After demonstration, they felt that they could make a portable solid-state multimedia player.

Through a storage and a dedicated decoding chip, audio and video data are played on a small portable player.

The reason why we emphasize the word solid state is to distinguish it from Walkmans, tape recorders, and other devices.

They have also registered a series of patents.

Because Chen Weidong often emphasizes that if you don't register these patents, they will be registered by foreigners in the future, and then they will collect our patent fees.

Many relevant examples were also given.

So now, everyone in the company will register a patent for anything they think has some value. Whether it will be used or not is another matter!

Even if you don’t develop it yourself, it would be great to sell it for money!

The company also has a dedicated department to help them apply, so it’s not a hassle at all.

With Infinite Company's current technical strength, it is not difficult to make such a small thing. However, because of the screen problem, they could only decide to make a device for playing music first.

That is the mp3 of later generations.

When they mass-produced it and sold it, it became popular all over the country in an instant.

Because it is so small, only the size of two fingers, and the outer shell is made of matte material, which makes it very technological.

Once fully charged, it can be used continuously for a week.

The memory has also reached 2gb.

However, Chen Weidong soon received a call from Sony Corporation and Kazuo Hirai.

He kept complaining on the phone, saying that Chen Weidong plagiarized and made the product they were developing in advance, which caused them huge losses.

Chen Weidong laughed on the spot. According to his memory, when Sony launched MP3, it was already in 2001 and it was still in the laboratory stage.

However, they took the lead for more than a year and came up with the finished product. Who copied whom?

And even if he copied it, so what.

During this period, no one cared about domestic plagiarism of foreign things, and the relevant laws were still very imperfect.

However, in order not to make the relationship too tense, Chen Weidong still told him that they could jointly develop "mp4" in the future, a portable device that can play videos.

This requires the use of their LCD screen technology.

And because Hirai Kazuo didn't have enough evidence, he had no choice but to let the matter go.

These small episodes cannot affect the company's overall direction.

What Chen Weidong is most concerned about is the six scientific laboratories.

It can still be described as "chaos".

Is it appropriate for researchers at the Precision Research Institute, a group of people with official status, to come in and out of a private company every day?

And he still eats and drinks for free.

Even if they have any research results, they have nothing to do with Infinity Company.

All results belong to Precision Research Institute.

Who can bear this?

Do you really think their company is a charity?

Of course, people who are not from the company should be treated differently!

After Chen Weidong returned to the company, he immediately held a meeting and asked the researchers at the Precision Research Institute to make a decision within a month whether to continue to stay in the original unit or choose to join their company.

You can only choose one of the two.

If you choose to stay in your original unit, you will not be able to enter their company's laboratory casually in the future. You must go through a strict background check and submit an application before you can be released.

In addition, Chen Weidong also established an academic committee specifically responsible for reviewing the project topics of the company's internal scientific researchers.

If the company feels that the scientific research project you submitted has no commercial value, it will directly affect your research fund allocation in the next quarter...

This directly excludes many people who want to hang around.

Everyone can basically agree with this result, because even in foreign countries, most scientific research institutions mainly participate in commercial research. It is ideal to be able to squeeze out some time to engage in research content that you like.

This also means that many people have to give up their basic research that has been carried out for more than ten years.

This is really cruel to them.

Basic research is very important, but in this regard, many domestic research institutes are actually doing better than them.

When it comes to basic research, no one can compare with domestic research institutes.

Even foreign scientific research institutions have to admit this level of solidity.

It is mainly basic research, which is too difficult to produce results. It is even more difficult and extremely costly to convert it into commercial products.

Although Infinity Company likes to do charity, it is absolutely impossible to be a philanthropist when it comes to scientific research.

They are not a public institution after all.

Commercial companies must focus on profits and return on investment.

He doesn't mind doing things that are not beneficial under special circumstances.

But usually, it is impossible for him to invest his limited funds into the bottomless pit of basic research.

Because this is very likely to cause a valuable researcher to spend more than ten years, or even a lifetime, in a research with no future!

Therefore, the role of this academic committee is to evaluate whether the projects that the following researchers are working on have commercial value and are worth investing in research.

As for the members, there are currently only two people, Professor Kruger and Ni Guangnan.

It will be gradually expanded to ten people later.

Only academic leaders or senior researchers in a certain discipline of the company are eligible to become one of them.

Ten people will fairly and fairly evaluate each researcher's project topic by voting.

At the beginning, Chen Weidong and Professor Kruger discussed the main research directions. After more than half a year of in-depth research, certain achievements have been achieved in all aspects.

In addition to the consolidation of some basic research and in-depth exploration of some fields, the achievements in this half year are mainly focused on breakthroughs in supercomputers and chips.

If the company wants to use it, use the best.

Due to the advancement of photolithography technology, after testing, the data processing performance of the chips they produced will be about 20% higher than that of products on the market!

This chapter is not finished yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! According to the redesigned design drawings by Professor Kruger and Ni Guangnan, the structure of the chip is more compact and leaves a lot of space for heat dissipation. Stability testing has not yet been carried out.

, but the high probability won’t be much worse.

No one could have imagined that when the island country built the world's fastest computer, a computer with a running speed of 10 trillion operations per second, Infinite Company followed closely behind and soon built two sets of computers with a speed exceeding 15 trillion operations per second.

supercomputer!

This is still a stable running speed, not the kind that uses the highest peak value to deceive people!

Because the computer cannot exert its full efficiency during operation. In many cases, it is only 30% to 60% of the peak speed.

Only a few people in the company know about this matter, otherwise if it gets out, it will definitely cause an uproar!

Not to mention the impact on the world, even some domestic research institutes and research units that require large amounts of calculations will definitely crowd out their companies in minutes.

There are only a few supercomputers in the country that can perform only 3 trillion operations.

Usually, they have to write an application before using it. After approval, they have to queue up. It's their turn to use it. An extremely complicated operation, and the results can be obtained very quickly.

Every unit that has ever conducted auxiliary research with the help of supercomputers has a deep understanding of this.

Another important topic is the research of precision instruments.

Although they brought back a batch of sophisticated equipment from the island country, their goal was not just to use it as tools.

Not to mention improvement, at least it should be done to the extent that it can be copied.

Therefore, the company set up a special instrument research team to conduct localization research on these precision instruments.

After all, instruments are also consumables and will eventually become obsolete, and they have no purchasing channels, so they must take the road of independent research and development, even if they destroy a few pieces of equipment!

February 2000.

Chen Weidong and Chen Jie finally put down their busy work and prepared to return to their hometown to celebrate the Spring Festival.

It’s just that Li Xi’er has to follow her life or death.
Chapter completed!