Chapter 368: I Really Didn't Want to Cut Leeks

Although Dongling High-Tech has invested in quite a few companies, its product lines are mainly concentrated in the field of electronic products. The most profitable ones are products such as Silver Mink mice, Shenzhou digital cordless phones, Xiaolingtong mobile phones, and mini radios.

Now Dongling High-Tech's technical department, besides developing new technologies and researching new products, the most important thing is to carry out technical and product upgrades for these product lines.

After all, if you want users to pay willingly, then even if it is a product, you need to constantly upgrade and launch new products to attract more users to enter the pit.

Since its debut, Dongling High-Tech has released new products every year, and unlike other companies that follow behind foreign manufacturers to eat, Dongling High-Tech is creating new tracks by itself.

Li Dongling calculated that relying on the product lines of Dongling High-Tech and its subsidiaries now, living is definitely no problem, and even lying down can live very well.

But wanting to support Dongxin Semiconductor, which researches lithography machines and chips, Dongfang Optoelectronics, which researches LCD screens, Shenzhou Storage, which researches solid-state hard drives, as well as the Hanxi Joint Laboratory, the carbon fiber project with Guangwei, etc., is beyond its reach. These are all gold-swallowing beasts.

Li Dongling's pen paused heavily on the paper. Dongling High-Tech definitely still needs to research new products. It just depends on which field it is.

Mobile phones and computers are definitely the hottest and most "money" promising industries, but what kind of standard type of mobile phone to research has a lot to say!

Dongling High-Tech is now the leader in global PHS Xiaolingtong mobile phones. No one can deny this. Dongling High-Tech's technical department is also upgrading Xiaolingtong mobile phones, but in the future, Dongling High-Tech will not die on PHS technology. This point was determined long ago.

Dongling High-Tech's next mobile phone is definitely a 2G mobile phone. It just depends on whether it is a GSM or CDMA standard mobile phone.

Dongling High-Tech's technical department is now led by Technical Department Deputy General Manager

But now, in the second-generation communication field, the GSM standard led by Europe clearly occupies a much greater advantage, and GSM base stations are being built in full swing all over the world. In the 2G era, manufacturers like Ximen and Nokia, who hold GSM patents, clearly occupy the advantage.

If Dongling Gao Ke launches a mobile phone under the Shenzhou brand, it will most likely be a 2G GSM phone. However, given the state of domestic GSM base stations, many places have no signal at all, which means the Shenzhou 2G phone will likely have to go overseas again to battle with manufacturers like Nokia, Ericsson, Ximen, Alcatel, and Philips.

But CDMA cannot be abandoned either. In the 2G era, Dongling Gao Ke has no chance to become a major player, but in the 3G and 4G eras, there is an opportunity. Qualcomm's powerful supporters in America have made Qualcomm's CDMA the global standard for the 3G communication industry.

As long as they bet on CDMA, by the 3G era, Dongling Gao Ke will have the opportunity to sit at the table of the communication industry alongside Qualcomm!

Unlike the Little Smart phone, if they launch a Shenzhou GSM phone, they need to develop mobile phone chips and 2G phone functions, including web browsing, sending emails, taking photos, and other features, all of which require R&D, and all of which take time.

Starting the project now, if Dongling Gao Ke can develop a qualified 2G phone by the year after next, it would already be quite rapid.

The computer project is the same; if they aren't prepared for in-house R&D and only plan to buy components from overseas to assemble computers, then that is certainly 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 Gao Ke's own brand of computers, which also takes time.

Li Dongling frowned. When both mobile phones and computers require time, if Dongling Gao Ke wants to launch new products, they need to introduce other products to get through this gap period!

Li Dongling's pen tip rubbed against the paper for a long time. Recalling the popular products from these years in his past life, a few projects did cross Li Dongling's mind. With Dongling Gao Ke's current technical strength, they could indeed pull them off, but Li Dongling was somewhat hesitant about whether to do them.

The first to come to mind was naturally the DVD. As an upgraded product of the VCD, the DVD sold like crazy from the day it was born, not only domestically but also selling well overseas.

