Chapter 15 Jiang Yan VCD released
Many people intuitively think that chips are tall things and very mysterious, and some people think that chips are alien technology.
But those who have studied microelectronics know that the most basic unit of a chip is the transistor, and what is a transistor, a switch, to be precise, an automatic switch.
The artificially set switch on represents 1 and the switch off represents 0, which gives rise to the concept of binary, but to make these transistors form a chip, a series of logic designs are required, that is, hundreds or thousands of logic gate circuits.
The chip design software does not arrange the transistors on the drawing, the most basic component is the logic gate, through which the logic gate is composed of operation, registers, caches and other functional areas.
It is difficult to input hundreds of logic gates into the computer with a suitable software model, coupled with the limited memory of people, even if Wang Anran thinks that when he comes to this era, his memory will also improve, but he is still not enough.
Fortunately, the Internet in this era is basically completely open to Wang Anran, and he can download the information he needs without restrictions.
At present, most of the logic gate circuits are accumulated in the West for decades, and they have passed the intellectual property protection period, so Wang Anran has no pressure to download them.
It took Wang Anran nearly a month to input all the logic gate circuit models into the computer, and another two weeks to debug them.
On this day, September 10, Teacher's Day, Hefei Wanyan officially released the world's first VCD, the first batch of 1,000 units were sold out, and more than 30,000 units were pre-ordered.
The celebration party in the evening was naturally very lively, but Jiang Wanmeng keenly found that Sun Yansheng's interest did not seem to be high.
"Mr. Sun, today Wan Yan is the first shot, it is a day worth celebrating, I salute our great heroes. ”
Sun Yansheng raised his glass in response.
"Mr. Sun, if you are in any trouble, you can say it, and you can help you share your worries as a brother. ”
Sun Yansheng looked at Jiang Wanmeng and shook his head.
The more popular Wan Yan's development became, the more Sun Yansheng felt that there was a bomb that would detonate at any time. The higher you fly, the worse you fall.
Yan Jing and his party, he saw very clearly that Wang Anran was not a person who was easily moved by small money, and he didn't even have the enthusiasm for the other party to cooperate with him.
One day, when the other party launches its own video solution, it will be the end of Wanyan.
And the technical powerlessness is even more desperate.
Technology, it's not worth mentioning, but it's not mastered, it's a thousand difficulties, Sun Yansheng can't figure it out when he breaks his head, how to achieve soft decoding of such a high-quality video, and how to achieve a high compression rate.
For more than a month, Sun Yansheng tried to organize a group of technicians to crack the software, wanting to know the cvd encoding mode, but the desperate thing is that the core code of the video compression and decompression software has been encrypted by the AES algorithm, and if it is hard decoded at the current level of computer cracking, it will take about 100 years.
No, you can't sit back and wait, or you can ask for some official support.
Sun Yansheng has already tasted the sweetness, and now if he breaks this thought, he can't, if he seeks official support in the name of Wan Yan, he may be able to succeed, after all, he has forty percent of Wan Yan's shares.
Thinking of this, Sun Yansheng said to Jiang Wanmeng: "Mr. Jiang, do you remember the CD sent by the students of Qing University?"
"You mean those movies, the picture quality is really good. ”
Sun Yansheng said lightly: "His video compression and decoding technology is at least two generations ahead of us, if they launch video solutions, Wanyan will cease to exist, Mr. Jiang, this is the crushing of technology." ”
"What!"
Isn't it said that the United States is the center of IT technology, when was the University of Tsingtao able to develop such a great technology, it was still a student?
Wan Yan is Jiang Wanmeng's flesh and blood, and he definitely doesn't want to see such a result.
"Mr. Sun, did you go to Yanjing last month for this matter?"
"I wanted to introduce this technology for Wan Yan, but it didn't work out, the other party's offer was too high, $7.5 million, and this price can already rebuild a Wan Yan. ”
$7.5 million?
What kind of technology is worth $7.5 million.
And such a big thing, you Sun Yansheng didn't even mention it for a month, is there any hidden secret?
Jiang Wanmeng's face was solemn.
"Is the matter really as serious as Mr. Sun said?"
Sun Yansheng nodded.
"Mr. Sun, what do you think?"
"In the name of Wan Yan, we seek technical cooperation with Tsingda to transform intellectual property into productive forces, which is also the result of the official seeking. ”
Jiang Wanmeng doesn't know much about technology,But from a layman's point of view,The picture quality of the other party is indeed a level higher,For most of the domestic black and white TVs,There is really not much difference,But for high-end high-resolution color TVs,The viewing effect is very different。
You know,Those who can afford color TVs,Generally have relatively high consumption power,Compared with VCD pricing,5000 yuan for a piece,This is not something that ordinary families can consume,The target group is naturally the consumers of color TVs。
In this way, Sun Wanyan is indeed not exaggerating.
"Mr. Sun, I need to report to my superiors, before that, I also need you to sort out the technical information, it is best to compare the parameters of the other party's technology with our VCD technology, I need to accurately evaluate the ......"
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Wanyan's VCD is indeed an epoch-making product, before the advent of VCD, the main video recorder used for home viewing, the medium used is videotape, and VCD is compared with the video recorder, the picture quality is not much different, and the disc used in VCD, the cost is lower, and the storage capacity is larger.
"I didn't expect China to be able to develop such a product, Oshima-kun, according to the test results, our VCR is basically powerless in the face of VCD, and Panasonic's accumulated advantages in home film and television entertainment will no longer exist. ”
"It's just the use of American technology.,I didn't expect MPEG's inferior picture quality.,There is such a prospect in home audio-visual.,Nakamura-kun,This,Why didn't we think of it?"
"Oshima-kun, we thought about it, the evaluation of the technical department is,MPEG video picture quality is inferior,Not suitable for the current color TV at all,If we are given half a year,We can make a better video compression and decoding standard。 ”
"The market, I'm talking about the market, when our standards come out, the market has been occupied by VCD, and all hardware manufacturers who want to participate must adopt the same standards as them, which is the most terrible. ”
"Think about it, Nakamura-kun, Panasonic has thousands of people who rely on video recorders to eat, because of your incompetence and short-sightedness, they will face the danger of losing their jobs, and more importantly, Panasonic will face the risk of withdrawing from the field of home audio-visual entertainment, and this loss is immeasurable. ”
Katsuo Nakamura's back was soaked in cold sweat.
"Oshima-kun, what should we do then. ”
"Bastard!" Toshimi Oshima slapped Nakamura in the face.
"Hey!" Nakamura Tachimasa put his face up so that the president could play easily.
After seven or eight slaps in a row, Jun Oshima stopped satisfied.
"It seems that I need to go to China in person, Nakamura, I ask you, before I set foot on Chinese soil, prepare all the information about Wan Yan for me, you understand!"
"Hey ......"