After Gu Ao left the United States and returned to China for the Christmas season and the New Year, the bloody storm in Silicon Valley finally calmed down a little.

Perhaps it was because the circle realized that Gu Ao was not getting close to the top leaders of the United States who were about to go up, but instead drew a clear line. Apple has also pulled back some declines in judicial aspects, and the application of injunctions in the lawsuit and the like is easier.

In addition, Tiankun Entertainment cannot really produce nearly 4 million units per month and keeps storing the inventory of PS game consoles. At this production speed, Han Ting's Han Le Electronics can produce at least 40 million PS a year, and it is very good that the market can digest more than 20 million units throughout the year. Unsalable sales will lead to the collapse of the capital chain.

After all, the hardware cost of 18 million gaming machines will be as much as US$4.5 billion. Which Asian foreign bank can give Tiankun so much low-interest loan turnover?

The inventory is under five million units, and the funds of one billion US dollars are around the limit, which is Tiankun's limit. After Gu Ao returned to China, he also had a lot of investments to do in the future, which all involved the pressure on the capital side.

Based on various reasons, after the Christmas holiday, Apple finally got the support of Xiangji Electric: Xiangji Electric officially stated that seasonal production capacity has passed and it has resumed supply of Apple's Motorola 68000 CPU.

In addition, production trial flow and logistics distribution will be available. Apple will start official sales as early as the end of January and early February. If you are a little anxious, you can also consume the hardcore fans of old customers and make pre-sales.

The launch cycle of MAC-II computers finally made it difficult to get on the road after being dragged down for five months.

Unfortunately, as of December, Wang'an's WPS computers have shipped 850,000 units worldwide. If January is included, the cumulative shipment can hit the 1 million mark. Apple is equivalent to a product with the same sales point positioning of its competitors. After selling the blank market of 1 million, it stumbled into the market.

The apples were up and down, and they were filled with a grievance.

The outside world is having a Christmas holiday. The senior executives in Cupertino's Apple headquarters are still shrouded in the bleakness of fire fighting and leaking and summarizing lessons, and no one is on vacation.

Although Jobs, even his confidant CTO, was not held accountable at the internal accountability meeting in September, he also supported the importance of "technical route inheritance". However, the subsequent delay in supply chains was much beyond their expectations.

Therefore, the tone of "there were decision-making mistakes when the project was established in the early stage and the supply chain risks were not fully estimated" was set within the board of directors.

Two days after Christmas, on December 27, after completely solving the progress of the supply chain schedule, Apple urgently held a board of directors and announced the removal of current CTO Nicholas Bellemy. As for the founder and CEO Jobs, at least it was not transferred because the foreign enemy did not leave. However, the board of directors also installed a CFO who was originally the spokesperson of the capital and promoted it to COO on the spot, that is, the chief operating officer.

At the same time, the management licensing rights of the chief operating officer were strengthened.

In many companies, if the CEO is not strong enough or wants to suppress the CEO's jurisdiction, it is most likely the first choice to create a strong COO. For example, in later generations, FACEBOOK, is because Zuckerberg is not a good man and has no strong work and is young and has no experience in mediating, so he needs a strong COO like Shirley Sandberg, which has a wider COO license than the ordinary company.

Apple is obviously facing this problem today.

As for the vacancies that arise after the CFO is transferred to COO on the spot, the investor will fill in another person to be CFO.

Apple is gradually changing from a strong innovation company to a more cautious and strong financial company.

This is also a matter of no way. Any failure of innovation, with a responsible attitude towards investors, will make a company slightly tilt from innovation-oriented to cost-oriented.

The company's values ​​are accumulated slowly.

After changing COO and CTO, Apple also sorted out the development route of subsequent products at this emergency meeting.

The final decision is to completely abandon Motorola-based CPU chips in the next generation of products and must switch to a brand with a completely independent supply chain, with production capacity and rhythm not affected by Gu Ao.

However, Intel has been tied to death by Microsoft, and Motorola cannot be used, so the spare tire in the third place seems to be even worse.

But what can I do? I have to use it even if I am inferior.

In any case, Apple has accumulated experience in the application of the Motorola 68000 CPU instruction set since 1984. It is considered a waste. Coders and architects who write the underlying architecture of the system from top to bottom have to face a considerable re-learning.

Although they didn't know that their arch-rival company, Wang An, actually had to learn again, but the pace could slow down for three or four years - because Gu Ao would use Motorola's CPU at most to use the next generation. In the future, he would have to abandon Motorola.

Motorola was able to barely compete with Intel in the chip field and stayed in the first echelon, that is, from 1994 to 1995, before the Iridium plan failed. After the Iridium plan failed, Motorola completely contracted, and all side businesses such as CPUs were shrunk and could not recover.

Whether IBM or Motorola, they are just stepping stones for Gu Ao. In the future, only Wang An will benefit, and the other two will accompany the prince to study. (In fact, after Apple is replaced by Wang An, it should be called WIM Alliance).

"Gu Ao, this wave is just a loss of sales of millions. I, Jobs, will sooner or later find the place! Although the sales of millions are a bit damaging, it still cannot defeat the glorious Apple! See you in the next generation of products in four years!"

