Chapter 593 The Great Change of the Times: The Birth of the Machine Emperor
Nature is actually quite magical.
Because differences in gender create differences in talent.
Take girls as an example.
It seems that the moment he was born, his talent for shopping was filled up.
Chen Xiao has a profound understanding of this point.
Before being reborn, Chen Xiao still had some girlfriends.
The most painful thing for him is going shopping with girls.
A girl might go shopping all day just to buy a pair of socks and then end up buying nothing.
Chen Xiao thinks that to buy a pair of socks, just buy them online, but he also knows that what girls want is not buying these socks, but the ritual of going shopping.
So even though Gao Miao is a homebody and spends most of her time in the laboratory doing experiments, she is still extremely interested in shopping.
Changzezhou and Tianyue Island are forming a large scale, and many businesses have already moved in to facilitate the lives of scientific researchers on the islands.
However, this is a new science and technology district after all, not a commercial district. In a short period of time, it is absolutely impossible to have the bustling feeling of Jinling Road in Shanghai.
So when Chen Xiao suggested that they go shopping in Shanghai together, Gao Miao felt that he should relax a little.
Which girl would refuse the skin care products and those dazzling clothes under the lights of the shopping mall?
Gao Miao readily agreed.
Early in the morning of the second day, Chen Xiao asked the driver, Brother Dong, to drive a commercial vehicle to Gao Miao's residence and wait for her to come downstairs.
Gao Miao lives in an executive loft apartment on Tianyue Island. There are 6 floors in total, divided into upper, middle and lower floors. Such a large house certainly urges unmarried executives to get married quickly, and married executives
Quickly bring your family to Tianyue Island to live together.
This will allow the staff of Changtian Technology to work with more peace of mind.
When Gao Miao saw the commercial vehicle arriving, he quickly walked out.
Gao Miao's outfit today made Chen Xiao's eyes light up.
In early summer, it is very hot in Changzezhou and the entire East China region.
Today Gao Miao was wearing a white classic dress, and her glasses were replaced with contact lenses, and she suddenly became the pretty girl next door.
To be honest, Gao Miao is not pretty, and there are some differences between Shen Wei and Wen Qi.
But Gao Miao has a tall figure and a scholarly temperament that can only be developed by reading poetry and books. This is something that many beautiful Internet celebrities or female stars cannot match.
So after dressing up like this, Gao Miao looks like an ancient woman who stepped out of an ink painting, very attractive.
Seeing Chen Xiao staring at him, Gao Miao was very embarrassed.
After all, whether he was in college or working at Changtian Technology, Gao Miao's dress was very old-fashioned - either a sportswear, or black and white business attire, plus black-framed glasses, without any highlights.
Word.
Gao Miao felt a little embarrassed, smoothed her hair and said, "Why do you keep staring at me like this? Doesn't it look good on you?"
Gao Miao was a little worried. Is it because what she wore didn't look good?
Little did they know that Chen Xiao was not stingy with his compliments and said, "Sister Miao Miao, you look really good in your outfit today. Don't wear black and white clothes in the future. Nature is so colorful."
Gao Miao couldn't help covering his mouth and laughed and said: "When did you become so glib?"
Chen Xiao laughed and said, "We who do scientific research don't tell lies."
The two got into the commercial vehicle together, then took the Suzhou-Changzhou Expressway (Suhang City to Changzezhou), then detoured to the Suzhou-Shanghai Expressway, and finally arrived in Shanghai.
The drive may take most of the day.
Besides Chen Xiao and Gao Miao, the only other person accompanying him was the driver and bodyguard, Dong Ge.
Brother Dong’s real name is Ye Qiangdong, and he is a veteran.
A few years ago, he became Chen Xiao's full-time driver and half bodyguard.
The Xia Kingdom does not allow you to carry guns privately, and if you are fighting with cold weapons, it is no problem for Ye Qiangdong to be ten, so having one Ye Qiangdong is enough.
The commercial vehicle was driving fast on the highway. Chen Xiao thought that after the high-speed rail was opened in the future, such a journey would only take a few dozen minutes.
At noon, the three people arrived at Jinling Road in Shanghai City.
The hotel has been contacted in advance. Everyone will go shopping first, then have dinner before checking into the hotel.
Chen Xiao and Gao Miao were walking on Jinling Road. The prosperity of the metropolis really made Gao Miao a little dazzled.
Compared with Shanghai City, Jiangzhou City really looks like a small town.
Ye Qiangdong followed the two of them and kept a certain distance.
He is very clear about what his mission is.
Sure enough, after girls came to the business district, they completely liberated their nature. Gao Miao couldn't help but go to some shopping malls to look at some clothes or bags.
