Chapter 593： The Great Change of the Times: The Birth of the Machine King

Nature is actually quite magical.

Because of gender differences, there are differences in talent.

Take girls for example.

It seems that at the moment of birth, the talent value of shopping has been filled up.

In response to this, Chen Xiao has a profound experience.

Before the rebirth, Chen Xiao had some girlfriends.

The most painful thing for him is to go shopping with girls.

A girl might go out shopping all day to buy a pair of socks and then buy nothing.

Chen Xiao thought it was enough to buy a pair of socks online, but he also knew that what girls wanted was not to buy these socks, but the sense of ritual of shopping.

Therefore, even though Gao Miao is a housekeeper and spends most of her time doing experiments in the laboratory, she still has a very high interest in shopping.

Changze Island and Tianyue Island are taking shape, and many businesses have already moved in to facilitate the lives of scientific researchers on the island.

However, after all, this is a new science and technology area, not a commercial district. In a short period of time, it is absolutely impossible to have the prosperous feeling of Jinling Road in Shanghai.

So when Chen Xiao proposed to go shopping in the Shanghai market together, Gao Miao felt that he should relax a bit. .

What girl would refuse skin care products under the lights of the mall and those dazzling clothes?

Gao Miao readily agreed.

Early in the morning of the second day, Chen Xiao asked the driver, brother, to drive a commercial car to Gao Miao's residence and wait for her to go downstairs.

Gao Miao lives in a high-level executive apartment building on Tianyue Island. There are 6 floors in total, which are divided into upper, middle and lower layers. Of course, such a big house is urging unmarried executives to get married quickly, and married executives will Quickly bring your family to Tianyue Island to live together.

In this way, the staff of Changtian Technology can work with more peace of mind.

When Gao Miao saw the commercial car arrived, he quickly walked out.

Today, Gao Miao's dress made Chen Xiao's eyes shine.

In early summer, Changze Island and the entire East China region are very hot.

Today, Gao Miao was wearing a long white classic dress, and her frame glasses were replaced with contact lenses, and she suddenly became a beautiful young lady next door.

To be honest, Gao Miao doesn't look pretty, and there are some differences between Shen Wei and Wen Qi.

But Gao Miao is tall and tall, and has the kind of bookish quality that can only be developed by reading poetry and books the day after tomorrow, which is unmatched by many beautiful Internet celebrities or female stars.

So after this dressing up, Gao Miao looks like an ancient woman who has walked out of an ink painting, very attractive.

Seeing Chen Xiao staring at him, Gao Miao felt very embarrassed.

After all, whether in college or working in Changtian Technology, Gao Miao's dress is very old-fashioned - either a sports suit, or a black and white professional attire, coupled with black-rimmed glasses, there is no bright spot at all. .

Gao Miao was a little embarrassed, so he stroked his hair and said, "Why do you keep staring at me like this, and it doesn't look good in this way?"

Gao Miao was a little apprehensive. Could it be because he didn't look good in what he was wearing?

Who knew that Chen Xiao didn't hesitate to praise him and said, "Miao Miao, you look so good in today's dress, don't wear black and white clothes in the future, nature is colorful."

Gao Miao couldn't help but covered her mouth and smiled and said, "When did you become so eloquent?"

Chen Xiao laughed and said, "We do scientific research, but we don't tell lies."

The two got on the commercial car together, then took the Su-Changzhou Expressway (Suhang City to Changzezhou), then detoured to the Su-Shanghai Expressway, and finally arrived at the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

It may take more than half a day to drive.

Apart from Chen Xiao and Gao Miao, there was only the driver and bodyguard, Dong Ge.

Brother Dong, whose original name is Ye Qiangdong, is a veteran.

A few years ago, he became Chen Xiao's full-time driver, and he was considered half a bodyguard.

Xia Guo does not allow the self-bringing of guns, and if you fight with cold weapons, Ye Qiangdong will be no problem at all, so one Ye Qiangdong is enough.

The commercial car was driving fast on the expressway, Chen Xiao thought, after the opening of the high-speed rail in the future, such a journey will only be a few tens of minutes.

At noon, the three arrived at Shanghai Stock Exchange, Jinling Road

The hotel has been contacted in advance, everyone will go shopping first, and then check into the hotel after dinner.

Chen Xiao and Gao Miao were walking on Jinling Road. The prosperity of the metropolis did make Gao Miao dazzled.

Compared with the Shanghai market, Jiangzhou is really like a small town.

Ye Qiangdong followed behind the two and kept a certain distance.

He was very clear about what his mission was.

Sure enough, after the girl came to the commercial area, she completely liberated her nature. Gao Miao couldn't help but go to some shopping malls to look at some clothes or bags.