Dongling Gao Ke could certainly do it, but Japan was also developing DVDs and had already applied for a large number of patents. Dongling Gao Ke could enter the market, but battling with Japan and dealing with a crowd of domestic counterfeit DVD manufacturers made it hard to say how much profit could be made in the end.

However, Dongling Gao Ke could try to develop DVD decoding chips. In his past life, when a domestic DVD player was sold, it could only earn two yuan; most of the profit was taken away by Japanese manufacturers through DVD patents and components like decoding chips.

If Dongxin Semiconductor could develop a domestic DVD drive mechanism, it would not only bring new revenue to Dongxin Semiconductor but also disgust the Japanese manufacturers!

But if Dongling Gao Ke directly entered the DVD market, the fierce competition might mean that even Dongling Gao Ke wouldn't necessarily gain much advantage. Once the domestic industry really started to roll, it would truly be a fight to the death.

Li Dongling shook his head and still vetoed the idea of Dongling Gao Ke developing DVDs; letting Dongxin Semiconductor develop DVD decoding chips was enough.

Skipping the DVD project, in Li Dongling's mind, with Dongling Gao Ke's current technical level, there were only two projects left to enter, or rather, these two products, when they debuted back then, actually flew the same banner, but the users ended up misinterpreting the scripture...

The first was the repeater. As a first-generation learning aid, its appearance, like the appearance of the Subor learning machine, was pinned with high hopes by countless parents who counted on it to improve academic performance.

As for the effect, well, that was a matter of opinion. Some did indeed use it to improve their grades in English and other languages, and its recording function could also be used to practice speaking.

The item was indeed a good one, but while many people used it for learning, a considerable number of people used its tape-playing function to listen to and practice singing.

But the repeater did indeed shine brilliantly, walking into countless homes and campuses. Almost everyone in school had one, with annual shipments exceeding ten million units.

To a certain extent, the repeater acted as the personal stereo for the Chinese people. A Sony CD player cost several thousand yuan, while the most expensive repeater was only a few hundred yuan, perfectly replacing the other.

Before internet music and MP3s became mainstream, a product like a repeater that could play songs was, like the currently popular Feiyan mini radio, a rigid demand product for countless people's entertainment activities to a certain extent!

Developing the repeater, for Dongling Gao Ke, could increase revenue on one hand, and the sales volume brought by the repeater would allow Dongxin Semiconductor, Dongfang Optoelectronics, and Shenzhou Storage, which provided components for the repeater, to also ship products and earn R&D funds.

Just like the *Singer* variety show more than a decade later, under the operation of a certain television station, it frequently hit the trending searches, making the discussion of this variety show constantly increase and attracting countless eyes from the outside world.

After writing down "repeater," Li Dongling wrote the name of another product behind it. Its attributes were basically the same as the repeater, and it also belonged to the category of educational auxiliary products.

In his past life, this product also sold very well. Not only domestically, but it was also popular for a time in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, and Siam in the Asian region, selling like crazy.

For Dongling Gao Ke, this product, like the repeater, could also be used to increase revenue and allow Dongxin Semiconductor and others to ship chips and other products, and it was the electronic dictionary!

Electronic dictionaries were currently being developed in Japan, and similar products had appeared domestically, but the functions were very simple and there was no vocabulary database.

The electronic dictionaries that sold well domestically added storage, vocabulary databases, voice, business cards, calendar schedules, calculators, and alarm clocks. Of course, what made electronic dictionaries even more familiar were probably the games loaded on them, such as "Legend of the Hero," "Magic Tower," and "Demon Subduing Record."

There were even countless people who, for the sake of the games on them, taught themselves programming and entered the army of developer programmers from then on. Once you enter the world of martial arts, it's as deep as the sea...

Writing the two names, "repeater" and "electronic dictionary," on the paper, Li Dongling prepared these two products as the new product R&D projects for Dongling Gao Ke and Feiyan Technology for next year.

Among them, the electronic dictionary was prepared to go overseas. Japan, Korea, Singapore, Siam, and even India also had a demand for learning English and other languages. Dongling Gao Ke couldn't favor one over the other and certainly had to provide them with a learning environment, so they definitely had to sell the electronic dictionary there!

Dongling Gao Ke was doing this wholeheartedly for the public; to allow users to progress, they really didn't think about harvesting leeks!

(End of chapter)