The years of red flags

Jiang Hua pointed to the box in his hand and asked: "Is this the product you designed? Can you tell me about it in detail?"

"This is a music player I made myself, a brand new product."

Jiang Hua became interested, and asked curiously: "Now there are portable music players such as walkman and CD, what do you mean?"

"This is a digital player. I use a hard disk as a storage device, and I make a software player myself."

Jiang Hua's heart skipped a beat at the time, isn't this the most primitive MP3, so he took this thing in his hand and weighed it, good guy, this player is really heavy enough, there is absolutely no problem in being a boarder.

"What is the capacity of your computer's hard drive?"

The researcher said with a smile: "This is the best hard drive I can buy on the market, with a capacity of 80M."

"Then you can compress a song according to your algorithm, how big it can be."

The researcher sighed and said, "The compression efficiency is not high, it must be about ten megabytes."

"That is to say, you can only play seven or eight songs on a hard disk." Jiang Hua said with a smile: "You are far behind tapes and CDs, and you don't have the slightest advantage."

Director Xie also said: "That's right, Xiao Liu, I have advised you a long time ago, your design is a bit whimsical, and this thing has no practical significance."

Jiang Hua said with a smile: "And your player is so heavy, much heavier than a CD and a Walkman, it doesn't make any sense to be portable."

The researcher said dejectedly: "This is the first digital product I have researched by myself. I also know that he has no advantages now, but I just don't want to be reconciled."

"It's right not to be reconciled. This product is really useless now, but it is very forward-looking." Jiang Hua praised: "Mr. Lu, you must give him a bonus."

"Okay, but please explain how to be forward-looking."

Jiang Hua said with a smile: "Now it can store four or five songs, which is really no problem, but we can study the compression technology in depth. If a song is only two to three megabytes, can it store a lot of songs?"

"In addition, with the development of time, hard disk technology will also improve rapidly. Now a hard disk is 80 megabytes, but maybe one day a hard disk can reach 1G. Does that mean it has more advantages than tapes and CDs?"

Lu Xiuying frowned and said, "But the hard drive is still very heavy."

"I remember Xiaodongyang four or five years ago. A Ph.D. from Toshiba proposed the concept of flash memory. The flash memory chip is much smaller. Although the capacity is also small, with the development, I think the chip will become smaller and smaller. The capacity will increase."

"Oh, yes, I remembered. Last year, Intel launched a flash memory chip with a size of 256K. I think you can study it in depth. If a flash memory chip can store more than 100 megabytes, your song has only three It looks like four megabytes, and it can be made into a music player, which has both portability and capacity advantages."

When the researcher heard this, he was really happy. Mr. Jiang affirmed my idea, showing that this thing of mine really has a bright future.

Director Xie thought for a while and said, "Someone in our research institute is researching flash memory chips, which seem to be similar to Intel's technology now."

"That's even better." Jiang Hua said with a smile: "The project of this digital player cannot be stopped, and we must continue to study it in depth. One day, this player will shrink to the size of a palm and can store thirty or forty songs. Of course, we should not only focus on the hardware, but pay attention to the software, the compression method and the playback method, and we must study it in depth. I see that its future market will not be much worse than that of VCD.”

Lu Xiuying said with a smile: "Director Xie, you assist this researcher Liu to prepare the opening report and prepare the documents for project declaration. I will approve them as soon as I go back. Since Mr. Jiang said that the market is huge, we can't ignore."

Director Xie laughed at himself and said, "Understood, although my old Xie has poor eyesight, but the efficiency is still good."

"Thank you Mr. Jiang, thank you Mr. Lu, I will definitely work hard to develop this player as soon as possible."

"Don't rush, this thing is related to both software and hardware. If you don't make progress in these two aspects, you will never make progress, and your player has something to do with the Internet. If the Internet is not developed enough to download music, Yours is just a decoration, and it is also related to computer transmission, at least there must be a convenient interface."

Lu Xiuying was dumbfounded and said: "Then this thing is probably useless within three to five years." 0
"I don't know. But I think it's enough to be listed five or six years ago, but it doesn't matter. We proposed such a concept five or six years in advance, which means that we have taken the lead. In fact, we can wait until the Internet develops to that level, even if Our products are immature, we can be the first to launch products, first establish our initial image, then we will operate as we do now, register patents, and establish standards.”

After receiving Jiang Hua's guidance, the researcher was overjoyed. Although he said that the time to go public was far away, he was still young and could afford to wait. Especially since these projects would be led by him, he was even happier.

After bidding farewell to this excited researcher, Director Xie took him to the next laboratory.

Director Xie introduced enthusiastically: "This is researcher Zhang Wanhe. He got yours from Compaq Computer. He wants to make a real mobile phone computer that can be stuffed into a backpack and walked away with it. Much more convenient."

Jiang Hua nodded: "That's right, it's very promising. In 1000, Toshiba launched the T[-] and proposed the concept of notebook computers, but the so-called notebook computers on the market are not really convenient. A real notebook computer, weighing at most one to three kilograms. There are many problems restricting this notebook computer, including battery life and heat dissipation of the notebook. These must be taken into account. This is a systematic project. I have a The research institute is now also researching new energy batteries, if there is progress there, it may be of great help to your laptop plan."

"Really?" Researcher Zhang was overjoyed: "Mr. Jiang, if there is any good news over there, you must tell it. The efficiency of the battery used now is too low and the volume is too large. I am very distressed."

"Don't worry, take your time. There are some things that can't be rushed, especially the problems of basic materials, which can only be solved by accumulating over time."

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