At the beginning of the ICQ craze, Zhang and his entourage, including a microbiology expert, arrived in Boston, also at Starbucks on Boylston Street, where Zhang met with Chen Zishan and her mentor Jay McInnanny.

When Zhang Lexing and the accompanying microbiology expert Ax Dabiel walked into the Starbucks, they happened to see Chen Zishan sitting in the window seat and waving his hand, and next to her was a middle-aged man about forty or fifty years old, probably her mentor Jay McInnanny, Zhang Lexing also waved his hand towards Chen Zishan, and then walked in that direction with Ax Dabiel.

When Zhang Le's walk approached, Chen Zishan got up and introduced Jay McInnerney: "Jay, this is my friend Zhang Lexing. ”

"Mr. Zhang, it's a pleasure to meet you. Jay McInany then stood up and reached for his hand in a friendly manner.

"I'm glad to meet you, too, Mr. McInany. Zhang Lexing took a step forward, shook Jay McInnery's hand warmly, and then let go.

"You're Susan's friend, just call me Jay. Jay McInany said with a smile.

Zhang Lexing leaned to the side and introduced Jay McInany: "Jay, this is my friend Aix. ”

Aix Dabiel came up and shook Jay McInnanny's hand, and after a few more pleasantries, they both sat down. Zhang Lexing beckoned, and the waiter immediately came over and asked, "Sir, what do you need?"

Zhang Lexing looked at the table, Chen Zishan and Jay McInany already had a cup of coffee in front of them, so he turned to the waiter and said, "Have a latte." ”

Aix Dabiel, who was sitting next to him, glanced at the menu on the table and said, "A glass of American." ”

"Okay, a latte, an Americano, please. After the waiter had finished writing, he nodded and left.

"Zhang, listen to Susan, you are interested in investing in our research projects. Jay McKinany asked straight to the point.

"I'm interested, but can you tell us about your project first, to be honest, I don't know. Zhang Lexing leaned back and looked at Jay McInany and said.

Jay McInany turned his head to look at Chen Zishan, and then said with a smile: "Well, then I'll introduce it." Our research direction is microbial genetic engineering, which is simply to use genetic engineering to design the virus we need, and then leave it to use the customized virus to produce what we need. ”

"Can you talk about the role of the virus, what exactly is the production?" Zhang Lexing is not the first time he has heard of this thing, Chen Zishan said it once at the beginning of the year, but it is very vague, and now that he has the opportunity, of course, he must learn more about it.

Jay McKinnanie took a sip of coffee from his cup, and was about to open his mouth when the waiter came over with a tray with two steaming cups of coffee.

"Two gentlemen, please use it slowly. The waiter brought the two cups of coffee to Zhang Lexing and Aix Dabiel respectively, made a gesture of please, and then turned away with the tray.

Zhang Lexing took a sip from the cup, then raised his head, and looked back at Jay McInnerney, he cleared his throat and said: "We are studying a kind of nano electrode and wire, if you use ordinary metal wire, the corresponding manufacturing cost is too large, and the difficulty is not small, and then we found that some organisms secrete proteins that can make calcium carbonate molecules orientally arranged, inspired by this, we plan to use the genes of this protein to control the reproduction of the virus, so that the virus can automatically generate nano-level biological wires." At present, this technology has achieved preliminary results, but unfortunately there is something wrong with the funding, otherwise after further improvement, it can be used in many places, such as the production of micro batteries, and the use of this self-assembly technology to produce biochips, which can be said to be very widely used......"

Jay McKinany talked a lot, and from time to time he also popped up some professional terms, fortunately, with Aix Dabiel explaining in a whisper next to him, Zhang Lexing understood most of the content, and the other content was nothing, it was the "virus battery" that Chen Zishan had mentioned once aroused his interest.

"Jay, the miniature battery you just said is not safe to make with a custom virus, if the shell of the battery is broken, will the virus leak out and affect the health of the user?" Zhang Lexing couldn't help but say his biggest doubt.

Jay McKinany smiled, he waved his hand and said, "Zhang, you don't have to worry, when we do research in this area, we will do harmless genetic treatment of the virus, even if it is accidentally leaked, it will not cause harm." ”

Jay McKinnerney's statement aroused Zhang Lexing's greater interest, and it is conceivable how small the miniature battery with nano-level wires should be. Zhang Lexing still remembers that the battery has always been a major problem that plagues the miniaturization and endurance of electronic devices, if this kind of micro battery can really be successfully developed, the same volume is definitely far more than the power that conventional lithium batteries can provide, which means that mobile phones, laptops, portable audio-visual equipment, etc. can get a longer use time, and portable game consoles can also use this kind of micro battery, which is what Zhang Lexing is most interested in.

