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Chapter 362 I Really Didn’t Want to Cut Leeks

Although Dongling Hi-Tech has invested in many companies, its product lines are mainly concentrated in the field of electronic products. The most profitable products are the Silver Sable Mouse, Shenzhou Digital Cordless, Xiaolingtong Mobile Phone, Mini Radio and other products.

Now, in addition to developing new technologies and researching new products, the most important thing for Dongling Hi-Tech's technical department is to upgrade the technology and products of these product lines.

After all, if you want users to pay willingly, even if you only use one product, you need to constantly upgrade and launch new products to attract more users.

Since its debut, Dongling Hi-Tech has released new products every year. Unlike other companies that follow foreign manufacturers for a living, Dongling Hi-Tech has created a new track on its own.

Li Dongling thought about it and decided that with the current product lines of Dongling Hi-Tech and its subsidiaries, there would be no problem in surviving, and he could even live a good life by lying down.

However, it is unable to support Dongxin Semiconductor, which develops lithography machines and chips, Oriental Optoelectronics, which develops LCD screens, Shenzhou Storage, which develops solid-state drives, the Han-Xi Joint Laboratory, and the carbon fiber project with Guangwei, as they are all money-eating beasts.

Li Dongling paused heavily with the pen in his hand on the paper. Dongling Hi-Tech's new product definitely needs to be developed, it just depends on which field it is.

Mobile phones and computers are definitely the hottest and most profitable industries, but developing what type of standard mobile phones is a very complicated matter!

Dongling Hi-Tech is now the global leader in PHS phones, and no one can deny that. The technical department of Dongling Hi-Tech is also upgrading PHS phones, but in the future, Dongling Hi-Tech will not stick to PHS technology, and this has been determined long ago.

The next mobile phone from Dongling Hi-Tech will definitely be a 2G phone, it just depends on whether it is a GSM or CDMA standard phone.

Dongling Hi-Tech's technology department is now led by Deputy General Manager Luo Zheng, who leads a team to develop 2G and 3G communication technologies.

But now, in the field of second-generation communications, the European-dominated GSM has a clear advantage, and GSM base stations are being laid in full swing around the world. In the 2G era, manufacturers such as Siemens and Nokia, which hold GSM patents, have a clear advantage.

If Dongling Hi-Tech launches a mobile phone under the Shenzhou brand, it will most likely be a GSM 2G phone. However, given the status of domestic GSM base stations, many places have no signal at all. It is destined that the Shenzhou 2G mobile phone will have to go overseas again and compete with manufacturers such as Nokia, Ericsson, Siemens, Alcatel, and Philips.

But CDMA cannot be given up. In the 2G era, Dongling Hi-Tech had no chance to become a major player. But in the 3G and 4G era, it had a chance. Qualcomm's strong supporters in America made Qualcomm's CDMA the 3G standard for the global communications industry.

As long as Dongling Hi-Tech bets on CDMA, in the 3G era, it will have the opportunity to sit at the poker table of the communications industry with Qualcomm!

Unlike the Xiaolingtong mobile phone, if the Shenzhou GSM mobile phone is to be launched, it is necessary to develop mobile phone chips and 2G mobile phone functions, including browsing the Internet, sending emails, taking pictures, etc., all of which need to be developed, and all of these take time.

Now that the project has been launched, if Dongling Hi-Tech can develop a qualified 2G mobile phone by the year after next, it will be quite fast.

The same goes for computer projects. If you don’t plan to develop your own products and just plan to buy parts from overseas and assemble a computer, then it will definitely be simple.

But if they want to develop their own chips, they need to wait for Ni Guangnan and Huang Lingyi to develop the most critical computer chips before they can launch Dongling Hi-Tech's self-developed computer brand, which also takes time.

Li Dongling frowned. When both mobile phones and computers need time, if Dongling Hi-Tech wants to launch new products, it needs to launch other products to fill this period of time!

Li Dongling rubbed the tip of his pen on the paper for a long time, thinking of the popular products in his previous life. There were a few projects that flashed through his mind. With Dongling Hi-Tech's current technical strength, he could do it, but Li Dongling was a little hesitant as to whether to do it.

The first to be affected is naturally DVD. As an upgraded product of VCD, DVD has been selling like crazy since its birth, not only in China but also overseas.

