Chapter 579

"Netbook?"

Wu Haijun blinked. It was the first time he had heard of netbooks.

"What does a netbook do?"

"It's very simple. It's a notebook for surfing the Internet."

"What's the difference between that and a notebook?"

"Well... The difference is not very big, but netbooks focus on surfing the Internet."

Netbooks are also notebooks.

However, netbooks are not as powerful as laptops.

"I understand something."

It's a computer. Although it was the first time I saw this netbook, after thinking about it, Wu Haijun understood: "your netbook can only go online to play games, and other operations may have problems."

"Yes."

Chen Yu nodded and then added, "it's not a problem. It's mainly browsing the web and playing small games, but some large games can't play, because the performance can't keep up, but it's OK to use some office software."

"But why don't I buy a notebook?"

Wu Haijun asked again.

"Because we are cheap."

"The price of our netbooks can be half or even a third of that of ordinary laptops," Chen Yu said

"Let me see."

Wu Haijun feels that the concept of netbook is relatively new.

However, he still has some questions about whether this thing is popular in the market or not.

In theory, the performance of netbooks is naturally not as good as ordinary notebooks.

Similarly, if the performance is not comparable, the cost must not be higher than that of a notebook.

The cost is not high, and the final terminal price will be cheap.

But being cheap is one thing, and whether you can sell it is another.

Just like their Shenzhou computer.

Although their Shenzhou computers are very cheap, their performance is no worse than others.

Not only are they not worse than others, their performance is also better than others.

This is the advantage of Shenzhou.

But now it focuses on low-cost and low-performance netbooks, which seems to be the opposite of Shenzhou's strategy.

Most importantly, he was afraid that no one would buy such a notebook.

"Chen Yu, do you think anyone will buy such a notebook?"

"Of course, if it were me, I would buy it."

"Why?"

"One is because it's cheap. Anyway, I use the computer to play on the Internet and watch it again and again without anything else. Although this netbook can't meet all users, it can meet some users."

"That's true."

"In addition, our netbooks can be made smaller and lighter. Ordinary notebooks are generally about 2.5kg, and our netbooks can be less than 1.5kg or even 1kg."

"1kg?"

Wu Haijun touched his chin.

He took a book and weighed it in his hand.

This book is about two kilograms.

If a netbook weighs about the same as a book, or a little heavier, it's absolutely no problem.

"There is another one. We can not use the windows operating system."

"If you don't use the windows operating system, what system, Linux?"

"Yes, it's Linux. If you just go online and play games, there are a lot of Linux systems now."

"The main reason is that users are not used to it."

"Then find a Linux system that imitates windows."

In fact, many linux systems are imitating windows now.

But they didn't copy it completely, only partially.

But even if it is partial imitation, in fact, for many users, they are not used to too many operations.

Friends who have used linux system may know that when you look at it, you can hardly find the difference between it and windows.

Besides, if it is only for ordinary users, just chatting on the Internet and playing YY games, it will not have much impact.

Of course, this is why Chen Yu will cooperate with Shenzhou.

His purpose is to launch his own Linux operating system.

Netbook is the best platform to install Linux operating system.

In fact, in previous lives, many netbooks have installed the Linux operating system, and there are no problems with it.

"Chen Yu, wait, let me think again."

Before, if it was just cheap and light, Wu Haijun was only interested.

But now suddenly speaking of not using windows, Wu Haijun felt that it was a big business.

Of course, this does not mean that Wu Haijun wants to make an operating system.

He has no idea for the time being.

But he, who has always been a computer, knows that in fact, the price of Windows operating system is very expensive, generally hundreds.

Although many users install piracy privately now, they don't need money.

But Shenzhou has many computers that must be pre installed with Windows operating system. For example, they need to pre install computers in cooperation with major companies and government agencies. Such pre installed software is naturally impossible for them to install pirated software. If they install pirated software, Microsoft will find Shenzhou trouble every minute.

The more genuine they can be installed, the greater their cost.

But at this time, if you do not use the windows operating system and change to Linux, the cost will be greatly reduced.

Even if there are some commercial Linux, the price is far less than one tenth of windows.

In terms of cost, it will save a lot.

"Mr. Wu, how's it going?"

Seeing Wu Haijun's heart, Chen Yu asked with a smile.

"What do you say?"

"Don't hide it. In a word, do it or not?"

"Dry."

In a word, Huanyu technology reached a cooperation with Shenzhou computer.

However, after Chen Yu and Wu Haijun reached cooperation, Chen Yu did not stop.

Chen Yu doesn't just want to abandon the windows operating system. He also wants to abandon Intel's CPU.

In the field of PC, the strategic cooperation between Microsoft and Intel not only makes Microsoft's windows unify the world, but also makes Intel's CPU dominate the world. These two clearly know that as long as the two sides bind, they can get a steady stream of profits.

At first, Chen Yu just wanted to launch his own operating system.

But after thinking about netbooks, Chen Yu suddenly found that the other party's CPU Chen Yu could also break through the siege.

What Intel, what AMD, Chen Yu had no way to use their CPU before.

But now, Chen Yu has found a chance.

For example, there is an enterprise called Weisheng electronics, which also produces its own PC chips.

If we want to talk about Weisheng electronics, we have to talk about the history of Weisheng electronics.

In 1987, Chen Wenqi founded Weisheng electronics.

At that time, as a former employee of Intel, Chen Wenqi only made chipsets, that is, Nanqiao and Beiqiao chips, when he founded Weisheng electronics. Later, by chance, it acquired Cyrix, IDT... And other companies in 1998, which made via electronics become a supplier of all-round Internet system integration components. To put it simply, at this time, Weisheng electronics had more business than Intel and AMD.

They not only made their own chipsets, they also entered the field of CPU, and even made their own GPU.

At its peak, Weisheng electronics has more than 50% of the global chip market.

However, in the face of the rise of via electronics, Intel began to fight back.

They first sued Weisheng electronics for infringing their patents. This lawsuit has greatly damaged Weisheng's vitality. Up to now, the lawsuit has not ended and is still fighting. It was not until 2013 in the previous life that the two sides reached a settlement.

Then Intel blocked again and announced that as long as the motherboard manufacturers using Intel processors could not use via's chipsets, which forced via to make its own motherboard.

But this is more than that. What's more, in order to completely destroy via, Intel directly built the north bridge chipset into the CPU and no longer authorized it to a third party. So far, the via chipset business has completely collapsed.

However, this is also Chen Yu's opportunity.