1991 Starting from the core

"Jiu Duojun, let me introduce you. This is Professor Zhou Boguang, the director of Huajing Semiconductor Research Center."

In the hotel where Kutaragi Ken stayed, Su Yuanshan and Zhou Boguang visited together.

"Hello, Director Zhou." Kutaragi Ken has also started to learn Chinese recently. Although his speech is a bit difficult to pronounce, he can finally understand it.

"Mr. Jiuduo, welcome." Zhou Boguang took the other party's hand and laughed: "This way, please."

Kutaragi Ken glanced at Su Yuanshan without leaving any trace, and the latter lightly shrugged at him.

There is no way, Huajing, the domestic semiconductor industry conference, is a unit that cannot be bypassed. Moreover, Zhou Boguang and Su Yuanshan had always had a good personal relationship. Therefore, when the ministry asked Su Yuanshan whether they would consider inviting Hua Jing as well, Su Yuanshan agreed without any hesitation.

However, Su Yuanshan did not expect that Zhou Boguang would come to Shanghai one day earlier than him, just waiting to catch him.

Of course, the main purpose of this Flash Memory Alliance Conference was to exchange feelings and learn about technology, so Su Yuanshan did not shy away from it and took Zhou Boguang, who insisted on seeing him, to meet Kutaragi Ken.

The three of them entered the hotel's tea room, and after introducing each other, they chatted casually with friends. From the wafer fab manufacturing process to the development of the chip industry, and then to the future of the semiconductor industry... Since several of them were professionals, we had a very happy chat.

It’s the translator Su Yuanshan who suffered a lot.

Fortunately, Zhou Boguang just hadn't seen Su Yuanshan for a long time. He wanted to chat with him and didn't really pester him. He left after lunch that day.

…

"Susan, Director Zhou seems to be your competitor?"

In the living room of Kutaragi Ken's suite, Su Yuanshan sat opposite him.

Su Yuanshan nodded with a smile: "Yes, but it's more of a friendship."

Kutaragi Ken sighed: "It is a beautiful thing to be friends with your opponent."

"Haha, we are friends first, and then we are rivals - for example, there will definitely be areas where our products and markets overlap in the future. We cannot change our relationship just because of this. Bar?"

Kutaragi Ken smiled: "Yes."

"The main thing is that with the advancement of science and technology, in the future, as long as you want to make a difference in the field of science and technology, you must have a relationship of competition and cooperation. Leading a technology company is not about opening a noodle shop, you only need to rely on your own craftsmanship."

"Haha, Su Sang is a good metaphor."

"I'm just speaking out of my feelings... Mainly because I see that some companies in your country are developing in a single direction."

In the field of semiconductors, under the continuous suppression of the lighthouse country against the neon country, not all companies have the capital to fight, and most of them don't even have the intention to resist, and just lie down.

Therefore, in recent years, many small and medium-sized enterprises in Niguo have begun to shrink comprehensively and specialize in the fields they are good at, in order to obtain an irreplaceable supply chain position in this field and survive.

After hearing what Su Yuanshan said, Kutaragi sighed: "Not all companies have outstanding insight and courage."

"That's right, I can't blame them." Su Yuanshan opened his briefcase and handed the unmarked mobile phone to Kutaragi Ken.

In terms of appearance, this mobile phone adopts Yuanxin's mature folding solution, and the motherboard also uses two pieces, one is located behind the display and the other is located below the keyboard.

Put it this way, it looks like the Motorola V998 with a slightly larger screen and a slightly thicker screen cover.

In addition to its appearance, it has for the first time canceled the positive and negative circular charging jacks at the bottom, and instead used a microUsb interface that has not yet been officially announced. This interface can exchange data and charge lithium batteries.

Of course, as a mobile phone that can be used as an MP3 player, it must have a 3.5mm headphone jack. It's just that because of the system, there is no adaptation for wired headphones yet - these are already being arranged.

Kutaragi Ken's expression froze as soon as he saw the mobile phone. He knew that Su Yuanshan would not be able to show him an ordinary mobile phone.

"Jiu Duojun, this is the mobile phone that Yuexin will promote to the world next year. In a sense. It will change the world forever."

"Is it equipped with MP3 playback function?" Ken Kutaragi immediately saw the headphone jack and the unusual data and charging interface.

"Yes."

Next, Su Yuanshan gave a detailed explanation to Kutaragi Ken about the functions of the mobile phone. Especially when he mentioned that a small card slot can be designed to meet the user's expansion needs for storage functions, Kutaragi Ken was full of praise.

If the current expensive onboard flash memory chip can be removed and replaced with an external standard memory card, then users will have more choices in terms of cost alone.

"What an ingenious design." Kutaragi quickly mastered the secret of the player and started playing music on the external speakers.

"The current player function is just an excessive solution. The version officially launched next year will be equipped with a new playback system and other systems..." Su Yuanshan smiled, took the phone, and pointed to the upper left part of the back cover of the phone.

"Kyuta-kun, a space the size of a speaker has been reserved here."

"Huh?" Kutaragi Ken stared at the position pointed by Su Yuanshan and looked at the other party in confusion: "Why reserve it?"

"Because I'm waiting for you..."

Kutaragi Ken was stunned for a moment. After two seconds, he quickly recalled what Su Yuanshan once told him about his vision for mobile phones.

"Are you...waiting for the photoreceptor?"

"Yes!" Su Yuanshan chuckled.

Since Yuanxin has allies like Sony, if it doesn't launch a "camera" phone, it will really be a waste of this relationship.

Historically, Sony started developing CMOS sensors around this time.

However, because CCD sensors are still the mainstream direction at this time, and almost everyone is not very optimistic about CMOS - after all, its imaging quality is a bit worse than CCD at this time.

Today's digital sensors can only be used in one place, which is digital cameras and video cameras. In both areas, the cost advantage clearly doesn't make up for the lack of image quality.

But mobile phones are different.

And in fact, CMOS sensors were not popular through mobile phones at the beginning, but because of the speed and acceleration of the Internet and the need for social interaction, which gave birth to the need for video chats - cameras that do not require high definition were born.

With the follow-up of mobile phones and network monitoring, low-cost CMOS has made great progress.

If we rely on cameras and camcorders to promote CMOS sensors, then we have to wait until the end of the year?