Chapter 123: Winning Big with Small

To acquire the Falan Braunge electrical shopping mall in Falanxi, and dozens of Falanxi retail stores, the expected funds to be mobilized exceed 200 million US dollars!

Although this acquisition by Dongling High-Tech is being carried out under a mask, and a foundation has been established in Singapore and other places, even if the acquisition is successful, the name of Dongling High-Tech will not appear.

But such a large acquisition, the mobilization of funds cannot be hidden from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange. Previously, it was foreign companies acquiring domestic companies. When did domestic companies dare to reverse-acquire? This acquisition actually set a precedent for overseas acquisitions by domestic companies.

"The acquisition plan continues, and overseas sales channels must be built!"

Li Dongling said to Hu Zixian. Overseas sales channels are too important for Dongling High-Tech. If Dongling High-Tech wants to continue selling products overseas, this matter must be done.

"What about the technical department?!"

Li Dongling looked at Chen Tao. During this period, the entire Dongling High-Tech, including Li Dongling, was busy with the Shenzhou phone, but for the technical department and the joint laboratory, Li Dongling did not relax. He has been investing R&D funds, and the technical department is also the department with the fastest growth in personnel and scale in the entire Dongling High-Tech.

"The second-generation Silver Mink optical mouse is currently being tested. We plan to launch it into the market next spring!"

Chen Tao said. The optical mouse technical department has also been developing it for a long time. This optical mouse was also developed according to the drawings designed by Li Dongling.

The drawings Li Dongling gave to the mouse project team of the technical department were designed according to the classic Microsoft IE3 in the mouse industry. This is one of the most durable products in the history of the mouse industry. Even after it was discontinued, it still made countless people miss it, and even the developers could not replicate it.

Li Dongling hopes to open up the overseas market with the second-generation Silver Mink mouse. The first-generation mechanical mouse, although praised, earned patent licensing fees from manufacturers like Microsoft and Logitech, but it could not open up the overseas market.

"The new generation of Silver Mink mouse needs to cooperate with computer manufacturers like IBM, Dai Er, HP, Compaq, and Apple. If necessary, we can put their labels on the mouse!" Li Dongling said to everyone in the office.

For big-brand computers, the mouse is shipped with the computer as an accessory. Users buying a mouse separately has not yet become mainstream. Putting the labels of those computer brands on the Silver Mink mouse can increase sales by a large margin. Making money is not shameful; didn't Logitech come over like this too!

"Besides the mouse, Dongling High-Tech needs to develop more computer peripheral products. Within three years, launch Dongling High-Tech's own brand of computers!"

Facing Ren Yuefeng, Hu Zixian, Chen Tao, and other insiders, Li Dongling did not cover up and said it directly. Dongling High-Tech must first become the king of computer peripherals, get the mouse, keyboard, camera, motherboard, chip, screen, etc., out, and then launch its own brand of computers.

"I hope that Dongling High-Tech's first computer will be a laptop computer, and it can become the best-performing laptop computer in history!"

Li Dongling said to everyone with a smile. Desktop computers are now fighting very fiercely. In a few years, it will be even more bloody. And laptop computers will usher in an epic explosion, especially Dai Er, which relied on the latter to achieve a sudden emergence.

Laptop computers are the best opportunity for Dongling High-Tech to enter the computer industry, and the profit is far higher than that of desktop computers. After standing firm in this industry, then kill toward desktop computers. Blindly following behind companies like IBM, Compaq, and Dai Er will not get any advantage. Don't you see that IBM computers are almost playing themselves to death!

"Manager Chen, in the future, the mouse project department will be reorganized into the computer equipment department, and the Shenzhou project department will be reorganized into the communication equipment department. The computer equipment department will not only develop the mouse in the future, but also enter other computer equipment fields such as keyboards, cameras, and headphones!"

Li Dongling said to Chen Tao. Now the stall is gradually being laid out, and the Dongling High-Tech technical department also needs to be reorganized. Besides these two R&D departments, in the future, the technical department will also establish a software development department, etc.

"The computer equipment department, besides launching the second-generation Silver Mink mouse, will also start developing keyboards and cameras next year!"

"Next year," Li Dongling said this to Chen Tao, and also told Ren Yuefeng, Hu Zixian, and others, "Dongling High-Tech will launch two most important new products, the U-disk and the Xiaolingtong!"

"U-disk?!"

Chen Tao asked first. He is the person most obsessed with technology. Hearing this product he had never heard of, how could he not be curious.

In fact, since coming to Dongling High-Tech, Chen Tao has been surprised more than once. When Chen Tao was at Hanxi Jiaoda, he was also called a genius. Although he had never admitted it himself, he was also quite proud.

