Chen Xiao asked Sun Dong to continue in the Shenzhen market and find ways to get close to Ang Da. The most important thing was to figure out what Ang Da's strategic goals were now.
Chen Xiao said: "As far as I know, Angda is involved in the MP3 business and has invested a lot. However, the performance of their products is not very good, but the price is relatively low and they are very popular among students. Go and investigate this matter.
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"I understand, Mr. Chen!"
Although Sun Dong has not studied much, he has been involved in Internet cafes and society since he was a child. He is very alert and full of aura when he goes out. Chen Xiao is the most at ease when leaving this kind of thing to Sun Dong.
In the few years since Angda was founded, its profits have indeed been booming, but these profits are all based on the agency sales of products from ASUS, Gigabyte and other companies.
To put it bluntly, this is begging for food at the hands of others.
Although the current profits are not bad, they are quite unstable.
If one day, any company is more "behaved" and "obedient" than Onda, and Asus and Gigabyte change their agents, then Onta will fall from heaven to hell in an instant.
Li Da, the founder and boss of Angda, has been aware of this problem very early, so he has invested a large amount of money in the road of independent innovation since last year. He has chosen two investment points.
One is to independently develop and produce simple and common parts for motherboards, becoming a supporting company for motherboard manufacturers such as Asus and Gigabyte.
Another one is the development and production of MP3.
Li Da saw the success of Lingyue MP3 and knew very well that MP3 is a fast-selling electronic product and has great potential.
At present, there are still entry barriers to changing industries. If your sales are good, it is still easy to make money.
I have to admire Li Feng's vision and courage. These two industries are indeed very suitable for Angda's transformation and upgrading.
And Angda has also achieved certain success.
The simple and common components of OEM motherboards have been recognized by ASUS and other companies, and they are willing to give some orders to Angda.
In terms of MP3, Onda spent a lot of money to purchase MP3 decoding chip technology and production lines. By producing cheap and usable MP3s, it suddenly became a favorite brand among teenagers and girls, seizing a large number of cheap markets.
In Xia Guo's MP3 market, Angda's MP3 has become the brand second only to Lingyue.
It has become a trend for rich people to buy Lingyue, and for young people with little money such as students to buy Angda. After all, Angda only uses 64M or 128M of ordinary storage, is cheap, and can meet the needs of consumers for hearing.
Low-end consumers' demands for MP3 players are also very simple. They just need to be able to listen to music at a low price.
As for whether the quality of listening to music is good or not, and how many songs can be stored, these are secondary issues.
After arranging Sun Dong's tasks, Chen Xiao called Shen Wei.
"Hello." Shen Wei's voice was soft and pleasant.
Chen Xiao said: "There is a difficult task assigned to you, are you willing to do it?"
It was the end of September and school had started, but Shen Wei had not gone to school yet. She hoped to stay at Changtian Technology to help out.
But after all, I am already a sophomore in college, so I cannot afford to miss too many classes.
Next week, she will leave Jiangzhou and return directly to Yanjing.
It's funny to say.
This summer vacation, Shen Wei will not go to Jiangcheng.
This made Shen Haifeng sigh helplessly again and again: "There are no female candidates to stay in college!"
Shen Wei accepted the task happily.
"If you, old man, have anything to do, just tell me directly, and you'll be polite."
Chen Xiao said: "Go and investigate the market of Angda MP3. I mainly want to understand its audience, sales volume, sales price and everyone's evaluation of it.
Just investigate the markets in two places, one is Jiangzhou and the other is Yanjing."
After getting this mission, Shen Wei also knew that she should return to Yanjing.
The short two months of getting along with Chen Xiao made Shen Wei develop an inexplicable feeling.
She is very attached to Chen Xiao.
Shen Wei regretted it a little. If she could re-apply for the college entrance examination, she would never listen to her father's advice again, nor would she care about the reputation of Yenching University, and would choose to stay in Jiangzhou.
However, Shen Wei also understood that through this internship at Changtian Technology, she also saw her own shortcomings in ability.
You still need to go back to school and learn the basics!
Three days later, Shenchuan staff came to Jiangzhou from Shenzhen City and delivered two motherboards to Chen Xiao.
They are all improved motherboards that support DDR memory and new versions of Pentium 4 chips.
Chen Xiao didn't stop, and immediately asked Yang Fei and others to study what the motherboard used to prevent the carbon crystal memory from being recognized.
The memory interface is only a small issue, the most important thing is the core components and the motherboard's control chip.
Finally, after careful checking by Chen Xiao and technicians, the problem was discovered - the control chip!
Changtian Technology has considered the issue of compatibility during the production of carbon crystal memory, so it has improved the control chip of carbon crystal memory so that it can be adapted to all motherboards on the market.
Chen Xiao also considered future DDR format motherboards, so carbon crystal memory only needs to change the interface to adapt to the new motherboard.
Unless the other party can obtain the relevant technical indicators of the control chip, it is impossible to take such preventive measures.
Thinking of this, Chen Xiao laughed.
The control chip is indeed a technology of Carbon Crystal Laboratory, but it is definitely not a core technology.
Although it is not a core technology, if the drawings and related technical information are not available, it is absolutely impossible for the other party to know the internal structure and algorithm.
From this point of view, the laboratory has indeed leaked secrets, and some technology companies in the United States have not obtained the relevant technology of carbon crystal storage, and are eager to compete with carbon crystal storage, so they directly take the relevant technical information of the control chip and provide new information.
Anti-identification improvements made to the motherboard.
Only then is there a new generation of DDR memory interface motherboard on the market that does not match carbon crystal storage.
So where did the control chip technology leak out?
This is very easy to find the source.
Chen Xiao once formulated the carbon crystal storage technology differential production method, whose purpose was to expose some immature technologies to Western technology companies.
Whichever technology is exposed means there is a problem with that production line.
Chen Xiao made a call to the Carbon Crystal Storage Laboratory.
The laboratory is currently headed by Gao Miaozai.
Chen Xiao said: "Which production line is the chip designed and installed on?"
Gao Miao was familiar with the whole process of the entire production line and answered immediately.
"The person in charge of the DC-6 production line is Zhang Bo."
Chen Xiao frowned, he was still very impressed with Zhang Bo.
Graduated from a prestigious school, he doesn't talk much, doesn't talk much, and has such a spirit of studying.
Chen Xiao also intended to train Zhang Bo to become a core technician in the laboratory, but he did not expect that such a thing would happen.
Of course Gao Miao knew what Chen Xiao wanted to express.
She had been in contact with Zhang Bo a lot, and she still had a good impression of this shy boy with a fighting spirit.
Gao Miao quickly asked: "Could it be someone below who did it?"