Then swipe the card, buy buy buy.

There is only one reason why she is so impulsive - Chen Xiao asked her to wear a little color.

Moreover, Changtian Technology has a very high income, and he is not married and has no burden. What do you use this money for if you don't buy things?

Chen Xiao accompanied him all the way, and also felt the atmosphere of the metropolis.

Once again he established a fact.

If you're going to be in business, be sure to be in the business of women.

Because women, children and old people are the best to earn money, while men's money is the worst.

As long as a woman likes a piece of clothing that is beautiful, it can be done with a swipe of a few thousand dollars, and the cost of this clothing may only be tens of dollars, and it does not have any technological content.

A man needs to spend thousands of dollars for a computer. The chip is better than the motherboard, the motherboard is better than the graphics card, and the graphics card is better than the memory and hard disk. We must pursue the ultimate cost performance.

This kind of money is hard to come by!

Thinking of this, Chen Xiao laughed in surprise.

Because his business is to make money from men, this group is the most difficult to handle, and requires a great deal of technology.

After Gao Miao was satisfied with the clothes, Chen Xiao and Gao Miao left Jinling Road and went to see the largest it market in Shanghai.

There are computers here, and of course there are mobile phones.

Gao Miao saw that Chen Xiao was constantly looking at the signboards and some advertisements of major merchants, and knew that Chen Xiao was about to do business.

So she followed Chen Xiao quietly and didn't bother too much.

In the entire it area, the advertisement with the most coverage is the Core 2 processor, followed by the iPhone 2g mobile phone.

And in many PC shops, everyone regards the core 2 processor as a sales gimmick, or a core selling point.

Some of these stores include Dell, Lianxiang, ASUS, HP and so on.

Almost all PC manufacturers, except for the Shenchuan, have built on the Core 2 processor, in order to impact the summer market sales.

After all, compared to the Pangu processor, it also adopts a dual-core design, but with a 65-nanometer Core processor, regardless of its budget performance or its stability, it is one level higher than the Pangu chip.

In the increasingly competitive PC market, a hardware change may affect product sales.

Almost a year before the Core 2 chip came out, the products of major PC companies in the domestic market were crushed by Shenchuan.

The Pangu chip made the divine ship, and the divine ship also made Pangu.

If it weren't for the lack of mass production of Pangu chips, the supply of Shenchuan would be insufficient.

Last year's machine king of the PC session must be the **** ship.

Gu Xiao

Why did Chen Xiao come to the Shanghai Stock Exchange to actually take a look at the market, because it represents the city with the highest consumption level in the Xia Kingdom.

The city is also able to accept new things.

Many products and popular elements also flowed into the mainland from the Shanghai stock market.

Chen Xiao took Gao Miao and randomly visited several PC stores.

Among them, Dell and Lianxiang are more popular, and there is an endless stream of customers who come to buy computers.

This is consistent with Yang Qing's judgment.

In 2007, it was also the time for Xia Guo's PC users to change their phones in the early years.

With the release of the Core 2 Duo chip and the listing of computers equipped with Core 2 Duo, the pace of consumers' replacement has been accelerated.

In Lianxiang's sales store, the staff watched Chen Xiao and Gao Miao walk in, and when they saw their temperament, they knew they were rich.

So the sales staff immediately sold them Lianxiang's latest PC with a hot chip.

Of course, the price is not cheap. According to the level of configuration, the price ranges from 6,000 to more than 10,000 yuan.

Chen Xiaodi said to the salesperson, "I'll take a look again."

The sales staff immediately compared the latest computer equipped with the Core 2 Duo chip with the related computer equipped with the Pangu chip next door.

And through a very professional perspective, Chen Xiao was informed of the gap between the two.

"The Core 2 Duo chip is the latest chip released by Intel. It uses a dual-core design, and the single-core is a 65-nanometer process."

The sales staff also thought that Chen Xiao didn't understand the configuration of the computer very well, so he guided him and said: "The main reason for buying a computer is to look at the performance of the chip, motherboard and graphics card, and not just how much frequency it has when looking at the chip."

"Because the internal structure of the Core 2 processor and the Pangu processor are completely different, what is the internal structure?"

"In simple words, it is a single work effect or a single work efficiency."

"Core 2 processor, using the most advanced architecture..."

It has to be said that Lianxiang's sales staff in the Shanghai stock market are still relatively professional.

But Chen Xiao said with a smile: "The professional term is called architecture, not architecture."

After saying this, the other party is very embarrassed. It seems that Lianxiang's batch training sales staff still has a little flaw.