But after coming to Dongling High-Tech, the R&D of products like the Silver Mink mouse, electronic pet machine, and Shenzhou digital cordless phone made Chen Tao start to doubt the word genius. At least compared to Li Dongling, he could not feel the gold content of the word genius at all.

Are there difficulties in the technology of these products like the Silver Mink mouse, electronic pet machine, and Shenzhou digital cordless phone? Although it is said that there are, it is by no means technology that has deviated from this era. But before Li Dongling proposed it, and before Dongling High-Tech developed it, no one had come up with it. This is actually leading the tech trend!

Compared to a group of domestic companies, what is the biggest difference of Dongling High-Tech? It is not the so-called management system, or the slogans being shouted differently, nor is it the different goals and concepts. The biggest difference is that Dongling High-Tech did not follow behind those foreign giant companies to dig for food and eat leftovers, but walked out of a path of its own!

No one knows what this path will become, but currently, Dongling High-Tech is still walking on this road. Looking at the global tech giant companies in the past 20 years, most have things they are proud of. I have never heard that following behind others can make one a giant.

Li Dongling handed several documents to Chen Tao, Ren Yuefeng, and others, "The U-disk can help Dongling High-Tech establish its status and importance in the computer industry. If the R&D is successful, Dongling High-Tech has hope to use this product to join hands with companies like Microsoft, Apple, Dai Er, and IBM to establish the USB alliance and determine the port standards for mice, keyboards, computers, printers, game joysticks, modems, and audio equipment!"

"If it can succeed, the USB alliance will become the first industry standard proposed and established by China in the computer industry!"

"And the U-disk will also become the first original product invented by Chinese people within 30 years of the appearance of computers!"

Now in the computer industry, there is no standard. Every computer manufacturer, printer, and scanner manufacturer has its own port standard. Wanting a computer to connect to all printers, scanners, and various mechanical equipment is basically dreaming. Only the appearance of the USB alliance changed all this.

Relying on Dongling High-Tech to establish the USB alliance is definitely unreliable and unrealistic, but it does not hinder Dongling High-Tech from proposing this concept and then pulling giants like Microsoft and IBM to join. Especially Microsoft, Bill Gates cares a lot about fame and fortune now. He definitely doesn't lack money, but he cares a lot about fame.

Forming the USB alliance, solving a difficult problem for countless companies and users around the world, and becoming the leader in the tech industry—Li Dongling does not believe Bill Gates can hold back. This is an opportunity to leave a name in history. Not to mention him, how many people like the presidents of Intel and IBM can hold back?!

Every time Li Dongling finished a sentence, the breathing of Chen Tao, Ren Yuefeng, and others became heavier. Chinese people establishing the global standard for the computer industry, the first computer patent product developed by Chinese people?!

Not to mention doing both, even if only one is done, it will leave a heavy stroke in the domestic tech industry. Now the country is not only individuals seeking social identity, even the country is seeking international identity.

This is an era extremely lacking in self-confidence. If one can really establish a global industry standard, even if it is just a nomination, as long as one becomes one of the initiators, the prestige and influence in the country will have a huge impact.

In order to promote the USB alliance standard, this standard and technology will be free, but this does not mean it has no influence. Standards can be changed. Whoever masters the standard masters the entire industry, and it can also be used to strike at opponents!

Chen Tao looked at the document in his hand. The U-disk is a product that integrates storage and flash memory technology, does not require a drive, and is plug-and-play.

Looking at this document in his hand, the more Chen Tao looked, the brighter his eyes became. Ren Yuefeng saw Chen Tao's expression and immediately understood that this matter probably had a chance, "Can the U-disk be developed?!"

Chen Tao closed his eyes and recalled all the documents Li Dongling gave him, "Yes!"

"Li Zong... really is," Chen Tao tried to suppress his excitement, "This is absolutely a genius idea. The technical difficulty is not great. The interface technology has long been mature, and flash memory technology also exists. It only needs a set of control programs to be developed. It just needs some optimization in technology, such as developing U-disks with larger storage, security optimization, and data not being lost after power failure, etc. The U-disk can absolutely be developed!"

"Floppy disks and optical discs will all be replaced by it!" Chen Tao said firmly. As a technical person, he knew too well how much effect the U-disk would have after it was developed. Wherever there is a computer, there will be its figure. Even its sales volume might exceed that of computers in some periods.

Hearing Chen Tao's words, Ren Yuefeng, Hu Zixian, and others were also very surprised. If it is really as Chen Tao said, then the U-disk will become one of Dongling High-Tech's new hit products next year!

If the U-disk is developed, then Chen Tao, Ren Yuefeng, and they feel that joining hands with Microsoft and other companies to launch the USB standard and alliance might really have a chance!

Sorry, the update is late. I had something to deal with at home this morning.

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