Chapter 215 Performance Explosion Guess the Price
Currently, the only chip companies on the market are Intel and AMD.
If they do not authorize, even if we develop the motherboard and adapt the hardware, we cannot use it.
If someone makes it for their own use, the chip company cannot interfere. But Shenchuan is sold publicly, and if you fail to get authorization, you will be sued.
Losing the lawsuit is one thing, the most important thing is that the chip company does not sell chips. The chip company will even ask dealers not to sell them.
If we buy chips through other channels, such as finding an agent to buy them at a high price, how many can Shenchuan buy?
Therefore, we must maintain good relationships with these chip companies to be eligible to continue purchasing chips, and at the same time, we must obtain the authorization for the motherboard chipset.
Lu Shan decided to apply for authorization according to the normal process first. If the chip company does not authorize, he will let IDG step in.
IDG has investments in Jiyue, which is also its own business, so it has to pay attention to it.
The application process has started, and Lu Shan can only wait for the time being. He runs back and forth between the two companies. When he has time, he goes to classes, takes graduate-level courses, does exercises and reads papers to prevent his brain from degenerating.
Another focus was the idea of developing a computer operating system.
This matter needs to be led by Turing of Singularity Labs.
Turing was also very satisfied with this arrangement. He had always been an assistant in mathematical research before, but this time he had to let Poincaré help him, so that Poincaré would not always say that he was an assistant.
Moreover, after using computers for such a long time, Turing's evaluation of modern computer systems was just two words - garbage!
"The difficulty of the operating system is that each system has been adapted to the Windows system. If we develop a new operating system ourselves, the application software will not accept it. Therefore, the so-called operating systems developed by many companies now are actually based on the Windows system as a blueprint..."
"Then we have two choices now. One is to develop the system according to our own ideas, and the other is to continue to use the WIN system as the basis..." Turing expressed his opinion.
Lu Shan suggested: "If our operating system is smart enough and our ecosystem is smart enough, then why do we need to imitate the WIN system?"
"As long as we do it well enough, the software will adapt to our ecosystem, not us adapting to the software."
"Haha, this is quite challenging, I want to get involved too!" Poincare lived a new life and enjoyed this challenging life very much. He did not have to worry about eating and drinking, and did his favorite scientific research every day.
Lu Shan joked, "Your task here is not easy. In the future mobile Internet era, the most important thing is the security of information transmission. Recently, the teacher mentioned the Riemann hypothesis several times in class. I want to give it a try."
Lu Shan was really eager to try. His points had been accumulating very quickly recently, and Lu Shan couldn't help but want to upgrade the laboratory to increase the heroic spirit slots to exchange for heroes.
He just wanted to give it a try and see if he could solve the Riemann hypothesis if he gathered the best mathematicians in human history!
"I have already put the specific ideas into documents, and I will pass them on to you two later." Lu Shan remembered Luo Xuan's idea. In this era, no one is simply trying to prove the Riemann hypothesis, but to be one step ahead in the application end and seize the opportunity in the Internet era.
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Wu Jun directed the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, concentrating human, material and financial resources to speed up production, and soon produced 10,000 laptops.
In fact, the Shenchuan originally had quite a few accessories. Now we just need to remove the original memory stick, insert an interface converter and replace it with the Companion Silicon C8 memory stick.
2000 notebooks were put on sale at the Shenchuan flagship store on the Maobao platform, while 8000 notebooks were placed at Shenchuan sales outlets across the country.
Of course, we won’t put all of them into stores at once, that would be too unscientific. We need to have a reserve team on hand so we can send them to wherever there is a shortage.
In fact, Shenchuan only has sales outlets in dozens of larger cities across the country, with an average of only about one or two hundred units in each city. Second- and third-tier cities have never had any sales at all because the markets in those places are too small and there is no need to develop them at all.
Shenchuan wanted to open stores in prosperous places with high purchasing power, but Lu Shan suggested that Shenchuan should expand its market to county-level cities, so that people in small places can buy computers through price advantages without having to go to larger cities.
People of this era still basically buy computers in offline physical stores, especially those in small and medium-sized cities.
People who dare to buy computers online are basically from big cities. They are more open-minded and have fatter wallets. Buying a laptop is equivalent to buying a home appliance, so they don’t care that much.
It’s different in small places. It’s really painful to spend several thousand dollars, so of course you have to take a good look.
But I didn't expect that the more carefully I looked, the more I was cheated by the store.
Wu Jun adopted Lu Shan's idea and chose some relatively wealthy county-level cities to open small stores. People in these places have a certain purchasing power, but there are no large computer accessories markets locally, let alone single-brand flagship stores.
For Shenchuan Company, this is equivalent to being the first person to try something new.
Lu Shan had another idea, that is, students who bought Shenchuan computers in big cities have to go back to their hometowns to work. What if the computer breaks down? Do they have to wait until they return to the big city to get it repaired?
