1991 Starting from the core

"What's the meaning?"

Li Mingliu was obviously a little confused by Su Yuanshan's sudden question. He followed the direction of Su Yuanshan's gaze and looked towards the end of his line of sight - it was a CD player from Sony.

Because Su Yuanshan advocates a "low-key and simple" life, and because these big guys with technical backgrounds are obsessed with technology, everyone's material desires are not very strong, and at most they don't have to worry about consumption when it comes to personal hobbies.

For example, Su Yuanshan likes to drink coffee, and his cabinet has coffee of all flavors and prices. Li Mingliu, on the other hand, likes to smoke. From the earliest red plums to Hongta Mountain, to today's Greater China, he buys them without batting an eye... In addition, he just likes to listen to music, but his ears are a bit dull when listening to music, and the CD player Thousands and tens of thousands of speakers can only make a sound.

"Flash drive - or USB drive, in addition to providing storage space, it can assume more functions." Su Yuanshan looked away and smiled at Li Mingliu. Then he grabbed the draft pad and pencil beside him and started drawing on the draft paper.

While drawing, Su Yuanshan seemed to be very casual and said: "The ISO MPEG Audio Committee has been working on the standardization of audio coding in the past few years, and then the Fraunhofer development team was very powerful and completed the encoder last year. Then not long ago, the Layer 3 format was officially The audio file is named .mp3. And last month it announced the first player to support the .mp3 file format, Winplay3."

Li Mingliu has been out of the software industry for several years now, so he was stunned for a long time. He took a breath for a long time, frowned, and hesitated: "Did you mention it when we were engaged in MPEG-1 encoding? Are you talking about it? You said you can perform compatibility encoding on audio alone?"

"Hmm - do you still remember?"

"I almost forgot about it." Li Mingliu wiped the back of his head and added: "To be precise, I don't have time to remember these things - why do you mention this?"

"This is a multi-billion dollar business."

"..." Li Mingliu saw that Su Yuanshan was speaking casually, but his men did not stop. He also looked at the notebook intently.

Su Yuanshan simply drew a circuit sketch—not a circuit to be precise, but a conceptual diagram of functional layout.

Li Mingliu looked at it, and it looked a bit like a USB flash drive.

"You can think of this thing as a USB flash drive. But a USB flash drive with a microsystem - it is matched with the main control chip to complete the task of decoding MP3 audio. Of course, as a player, it also needs to provide music Single operation, list display and even lyrics display and other functions.”

As Su Yuanshan spoke, he drew a prototype of a SOC chip on another page.

Li Mingliu frowned and looked at the "demand" drawn by Su Yuanshan, and suddenly asked: "How big is a song in MP3 format?"

"As far as I know, it's about 1MB per minute while ensuring an acceptable compression rate."

Li Mingliu's eyes lit up instantly, and he asked in a deep voice: "What is your so-called acceptable compression rate, and how is the sound quality?"

"Don't worry, your ears can't tell the difference between good and bad."

Su Yuanshan put down his pen as he spoke, moved the notebook in front of Li Mingliu, and looked at him with a smile: "The MP3 format itself was created for the Internet. If we can download songs on the Internet to a digital device the size of a thumb, ...Tell me, will Sony vomit blood?"

Li Mingliu stared closely at his notebook. As an expert in the field of chip design, he was already thinking about how to realize the SOC chip requirements given by Su Yuanshan. As a designer of flash memory particles, he had witnessed the first USB flash drive. The person who was born, of course he understands...

Once this thing comes out, there will probably be no problem with the Walkman.

"Not bad! We can do it!" Li Mingliu licked his lips and became excited: "I'll form a team right away. I can't let Jiang Tao and the others get ahead of me this time."

"Well, it is enough that they have obtained the USB flash drive patent - but the design of this MP3 player also involves a lot of USB flash drive patents. Then we can give them some mosquito legs."

"Hmm!" Li Mingliu closed his notebook, closed his eyes again and thought for a while. Suddenly he hesitated and said, "But there is a question... Are there so many songs in MP3 format? And how is the copyright calculated?"

"Have you forgotten our cooperation with Sony Pictures?"

Su Yuanshan looked at him with a smile.

…

Ever since the cooperation with Sony Pictures, Su Yuanshan has been waiting for the progress of Li Mingliu. If the long-term significance of buying the copyright is to prepare for the comprehensive Internet era, then the short-term significance is to promote MP3 - flash memory particles - music mobile phones.

At present, due to the constraints of many factors such as screen and battery life, CPU functions and even systems, Su Yuanshan cannot jump into the era of smartphones in one step - and smartphones must also walk on two legs with the mobile Internet at the same time. But this does not mean that Su Yuanshan cannot play some tricks with feature phones in the era of feature phones.

The prerequisite for playing tricks is storage space.

Therefore, he would let Li Mingliu, a technical geek who is the best and most fond of tackling difficult problems among the many big guys at Yuanxin, lead the design of flash memory particles.

"Brother, don't underestimate this small flash memory chip... In my limited knowledge, in the next few decades, or in other words, before humans have reached the end of the silicon-based chip field, carbon-based chips will be developed. Before chips even enter the quantum realm, silicon-based memory chips will be the best choice for all human digital devices."

Su Yuanshan looked at Li Mingliu and smiled softly: "In this sense, the importance of flash memory particles far exceeds that of the processor."

Li Mingliu was slightly startled, and he subconsciously thought that Su Yuanshan was "comforting" himself - because everyone knew that the core of Yuanxin refers to the chip of the processor.

And as Yuanxin was recognized as the second best knife after Mr. Xi, he chose to challenge the flash memory particles whose future and market could not be clearly seen. Although he received Su Yuanshan's guarantee at the time, in the eyes of outsiders, Lao Li This is indeed a bit "wasteful".

Qin and Tian will not talk about it. After all, their qualifications are there and they have never had to change fields. But now Gao Xiaodi has become the "Yixin" boss in Yuanxin...

No matter what, there is always something about this.

However, Li Mingliu did not see any artificial comfort in Su Yuanshan's eyes, which meant that this was Su Yuanshan's understanding from the bottom of his heart.

Li Mingliu shook his head, pursed his lips again, and laughed.

"Speaking of carbon-based chips - I heard that He Chunhua and Zhou Xingbo want to develop carbon-based components on graphene chips. Do you think they have a chance?"

"No chance."

Su Yuanshan was not polite at all.