Chapter 149: Micro Hard Disk (Part 2)
Williams Labs' first project was Java programming language development, and what was the second project? After the development of wifi, Cisco can launch wireless routers that will shock the world, and Silicon Valley Electronics Group can launch wireless laptops!!
At that time, with WiFi technology, Silicon Valley Electronics Group's notebooks will crush all laptops on the market!
It's not just WiFi, it's thinner and faster!!
Silicon Valley Electronics Group has been accumulating steadily, in fact, with the current strength of Silicon Valley Electronics Group, it is indeed possible to develop computers, but the things made cannot meet Henry's requirements!
"Silicon Valley Electronics Group's products are not mediocre!" is what Henry said to the company's top management at a meeting, and now this sentence has become the most important part of Silicon Valley Electronics Group's corporate culture, and the first sentence that every new employee must remember to memorize is this sentence......
After entering the gate of Silicon Valley Electronics Group, a huge bluestone tablet not far in front of the field of vision is also engraved with this sentence, which will remind people every time they see it, and encourage employees to work hard, pursue perfection and strive for innovation!!
Henry has a principle in his heart that no matter what he wants to do, since he wants to do it, he must do it to the best of his ability!!
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The development of Java programming language is protracted, not only to launch the language, but also to develop a Java platform development environment, so that developers can write software after learning the Java programming language!
As for the WiFi technology, Australia only applied for a patent in 1996, and it must have been studied for several years before that! Henry didn't want to give up this kind of super gold-absorbing patent to other people! Immediately asked some people from Qualcomm to join the Williams Lab and start developing WiFi technology!
Williams Labs will replace the R&D department of Silicon Valley Electronics Group, and all patents and technologies will belong to Williams Labs, and what Silicon Valley Electronics Group has to do is to transform the technology developed in the laboratory into products!!
A few days later. James Gosling, the father of Java, and his party came to Silicon Valley Electronics Group.
After Henry settled them down, he went to inquire about the MP3, and the development of microhard drives had made a breakthrough and had shrunk to 1 inch. The storage size is as high as 100Mb! Hearing this, Henry couldn't help but get excited!
This means that MP3s won't be ready to be made in a short time!
The MP3 software itself may take some twenty or thirty Mb, so there are still dozens of Mb left to store songs!
3Mb for one song, no problem storing a dozen songs!!
Henry immediately went to the microhard drive department.
The hard disk department of the Silicon Valley Electronics Group is divided into two divisions: ordinary hard disk and micro hard disk! Ordinary hard disk is naturally for personal computers. Regular hard drives provided by servers, workstations, etc., while micro hard drives are currently only hard drive services for MP3s!
Silicon Valley Electronics Group is already considering the use of microhard drives on cameras. Nowadays, most cameras are using flash memory cards. Nowadays, flash memory cards only have a few megabytes of storage, which can't store too many photos. And once the microdisk is used, the camera can definitely store hundreds of photos in the current size of tens of kilobytes of ordinary photos!!
At present, the huge advantage of micro hard disk is undoubtedly much more powerful than flash memory card!
Silicon Valley Electronics Group is making its own cameras, if it acquires Carl Zeiss in Germany. With Carl Zeiss' technology, the camera made is certainly no worse than other companies, coupled with the "super-large" memory of the micro-hard disk, it must be after the launch, it will definitely shock the industry!
Henry suppressed the excitement in his heart and walked into the microhard drive development lab!
The person in charge of the project asked someone to bring a sample of the microhard drive, and Henry took it in his hand and looked at it, 1 inch in size. It's like a matchbox in your hand. Henry held it and shook it up and down, and could feel a little weight.
"Is the hard drive susceptible to damage?" asked Henry, "like a minor collision or something......
"The probability of falling to the ground within one meter and being damaged is less than 10%, 1. 5 meters. The probability of damage will be more than 50 percent," replied the head of the microdrive team.
Henry frowned, "1. The probability of damage of 5 meters is actually more than half, and it seems that the shock absorption technology needs to be strengthened!!"
"Yes, we're already working on that!"
"Very good......" Henry nodded in understanding.
Nokia brick phones are said to be safe and sound from the second floor to the first floor. Our MP3 doesn't want to be compared with brick mobile phones, but it can't be too much, it's only 1.5 meters and it's broken!
Although it is not good in terms of shock absorption, MP3 can be launched first, and it will be upgraded later, which is also a gimmick!
The technician then plugs the microhard drive into the computer and shows how much it has to be stored!
"In 1988, Fell and Greenberger discovered the giant magnetoresistive effect, where a very small change in magnetic properties can lead to a very significant change in the resistance of a magnetic material. If the giant magnetoresistive technology is broken through, the sensitivity of the head will be enhanced, the storage density of the hard disk will be greatly improved, and the capacity of our micro hard disk will also increase!!"
Henry was shocked when he heard this!
Giant magnetoresistance technology is a very awesome technology, in 1997 IBM first launched the giant magnetoresistance technology, the development of hard disk instantly entered a stage of rapid development, its storage capacity began to increase at a very amazing speed!!
"How's the technology going?!!" Henry asked hurriedly.
"A third!"
"Well, that's good!! Henry nodded, glanced at everyone, and then said in a deep voice, "In the future, we will increase the research and development of this technology, and I believe that giant magnetoresistive technology will change the current pattern of hard disks!!"
"Yes!!" The surrounding technicians replied in unison!
After visiting the micro-hard disk laboratory, Henry went to the ordinary hard disk department by the way, and it is not okay to favor one over the other, which will chill the people who are engaged in technology! Henry arrived there, exchanged pleasantries, and finally came to the MP3 department!
With the hard disk, the biggest problem of storage is solved! MP3's other problems are not too big a problem! So, Henry didn't ask them one by one, and found the person in charge of industrial design to talk about his requirements for MP3.
"The shape design of the MP3 must be fashionable, designed as a 'rounded rectangle', and at the same time, the appearance patent must be registered!!"
"At present, we will make two colors, white and black! As for the shell, it is best to use a metal shell, which is not only hard, but also gives people a feeling of high-end atmosphere and grade! Although the cost will be a little higher, our MP3 is much cheaper than the Sony Walkman, and the price has a competitive advantage! Of course, the most important thing is that our MP3's core competitiveness is that we can download songs from the Internet at any time, and the cost of buying songs will be much lower than that of the Walkman!! (It's not easy to write a book, brothers who watch pirated versions, come and subscribe to support it)
(To be continued.) )