How could Jiang Wanmeng's (pseudonym used here to avoid trouble) not know that Vcd was popular all over the country back then, and Zhou Liwen's family was also vulgar, so he bought one in a hurry. In addition to watching various pirated CDs in Xiangjiang, Zhou Liwen and Zhou Bei also used VCDs as karaoke, competing for the microphone and crying wolves in the house for a long time.

As the father of VCD, Jiang Wanmeng, in 1992 he went to the United States to investigate, accidentally learned that a company is studying MPEG technology, for this immature image decompression chip technology Jiang Wanmeng with his keen eye to see its unparalleled advantages in audio-visual products, that this technology is to end the current history of tape recorder domination of the world, so as to create a new era of disc recording.

In September 1993, the first official Vcd was successfully developed in the real yàn room, Jiang Wanmeng excitedly claimed that this was the only opportunity for China to lead the world in the field of consumer electronics in this century.

And the fact is just as he judged, VCD swept the market as soon as it was launched. Low price, easy to use, large storage information, small distortion rate...... These are the advantages of Vcd. In the middle of 1994, Jiang Wanmeng's life was the most glorious moment, his company's production of VCD was a great success, occupying 1oo% of the VCD market in one fell swoop. is like Dugu seeking defeat in Jin Yong's martial arts novels, fighting invincible opponents all over the world, smiling proudly.

But no one expected that in Jiang Wanmeng's most glorious year, a fatal weakness that he ignored caused his ambitious VCD market to collapse overnight like a building built on sand and stone. Because Jiang Wanmeng pays attention to the market, he has taken seizing the market as the company's key goal from the beginning. This kind of thinking can't be said to be wrong, but he ignores intellectual property rights and patents, when his VCD attacked the city and plundered the land, invincible, domestic and foreign home appliance companies were surprised to find that Jiang Wanmeng's company actually did not register patents for its products.

Upon learning of this news, people from all walks of life at home and abroad flocked to it like hungry wolves smelling flesh and blood, and bought Jiang Wanmeng's VCD in large quantities and took it back to dissect and make a prototype, and it didn't take much effort to succeed in an exemplary manner, so as to launch their own VCD products and engage in brutal market competition with Jiang Wanmeng.

Since 1995, imitation VCDs have begun to enter the market in large quantities, and the market created by Jiang Wanmeng has been washed away like a flood. What followed was an overwhelming amount of advertising, according to statistics, the advertising cost of CCTV alone exceeded 1o billion, and the price war was even more fierce, and the competition became a crazy fighting situation.

By 1996, Jiang Wanmeng's VCD market share had plummeted from the initial 1oo% to less than 3%, thus losing its dominant position in the market. In just three years, from glory to the bottom, Jiang Wanmeng watched the ups and downs of his career with great sadness, but he couldn't do anything about it.

It can be said that Jiang Wanmeng was an unrepeachable figure in the consumer electronics era at the end of the 2O century, and if he had not neglected patents and intellectual property rights, perhaps the direction of the consumer electronics era would have been a completely different path. But success is success, failure is failure, and the business world is so cruel. The father of a generation of VCDs has fallen into the sand, which makes people sigh.

"Does Dean Mu know Jiang Gong?" Zhou Liwen sighed, and asked with fire in his eyes.

Mu Weijie shook his head and smiled: "I don't know, but I have a friend who knows him, and it is said that the relationship is not bad." Dong Zhou, you also know that the main core of VCD was mpeg chips, and Jiang Gong was the father of VCD, although he failed in the market because of a poor chess move, but he is very familiar with chip manufacturing. Maybe I can help Mr. Zhou provide some unit information in this regard, so I asked Jiang Gong if there is a good factory that can be recommended. ”

"Thank you so much Dean Mu, I don't know when I can contact Jiang Gong?" Zhou Liwen asked urgently.

Mu Weijie thought for a while and said, "That's it, I'll contact my friend first, and then ask him to help inquire, and then tell Sù Chou Dong when there is news?" ”

"Good! That's certainly good! Zhou Liwen nodded again and again, and then said: "If it is convenient for Jiang Gong, I would prefer to visit this senior in person, and ask Dean Mu to convey it for me." ”

"Hehe, that's fine."

Mu Weijie's efficiency is still very high, and a few days after he returned to Huhai, he called Zhou Liwen to tell him, saying that he had contacted Jiang Wanmeng through a friend. Jiang Wanmeng, who suffered from Waterloo in the VCD market, is still the general manager of the company in Huicheng, but he has basically handed over his administrative power and is concentrating on researching new products in an attempt to make a comeback.

According to Jiang Wanmeng, his current research cannot be taken away, and it is inconvenient to meet outsiders. However, Jiang Wanmeng was still very enthusiastic about the chip factory conveyed, and took the initiative to introduce a company in the United States to his friend, and gave the other party's contact information, so that Zhou Liwen could contact the other party to try.

