The next day, Li Yixuan came to AMC on time to continue his great work of copying. Yesterday's conversation with Han Dazhuang did not have a great impact on him, even if he wants to invest in the mainland, it cannot be completed in a day or two, and it is useless to care about this now.

At 10 o'clock, Liang Ning came to AMC, and he brought a message that David Philips, vice president of Philips. Soderbergh wants to visit you.

Although Philips applied for a patent for CD infrastructure in 1973, it is also the early stage of the formation of CD technology, unlike the formation of a large number of patent technical barriers in the later stage. Therefore, for the current Li Yixuan, there is too much room for maneuverability.

"Did he say anything?"

"He said he wanted to reach some consensus with us on the CD issue."

It should be right, from what Liang Ning brought, it can be heard that Philips came with good intentions, "Where is he?" ”

"Tomorrow at nine o'clock in the morning, he wants to meet you. The location is yours. ”

"In that case, let's meet in the Oranges reception room." ”

The next day, Soderbergh came on time, and after everyone sat down in the reception room, Li Yixuan said straight to the point: "I heard that your company has reached some consensus with us on CD technology, but I don't know what kind of consensus it is. ”

Soderbergh said: "Mr. Jester, we all want your CD-related patents, you can make a price, and Philips is willing to buy them." ”

Li Yixuan shook his head and said: "We won't sell these patents, but I can cross-license and swap patents." ”

The other party has obviously thought about this a long time ago, "What patent do you want from us?" ”

Li Yixuan asked his assistant to give the other party a list, and when he knew that Philips wanted to reach a consensus with him on the CD issue, he and several technical engineers of the company made a patent swap list overnight, of which the CD infrastructure patent was the top priority.

He didn't have a lion's mouth, he just mentioned the patents he needed.

Soderbergh took the list and looked at it, and the patents listed on it were all very special to Philips, or although these patents were related to CDs, Philips may not necessarily use them until the end of the patent.

In fact, Philips, like Sony, makes CDs for music, and they hope that one day CDs can replace tapes as the new music playback medium. When it was learned that Oranges had a video compression technology that could be stored on disc and played back through a disc player, Philips couldn't sit still and came to him.

This is easy to understand, after all, Philips licensed the technology to Sony last year, and the two companies also reached a strategic consensus.

But these patents that Li Yixuan wanted, Soderbergh was a little incomprehensible.

"Mr. Jester, this ......"

"What, don't you want to give?"

"It's not that it's that you want these patents, which Sony and Toshiba and Pioneer don't look up to, and although these patents are related to CDs, we don't know how to use them," Soderbergh explained. Can you talk about it? ”

Li Yixuan smiled, "It stands to reason that this is our company's secret, and we can't tell you, but since you asked, it doesn't matter if you tell you." You know last year our company launched a 3.5-inch hard drive for personal computers, and your company's CD capacity is very large, much larger than our hard drive, and I think we can open a CD hard drive based on this technology. ”

"CD hard drive?" Soderbergh was stunned, he didn't expect Li Yixuan to use CD technology to do this.

"Why not?" Li Yixuan asked with a smile.

Soderbergh didn't know what to say, he thought the other party's idea was too wild, and the CD hard drive sounded pretty good.

In fact, in history, Philips launched a hard disk based on CD technology in the 90s, and Philips named it an optical digital hard disk or laser hard disk, which caused no less sensation in the industry than IBM launched a quartz glass hard disk in 98, and many industry experts believe that laser hard disk may be the direction of the future development of hard disk.

As a result, various developed countries and companies have invested heavily in the research and development of laser hard drives, including Western Digital, Toshiba Corporation and Seagate.

Here I have to talk about IBM's quartz glass hard disk, in fact, the emergence of this hard disk is also closely related to Philips' laser hard disk.

IBM also joined the research on laser hard disks that year, but they soon found that laser hard disks also had several hard problems that could not be solved.

THE FIRST IS THAT THE READ AND WRITE SPEED OF THE BALD HEAD IS TOO LOW, ONLY 150KB/S, AND SUCH A LOW READ AND WRITE SPEED CANNOT MEET THE FUTURE NEEDS.

Second, the cost of laser hard disk is too high, which is contrary to the development trend of lower and lower prices of hard disks in the future, mainly CD-RW discs, the full name is Compact Disc-Rewritable, which can be re-burned discs, and each disc costs $60 a piece.

Fourth, due to the special working principle of the laser hard disk, the volume cannot be small, 5.25 inches is its limit, and it will not work further.

Fifth, the reliability of the laser hard disk is not good, and if there is a little vibration, the read and write will fail.

It was for these reasons that IBM later gave up the research on laser hard drives. But IBM engineers got inspiration from Philips' laser hard drive, and after years of research, it finally came to fruition. This result is known as glass hard disk technology.

Of course, Li Yixuan will not study any laser hard disk technology, this is a technology that is destined to be eliminated in history, he said this to mislead Philips, his real goal is a lithography machine, and the real right disc is not CD-RW, but CD-R.

Unlike CD-RW, CD-R has no content when it is first produced, but once the data is burned, the CD-R changes color and becomes a CD-ROM. CD-ROM is the content that is produced by the factory as soon as it is produced, and cannot be rewritten.

Soderbergh also climbed from the technical staff step by step to the position of vice president, Li Yixuan knew that such a person was not easy to fool, but the laser hard disk was a real thing in history, and the other party fell into the trap at once.

The more Soderbergh thought about it, the more he felt that it was technically possible, and he didn't realize that he had been taken into the pit by the other party. I just feel like I've come to the right place this time.

"Okay, I'll agree to exchange patents." Soderbergh held out his hand.

Li Yixuan smiled meaningfully, and the two clasped their hands together.

It took less than a week for the two parties to negotiate all the details, and under the witness of the lawyers of both parties, the two sides exchanged their respective patents, and Li Yixuan got the CD basic patent he wanted.

That's not all, the two sides also signed a technical cooperation agreement, just like Philips and Sony signed last year.

As soon as this agreement was signed, Oranges became one of the makers of the CD standard, just like Sony and Philips.

First-class is the company to do standards, second-rate companies to do technology, third-rate companies to do products. This is an eternal truth.

The reason why Oranges was able to become one of the formulators of the CD standard was also because the idea of a laser hard drive was proposed to the other party, and Soderbergh reciprocated by allowing Li Yixuan to participate.

This does not mean that Philips has a conscience, on the contrary, he is very bad. Although first-class enterprises do standards, but this is a basic condition, you must have strong technology and products as the foundation, otherwise the standards you set can only be a wedding dress for each other. To put it bluntly, only large companies with strong strength can set standards.

Soderbergh obviously didn't think Oranges had the strength, and he thought that a small company like Oranges, even if it set standards, was just a wedding dress for them, so what would it do if he was brought in.

To put it bluntly, the world still has to speak with strength.