Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 365 Supercomputer for Mathematics Research
In a recent physical examination, Sun Zhengyi was found to have chronic hepatitis B, also known as hepatitis B in the country. The doctor gave the diagnosis that he still has about three years to live at most.

After confirming the news, Tang Huan flew directly from the United States to Japan without saying a word, to visit the other party.

Now the atmosphere in the Sun family is naturally gloomy. Sun Zhengyi's wife Ohno Yumi forced a smile, and upon closer inspection, her eyes were red and swollen from crying.

"Tang, why did you come so fast?" Sun Zhengyi asked casually listlessly.

"After I get the news, of course I have to come here as soon as possible." Tang Huan looked at the other party's expression, "Why don't you go to the United States to recuperate, and I will arrange it."

"No need, the medical level in Japan is also very advanced." Sun Zhengyi shook his head, took a few documents and put them in front of Tang Huan, "I can no longer contribute to the listing of Taidong and Epson. These shares are no longer appropriate."

Tang Huan pushed the document back, and said firmly: "I won't be so unkind to those who have meritorious deeds, you should keep it. Besides, if the situation really reaches the worst point, I can leave it to you family."

Sun Zhengyi glanced back at his wife and children, and sighed silently.

"Softbank is my painstaking effort, and I hope to give it to someone I trust. Don, you can accept it." After a moment of silence, Sun Zhengyi continued to babble as if explaining his funeral.

Softbank, founded by Masayoshi Son, currently manages several magazines related to personal computers and video games.

Since there is no Internet at present, information including industry knowledge, latest developments, use experience, etc., can only be disseminated through traditional print media. The more authoritative you are, the better your performance will be.

However, Tang Huan didn't intend to accept the property. He waved his hand and said, "Since it's your own painstaking effort, it's natural to keep it in your hands. Although you can't perform your duties because you want to recuperate with peace of mind, you can Find an agent to maintain daily operations, and wait for your body to fully recover before resuming the command."

"Can I wait until the day I recover?" Son Zhengyi's eyes wandered and he sighed dejectedly.

"Analyzed from a scientific point of view, you are not even 30 years old now, and your body functions are very strong. It may not be impossible to overcome the disease."

Speaking of this, Tang Huan stared at Sun Zhengyi and emphasized his tone, "From a spiritual perspective, don't forget that you are a person who has created miracles, and a person who is good at creating miracles. Is it a logical thing? Your current mental state is completely different from your original high-spirited fighting spirit."

"A miracle..." Sun Zhengyi savored carefully.

"My investment is based on the whole world, and in every region I need the most reliable partner, and you are the one in Japan. The only way to die is through the ages. As long as you survive this hurdle, you and I will work together. It may not be difficult to become the richest man in Japan."

Seeing that Sun Zhengyi was lost in thought, Tang Huan stood up and said to Yumi Ohno: "I will come to visit again before I leave Japan, so I am leaving now."

After getting into the car, Tang Huan rubbed the center of his brows, feeling a little annoyed. He wondered if Sun Zhengyi could survive this test. In the original time and space, the richest man in Japan ten years later would not just die in obscurity. Alright.

Although Sun Zhengyi is of Korean descent and has not obtained Japanese nationality, it is still much more convenient for him to run some things in Japan as a local than Tang Huan. Now that the other party's life is hanging by a thread, even if he is lucky enough to recover, this Don't think about making a difference for a few years.

However, Japan will not wait for others. It will follow the historical trajectory and enter the bubble economy era full of gold. The real estate and stock market are extremely prosperous. This is the main reason why Tang Huan firmly promotes Taidong and Epson to go public.

Judging from the current situation, Sun Zhengyi may miss this wave of market.

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Tang Huan, who was quite regretful, then took the opportunity to inspect the progress of Epson's CD drive and CD player projects. It turned out that Japanese engineers were truly unique in precision manufacturing and the speed was impressive. The finished product could be presented in the end of the month at the latest. In front of the world.

Among them, CD technology can be roughly divided into two parts: one is the research and development of optical disc technology and laser reading and recording technology, which is in charge of Epson. In addition, the Wang family in Baodao is very interested in the manufacture of optical discs, so they also participated ; The second is the digital encoding technology of CD players, which converts music signals into electrical signals. This is the responsibility of Zheru's R&D center in the United States.

In order to manufacture sound cards, the team led by Shen Wangfu has accumulated rich technical reserves in the fields of sound simulation and sound digitization. The decoding chip can be said to be done casually.

In fact, their greatest technical achievements in the CD project are reflected in the production of CD records and the conversion of traditional analog LPs into advanced digital CD records. The first artist to try this kind of technology is naturally Deng Lijun Yes, her album "A Touch of Love" will be released at the same time as the CD player and CD drive.

Under the guidance of the technical direction pointed out by Tang Huan, the research and development progress of the entire CD project has come from behind to lead Sony and Philips by at least three months.

"I don't know what kind of expression Sony will see when we launch the CD player first?" Hideaki Yaskawa joked with a smile.

"Peace is the most important thing. After all, at this stage, we cooperate more than we compete." Tang Huan waved his hand lazily, "Remember, we mainly research the CD drives used by computers. As for CD players, we just do it conveniently." Out."

"Hay." Yaskawa Hideaki bowed slightly, with a strange expression on his face, thinking that wouldn't it hurt people more.

Tang Huan's emphasis on "cooperation more than competition" refers to the personal computer war started in Japan by Fangyuan computer compatible licensing companies such as Sony and Sharp.

These companies are all local households, and when they formulate various aggressive sales strategies, they can be said to be unscrupulous. In the first round of shopping, they killed Tang Huan's thorn in his side - NEC's PC-9800 series personal computers. .