Ken, who failed to get Jiang Wanmeng's consent to visit, Zhou Liwen still had some regrets in his heart. However, Jiang Wanmeng recommended a chip manufacturing company for himself, which is good news for Zhou Liwen. After carefully recording the name and contact information of the other party that Mu Weijie told him, Zhou Liwen said thank you repeatedly, and then hung up the phone.

At present, there are not as many mobile phone chip manufacturers as in later generations, the main manufacturers are only Qualcomm, Motorola, Texas Instruments, Philips, Ericsson, Siemens and Intel, these days the company is a world-famous semiconductor giant, with Zhou Liwen's current strength does not intend to contact them at all, cooperation also depends on the comparison of strength, if the two sides are very different in strength, then there is only one result - annexed by the other party.

Although the chip manufacturer introduced by Jiang Wanmeng is an American company, it is not actually a professional manufacturer of mobile phone chips, but a c-cube microsystems company that he cooperated with to open VCD. As a partner, Jiang Wanmeng knows a lot about the situation of Scopa, although the scale of Scopa is not large, but the technical force is good, and more importantly, it has an independent chip factory. Although the chips they currently produce are mainly related to digital video compression, transmission, and decompression semiconductor solutions, this is not too much of a problem in Zhou Liwen's view, you must know that Lianke also started with VCD chip solutions, and theoretically speaking, there will be no problems in switching to 2G mobile phone chips from a technical point of view.

The key question is whether Scopa will be willing to work with Zhou Liwen. In response to this question, Zhou Liwen quickly commissioned someone to investigate Scopa's situation. A few days later, the results of the investigation were put in front of Zhou Liwen, and after reading the information, Zhou Liwen's heart finally relaxed, and after several e-mail exchanges, he was invited to go to California in person to discuss cooperation with Scopa.

Scopa is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, USA, and Zhou Liwen waited for more than half a month to get a visa abroad, this is because of Scopa's invitation letter and the help of the Shanghai Academy of Sciences and Pang Yishan will be so fast, otherwise it will wait for three or five months, and even the possibility of refusing a visa is not impossible. By the time he traveled, it was already close to the National Day, and on September 28, Zhou Liwen took a flight to the United States via Xiangjiang to San Francisco and then to Silicon Valley.

As his legal adviser, this negotiation and cooperation is very important, and Pang Yishan's responsibility is irreplaceable. Originally, Zhou Liwen planned to take Lin Yaxuan with him, but with the exhibition of Huhai Company, there was a great shortage of manpower in Huhai, and Lin Yaxuan took the initiative to stay in China for this reason.

After flying across the ocean for nearly 11 hours, he slept on the plane, and Zhou Liwen was not much tired after the plane landed. Crossing the border and walking out of the airport, they saw a bald foreigner standing at the exit holding a sign with twisted and twisted Chinese, and Zhou Liwen didn't know how he wrote (drawn) the three big characters, if it weren't for Zhou Liwen's sharp eyes, he almost didn't recognize it.

"Hello, I'm Zhou Liwen." Walking straight in front of the foreigner, Zhou Liwen said in fluent English.

"The mud is good, the mud is good, and the mud of Zhou Shengsheng is good......." Who would have thought that this foreigner opened his mouth in a broken Chinese, and Pang Yishan on the side almost didn't cover his mouth and laugh out loud when he heard it, needless to say, he must have thought of the famous Chow Sang Sheng Gold Store in Xiangjiang for the first time.

"Let's use English instead, it's more convenient." Zhou Liwen shook hands with the other party with a smile, and then introduced Pang Yishan. The bald foreigner was very polite, and he introduced himself to know that this was called Terrance. Howard's guy is Scopa's administrator, and he came from Silicon Valley to meet them.

"Thank you, Mr. Howard, thank you so much for greeting." Zhou Liwen said very politely.

"Don't be so polite, you can call me Terry, please come with me." Howard put away the sign, beckoned Zhou Liwen to go out, and led them to a car not long after.

Taking the initiative to help the two of them carry their luggage to the car, Howard told Sù Zhou Liwen that he had already arranged a place for them to live in Silicon Valley, and now he would send them to the hotel to rest first, and Chairman Sun would meet them in person tomorrow afternoon.

It's not far from San Francisco Airport to Silicon Valley, and it's about 40 minutes to get to your destination along Highway 1O1 all the way south. Along the way, the very talkative Howard introduced the history of Silicon Valley to the guests, and also vividly told some interesting stories that outsiders did not know, Zhou Liwen and Pang Yishan listened with relish, and asked some questions from time to time, which was not very boring along the way.

Before they knew it, they were staying at the Hyatt Regency Silicon Valley in San Jose, which was not far from the Scopa headquarters, and the facilities and comfort of the hotel were good. Helping to check in, Howard let them have a good rest, left his phone, and smiled that he could call him anytime if he needed help with something.

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