Negotiations on the future fate of Sega went on for a long time, but the pleasant atmosphere of the talks gave both sides a sense of unfinished business. It was almost dinner time when the plan of action was finalized, and Nintendo, as the host, arranged a Japanese-style dinner in the banquet hall downstairs, but the strong men from the United States had eaten for more than an hour, and they were not even half full. After eating the meal arranged by Nintendo, Zhang Lexing felt that his stomach still seemed to be very empty, and it seemed that he had to go out to fill in the numbers, call the entourage, and the group rushed to the elevator. Unexpectedly, in the elevator, I met the two guys of digging well and Sakaguchi, the two of them were completely drunk, talking about the men's hearts unscrupulously, and laughing wildly when it came to the proudness, it seems that several games of Square Enix are well booked today, and these two guys are ready to go out for fun again. I can't count on these two guys when I go out, but fortunately, Yuko is still following, and under her leadership, I found a flavor restaurant, ate a hard meal, and finally went back to sleep satisfied.

In the following days, Zhang Lexing spent a few more days in Kyoto, during which he communicated with Nintendo on some future actions and signed an agreement on joint development of new consoles, and on the other hand, he communicated with the representatives of Square Enix who came to Kyoto to participate in the Chuxin meeting on matters that need to be coordinated in the future. When communicating with Square Enix's representatives, Zhang Lexing also gave a meeting gift- Game script,This is last year when Zhang Lexing acquired a small American game development company,In this script, a turn-based strategy game with a new idea was conceived,Set in the European Middle Ages,The plot is an old-fashioned prince returning to the country or something,Because KF-Panda (USA)The development tasks in the next few years are relatively full,And Tianzhiyuan is temporarily insufficient,In order to avoid a waste of creativity,Zhang Lexing decided to hand over to Scorwell to develop,Of course, the copyright of the game developed according to the convention will remain in the hands of FCSource,Scorwell can only be regarded as an OEM。

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After everything was negotiated in Kyoto, Zhang Lexing and his entourage took a plane back to the United States.

This month has been busy, and when I returned to the United States, Zhang Lexing planned to give himself a few days to rest. I didn't think about it, and I didn't have time to mention it when I rested, and the matter came to the door first. This is a file from the Red River Fund, when Zhang Lexing wanted to prevent good ideas from being missed, he specially told the investment managers in charge of the fund to send a copy to themselves if all the applications that did not pass the approval, so there are often some strange applications handed over, and last year I picked up an application for supercomputer development, and this time I don't know what kind of creativity will be encountered.

Holding the sealed application materials, Zhang Lexing secretly guessed in his heart, then opened it and looked at the cover, and sure enough, it was not approved. Zhang Lexing casually flipped a few pages, it turned out that this application came from an Intel employee named Airy Harary, who invented a non-volatile semiconductor memory chip, which is said to have higher efficiency compared with similar technologies on the market, and the smaller the storage cell area, the smaller the area of the die, etc., this Dr. Harari also gave this technology a name NAND flash memory. In the material, Dr. Harari believes that a flash memory world is coming, and is convinced that his newly developed flash memory chip will replace hard disk drives, so he hopes to apply for an investment to set up a company to continue to refine the technology and promote this chip. It seems that the experts in charge of the review did not believe this seemingly fantastical prediction at all, and gave a straightforward "not passed" comment.

Flash memory, this thing Zhang Lexing knows, in another ten years, with the advent of the digital age, flash memory will be rapidly popularized, and at that time, many people will always carry one or two small things that use flash memory, U disks, memory cards, handheld computers, mobile phones, digital cameras, digital video cameras, and even some notebooks, of course, portable game consoles are also indispensable for this. The future of this technology is ambitious, but I don't know what the strength of this technical team is, so I still arrange a meeting, and then ask a professional to evaluate it, Zhang Lexing made a decision secretly in his heart.

Thinking of this, Zhang Lexing picked up the microphone and dialed a few numbers, arranging a meeting, this kind of thing is naturally handled by the professionals of the Red River Fund, and Zhang Lexing himself just needs to listen to it next to him. Soon, the meeting was scheduled, and the time was set for 3 p.m. on Tuesday of the following week.

It's still early, Zhang Lexing can finally take a good rest, make an appointment with Allen, who will enjoy life the most, and fly to Curacao in the Caribbean Sea together to enjoy the blue sky, blue sea, and beach scenery for a few days. Happy times always pass quickly, just found a little vacation feeling, the time to meet is approaching, Zhang Lexing had to leave to come back.

Tuesday afternoon, the café at the end of Company Street......

