Rebirth 98, the rise started from ripping off Microsoft

Chapter 369 8M USB Disk, Priced 488
Within a few days, Cheng Xiaohua led a man with a Mediterranean hairstyle to appear in front of Lu Yiming.

Lu Yiming looked up at the opponent's bald forehead, and was immediately in awe. It was the hairstyle of a strong man, that is, the hair had not fallen out, otherwise the strength would definitely be stronger.

Cheng Xiaohua enthusiastically introduced to Lu Yiming: "Mr. Lu, this is my classmate Fang Yunfeng from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He graduated from the National University of Defense Technology majoring in Computational Mathematics and Application Software, and obtained a master's degree from the Computer Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is full of talent and strength. Doubt."

Fang Yunfeng didn't say anything, but simply nodded to Lu Yiming, his expression was cold and not enthusiastic at all, he looked like the kind of technical geek who didn't like to engage in interpersonal relationships.

Cheng Xiaohua was afraid that Lu Yiming might misunderstand, so he quickly explained to him: "President Lu, don't misunderstand, Lao Fang treats everyone like this."

Lu Yiming waved his hands indifferently, apparently not taking Fang Yunfeng's indifference to heart, but said with a smile: "I have always respected scientific research talents, and I paid you to come back, not to listen to you flattering me , as long as you can make achievements, I don't care about anything else."

This was not polite, but it won the favor of Cheng Xiaohua and Fang Yunfeng.

They are all technology fanatics, especially this Fang Yunfeng, who is indifferent to other things except scientific research. When he was in the Chinese Academy of Sciences, because of this character, he often offended people, so he was very unsatisfactory.

If Cheng Xiaohua hadn't pulled him over, Fang Yunfeng might have to stay in the original research institute and continue to sit on his bench.

Lu Yiming's statement made the two of them see Lu Yiming's heroic spirit of "referring talents without sticking to one pattern".

"President Lu, don't worry, we will do our best to achieve results as soon as possible."

"That's good."

Lu Yiming still attached great importance to the USB flash drive project, so after Cheng Xiaohua gathered all his staff, he did not let it go.

The main reason is that time is tight, and the cowhide has already been blown out. If a mature and usable product cannot be produced within half a year, Zheng Youyuan will have no way to explain it.

After all, what Lu Yiming and Zheng Youyuan said before was that the USB flash drive was almost ready for production, but in fact, those drawings were drawn by Lu Yiming casually based on the USB flash drive in his memory, and the products that could be put on the market have not yet been written off.

Of course, this is not a fool, after all, the technology of the USB flash drive is not difficult, what is difficult is just the idea.

Lu Yiming asked: "Director Cheng, regarding the development of this USB flash drive, where do you plan to start?"

As the new technical director of Mingyuan Technology, Cheng Xiaohua could not help scratching the back of his head, with a helpless expression: "I don't have any clues yet. I checked the information, and it is currently on the market, which is a product of Aimeng Company It is more in line with Mr. Lu's needs."

The world's first flash memory-based, non-volatile solid-state drive was developed by Ammons in [-].

This can be regarded as the predecessor of the USB flash drive, but the actual function is still quite different from the USB flash drive described by Lu Yiming.

Lu Yiming was not surprised by this. Cheng Xiaohua's scientific research ability is good, but his business vision is not very good, and because he is obsessed with scientific research, he is not very sensitive to market changes.

To put it simply, it is not easy for him to find out the direction of research, at least he does not know what to research, and he can make products immediately to make money.

In scientific research, the direction is often more important than the method in many cases, because your efforts are only meaningful if you are in the right direction, otherwise, no matter how hard you work, it will only be useless work.

Seeing that Cheng Xiaohua was still confused, Lu Yiming took out a product that had just been launched in Bangguo, and put it in front of his eyes: "Look at this."

"what is this?"

Cheng Xiaohua looked curiously at the thing in Lu Yiming's hand that looked like a miniature BB camera.

Lu Yiming explained with a smile: "This thing is called MP3, and it is a player that can play music files. Its function is similar to that of a Walkman, but it does not need discs and tapes, and can directly store songs."

The gadget in his hand is the world's first MP3 player - MPManF10 launched by Sehan, a subsidiary of Samsung in [-].

The price is high and the function is rubbish, but it is an epoch-making product anyway, so Lu Yiming asked someone to buy more than 100 of them from Bangguo, originally planning to give them as gifts.

Cheng Xiaohua was very surprised, and at the same time understood why Lu Yiming took out such a product as a reference for him.

