Currently, Wujiang Company has many projects underway simultaneously, and its budget is burning through cash at an alarming rate!
Wujiang Company is currently just a small company with sales of only a few hundred million RMB. It is really difficult for it to support such a large scale.
Developing semiconductor manufacturing equipment now would be virtually impossible.
Ni Annan is indeed a tech guru who is dedicated to chip development. He is busy recruiting people, investigating the status of various semiconductor industry chains in China, and leading the development of the "Loongson" CPU. He is so busy that he has no time to spare, but he enjoys it.
It was tough on Zhao Ye, as Ni Annan would frequently come to him, either asking for money to buy equipment or urging him to participate in the design of Loongson chips. This was because Zhao Ye had put forward many feasibility analyses, such as architecture exploration, circuit design and layout, which always amazed Ni Annan.
It's a bit unbelievable that someone who's only in their early twenties knows so much.
But that is indeed the case; Zhao Ye is a super genius in everyone's eyes.
However, Zhao Ye still needs to find ways to raise money, otherwise much of his research will be impossible to continue.
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By the end of December 1984, the factory was working overtime to produce 100,000 digital pagers, and the warehouse was already stockpiled.
Therefore, Zhao Ye decided to hold a product launch conference on January 1, 1985, to officially launch the digital pager.
The last press conference held by Wujiang Company was very impressive.
Therefore, this press conference attracted a lot of attention from the media and people in the electronics industry, and it was truly a highly anticipated event.
The night before the press conference, Zhao Ye and others tested the digital pager once again.
Zhao Ye picked up the phone and dialed 126 paging service.
The 126 paging station was recently established and is jointly invested by the Capital Wireless Communications Bureau and Wujiang Company, with Wujiang Company holding 49% of the shares.
Running a paging service is actually quite profitable; the monthly service fees paid by pager users are not a small sum. However, Wujiang Company's main purpose was not this, but to sell pagers.
Pagers are more profitable.
How high is it?
It sells for 2500 yuan, but costs less than 500 yuan.
The profit is four times the cost, such exorbitant profits!
That's so ruthless! Capitalists would weep, Jews would be heartbroken, and even Japanese zaibatsu would feel guilty!
"Boss, the test is all normal. My pager received a digital message—8848." Secretary Liu Yinyin looked at the pink pager in her hand and said to Zhao Ye.
Zhao Ye nodded in satisfaction upon hearing this.
He just called 126 paging service and told the paging staff the pager number he needed to contact.
The staff entered the information Zhao Ye provided into the computer and then sent it to Liu Yinyin's pager;
Liu Yinyin's pager quickly received the message, and she could then go to a nearby phone booth to call Zhao Ye back.
This was just a test, so Zhao Ye didn't ask the other party to call back; he simply sent 8848.
8848, the height of Mount Everest, symbolizes the Imagine-Pager's ultimate achievement, making it the undisputed leader in the pager market!
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January 1, 1985, 11:00 AM.
The Wujiang press conference officially began, and Zhao Ye stepped onto the stage, instantly drawing everyone's attention to him.
Today, Zhao Ye was dressed in a suit and tie, looking elegant and exceptionally handsome.
"Hello everyone, welcome to Wujiang Company's product launch event. I am Zhao Ye, the boss of Wujiang Company!"
"Today, I'm going to introduce a product to you."
In 1955, Motorola developed a new wireless communication product that could transmit wireless signals to a designated person. This product was the small wireless receiver for the pager. Later, with the development of technology, Motorola developed a small and lightweight pager, a little black box called 'beeper', which was later simply called 'BP machine' or 'BB machine'.
"In 1983, pagers began to enter China. However, at that time, pagers were relatively backward. They could only passively receive a message that someone had called. If you wanted to find out who the caller was, you had to call the paging station and then get the caller's phone number, which was very troublesome!"
As Zhao Ye spoke, he pulled a black digital pager out of his pocket.
"But things are different now. Our company, Wujiang, has developed a more advanced digital pager, like the one I'm holding here. It's small and compact; you can wear it on your waist or put it in your pocket. The difference between this digital pager and an analog pager is that it can receive numbers. Simply put, the digital pager can directly display the caller's phone number. This way, you no longer need to dial a paging center to ask for the other party's number; you can just take the pager to a phone booth and contact the other party."
Zhao Ye paused for a moment, glanced at everyone, and asked with a smile, "So, isn't this kind of digital pager very convenient?"
"convenient!!!"
The audience immediately responded in unison.
Some people are hearing about pagers for the first time, while many others have had experience with them before.
Regardless of the reason, they were all greatly surprised after hearing Zhao Ye's explanation.
"With a pager like this on my person, people can contact me anytime!" one guest remarked.
“I saw someone using an analog pager in Shanghai, and it was very cumbersome to use. It’s nothing compared to the digital pager developed by Wujiang Company. This digital pager is so convenient. If it’s cheap, I’d be willing to buy one…” A reporter looked at the pager in Zhao Ye’s hand with unusually eager eyes.
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