Chapter 254 Total Ban (3 more updates please order)
Chen Xiao also got the news that Dell secretly used carbon crystal hard drives.
Sun Dong was anxious. He advocated immediately investigating how this batch of carbon crystal hard drives was exposed.
It also requires all agents to be warned not to sell carbon crystal hard drives to other third-party PC manufacturers.
Because there is an agreement between Changtian Technology and Shenchuan, carbon crystal hard drives can be retailed, but if you want to have a contract with a PC manufacturer, there is only one like Shenchuan.
Chen Xiao smiled and called out to Sun Dong.
Chen Xiao said to Sun Dong: "Don't you think this is a good phenomenon?"
"Let's not worry about whether Dell's use of carbon crystal hard drives was done by Dell's head office or by their subordinate sellers. This has already proved one thing."
"Carbon crystal hard drives have begun to affect the entire PC market."
"In the PC market, the most important hardware is definitely the CPU and motherboard."
"But the status of hard drives is not worse than these two."
"We don't have to worry about where Dell got these carbon crystal hard drives, we just need to sell the products we have and make money."
"Since Dell is willing to use carbon crystal hard drives, I believe other manufacturers will also be eager to try it."
"What Changtian Technology has to do is to increase production as soon as possible and cover the entire market as soon as possible."
The influence has increased well during this period. As the product is promoted, the influence will definitely become weaker and weaker, but as the number of users increases, the total number of influence will definitely increase.
Chen Xiao's choice was to turn a blind eye. This decision was completely correct.
After some PC sellers saw that Dell was also secretly using carbon crystal hard drives, they also secretly modified and upgraded their own brand machines such as Lianxiang and HP to carbon crystal hard drives to increase sales.
The cost after this kind of modification will definitely be much higher than before, and it is not as cost-effective as the Shenchuan T1 series.
But because of Lianxiang, HP's brand is inherently more influential than Shenchuan, so they still have a certain ability to charge a premium, and sellers can really make money from it.
In the personal PC market, performance-seeking consumers have developed a habit.
When looking at the configuration of your computer, the first thing to check is whether your CPU is Pentium 3 or even Pentium 4, the memory must be 256 or more, and the hard drive must be a carbon crystal hard drive.
Carbon crystal hard drives have almost become standard equipment for high-performance computers.
In late June, an incident occurred in Huaqiangbei, Shenzhen City, which surprised the entire Xiaguo PC industry.
Lianxiang's secondary agent in Shenzhen took the initiative to replace a total of 300 Lianxiang's latest series of PCs (priced at almost 9,000 yuan or more) with carbon crystal hard drives, and then directly sold them at a higher price.
Not to mention, the sales volume is quite good.
The incident reached the ears of Yang Qing in Yanjing.
Yang Qing was so angry that he was shaking all over.
This approach of the dealer is definitely not in compliance with the requirements. One is to harm the image of Lianxiang, and the other is an infringement of Shenchuan.
If Shenzhou accuses Lianxiang of infringing its patent on carbon crystal hard drives, it will be a sure thing.
Yang Qing is now a little anxiously waiting for the United States' reaction.
In terms of national sentiments, Yang Qing hopes that carbon crystal hard drives will flourish.
But from the company's own interests, he hopes that the American Semiconductor Association and relevant departments can take measures as soon as possible.
Or just give you an accurate picture of whether the carbon crystal hard drive complies with the relevant technical rules of the American Semiconductor Association, and whether PC manufacturers can purchase related products?
Sure enough, the relevant letter sent by Dell to the American Semiconductor Association received great attention from the association.
The contents of the letter were circulated among the member units of the association.
This has been strongly opposed by IBM, Western Digital, Seagate and other companies.
If the Semiconductor Association relents and agrees to the purchase of carbon crystal hard drives by major PC manufacturers, will these hard drive companies have to live in trouble?
Under the strong demands of these manufacturers and the capital behind them, the Computer Association of America and the Semiconductor Association finally took measures.
They first found Microsoft, hoping that Microsoft could technically shield carbon crystal hard drives.
Microsoft is also a member of the American Computing Machinery Association and is currently working on the system.
Whether it is the previous masterpiece WIN95 or the WIN98 in recent years, as well as the WINXP that is under development and will soon face the market, they all have a good market share.
And because of cooperation with major PC manufacturers (including cooperation with Lianxiang), Microsoft still made a lot of money.
But during this time, Microsoft got a piece of news.
Shenchuan, a newly emerging PC manufacturer in Xia Guo, proactively helps users install pirated Windows 98 systems.
Microsoft has known for a long time that Xia Guo users are using pirated systems.
However, Microsoft has not taken any measures. This is based on two considerations.
On the one hand, Microsoft cooperates with Lianxiang, Founder, Tongfang, etc. of Xia State. The PCs produced by these companies all use genuine systems. This part of the profit can satisfy Microsoft's demand for the Xia State market.
Another reason is that although the majority of Xia users are using pirated systems, this can increase Microsoft's influence.
After all, in 2001, Microsoft did not yet have absolute dominance, and piracy would increase Microsoft's market influence.
Microsoft believes that this group of users who use pirated systems will definitely use genuine systems at some point in the future. This is Microsoft's potential profit point.
However, Shenchuan is a PC manufacturer that directly helps users install pirated systems. This nature is really bad.
Moreover, Microsoft has extensive cooperation with Seagate, Western Digital, and IBM, and has deep interests entangled with the American Computer Association and the American Semiconductor Association.
At the request of the association and related capital, Microsoft began to study and systematically block carbon crystal hard drives.
In fact, there is not much technical difficulty in this matter.
After all, the system can identify the relevant codes of the hard drive. Different hard drives have different codes. In addition, the carbon crystal hard drive has a unique control chip, which is very different from the traditional mechanical hard drive.
Therefore, it is too simple to completely ban carbon crystal hard drives technically.
Moreover, Microsoft engineers firmly believe that as long as the system is patched, there is no way to crack it with Xia Guoren's technical capabilities.
In late June, the microtransformation technology department completed the identification and blocking of carbon crystal hard drives and other related technologies.
The American Computer Association and the American Semiconductor Association solemnly announced this time: Since Changtian Technology did not provide relevant technical information on carbon crystal hard drives within the specified time, and could not prove that carbon crystal hard drives were safe and reliable, the two associations and
Relevant departments in the United States will not recognize stand-alone hard drives as computer storage technology and means.
At the same time, relevant units of the association, including a large number of hardware manufacturers and system supplier Microsoft, will not recognize carbon crystal hard drives as a computer storage technology and means.
In order to maintain user data security, Microsoft will take relevant technical measures for carbon crystal hard drives. We hope that users who have already used carbon crystal can transfer their data to mechanical hard drives or other storage tools in a timely manner to avoid data loss.