The basic functions of mp3 and USB are very similar. It can even be said that mp3 is a USB that can listen to songs.

Of course, the storage principles of the two are different, and they cannot be completely equated.

But for a technical genius like Cheng Xiaohua, the inspiration provided by Lu Yiming is more than enough for him.

He fixed his eyes on the MP3 in Lu Yiming's hand, and asked expectantly: "Can this thing be disassembled?"

Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Of course, just take it apart, I bought a bunch."

Seeing that Lu Yiming was so generous, Cheng Xiaohua was rude immediately, called Shangfang Yunfeng, and directly dismantled the four mp3s for analysis and research.

Especially the flash memory chip in the mp3, this thing has been modified a little bit, and it is a USB flash drive.

Over the next three weeks, after working day and night, the two finally found a theoretically feasible solution.

They removed the flash memory chip from the mp3, designed the circuit by themselves, and then soldered the corresponding components and USB interface by themselves, and tinkered with a small gadget with a capacity of 8MB and "plug and play".

The world's first USB flash drive in the true sense was born!

In Baiyun No. [-] Middle School, the peaceful school life continues.

Lu Yiming and Shi Qingxue were sitting on the edge of the playground. They shared a pair of headphones and listened to Jacky Cheung's song together.

The breeze is warm and the years are quiet.

When Lu Yiming was enjoying himself, there was a noise from the earphones, and the two hurriedly pulled the earphones off.

"The sound is too loud."

Shi Qingxue frowned, looking at the MP3 in her hand, she was in a bad mood.

She tossed and clicked everywhere, but the sound in the earphones became louder and louder, and she suddenly felt a little unhappy: "Why is this thing broken?"

She still likes this gift very much, after all, she likes to listen to music, and it was given to her by Lu Yiming.

Just didn't expect it to break down so quickly.

Lu Yiming comforted her and said: "Bangguo's products are like this, if it breaks, it will break, and if it doesn't explode, it will be fine."

Shi Qingxue was still a little annoyed, and punched the broken MP3 in her hand a few times: "I've only heard half of this song."

Seeing this, Lu Yiming smiled and said, "I recently started a new company, and I'll customize a mp3 player for you in the future. It's guaranteed to be easy to use and durable. Throw this thing away, and we'll go to class."

At this time, Cheng Xiaohua called. As soon as Lu Yiming connected, Cheng Xiaohua said excitedly: "Mr. Lu, we made the USB drive you wanted!"

After school, Lu Yiming naturally rushed to the headquarters of Mingyuan Technology immediately.

In the brightly lit laboratory, Cheng Xiaohua immediately showed him the finished sample, the world's first flash drive, lying quietly in his palm.

Because it is a laboratory product, there is no casing, it is just wrapped in transparent plastic.

Lu Yiming did not dislike the ugliness of the packaging, but asked excitedly: "How big is the storage capacity?"

"8M."

"so small?"

When Lu Yiming heard this, he was immediately dissatisfied.

Any memory card in later generations starts with 16G, what the hell is this 8M?

Although Lu Yiming was not very satisfied with this first-generation product, but looking at Cheng Xiaohua's chicken nest head that hadn't been washed for a few days, Lu Yiming didn't say much.

After all, during these three weeks, Cheng Xiaohua and Fang Yunfeng lived and boarded in the laboratory, and their daily work was to write programs, crack the core technology of the memory card, reorganize step by step, and make progress little by little.

Two computers alone were used up, and countless calculation data manufacturing drawings were drawn. Only then did the breakthrough in flash disk technology be achieved, allowing the world's first USB flash drive to come out successfully.

Right now, we can only solve the problem of starting from nothing, and then think about the problem of growing from less to more.

Lu Yiming found a small box lined with sponge, and put the world's first USB drive into it.

Looking at this gadget in his hand, Lu Yiming couldn't help feeling complacent. With the advent of the Internet age, the range of applications of USB flash drives can be described as quite wide. Even if you don't directly produce products and sell them, you can earn a lot of money just lying down and "collecting rent". earned a lot.

In the world before rebirth, Netac relied on the patented technology of the USB flash drive to sue people everywhere for money, and finally even became the landlord of Penguin.

Relying on the high patent fees, Netac directly built a Netac Building in Pengcheng as the headquarters of the group.

However, although Netac Building is as high as nineteen floors, only four floors are really used by Netac, and the rest are rented by Penguin at a price of 4000 million per year. It is a happy life.