Then swipe your card and buy, buy, buy.
There was only one reason why she was so impulsive - Chen Xiao asked her to wear something colorful.
Moreover, I have a very high income in Changtian Technology, and I am not married and have no financial burden. What should I use the money for if I don’t buy things?
Chen Xiao accompanied me throughout the whole process and felt the atmosphere of the metropolis.
He once again confirmed a fact.
If you want to do business, then you must do women's business.
Because women, children and the elderly are the easiest to make money, while men are the least likely to make money.
As long as a woman likes a beautiful piece of clothing, she can get it with a swipe of her credit card for thousands of dollars. However, the cost of this dress may only be tens of dollars, and it does not have any technological content.
And men have to spend thousands of dollars to buy a computer. The chips are compared with the motherboard, the motherboard is compared with the graphics card, and the graphics card is compared with the memory and hard disk. They must pursue the ultimate cost-effectiveness.
This kind of money is hard to come by!
Thinking of this, Chen Xiao was a little surprised and laughed.
Because his business is to make money from men, this group is the most difficult to deal with and requires a lot of technology.
After Gao Miao was satisfied with the clothes he bought, Chen Xiao and Gao Miao left Jinling Road to visit the largest IT market in Shanghai.
There are shops here equipped with computers, and of course there are shops selling mobile phones.
Gao Miao saw that Chen Xiao kept looking at the signboards and some advertisements of major merchants, and knew that Chen Xiao was about to do something serious.
So she followed Chen Xiao quietly without disturbing him too much.
In the entire IT zone, the advertisement with the most coverage is the Core 2 processor, followed by the iPhone 2g mobile phone.
And in many PC stores, everyone regards the inclusion of a Core 2 processor as a sales gimmick, or as a core selling point.
Some of these stores include Dell, Lianxiang, Asus, HP, etc.
Almost all PC manufacturers except Shenchuan have adopted Core 2 processors to impact summer market sales.
After all, compared to the Pangu processor, it also uses a dual-core design, but uses a 65-nanometer Core processor. Its budget performance and stability are one level higher than the Pangu chip.
In the increasingly competitive PC market, a hardware change may affect product sales.
Almost a year before the Core 2 chip came out, the products of all the major PC companies in the domestic market were crushed by Shenchuan.
The Pangu chip made the Divine Ship possible, and the Divine Ship also made Pangu possible.
If it were not for the insufficient mass production of Pangu chips, the supply of Shenship would be insufficient.
The machine king of last year's PC class must be Shenchuan.
Why did Chen Xiao come to Shanghai to actually take a look at the market? Because it represents the city with the highest consumption level in Xia.
This city is also able to accept new things.
Many products and popular elements also began to flow into the mainland from the Shanghai stock market.
Chen Xiao took Gao Miao and randomly visited several PC stores.
Among them, Dell and Lianxiang are relatively popular, with a steady stream of customers coming in to buy computers.
This is consistent with Yang Qing’s judgment.
By 2007, it was also the time when PC users in Xia Guo changed their machines in the early years.
With the release of Core 2 chips and the launch of Core 2-equipped computers, consumers have accelerated the pace of machine replacement.
At Lianxiang's sales store, the staff watched Chen Xiao and Gao Miao walk in. One look at their temperament and they knew they were wealthy people.
So the sales staff immediately sold them Lianxiang's latest PC powered by the hot chip.
Of course, the price is also high. Depending on the configuration, the price ranges from 6,000 to more than 10,000 yuan.
Chen Xiaodi said to the salesperson: "I'll take another look."
The salesperson immediately compared the latest computer equipped with the Core 2 chip with the related computer equipped with the Pangu chip from Shenzhou next door.
And from a very professional perspective, Chen Xiao was informed of the gap between the two.
"The Core 2 chip is the latest chip released by Intel. It uses a dual-core design and the single-core is a 65nm process."
The salesperson also thought that Chen Xiao did not understand the configuration of computers very well, so he guided him and said: "When buying a computer, you mainly look at the performance of the chip, motherboard and graphics card. When looking at the chip, you can't just look at its main frequency."
"Because the internal architecture of the Core 2 processor and the Pangu processor are completely different. What is the internal architecture?"
"In simple words, it is the effect of a single work or the efficiency of a single work."
"Core 2 processor uses the most advanced architecture currently..."
I have to say that Lianxiang’s sales staff in Shanghai are quite professional.
But Chen Xiao said with a smile: "The professional term is called architecture, not architecture."
When he said this, the other party was very embarrassed. It seemed that Lianxiang's batch training of sales personnel still had some minor flaws.
After Lianxiang and Gao Miao looked around, they left Lianxiang's sales point.
