Rebirth: My 80s

Chapter 622: Another way of thinking... Well, it smells so good!

The so-called following the local customs, Ding Lun and the four of them are not short of money now. They are even richer than most students in Hong Kong City. They are already dressed in pure Hong Kong style. The only girl from Yanbian, Che Wenlin, , and also ironed a "wool roll".

Seeing Li Jiankun looking across the dining table with interest, Cha Wenlin blushed slightly and stuck out her tongue and said, "We don't speak Cantonese, and our spoken English is not authentic. I'm afraid they will look down on me."

So dress up fashionably and beautifully, and tell those guys who like to look at people through colored glasses: I am rich!

Cheng Jinfu sighed and said: "Before I came out, I never imagined that we mainlanders are so discriminated against here. If the four of us can't take out the money in our pockets to make friends? Haha, I don't know how much pressure and influence we will bear. , I’m not sure whether I can continue reading this book.”

Tu Rihui said sincerely: "It is better to live in mainland China, which is so vast and rich in resources, but no matter which place it is, it will not discriminate against outsiders."

Li Jiankun smiled, it was a bit far-fetched. He wanted to tell these young people: In fact, it was the same later...

The waiter brought the meal. It was a Cantonese restaurant near the University of Hong Kong. It had no special features, but it had private rooms, so I chose to eat here.

After signaling everyone to feel free, Li Jiankun looked at Ding Lun, who seemed to be irritated by something, blushing, and had no intention of raising his chopsticks.

"They are just bullying! We don't understand bullying!"

This guy also suffered a lot in school... Li Jiankun patted him on the shoulder and asked, "You mean, he wants to kill me?"

Ding Lun gritted his teeth and replied: "It's worse than Zai, he's a liar!"

"Oh? Tell me more." Li Jiankun frowned.

"I also came here to know that BP machines are not a rare thing in Hong Kong City."

It is indeed not uncommon. BB cameras have been in Hong Kong for many years. In 1976, "Half a Category" starring Xu Guanwen had scenes using BB cameras. But it's not popular.

The Hong Kong City is a small area and the penetration rate of landline phones is extremely high. People do not have much appeal or interest in BB machines that have too simple functions and can even be said to be difficult to use.

It should be said that Li Jiankun knew many big bosses in Hong Kong City, but none of them had a BB camera on their waist.

"This shows that there is no shortage of BP machine chips in Hong Kong!" Ding Lun glanced at Li Jiankun and continued, "Because we wanted to study this project, the four of us jointly spent money to buy a BP machine. Now it is in the laboratory , we took it apart, which company do you think the chip inside was made by?"

Li Jiankun was startled, "Baotong?"

Che Wenlin, Cheng Jinfu and Tu Rihui nodded vigorously.

After all, he was not a technical person, so Li Jiankun still didn't understand. The chip he wanted to design was obviously different from the chips on the BB machines currently on the market in Hong Kong City, and had more powerful functions, so he asked: "What does this mean? "

Ding Lun replied in a deep voice: "It means they don't have to redesign the design from scratch, they only need to improve on the original basis. It's like eating claypot rice. The rice in the dozen or so casseroles on the stove is actually the same, and it's all cooked. It depends on what dishes the chef adds to it, maybe ours is more luxurious and we need to add two more dishes, but it won’t mean we have to find another casserole to wash rice and make it all over again, right?”

Li Jiankun suddenly realized it. After thinking for a while, he asked again: "There are no copyright restrictions?"

Ding Lun explained that the underlying technology of the BP machine has long been open to the public. There is really no need to hide a product that is not accepted by the market after it comes out, and it cannot be hidden.

They did learn a lot of new things after arriving in Hong Kong, because they had to study the BP machine project and had an in-depth understanding of this industry.

BP machines came to Asia in 1968. At that time, no one except radio enthusiasts played with them. These radio enthusiasts published their numbers and profiles in magazines and newspapers to find like-minded machine buddies. This can be said to be the original form of netizens. . The same is true when it spreads to other places, such as Hong Kong City. Radio enthusiasts are very interested in BP machines and conduct various studies. To a certain extent, they have promoted the practical use of BP machines step by step.

But obviously without the help of capital, the effect is limited.

It is a hot topic right now. With the rise of computer technology, when pagers are paired with computers to achieve digital transmission, the practicality of BP machines will be greatly improved.

In a word, after so many years of development, all the major chip design companies should have mastered the basics of the chips required for BP machines. From now on, it will just be a matter of who can "add good things" and play tricks.

Li Jiankun has now become an employer who wants to "add food". Baotong is equivalent to a chef. The chef tilted his head and thought: Damn it! This customer is so arrogant. He wants to add so many dishes, which cannot be done in minutes. Otherwise, ordinary claypot rice costs 15 Hong Kong dollars. If we ask him to charge 1500 Hong Kong dollars, it would be embarrassing. We have to take our time...