After Lianxiang and Gao Miao looked around, they left Lianxiang's sales point.

However, Lianxiang's sales points are still crowded.

Obviously, Lianxiang made the right bet.

Some time ago, Lianxiang spent a lot of money to order Intel's Core processors in large quantities before the Core 2 Duo processor came out.

This decision is completely correct, and it also allows Lianxiang to earn enough market.

After all, Core 2 processors continue to be out of stock, and prices continue to rise.

Lianxiang's price/performance ratio is back.

The market is like this, although Changtian Technology announced the related technology of 65nm chips early in the morning.

But so far, 65-nanometer chips have not been officially sold.

In the market where you vote with your feet, of course, everyone rushed to Intel.

Not far from Lianxiang is the sales shop of Shenchuan.

Among the sales points of Shenchuan, the door can be found.

After Chen Xiao and others entered, the attitude of the sales staff was very good.

Inquired about the needs of Chen Xiao and others in detail, and recommended the corresponding computer.

The sales on the Shenchuan side are very honest. Consumers recommend what they need, and the price is not inflated.

Chen Xiao chatted and said, "The business is not good during this time?"

The salesperson said with a wry smile: "The business has indeed declined during this period. At present, the price of the high-end Jiaolong series has dropped significantly."

"But sales are still ugly compared to a few months ago."

"Sales of low-end computers are not bad, but there is still a decline overall."

Chen Xiao nodded, Wu Jun has not reported the financial situation of Shenchuan in the first and second quarters.

From now on, the first and second quarters are not very good.

Chen Xiao bought a laptop of the Ark Star at random, which can be regarded as a support for the sales staff.

However, Chen Xiao felt that it was necessary to go to Yanjiang Semiconductor Company.

Yanjiang Semiconductor has been stocking up for the past few months, and Chen Xiao feels that the time should be almost up.

After leaving the sales point of Shenchuan, Gao Miao also said with some worry: "The sales of Shenchuan are not very good. I don't see many customers in the store."

Chen Xiao said: "This is a normal phenomenon. Market competition is like this, especially for technological products. If your technical content is far behind the other party, your sales performance will definitely be bad."

"The market doesn't lie."

Gao Miao knew that Chen Xiao knew something, so he didn't say anything more.

At this time, Gao Miao suddenly looked at the long queue in front of him, and said curiously, "What is in the queue in front? Why are there so many people!"

This is Chen Xiao's real destination today!

Apple's first direct sales store is in Sanlitun, Yanjing, and it will not open until next year.

However, in the summer of 2007, the first Apple mobile phone, the iPhone 2G, logged in to places such as Yanjing and Shanghai stock market in Xia Guo through various means.

When the Apple mobile phone was released in January this year, it has already caused a sensation around the world, laying the foundation for the launch of the mobile phone in summer.

Some say the iPhone's responsive touchscreen and full screen have upended the entire mobile phone industry.

It is also said that the iPhone introduced the desktop system into the mobile phone, making the mobile phone fully equipped with the same expansion functions as the PC, which changed the industry.

But Chen Xiao knows that the most fundamental reason why the iPhone can change the world of the industry is. The iPhone and the Internet are completely integrated, and people can share their lives anytime, anywhere, and users put the Internet in their pockets.

This is the basis for the iPhone to subvert the mobile phone industry.

Changtian Technology's Firefly mobile operating system shares some of its concepts with the iPhone's iOS.

But it is a pity, because it appeared too early, Xia Guo did not have complete technical and hardware support, and Nokia was single-mindedly engaged in the Saipan system at that time, and did not pay attention to the proposal of Changtian Technology at all.

So let the mobile phone version of Firefly os not become a hit, but continue to dormant.

But it doesn't matter, this does not mean the failure of Firefly OS, but it means that Firefly OS still needs to continue to absorb energy and improve.

Because Chen Xiao knows that the real power of Firefly os is after 2007, and his opponent is not Nokia's Saipan, but Apple's iOS and Android.

Chen Xiao smiled and said to Gao Miao: "This is the iPhone, a blockbuster technology product that has changed mankind."

Chen Xiao took Gao Miao into this mobile phone store.

On the big screen in the mobile phone store, Steve Jobs' iPhone 2G conference in January was played on a loop.

Wearing a black T-shirt and jeans, Jobs walked back and forth on the stage confidently.

He said: "I've been looking forward to this day for two years and six months...I'm going where the puck will go, not where it used to be, and we at Apple always try to work like that..."

Chen Xiao watched Jobs' English press conference and felt a little excited.

This is undoubtedly a great era. Chen Xiao is fortunate to be in the same era as Steve Jobs and compete on the same stage!