Chapter 186 Times make heroes!
In the past, the development of the IT industry in the mainland in the 1980s was centered around the core of "Sinicization", which enabled computer technology to be widely used in the mainland.

In fact, this solved the contradiction between computer technology and mainland demand, and created several subsequent industry giants.

For example, a certain company started out with Chinese cards, and a certain company started out with Chinese printers.

As for catching up with core technology, it was not put on the agenda until the 90s, or even after the new century.

In the 80s, some knowledgeable people also proposed to speed up the catch-up of core computer technologies, such as operating systems.

However, in the previous life, conditions were insufficient and the mainland had just started its reform and opening up, so the limited resources were used for more urgent needs.

Moreover, due to their own development needs, the companies at that time had no funds to invest in research and development.

Now the appearance of Liu Zhicheng has disrupted all the history of the previous life.

Orange Technology Company already has Chinese operating systems and Chinese typewriters, and has become the first to deploy computer technology in the Chinese-speaking world.

"Mr. Liu, this is the Chinese printer we developed in cooperation with Xerox." Huo Haiqing asked someone to bring a machine, connected it to a computer, and introduced it while demonstrating it.

Huo Haiqing just typed a line of words on the computer, and then the printer made a 'beeping' sound and printed the text smoothly.

Liu Zhicheng picked it up, looked at it, nodded and said, "Not bad."

In the IT field, scientific research and business are closely related, but in many cases, scientific research and business are two completely different things.

Scientific research pursues technological advancement, while business pursues economic profits.

An advanced technology may have very high scientific research value, but it may not necessarily have commercial value.

However, some technologies that are not advanced have greater commercial value due to their wide application.

The electronic printers launched by Orange Technology do not pursue overly perfect functions, but rather pursue low cost and ease of use.

The Orange computer uses an eight-bit processor chip and has a built-in simplified office software whose main function is text editing.

You can print directly on paper, or use an optional floppy disk drive to save electronic documents.

This will meet the Chinese community's demand for computer text processing.

The printer developed by Orange Technology is an example of a product that is not technologically advanced but can quickly generate huge commercial value in the mainland market.

From the very beginning, Liu Zhicheng targeted the mainland market for this product.

Of course, there is also a certain market space in Hong Kong, Southeast Asia and Taiwan for computers and printers that are localized in Chinese and specialized for office needs.

"If we promote this printer, what will be its price positioning?" Liu Zhicheng asked.

"Mr. Liu, the current factory price of the printer is 2000 US dollars, so this product is not suitable for promotion yet."

Huo Haiqing glanced at Liu Zhicheng and continued, "According to your instructions on good quality at a low price, our market research shows that the most appropriate price should be around US$1000."

"Yes." Liu Zhicheng nodded and said, "But we also need to study printers with different prices and different needs to meet the needs of different users."

Since Orange Technology's products are mainly aimed at the mainland market, it pays great attention to cost control when conducting product research and development.

The first generation of products can be said to have been finalized, so it is natural that they must be pushed to the market as soon as possible, but the price is much higher than the original ideal price.

The sales rollout is not complicated. Liu Zhicheng mainly targets the Chinese community in Southeast Asia. In the initial stage, the promotion can be handed over to the Jingxi Electrical Appliance Chain.

The demand for Chinese in the Southeast Asian Chinese market is not as rigid as that in the mainland, but it also needs to be fully developed and sales should be carried out without blind spots as much as possible.

Due to the imperfect layout of western Beijing, seeking agents is inevitable.

To be honest, Orange Technology's printing technology is still very rough and simple.

Whether in terms of printing speed or clarity, it is far behind the printer products of the United States and RB.

Orange Technology is developed specifically to meet the needs of the Chinese region. It solves the problem of Chinese input and output and meets the problem of creating something from scratch.

In fact, printing technology in North America and RB is already very mature, and has met advanced requirements such as high-speed printing and high-precision printing.

Moreover, Chinese is much more complex than Western alphabetic scripts. In the era of mechanical typing, it was difficult for Chinese to be widely used using Western mature typing input technology.

It was not until the advent of the electronic computer age that Chinese characters could be directly stored in electronic devices in the form of fonts, and input and output technologies for Chinese began to develop.

