The "Sniper Seven Plan" needs to be investigated and arranged, and Xia Yu put it aside after assigning the task, and immediately contacted the matter of signing up for the CES exhibition in Las Vegas.

In fact, it is not troublesome to participate in this seemingly tall exhibition, at least it will be submitted to the organizing committee for review according to the process of registration and payment of reasonable fees, and the audit standards are not harsh, nothing more than the company's qualifications and products.

This has also become a good place for many Chinese enterprises to "gild".

And until ten years later, going to CES to "brush your face" is still a must-have project for many companies every year!

Ten years later, in 2014, Xia Yu was on the scene, and there were also two wearable device companies he led to participate in the exhibition, and there were 700 Chinese companies participating in the exhibition, more than 30% of the total! When he opened the list of manufacturers, the exhibitors starting with "pegncheng" accounted for 4 pages, but in fact, the door in front of the booth of most Chinese companies was crowded.

If Polestar doesn't want to brush its face and use it as a stepping stone to enter the international market, then there are many things to prepare.

The registration fee is a must, and the price is clearly marked;The booth design should be reported in advance,This wants to be brilliant and you have to design it well;Of course, the most important thing is the exhibited products,Xia Yu's idea is to see if you can step up the trial production of the S1 prototype,Focus on this to exhibit。

Time was running out, and the first thing to be solved was the coveted BBE sound effects.

There was no way, Xia Yu decided to contact Philips directly, even if the price was higher, he would test it in advance and improve the plan.

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The S1 is positioned as a new generation of micro-hard disk drives. Therefore, the two most important components become the decoding chip and the microdisk chip.

Microhard drives aren't new either, but they're relatively high-tech. The price is relatively expensive, so it was not until the last two years, especially after the launch of the iPod, that Apple became active in the market such as music players and recorders.

As a branch product of hard disks. Its complex program is not much different from that of ordinary hard disks, but it has become a mini version, which can be said to be a small sparrow and a complete internal area.

Usually using multi-layer ultra-thin design, the base, cover, core circuit board, platter, storage wafer and shockproof layer are all integrated in an inch area, a few millimeters in height, the design and manufacturing process requirements are not low, and there are only a few companies on the market to choose from.

When Xia Yu walked into the separate R&D department, he was just in time for Yang Chunsheng to test the performance of the hard drive, so he waited for him for about ten minutes.

"Boss, you're just in time. We've just finished this set of reals!" Yang Chunsheng came out of the dust-proof room, took off his gloves and hat and pointed inside.

Song Xiaogang couldn't help but say on the side: "Mr. Yang, it seems that Mr. Xia has been waiting for you for a while......

"Ah, that's it, I didn't pay attention, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Yang Chunsheng snorted, but he didn't take it to heart. Of course he knew that Xia Yu wouldn't care about this little thing.

Xia Yu led the two of them to sit down, and couldn't help but ask, "How is the matching of the new plan going?"

Compared with the original Polaris K1 scheme matching in only one week, the S1 is more than ten times more difficult. It's been more than a month since the previous scheme design was counted. This is partly due to the demand for high-end product performance, but also the result of Polestar's own significantly higher requirements for product quality.

"Thanks to Xiao Gang, their group did a very good job of dismantling the machine, which provided great help to our scheme design. Yang Chunsheng said with a smile.

The same. At the time of K1, Yang Chunsheng was able to come up with a good plan with experience, but now in S1, many things must be retested. The requirements for accuracy and fault tolerance have also increased a lot, and a large number of jù matches the real yàn to do so.

The team led by Song Xiaogang has now expanded to twelve people. In addition to routine research, the biggest task a while ago was to disassemble the machine. In order to catch up with Xia Yu's schedule, they worked overtime to complete more than 80 mainstream MP3 prototypes in the global market in a short period of time.

"No, I don't. This job is quite enjoyable, and all the guys under me take the initiative to work overtime!" Song Xiaogang scratched his head embarrassedly.

Polestar attaches great importance to technology and R&D personnel, and the salary of ordinary researchers has reached more than 5,000 yuan, with an average of seven or eight thousand.

Yang Chunsheng continued: "Since the last time the direction of micro-hard drives was set, the R&D department has done a lot of tests on the performance and matching process of some hard disks on the market, Toshiba and Seagate, the two old companies have the best product performance, Hitachi, which acquired IBM's hard disk division, is also excellent, and the most cost-effective is Huaguo's Nanfang Huitong, as well as the newly established Cornice. ”

Knowing that Xia Yu may not be too familiar with these, Yang Chunsheng continued: "Nanfang Huitong is a company with Taiwanese and American backgrounds, and the 1-inch micro hard disk technology is also okay. In addition to their domestic R&D centers, they also have R&D divisions in Silicon Valley and Bay Island, and the technical background is Milpitas Magnetics in California, which has a history of more than 50 years. ”

"And Cornice, the technology is definitely passable, but the technology converted from the PC hard disk has not increased the number of jù caches, and the price is a lot cheaper, but RIO, iRiver and other companies have chosen this one, let's try it from the cost performance consideration. ”

"Don't hesitate to do this, just choose between Toshiba and Seagate!" Xia Yu said directly, he is still a newcomer and the credibility of these old brands. And since it is hitting the mid-to-high-end market, Polestar's high-quality characteristics cannot be lost.

