1991 Starting from the core

One day later, Qin Weimin returned to the provincial capital, and Su Yuanshan also saw the gift in his mouth.

After opening the package, a beautiful, milky white round VCD appeared in front of Su Yuanshan's eyes.

The matte body is very textured, and the LCD screen on the side is similar to the small window of a spaceship. It is elegant, smart, noble, and full of science fiction feeling.

"Holy shit!" Su Yuanshan swore: "Isn't it just a VCD? Are you planning to go on a blind date because you are so beautiful?"

Chen Jing also came over to take a look, pursed her lips and said with a smile: "This is a good design, continuing the consistent style of their CD walkman."

"Akita Junichi is in our class..." Su Yuanshan's teeth were itching and he looked at Qin Weimin: "Have you shown it to the people at the VCD factory?"

"I just went to Wang Rui's place for a walk yesterday." Qin Weimin nodded and smiled.

"Well, they should learn how other designers design and how other molds are made."

Su Yuanshan plugged in the power, and when the front LCD screen lit up, it looked more like a flying saucer.

A group of people commented, and they had a clear understanding of Sony's design capabilities.

"This time is a reminder to us that things have to be good, but they also have to look good. If we can't pass the design level, then let's not talk about the high-end route and just take the IP licensing route."

After thinking for a while, Su Yuanshan looked at Chen Jing: "What is the current market share of EDA's PCB design part?"

Chen Jing frowned and considered for two seconds, and immediately answered: "As for the genuine version, it is basically 100% domestic. However, there are still many small businesses using cracked versions of their counterparts. Although we also have cracked versions. But what we are doing now is to catch the big ones. Every little strategy is written down in the notebook."

Chen Jing continued: "As for foreign countries, I don't have specific data, but the PCB design part is basically a monopoly. After all, PCB is not like chip design. The market for chip design functions has indeed been partially affected by Xinghai's acquisition of Cyrix."

"Okay, I thought of a good function." Su Yuanshan said, grabbing the phone and dialing the number for Jiang Wanchao's office.

After a while, Jiang Wanchao and Zhu Jianting appeared at the door of the conference room. The two of them only said hello to Qin Weimin in the morning and went upstairs to work, without staying down to join in the fun.

"Senior Brother Jiang, Senior Brother Zhu, take a look at Sony's design."

The two of them took a look and immediately came to the same conclusion as everyone else, that is, Sony has strong design capabilities.

"They have integrated into the West very early. They have been exposed to design software much earlier than us, and their background is much deeper. There is really no way to be better than us in design." Jiang Wanchao smiled and looked for steps for his own people.

"Yes, that's why I thought about taking over the copyright of CAD and turning it into commercial software." Su Yuanshan looked at Zhu Jianting: "Brother Zhu, in addition to mechanical drawing, CAD is also suitable for appearance mold design, right?"

Zhu Jianting thought for a while and nodded: "That's no problem, but it's just not professional enough. What? Do you want to join 3D mold design?"

Su Yuanshan nodded: "Yes, not only do we need to add appearance design functions, but we also need to match them with our EDA."

Zhu Jianting was startled: "How to match it?"

Chen Jing's eyes lit up as she listened silently. She thought of Su Yuanshan asking her about the market share of PCB just now, and an idea jumped out: "EDA's simulation function can output 3D models. As long as the data structure of the PCB is correct, then It can be directly imported into the mold project.”

Su Yuanshan glanced at her, nodded with a smile, and continued: "Mr. Chen is right, that's the idea! Now we have to either wait for the PCB to come out with the engineering board, or copy the dimensions by hand before we can design the mold and open the mold. Anyway, it takes a long time. We are far behind. If we directly output the 3D dimensions of the PCB board to the CAD end, we would save a lot of time - by the way, our peers don’t have this function yet, right?"

Although Su Yuanshan asked this question, he could only remember exporting 3D models to other professional design software after 1995...

Jiang Wanchao nodded and laughed: "My colleague has a shovel! This involves each other's formats and algorithms, and it is not that simple to be compatible."

"Then let's get started! Think of it as an update to the April version next year, and then we'll be a duo!"

"They are three heroes from the same family." Zhu Jianting said with a smile: "That girl Qu Hui has great ambitions. She wants to revitalize domestic CNC machine tools."

Su Yuanshan just smiled.