Matt's mentality is probably the same.

Li Jiankun suddenly recalled many details of the previous meeting. This old boy was really lying to him and he didn't understand. This also shows that there are currently very few employers who want to "add food" to BB machines. Perhaps he is the first one Baotong has encountered.

"How long do you expect it will take for the chip to be developed?" Li Jiankun looked at Ding Lun and asked, "Every step of the way makes you wiser. If you don't understand, let's just ask."

Ding Lun replied: "It depends on the strength of the chip development unit. I guess the other things shouldn't be particularly difficult. The difficulty lies in things that no one has done before."

<divclass="contentadv">"Chinese display function." Li Jiankun continued.

Ding Lun nodded, suddenly remembered something, and said in a deep voice: "I'm afraid it's a bit difficult to find these foreign companies or people from Hong Kong to develop the Chinese display function. I'm afraid it's easier to create traditional Chinese characters than simplified characters. Didn't you say that we developed it? Is the BP machine mainly for the domestic market? I do know that Professor Chen and his colleagues at the Academy of Sciences have experts who are dedicated to the research and development of computer Chinese displays, and they seem to have achieved some results. If we can invite help, we should get twice the result with half the effort."

Li Jiankun instantly thought of Hanka, and then of a somewhat tragic boss at the Academy of Sciences - Ni Guanglan.

Lenovo relied on Hanka to make its fortune in 1984...that is, next year.

Ding Lun's news is not groundless, Ni Guanglan's Hanka should be on the ground soon.

"Okay, let's eat, I have an idea."

After lunch, Li Jiankun hesitated and finally did not invite Ding Lun and the others to the manor in the middle of the mountain. It was not because he was worried that they would become extravagant and licentious from now on, but because he was afraid that they would have bad thoughts about him and affect future cooperation - with such It is not an exaggeration to say that a person with an estate is a big capitalist.

Certain traditional ideas in the Mainland still need to be "progressed and improved" over time. Next year, after 84, there will be a leap-forward change.

Li Jiankun and his party did not return to the manor, but went straight to another semiconductor company on the east side of the Kowloon Peninsula, near the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

This time when I contacted the person in charge of the design department, Li Jiankun always took the dominant position. After a conversation, he made the other person understand: he understands it very well!

He is also a white foreigner named Steve.

After Steve read the functional requirements for the chip compiled by Ding Lun's team, as Ding Lun said, the difficulty lies in the Chinese display function.

"Mr. Li, we need enough time."

"I can invite an expert with deep knowledge in the field of computer Chinese display to assist you in development. How long will this take?"

The reason why he is somewhat confident is that Li Jiankun thinks he knows something about Ni Guanglan through some reports and books. Changing the way people interact is something that benefits the country and the people. If there are no accidents, he should not refuse.

Steve's eyes lit up and he thought: "If this is the case, maybe it can be completed within a year."

Hey~ This is decent.

After one year, Li Jiankun was able to accept it, but the other party's tone was obviously not as tough as Matt's. When he talked to Matt, he didn't mention the Chinese display expert at all, but Matt told him confidently that Baotong could handle it.

"What about the cost?"

"It's hard to say exactly now, but it will probably cost HK$[-] million."

Yes, the time is reduced to a quarter. The price was only cut in half.

Li Jiankun also realized deeply at this moment that chips with some technical content are really not something ordinary small companies can care about. This is called really throwing money.

"Mr. Steve, let me ask you a question." Li Jiankun pointed to the door and swiped his finger from left to right, "How much is your company's IC design department worth?"

How much is Baotong’s IC design center worth?

Regardless of how well built it is, money is still valuable these days. No matter how the Hong Kong dollar falls, the purchasing power of 1983 million or [-] million is still quite scary. In [-], the average salary in Hong Kong City was only [-] yuan.

Steve obviously understood what he wanted to express. He waved his hand and said with a smile: "You can't calculate it like this. You should understand that Bruce Lee can easily get tens of millions of dollars in salary, and a Van Gogh painting is worth hundreds of millions. What foreign objects do they rely on?" ?A paintbrush? The value of our design industry mainly comes from talents, from..."

He said, pointing to his head.

Li Jiankun understood the truth, but when he discovered that [-] million Hong Kong dollars was enough to buy this design department, and [-] million Hong Kong dollars was enough to buy Baotong IC Design Center, including paying the salaries of the talents inside, he suddenly became stingy. Don't want to spend this money.

He has been thinking about Baotong's IC design center since last year.

Why don't you think of a way to make it yours first? Then...does the boss still need to pay for the design?

Li Jiankun's brain started to come alive.