Chapter 155: Commercial Espionage

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"Do you know? Last night, there was thunder in the mountains behind the school, and the scene was so thrilling and exciting! The rumbling stream was endless, and more than a dozen old trees were interrupted!"

When I entered the classroom early in the morning, I saw the thin monkey with a red face and spittle flying all over the sky, and when it came to the excitement, it was even more picturesque, which caused the surrounding students to take care of their studies, and the three layers inside and outside were excited to surround him to inquire about the news.

"It's true, I just went to see it, and the teacher blocked us outside, but someone in the next class ran over to take pictures in the early morning, which was more exaggerated than the thin monkey said, and it was as thrilling as an explosion scene. A classmate who knew a little bit of the inside story yelled even more exaggeratedly.

There are also scholars in the liberal arts class, which will be a rational start to analyze the problem, "I also saw that those big trees were cut out of thin air, and it is said that thunder is not so accurate, and it is not in line with science to split so many big trees at one time~!"

"Could it be an alien spaceship?" exclaimed a sci-fi fan with a big brain pulling his throat excitedly.

"It seems to be true, I obviously split it so little. Li Mubai disdainfully pursed his mouth and bypassed this group of brain heroes.

But the excitement in his heart made him especially happy today, that is his own ability!

Although there was a big water gun before, but the external force did not have its own ability to make people comfortable after all, if anyone dared to make a mistake with himself in the future, he had to throw him a slap of heaven and earth, and Qiankun had to borrow the law.

When I got back to my seat, I picked up a math textbook and read it.

However, he clearly underestimated the impact of this incident.

Yesterday's earth-shattering loud bang could be heard clearly even from a distance of 10 kilometers, and many people thought that there had been an explosion in a nearby factory that night.

The teachers at the school were even more startled, and the anomaly caused by the lightning strike, as well as the fire in the grove late at night, quickly attracted everyone's attention.

Not long in the morning, the school organized a wave of experts in the theoretical field, searching back and forth around the area where the incident occurred, trying to find out what was going on.

According to the words of a retired old pedant, no one wants to live in such a land of thunder.

Of course, such feudal superstitions were quickly refuted by school leaders, this is the era of science, what kind of damnation land?

But they also want to find out what happened, that is, why can a single lightning bolt chop down a dozen trees at once?

The trees that fell in the direction of the site, the dark pit in the center, and the gray green smoke that still emits even now, all reveal a deep strangeness, what happened here at that time?

It's a pity that with scientific means, how can we explain the supernatural powers of the occult!

No matter how the expert group organized by the school detected, they could not figure out the real reason for the incident, and in the end they could only helplessly come up with the result of natural mysterious factors.

But the topic will not end because of this, on the contrary, the discussion in the school has intensified, and finally it is honored to be the top ten unsolved mysteries in the 100-year history of Xiaocheng No. 1 Middle School, far more than the mystery of Li Mubai's counterattack and why the thin monkey was admitted to Beijing University in advance......

Li Mubai, who had nothing to do for a day and took the time to go home at night, deliberately dissolved a nine-turn golden pill in the water, personally served his mother and drank it, looking at his mother who was gradually turning red, he finally put his mind at ease.

The night in the small town is still so peaceful.

But in Hong Kong, the rich nightlife has just entered the high ~ tide at this time.

At around 10 p.m., the streets of Lan Kwai Fong, Central's top entertainment street, are bustling with people, holding wine glasses in their hands, chatting with each other on both sides of the street.

This is the most famous bar entertainment street in Hong Kong, the windows and doors of every bar in the surrounding area are open, allowing people to come and go freely, anyway, the consumption here is either white-collar office workers around Central, or rich sons and daughters in the family, and even occasionally you can meet a few big stars who travel in a low-key way.

Relaxed and comfortable, this is the leisure characteristics that Lan Kwai Fong has always insisted on creating.

Shao Mingquan, who works at the Wende Graduate Office on the 16th floor of the nearby Prince Building, worked overtime in the company as usual today, and waited until more than ten o'clock before walking out of the company gate with a tired body.

However, instead of going to the parking lot to pick up his car and go home today, he chose to walk to nearby Lan Kwai Fong.

Don't get me wrong, he didn't go to have fun or drink to relieve his boredom, but he had an appointment with someone.

"Shao Jun, you have worked hard. When we arrived at Hard Rock Cafe, the largest American rock bar in Bar Street, an East Asian man who had been waiting there immediately greeted him with a smile on his face.

"Kitamura-kun, you also work hard. Shao Mingquan deliberately stared around nervously, and saw that no one was paying attention to him, so he followed the latter into a special closed small private room in the bar.

