"The price of computer hosts has almost come down, but the price of this monitor is really a bit too high."

Fang Chen complained helplessly.

With this Qingtian computer beside him, it can be said that the problem of expensive computers in China has been solved.

And regardless of the price of the Optian computer, it is only a few hundred dollars cheaper than Lenovo's 586 computer, but because of the addition of a graphics card, its price-performance ratio is really high.

After all, you have to know that even though the technical specifications are not as good as those of the Genesis 18 graphics card, graphics cards produced by other graphics card manufacturers still cost as much as 2,000 yuan.

In other words, the NVIDIA Genesis 18 graphics card in the Qingtian Computer alone is worth at least two thousand yuan.

But in fact, the price of Genesis 18 in Europe and the United States is about 400 U.S. dollars. According to the exchange rate conversion, it is about 3,400 Chinese coins.

But now, in order to support the development of Qingtian Computer, when Huang Renxun supplied this graphics card to Qingtian Computer, not to mention making money, how much the OEM charged him was how much he reported to Zhang Rujing, including the air freight postage.

Come out from his side.

Anyway, the rotten meat in the pot is owned by Qingtian. Even Nvidia should be regarded as one of the subordinate companies of Qingtian Chip, so what is there to settle the accounts?

At most, Nvidia's accounts are not that good this year. Anyway, the big boss Fang Chen doesn't care about this.

It can be said that it is precisely because of NVIDIA's support that otherwise Zhang Rujing would vomit blood even more.

However, based on this calculation, the performance of the Optimus computer costing 6,000 yuan is almost the same as that of other computers costing 10,000 yuan. It is just a little different from the latest CPU chips from Intel and AMD.

Thinking of this, Fang Chen himself felt a little uncomfortable. He worked hard and invested almost 60 billion, and each computer cost more than 3,000 yuan.

And a crappy big-head monitor, and it's still 15 inches, can actually be sold for 100 yuan, which is almost half of the price of a Qingtian computer.

He really didn't know what qualifications this big-headed monitor had to sell at such an expensive price.

"The price of the monitor is indeed a bit high, so...I..."

As Zhang Rujing was talking, he suddenly looked embarrassed and his words became hesitant.

"Dr. Zhang, what, what other secrets are you hiding from me?"

Seeing Zhang Rujing's unspeakable expression, Fang Chen said with a bit of laughter and tears.

"It's not that I'm hiding it from you. I've actually written a document and reported it to you, but you most likely won't read it."

Now that he has started, Zhang Rujing has become a lot more free and easy, and even dared to look at Fang Chen with a strange look after he finished speaking.

He has worked under Fang Chen for more than two years, and he really knows the temperament of Fang Chen, the big boss. Therefore, he can say with certainty that Fang Chen must not have read the documents he handed over.

"Really? Since I haven't seen it, it shouldn't be a big deal. And what does it have to do with the monitor I told you is too expensive?"

Fang Chen's old face blushed slightly, and then he quickly changed the topic.

As a boss, his subordinates had specially written documents and reports, but he had no impression at all and didn't even read them. This is really unjustifiable.

But when he thought about it, Fang Chen suddenly felt confident. He had no impression, which could only mean that what Zhang Rujing reported was a trivial matter. Otherwise, how could he not remember it.

After all, he still has this bit of professional ethics.

"For the company, this is indeed a small matter. I hesitated for a long time whether to invest or not. Finally, after thinking about it, I decided to invest. After all, the monitor is also an important part of Qingtian Computer.

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Zhang Rujing was just halfway through what he said when he was interrupted by Fang Chen: "You mean you invested in a display company?"

"That's pretty much what it means, but to be precise, it should be a picture tube company. About two or three months last year, I invested 50 million in a domestic picture tube company called Caihong Company and asked them to make CRT picture tubes for monitors.

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As he said this, Zhang Rujing glanced at Fang Chen with a guilty conscience. Seeing that Fang Chen didn't mean to blame him, he breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, it was a coincidence. He had no intention of investing in the picture tube company. He was the person in charge of this company. Ma Jinquan asked a friend to come to him and said that he hoped that Qingtian Computer would invest in it.

At that time, he was naturally very surprised, and then he got to know it after a little more understanding.

This picture tube company called Caihong Company is also an old state-owned enterprise and is already one of the top large companies in the field of picture tubes in China.

And I also accumulated some CRT picture tube technology before.

However, like most local state-owned enterprises, Rainbow Company is burdened with a huge burden, with old equipment, a large number of retirees, and even financial arrears in wages, retirement wages, and medical benefits for many employees.

There are countless suppliers who are in arrears with payments.

If it were defined solely in terms of assets, Rainbow Company would have been insolvent long ago.

There is no way, who told Caihong Company to mainly produce picture tubes for black and white TV sets.

Before the 1990s, when people still had a lot of demand for black and white TVs, the sales of Caihong Company's products were okay.

Even when certain TV sets were in short supply, the picture tubes they produced became hot commodities and required approval from superiors before they could be purchased.

