A weight has finally been lifted from my heart.

After the core is developed, a dedicated socket, motherboard, memory, power manager, and other components need to be designed for it.

It's not like this thing can be used right out of the box. It needs to go through continuous testing and finalization before mass production can begin, and this process takes time.

After celebrating with the key members of the lithography machine team, Xing Baohua immediately plunged into the laboratory to begin developing the performance of graphics cards.

This graphics card was originally designed for graphics processing. It was intended to be sold to Mr. Qiao, but unfortunately, this madman didn't recognize its value. Otherwise, given Apple's R&D and production capabilities, this thing would have been on the market long ago.

The BigFruit system is a view processor. In addition to CPU resource allocation, it also has a thing called a graphics adapter as a transitional product.

Xing Baohua's model was based on the graphics processor found in early knock-off phones.

It can be described as a product of the fast-paced era, but it doesn't require high technology.

The advantages of this graphics card can only be fully appreciated when paired with a high-definition monitor.

The motherboard for the graphics card uses four 256K memory chips made by Samsung, achieving 1MB of video memory.

A performance monster. Of course, this kind of card is not made for ordinary users, but for specific users, hence the price.

Unfortunately, Xing Baohua didn't have any 486 chips. Not even engineering-grade chips.

Otherwise, you could try 64-bit performance processing.

Xing Baohua decided that once he developed the finished graphics card, he would personally take the equipment to Grandpa Qiao and throw it in the old man's face.

Let you be arrogant. If you had sold it back then and paid me, Xing Baohua would have had at least a year less of hard work.

However, we also have to thank Uncle Qiao. If it weren't for him, Xing Baohua wouldn't have spent so much money to develop a lithography machine. Do you know how difficult it is to make such a thing?

For the sake of our ancestors, we had to build a power station and coordinate electricity usage.

We still need to poach talent.

Now it's even harder to poach architects. Is it easy?

I really want to grab Grandpa Qiao by the neck and yell at him, "Do you know how hard it is for me?!"

It's really not easy. This is still after the graphics core has been taped out, and it hasn't been mass-produced yet. Even after testing, there's no equipment to unleash the graphics card's true performance.

Most computer monitors nowadays are monochrome. If you want to support color... although color CRT TVs are the mainstream now, they can also be used on computers.

It's a bit hard on the eyes.

Furthermore, the refresh rate of a TV is different from that of a computer monitor. This is why you should keep your distance when watching TV, while you can get closer to a computer monitor.

In theory, existing TV manufacturers can produce monitors with high refresh rates, but Xing Baohua felt it wasn't a good idea.

Instead of wasting time on that, it would be better to focus on improving the LCD displays that are about to be produced, especially the colors.

It can be adjusted through circuits and chips.

Well, every step he takes is difficult; who told him to embark on this path of no return?

Xing Baohua is busy working on his graphics card project in the lab.

Since the 30 million yuan bonus was given to the lithography factory, it has greatly encouraged the R&D staff, who have rolled up their sleeves and worked hard.

At this point, money was no longer considered money, and they burned it like crazy!

In Xing Baohua's words, in addition to the imported equipment, all other old equipment was fully upgraded, and they also had to work overtime to manufacture Shenzhou-1.

Several hundred million yuan has been spent in just half a month, and we don't even know where it went.

When Xiaobomei brought the financial statements to Xing Baohua for his signature, Xing Baohua was so surprised that he was speechless.

Furthermore, he told Xing Baohua that if he didn't add more money, the national currency in his account wouldn't be enough to support the expenses of so many manufacturers.

There was no other way, so Xing Baohua called Huahong Bank to transfer funds to their side.

Suddenly it dawned on me that there's a department that hasn't paid back the money yet! It's been so long, I was so busy I forgot to follow up.

It's almost 1988, and they're forcing themselves to collect debts at the end of the year!

So Xing Baohua called Zhong Qiang again.

Listening to the dial tone, I patiently waited for Zhong Qiang to answer, but the other party refused to answer, and there was a rapid beeping sound on the phone.

At that time, there was no voice feedback or other way to tell if the other party was unavailable to answer the call; people relied on the beeping sounds from the phone to make their judgment.

Keep calling, or still refuse to answer.

Good grief, Xing Baohua got angry. He called someone from outside the office to help him make calls until the call was answered.

Half an hour later, the phone was finally answered, and the caller immediately said unhappily, "Who is it! Are you having a problem? Are you in a meeting? Why are you calling me over and over again?"

The person making the call ignored what the other person was saying and simply said that General Manager Xing was looking for him.

Xing Baohua picked up the phone and said to Zhong Qiang, "Manager Zhong, it's almost the end of the year, you should give us some money!"

Zhong Qiang, probably annoyed by Xing Baohua's repeated phone calls, said directly, "I don't owe you any money, go find the finance department!"

Before Xing Baohua could refute, he hung up the phone.

"Those who owe money are always the bosses, that's absolutely true. Just you wait, damn it," Xing Baohua muttered to himself.

He waved his hand, signaling the person making the call to leave. Xing Baohua pondered for a moment, then found a piece of paper with a phone number written on it.

This was left to him by Director Xue back in the Great America.

Having no other choice, I had to call this person. The call was answered quickly, but it wasn't Director Xue, of course.

Identity verification, waiting...

Xing Baohua doesn't have a dedicated line here. If I had known it would be this troublesome, I would have gone to Wei Laisong's office to make the call.

After waiting for about ten minutes, I was finally transferred to Director Xue's office.

Upon hearing the kind voice, Xing Baohua exchanged a few polite words with the other party.

"Director Xue, there's something I need to trouble you with."

"Speak!"

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