Chapter 2029: Plan

Liu Qingjun nodded. Although this chip had been placed beside him for a whole night, looking at the chip in front of him, his eyes were still incomparably fiery.

"Yes, this is the storage chip, 128MB."

Zhou Andong stretched out two fingers to gently pinch the chip, then lifted it up and examined it carefully, as if a golden light was shining on it.

Although the current capacity was only 128MB, since it had been successfully developed, expanding the memory would no longer be a difficult task.

"Has the patent been applied for? Can our technology bypass the technical barriers of similar foreign products?"

"It's being applied for, still handed over to that Xiangjiang agent." Liu Qingjun replied after organizing his thoughts: "Stacking technology, although invented by the Japanese.

But we use vertical stacking technology, which can achieve capacity expansion by increasing storage density. And foreign horizontal stacking technology cannot achieve this method. Therefore, our technology can completely bypass their patents."

Zhou Andong put the chip into the box, then looked at Liu Qingjun: "Have you thought about where to go for tape-out?"

"Someone suggested going to TSMC, but the old director said it was unnecessary, it could be done domestically." Liu Qingjun said: "BOE, although it was established last year, its predecessor was the Beijing Electron Tube Factory.

And the unit to which the Beijing Electron Tube Factory belongs is the Institute of Microelectronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which is the earliest institution engaged in chip research and development and production in our country. It was established as early as the 1950s and pulled out the first germanium alloy transistor in our country."

"BOE?" Zhou Andong thought for a while: "If our chip is handed over to BOE for production, what will the yield rate be?"

Liu Qingjun hesitated and said without confidence: "This, I'm not too clear either."

"I don't need it to reach more than ninety percent, as long as it can be seventy percent."

For Zhou Andong, supporting domestic chip foundry enterprises was important. As for the yield rate, as long as it was within his tolerance, it was fine.

Moreover, the production of storage chips was not urgent. Now the most important thing was the research and development of MP3. Of course, there was also the USB interface that had been forgotten by him.

"How is the USB interface and data cable that I asked you to develop?"

By the end of this year, many companies including Intel, Compaq, IBM, and Microsoft jointly proposed to promote USB. If the patent hadn't been applied for now, he wanted to eat this piece of cake, it would definitely be too late.

"When you proposed it, it was made in less than a month, but you said that in the future, whether it's a mouse or a keyboard, including some external devices, such as printers, all will use this interface.

So, the old director led people to develop an integrated circuit board that supports USB. What surprised everyone was that when we tested it with modified equipment, we found that the transmission speed increased from the previous 480Mbps to 5Gbps."

Speaking of this, Liu Qingjun laughed: "Although this situation is indeed surprising, because the technical content is not high, there was no notification.

If it weren't for you valuing patents and repeatedly instructing that patents must be applied for, I guess no one would have thought of taking this thing to apply for a patent."

"As long as it's applied for, that's fine."

A smile appeared on Zhou Andong's face. Why did Intel and Compaq jointly promote the USB interface? It was because this interface was the most optimized design.

He applied for a patent, not to collect patent fees, but when Intel, Compaq, and IBM promoted USB, there must also be the name of Yuzhou Technology.

Of course, there was also the USB alliance, which must also have a place for Chinese technology enterprises and Yuzhou Technology. If they didn't want to play together, that was fine.

The USB interface was already the most optimized design. It wouldn't be easy for them to bypass it. Since they couldn't play together, then they would part ways.

China was a large country with a population of over one billion. Such a market scale was simply unimaginably huge.

As long as Yuzhou Technology's computers were successfully launched, then the next things would be simple.

They could produce mice, keyboards, MP3s, and U-disks, all using USB interfaces.

Not only that, there were various other devices, such as printers, scanners, etc., looking for suitable manufacturers to cooperate with.

OEM was fine, and equity participation was also fine, but the premise was that they must use USB interfaces.

Then take out billions to occupy the market at a low price, because the advantages of the USB interface were very obvious.

It supported hot-swapping, and the transmission speed was much faster than traditional interfaces.

Once customers experienced these benefits, no one would easily give them up.

By that time, would those big manufacturers like Intel, Compaq, and IBM feel embarrassed?

To gain a foothold in China's huge market, would you use the USB interface or not?

Especially for U-disks, their memory capacity far exceeded traditional floppy disks, and they had the characteristics of being moisture-proof, small, and portable. This was undoubtedly a big killer of the USB interface.

"Old Liu, have you had breakfast?"

Zhou Andong picked up a steamed bun, opened his big mouth, and took a bite.

Liu Qingjun nodded: "I ate fried dough sticks and tofu pudding at a roadside stall."

"Wait for me a while." Zhou Andong drank some porridge again: "After I finish eating, let's go to Yuzhou Technology together."

"Good!" Liu Qingjun said excitedly: "I'll go outside and smoke a cigarette."

Liu Qingjun got up and walked out, his mood indescribably excited. The Chairman invested huge funds in the research and development of storage chips, there must be a big move.

With the continuous bombardment of Yuzhou VCD advertisements, its popularity was increasing day by day, and sales were also on the rise. According to market research, the sales of brands such as Sony, Siemens, and Hitachi were gradually being compressed.

This should have been a good thing, but these brands were all international big manufacturers. Although they were suppressed in China, from the perspective of global sales, even if Yuzhou Technology sat on a rocket, it would be difficult to see their backs.

What was even more severe was that other brands of VCDs had emerged in China, with uneven quality and low prices, and they were quite popular in the low-end market.

At the same time, the advertising investment of Wan Yan VCD was not small, but the sales had always been lukewarm. Therefore, Liu Qingjun had a premonition that in the next two years, the VCD market would inevitably break out in a big war.

As for who would be the first to provoke the war, whether Wan Yan would fire the first shot or those latecomers, he didn't know. However, the Chairman seemed to have a major plan. If a new product could be launched before the VCD price war broke out, it would be invincible for Yuzhou Technology.

Zhou Andong ate fast, and Huang Yali didn't eat slow either. The two put down their chopsticks almost at the same time, and then got up and walked out. ===== CHAPTER 2030 =====