Reborn 2005: The Internet Myth

Three days later, Angus, who was involved in the news incident, was acquitted and received a large amount of compensation.

But the biggest winner in this matter is not him, but Tik Tok.

People will subconsciously believe that the reason why Angus was able to escape this incident was ultimately because of public opinion.

So who conveys public opinion to the society? Of course it is Tik Tok.

After this news incident, Diane finally fully understood Wang Zheng's intentions. Like the old media, the new media also needs to guide and control public opinion.

However, the old media serves the administration, while the new media needs to hold high the banner of public opinion and serve the majority of users.

You want a good meal.

Her bachelor's degree in media was not earned for nothing.

Now that the company has a certain operational direction and goals, Wang Zheng doesn't need to worry much about the next development process. It's Dai An's turn to show her true value.

After several months of hard work, several Internet companies have developed well, and Wang Zheng has no intention of continuing to expand his business in the Internet business.

Due to the underdeveloped network infrastructure, there is no need to show some future business models so early.

The most important thing right now is that systems, hosts and cloud computing are all concentrated in Ultron, so Wang Zheng's office location has also been transferred back to Ultron.

The head of the host team, Mike Ravenroth, was hired from Apple with a high salary. He was previously responsible for the circuit design of a product called "G4 cube" at Apple.

The G4 cube is known as one of Apple's worst products, but it is also Wang Zheng's favorite Apple product.

A product designed in 2000, its appearance is still current even after more than 20 years. Wang Zheng later bought one and transformed the internal motherboard into a mini host.

But since this thing is one of the worst products, it must have big problems.

In order to pursue silence and size, Apple did not put a cooling fan inside. For the sake of appearance, it covered the outside with a transparent plastic shell.

This resulted in extremely poor heat dissipation capabilities. The CPU performance of IBM's powerPC architecture was also poor. Coupled with the price of $1,799 back then, this thing didn't sell much.

Therefore, less than a year after its launch, this product was completely discontinued.

After more than a month of preparation, the prototype of Ultron's first console has been built.

Consistent with Wang Zheng’s original idea, the host adopts a stacked design.

This host uses a 17*17 cm rounded square. This size is not very cost-sensitive. In addition to the motherboard, graphics card and power supply that need to be customized with the supplier, the memory, CPU, hard drive and other accessories all use common PC accessories.

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The purpose is to reduce R&D costs and complete machine costs. Wang Zheng doesn’t want to put a lot of effort into making a product only to have it fail to sell.

After many references for the CPU part of the computing unit, we finally decided to cooperate with Red Factory and use the Athlon dual-core series CPU, which is cheap and durable.

Moreover, Red Factory has now launched the long-lasting AM2 interface, which can also support the latest DDR2 generation memory and support dual channels, which will significantly improve performance.

There are two types of graphics card units, one N card and one A card. The A card uses the mid-to-low-end 1650XT, which is enough for playing ordinary games. The N card uses the higher-end 8600GT to enrich the product line.

In terms of the structural design of the host, communication between units uses an interface called PCI-E. This interface is currently a very popular motherboard interface, saving the trouble of redesign and research and development costs.

Moreover, this interface can transmit data and power at the same time, eliminating the trouble of power supply between units.

Through a special design, the PCIE interface on the unit is usually hidden. After stacking, press the buttons on both sides firmly to connect the two interfaces.

The stacking method uses a mortise and tenon structure, which is pulled out through slide rails and fixed through the PCIE interface. The structure is still very stable.

The prototype has now produced 8 types of units, which basically include all the functions of a complete host. When fully stacked, they can reach a total height of 30 centimeters, which looks a little strange.

However, the heat dissipation will be much better this way, and there is a high probability that not many people will pile up all the units. For example, the conference units specially designed for WeChat video conferencing will be useless for many players.

The most basic version has only two units: power supply and computing unit. Although the storage is only 80G, the cost can be reduced to 120 US dollars, which can be used as a computer with a relatively ordinary configuration.

Even if you add a mid-range A-factory graphics card, the total price does not exceed US$180.

The price is very competitive, and it has enough space to compete with Microsoft's $299 standard version of Xbox, and it absolutely crushes game consoles like Xbox in terms of performance.

After all, the ultimate goal of making a console is to promote the Ultron operating system, so it needs to be equipped with a more special BIOS to prevent users from reinstalling the win system after buying it back.

The reason why it is to prevent it a little instead of completely prohibiting it is that the situation is more complicated.

The main reference is Apple. Before 2006, Apple computers could not install the win system, and sales were actually quite average.

But after 2006, Apple officially provided tools to support the installation of win systems, and sales increased significantly.

Later, installing dual systems when buying an Apple computer was basically a basic operation.

The same situation applies to Ultron. If the win system is not allowed to be installed at all, sales will probably be quite miserable.

If the sales volume is poor, the system will be even more difficult to promote, which is very contradictory.

Restrictions are still required, but it can be revealed through unofficial channels that it can install the win system. When people hear this, they think, wow, a complete computer is so cheap, and it can also install the win system, so they buy it.

Only when sales increase can the operating system be promoted on a wider scale.

In fact, it is similar to what Microsoft did in Daxia, allowing individuals to use piracy to enhance their industry status, and then forcing governments and enterprises to pay.

Apple is very smart. Even if I want to install the win system after buying it, I have to do it in my system.

The steps are designed to be a little complicated. After installing the win system, users will basically understand how to use my system.

Whether you use it or not is a small matter, but whether you can use it or not is a big deal.

The more people use it, the more people will naturally use it, and only then can the system be developed.

After several days of aging of the copy machine, and some optimization and adjustment of functional chips, Wang Zheng finally made the decision to proceed with trial production.

As long as you have an idea, it's not difficult to develop and produce a product. The difficulty is selling it.

In fact, only the chassis structure, motherboard, power supply, graphics card and other accessories designed by Ultron itself are customized by domestic friends, while the CPU, memory and hard drive are generally licensed and can be purchased and assembled directly.

OEMs in the computer industry were already very developed at this time. For motherboards, there are Foxconn, Volkswagen and many other OEMs, providing one-stop services including design, production and OEM.

Graphics cards are produced by two first-tier manufacturers, Tongde and PCon. In recent years, the Tongde Five Tigers, Colorful Mingxuan, Onda, Yingtong and Shuangmin have dominated the graphics card industry, while PConon mainly supplies Sapphire and Zotac. work.

The first batch is just to test the waters, Wang Zheng doesn’t plan to do too much.

Just get 100,000 units first.