"Hello Fujio Masaoka, congratulations to your team on developing flash memory with multi-tier storage MLC structure. However, single-tier storage SLC fabric flash memory should also be taken seriously. MLC flash memory and SLC flash memory have their own merits and have a wide range of applications! ”

Zhao Ye smiled and shook hands with Fujio Masaoka and said.

The MLC structure of multi-tier storage is strong in terms of large storage capacity, but it also has many flaws.

First of all, the service life of MLC is shorter than that of SLC, and the MLC architecture can only withstand 10,000 erases, while the SLC architecture can withstand 100,000 erases.

The second is that the access speed is slow, under the current technical conditions, the access speed of the MLC chip can only reach about 6MB in theory, and the access speed of the SLC architecture is more than three times faster than the access speed of the MLC architecture!

In addition, the current consumption of MLC is higher than that of SLC, and if MLC is compared with SLC under the same usage conditions, the current consumption of MLC is about 15% higher than that of SLC.

However, the average consumer currently pays more attention to the size of the storage capacity.

Therefore, the MLC architecture of multi-tier storage is the focus of the research of Fujio Makuoka's team.

Fujio Masaoka also understood what Zhao Ye meant, and couldn't help nodding his head, indicating that he knew.

"Someone on our team has been working on a single-tier storage SLC architecture to stay ahead of the curve. At present, single-tier storage SLC architecture flash memory is too expensive and difficult to commercialize, and needs to be improved. ”

"Well, that's the best arrangement." Zhao Ye nodded with a smile, paused, and then admonished, "Oh, by the way, USB flash drives, CF cards, and SSD SSDs should also be made quickly."

The USB flash drive is divided into three specifications: 100MB, 250MB, and 500MB, and its retail prices are $100, $250, and $500 respectively.

1MB is worth a dollar!

No bullying!

The CF card is mainly composed of a control chip and a flash memory chip, a flash memory chip has 50MB, that is to say, the current CF card storage capacity is only 50MB, if we sell it for 50 dollars, it is of course a loss. So, the CF card is priced at least $200.

As for SSDs, this is still calculated at 1MB a dollar, as for how large the capacity of the SSD SSD we want to launch......"

Speaking of this, Zhao Ye pondered slightly.

When Fujio Makuoka heard this, he couldn't help smacking his tongue, thinking, it has to be the boss, this price is set, I don't dare to think so, I'm afraid I'm not going to make crazy money~

Zhao Ye didn't notice Fujio Makuoka's expression at this time, he was recalling the development of the hard drives of his main competitors.

At the beginning of this year, IBM invented MR (Magneto Resistive) technology, a new type of magnetic head that adopts the method of magnetic induction writing and magnetoresistive reading, which greatly improves the sensitivity of the magnetic head and greatly improves the work efficiency of the hard disk. At the same time, the storage density of the platter has been increased by dozens of times compared to the previous 20Mbpi (bits per square inch), laying the foundation for a huge increase in the capacity of hard drives.

IBM will soon be the first to pioneer a civilian-grade GB hard drive.

If it weren't for the flash memory developed by Wujiang Group with multi-tier storage MLC architecture, I am afraid it would not even be qualified to compete with IBM.

IBM's civilian-grade GB hard drive belongs to the 3.5-inch standard and is relatively large.

When used on a laptop, it will look a little bloated.

For the same 1GB hard drive, the size of the SSD will be several times smaller than the IBM HDD, so the SSD SSD is very suitable for laptops.

Wujiang can develop 1GB and 2GB SSDs, but only sells 1GB SSDs, while 2GB SSDs are mainly used for its own desktops and laptops to enhance its competitiveness.

After Zhao Ye clarified his thoughts, he explained that Fujio Masaoka developed 1GB and 2GB SSD solid state drives.

Fujio Masaoka hurriedly said that there was no problem, but more people needed to be recruited, and they were a little too busy to do so.

