Liquid crystals, by themselves, do not emit light.

If you have dismantled some early electronic products with screens, you will find that behind the display screen, there are small lamp beads.

Through the illumination of these luminous lamp beads, the LCD screen can show a clear pattern, otherwise it is just a gray glass plate.

But on the screen of this game console, he didn't find any traces of the background light source, it was completely the screen itself glowing.

Kazuo Hirai said with some pride: "This is a technology that we have studied for a long time, this screen itself is made of light-emitting materials, under the stimulation of electric current, it will emit visible light, and the response is extremely fast, when you watched the animation video just now, did you feel the picture delay?" ”

Chen Weidong thought about it for a while, looked at the screen again, this time he was really shocked, and he shouted: "If you don't say it, I really haven't noticed!" ”

He played the animated video again, and sure enough, the movements of the characters in it and the synchronization of the picture when moving were extremely smooth.

"This is your latest technology? Very good, be sure to pay close attention to research, once this technology matures, it can be used in many ways! ”

He didn't expect Sony's technical level to develop so fast, and it was only in 1999 that their laboratory was already tackling bioluminescence technology.

Kazuo Hirai nodded a little weakly, after several years of research, they have never been able to make a breakthrough in this technology, and it is still very immature.

The researchers racked their brains, and the service life was improved, which can reach more than 20,000 hours, but the large size is still not achievable.

Once the screen exceeds five inches, the power consumption can quickly rise.

It is barely possible for small portable products in general.

However, if you want to use it in the field of computer screen manufacturing or television, it is still far away, and there is no hope.

Otherwise, they Sony would have become a pivotal enterprise in the island country long ago.

He patiently explained to Chen Weidong: "This new type of LCD screen, there is also a feature, that is, power saving, if it is only used for music playback, a 1-inch display, a No. 7 battery can be used for about a week." ”

This made Chen Weidong can't help but think of MP3/MP4, the prototype of this kind of small things, they have indeed swept an era, and truly made electronic products portable.

But by the time Sony officially launched the MP3, it was already in 2001.

At this time, a Sony staff member suddenly walked in and brought a laptop.

Chen Weidong's attention was drawn to the past.

I saw that the staff connected the power cord, uncovered a transparent film covering the computer, and pressed the power button of the notebook.

The display screen, which is only less than 0.5 cm thick, shows the boot screen.

Immediately afterward, the staff suddenly raised their fists and smashed down.

Boom!

Some muffled voices came, and instead of shattering into snowflake cracks, the screen continued to display images!

Then, the staff bent it lightly and pressed the monitor, and the screen did not crack as expected.

Kazuo Hirai looked at all this with a smile, and couldn't help but feel a little proud in his heart.

This is the latest material technology of the island country, and such a thin and light display screen that is not afraid of knocking should be a fantasy for Chen Weidong, a Chinese person.

However, just when he turned around and was about to admire Chen Weidong's surprised expression, he found that the other party just nodded calmly, as if everything was not unusual at all!

This made him stunned.

Could it be that the other party has seen this kind of technology a long time ago?

Before he could ask, Chen Weidong said, "Mr. Hirai, this should be made of ultra-thin flexible glass, right?" ”

His words surprised Kazuo Hirai, and sure enough, his guess was correct, the other party had obviously seen this kind of technology!

Could it be that Huaxia is also researching electronic displays?

Chen Weidong smiled silently, looking at Kazuo Hirai's expression, he knew that this guy was scared by himself, he had actually seen this kind of technology in later generations, so he knew something.

At the current level of Huaxia, it is still impossible to manufacture this level of glass material.

"Chen Jun, I didn't expect you to know this kind of material."

Kazuo Hirai was a little embarrassed, thinking that he could come up with a little "black technology" to suppress the other party and make the cooperation develop on a more favorable side, but he didn't expect to underestimate the other party's experience.

"This material is light, power-efficient, display-fast, and has a certain amount of pressure resistance, which is very much in line with my requirements, but the question is, can you produce it in large quantities?"

Chen Weidong sat down again and talked about his original intention.

These materials, used in large electronic devices, may still have a lot of defects, but if they are only used to make mobile phone screens, they are just very suitable.

"Well, this"

Kazuo Hirai wasn't sure, the staff on the side hurriedly leaned over in his ear and whispered, he finally nodded and said, "Jun Chen, this is just a small amount of LCD screens made in our laboratory, if you want to make it on a large scale, there are still many links that need to be solved."

At present, Sony is not a manufacturer focusing on manufacturing displays, and their main business is still music players, game consoles, digital cameras and other small electronic products.

If they follow Chen Weidong's requirements to manufacture the LCD screens he said, then they will inevitably expand the plant and rebuild the production line.

Moreover, before mass production, they did not have a clear data on the yield rate, and they could not calculate the cost of manufacturing a screen, so they did not dare to agree casually.

Chen Weidong nodded slowly, indicating that he understood his concerns.

This matter needs to be cautious.

Subsequently, the two discussed the details for a long time before finally finalizing the matter.

Sony and Infinity will jointly invest $800 million to set up a separate company to manufacture LCD screens that meet standards.

At first, Kazuo Hirai asked about the purpose of this LCD screen, and Chen Weidong said that he wanted to make a capacitive touch screen mobile phone, but he was really shocked.

The world's first touchscreen mobile phone, born in 1993, was designed by IBM and manufactured by Mitsubishi Electromechanical, which is also the world's first "smart phone".

It combines the functionality of a mobile phone and a handheld computer and, for the first time, has a built-in touchscreen.

Although the touch screen was so bad at the time, it was a precedent.

This early smartphone sold very poorly, and can even be described as bleak, but its novel design was still noticed by many mobile phone companies.

Including Sony, they never gave up on finding a touchscreen design that really fits the phone.

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