Liu Lang stayed in the United States for more than a month. It was already early April when he returned to China. He went to SMIC to have a look and found that everything was going smoothly. SMIC would be ready in at least one month.
Once the equipment modifications are completed again, the new generation of chips developed by Wanhe can be manufactured.
This is a gratifying thing. During this time in the United States, Liu Lang had already vaguely felt that a huge storm was brewing in the American computer market. It can be seen from the price that Wan'an Company's computers have already
It has dropped from US$3,200 to US$2,800, and the price continues to drop. The reason is that the prices of related raw materials have dropped rapidly, such as semiconductor materials, transistor materials and various components. The prices are slowly declining.
Even Wan An found it a bit unbelievable.
This is the impact of increased productivity. When a bottleneck is exceeded, the entire world will enter the personal computer era, and this heralds the arrival of a new era.
Both SMIC and Wanhe's companies are preparing for the arrival of this new era. Although they and others involved do not know what this era means, in fact not many people in the world know the true meaning of this era. Only Liu Lang is
People know that this era will completely change the development process of mankind and have immeasurable significance for the future of mankind.
SMIC is on the right track, and everything can develop step by step. However, the core of SMIC still relies on the research and development of Wanan Company. Of course, Liu Lang now owns 30% of Wanan Software Technology Co., Ltd.
Although this company has not made any profits so far, few people in the world know that there is a group of people in the Shanghai Stock Exchange of China who are secretly developing new programs, and these programs will soon shock the whole world.
"Brother Wanhe, how is your program development going?"
"Liu Lang, now the enhanced version of WPS has entered the final testing stage, and the stability needs to be further enhanced. However, this is not a problem. I believe it will be officially launched in two months!"
Wanhe was very happy.
Liu Lang sat in front of a computer and tried this new software. Although it was far worse than the software twenty years later, it was much more powerful than before, and its functions had at least doubled.
"Yes, this enhanced version of WPS is definitely the most powerful word processing program in the world today. Our software capabilities are already at the forefront of the world!"
"That's right, I can now imagine the despair the people at IBM had when they saw this kind of program!"
Wan He smiled.
"Brother Wan, we have surpassed IBM in terms of software, but we cannot underestimate them. Once our software starts to be promoted, I believe that the other party will crack our C language in a very short time and then make corresponding countermeasures.
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In fact, our advantage only lasts for less than half a year. During this period, we must continue to make progress. When they compile a word processing system, we will develop a new program. They will still have to catch up. When they catch up again,
We have new products, and only through continuous suppression and continuous accumulation of advantages can we finally truly defeat them."
Whether it is a computer company or an Internet company more than ten years later, it seems to be very prosperous, and it can get tens of millions or hundreds of millions of funds as soon as it goes public. However, the risks of these companies are much greater than those of industrial companies. Today
You may still have great success, but once your strategy makes a mistake, you will be defeated in a short period of time.
Some unknown companies crushed the past. Wanan Company is the most typical example. In its previous life, it reached its peak in 1986. Unfortunately, personal computers were also launched in this year. Wanan Company did not transform. This took three years.
The behemoth that took ten years of hard work was completely eliminated by the market in just two years.
Twenty years later, Nokia reached its peak and accounted for half of the world's mobile phone market. However, with the emergence of Apple smartphones, it only took two or three years for Nokia to go bankrupt and be acquired.
Such examples abound, so even though Wan'an Software Technology Co., Ltd. now has the most advanced software technology in the world, if it stops moving forward, its advantages will be exhausted in a short time.
"Liu Lang, your understanding is indeed one step ahead. This suggestion reminds me... But don't worry, we people don't know anything but software development. We can do without food or drink, but we have to do research.
Experiment, now we are ready to upgrade the image processing program we developed before!"
Wanhe said with a smile.
"Has that program been named yet?"
Liu Lang asked.
"Not yet, Liu Lang, how about you have the same name!"
"Okay! Let's call it Photoshop!"
Liu Lang replied.
"Wow! Photoshop, what a name, this picture software will be called this name from now on!"
This world-famous image processing program in its previous life has become a product of Wanan Company in this life.
"Brother Wanhe, the original intention of your image processing program was to develop K-line charts for the stock market. Now it seems that it will come in handy soon, but it is still far from enough. The current stock market data exchange is still very primitive.
, once there is an abnormality in the stock market, it is likely to cause data paralysis, so you should start researching the latest data processing program!"
"Data processing system? Currently, the U.S. stock market uses a data processing program called DOT. This program has good functions. It can process 50,000 commands per minute, which fully meets the needs of the U.S. stock market.
Although we can now develop more powerful data processing programs, we may not be able to occupy this market. After all, DOT has been cooperating with the American Stock Exchange for five years and can meet all operating conditions. If we want to replace them,
I’m afraid that the effort spent is far greater than the effort of developing software, and it seems that the gain is not worth the loss!”
Wanhe was right. Computers were introduced to stock trading in the United States in the late 1970s, and IBM specially developed a DOT data processing program for them. This program was of course nothing in the eyes of Wan'an Company, and they also
It can be compiled, but the product is like this. Once it enters the market first and occupies a sufficient share, it will be several times more difficult for latecomers to enter than the first one, unless the first product has major flaws and another
Or the function of the latter product greatly exceeds that of the former, otherwise it is basically impossible to beat it.
This is the case with the current DOT data processing system. Although there have been some minor problems occasionally over the years, there have never been any major mistakes. All stock traders have long adapted to the performance of this software. At this time, other software is almost impossible.
replace it.
"Haha, Brother Wan, in less than two months, the DOT processing program will be in big trouble. Let's prepare in advance and wait for the opportunity. I believe we can use this opportunity to replace the other party and become a partner of the American Stock Exchange. As long as
If we win this deal, our Wan'an Software Technology Co., Ltd. will become an instant hit!"
Liu Lang's reminder is not without purpose. During the US stock market crash, the number of transactions increased dozens of times, causing data processing to nearly collapse, causing tens of millions of losses. The main reason was that the DOT processing program was too slow.
There is no problem in this situation, but it becomes unusable when the transaction volume surges.
"Well, you can give it a try. Anyway, this kind of data processing program is very easy. Now our technology can develop a program that is several times more powerful than DOT in four or five days. It's easy to get it done easily.
good!"
Data processing programs are really nothing to the current Wan'an Company. With the latest computer language, Wan He is confident that he can create a set of the latest programs in the shortest time. But can the American Stock Exchange