"Shao Jun, did you bring anything with you?" As soon as he sat down, the short man known as Kitamura immediately asked urgently, and at the same time patted his hand on a brown paper wrap beside him that showed some gaps, and in the gaps were stacks of wonderful red.

Shao Mingquan's eyes shrank, and then the whole person became excited, he knew that it was a thousand yuan of Hong Kong paper.

He decisively took out an A4 piece of paper printed with all kinds of data from his briefcase and handed it over, "The stuff is here, but our office doesn't have all the details about this technology, you know, I can't get into it more." ”

"I'm afraid that's not enough. Kitamura took the A4 paper and looked at it for a long time, then he lifted Erlang's legs and said with some care,

It's just that where Shao Mingquan can't see, his eyes shrank rapidly, obviously, what is revealed on this A4 piece of paper is enough for him~ or the Toshiba Group behind him to show great interest and pressure.

It all started the morning a day ago, when Hong Kong Wende Law Firm, which was entrusted by Pengcheng Orange Technology Group, sorted out the details of all the patent applications for the client, and submitted the above-mentioned patent applications to the PCT (International Patent Cooperation Agreement) according to their importance.

Five hours after the application was filed, one of the patents was immediately noticed by the Toshiba Group's information-gathering department.

This is a technology about memory chips used in electronics.

After 2013, it also had an even more resounding name, which was called the epoch-making technology of memory chips - 3D-NAND.

Prior to this, although this concept had been continuously proposed and developed, it had not been applied and produced on a large scale due to the development of technology.

But just this year, Toshiba/SanDisk happened to find another way, developed a first-generation 3D-NAND flash memory technology called BiCS, and is currently actively improving the technical reserves, and is ready to vigorously promote it to seize the market share that originally belonged to Samsung, Intel, Micron and other companies.

The company's senior management is very optimistic about the application and promotion prospects of this technology, and is ready to invest heavily in the company's subordinate fabs to complete the upgrading of production technology.

In short, the production process of all flash memory manufacturers in the world is almost 2D-NAND technology, and the comparison of this technology is to build a house, because of the limitations of technology, only one story of a bungalow can be built on a limited carrier.

3D-NAND technology, on the other hand, is different because of the breakthrough in technology, and its concept is very simple: instead of placing the memory chip on a single side, it can be stacked into a 32-layer three-dimensional one, so that a single MLC flash memory chip can add up to 32GB of storage space, while the TLC memory chip can reach a capacity of 48GB.

It's the difference between a one-story building and a skyscraper!

Although Toshiba's BiCS-3D technology is not as high as 32 layers, it is several times higher than the single-sided utilization technology of 2D chips, and the production process is relatively simplified and the cost is lower, which was originally an epoch-making product that the company had high hopes for.

The company expects the technology to generate more than $10 billion in sales growth over the next five years.

However, with the emergence of Pengcheng Orange Technology's 3D-NAND technology, Toshiba/SanDisk suddenly found that its technology had not yet been introduced to the market, and it was completely behind.

That's a huge loss for any company, let alone a technology that's in the hands of a competitor.

If a single Pengcheng Orange Technology Company licenses this technology, and Toshiba/SanDisk does not obtain this technology license, then it will be a complete disaster for the latter.

There is even a possibility that they will be forced to withdraw from the flash memory market and only exist as a raw material supplier!

So, Toshiba/SanDisk is in a hurry, and they are desperate to take this perfect technology into their own hands.

But things are not so simple, as we all know, once a company submits its own patent certification to the PCT, then the patent automatically enters the patent protection period, even if the same technology is successfully developed at the same time, it cannot replace the status of the previous patent.

Not to mention that Toshiba/SanDisk doesn't even know where the technology in the hands of its rivals has come now!

Therefore, in order to find out the reality of this technology and facilitate the next step of cooperation or purchase of technology, Toshiba/SanDisk sent the head of its Hong Kong branch, Kitamura Fu, to use his contacts in Hong Kong to quickly find Wende Law Firm.

However, it is impossible for any regular company that aspires to become bigger and stronger to sell its customers' information easily, so Kitamura found a friend who is quite well-connected in Hong Kong, and found Shao Mingquan, a paralegal who works in a law firm.

Under the temptation of 50,000 Hong Kong dollars, Shao Mingquan didn't think much about it, and handed over the patent application provided by Pengcheng Orange Technology to Wende Law Firm to Kitamurafu.

"Not enough, it's not enough, I need more details about this technology. Looking at Shao Mingquan, who was a little hesitant and greedy in front of him, Kitamura Fu knew that the other party had been completely pinched.