After Apple's board of directors was held, Jobs secretly cursed in his heart.

In the technology industry, the characteristics of each generation of products are very obvious. As long as the next generation of products are not good, it is very likely that they will be turned back by their opponents.

Atari's country is just a matter of one change?

Faced with adversity, Jobs could only imply himself in this way.

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Compared to Apple and Jobs in the tragic wind and rain, Gu Ao was much more energetic, and he returned home in glory.

When he returned from the United States, he took the lead in lingering in Tokyo for several days.

When holding an annual meeting with Wang An Computer and Tiankun, Gu Ao listed so many hardware and material basic investments that must be made for laptops and portable game consoles.

After returning, he carefully sorted out and asked his subordinates to conduct a feasibility analysis, Gu Ao felt that the stall should not be too large, and he should have key points and favorable points.

The bigger the stall, the greater the risk. You cannot lose your awe just because you travel through time and feel that you can do everything. Then something will definitely happen.

The key is to use people and resources.

After some sorting, Gu Ao felt that Chinese people could invest their resources to overcome difficulties in the future, such as LCD and even LED.

First of all, Japan is currently transferring industries to the outside world. Historically, Samsung has been intercepted by Nanbaung’s Samsung. In the mid-to-late 1990s and the first five or six years of the early 21st century, Samsung has maintained its world leading position.

The Chinese, historically, were BOE, after Samsung, and further overtook the advantages of the next generation of technology.

From this perspective, this thing is mainly done by funding and research and development, and it is only possible to be done in the long run. In history, the Chinese have done it, and Gu Ao's risk of entering catalysis is also smaller.

The reason why Gu Ao knows this clearly is because he is lucky. When he was taking the subway to and from work in his previous life, on the main program "Logic Thinking" on Fatty Luo's "Get APP", the main program "Logic Thinking" happened to talk about a special topic "Link Crystal Performing Arts" that lasted for seven consecutive episodes. As an IT person, it's really hard not to hear it.

Who made Gu Ao be a person who loved to learn for life in his previous life? After traveling through time, he knew more and at least had a broader understanding, which was his deserving advantage.

However, another major material bottleneck required by laptops and new portable gaming machines is the repeated charging and discharging lithium battery technology. This thing is more difficult for Chinese people to intervene.

A single-use metal lithium battery has been available decades ago, so it is not valuable. Over the years, the key to the development of lithium batteries is the number of rechargeable charge and discharge times, charging speed, and power storage maintenance rate.

Therefore, the key lies not in the lithium ion solution, but in the research and development of electrode materials.

At present, the consensus reached in the industry is that the negative electrode of lithium batteries is solved by graphite materials, and the key lies in the positive electrode material with a more sufficient release rate and a fast positive electrode material.

Since 1982, there have been many solutions such as lithium cobalt oxide and lithium manganate, and the crystal structure of lithium cobalt oxide lithium manganate is also given priority.

In general, lithium manganate charge and discharge speed is faster, but the chemical stability is poor, that is, the charge and discharge times are relatively small, so the electrode lattice and ionic liquid begin to denaturate, and the lifespan is very short.

Lithium cobalt oxide can be charged and discharged thousands of times, and the energy density is also stable, which is the low lattice embedding release rate, and the slow charging and discharge speed when speaking humans - these are all existing industry information, and Gu Ao must not remember it before traveling through time, but he asked his assistant to look for the cutting-edge literature in the relevant industry and you will know it.

Judging from the current industry efforts, Gu Ao estimated that the lithium cobalt oxide route should win the first in the future - because he remembered that in the late 1990s, when he first came into contact with lithium rechargeable battery products, it seemed that most of the products had to be charged for a long time, laptops and mobile phones often charge for seven or eight hours, or even for more than ten hours for the first time.

This is obviously the characteristic of lithium cobalt oxide.

If lithium manganate won historically, the products people use would not be like this.

Then, according to public information, Gu Ao asked his assistant to investigate the major industry giants currently working on the lithium cobalt oxide route.

I found out that it was his old friend, and Sony was focusing on the lithium cobalt oxide. None of the other companies in the world have done this yet.

In fact, in 1992, Sony launched the world's first lithium cobalt oxide battery that can be charged and discharged 1,000 times, and used it on many portable devices and has a performance far exceeding other routes during the same period.

Then what else is there to say?

Gu Ao felt that he just needed to take Sony's ride first, invest some money in Sony's projects directly, increase confidence, and make Sony believe, "Don't worry about other people's lithium manganese oxide competition, just focus on the path of lithium cobalt oxide and go to the dark, and just work hard to do experiments."

Sony is probably willing to accept Gu Ao's resource investment and jointly develop it. Because whether it is Morita Akio or Oga Nobuo, they are sure to be unsure at the moment. They don't know which direction of lithium cobalt oxide or lithium manganese oxide can win.

Gu Aoyan has a clear concession on specific technical routes to share experimental funds in exchange for some of the technical and patent benefits that will be successful in the future, and Sony can also reduce risks.
Chapter completed!