However, to realize complete printing functions for complex Chinese characters, all Chinese characters need to be entered into the font library and stored in the device.

There is no breakthrough in Orange Technology's printing technology, and it uses very simple and basic technology.

What is really special is the systematic development of the Chinese language.

If Liu Zhicheng's Chinese printer achieves great success, capital from Western countries will certainly be eyeing it and strive to compete for the market in the Chinese community.

In the decades since reform and opening up, the mainland market has developed very rapidly, and many products have experienced a brief period of glory and then declined.

Liu Zhicheng knows too well about future industrial trends, so only by continuously increasing investment in research can he avoid being defeated by competitors.

"From now on, Orange Technology will have a red line, which is that we must invest at least 5% of our annual sales into research and development. We must continuously develop new technologies and update and iterate our products." Liu Zhicheng said slowly to Huo Haiqing and Wang Xingfa.

In the past life, 84 was a turning point in electronic technology in mainland China. Various collective enterprises began to be established, and Mouxiang Moutong was established in that year.

It is only 82 now, and many policies in the mainland are not open. Orange Technology has no experience in how to carry out market promotion in the current market environment.

"Xingfa, do you have any plan for selling our products in the mainland?" Liu Zhicheng asked again.

Wang Xingfa thought for a moment, organized his words and said, "Mr. Liu, the mainland is now all state-owned, and our clients are mainly universities, research institutes, and large state-owned enterprises.

My suggestion is to find our partners in Beijing and let them represent our products.”

Liu Zhicheng couldn't help but look at Wang Xingfa in surprise. This idea was very insightful. Didn't a certain research institute cooperate with Juzi Technology in the previous life?

Of course, Liu Zhicheng would rather cooperate with Moutong than with a conscientious company.

"Well, I heard that there is a new electronics cluster in Beijing: Zhongguancun. Send a sales representative to check it out and find a suitable agent.

Try to find as many agents as possible. Don’t be the sole agent in the mainland, just a regional agent at most.”

The purpose of Liu Zhicheng doing this is to prevent agents from kidnapping manufacturers and avoid unpleasantness between the two parties.

Of course, in the future, western Beijing will move northward with great strength and layout the comprehensive electrical appliance market.

"Moreover, you need to set up a key account department, mainly responsible for the procurement of large companies and providing after-sales services for key customers."

"Okay, Mr. Liu." Wang Xingfa nodded and agreed while taking notes. "Well, that's all we have to say about sales today." Liu Zhicheng said, looking at Huo Haiqing and continued, "Let's go check out the local area network."

The original Internet originated from the education network in the United States, which was a local area network. There was no connection between home and office PCs.

Without switches and routers, Liu Zhicheng really doesn’t know how the Internet is connected.

With curiosity, Liu Zhicheng, under the guidance of Huo Haiqing, came to a room called: Computer Communication Assistance Laboratory.

When Liu Zhicheng saw the sign, he found it a little funny.

If Chinese people in Southeast Asia achieve full computer networking in the future, should it be called the Internet or the interconnected network?

When Liu Zhicheng walked into the research center, he was overwhelmed. He saw wires everywhere connecting the computers.

"Mr. Liu, this is the local area network we have set up consisting of ten computers." Huo Haiqing introduced on the side.

Liu Zhicheng had a blank expression on his face. He really didn't understand any of this, but he knew about supercomputers.

The original purpose of the Internet was to allow more people to share computers. As the network became larger and larger, more and more data needed to be processed.

The way information is transmitted on the Internet, like package delivery in the postal system, requires an accurate address.

On the Internet, information is only transmitted within the network, so an accurate address is also required, that is, the IP address.

Now the United States has the Internet communication protocol IPV4. The center that executes this protocol is a large computer center, also called a root server.

"The original purpose of the local area network is to allow more people to share computers. Can we also build a large mainframe for other computer enthusiasts to share?" Liu Zhicheng asked Huo Haiqing.

It was really hard to understand if Liu Zhicheng talked too much, so he could only tell them what he roughly knew about his past life and leave the rest to the researchers.

"Also, the introduction of talents is also very important. Don't work in isolation." Liu Zhicheng said and left the laboratory.