The development of CNC machine tools in China is also very difficult. Thirty years later, it still cannot break through the limits of ultra-precision machine tools - the secondary market can beat those old guys back. Moreover, the machinery industry uses love to generate electricity more than the chip industry. It is absolutely impossible to rely on remote cores to push power.

But this does not prevent him from supporting Qu Hui. For CNC machine tools, Yuanxin can at least make up for the CNC aspect. Let’s not talk about money or not, as long as he is not allowed to post the book.

It's just a pity that a girl like Qu Hui got to play stupid and clumsy.

Then everyone looked at the VCD playback effect and found that in addition to the good-looking appearance, the functions were almost the same and they lost interest.

The crowd dispersed, and Qin Weimin took out a stack of documents and a CD.

"This is a draft of the VCD standard. I made a copy and gave it to Wang Rui. You can see if there is anything that needs to be deleted. This CD contains the technical manual that Xinghai Cyrix brought over. The file is encrypted."

Su Yuanshan turned the page and saw Yuanxin written on the top of his head, followed by Sony and Panasonic. JVC and the others smiled: "I thought Sony was going to put itself first."

Qin Weimin also smiled and said: "No matter how thick-skinned you are, you won't be able to do such a thing, right?"

"Haha, I can't say for sure." Su Yuanshan recalled that after Wanyan's VCD was released, Sony hurriedly roped in several companies to directly formulate standards, and kicked Wanyan, the inventor, away.

…

Back in the office, Su Yuanshan just flipped through the standards and threw them aside. Now that he is an amateur in VCD products, it is only right to leave these parameter data to professionals like Wang Rui and Xiao Shouping.

While copying the files, Su Yuanshan picked up the phone and dialed the number in Silicon Valley.

Soon, Chen Haoming's calm voice came from the phone: "Hello?"

"Uh...it's me, Senior Brother Chen." Su Yuanshan looked at the phone and realized that he had dialed the wrong number. He smiled and said, "I'm used to calling the office, but I forgot that I wanted to see Claude."

Chen Haoming also said: "Haha, I really received a lot of calls looking for my senior this month."

Su Yuanshan played with his pen and said with a smile: "Since I made a mistake, let's talk about it for fifty yuan. How is Senior Brother Chen's work lately?"

"Well, I'm in a good mood. I have an idea in my mind recently - have you heard of World Wide Web?"

World Wide Web?

"World Wide Web?" Su Yuanshan asked in surprise.

"Is it called this in China?"

"Emmmm, um, there was a discussion." Su Yuanshan said vaguely: "What? Do you have any ideas?"

"Last May, when the World Wide Web first appeared, I noticed it in the school laboratory and built a small hypertext link server with a few juniors." Chen Haoming considered it and said: "Recently I have been Consider how we can promote our products faster through the Internet."

"After thinking about it during this period, I thought that the World Wide Web technology that was born last year should be a good solution. Compared with the way we send emails and call our partners, the hyperlink method can express richer content. At the same time, because it is spread by broadcast, it can theoretically be displayed on any computer connected to the Internet. Therefore, I think it is still feasible, and it is also in line with Yuanxin and Xinghai’s predictions for the Internet.”

"But there are no good access tools. The access tool of the same name that Tim Berners-Lee released last year was not functionally suitable for the average user and was very simple. So I wanted to... develop an access tool."

Silicon Valley Xinghai, in the CTO office.

Chen Haoming spoke slowly and accurately, for fear that Su Yuanshan would not understand his explanation.

After all, Xi Xiaoding told him when he left that if he was unsure about any idea, just tell Su Yuanshan and he would be able to make an accurate judgment.

And Chen Haoming is very unsure now.

As the newly appointed CTO, Chen Haoming does not have the shining experience and qualifications to control his subordinates like his senior brother Xi Xiaoding.

Even though he started to take over Xi Xiaoding's work a month before Xi Xiaoding and Su Yuanshan left, in the past month, he clearly felt that some Xinghai employees were... disrespectful, or unconvinced.

A CTO who does not demonstrate skills and has no qualifications will never be able to convince the public. Not to mention that in theory, as the CTO, he can still manage the Cyrix department - now he is in charge of Claude? too naive!

Therefore, Chen Haoming needs to lead an awesome product to prove himself.

So Chen Haoming felt a little panicked when he heard that Su Yuanshan was silent on the phone.

"The access tool is called Web browser." Su Yuanshan's voice seemed to be smiling on the phone: "Browser, or website browser."

"I support the project. The sooner it can be completed, the better."

Chen Haoming breathed a long sigh of relief.