"You can recruit people, what kind of talent you need, just recruit, the development potential of flash memory is beyond your imagination. In the future, the market for flash memory will be huge, and there will be many product lines and a wide range of applications. ”

"Okay, boss!" Fuji Yuo Masaoka replied, he is very excited in his heart, and he can't wait to recruit a large number of talents to join the flash memory department, and then do a big job to prove the value of flash memory to the world! Of course, the thing that excites Fujio Masaoka the most is to see the face of his old club Toshiba that he regrets......

"Do a good job, Fujio Masaoka, success is just around the corner! As the 'Father of Flash', you will definitely make a name for yourself in the world! Zhao Ye patted Fujio Masaoka on the shoulder and encouraged, and then said goodbye to him.

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Ye went to the MPEG-1 decoder chip department, and also encouraged the development team, asking them to make persistent efforts to design better decoder chips.

Zhao Ye talked with the developers for a long time, talked about the MPEG-2 video format and compression algorithm in detail, and pointed out the idea of developing MPEG-2 decoding chips for the technicians.

At present, the encoding used by VCD is MPEG-I technology, the image resolution can only reach about 240 lines, and the sound is only a simple two-channel channel, so it is not very good in terms of image and sound quality, function, performance, etc.

The super VCD adopts MPEG-II coding technology, the sound can reach 4 channels stereo, and the image resolution reaches 350 lines, which can basically reach the highest resolution of domestic TVs in the 90s.

Zhao Ye has always liked to launch the first generation of products, and he must immediately study the next generation of products and always stay ahead of the technology.

Although DVD is stronger than super VCD, but after all, the development is more difficult, Wujiang Group can first take super VCD to practice, super VCD uses MPEG-II encoding technology and DVD encoding technology is the same, for the future development of DVD is very helpful.

Before he knew it, it was more than five o'clock in the afternoon, and seeing that he was about to get off work, Zhao Ye left Loongson Company.

On the way back, Zhao Ye became more and more interested in super VCD.

If the current video recorder can still PK with VCD in image quality, then when it comes to super VCD, the video recorder will have to be completely finished.

Families in Western countries are using video recorders, and Wujiang Group wants to use VCDs to pry open the door, not impossible, but it is a little more difficult. If you replace the VCD with a super VCD, let alone pry the door, you can directly break into the house and rob it, and the custodian will willingly take out the money......

"VCD was first launched in developing countries, and first, these countries have not yet had time to occupy the market by video recorders; Second, the price of VCD is cheaper than that of video recorders; Third, pirated CDs are low in cost and easy to popularize. ”

"When the super VCD is developed, we must enter the Western market as soon as possible! While the DVD has not yet been developed, make a lot of money with it! ”

Zhao Ye smiled, it's cool to hang up!

How to develop, how to win, I know it all clearly!

……

It was 10 o'clock in the morning the next day.

"Boss, Wang Fulin, the director of "Dream of Red Mansions", just called, he said that "Dream of Red Mansions" has been produced and submitted for review, and it is planned to be broadcast on CCTV at 8 o'clock in the evening on July 1st!"

Liu Yinyin walked up to Zhao Ye and said with a smile, "Previously, we had a joint operation and promotion with "Journey to the West", and the effect was remarkable, which greatly enhanced the influence of "Journey to the West". I guess Director Wang probably has this meaning! ”

Zhao Ye put down the document and heard Liu Yinyin's guess, and couldn't help but smile: "Well, it should be." You go and contact director Wang Fulin and say that Wujiang Group will operate in conjunction with "Dream of Red Mansions", and the group's beverage brands will be printed with stills from "In the Red Mansion". In addition, the VCD products produced by Wujiang Group have been endorsed by several protagonists of "Dream of Red Mansions". ”

Originally, "Dream of Red Mansions" was broadcast in 1987, and many of the plots in it did not appear on TV, but after Wujiang Group invested funds, the crew of "Dream of Red Mansions" filmed for more than a year in order to shoot more sophisticated and completely restore the plot of "Dream of Red Mansions".