Liu Zhicheng is not in a hurry. In the past, the mainland was connected to the world's Internet in the 1990s, and Orange Technology only needs to complete its layout before that.

Of course, it would be better if we could complete the layout in more Southeast Asian markets in advance.

After coming out of the computer laboratory, Liu Zhicheng spent the next few days inspecting the handheld game consoles, chips, printed circuit boards and other departments.

The chip industry is mainly for layout and talent reserve. There are no plans yet on whether to research top-notch chips in the future.

After all, even if you have the ability to develop cutting-edge chips, it would be useless without the manufacturing tools.

In fact, in the early 1990s, the mainland still had a certain level of technical reserves in chip manufacturing tools.

Especially laser technology, which was at least at the global level, but was later used for chip manufacturing overseas and for WQ research and development in the mainland.

Of course, the most important thing is the lack of investment in R&D funds.

However, Liu Zhicheng is still interested in printed circuit boards, and motherboard technology is also one of the main hardware of future computers.

But to study the motherboard, you also need matching chips, which is a very contradictory choice.

Let's take it one step at a time. Liu Zhicheng doesn't know what his future will be like.

Among these departments, Liu Zhicheng is most interested in handheld game consoles because it is related to his own wallet.

Liu Zhicheng was in the handheld game console research department, picking up an experimental machine and starting to play games.

The Xiangjiang Cube is not laggy at all to play, it’s just a little bit big.

Liu Zhicheng was very satisfied and asked directly: "When can it be released to the market?"

"Mr. Liu, we have now entered the testing phase. If no major problems are found during the testing process, we will prepare for listing," said Huo Haiqing.

"Now the LCD screen of this handheld game console is produced by ourselves, right?" Liu Zhicheng continued to ask.

"Yes."

Liu Zhicheng nodded, very satisfied.

Orange Technology's LCD screens started out as electronic watch screens, and can now be used as handheld game console LCD screens, which is a major technological advancement.

“Well, the handheld game console must be launched on the market as soon as possible to contribute to the development of Orange Technology.

LCD screens should develop into larger panels, and strive to make them as big as TV sets as soon as possible." Liu Zhicheng continued to instruct.

Huo Haiqing and Wang Xingfa were also very surprised after hearing this. If the LCD screen is so big, can it replace the TV tube technology?
"Mr. Liu means that it can be used in television production in the future?" Huo Haiqing asked curiously.

Liu Zhicheng smiled and said, "It depends on your research, but I think it should not be limited to televisions. Can it also be used on computer monitors?"

"Of course." Huo Haiqing replied.

Wang Xingfa standing by was also very happy. Does it mean that Orange Technology will enter the white appliance market?

This is a huge traditional home appliance market and also the cheese of Western technology giants.

But Liu Zhicheng immediately poured cold water on Wang Xingfa and said slowly: "To study large-scale LCD panels, we don't necessarily have to enter a certain industry ourselves. It's mainly for technology reserves.

Of course, we can make money by licensing technology. But Mr. Huo needs to see more about the research and development of digital technology in the United States, which is related to the future development of Orange Technology. "

"Please rest assured, Mr. Liu, I will go to the United States for research several times a year." Huo Haiqing nodded and replied.

"Mr. Huo, your task is arduous, and you also have to focus on the research projects in Beijing City." Liu Zhicheng continued.

Times can make heroes! But Liu Zhicheng felt that time was running out!
We are only in the Industrial 2.0 era now, but before Liu Zhicheng was reborn, we had already entered the Industrial 4.0 era.

The Internet, big data, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things have been widely used to realize factory intelligence.

Although I have taken advantage of my status as a prophet and have already started planning, I sometimes feel powerless.

The main problem is the lack of talent, which takes time to develop.

By the time Liu Zhicheng finishes dealing with the affairs of Orange Technology, it will be almost May 5th.

This was a day of capital speculation in the previous life. Liu Zhicheng felt the beauty of this day for the first time.

Because, on this day, Youde will land in Hong Kong and officially begin to take power.

Governor Youde was a Hong Kong governor who attached great importance to education. Liu Zhicheng decided to take advantage of this and contribute his financial strength to Hong Kong's talent pool.

(End of this chapter)