When Zhang Lexing and the two experts in charge of the assessment walked into the coffee house, Dr. Harari and two other people were already waiting in a corner drinking coffee. The two sides met and exchanged pleasantries, and soon got to the point, and Dr. Harari began to talk about his flash memory chips and plans for future development. From time to time, the two experts asked questions on technical issues, and Dr. Harary answered them very well, and sometimes the two people who came with Dr. Harary would interject a sentence or two. According to Dr. Harary, one is Sanjay Rotra, who also worked at Intel, and Dr. Harari was a colleague at that time, and the other is Jack Yuan, whose Chinese name is Yuan Ziji, is a second-generation Chinese who used to work at Texas Instruments. The three-person team made a good impression on Zhang Lexing, and the results of the expert evaluation were also very good, and soon the two sides reached a preliminary intention in this coffee house, Zhang Lexing was ready to invest 3 million US dollars in the project, and will evaluate whether additional investment is needed in the future according to the development of the project.

"By the way, what's the name of your company?" asked Zhang Lexing before leaving.

"Oh, we came up with a name, SunDisk, because we thought this flash memory chip was the new hope for future storage technology, just like sunshine. Dr. Harari explained.

"SunDisk ......" Zhang Lexing couldn't help but think of SanDisk, a well-known flash memory company in later generations, and couldn't help but be moved, and said: "It's better to call it SanDisk, there are many companies at the beginning of Sun, don't be confused." ”

It seems that Dr. Harari didn't have a lot of affection for the name "SunDisk", and after a little thought, he accepted his suggestion. Zhang Lexing's heart couldn't help but sigh, the future generations of SanDisk seem to have only existed in 1995, and I hope that this SanDisk company that appeared in advance can do better.

Once the investment was found, many things were easy to do, and soon SanDisk was founded in the city of Mibida, north of San Jose, and with the efforts of Dr. Harari's trio, the curtain of the flash memory era was quietly lifted.

Not long after SanDisk was acquired, Hawkins' EA had several new games to be released. MicroProse has achieved the most results among them, with two games coming out at once. One is the F-19 StealthFighter (F19 stealth fighter), which was created by the company's chief designer Sid Meier based on the model of the F19 aircraft at hand, from which players can experience the real flight feeling, and the amazing thing is that the real F19 has not yet come out at this time. The other is RedStormRising, the first adaptation of MicroProse and best-selling novelist Tom Clancy, a modern naval simulation game in which the player takes on the role of a submarine captain through a variety of sonar waves, Track instruments and more to control your submarine and complete challenging missions (such as foiling enemy ICBM submarines under the ice sheet of the Arctic Ocean, preventing enemy commandos from landing off the coast of Iceland, or even fighting enemy attack submarines to the death). In addition, there are several role-playing, action and other types of games on the market at the same time, although the graphics of these games are quite simple according to Zhang Lexing's vision, but the designers can show a wealth of ideas from them, which may be because the external expression of the game is still relatively simple, in order to make the game more interesting, designers can only start from enriching the connotation of the game. Perhaps it is because later games are so rich in appearance, full of gorgeous graphics, increasingly realistic 3D effects, and sound effects with increasing sample rates, that designers have spent too much energy on these to create one game after another that is glamorous on the surface but superficial on the inside.

After a glimpse of the upcoming game, Zhang Lexing turned his attention to the company's research institute, which is the foundation for his future sustainable development.

VisualSystem's research institute was founded relatively early, based on an applied technology research institute established in 82. The initial goal was to develop the Kylin system in a sustainable and healthy way, and it was intended to conduct research on natural interaction, collaboration technology, application sharing, and operating system microkernels, and of course, the graphical interface operating system was also one of the research goals at that time.

The Institute of Digital Graphics Technology, founded in January 83, initially the main technical support force from Adobe, and later participated in a design and production of graphics cards in Toronto, Canada, after the ArrayTechnologyInc company, the Institute and ArrayTechnologyInc carried out technical exchanges, and achieved a lot of results, but the most used results were Zhang Lexing's own PC game development studio Blue Dragon.

The Institute of Audio-Visual Technology was established as a team to take advantage of the spin-off of Bell in 84 years, and dug up a lot of audio and video technology researchers from Bell Labs, and spent tens of millions of dollars to buy out a lot of patents related to audio and video technology.

The Network Technology Research Institute was established in June '85 after investing in Cisco (Cisco) in San Jose, where VisualSystem was headquartered in San Jose. The main research projects include IOS of network equipment, application of network communication technology in operating system, implementation of distributed operating system in network environment, application of network communication technology, etc.

In addition to these four research institutes, VisualSystem's research institutes also conduct research on some miscellaneous technologies such as sensors and light-emitting LEDs, but most of them are not yet mature and have not achieved any results.

In addition to the research institute under VisualSystem, Zhang Lexing also set up a game technology research institute himself. This research institute was established relatively late, and it was spun off on the basis of the original studio's R&D team after the Blue Dragon Studio was upgraded to the Blue Dragon Game Development Company. The funding of the institute comes entirely from Zhang Lexing's personal research, and the main research directions include the application of the latest display technology in games, the application of digital audio technology in games, virtual reality technology in games, and external data digital input technology. This game technology research institute was not only established to improve the strength of the game development technology of Blue Dragon Studio, but more importantly, it was a technical reserve made in advance for Zhang Lexing's future plans.

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