is the best platform to install the linux operating system.

In fact, in the previous life, many netbooks had already installed the Linux operating system, and there were no problems in using them.

"Chen Yu, wait, let me think again."

If it was just cheap and light before, Wu Haijun was only interested.

But now that he suddenly mentioned not using windows, Wu Haijun felt that this was a big business.

Of course, this does not mean that Wu Haijun wants to be an operating system.

For the time being he has no such idea.

But he has been working on computers, but he knows that the Windows operating system is actually very expensive, generally costing several hundred.

Although many users now install pirated versions privately and do not need money.

However, Shenzhou has many computers that must be pre-installed with the Windows operating system, such as cooperation with major companies, and computers with government agencies, they all need to be pre-installed.It is naturally impossible for them to pre-install such a pirated version. If they install a pirated version, Microsoft will trouble Shenzhou in minutes.

The more genuine copies can be installed, the greater their cost.

But at this time, if you don't use the windows operating system and change to linux, the cost will definitely be greatly reduced.

Even if there are some commercial linux, the price is far less than one-tenth of windows.

In terms of cost, it will save a lot of money.

"Mr. Wu, how are you doing?"

Seeing Wu Haijun's heartbeat, Chen Yu asked with a smile.

"What do you say?"

"Don't hide it, in a word, do you want to do it?"

"Dry."

With just a word, Huanyu Technology has reached a cooperation with Shenzhou Computer.

However, after Chen Yu and Wu Haijun reached a cooperation, Chen Yu did not stop.

Chen Yu doesn't just want to abandon the Windows operating system, he also wants to abandon Intel's CPU.

In the field of PC computers, the strategic cooperation between Microsoft and Intel not only allows Microsoft's Windows to dominate the world, but also allows Intel's CPUs to dominate the world.The two clearly know that as long as the two parties are bound, they will be able to obtain a steady stream of profits.

At first, Chen Yu's idea was just to launch his own operating system.

But after thinking about the netbook, Chen Yu suddenly discovered that the opponent's CPU, Chen Yu, could also break through the encirclement.

What Intel, what amd, before Chen Yu had no way to use their cpu.

But now, Chen Yu found an opportunity.

For example, there is a company called "VIA Electronics", and they also produce their own pc chips.

If you want to talk about VIA Electronics, you have to talk about the history of VIA Electronics.

In 1987, Chen Wenqi founded VIA Electronics.

At that time, Chen Wenqi, a former employee of Intel, only made chipsets when he founded VIA Electronics, that is, South Bridge and North Bridge chips.Later, by coincidence, in 1998, companies such as Cyrix and IDT were acquired, which made VIA Electronics become a supplier of all-round Internet system integration components.To put it simply, it means that at this time, VIA Electronics still has more business than Intel and AMD.

Not only did they make their own chipsets, they also entered the CPU field, and they even made their own GPUs.

At its peak, VIA Electronics owned more than 50% of the global chip market.

However, facing the rise of VIA Electronics, Intel began to fight back.

They first sued VIA Electronics for infringing their patents. This lawsuit has seriously damaged VIA's vitality. The lawsuit has not yet ended and is still going on.It was not until 2013 in the previous life that the two parties reached a settlement.

Then Intel took another shot to block it, announcing that as long as motherboard manufacturers using Intel processors cannot use VIA chipsets, this forced VIA to make its own motherboards.

What's more, in order to completely eliminate VIA, Intel directly built the North Bridge chipset into the CPU, and no longer authorized it to third parties. So far, the VIA chipset business has completely collapsed.

However, this is also Chen Yu's opportunity.

Chapter 578: Get to know me again, I am Chen Yu

"President Chen, let's go."

In the office building of Weisheng Electronics in Zhongguancun, two middle-aged men stood there.

Of these two, one is Chen Wenqi, CEO of VIA Electronics, and the other is his good helper, Lin Zimo, who is also the deputy general manager of VIA Electronics.It's just that the two are not as energetic as they were when they came to Zhongguancun. They came to Zhongguancun from Taiwan and built an office building in Zhongguancun. They hoped to take advantage of the opportunity in the mainland market to compete with Intel.

Unfortunately, it backfired.

Over the years, their chip business has been losing streak.

At that time, Chen Wenqi thought that it was because Intel was monopolizing and they were suppressing VIA Electronics.

But later Chen Wenqi figured it out. It wasn't that Intel was monopolizing, but that they had a lot of technology in Intel's hands before.

For example, in their chipset business, Intel integrated the Northbridge chip into the CPU, and VIA's business was directly ruined.And having said that, VIA Electronics actually caught Intel's mistakes back then, which created the situation of VIA Electronics.

Now that Intel has seen you grow up, it is normal to suppress you.

However, despite this, Chen Wenqi is not a person who gives up easily.

Chipset business was suppressed by Intel, they also have CPU business.

Although the overall performance is not as good as Intel, VIA is more powerful than Intel in terms of energy consumption.

For this reason, they described the target market as the notebook computer market.