1991 Starting from the core

The meeting continued the next morning.

Since he had enough time yesterday, Su Yuanshan believed that as long as these technocrats did not get to high positions by dawdling, they would naturally understand that the standard solution proposed by Yuanxin is actually very complete and does not require others to work on the technology. supplement in the category.

Letting everyone discuss is just to make everyone look good, which is exactly what Su Yuanshan said - respect.

Therefore, even Toshiba's Okamoto Yuhi was unable to make more technical suggestions and instead discussed with other manufacturers how to adapt card readers to digital devices.

Looking at the faces of everyone, Su Yuanshan felt at ease - it seems that he can get these companies to sign the agreement tomorrow without any further trouble, right?

At this moment, Zhou Xiaohui, who was fully responsible for the logistics arrangements for the alliance meeting at this time, pushed in the door, whispered a few words in Su Yuanshan's ear, and handed him a document.

The people present were having a lively discussion, and no one noticed that Su Yuanshan frowned slightly, and then a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

Asking Zhou Xiaohui to leave the conference room first, Su Yuanshan coughed lightly, and when everyone looked at him, he said in an unhurried voice.

"I just received news from Silicon Valley about a press conference that will be held in the afternoon."

Su Yuanshan said, looking at IBM's Mr. Bacon out of the corner of his eye, and saw a meaningful smile on this gentleman's face.

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"Well, just now, Intel's CEO, Mr. Andy Grove, and SanDisk's co-founder, Mr. Eli Harari, held a small press conference, and the two parties announced a partnership. At the same time, at the meeting, SanDisk announced that they had officially broken through MLC technology and completed a flash memory particle with a single-chip capacity of 32MB."

"Intel announced that it will provide SanDisk with the most advanced process chips in the future and accelerate cooperation and layout between the two parties in the fields of solid-state drives, mobile and digital storage."

"At the same time, both parties also announced the official launch of a memory standard called Multi Media Card." Su Yuanshan paused and smiled slightly: "Multimedia memory card sounds more professional than us..."

Facing Su Yuanshan's last sentence, everyone present was indifferent, and everyone was in a somewhat confused state.

This...isn't it too coincidental?

There is still a meeting here, but flash memory and Intel are just the first to release it?

For a moment, the scene became silent. Everyone looked at each other, but in the end no one said a word and everyone remained silent.

——Even if they are all promoted from technical positions, they must have the most basic business and competitive awareness. This kind of behavior between the two parties is obviously competing with each other, which is beyond their current status.

Except... Kutaragi Ken.

Kutaragi Ken had been paying attention to Su Yuanshan's expression, especially since he was sitting opposite Su Yuanshan and could just see Zhou Xiaohui coming in and out with her lips tightly pursed - he knew Zhou Xiaohui's position in Yuanxin very well, this 20-year-old The girl has been Su Yuanshan's personal secretary from the beginning, and has great authority and prestige in Yuanxin.

It was obviously no small matter for Zhou Xiaohui to directly enter the conference room to whisper to Su Yuanshan and make her a little nervous. Therefore, he paid attention to Su Yuanshan's every expression.

"Susan, what are the technical standards of Multi Media Card? What are the speed and specifications, and what is the cost of the card reading chip?" Kutaragi Ken immediately asked the key point.

Sony is undoubtedly an ally of FarCore, but if the standards developed by SanDisk and Intel are more advantageous than FarCore... then it means that even if they are allies again, for the sake of the life cycle and competitiveness of future products, Nor may more advanced technologies be used.

"The details haven't been announced yet, it may be a little later." Su Yuanshan smiled slightly: "But I can say clearly that their standards will never catch up with ours."

"The reason is simple, because they have already proposed it, and they proposed it based on their technology and usage habits. They did not take into account the acceptance of the market and partners."

"Our standards are still being discussed and formulated, and are being discussed with you. I believe that our standards will be better and more acceptable to the market."

Su Yuanshan's words made many people calm down immediately.

Indeed, not to mention that the standards proposed by Yuanxin are good enough in their opinion, as for the MMC card, since it has been released, it means that it has been finalized. As for Yuanxin's TF card, there is the possibility of improvement.

Then...there is only one piece of news left.

Single particle 32MB product.

According to the data, Yuanxin currently has a maximum single-chip capacity of only 16MB - which is already impressive compared to what has been successfully launched on the market, not to mention that Yuanxin is still advancing its architecture.

But with the emergence of SanDisk's single 32MB... this means that in the battle of pure stack capacity, FarCore has lost the first battle.

After Su Yuanshan finished speaking, he looked around at everyone. He didn't believe that no one had noticed the news about the single 32MB.

Sure enough, IBM's Bacon coughed lightly: "Mr. Su, in Yuanxin's process plan...how long will it take to achieve 32MB particles?"

(An additional explanation here is that historically, a single flash memory in 1996 was only about 8/16MB, but due to the early emergence of MLC technology, the capacity was doubled)

Su Yuanshan couldn't help but sigh slightly when he saw Mr. Bacon again.

That old guy Gerstner... ran to the special zone after meeting him once. Obviously he knew what Intel and SanDisk were doing! You know, IBM is a major customer of the solid-state drives launched by Intel...

But even so, he still sent Bacon over to "favour" him... As the saying goes, what if? What if Yuan Xin can bring surprises to people?

After all, he is an old fox, and he will not suffer from both ends.

"Let Dr. Zhang answer this question."

Su Yuanshan paid attention to everyone's expressions and knew that everyone, even Kutaragi Ken, was looking forward to the question at this time, so he handed the topic to Zhang Rujin.

Zhang Rujin smiled slightly, took a sip of tea, and then cleared his throat.

"With the full cooperation with Yuanxin Flash Memory Division and Zhiyuan EDA, we have designed the process flow for 32MB particles, and the subsequent 64MB particle process is also being designed intensively."

"Not surprisingly, within the next six months, we will be able to see particles with a single-chip capacity of 64MB."

As he spoke, Zhang Rujin and Su Yuanshan looked at Li Mingliu at the same time.

Li Mingliu sighed softly.

"Since my peers are chasing me so closely and the two bosses are looking at me...then I can only express my opinion. Within two years, we will be able to complete the full application of multi-layer architecture technology. By then...as long as the wafer With factory process support, we might be able to design a single 1GB chip."

"By then, not only flash memory chips, but also the architecture of traditional DRAM particles and even CPU architecture may also benefit from this."