Lu Yiming took several photos from various angles and planned to release them to the public.

Fortunately, he had the foresight to apply for invention patents for the USB flash drive, not only for domestic ones, but also for all those that can be patented internationally.Now that the product has been produced, he is not panicked at all.As long as the patent is approved, the products that use this mobile flash memory technology all over the world will have to pay him patent fees!
There are really too many cases of people who suffered losses because they did not pay attention to patents in the Xia Kingdom in the 80s and 90s.Among them, the most famous one is Wan Yan's VCD, which was really a mistake and lost everything.

Because the founder Jiang Wanmeng didn't pay much attention to patent registration, his rising business empire eventually collapsed overnight, and he missed the tens of billions of market.

Lu Yiming encouraged: "You have done a good job. Each of you will add 8 yuan to your bonus this quarter. You continue to study and strive to increase the storage capacity to 1000G, or even a T. And the current deposit and withdrawal speeds are still too slow. , the memory capacity is too small, these are areas that need improvement. I can continue to invest [-] million in it.”

When Cheng Xiaohua heard that Lu Yiming was willing to continue pouring money into it for him to do scientific research, he immediately agreed cheerfully. He was worried that after the flash drive was made, Lu Yiming would no longer invest more.

Now that Lu Yiming attaches so much importance to research and development, he immediately feels admiration in his heart.

This boss, who understands technology and is willing to spend money, can deal with it.

After leaving the laboratory, Lu Yiming took the world's first USB flash drive, found Zheng Youyuan, and showed him triumphantly: "How is it? I said it will be made soon. This is the prototype product. Currently he It can store three to four pieces of music, or 500 million Chinese character documents."

Zheng Youyuan didn't feel much about the three to four songs, but the 500 million Chinese characters really shocked him.

"500 million Chinese characters! Wouldn't it be possible to fit an entire "Chinese Dictionary" into it?"

A Chinese dictionary is as big as two bricks, can it be directly loaded into such a small thing now?

Zheng Youyuan feels that this is not considered technology anymore, this shit is magic.

"It's only been a month, and the thing has been made? Is this too fast?"

Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Isn't it good to get results soon?"

Zheng Youyuan looked at Lu Yiming dumbfounded: "It's mainly because you do this, and I'm not mentally prepared for it at all. It's not even easy to arrange production for a while."

Lu Yiming's face was pale, and he kept laughing: "Scientific research is like this. I can't predict exactly when the results will be produced."

The birth of the USB flash drive in the previous life was full of difficulties. After all, Deng Guoshun, the father of the USB flash drive at that time, only had hundreds of thousands of start-up funds in his hands. , can't compare with the objective conditions provided by Lu Yiming to Cheng Xiaohua.

In addition, Lu Yiming also directly pointed out the right direction to Cheng Xiaohua, which saved a lot of detours, so the original one-year scientific research practice was directly shortened to one month.

It can only be said that krypton gold is really awesome.

Lu Yiming reminded Zheng Youyuan: "There are still a few months before the Chinese New Year. I have already designed several classic keychain appearances for this thing. You should arrange production as soon as possible and try to make this thing on the market on New Year's Day. It is mainly divided into two parts. The styles, one of which is 8m, is priced at 480 yuan, and the other is 16m, 888. Taking advantage of the Chinese New Year, we will sell it for 80 yuan."

Seeing that Lu Yiming said it easily, Zheng Youyuan couldn't help complaining: "It's nearly 80 yuan a piece, and you still sell him [-]? The USB flash drive is a new thing after all, and it will take time for everyone to accept it."

However, Lu Yiming knows better than anyone how popular USB flash drives are in the world.

After all, before he was reborn, he bought USB flash drives in batches of tens of dollars, and each project directly used a USB flash drive, which was classified into categories, not to mention how comfortable it was.

Zheng Youyuan was still a little worried: "Should I find a TV station to advertise?"

Lu Yiming thought for a while, then nodded, "It's fine to advertise, but advertising alone is not enough."

Zheng Youyuan immediately asked: "Then what do you want?"

Lu Yiming smiled leisurely: "Mr. Zheng, have you forgotten that I am still the major shareholder of Jianlai Technology? The USB flash drive itself is intended to be used with the computer. In this case, we can directly hold a campaign to buy a computer and get a free USB flash drive. Promotion. And I can also launch a batch of customized computer cases without optical drives. Next year is the Year of the Rabbit, and we will have a limited edition for the Year of the Rabbit... There are more ways to play."

(End of this chapter)