Dongling Hi-Tech can certainly do it, but Japan is also developing DVDs and has applied for a lot of patents. Dongling Hi-Tech can enter the market, but it has to compete with Japan and deal with a number of domestic copycat DVD manufacturers. It is hard to say how much it can earn in the end. However, Dongling Hi-Tech can try to develop DVD decoding chips. In the past, domestic DVDs could only make two yuan for each machine sold, and most of the profits were taken away by Japanese manufacturers with DVD patents and decoding chips and other components.

If Dongxin Semiconductor can develop a domestic DVD movement, it will not only bring new revenue to Dongxin Semiconductor, but also disgust the Japanese manufacturers!
However, if Dongling Hi-Tech enters the DVD market directly, the competition will be so fierce that even Dongling Hi-Tech may not be able to gain much advantage. If the domestic industry really takes off, the fight will never end.

Li Dongling shook his head and rejected Dongling Hi-Tech's idea of ​​developing DVDs. It was enough to let Dongxin Semiconductor develop DVD decoding chips.

After scrolling through the DVD projects, Li Dongling thought that with Dongling Hi-Tech's current technical level, there were only two projects left. In other words, when these two products debuted, they actually had the same slogan, but the users misunderstood them...

The first one is the repeater. As the first generation of learning auxiliary equipment, its appearance, like the appearance of the Subor learning machine, was highly anticipated by countless parents, who hoped that it could be used to improve academic performance.

As for the effect, that depends on personal opinion. Some people have indeed used it to improve their English and other language scores, and you can also use its recording function to practice speaking.

It is indeed a good thing, but many people don't know that it can be used for learning. However, quite a number of people use its tape playback function to listen to and practice songs.

But repeaters have indeed become a big hit, entering countless homes and campuses. Almost every student in a school has one, and annual shipments exceed tens of millions of units.

To a certain extent, the tape recorder has played the role of the Chinese people's Walkman. A Sony CD Walkman costs several thousand yuan, while the most expensive tape recorder only costs a few hundred yuan, almost perfectly replacing the former.

Before Internet music and MP3 became popular, products like repeaters that can be used to listen to songs, just like the now extremely popular Feiyan mini radio, were, to a certain extent, essential products for the entertainment of countless people!

For Dongling Hi-Tech, developing a repeater can increase its revenue on the one hand. The sales brought by the repeater will also allow Dongxin Semiconductor, Oriental Optoelectronics, and Shenzhou Storage, which provide components for the repeater, to ship their products and earn research and development funds.

Only by continuously selling chips, screens and memory can companies like Dongxin Semiconductor improve their technology, generate revenue, launch new products and generate profits for the lithography machines, LCD panels and solid-state drives they are developing.

After writing down the word "repeater", Li Dongling wrote down the name of another product at the back. It has basically the same properties as the repeater and is also an educational auxiliary product.

In the past, this product was also a big seller, not only in China, but also in Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Siam in Asia. It was also very popular and sold like hot cakes.

For Dongling Hi-Tech, this product, like a repeater, can also be used to increase revenue and enable Dongxin Semiconductor and other companies to ship chips and other products. And it is an electronic dictionary!

Electronic dictionaries are currently being developed in Japan. Similar products have appeared in China before, but their functions are very simple and they do not have a vocabulary library.

The best-selling electronic dictionaries in China have added storage, vocabulary, voice, business cards, calendar, calculator, and alarm clock. Of course, what makes electronic dictionaries even more familiar are probably the games that come with them, such as "Heroes' Altar", "The Magic Tower", and "Demon Conquest".

There are also countless people who, for the sake of the above games, taught themselves programming and joined the army of developers and programmers. Once they enter the world, it is like entering a deep sea...

Li Dongling wrote the names of repeater and electronic dictionary on a piece of paper. He planned to use these two products as new product research and development projects for Dongling Hi-Tech and Feiyan Technology next year.

Among them, the electronic dictionaries are ready to be exported. Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Siam and even India also have the demand to learn English and other languages. Dongling Hi-Tech cannot favor one over the other and must provide them with a learning environment and must sell electronic dictionaries to them!
Dongling Hi-Tech is doing this for the public good, and is trying to help its users improve, but it has no intention of taking advantage of them!

(End of this chapter)