If you find a local parts store to repair your computer, you will feel very insecure. It is also recommended that Shenchuan contact local repair points and form an after-sales repair partnership. For example, Shenchuan designates a computer to be repaired at a certain after-sales point, and the repair costs are reviewed by Shenchuan, and both parties make a profit, etc.
This method not only ensures that users can get convenient after-sales service, but also changes the bad reputation of Shenchuan that it cannot be repaired after purchase. In order to better promote the launch version of Shenchuan Fuxi K1 computer, Lu Shan asked Wu Jun for units to reward excellent self-media bloggers on Jiyue website.
Previously, Jiyue has given the beta version of K1 as a reward to a small number of bloggers, but the quantity is not large.
This time, more people will be rewarded, and it is also for the final promotion of sales.
Mu Hua is one of them. He is also one of the few bloggers who received the magic ship Fuxi K1 twice. However, this also allows him to compare the launched version of Fuxi K1 with the pilot version of Fuxi K1.
"This is amazing! I thought the pilot version of K1 had already squeezed out all the performance, but I didn't expect the marketed version of K1 to improve performance by about 30%! This is simply outrageous, I have to find out the reason."
After some operation, Mu Hua came to a surprising conclusion, that is, Shenchuan computer has made special processing for the WINDOWS XP system, retaining the most core functions and reducing the complexity of the program.
Although this kind of optimization is not very advanced, Shenchuan is able to do it with heart, which proves that Shenchuan really wants to make this product well.
"It's obvious that Shenchuan Company has hired a master! With such performance, others would have to sell it for seven or eight thousand or even ten thousand yuan. Is the pre-sale price of Shenchuan's notebook really the legendary 3999? If so, that would be great!" Mu Hua sighed while playing the game and found that it was faster and more personalized.
The more he tested it, the more new things Mu Hua discovered.
For example, when you play games, the system will keep certain records based on your operating habits, and automatically block some pop-up windows and background programs, allowing people to completely block irrelevant information when playing games.
However! You can select programs for special reminders. Some people are afraid of missing important information while playing games, so add them to the whitelist.
"It's so damn user-friendly!" Other test bloggers also started testing it and were very satisfied with this feature.
"After testing, I found that the Fuxi K1 program would record a lot of my usage habits, making it easier for me to use. For example, if I often watch a certain cool video, it would naturally place it in a more prominent place on the screen."
A comment below ruthlessly exposed the issue: "You are watching a short movie starring three or two people, so it may not be a good thing for Fuxi K1 to help you record your habits."
"Get out of the way! You're the only one who can do that!"
In general, the test results were highly consistent, with all praising the Fuxi K1. This attracted many people who were still planning to wait and see, and they immediately went to the flagship store to experience it.
The money Shenchuan Company spent on the promotion of Fuxi K1 may be only a few hundred thousand, mainly for promotion on Jiyue Browser.
For Lianxiang, it would cost tens of millions just to place an advertisement on Xiaguo TV station, not to mention the cost of newspapers, periodicals, magazines, and roadside billboards.
Oh, and advertising on portal websites is also quite expensive.
But none of these achieved the promotional effect for Fuxi K1.
Lu Shan accurately diagnosed the situation and put almost all the promotional points on the Internet, and Jiyue Browser played an extremely important role. Lianxiang's advertising effect on these portals was far less than that of Jiyue's advertising and promotion.
This is the benefit of advanced algorithms. Ji Yue uses the least amount of traffic to promote K1 to the group with the greatest purchasing potential.
Lianxiang advertises on portal websites, but to be honest, there are so many ads and they are so annoying. Who would click on them to see them?
Jiyue’s promotional ads are all very clever.
As for newspapers, periodicals, magazines, and billboards, they are all outdated. People are gradually losing interest in this form, and no matter how much money is spent, there is no effect.
Looking at the beautiful appearance and powerful performance, consumers began to get restless and went online every day to ask when Fuxi K1 would be released.
Not only did they ask under the Jiyue self-media blogger, they also left messages on the official website of Shenchuan Company, and some even went to Bansi Company to ask about the release time of K1.
Netizens are indeed unclear about the 30% shares, but at least they know that BanSi and Shenchuan Computer have cooperated, and they think that BanSi may know when to sell them.
As more and more messages came in and more and more people came to the store to ask for advice, Wu Jun couldn't stop smiling and hurriedly asked Lu Shan when would be the best time to release the product.
"No rush, add some fuel to the fire for consumers!" Wu Jun was puzzled by Lu Shan's statement.
Then, a questionnaire was launched on the Jiyue website. The question was, "What do you think the price of the Shenchuan computer - Fuxi K1 is?"
The so-called "thinking" is actually what everyone hopes the Fuxi K1 will cost.
As a result, everyone was shocked by the performance of Fuxi K1 and chose the 7000-8000 range. As for the options below 4000, basically no one chose them.
This one-sided option made the top management of Shenchuan Company very happy.
(End of this chapter)