However, with the advancement of television technology in the 1990s and the birth of a large number of color TVs, Caihong Company's life naturally became difficult.

It is not that Caihong Company has not carried out active self-rescue. They have raised a batch of technical transformation funds by requesting allocations from superiors and raising funds by employees themselves.

The production line that was originally used for black and white TVs was changed to a production line that can produce color TV display tubes, that is, CRT picture tubes, and a batch of CRT picture tubes were also produced.

Even the name was changed to Rainbow Company.

But the problem is, the CRT picture tube they produce is only 1 inch at most, so what can it be used for?

You know, what people usually call the size of a TV is actually the size of a CRT picture tube.

Or to put it simply, the CRT picture tube is actually the large cone-shaped piece behind the display screen. This is the most important technology in the TV. After all, except for the CRT picture tube, the rest is just some shells.

There are circuits and wires, and there is no technology to speak of.

So this means that the CRT picture tubes they produce can only produce 1-inch color TVs.

If we say 20 years ago, when color TVs just sprouted, there might still be users buying 1-inch color TVs. After all, black and white TVs have also been enlarged from 1-inch or even smaller sizes.

But in the mid-1990s, how could consumers still be willing to buy a 1-inch color TV?

They must find a way to develop a larger CRT picture tube.

But at this time, the R&D funds they had finally raised had been completely exhausted, and neither the superior departments nor Rainbow Company's own employees were able to raise any more funds for R&D.

Isn't this nonsense? I haven't seen a penny of my salary for more than half a year. My wife and children at home are starving to death. How is it possible to use money to buy CRT picture tubes?

For them, if they have this money, wouldn't it be a good idea to buy more noodles or pay the tuition fees their children owe?

Later, a friend of Ma Jinquan met a student of Ni Guangnan and knew that Ni Guangnan was making computers, so he got interested and found Zhang Rujing, hoping that Zhang Rujing could continue to invest money in Caihong Company so that Caihong Company could continue to develop CRT picture tubes.

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"After some investigation, I feel that although Caihong Company is not very technical, it is already an outstanding picture tube company in China. At least it can produce CRT picture tubes. In addition, I feel that their factory director is also relatively reliable.

Therefore, I approved 50 million funds to them and wrote a document to you as a report."

After saying this, Zhang Rujing looked at Fang Chen helplessly.

Logically speaking, as the president of Qingtian Computer, he only needs to sign for expenditures of less than 200 million to be spent. Afterwards, he only needs to write a document to the company and report the details. Only if it exceeds 200 million, Duan Yongping is required.

's signature.

In other words, Fang Chen should have known about this, but it was because of Fang Chen's laziness that he was like a thief.

"Isn't this great? It's like a pillow when you're dozing off!"

Unexpectedly, Zhang Rujing actually invested in a picture tube company by mistake, Fang Chen was immediately overjoyed.

Although there are still some technical gaps between monitors and TVs, just say that the current domestic 5-inch color TV only sells for more than 3,000 yuan, and you know how much profit margin there is for a Philips 15-inch monitor sold for 100 yuan.

And we also need to know that because of the backward technology of domestic picture tubes, basically all CRT picture tubes are imported from abroad, and then they add their own casing, and the circuit board and wiring are properly routed, and then they can be sold outside.

The cost is not qualitatively different from the cost of foreign color TV and display companies.

So calculated in this way, the import cost of a 5-inch CRT picture tube should be about 2,000 yuan.

After all, if the price exceeds 2,000 yuan, then these domestic color TV companies will lose money if they sell out for more than 3,000 yuan.

According to Fang Chen's understanding of those foreign companies, these people are not willing to sell this CRT picture tube at two or three times the local price. He wrote Fang backwards.

In other words, the normal selling price of a CRT picture tube in Europe and the United States is only seven to eight hundred yuan.

As for a 15-inch CRT picture tube, its area is probably not even half that of a 5-inch CRT picture tube, and its cost is only three to four hundred yuan. If other costs such as the casing are included, it is only five to six hundred yuan.

In other words, Philips, a bastard, sells a monitor that costs only 500 to 600 yuan in China and sells it to 100 yuan in China. It is really unreasonable!

There is no such thing as huge profits!

"These vampires!"

At this point, Fang Chen couldn't bear it anymore and cursed angrily.

Of course, he also knows that monitors and color TVs cannot be compared equally, and the price of monitors must be higher than that of color TVs.

After all, the screen resolution displayed by the monitor should be higher, and the light transmittance should be better.

But this still cannot be concealed. Philips sold the monitors at sky-high prices and made excessive profits.

Hearing Fang Chen's curse, Zhang Rujing and others couldn't help but sigh, and their expressions suddenly became complicated.

Until there are no domestic enterprises that can produce substitute products, any of these foreign products will be sold at sky-high prices in China and earn excess profits.

But...it doesn't matter!

The purpose of these Chinese scientific research and technical personnel, as well as the majority of practitioners, is not to catch up, use the hammer transformed from China's own products to smash these unreasonable foreign brands one by one, and drive them out of China!
To be continued...