While Guan Fei was hosting the OEM negotiation meeting, some counterfeit manufacturers in Tokyo were trying to dismantle and analyze "Space Invaders" in order to replicate, just like their Hong Kong counterparts.

There is no way, money is moving!

"Space Invaders" is priced at 98,000 Hong Kong dollars, or 405,000 yen. However, after being shipped to Japan and adding 4.7% of the tariff, the price reached 4.24 million yen.

In this way, Tokyo Trading also said that they actually suffered a loss.

Because Taiyu Technology has not yet calculated the shipping costs, land transportation costs, dock loading and unloading costs, warehousing costs, and the agency's profit commission. In fact, although the price of "Space Invader" in Japan is higher than that of Hong Kong, the profit has been reduced by a large part, and each unit has lost at least nearly 100,000 yen.

This kind of weird logic can only be accepted by various buyers with a smile.

Why?

Because they are exclusive business, don’t buy it if you think it’s expensive, and the people who are rushing to buy it are lined up!

Whether it was news from Yamada or Tokyo Trading insiders, they confirmed that they had signed orders in the past two days, and their expressions were dull when they received advance payments.

I heard that in two days, the number of orders that had paid the advance payment exceeded 9,000 units, and this number was still increasing. Seeing the money-grabbing income of the arcade hall, and seeing that other companies who paid the advance payment had started to rent the venue and were about to open it, many merchants who wanted to wait and see couldn't help it, so they opened their wallets and frantically transferred money to Tokyo Trading's account.

This is just a part of the Tokyo Metropolitan area!

This cake is so big that some old game console manufacturers can't help but want to grab it and take a bite!

At the rate of this trend spread, this game is afraid that it will not be sold for hundreds of thousands of units! (Historical facts: more than 500,000 units, genuine and pirated versions each account for half) The total revenue will reach hundreds of billions of yen. If the arcade hall operating income is included, the income of related industries will exceed 200 billion yen.

Damn, I'm not afraid of dying!

Countless Japanese manufacturers' eyes were filled with blood, trying their best to crack the "Space Invaders" arcade, preparing to launch their pirated arcade, and bite off a piece from this big pie.

Japan is a very fine nation.

They lack long-term and overall strategic high-lights, but they can always strive for excellence and do their best for what they are in front of them. This is something that many major countries that need to turn their attention to more areas and are distracted cannot do.

In the process of dismantling "Space Invaders", they did more meticulously and more careful than their Hong Kong colleagues. They did not disassemble the machine immediately at the beginning, but took photos first, with strict photos on the front, side, back, and even the top cover.

Then there is measurement, measuring each specific data, length, width, height, and even how thick the board is, and the materials used are all recorded and analyzed. There are also technical personnel who conduct detailed arguments and write a thick stack of technical reports.

In this process, they gained more than their Hong Kong counterparts.

"Taiyu Technology is a large company with strong strength. They are definitely not the small factory with hundreds of people on the surface. There must be a very strong technical team behind it to support it! The scope it covers is not only the electronics industry, but also the humanities fields such as ergonomics and psychology."

Many technicians in companies have similar comments in their reports submitted to the above.

The cracking work was very slow, but it went smoothly. Each part was numbered in sequence and removed and carefully placed aside. The drawn drawings were immediately handed over to the factory to make imitations.

After the circuit board was photographed, the circuit diagram was drawn and the various component parameters and models were determined repeatedly. Only then did the technicians dismantle the components.

When they saw this circuit board, during the surveying and mapping process, technicians also simulated and analyzed the circuit diagrams under habit. They were shocked to find that although they claimed to be masters, they were a little awe in the face of this circuit board.

Too perfect!

Whether it is the circuit layout, wiring, or component arrangement, they have reached the theoretical limits they believe, and can be said to be a perfect work. If the above requires them to redesign the circuit diagram to avoid copyright disputes, they will not find a place to modify. If they really want to modify it, it will inevitably weaken the electrical indicators, which is undoubtedly!

All they can do is to plagiarize completely, and there is no way to change it at all!

This made them extremely frustrated.

But no matter how frustrated you are, you can only continue to do it. What the company wants is profit. Under the temptation of sufficient profits, they can ignore the law and abandon morality. Whether it is a special pirate or a genuine arcade operator, they are doing the same thing at this moment.

"Let's start!"

