Liquid crystal itself does not emit light.

If you have dismantled some early electronic products with screens, you will find that there are small lamp beads behind the display.

Only through the illumination of these luminous lamp beads can the LCD screen display clear images, otherwise it is just a gray glass plate.

But he found no trace of background light on the screen of this game console. It was just the screen itself that was glowing.

Hirai Kazuo said with some pride: "This is a technology we have been researching for a long time. The screen itself is made of luminescent materials. When stimulated by current, it will emit visible light, and the response is extremely fast. The animation video you just watched

Do you feel the picture is delayed?"

Chen Weidong thought about it and looked at the screen again. This time he was really shocked. He shouted: "You didn't tell me, I really didn't notice it!"

He played the animation video again, and sure enough, the movements of the characters and the synchronization of the moving pictures were extremely smooth.

"This is your latest technology? It's very good. You must study it quickly. Once this technology matures, it can be used in many ways!"

He did not expect that Sony's technical level would develop so fast. In 1999, their laboratory was already conquering bioluminescence technology.

Kazuo Hirai nodded guiltily. After several years of research, their technology has never been able to make a breakthrough, and it is still very immature.

Researchers have racked their brains and the service life has been improved to more than 20,000 hours, but large size is still unachievable.

Once the screen exceeds five inches, power consumption will increase rapidly.

It's barely ok for general small portable products.

However, it is still far away to use it in computer screen manufacturing or television field, and there is no hope.

Otherwise, Sony would have become a very important company in the island country long ago.

He patiently explained to Chen Weidong: "This new type of LCD screen also has the feature of saving power. If it is only used for music playback, the 1-inch display can be used for about a week with one AA battery.

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This made Chen Weidong couldn't help but think of mp3/mp4, the prototype of such small things. They were indeed popular for an era and truly made electronic products portable.

But by the time Sony officially launched MP3, it was already 2001.

At this time, Sony staff suddenly walked in and brought a laptop.

Chen Weidong's attention was attracted.

I saw the staff connected the power cord, peeled off a transparent film covering the computer, and pressed the laptop's power button.

The display screen, which is less than 0.5 centimeters thick, displays the startup screen.

Immediately afterwards, the staff suddenly raised their fists and smashed it down.

Peng!

There was a dull sound, but the screen did not shatter into snowflake cracks, but continued to display images!

Then, the staff gently bent and pressed the monitor, and the screen did not crack as expected.

Kazuo Hirai looked at all this with a smile and couldn't help but feel a little proud.

This is the latest material technology of the island country. A display screen that is so thin, light and resistant to knocking is probably a fantasy for a Chinese like Chen Weidong.

However, just when he turned around and was about to appreciate Chen Weidong's surprised expression, he found that the other party just nodded calmly, as if nothing was strange at all!

This made him stunned.

Could it be that the other party has seen this technology before?

Before he could ask, Chen Weidong said: "Mr. Hirai, this should be made of ultra-thin flexible glass, right?"

His words surprised Hirai Kazuo. Sure enough, his guess was correct. The other party had obviously seen this kind of technology before!

Is China also studying electronic displays?

Chen Weidong smiled and said nothing. Looking at Kazuo Hirai's expression, he knew that this guy was scared by him. He had actually seen this kind of technology in later generations, so he knew something about it.

At China's current level, it is still impossible to produce glass materials of this level.

"Chen Jun, I didn't expect you to know this kind of material."

Hirai Kazuo was a little embarrassed. He thought he could use some "black technology" to suppress the other party and make the cooperation develop in a more favorable direction, but he unexpectedly underestimated the other party's experience.

"This material is light, energy-saving, has a fast display, and has a certain degree of pressure resistance. It meets my requirements very well, but the question is, can you produce it in large quantities?"

Chen Weidong sat down again and talked about his original intention of coming.

These materials may have many flaws when used in large electronic devices, but if they are only used to make mobile phone screens, they are just right.

"Well...this..."

Hirai Kazuo was not sure. The staff on the side quickly leaned over and whispered in his ear. He finally nodded and said: "Chen Jun, this is just a small amount of LCD screen produced in our laboratory. If you want For large-scale manufacturing, there are still many links that need to be solved..."

At present, Sony is not a manufacturer focusing on manufacturing monitors. Their main business is still music players, game consoles, digital cameras and other small electronic products.

If they follow Chen Weidong's requirements to manufacture the LCD screens he mentioned, then they must expand the factory and remodel the production line.

Moreover, before mass production, they did not have clear data on the yield rate and could not calculate the cost of manufacturing a screen, so they did not dare to agree casually.

Chen Weidong nodded slowly, indicating that he understood his concerns.

This matter requires caution.

Afterwards, the two discussed the details for a long time before finally finalizing the matter.

Sony and Infinity will jointly invest US$800 million to establish a separate company to manufacture LCD screens that meet standards.

At first, when Kazuo Hirai asked about the purpose of this LCD screen, Chen Weidong said that he wanted to make a capacitive touch screen mobile phone, which really shocked him.

The world's first touch-screen mobile phone was born in 1993. It was designed by IBM and manufactured by Mitsubishi Electric. It was also the world's first "smartphone".

It combines the functional features of a mobile phone and a handheld computer, and for the first time has a built-in touch screen.

Although the touch screen at the time was really poor, it was indeed the first of its kind.

The sales of this early smartphone were very poor, which can even be described as miserable, but its novel design was still noticed by many mobile phone companies.

Including Sony, they have never given up on finding a touch screen design that is truly suitable for mobile phones.
Chapter completed!