The richest man starts with a blind box

Chapter 1435 Low cost
So, if a fantasy computer user wants to recall his own computer, he can directly find a courier without waiting for a while, and send the courier directly to the address, and he will receive the courier after more than ten days. The host computer is gone.

And if you wait for time, you can drive your own car for no more than 5 hours to find the recall point closest to you.

You don't even need to wait any longer, you just need to hand over your old fantasy computer to the other party, and you can immediately get a brand new Lingyun fantasy computer host from the other party, all the accessories in it have been assembled, the system After the installation and debugging are completed, the host computer can be used directly after connecting the monitor, mouse and keyboard.

In this way, the two pain points that Microsoft thought it had for users will no longer exist. It is also very normal to be able to directly replace 1 million computer hosts in the first month.

But at this time, Microsoft still didn't realize the seriousness of the problem. They believed that this data was only temporary, and the data would definitely drop rapidly in the next few months.

First of all, the number of old computers like this that have been stored for more than three years will only decrease. The first month is the overall peak, and there will be no more after that.

Secondly, the Jiangnan Group can't afford such a cost, 320 million computers, and all of them are replaced with new ones. According to the configuration of the computers they got, the configuration of this computer is actually quite good. Both around $800.

If the cost price is discounted in half, it is also about 400 US dollars.

320 million computers worth 400 US dollars, the value is as high as 13 billion US dollars. If you give it away for nothing every month... It seems that Jiangnan Group can't afford it, but are they really willing to throw money in like this for nothing?
According to Microsoft's analysis, the intention of Jiangnan Group to do this should be to create a shocking event, to use the world to quickly attract a wave of heat, and to help their 5-ary computer marketing and promotion.

As for really continuing to change like this, that's simply impossible. It's impossible for Huang He to let his money be wasted like this.

Microsoft's idea is not wrong, but the problem is that they miscalculated one thing, that is, the cost of such a computer is not $400 at all, but less than $100.

First of all, for a computer, the biggest cost will always be its chip and graphics card. For a computer host that is generally configured at around 5000 yuan, the cost of the chip and graphics card will account for about 2500 yuan.

But for fantasy computers, this cost is almost non-existent.

First of all, it is impossible for fantasy computers to equip these free computers with independent graphics cards, so the graphics cards used by these computers are all integrated into the chip, and the cost of the graphics card itself no longer exists.

As for the chip, don't look at Intel or AMD's chips, they can easily cost more than 1000 yuan, and two or 3000 yuan are everywhere.

Of course, this is the price of external sales, not the cost of actual production of the chip.

The Jiangnan Group itself is the largest and only quinary chip manufacturer in the world, and all quinary computer chips come from their production lines.

At the same time, because of the unique technology used in the quinary chip, the quinary chip no longer uses the traditional lithography machine technology, but performs various extremely subtle environmental controls on the surface of the black gold, resulting in a self-generated circuit structure on the surface. Generate different textures, and then pick out the defective products, and you can get a piece directly, which is equivalent to a chip that has been carved with a lithography machine.

Therefore, the production cost of quinary chips is extremely low, and tens of thousands of chips can be produced at one time. If Jiangnan Group's factory is fully operational, it will be easy for the daily output to exceed one million.

So in general, the production cost of a quinary chip is equivalent to 1/5 of a binary chip, and the cost is frighteningly low. This is why the quinary chip sold by Jiangnan Group can always beat its opponents in terms of performance. , and the price can be lowered.

Because even if the price is lower, Jiangnan Group will always earn much more than Intel.

And these computers that are uniformly used for replacement naturally use the same type of chip, and tens of millions of them are produced at one time, which further reduces the manufacturing cost of the chip, and finally the factory cost of each quinary chip It's less than $5, which can be roughly equal to zero.

The more expensive cost lies on the motherboard, memory sticks and hard drives, chassis, power supply, etc.

Among these accessories, except for the memory module, which can be produced by Jiangnan Group, Jiangnan Group cannot produce other things by itself, and needs to be purchased from other hardware manufacturers.

But as long as the cost of the core chip can be reduced, the cost of these parts does not matter.