Zhang Lexing's mind also changed, originally he just wanted to help Chen Zishan find something interesting to do, but now he really wanted to recruit. Glancing at Aix Dabiel who was sitting next to him, and seeing that he made a covert gesture of affirmation, Zhang Lexing's heart was at ease, and he picked up the coffee and tasted it slowly, but he was not in a hurry.

Jay McKinany waited for a while, and when he saw that Zhang Lexing had not moved, he couldn't help but become anxious: "Zhang, what do you think about our research project?"

"Well, I think it's okay. Zhang Lexing said unhurriedly.

"Would you like to fund our research project?" continued Jay McInnerney.

"That's fine, but my focus is on Asia, so I hope to have my lab in Hong Kong so I can keep track of the progress of my research. ”

"However, it's easy to keep up with the latest technology, and if I can set up a laboratory here, I can also use my connections to get some research convenience, and it will be more convenient for technical exchanges." ”

Zhang Lexing frowned, turned his head to look at Aix Dabiel, and saw that he nodded slightly, so he changed his words: "In this case, keep a laboratory here, and at the same time set up a research institute in Hong Kong, and usually have a little more personnel and technical exchanges." Jay, what do you think?"

"That's fine, but it's a lot of money to build two labs at the same time. Jay McInany nodded, looking at Zhang Lexing, waiting for a final answer.

"So I hope you can come up with a budget, after all, I don't know much about your research project, and I don't know what equipment and facilities are needed. Well, we'll talk about it again when the budget is ready. Zhang Lexing handed over his business card.

Jay McInany took the business card and looked at it carefully, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll make this budget as soon as possible." ”

Zhang Lexing stretched out his hand and said with a smile: "I hope we can cooperate happily!"

"I'm sure it will. Jay McInany smiled and shook Zhang Lexing's hand.

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Just when the ICQ craze was just beginning to set off in the United States, in the island nation of Kyoto, Japan, on the other side of the ocean, Nintendo's repeatedly postponed N64 finally revealed its mystery, and at the same time, "Super Mario 64", which was developed by Shigeru Miyamoto and claimed to be a full 3D game, was also exhibited. The quality of this work far exceeded the imagination of all participants, and in the fully 3D world of Hakoiwa, the bearded Mario who has been transformed into 3D runs, flies, and swims freely at an image switching rate of 60 frames per second, and the smoothness and realism of his movements are jaw-dropping, and his emphasis on a sense of presence is unmatched by any similar work in the past. Although the full version was not released in this preview, the game has a large number of different and interesting level designs, and everyone can't help but be completely overwhelmed by its rich content. What's even more shocking is that Shigeru Miyamoto also revealed that the cassette of such an excellent game is only 64Mb (8MB), and people have to be impressed by the technical power shown by Nintendo, for which Pu Yamauchi made a bold statement: "N64 will change the game!"

The official name of the N64 is Nintendo Ultra 64 (Nintendo Ultra64), and its main processor is a specially developed MIPSR-4300i 64-bit RISCCPU, with a frequency of 93.75MHz and an operating speed of up to 93MIPs (million instructions per second). In addition, there is a dedicated graphics co-processor developed by SGI, which includes two sub-processors: RSP (which controls 3D graphics and audio functions) and RDP (which processes the drawing of all pixels in the hardware). Coupled with the 32-bit Rambus RDRAM as memory, as well as other components and peripherals, the N64 theoretically outperforms the PlayStation by a lot. But when the detailed hardware specifications of the N64 were announced, many game development companies were desperate, because the N6 actually insisted on using the cassette as a storage medium, in the words of the CEO of a certain company: "Didn't the old man in Yamauchi know that the cost of the cassette is almost 200 times that of the CD, isn't it obvious that everyone wants to make less money!"

But apparently Yamauchi Pu doesn't think so.,In his opinion, there are many advantages of cassette.,What read speed is faster than optical drive.,What cassette is not easy to pirate.,Zero and all kinds of things have been said by him for a lot of reasons.,And you can get another disk drive out.。 As for Shigeru Miyamoto and others, what they care about is that the N64 host can be introduced, although they are a little disappointed that they can't use the optical drive, but after seeing the example of Yokoi Junhei, no one will find it unpleasant at this critical time.