However, Lianxiang's sales points are still crowded with people.
Obviously, Lianxiang made the right bet.
Some time ago, Lianxiang spent a lot of money to order Intel's Core processors in large quantities before the Core 2 processors came out.
This decision was completely correct and allowed Lianxiang to gain enough market share.
After all, Core 2 processors continue to be out of stock, and prices continue to rise.
Lianxiang's price-performance ratio is back again.
The market is like this, although Changtian Technology announced the related technology of 65nm chips early on.
But so far, 65-nanometer chips have not been officially sold.
In a market where people vote with their feet, of course everyone rushed to Intel in droves.
Not far from Lianxiang is the sales store of Shenchuan.
Among the sales points of Shenchuan, there are only a few people.
After Chen Xiao and others entered, the salesperson's attitude was very good.
Inquired in detail about the needs of Chen Xiao and others, and recommended corresponding computers.
The sales staff at Shenzhou are very honest and recommend whatever consumers need, and the prices are not inflated.
Chen Xiao chatted and said: "Business is not very good during this period, right?"
The salesperson smiled bitterly and said: "Business has indeed declined during this period. The price of the high-end Jiaolong series has already dropped significantly."
"But sales are still ugly compared to a few months ago."
"Sales of low-end computers are pretty good, but overall there is still a decline."
Chen Xiao nodded, Wu Jun has not yet reported the financial situation of Shenchuan in the first and second quarters.
From the current perspective, the first and second quarters are not very good.
Chen Xiao casually purchased a Shenship Ark Star laptop computer, which can be regarded as support for the sales staff.
But Chen Xiao felt that it was necessary to go to Yanjiang Semiconductor Company.
Yanjiang Semiconductor Company has been stocking up in the past few months, and Chen Xiao feels that the time is almost up.
After leaving Shenzhou's sales point, Gao Miao said with some worry: "Shenzhou's sales are not very good. I can see that there are not many customers in the store."
Chen Xiao said: "This is a normal phenomenon. Market competition is like this, especially for technology products. If your technical content is far behind the other party, your sales performance will definitely not be good."
"The market doesn't lie."
Gao Miao knew that Chen Xiao knew what was going on, so he said nothing.
At this time, Gao Miao suddenly looked at the long queue in front of him and said curiously: "What's in the queue in front? Why are there so many people!"
This is Chen Xiao’s real destination today!
Apple’s first directly-operated sales store is in Sanlitun, Yanjing, and it won’t open until next year.
However, in the summer of 2007, the first Apple mobile phone, iPhone 2G, was launched in Yanjing, Shanghai and other places in Xia State through various methods.
When Apple's mobile phone was released in January this year, it already caused a sensation around the world, laying the foundation for the mobile phone's summer launch.
Some say the iPhone's responsive touch screen and full screen disrupted the entire mobile phone industry.
Some people also say that the iPhone introduced the desktop system to mobile phones, allowing mobile phones to fully possess the same extended functions as PCs, which changed the industry.
But Chen Xiao knows that the most fundamental reason why the iPhone can change the industry world is that the iPhone and the Internet are completely integrated. People can share their lives anytime and anywhere, and users have the Internet in their pockets.
This is the fundamental reason why the iPhone subverts the mobile phone industry.
Changtian Technology's Firefly mobile operating system has some of the same concepts as the iPhone's iOS.
But it is a pity that because it appeared too early, Xia Guo did not have complete technical and hardware support. In addition, Nokia was focused on developing the Symbian system at that time and did not pay attention to Changtian Technology's proposal at all.
Therefore, the mobile version of Yinghuo OS did not become an instant hit, but continued to lie dormant.
But it doesn’t matter. This does not mean the failure of Yinghuo OS, but it means that Yinghuo OS needs to continue to absorb energy and continue to improve.
Because Chen Xiao knows that the real focus of Yinghuo OS is after 2007, and his opponent is not Nokia's Symbian, but Apple's iOS and Android.
Chen Xiao smiled and said to Gao Miao: "This is the iPhone, a blockbuster technology product that changes mankind."
This is the mobile phone store that Chen Xiao and Gao Miao walked into.
On the big screen in the mobile phone store, Steve Jobs' iPhone 2G conference in January was played on a loop.
Jobs, wearing a black T-shirt and jeans, walked back and forth on the stage confidently.
He said: "I have been looking forward to this day for two years and six months...I skate to where the puck will be, not where it has skated before, and we at Apple always try to work hard like this..."
Chen Xiao watched Steve Jobs' English press conference and felt a little excited.
This is undoubtedly a great era. Chen Xiao is lucky to be in the same era as Steve Jobs and compete on the same stage!