1991 Starting from the core

Su Yuanshan made his uncle a cup of instant coffee that had just entered the country.

The uncle took a sip and frowned: "Do people sitting in the office want to drink this stuff?"

"No, mainly because when I drink tea, I always feel that I am living the life of a middle-aged and elderly person early." Su Yuanshan handed the biscuit box to his uncle again - this was highly recommended by the snack guy Xi Xiaoding: "Do you know what your sister said yesterday? ? She actually asked me to brew some wolfberry and drink it, saying it would improve my eyesight and soothe my mind."

puff! Zhang Ke couldn't hold it in anymore and sprayed coffee all over the floor.

Su Yuanshan shrugged, pulled out a few pieces of toilet paper, wiped them clean and threw them into the trash can. He sat down next to his uncle and said with a smile: "Uncle, you are not here specifically to see your nephew so early, are you?"

Zhang Ke has been busy with the communications company in the past month. He has opened branches in these three large cities with the provincial capital as the center and radiating east of the mountain city to the Han River. And he also followed Su Yuanshan's advice, not only selling "Zhongxin" paging, but also selling other brands as an agent. However, under the pressure of Zhongxin's unique Chinese phone, other English phones including Motorola have very few sales, and even if the price is reduced, few people are interested.

"I just received the news that Motorola will release a Chinese phone next month. The pricing is still uncertain." Zhang Ke put down his coffee, stared at Su Yuanshan and said seriously: "We are domestic products, others are imported products."

"Uncle, Wang Chaoxin is not worried. Why are you anxious?" Su Yuanshan smiled and comforted: "After we authorized the Chinese encoding, Chaoxin began to deploy in all Chinese regions. And as far as the country is concerned, Domestic machines are naturally much cheaper than imported ones – we don’t have tariffs.”

MOTO would not establish an office in Beijing until 1992, and then build a purely foreign-invested production base in TJ at the same time. Today's MOTO is still a purely imported product, while the Yuanxin BB machine is a purely independent property and was the first Han display machine to be "gifted" - it is the "disgraced" MOTO that should be trembling.

The uncle hesitated for a moment and nodded: "Okay... Anyway, I listen to you. Communication companies will not refuse anyone who comes, and they will make money from any brand."

After seeing off his uncle, Zhu Jianting walked into the office again, handed a paper boat to Su Yuanshan with a smile, and winked: "A letter of thanks from the little girl."

"You're not talking nonsense, are you?"

Zhu Jianting joked: "People think it was my mentor who helped me. Of course I have to tell the truth - how about you be my mentor?"

"Ahem, senior brother, don't be joking." Su Yuanshan opened the boat and smiled knowingly when he saw the font.

He is familiar with this font - now is the period when Pang Zhonghua's copybooks are popular all over the country. As long as they are students, both men and women are practicing the fat font. Ye Rudai had complained to him at the beginning, saying that the first thing she did after the college entrance examination was to practice calligraphy vigorously, and then she slightly corrected her body shape.

The content of the letter is very simple, just pure gratitude, without girlishness or nymphomaniac, revealing the simplicity and reserve of a standard coder.

The signature was Dai Pei Ye. Looking at this name, Su Yuanshan thought for a moment - this girl's mother's surname must be Ye.

"You don't need me to reply, do you?" Su Yuanshan looked up at Zhu Jianting and said with a smile.

"Whatever you want, she seems to be going back tomorrow. How about you leave her address and make a pen pal?" Zhu Jianting continued sincerely: "This girl is really pretty."

Su Yuanshan immediately decided: "Forget it, don't delay others' studies. Besides, I don't have that much time to write letters."

Zhu Jianting shrugged and left with a don't regret it expression.

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In the next month, Su Yuanshan, who once again escaped the bad luck of returning to school, stayed in Qin Weimin's office almost every day, constantly communicating with his seniors and team members, and improving the microcode and instruction set almost one by one. Faced with this architecture, which although copied from ARM, is actually a brand new architecture, even if Su Yuanshan joined the team, he was extremely cautious. Sometimes just one assembly instruction would take them a day to discuss and test. After all, the architecture is like a precise building block, and moving any one of them will affect the whole body - so the initial underlying architecture is particularly important, because all future upgrades will be based on it.

At the same time, Su Yuanshan had to take time to pay attention to Li Mingliu's team. Li Mingliu almost issued a military order saying that it could be completed before October. In the last month, Li Mingliu almost risked his life and worked overtime until ten o'clock in the evening. When he handed the floppy disk to Su Yuanshan on the last day of September, his whole body was already greasy, and his beard had grown half a centimeter. .

"Fortunately, I lived up to my fate." Li Mingliu walked into Qin Weimin's office, threw the floppy disk on the table, and collapsed into the sofa.

Qin Weimin was the first to applaud: "Congratulations."

"Awesome." Su Yuanshan also applauded slowly: "Senior Brother Li, your team will have five days off for the National Day. If you need an advance on salary, go to Sister Tang, and the rewards will be given out after you come back, so that everyone can relax."

Li Mingliu stood up, his face flushed with tiredness: "I'd like to thank you in advance for my brothers - can I take leave in advance if I advance my salary this afternoon?"

"Ok, Ok!"

Seeing Li Ming and Liu Feng go out in a hurry, Qin Weimin smiled meaningfully: "Lao Li's side is the first team to complete the design independently, right?"

"Yes." Su Yuanshan weighed the floppy disk and breathed out softly: "Although this chip is not difficult, it is the first step towards commercial chip design."

"That's indeed gratifying." Qin Weimin asked again: "Then what will their team do next?"

"Universal power management chip, VCD main control chip."

Qin Weimin was startled: "VCD? LCD?"

Su Yuanshan smiled: "Video CD is an independent video playback device based on the MPEG format that uses the audio and video formats of CD storage discs - you will know when it is designed, it will definitely be a brand-new product that will brighten your eyes. !”

Qin Weimin also smiled: "Then I'll wait for you to show off."

Back in the computer room, Su Yuanshan opened the design project and ran the simulation again. After seeing that all the data met the requirements, he took a long breath.

There is no doubt that Li Mingliu is also very strong, which is consistent with his status as a master of T University. But whether he can take the lead depends on his future performance.

Although VCD is a brand new technology, its picture quality is not outstanding compared to laser LCD and video recorder VHS. Highly developed countries have basically popularized these two types, so the actual main market is only in Asia, to be precise, East Asia and Southeast Asia.

Another reason for the popularity of VCD is that these developing countries generally have no audio and video copyrights. They rely on a large number of cheap pirated discs to provide rich content, which makes VCD enter thousands of households.

Now VCD is still facing a problem. As a brand-new consumer product that does not have self-propagating properties, how to promote it is a very demanding job - Su Yuanshan is not as stupid as Wan Yan, who would spend tens of millions on advertising on TV. to open the market.

Yuanxin provides complete machine licensing and chip sales, and then finds someone to take over and open up the market for itself first, which is still very good.