The N64 console showed up, and according to Yamauchi's vision, as long as he "shook his body", many game development companies should immediately bow to the ground, crying and shouting and begging him to raise his noble hand and reward everyone with a bowl of rice. At first, it seemed that this was the case, but at least Hudson's managing director, Yukio Osato, publicly praised the N64's development environment, saying that it was superior to wheat flour and could be used to create the games you wanted. President Yasuhiro Fukushima, who is also involved in RPG development, has also announced that he will join the N64 development team, and the first game planned to be released is called "Plan J 2", and everything seems to be developing as Yamauchi expected......

But soon something happened, Scorwell, which Nintendo tried to woo, suddenly announced that it would join the PS camp and would launch "Final Fantasy VII" on PS, and also said that "Dragon Quest 6" will be the last game on the SFC platform, and its sequel will be changed to the next generation of game consoles, although it is not explicitly stated, but everyone can taste it. Scorwell took away two masterpieces, which was not fatal to Nintendo, but under the influence of this, a large number of game companies that were still waiting and watching also fell to the PS camp, many of which were disappointed by Nintendo's choice of cartridges as storage media, and more because of the influence of Nintendo's gradual development of arrogance and arrogance. The new works and masterpieces of the PS camp are one after another, like "GT Racing", "Pro Evolution Soccer", etc., and even the low-key listed "Resident Evil" has made a lot of money, and Nintendo is much shabby in comparison.

Yamauchi Pu only realized at this time that his company had a crisis, and many companies that had been happy to cooperate with each other have left, only 4 companies in Japan are willing to develop games on N64, and only Rare is the only company left overseas, and many of the masterpieces that originally belonged to the Nintendo platform have spread their wings, and the only one whose movement is unknown is the "Legend of Zelda" mastered by Tiannoen, and Nintendo's own only the Mario series is left. Yamauchi knew that if there was no support from a masterpiece, the listing of N64 would definitely be another tragedy, and he had no choice but to lower his profile, and even did not hesitate to personally come forward to win over the game developers who were still wavering, trying to accumulate as much money as possible for N64. Unfortunately, it has not had much effect, and even companies such as Rare, Tennoen, and Konami, which had a very good cooperative relationship in the era of Nintendo Red and White (FC) and Super Nintendo (SFC), have never let up, and always deal with them with some salty and non-salty words.

Yamauchi didn't understand this, and it wasn't until one day that his subordinates sent him an investigation report to his desk, and he realized that companies such as Rare, Tennoen, and Konami were all part of a group company called Dongfang Industries, and that Oriental Electronic Entertainment Co., Ltd., which also belonged to the Oriental Industrial Group, was recently negotiating with Nintendo about the transfer of GameBoy-related patent licenses, and due to Nintendo's insistence, there has been no progress in the negotiations on the transfer of patent licenses." Maybe that's why companies like Rare, Tennoen and Konami are ambiguous!" Yamauchi thought.

Although GameBoy has made great contributions to the development of Nintendo, it has long been a bit outdated and backward, and some cannot be put on the table. Back in early 1994, a senior commentator at the Chicago Tribune declared, "The GameBoy is outdated and should be ruthlessly thrown in the trash!"

In fact, there are many people within Nintendo who have this kind of perception, and even the pillars of companies such as Minoru Arakawa, Shigeru Miyamoto and Genhiro Takeda also have this opinion, and in their eyes, it is the N64 game console that can really decide the winner, and the GameBoy is just an outdated children's toy. The only one who continues to be optimistic about the GameBoy is Yokoi Junhei and his first development department, but after VRBoy caused a fiasco, Yokoi Junhei also had to leave Nintendo, and under the influence of this, the GameBoy has become a bit dispensable in the eyes of Yamauchi Pu, but he is instinctively reluctant to license the GameBoy patent to others.

But when Yamauchi Pu guessed the "reason" for the ambiguous attitude of companies such as Rare, Tianzhien and Konami, he couldn't be tough anymore, and some of his subordinates also took the initiative to persuade him: "Anyway, GameBoy is going to be alive for two days, why bother affecting the development of N64 for a thing that is about to be withdrawn from the market", persuaded again and again, Yamauchi Pu was finally forced to waver, so there was slowly some substantial progress at the negotiating table between Oriental Electronic Entertainment and Nintendo.

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