VCD is now a good luck, once "Dream of Red Mansions" is broadcast, for a while, who can be popular with Lin Daiyu, Xue Baochai, Jia Baoyu, Wang Xifeng......

The endorsement fee for domestic artists is very low, and Wujiang is the investor of "Dream of Red Mansions", so it is not easy for them to bring a statement.

With the popularity of "Dream of Red Mansions", the VCD is expected to soon become popular all over the country, and then sell well all over the world!

When Liu Yinyin heard this, she nodded and responded: "Okay, boss, I'll contact Director Wang Fulin now." ”

As soon as Liu Yinyin left, Zhao Ye fell into deep thought at this time, what kind of brand name to give VCD.

After thinking about it, it seems to be okay to call it "Borderless VCD".

In the eyes of many people, Wujiang is a high-tech giant, and "Wujiang + VCD" will naturally make people trust - this is a high-tech product!

Not only domestic, but also abroad, there will be countless consumers rushing to the "borderless" brand.

Therefore, Zhao Ye thought twice and decided to use the brand name "Wujiang VCD".

……

……

said that at this moment, Director Wang Fulin received a call from Zhao Ye's secretary Liu Yinyin.

"Hello Director Wang, I'm Liu Yinyin, Zhao Ye's secretary, and the boss plans to let Wujiang Group and "West Red Mansion" operate in tandem ......"

Liu Yinyin explained Zhao Ye's meaning to Director Wang Fulin in detail, and said that the endorsement fee is determined according to the role played, but at least 100,000 yuan starts.

The more Director Wang Fulin listened, the happier he became.

With the cooperation of Wujiang Group, the ratings of "Dream of Red Mansions" will definitely rise.

Moreover, the creators of Dream of Red Mansions endorse the VCD developed by Wujiang Group, and their income is very good, which can be regarded as compensation for their suffering in the crew in the past few years.

The crew of "Dream of Red Mansions" is very poor, and all the money is spent on filming. The actor's salary is very low, Ouyang Fenqiang, the male lead actor who plays Jia Baoyu, is 80 yuan per episode when there are many scenes, and 60 yuan when there are few scenes, and he got a total of more than 3,000 yuan after the filming of "Dream of Red Mansions......

The actress Chen Xiaoxu, who plays Lin Daiyu, is only 60 yuan for 1 episode.

The income of these actors is far less than the income of an ordinary worker.

At the same time, Hong Kong artists, their incomes were much higher, the more popular artists were as few as hundreds of thousands, and the better ones were hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars, while top stars like Cheng Long were at least five million Hong Kong dollars or more.

A domestic actor, even if he is popular all over the country, his salary will not be very high.

Many domestic actors yearn to develop in Hong Kong, and they seem to think that actors in Hong Kong can make a lot of money and be superior to others.

Wujiang Group is relatively generous, and they have never encountered an endorsement fee of 100,000 yuan.

After Director Wang Fulin hung up the phone, he was ready to mention it to Chen Xiaoxu, Ouyang Fenqiang and others.

Chen Xiaoxu, Ouyang Fenqiang and others were preparing to pack up and go home.

Wang Fulin called them together.

Everyone was surprised, but when they saw Director Wang Fulin with a smile on his face, they knew that it shouldn't be a bad thing.

"Don't rush home yet, Wujiang Group is ready to ask you to be an endorsement." Wang Fulin said with a smile.

"Wujiang actually asked us to do product endorsement?!" Ouyang Fenqiang was stunned.

Chen Xiaoxu and others were also stunned.

They never imagined that the well-known Wujiang Group in China would invite these unknown people to be spokespersons.

