1991 Starting from the core

Kutaragi Ken stared at Su Yuanshan for three seconds with his eyes wide open and his mouth open.

Then he shut his mouth and quickly regained the composure and poise that a Sony vice president should have.

Although his current main position is general manager of Sony Electronics Entertainment, the technical field has also been in the direction of television and digital. But at the same time, as the vice president of the group, he will naturally look at the overall situation of the entire group.

He doesn't know much about lithium (ion) battery technology, but he still knows the difficulties of lithium batteries. Although the lithium battery group now claims to have launched commercially available lithium batteries and is even actively preparing to formulate standards, the high cost and not-so-safe performance make its symbolic significance greater than its actual commercial significance.

Within Sony, the lithium battery group led by Dr. Kazunori Ozawa still has a very high status - being able to achieve such innovative results will make a great contribution to both the future direction and Sony's overall image.

For example, Yuanxin saw Sony's success and plunged into the field of lithium-ion batteries?

After working with Yuan Xin for so long, Kutaragi Ken knew that Su Yuanshan would not easily make a decision on something that he was not sure about - that's why he was surprised.

However, Kutaragi Ken immediately realized that there should be no breakthrough for Toxin, they were just lucky.

——Otherwise, why would Su Yuanshan give a complete mobile phone plan in exchange?

…

"Mr. Xiao Su..." Kutaragi Ken pondered for a few seconds and then said slowly: "I wonder what the exchange you want refers to?"

Su Yuanshan has been paying attention to Kutaragi Ken. He knew that after this person finally missed the throne of Sony's successor, he was even praised by a lot of fans. This shows that in addition to the digital and entertainment fields that he has been working in, he also has a certain overall vision.

Looking at Kutaragi Ken's performance, Su Yuanshan was sure that Kutaragi Ken should know something about Sony's other affairs.

This is very good. I have the best relationship with Kutaragi Ken, so it is much easier to talk...

Su Yuanshan smiled and said: "It is the current complete set of lithium battery technology."

Kutaragi Ken was startled and immediately shook his head subconsciously: "Susan, this is impossible."

"Hehe..." Su Yuanshan blinked: "You have a one-year lead in lithium batteries at most, and your existing technology can be clearly arranged - right?"

Kutaragi Ken had to admit: "...Yes. But we can still maintain our advantage. Susan, a one-year advantage is already a big lead in the field of technology. It can establish Sony's position as the market leader."

"...Are you so sure that the market will accept it?"

Kutaragi Ken smiled slyly: "Susan, you are ready to exchange the mobile phone solution... Of course I believe that the market will accept it, and I believe that lithium batteries must be the direction of future development."

Su Yuanshan opened his mouth with a look of astonishment on his face.

After a while, he couldn't help but lean in slightly.

Kutaragi Ken laughed.

Since the cooperation negotiations between the two parties a year ago, he has a deep understanding of Su Yuanshan's terrible technical intuition. And he was keenly aware that Su Yuanshan had done a lot of "homework" and predictions about Sony, and he felt like he was the chairman of Sony...

So Kutaragi Ken always felt like he was being seen through by Su Yuanshan.

But now, when he saw that Su Yuanshan would also show the kind of shock of "shooting himself in the foot", Kutaragi Ken couldn't be happier.

It turns out that geniuses are also common people...

"Mr. Kutaragi... you are too cunning." Su Yuanshan said angrily.

"Susan is too anxious." Kutaragi Ken said with a smile.

"...No, I don't think you will refuse. After all, the progress of your mobile phones is very poor, at least one or two years behind. At the same time, as for lithium batteries, after we obtain your technology, we can immediately enter the safety experiment and work with you. You share data.”

"Luck plays a big factor in the selection of positive and negative electrode materials for lithium batteries, and we happen to have a little better luck. If you are willing to share technology with us, then we are willing to share luck with you."

Su Yuanshan said sincerely.

Kutaragi Ken was right, Su Yuanshan was indeed a little anxious.

At present, in China, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has established a project to develop lithium-ion batteries, but the project team is well-funded and is said to have made some progress. Yuanxin cannot plug in.

So Su Yuanshan had no choice but to wait for Cheng Peng, who had just arrived at Yuanxin, to lead a few of his brothers, starting from the most basic reverse analysis and starting step by step.

Lithium battery, a technology that can almost be classified in the field of materials, requires a lot of time and luck to achieve a breakthrough. If you can obtain the existing technology one year earlier, you will have one more year.

When Su Yuanshan said he was willing to share his luck, Kutaragi Ken's eyelids shrank slightly.

He has worked on LCD projects and knows that sometimes a breakthrough in materials is really just luck.

After a few seconds of silence, Kutaragi Ken solemnly said: "Susan, please forgive me, I don't have the power to promise you, but I will truthfully convey your wishes to the president."

"Thank you."

"However, Su Sang, I would like to ask you something. If you were asked to choose, would you choose lithium-ion batteries or mobile communication equipment."

After Kutaragi Ken finished speaking, he looked at Su Yuanshan as if asking for advice.

Su Yuanshan was stunned for a moment, then blinked slightly.

"Children only take multiple-choice questions, and of course adults take all the questions."

Kutaragi Ken was stunned for a moment, then laughed heartily.

…

After the first day of the exhibition, Su Yuanshan returned to Silicon Valley first.

Chen Jing did not return because the displayed YX architecture unexpectedly received a licensing contract from a newly established chip design company called Rise.

This company, which has only been established for less than a month, currently has only about 20 people, but it is said that the members all have experience from major companies such as Sun, IBM, and MOTO - or so the founder Lawrence said.

As for why it’s just a licensing contract, the founder of the other party wants to reveal all his “family assets”.

It's entirely because this company is so poor.

They originally wanted to follow the old path of AMD and Cyrix and copy Intel's X86. But later it was discovered that since big guys like Xinghai had acquired Cyrix and were preparing to officially enter the X86 market, they might not even be able to drink the soup again...

Now, the excellent performance of the YX architecture and the cases on PS have allowed them to see new directions.

At present, although there are many architectures based on reduced instruction sets, only powerpc and YX are really on the market.

ARM's ARM architecture is barely okay... but it seems to be very similar to the YX architecture. However, the performance, design concepts and even core patents are not as good as the YX architecture.

So this small company decided to take a chance and choose to enter the YX architecture camp.

However, poverty...is the original sin.

As a newly established company, if they paid YX's licensing fee, they would have no choice but to drink from the northwest wind.

So Lawrence found Su Yuanshan and Chen Jing and planned to increase their share of the revenue a little to obtain a reduction in licensing fees.

Then Su Yuanshan agreed.

Lawrence probably wouldn't even know it to death. In Su Yuanshan's memory, Rise, a company that once broke into the X86 field and then remained unknown, actually became famous later on.

Because this company is a bit eccentric and has transformed itself from a high-tech company into an advertising company.