A technical supervisor wearing a suit said to his subordinates in a technical department of Hong Kong Qingyue Entertainment Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd. in a clean laboratory.

"Hi! Then I'll start!"

The technician inserts the memory into the reader and writer, which is more precise and reliable than similar products on the market.

Power on to read data.

puff!

Blue smoke rose and the chip burned out.

"Nani?"

The technician screamed, and Xunji realized more quickly than his Hong Kong colleagues: "This chip has been encrypted!"

European and American manufacturers attach great importance to intellectual property rights, but they also know that as long as there are sufficient interests, even a guillotine cannot prevent people from trying to seize benefits that are not allowed by the law. In order to protect their own interests, a protracted war between piracy and anti-pirated versions has begun.

The data chips they produce have been added with corresponding encryption devices.

A data chip usually contains two parts: the control system and the data storage system. The former is the outline, which determines the conventional settings such as data reading method, current size, data interpretation, etc., and there is also an encryption setting.

After the chip is encrypted, you must have a key to read the data. If there is no key or the key is incorrect, the chip will load a special fuse at a high voltage and fuse the circuit. Once the fuse is broken, the data reader and writer will no longer be able to extract data from it.

It would be fine if this is the case, because the chip is always mass-produced and its key storage area is also fixed. As long as there is a means to block or erase the data in this area, the blow-off fuse program will not start again.

However, technicians found that this is the latest memory chip newly launched in the United States. Its circuit technical data has not been cracked yet, so the specific storage area of ​​its key is not clear. To understand the storage area, you need to wear through the chip shell, observe its internal circuit through an electron microscope, and then analyze it before you can locate it.

Baga!

If you have this free time, what keys can you crack? Isn’t it faster to directly analyze data based on the exposed circuit?

The technicians were a little confused.

To be honest, Japan's electronic reverse engineering capabilities are not strong, at least not as strong as the United States, China and the Soviet Union.

The three major countries each occupy a corner, and are hostile to each other and blockade. In order to understand the current situation of their opponents' technological development, the design ideas of some high-end and sophisticated chips, the three major countries have invested huge manpower and material resources to conduct reverse engineering research.

But Japan is different.

In order to support it in confrontation with the Soviet Union, the United States gave it the greatest cheaper. As long as it is not military technology, any civilian technology, including the most cutting-edge chip manufacturing technology, Japan can easily introduce it from the world, and they can buy any high-end and sophisticated equipment.

If you have the original drawings, who is going to do reverse engineering? Isn’t this fart when taking off your pants - is it unnecessary!

The technicians hired by various manufacturers are a little irritating.

After each company burned N data chips, they finally decided that they could not handle this thing themselves. Unless they uncovered the shell and observed it with an electron microscope, they would not be able to read the data in the chip.

The companies are both entangled and resentful.

The conscience of these bastards such as Taiyu Technology is really bad, making them unable to make decisions for a long time.

The first step in reverse engineering of the chip is to uncover the shell. This shell is very thin, and for heat dissipation, it is also glued to the core. If you are not careful during the uncovering process, the internal circuit will be damaged.

This is just the first step. You have to use an ion machine to remove the glue on the surface. This is a more subtle operation. It is not like polishing other things, and it will be done in a while. This process will be quite long. If you are not careful, it will also damage the kernel. All the previous work is in vain.

That's all, but there's more than one layer of chip!

The circuit comes layer by layer. If you grind off one layer, you have to see each subtle circuit clearly through an electron microscope, and then draw the circuit diagram by hand. Next, grind off another layer and do it again. This work can be said to be quite painful and the failure rate is quite high.

I need to analyze it after all!

During the chip production process, not all original devices and lines can be guaranteed to be successful, and there will always be defects and damaged parts. In order to ensure that the chip can be used, a certain amount of redundancy will be set.

After-the-fact analysis is to find unnecessary and unnecessary redundant circuits in the circuit, and finally analyze the correct circuit diagram.

OK, even if all this is done very smoothly, they still have to make a mask and open a film!

If this set is fast, it will be as fast as three months, and if it is slow, it will not be able to handle it for half a year.

"Space Invaders" is good, but no one knows how long its life span is. It's so popular in front of you, will it still be as popular in half a year?

What if they spend a huge price and finally take out their own arcades, what should they do if "Space Invaders" is no longer popular?

Hundreds of companies are suffering from the problem of whether to carry out reverse cracking.
Chapter completed!