Actually, it's no wonder they're stunned. "Dream of Red Mansions" has not yet been broadcast, and they are not famous at all now. Even Hong Kong kung fu superstar Cheng Long can't be the product spokesperson of Wujiang Group, which shows how demanding it is to be the product spokesperson of Wujiang Group.

……

Chongqing.

The VCD factory is in full operation, and the VCD players are moved off the production line and then transported to the warehouse by small forklifts for storage.

When Mayor Zhou Yuchuan inspected the factory, he never stopped smiling.

As soon as the Chongqing Wujiang VCD factory started, thousands of people were employed, and soon, VCD will become one of the pillar economies of Chongqing, if VCD is popular in China and even the world......

But since using VCD, Mayor Zhou Yuchuan firmly believes that VCD will be popular in China, and China really needs such a product to watch movies. Even if it's a foreign country, you can't put down VCD when you think about it.

Mayor Zhou Yuchuan was full of confidence, and at this time, he couldn't help but be glad that he sold Tianfu Cola to Wujiang Group in exchange for Wujiang Group's investment in the establishment of a VCD factory in Chongqing.

Now it's finally time to harvest!

Chongqing will surely achieve economic take-off because of VCD and promote the construction of the electronics industry and manufacturing industry!

At this moment, the whole of Chongqing is escorting the Wujiang VCD factory to ensure the smooth production of products.

"With an annual output of 12 million VCDs, I don't know what the domestic market can digest?" Zhou Yuchuan said to Lou Hongfei, the head of Wujiang VCD, who had been following him.

"At first, of course, it couldn't be consumed, but the boss had a plan to build his own 'video hall' across the country, including in the vast rural areas, once this plan was successfully implemented, the annual production capacity of 12 million units could not meet the demand. At that time, it will be necessary to increase production capacity......" Lou Hongfei replied with a smile.

After a pause, Lou Hongfei explained, "A video hall is a small movie theater that plays movies for customers through VCD players, and by the way, there are also VCD players and VCD disc rental and sales business. ”

When Zhou Yuchuan heard this, he suddenly realized.

"Mr. Zhao is really far-sighted, and there is almost no chance that this plan to build his own 'video hall' will fail, and once implemented, the video halls all over the country will continue to bring revenue to Wujiang. At the same time, the 'video hall' will also play a great role in publicity, those who come to the video hall to watch the movie, all will be potential users of VCD players, and when they have money, of course, they want to have their own VCD ......"

After a pause, Zhou Yuchuan sighed, "Zhao Ye's 'video hall' plan is really admirable!" ”

Lou Hongfei also nodded in agreement, although the initial investment of this plan is relatively large, but the benefits are not small, at least it can ensure the rapid popularization of Wujiang VCD.

The price of a "borderless VCD" is four to five thousand yuan, which ordinary families cannot afford. However, the emergence of video halls is extremely in line with China's national conditions.

Let the people spend thousands of dollars to buy a VCD player, they may not be able to afford it, but let them spend five wool to watch a movie in the video hall, they will definitely kiss it!

In addition, when people see that opening a video hall is very profitable, can they not be envious? At that time, many people will surely follow suit and open video halls......

To open a video hall, you have to buy VCD players and VCD discs from Wujiang Group, so it goes without saying that Wujiang Group is naturally going to make money.

……

……

Whether it is selling VCD players or opening video halls, VCD discs are required.

Wujiang Group has a reputation, how can it be embarrassed to sell pirated VCD discs?

Of course, Wujiang Group only needs to buy part of the genuine film and television copyrights, and the rest will be handed over to the pirates.

As long as it is profitable, there will always be people who are willing to take risks. Having said that, there is no risk at all in piracy in China. With the slightest hint from the Borderless Group, pirates will soon be in action.

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……

Hong Kong, Golden Harvest Company.

"Boss Zou, Wujiang Group is ready to launch a product similar to a video recorder, called VCD, therefore, I want to buy VCD film and television rights from Golden Harvest!"

