1991 Starting from the core

Qin Weimin put down his lunch box and stared at Su Yuanshan: "I don't agree with your statement."

"Why?"

Qin Weimin said solemnly: "Because the premise of this trick is that we can't keep calm. I don't think Sony will make the mistake of pinning its hopes on the opponent's mistakes."

Chen Jing smiled and nodded. Obviously, she also believed that Sony would not underestimate people like her to such an extent.

Su Yuanshan nodded and smiled: "Well, senior brother is right. But what if they are confident enough to make us lose our composure?"

Chen Jing was startled and immediately looked at him again.

Su Yuanshan took a sip from the water cup and picked up the disposable lunch box. His eyes fell on the lunch box and he said slowly: "Compared to Yuanxin, Sony has a deeper technological foundation than us. If we hadn't achieved leapfrog development through accurate foresight in the past year, we would have lost our pants. , and are not qualified to sit at the negotiation table with companies like Sony."

"So we cannot underestimate Sony just because we have achieved some temporary achievements, especially Sony's R\u0026D level."

"Until just now, I have been thinking that they should have some black technology or leverage in VCD that we don't know about yet."

Chen Jing was slightly startled: "Black technology? What is that?"

"It's the advanced technology that suddenly appeared, a word invented by Xiaoshan." Qin Weimin explained to her, and then looked at Su Yuanshan: "Why isn't there some black technology on the host or the chip?"

"In terms of consoles, they have indeed mastered certain technologies. After all, they learned so seriously when working with Nintendo..."

Everyone laughed.

"But the technology will certainly not make up for the need for us."

"The YX01 chip is currently the strongest chip in the field of reduced instruction sets. In this regard, they can only use YX01, which is not yet mature, to eliminate their disadvantages, but that is meaningless."

Su Yuanshan forgot what the model of the PS chip was, but he remembered clearly that the CPU and graphics core used by the PS were not his own. It was not until the success of the PS that he started customizing them and used them on the PS2.

You know, the set of design + tape-out is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it also costs money. Sony has suffered serious losses in the film industry in recent years, and the financial situation of the entire group is not very good. There is really no reason to design two completely new chips for a new product that has not been tested by the market.

"What's more, the team led by Kutaragi Ken showed their importance to the development of game consoles. Don't forget that he is the person in charge of cooperation with Nintendo..."

"So, if they want to have black technology, it must be in VCD, or..." Su Yuanshan squinted and said softly: "I don't know if you know that two years ago, the Western film and television industry proposed to develop a new medium To destroy the current laser discs and home video recorders. Immediately afterwards, the MPEG organization released the MPEG1 compression format to test the waters."

"We know that MPEG1 uses lossy compression - I won't mention its algorithm implementation here. When Li Mingliu and I were reading the standard last year, I did a simple calculation and found that we only need to modify the compression algorithm. To meet the requirements of the film and television industry, the capacity of optical discs needs to be increased.”

"There are only two ways to increase the capacity of optical discs. One is to increase the density, and the other is to increase the diameter of the disc - but if you increase the diameter, you will face the same dilemma as LD. It is stupid, bulky and not shockproof. Anyway, 10,000 Such shortcomings. As Sony is a giant that keeps pace with Philips, Toshiba and others in the field of optical drives and optical discs, we have reason to believe that they have deep technical expertise in the optical disc field."

"I guess they think they can quickly come up with a new product that will kill VCDs."

After Su Yuanshan finished speaking, he looked at everyone: "Have I made it clear enough?"

"...We are not fools." Chen Jing took out a tissue and slowly wiped her mouth: "Then we have to ask whether the MPEG organization is formulating a new algorithm."

"Yes, I'll call Senior Brother Xi when I get back."

Su Yuanshan walked to the trash can with the lunch box and turned to face Chen Jing: "We don't have that much time to fight with them. I will come tomorrow and directly reveal the cards they hide."

Chen Jing's eyebrows curved slightly: "Okay!"

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According to the arrangement, Zhang Ke should take the Sony people around and visit in the afternoon. But Kutaragi Ken politely declined his invitation, saying that they would just rest in the hotel.

Of course, everyone in Yuanxin didn't have to rest, after all, everyone still had work to do. Especially Chen Jing, she also has to arrange campus recruitment in Beijing in May.

The next morning, Xi Xiaoding called Su Yuanshan back and said that he had not heard any action from the MPEG organization. On the other hand, the Film Production Industry Advisory Committee over there was very excited when they saw the advent of VCD, and they brought up the vision they had two years ago.

Now Su Yuanshan felt confident.

When the two parties sat down again, Chen Jing still made a pleasant start.

"Mr. Jiuda, are we still discussing VCD today? If you still won't give in at all, I suggest that we change places and talk slowly while appreciating the mountains and rivers, so that we can fulfill our friendship as landlords."

Kutaragi Ken smiled and shook his head: "But Miss Chen Jing, your VCD does not have an advantage in the market of developed countries. Although it is a new product, it is also a backward product."

At this time, Su Yuanshan smiled slightly: "Sorry to bother you. Can I understand that you are looking forward to a product that surpasses VCD image quality and capacity?"

After the translation, Kutaragi Ken's eyes suddenly froze.

And long before Su Yuanshan finished speaking, Akita Junichi, who was beside Kutaragi Fitness, suddenly looked at Su Yuanshan.

"The decoding chip for VCD was designed by the team led by me." Su Yuanshan dexterously turned the pen on his fingertips. Although this move was slightly frivolous, it fit his age perfectly: "Frankly speaking, after watching MPEG After the technical documentation, I knew that this video standard had no advantages over VHS, but we still chose VCD technology. Why?"

At this time, Akita Junichi looked at Su Yuanshan and asked directly in Chinese: "Why?"

Su Yuanshan smiled: "Because I don't know when you, Philips, Toshiba, etc. will be able to develop high-density optical discs."

After the translation, Su Yuanshan saw that the corners of Kutaragi Ken's eyes slightly shrank.

Su Yuanshan was determined.

Sure enough, these guys have accumulated skills. Otherwise, in the previous life, when the MPEG2 standard came out in 1994, a bunch of guys who made optical discs would not have produced DVD discs in less than a year.

"Now that we have thought of this, then...why does Mr. Jiuduo think that our VCD machine technology will not cover...high-density optical disc reading and playback equipment?"

"Mr. Jiuduo, believe me. If we work together, we can work out a common codec rule that adapts to high-density disc playback equipment, as well as technical rules for the whole machine. But before that, VCD needs to be used as a trial The role of aquatic products is not to replace VHS, but to collect the copyrights of video products and fill the VHS market. It also makes people realize that the future audio-visual world belongs to the world of optical discs."

"VHS, a product, should become a thing of the past."

"If we don't wake up to this, we will be history."

Su Yuanshan threw away his pen and felt relaxed.

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