If Tang Huan had done it himself, he would not be able to achieve such an effect so quickly. After all, he bears the title of an American company, and the Japanese officials would definitely not want to see their national brand being bullied like this.

But companies like Sony and Sharp are different. Although the personal computer technology is not original by itself, in the eyes of outsiders, it has already been digested and turned into a national brand for its own use. It also belongs to internal competition and survival of the fittest.

Based on the current situation, Tang Huan estimates that NEC's PC-9800 series of personal computers can no longer continue to develop and will completely withdraw from the stage of history next year at the latest. Fangyuan Computer will truly dominate the Japanese market.

However, although Tang Huan's strategy of "using barbarians to defeat barbarians" was quick and powerful, it was not without side effects. The main manifestation was that the sales volume of Fangyuan personal computers of Zheru Japan Company was inevitably affected.

Gein, the Japanese manufacturers who have obtained the authorization of Fangyuan computer compatible machines are often a vertical production system themselves, and almost all of them have semiconductor factories. Even Sony is no exception. It has to be said that the semiconductor industry established by Japan earlier Stimulus policies are simply too effective.

With this kind of manufacturing advantage, their Fangyuan computer compatible machine is not only sold at a lower price, but also has an unambiguous hardware configuration.The memory capacity starts at 128 KB uniformly.

Tang Huan can fully predict that after these partners make their first splash in Japan, they will inevitably attack the US market in a big way, and Fangyuan Computer Standard's market share will further increase accordingly.

As long as this goal can be achieved, especially now that the confidant has already been put to death, the PC-9800, a Japanese national brand created by NEC, can only be stepped on to the last breath and give up part of the sales. up.

With a faint playful smile on the corner of Tang Huan's mouth, he quickly flipped through the reports of Zheru Japan, Epson, EA Japan, and Taidong.

Zheru Japan's personal computer business, in the consumer market, not only did not increase, but a slight decline in sales, which was naturally caused by those compatible machine partners.

However, in the enterprise market, personal computers, personal workstations, and network servers are growing rapidly, especially software revenue, which is almost doubled.

Overall, although some soup was spilled, it still made a lot of money.

"There doesn't seem to be any obvious progress in the supercomputer business." Tang Huan casually asked Yaskawa Hideaki.

"It's still in the market public relations. This field is relatively rigid. After all, the Fangyuan supercomputer is a newcomer, and it didn't take the throne of the world's first computing speed to make a name for itself. It takes a process to get customers to accept it." Yaskawa. Ying Zhao explained carefully.

"The reason why we didn't try to grab the world's number one title is to make our sales more free." Tang Huan shook his head disapprovingly, "Our Fangyuan supercomputer is equipped with the best software system, and its performance is absolutely practical."

Having said that, Tang Huan rummaged through his file bag, found a notebook and a floppy disk, and handed them to Hideaki Yaskawa, "This is the computer algorithm implementation of my research on pentagonal tessellation, you arrange I sent it to Sharp to let the Fangyuan supercomputer there do the calculations, and the result should be obtained before I leave Japan, just to prove that the Fangyuan supercomputer is not a show."

The so-called "pentagonal tessellation" is a geometric research topic, that is, the plane is tessellated with pentagons.

One of the most common practical examples can be used to illustrate this abstract problem, which is to use floor tiles to pave the ground. As long as the area is large enough, square floor tiles can be laid indefinitely with each other.

It is obvious that a regular pentagon cannot tessellate the plane, since its interior angles are 108 degrees, which do not divisible by 360 degrees.

The progress of the research results of pentagonal mosaic began with the discovery of the first five species in 1918, and the latest research results were the four species discovered in 1978.

So far, a total of 13 types of pentagonal tessellations have been discovered, and Tang Huan's programming algorithm is to find the 14th type.

Since the Fangyuan supercomputer is unknown, Tang Huan doesn't mind continuing to speak for himself, using mathematical research topics to prove its excellent performance.

Tang Huan's own authority gave his request an infinitely high priority.

After receiving the notice, Sharp immediately suspended existing tasks on the Fangyuan supercomputer and switched to running Tang Huan's program.

Because the source code was written directly in FORTRAN, the operator was able to restart the Fangyuan supercomputer as quickly as possible.

With Tang Huan's gold finger, the result speaks for itself.Over time, the Fangyuan supercomputer discovered the 14th type of pentagon tessellation.

Seeing this scene, Sharp was shocked and ecstatic, because even they did not expect that the Fangyuan supercomputer developed by him and Tang Huan would perform so well.

It can only be said that even though Sharp has been a research and development participant, it has not been able to fully understand the technology of the Fangyuan supercomputer. Software programming is an example.

With such a perfect performance, Sharp knew how to operate without being urged by Tang Huan.

They used foam to make the newly discovered 14th pentagonal mosaic, and covered the background wall of the press conference.

The Japanese media showed great enthusiasm for this and reported this new event overwhelmingly, almost even elementary school students knew about it.

What's more, some quick-witted toy manufacturers immediately applied this geometric discovery to their own products as quickly as possible, taking advantage of the media boom and making a small profit.

It can be seen from this that Tang Huan's casual brainstorming caused such a sensation that many people began to seriously discuss the idea of ​​"computers surpassing humans" in science fiction.

Although this search for the 14th pentagonal mosaic was highly hyped for commercial purposes, it was essentially an academic research, so Tang Huan quickly expounded the results of this research in the form of a paper.

In this way, the credibility is higher and higher.

As a result, members of the former Imperial University, with official support and deep pockets, such as the University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, Tohoku University, Kyushu University, Hokkaido University, Osaka University, and Nagoya University, came to Sharp for inspection one after another.

Seeing that a business of 1000 million US dollars can at least make a fortune among these first batch of investigators, everyone can't help but feel refreshed.

(End of this chapter)