Chapter Seven: The Tragedy of Wan Yan (Three More Requests for Recommendation)

"What? You're going to design an integrated circuit design software?"

Jia Guofang reached out and touched Wang Anran's head to make sure he didn't have a fever.

In Jia Guofang's view, Wang Anran's level is to write some small programs and large-scale comprehensive software, and I am afraid that I have never seen a few.

Wang Anran slapped Jia Guofang's hand away, oh my God, I'm afraid this hand just buckled his feet, and he smelled a strange smell from a distance.

"How bold a man is, how productive the land is, and what you haven't done, how do you know if you can do it? ”

"Okay, Anran, I can't hit you if you have this arrogance, but as a brother, I still remind you of two points, first, are you sure that your knowledge reserve can support this project?

Wang Anran nodded, the science student really got it, and these two points are to the point.

There is no problem with the knowledge reserve, but this code is not tens of thousands of lines.

"To implement basic functionality, code prediction starts with a million lines ......"

"Million Lines?...... With all the arguments, debugging, and testing, do you want to arrange all the work before the age of fifty?"

Just like a person, to build a high-rise building, the huge amount of work, just think about it is suffocating.

"If the software talents of the entire Qingda University or the entire Yanjing come to help build this high-rise building, it will be completed in two or three months at most. ”

"That's a good idea, but it's not so easy to organize this group of people, do you have an idea, say it, let's study it. ”

Wang Anran said with a smile: "That's to ask you for help, you are still the president of the C/C++ Language Salon Association, this matter is really indispensable for you." ”

Wang Anran's plan is very simple, divide the functions of the software into about 500 design tasks, and each design task stipulates the interface protocol and functional requirements of the program, and finally encapsulates them in a unified manner.

"Anran, I make two suggestions, first, at present, the entire Yanjing C/C++ language software enthusiasts, the level is high and low, I suggest that the corresponding technical exchanges are organized on a regular basis, and problems can be found in the writing process, which can be solved collectively, and second, I suggest that in addition to 500 design teams, 500 auxiliary verification and testing teams are also needed, otherwise such a huge software, just looking for a bug is a massive amount of engineering. ”

Wang Anran nodded, these two points are necessary, of course, through this software outsourcing, Wang Anran also has a purpose, that is, to find some excellent software talents, which is a very valuable asset in this era.

Jia Guofang seems to recognize a problem.

"Anran, why do you say so many people write software for you?"

Wang Anran raised a finger and shook it in front of Jia Guofang's eyes.

"What do you mean?"

"10,000 yuan, each design task book will give the team a reward of 10,000 yuan, a deadline of two months, require the team leader to sign a gambling agreement, and compensate 10,000 yuan if it is not completed, and if it is completed, it will be rewarded with 5,000 yuan on the 10,000 yuan remuneration. ”

Jia Guofang mentally calculated the amount of money at the first time, and then opened his mouth wide.

"Seven and a half million, you are going to pay seven and a half million on this project, where did you get the money, Anran, we can't do illegal things. ”

Wang Anran smiled confidently: "You don't have to worry about this, I have my way." ”

Money is not omnipotent, but it can also be done nine out of nine, now, no money is absolutely impossible, Wang Anran has been thinking about how to get the first pot of gold, until today, his thinking is still clear.

That is VCD, the world's first VCD video player was invented by Chinese and launched by Hefei Meiling Wanyan Electronic Engineering Co., Ltd.

The emergence of VCD originated from a coincidence, in April 1992, Jiang Wanmeng, then Anhui TV, came to the United States to participate in the International Radio and Television Technology Exhibition, at this exhibition, Jiang Wanmeng had a wonderful encounter with Sun Yansheng, then chairman of C-CUBE in the United States.

Jiang Wanmeng immediately invested 70,000 US dollars in development, according to the normal historical process, today in September, Wanyan will launch VCD finished products, and the first batch of 1000 VCDs once launched, immediately detonated the attention of the industry, Sony, Philips, JVC, Panasonic and other industry giants are no exception, have purchased prototype research.

The conclusion is that this is a product with great market potential.

If Wan Yan registers the patent for the VCD solution of the whole machine, then they will lose the opportunity to seize the opportunity.

Jun Oshima, then president of Panasonic China, realized the possible results and met with Sun Yansheng alone three days later to ensure that the first tier manufacturers would formulate the MPEG1 format as the international industry standard as a temptation, and asked Sun Yansheng to open the VCD market and give up applying for a VCD solution patent.

MPEG1 format is Sun Yansheng's company's C-cube patented product, can become an international standard, can not only receive a huge honor, but also bring C-Cube company huge patent licensing benefits, after weighing the pros and cons, Sun Yansheng did not hesitate to sell Wanyan.

At that time, Wan Yan had absolute trust in the American C-Cube in terms of technology, and the entire Wan Yan did not resist at all, so he raised his hand and surrendered.

What happened next, the Chinese people all sighed.

No one expected that the VCD market in China alone has a scale of 10 billion, because Wanyan gave up the patent of the whole machine solution, and Panasonic, Sony and other Japanese companies with strong research and development capabilities, in a very short period of time, built a super error correction, friendly interaction, embedded accessories and other patent walls.

Electronic products chase the new and do not chase the old, and domestic electronic manufacturers such as BBK and Pioneer who have flocked to the VCD market have no choice but to choose Panasonic and Sony solutions, and they have to call billions of patent licensing fees every year.

Because Wanyan has no patents, it can not compete with a number of low-cost manufacturers in the market, and the continuous research and development capabilities are obviously weak.

This is the end of a generation of innovative companies.

The C-Cube made a lot of money because of the patent licensing of MPEG1, and only Wan Yan was injured in the end.

In the previous life, Wang Anran was also sympathetic to Wan Yan's suffering, which died in the encirclement and interception of European and Japanese giants, and Wan Yan's shortcomings are still technology, and China's losses are also losses in technology, the entire Wan Yan is extremely dependent on the technical support of the American C-Cube, and it turns out that this is an extremely fragile alliance.

VCD is just the beginning,Its resolution is only352*240,24~29 frames per second,Watch it on an ordinary black and white TV,That is, you can watch an image,Not to mention the quality,On the true color TV,Can't clearly distinguish a person's physiognomy。

The core of Wanyan's solution is an IBM B320 video decoding chip, which has no error correction function, which means that when the disc is damaged, it can only be cycled in the damage, which affects the viewing experience.

And if Wang Anran wants to intervene, he must propose a more advanced solution integration, he needs to use a new plan to meet with Jiang Wanmeng, and by the way, pit the little devil, the revenge of the previous life, I will avenge it today.