Riding the wind of rebirth

After one of the three people left, Matsui Zuoya completely relaxed: "Then we will call the country after we return. At least we have found an opportunity for cooperation. Zhou Sang, thank you very much for your advice!"

"No?!" Zhou Zhi waved his hand: "What do you mean? Just say thank you and that's it?"

"Zhou Sang?" Matsui had given Zhou Zhi a clear vision. He really believed that this kid had the heart to help the world, and he didn't dare to say anything low-key, but unexpectedly Zhou Zhi quit.

"Why don't you understand?" Zhou Zhi said: "In this opportunity of cooperation, can't our Clover Company also have a share? Since we have talked about it today, why don't we discuss it openly and honestly?"

"Mr. Zhou means..." Jin Chunyi wished Zhou Zhi could say it directly. Playing riddles like this would really test his emotional intelligence.

"Mr. Zhou means that Clover can also play its due role in this cooperation. Since we are looking for technologies that China is interested in, Clover can also be counted as a member of the Chinese side." Matsui Zao has already understood: "We can definitely discuss it in private first, which can be regarded as research in advance!"

"Hehehe, that's what I mean!" Zhou Zhi smiled like a profiteer, completely different from the sanctimonious person before: "To show my sincerity, I can first provide you with a piece of information."

"What information?"

"AXA Fund acquired Scobo and Chinese-American Sun Yansheng's laboratory in the United States, and licensed its MPEG-based first-generation video decoding chip design to Clover and Huahong for productization, and our company Dr. Jiang Wanmeng designed the world's first VCD machine. The brand name was named Wanyan from the names of Dr. Jiang Wanmeng and Dr. Sun Yansheng. It has been entrusted to Mian Changhong Electronics Factory for production. .”

"No!" Matsui suddenly felt his hair stand on end and stood up in surprise: "This is a white paper standard for digital optical discs that was jointly formulated by Sony, Philips, JVC, and Panasonic last year. How could you guys adopt it so quickly? Achieve productization?!”

"This is thanks to Dr. Jiang Wanmeng and Dr. Sun Yansheng, and of course it is another victory for our design concept." Zhou Zhi felt very proud: "The existence of the MiniCOS universal benchmark instruction platform makes the design of VCD and WinClover exactly the same. We You only need to change the decoding protocol, simply modify some parameters and auxiliary circuits, and then you can enter the tapeout stage."

Matsui Zuo and Jin Chunyi couldn't help but look at each other, yes! According to the four-leaf clover operating system idea that Zhou Zhi introduced to them before, after the universal platform is built, to replace digital audio products with digital video products, the only two things left are open interfaces and deployment protocols. .

The only thing to blame is that everyone underestimated the enemy. When Zhou Zhi said that he was going to build a universal command platform, everyone only thought that he was trying to solve the problem of visual controls in the Linux system. After the audio decoding products mounted on the platform were launched, everyone I was attracted by the hot sales of WinClover, but I ignored that since this bus can be equipped with an audio decoding chip, wouldn't it be equally possible to be equipped with a video decoding chip?

VCD is a full-motion, full-screen video standard. The disc is only the same size as a CD, but it stores video information.

Its format supports NTSC and PAL respectively. When supporting NTSC format, the resolution is 352x240 pixels and 29.97 frames per second; when supporting PAL format, the resolution is 352x288 pixels and 25 frames per second.

Overall, the resolution of VCD is about a quarter of the resolution of the corresponding TV system, but the overall video quality is already comparable to the popular VHS video tapes, and is much better than the satellite TV signals transmitted by coaxial cables commonly used in Chinese households. .

Since the bit rate of VCD is similar to that of music CD, a standard 74-minute CD can also store about 74 minutes of video in VCD format. These are the advantages of VCD. Although the definition is not as good as LD, it is compact and cheap. Unless there is a higher resolution product to replace it, VCD will definitely become popular as a product that replaces VHS recorders and enters thousands of households.

As for another issue of video resources that restricts their dissemination, in China where piracy is everywhere, hahaha...

Matsui Zuo felt his fingers tremble and his throat felt bitter. At this moment, he deeply felt Jin Chunyi's pain.

Samsung's MP3 has been completely suppressed by Clover's WinClover. It has completely fallen behind before it was officially put into production. Now, is it Sony's turn?

Although the international price of both MD1370 and AC3533 chips is US dollars, everyone knows that it is a "silicon myth". The early design cost is huge, and the real production cost in China may be only more than ten cents a piece. .

It can even be said that once Chinese products are designed and manufactured for similar chip design and manufacturing, other products of the same level will no longer have a competitive advantage at all.

"Zhou Sang, why are you telling us this?" Matsui said with a bitter smile: "To congratulate the Clover Company on its success?"

"Of course it's for a win-win situation!" Zhou Zhi blinked innocently: "As far as I know, Sony has already started working on the MPEG second generation protocol. Coincidentally, our company and Scobo are also jointly developing this."

"After AXA acquired Scobo, it firmly grasped the MPEG-1 decoding chip. With a generation of design foundation and the assistance of our MiniCos command platform, the idea of ​​​​developing MPEG-2 decoding chips is actually Still the same…”

"Zhou Sang, tell me what you want." Matsui Zuo shook his head with a bitter smile. This command platform is really incredible. Just like converting audio to video, converting from MPEG-1 to MPEG-2 still requires the design of interfaces and deployment. It’s about decoding the protocol.

"I think there are many opportunities for cooperation." Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "For example, Sony and Samsung can follow NEC's example and invest in setting up factories in our Zhangjiang. It doesn’t matter. There is a lot worth learning from your two countries’ chip technology and electronic product design and manufacturing.”

"Professor Jin has said before that the manufacturing processes of our self-produced MD1370 and AC3533 chips are too large. So is it possible to set up two small-process chip production lines in Huahong? We will fully cooperate with each other to build the equipment with better performance. OK, less energy consumption, cheaper prices, and jointly occupy the international market?”

"To achieve this goal, it is a whole system from wafer manufacturing to supporting EDA software, from photolithography, doping, electroplating to testing and packaging." Zhou Zhi said: "I want everyone to use this as a goal to lobby Director Hu. He can’t help but not be tempted.”

"If everyone agrees to this plan, Clover will also agree to open up the MiniCos instruction set to a limited extent for everyone to use as the underlying instruction architecture of the jointly developed chip." Zhou Zhi added another temptation: "This can greatly shorten the chip The design time allows the industrial control bus and chips to be more perfectly combined, and at the same time, it can provide us with sufficient experience for the next generation of research and development and deepening cooperation."

"How is it?" (End of Chapter)