Chapter 32: Run, VCD!
Su Yuanshan brewed a cup of instant coffee for his uncle that had just entered the country.
The uncle took a sip and frowned: "Duxing who sits in the office drinks this thing?"
"No, mainly because of the tea, I always feel like I'm living an early life as a middle-aged and elderly person. Su Yuanshan handed the biscuit box to his uncle againβthis was highly recommended by Xi Xiaoding's snack ghost: "Do you know what your sister said yesterday? She actually asked me to soak some wolfberries to drink, saying that it was eye-catching." β
Poof! Zhang Ke really didn't hold back, and sprayed coffee all over the ground.
Su Yuanshan shrugged, pulled a few pieces of toilet paper, wiped them clean and threw them into the trash, and sat next to his uncle by the way and said with a smile: "Uncle, you won't come to see your nephew so early, right?"
Zhang Ke has been busy with telecommunications companies for the past month, and he has opened branches in all three large cities, with the provincial city as the center, radiating east of the mountain city to the Han River. And he also listened to Su Yuanshan's advice, not only selling "Zhongxin" pager, but also selling other brands. It's just that under the suppression of Zhongxin's unique Chinese machines, other English machines, including Motorola, are very rare, and even if the price is reduced, few people care.
"I just received the news that Motorola will release a Chinese machine next month, and the pricing is still uncertain. Zhang Ke put down the coffee, stared at Su Yuanshan Zhengse, and said: "We are domestic goods, and people are imported goods." β
"Uncle, Wang Chaoxin is not in a hurry, what are you anxious about?" Su Yuanshan smiled and comforted: "After we authorized the Chinese code on our side, Wang Chaoxin's side began to lay out to all Chinese regions. And domestically, the cost of domestic machines is naturally much cheaper than imported goods - we don't have tariffs. β
MOTO did not establish an office in Beijing until '92, and then at the same time build a wholly foreign-funded production base in TJ. The current MOTO is still a purely imported product, and the Yuanxin BB machine is the first Hanxian machine with pure independent property rights and a "gift" - it is the "lost" MOTO that should tremble.
The uncle hesitated and nodded: "Okay then...... Anyway, I listen to you, the communication company does not refuse to come, and any brand makes money. β
Seeing off his uncle, Zhu Jianting walked into the office again, handed a paper boat to Su Yuanshan with a smile, and blinked: "Little girl's thank you letter." β
"You're not talking nonsense, are you?"
Zhu Jianting joked: "People think it's my mentor who helps, of course I only tell the truth - or you will be my mentor?"
"Ahem, senior brother, don't be kidding. Su Yuanshan dismantled the boat and smiled when he saw the font.
He is very familiar with this font - now is the period when Pang Zhonghua's calligraphy is rampant all over the country, as long as it is a student, both men and women are practicing that chubby font. Ye Rudai complained to him at the beginning, saying that the first thing she did after the college entrance examination was to practice calligraphy vigorously, which corrected Pang Ti a little.
The content of the letter is very simple, it is pure gratitude, there is no girlish heart, and there is no face, revealing the simplicity and reserve of a standard code farmer.
The name is Dai Peiye, looking at this name, Su Yuanshan thought for a moment - presumably this girl's mother's surname is Ye.
"You don't need me to reply, right?" Su Yuanshan looked up at Zhu Jianting and smiled.
"Whatever you want, it looks like she's going back tomorrow. Why don't you leave an address and make a pen pal?" Zhu Jianting continued to say sincerely: "This girl is really good-looking. β
Su Yuanshan immediately decided: "Forget it, don't delay other people's studies, and besides, I don't have so much time to write letters." β
Zhu Jianting shrugged his shoulders and left with an expression that you don't regret.
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In the following month, Su Yuanshan, who once again escaped the doom of returning to school, stayed in Qin Weimin's office almost every day, constantly communicating with his senior brother and group members, and improving the microcode and instruction set almost one by one. In the face of this kind of architecture, although it is imitated from ARM, it is actually a new one, even if Su Yuanshan joins the team, he is extremely cautious. Sometimes just a compilation instruction takes a day to discuss and test. After all, architecture is like a delicate building block, and any one of them will involve the whole body - so the initial underlying architecture is especially important, because all future upgrades are based on it.
At the same time, Su Yuanshan also had to find time to pay attention to Li Mingliu's team, and Li Mingliu almost made a military order saying that it could be completed by October. In the last month, Li Mingliu worked overtime until ten o'clock in the evening almost as much as he wanted, and when he handed over the floppy disk to Su Yuanshan on the last day of September, his whole body was already oily, and his beard and stubble had grown half a centimeter.
"Fortunately, I was not dishonored. Li Mingliu walked into Qin Weimin's office, threw the floppy disk on the table, and the whole person collapsed into the sofa.
Qin Weimin was the first to applaud: "Congratulations." β
"Awesome. Su Yuanshan also applauded slowly: "Senior Brother Li, your team will be released for five days on National Day." If you need to advance your salary, go to Sister Tang, and then the reward will be issued when you come back, so that everyone can relax. β
Li Mingliu jumped up, and the tiredness on his face turned red: "I thank my brothers in advance - can I take a holiday in advance if I advance my salary in the afternoon?"
"Yes, yes!"
Seeing Li Mingliu go out in a hurry, Qin Weimin smiled meaningfully: "Lao Li's side is the first team to complete the design independently, right?"
"Hmm. Su Yuanshan weighed the floppy disk and exhaled softly: "Although this chip is not difficult, it can be regarded as the first step out of commercial chip design." β
"That's really gratifying. Qin Weimin asked again, "Then what will their team do next?"
"Universal power management chip, VCD main control chip. β
Qin Weimin was stunned: "VCD?LCD, right?"
Su Yuanshan smiled: "Video CD, an independent video playback device based on MPEG format and audio and video format using CD storage disc - you will know when the design comes, it is definitely a brand new product that can blind your eyes!"
Qin Weimin also smiled: "Then I'll wait for you to light up." β
Back in the computer room, Su Yuanshan opened the design project, ran the simulation again, and after seeing that all kinds of data met the requirements, he exhaled a long breath.
There is no doubt that Li Mingliu is also very strong, which is in line with his identity as a master of T University. It's just that whether he can carry the beam depends on his future performance.
Although VCD is a new technology, its image quality is not outstanding compared to laser LCD, and VHS video recorder. The highly developed countries basically popularize these two, so the actual main market is only in Asia, to be precise, East Asia, Southeast Asia.
And there is another reason for the popularity of VCD, that is, these developing countries generally do not have any audio-visual copyrights, relying on a large number of cheap pirated discs to provide rich content, which makes VCD enter thousands of households.
And now VCDs are still facing a problem. As a brand-new consumer product, it does not have the attribute of self-propagation, so how to promote it is a very challenging job - Su Yuanshan is not as stupid as Wan Yan, and will spend tens of millions of dollars on TV advertising to open the market.
Yuanxin provides the whole machine authorization and chip sales, and then finds someone to take over the market for itself first, which is still very fragrant.