The Oriental Real Yàn Building is across Tai Po Highway and faces the campus gate of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. When the twelve-story building was first built, the Oriental Research Institute only used one to eight floors, and the top four floors were temporarily mothballed.

But just over a year later, not only were all the four floors of the previously sealed space filled with researchers, but even the second 12-storey scientific research building next to it was about to be completed. It can also be seen how fast the Oriental Research Institute has expanded in the past two years!

The rapid expansion of the scale of technicians shows the huge scientific research ambition of the Oriental Research Institute. Last year, the total number of new patent applications filed by the Oriental Institute reached 438, a tenfold increase from the previous year of 1981. Although the number of patents of the Oriental Research Institute is far inferior to that of giant companies such as IBM, its speed of progress is unparalleled.

Li Xuan has spent a lot of money on scientific research for three consecutive years, which is gradually being transformed into more and more practical results, and the IC card is only one of the research results. In the future, IC cards are one of the most important categories in the digital chip market. Moreover, its technical threshold is not high, which is very suitable for entry-level semiconductor companies to compete.

Although Li Xuan has an aura of rebirth, he is not omnipotent. As the saying goes, a wise man must make a mistake in a thousand thoughts. He didn't expect that there was such a thing as an IC card before, but from the very beginning, he focused on the CPU processor as a tall product, and made two major architectures of ERM and MIPS in one go.

In the past, most of the major projects of the Oriental Research Institute were designated by Li Xuan for the research and development direction. Like the ERM architecture, he himself is personally involved in the specific research and development. But this IC card project has nothing to do with Li Xuan. It was two researchers at the Oriental Research Institute who were able to identify patents related to IC cards based on international patent searches. With this as the direction of the project, we submitted a project application to the company.

"Lao Li. Tell us how you and Lao Cai came up with the topic of developing IC calling cards?" Li Xuan asked with a smile to the two shy technicians standing in front of him.

It was not the first time that Li Jian had heard Li Xuan speak Mandarin, but he was still very surprised and moved to hear that his boss, as an authentic Hong Kong native, could speak standard Mandarin. He was one of the first batch of young scholars to study in Hong Kong under the "Oriental Red" talent exchange programme jointly organized by the Institute of Oriental Studies and the Ministry of Education of the Mainland.

Having been in Hong Kong for nearly two years, Lai Jian has a great feeling that Hong Kong people discriminate against the backward mainland of the motherland. Not many people in Hong Kong can speak Mandarin, and even if some do, they don't bother to do so.

But within the Eastern Bloc, Li Jian can deeply appreciate the value of treating everyone equally. Whether it is a scientific researcher from Hong Kong, the mainland or Taiwan. Everyone is on an equal footing. If you want to win the respect of others, use your own scientific research results to speak.

The biggest driving factor for achieving this equality comes from Li Xuan, the founder of Dongfang Electronics Company and the most important soul of the company. When he communicates with every scientific researcher, he will never wear colored glasses because of the region.

On the contrary, Li Xuan always pays great attention to details, and when communicating with researchers from Taiwan or the mainland, he will be very considerate and take the initiative to communicate in Mandarin, so as not to use unfamiliar Cantonese. And it was precisely under his leadership that the entire Eastern Bloc went up and down. The working atmosphere is very good.

"Mr. Li, speaking of which, this incident is still because of two accidents. Every week, I would call my hometown in China to report that I was safe, so I always carried the phone card in my pants pocket. And I have a bad habit of not liking to use a keychain to buckle the belt buckle. I also like to keep my keys in my trouser pocket.

As a result, I accidentally scratched the entry on the phone card by the key, and it turned out to be unusable! The phone cards I bought were all anonymous fixed-value cards. If it's lost or damaged, it can't be replaced! But I didn't learn my lesson, and I made the same mistake a second time.

A new calling card didn't take a few days. I accidentally got scratched by the key. Now I finally learned the hard way and decided that I had to correct the problem. And that time. I happened to be working with Cai Jian on the direction of my first self-applied research topic. When I was conducting a patent search, I happened to find a patent for the use of integrated circuit cards instead of magnetic cards.

At that time, I immediately thought about whether it was possible to replace the magnetic stripe in the phone card with integrated circuits. Bank cards have strict requirements for encryption technology, and it is not easy to gain the trust of the financial industry with new products. In contrast, the promotion of calling cards is much easier, and many cards are bearer, plug-and-play, and there is little loss if lost. The use of IC chips instead of magnetic stripes makes the usability stronger. The IC card will not be unusable because the magnetic stripe is scratched or unintentionally demagnetized!" Li Jian was a little restrained at first, but the more he got to the back, the more confident he became, and he became very fluent in speaking.

He and Cai Jian cooperated and developed this IC phone card in just ten months. Throughout the process of developing IC cards, the two successfully applied for 7 new patents. As soon as the finished IC card was released, it was highly recognized by the Oriental Research Institute.

Yesterday, when Li Jian and Mr. Yu Youcheng, assistant to the dean, sat together to chat, the other party revealed to him that the company had decided to acquire the Hong Kong Telephone Company in order to promote IC cards. Hong Kong Telephone Company is a well-known and large company in Hong Kong, with a total market capitalization of over HK$5 billion. For the sake of their project, the company's senior management decided to spend a huge amount of money to acquire the Hong Kong Telephone Company, which is undoubtedly a huge recognition for Li Jian and Cai Jian.

In the era when people had a mobile phone in later generations, IC phone cards have long been withdrawn from mainstream applications, and mobile phone SIM cards have become popular. But in Hong Kong in the 80s, public phone booths were everywhere on the streets. Hong Kong calls alone issue more than 500,000 rechargeable plug-in magnetic stripe phone cards every year, which is only a city of 5 million people.

If IC cards could be used to replace magnetic stripe calling cards all over the world, what a wide market it would be. And this is just an application of IC card, from the access control card of the hotel, to the canteen meal card, the bus card of the bus, to the social ID card, the medical insurance card, and the future mobile phone card, etc., the application range of the IC card is too broad.

In later generations, the number of mobile phone cards issued in China alone is as high as hundreds of millions, and the number of bus cards issued in the country every year is also as high as hundreds of millions, which shows how broad the market is. If the Oriental Research Institute can build a strong technical barrier on the basic patent in advance, it will be a huge income every year just to collect patent fees from card companies in various countries......!

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