Jiangnan Group directly selects the most cost-effective parts for purchase on its own alliance platform, and at the same time tells those companies very simply that you don't need to produce other products in the future, and hand over all production capacity to Jiangnan Group's orders That's it.

In the end, the production cost of a mid-to-high-end computer with such a configuration was reduced to less than $100.

According to the internal cost report of Jiangnan Group, the most expensive part of this mainframe is actually its chassis, because the chassis itself is made with a wire drawing process, so even if it is purchased in bulk, the price is as high as about $9, which is very scary.

The second is its motherboard, the cost price is around $8.5.

Further down is the power supply...

By the way, the $100 also includes shipping costs. The price of transporting such a computer host from China to Europe is not cheap. On average, each host will cost about $5 in shipping.

At the same time, because of the recall, these computers do not have to pay any taxes and fees when entering the country, otherwise the cost will increase by tens of dollars.

In the end, 320 million computers were sent out, and the cost directly paid by Jiangnan Group was less than 3 million US dollars, which was a small sum of money for Jiangnan Group.

But Microsoft's forecast was not wrong, because the number of computers recalled in the second month has been greatly reduced, from 2 million units to about 320 million units.

In the third month, it was reduced to 3 million units.

As Microsoft predicted, most of the old fantasy computers are almost sold out.

Because Fantasy Computer started to enter the international market around 10 years ago, and it has been 7 years now, and the early operations were not too smooth. It was not until they began to acquire a large number of local European companies that they gradually took their own market share. Bring it up.

Therefore, there are not many fantasy computers in the European market for more than three years, because most of the computers are sold within three years, and it is still in the golden age of these computers, and it is impossible for most users to For a newer computer with a different system, I just replaced my old computer.

At the same time, after more old computers are replaced, many people are unwilling to store them at home, sell them to waste recyclers, or simply throw them into the trash can, which leads to fewer stocks.

It is worth mentioning that this has also led to a surge in the price of fantasy computers on the second-hand market. In the second-hand market, a fantasy computer three years ago is basically no different from a waste product. The price ranges from around ten to twenty dollars, and some even Said that as long as the buyer is willing to pay the postage, the computer can be sent directly to the computer for free.

After all, many times you throw these computers to waste recyclers, and you still need to pay these recyclers a recycling fee.

But now that the price of a second-hand Fantasy computer has risen to a staggering $300, it's a good deal to be able to immediately switch to a new computer with a market price of around $800.

However, the skyrocketing price in the second-hand market also just shows that there are not many fantasy computers left, and after three months, only a total of 600 million fantasy computers have been replaced. Small numbers are not enough to shake the overall situation, so Microsoft seems to be able to sit back and relax.

But soon, the situation where the president of Microsoft scolded people in the last chapter appeared, that is, in the fourth month after the recall of fantasy computers, the data actually soared, from 4 million units in the third month to 3 million units. 130 units, which is higher than the data in the first month, which frightened everyone at Microsoft.

Microsoft immediately sent someone to investigate what happened. Could it be that all fantasy computer users sent their computers for recall?
After Microsoft's investigation was clear, its face became very strange. It turned out that all this depended on the second month after the recall began.

During this month, there was an up host on the Internet who didn't know whether he was coveting other people's computers or for the sake of program effects.He deliberately found a mainframe that had the same shape and style as some kind of fantasy computer mainframe.

Then all the logos on the outside of the mainframe were smoothed out, and the casing of the mainframe was opened, and all the non-fantasy computer logos inside were also ground off, and then the labels of the fantasy computer were obtained and pasted on. The old version of the fantasy computer was born.

Of course, once the inspectors open the computer and check the hardware inside, they will be able to find that this is not a fantasy computer at all.

And the whole process was recorded by the up master with a video, and then he drove the computer directly to the nearest recall point, wanting to try to see if the staff of Fantasy Computer can recognize this computer The problem.

As a result, he just handed over the computer to the staff at the recall point. The staff took a look at the appearance of the mainframe of the computer, and then asked someone to move it into the warehouse, and then handed over a brand new mainframe to the UP owner on the spot. , when this UP returned to the car holding the new computer with a disbelief on his face, it was less than 5 minutes before he got off the car.

(End of this chapter)