Yang Chunsheng nodded and said, "Okay, then let's do research on these two immediately, and the progress can be accelerated a lot." ”

As for the decoding chip, there are many fewer options for Polestar, especially for the micro-hard disk model.

This Xia Yu didn't plan to deal with it, he had already discussed with Yang Chunsheng and directly used the new chip of the Philips PNX series - PNX0105!

This is a product specifically for hard disk multimedia players, he also supports USB2.0 high-speed transmission, but also supports GDMA and IDE and other expansion interfaces, very powerful. It has not even appeared in the Chinese market yet.

But this is certainly not a problem, as an important partner of Philips at the moment. Polestar has already obtained dozens of samples for testing in Xia Yu's request half ago, and the matching design for this chip has been finalized.

But. Solving these two core parts, the research and development of Polaris S1, which Xia Yu has high hopes for, is far from complete!

Some of the features that support the large storage space of micro hard drives have just begun!

In addition to e-books, recordings, FM radio and other functions that need to be re-adapted, the functions such as text management, picture browsing, and sound adaptation that come with the massive space must also be comprehensively improved, and the workload is not small.

The implementation and adaptation of these functions are mainly completed by Song Xiaogang's team.

This kid not only didn't complain when he received the task, but was very excited. He licked his lips and said, "Hehe, no problem, I was tired of disassembling the machine a while ago, but I have also accumulated a lot of valuable numbers." Mr. Yang's design plan also came out, give me 20 days, and definitely give the boss a satisfactory answer!"

Xia Yu knew that the strange person he met by chance was now excited, and he also felt a burst of emotion in his heart, but he still hit him and said: "Xiao Gang, I can only give you two weeks for these tasks, can you complete them?"

"Two weeks, is it so tight......" The simple-minded Song Xiaogang didn't fight for this at all, but quickly went through what he was going to do in his heart. Finally gritted his teeth and said, "Let's try our best!"

Xia Yu was afraid that he would misunderstand, and at the same time explained to Yang Chunsheng, "I am demanding, and now K2 is indeed selling very well." But I'm already shouting out that Polestar is going to enter the mid-to-high-end market, so it's not going to be too long. Moreover, the CES exhibition in the United States opened on January 5. I'm also going to open the road with S1, so the time is much tighter!"

Yang Chunsheng's eyes lit up when he heard this. Qi said: "Oh, Polestar is going to CES, this is a big deal, so I'm going to have to speed it up." ”

Xia Yu nodded and said, "Then it's troublesome Brother Yang." By the 25th at the latest, I hope that all the R&D problems of the S1 will be solved, and I will spend a week doing prototype testing, which will be just in time for CES. ”

"Don't worry, there are a lot of troubles at CES, Mr. Xia, you can go and do something else, leave it to me here!" Yang Chunsheng also became excited, patting his chest and reassuring.

In line with the plan, the R&D department, which was already working overtime, is estimated to start to accelerate again.

The new researchers and engineers at Polestar will be both painful and happy – both worried about the high-intensity and high-pressure work, and happy about the high overtime pay.

But for Xia Yu, it was really a wise move to come forward three times to invite Yang Chunsheng's big bull to Polestar!

But we can't relax right now.

Whether the S1 can continue the success of the K series, and even have an important innovation, there is another very important point to work on, that is, this time they plan to open the mold and do the shape design alone!

Fan Pingze, who joined from Chunhui Electronics with Xu Jiahui, also has a very heavy task on his shoulders.

But Xia Yu can really help a lot in this regard. In his "memories of the future" about MP3, the specific design parameters may not be impressed, but there are always some classic models that can be referred to in terms of shape, material and popular features.

In the previous communication, Xia Yu also discussed with Fan Pingze, combined with Polestar's R&D capabilities and what can be obtained on the market, and decided on a prototype - a classic design U100 from iRiver seven years later!

The biggest feature of this MP3 player in terms of appearance is the use of color-blocking design, and the five bright color tones in the lower part of the fuselage look very stylish and beautiful with the corresponding main colors above, even in 2011, it is still eye-catching.

Of course,As for the U100Capacitive screen、HD resolution screen, etc., it is impossible with the current technical conditions,But for S1It is really not needed,Of course, Xia Yu didn't mention it。

Fan Pingze is also very interested in the idea that Xia Yu came up with "on a whim", and chose the same polyester plastic as Apple's iPod with external polishing, and is now in further communication with Pengcheng's two professional suppliers.

But this is not enough, in order to truly shape S1 into a classic, Xia Yu also moved a new mind.

Polestar's relatively weak control interface and experience also need to be greatly improved, not to be able to compete with the iPod, but also to reach the level of Samsung.

This is a bit embarrassing Fan Pingze's design team, he didn't expect Xia Yu's requirements to become so harsh, as soon as he came over, he couldn't help but complain: "Mr. Xia, in terms of interface design and control experience, it really can't be done in a short time, and we ......don't have enough talents in this area."

By the end, his voice had become lower. (To be continued......)

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