Lou Hongfei flew to Hong Kong at this time and took the lead in finding Golden Harvest to negotiate film and television copyrights.

ATV owns a lot of TV series rights, and its own company's stuff, don't worry.

The number of TV series is enough, but the movie resources are relatively lacking.

Zou Huaiwen asked suspiciously, "What is a VCD?" Did you bring any products with you? ”

"Bring it here!"

Lou Hongfei nodded, and immediately asked the assistant to show the VCD he brought to Zou Huaiwen and the others.

Zou Huaiwen saw that this "Borderless VCD" was a glossy black box, very similar to a video recorder.

"Manager Lou, how does this work?" Zou Huaiwen asked again.

"Press the button here, the disc drive will pop up, and then put in the disc, push the disc drive to run automatically, and play the movie! I'll show you a demo now! ”

"Okay, let's demonstrate, there's a TV here!"

Soon, Lou Hongfei demonstrated to Zou Huaiwen how to use VCD.

Zou Huaiwen couldn't help nodding secretly, this VCD is almost no different from a video recorder, that is, the videotape is replaced by a CD.

Many people in Hong Kong have bought VCRs, and Zou Huaiwen himself is using VCDs, so he is not very interested in VCDs without borders.

He felt that the VCD product developed by Wujiang would most likely fail.

However, this has nothing to do with Golden Harvest, since Wujiang wants VCD film and television copyrights, then sell them to the other party, Golden Harvest can make more money, why not?

"At what price does Wujiang plan to pay to buy film and television rights?" Zou Huaiwen asked.

When Lou Hongfei heard this, he immediately said, "Wujiang is willing to pay 30 million Hong Kong dollars to buy all the film and television copyrights of Golden Harvest, of course, only for VCD." ”

It stands to reason that the 30 million is also a windfall, but Zou Huaiwen is still not satisfied. Since its establishment, Golden Harvest has shot many classic movies, if Wujiang only used 30 million Hong Kong dollars to buy it, Golden Harvest seems to be a bit of a loss? In case the VCD becomes popular, Golden Harvest is selling the copyright cheaply.

"Manager Lou, if you want to win the copyright, you need at least 60 million Hong Kong dollars, otherwise, I will definitely not agree." Zou Huaiwen said.

However, Lou Hongfei was not willing to accept Zou Huaiwen's offer, but fortunately, he still had a plan B.

"Then I won't package it, only select the copyright of a part of the work, and price it according to the box office of the film in Hong Kong......"

Zou Huaiwen thought about it and felt that this was okay.

At this time, Lou Hongfei asked his assistant to take out a document, which listed the local box office of each film since the establishment of Golden Harvest, as well as the quotation given by Wujiang.

Zou Huaiwen was slightly surprised, and secretly said in his heart that the other party was indeed prepared and had made full preparations.

I took a closer look at the other party's offer.

The box office in this port exceeded 5 million Hong Kong dollars, and less than 10 million Hong Kong dollars, and the price was 50,000 Hong Kong dollars;

The box office of this port exceeded 10 million Hong Kong dollars, but it was less than 20 million Hong Kong dollars, and the quotation was 300,000 Hong Kong dollars;

The box office of this port exceeded 20 million Hong Kong dollars, and the quotation was 500,000 Hong Kong dollars.

Zou Huaiwen was still not satisfied and shook his head.

Seeing this, Lou Hongfei spread his hands and said: "I still have one last way to cooperate, Boss Zou, if you don't agree, then we can only cooperate next time." ”

"What kind of cooperation?" Zou Huaiwen asked in a deep voice.

"According to the proportional share, for every work that belongs to Golden Harvest is sold or leased, Wujiang will give Golden Harvest a 20% share."

Zou Huaiwen heard this, hesitated, although he is not very optimistic about VCD, but Wujiang can always prove his success, he can gamble, thinking of this, Zou Huaiwen immediately made a decision, and said: "Okay, cooperate in this way!! ”

(End of chapter)