Chapter 166: Buying Mountains

Looking at Xu Chun with a calm expression, Sun Cheng slowly stated his requirements.

He currently had both money and technology in his hands; the reason he was willing to cooperate with Nanjing University of Technology was purely for the sake of a Laboratory quota.

Within China, a Laboratory is a new type of entity that differs from commercial companies and sits between government and military research institutions.

Although there are not many Laboratories already built in the country, this does not mean the state does not value them.

In fact, various commercial Laboratories in Europe and America have in recent years replaced large commercial groups and state-run research institutions, gradually becoming the birthplaces of new technologies.

Therefore, after entering the new century, China also promulgated the first domestic 【Research Institution Management Regulations】 in 2002, which clearly stipulated that only enterprises established for more than three years with an annual turnover of 50 million national currency could apply to the state to establish a Laboratory.

Besides this, in order to encourage healthy cooperation between university institutions and commercial companies, the regulations also included a clause stating that if an enterprise can obtain technical support from a well-known institution of higher learning, it may also apply to establish a Laboratory.

The benefits of establishing a Laboratory are obvious; many precision mechanical devices in the country are strictly controlled for ordinary enterprises and merchants, but the restrictions placed on Laboratories are much smaller.

The timeline of the real world has now entered the year 2016, which has a time difference of nearly ten years compared to the world of 【Transformers】; one must not underestimate this small amount of time, as in certain fields of precision machinery, a lead in time can potentially mean a generation or even two.

If he could obtain such a quota, it would mean that in addition to the world of 【Transformers】, Sun Cheng would have one more procurement option in the real world, which was what he wanted to strive for.

It is not easy to strive for cooperation with a top domestic institution like Nanjing University of Technology while being a nobody that outsiders do not think highly of.

He definitely needed to pay some price, and Sun Cheng was willing to do so, directly bringing out highly promising storage technology.

The storage technology of the planet Cybertron is truly worthy of the term "super technology."

It is hard to imagine that a Memory Chip the size of an adult's thumbnail could store hundreds of EB of information, which is almost enough to record the total data of all information in all of China.

Naturally, Sun Cheng would not be unable to produce such advanced technology, but in the world of 【Transformers】, he instructed his Decepticon Worker subordinates to refer to the storage technology on Earth and formulate a new technology with the same process and standards.

Applying this technology, starting from the just-conquered 10TB hard drive, it could directly raise the storage technology of the real world—which still had many problems—by dozens of times in a leap.

If one were to continue to extrapolate, entering the PB era in a few years would not be impossible.

Just imagine, with the development of the internet economy, from the state to enterprises and then to individuals, everyone will increasingly rely on large-capacity storage tools.

In the present year of 2016, the cost of a 1TB mechanical hard drive still cannot be controlled within 100 yuan, and the most advanced 10TB hard drive starts at a price of 5,000.

At this time, if a new technology suddenly appears on the market that can directly control the cost of a 1TB hard drive to within 20 yuan, press the price of a 10TB drive to less than 1,000 yuan, and compress the size to the size of a finger, this is simply a rhythm for selling like crazy!

After all, from computers to mobile phones, more and more electronic devices cannot do without storage tools; the total shipment volume of this market last year exceeded 570 million units, with an average price of 59 US dollars per unit, and the total global market scale was nearly 34 billion US dollars, enough to let any enterprise that masters revolutionary technology eat until they are full.

Sun Cheng's request clearly gave Xu Chun a shock.

Without hiding the astonishment in his heart, he looked at Sun Cheng as if seeing him for the first time, and after carefully sizing him up for a moment, he did not rush to agree or refuse, but instead lowered his head to look at the document in his hand again!

This time, he spent a full half-hour carefully reviewing the document again before solemnly putting it into a file bag and placing it on the table beside him.

"I can help you ask..."

Xu Chun looked at him and said slowly, his face still somewhat troubled, "However, it will probably be very difficult to convince the school to help you establish a Laboratory based on this document alone..."

Since he is the Class Counselor for Micro-electronics, he naturally has considerable skill in this field, and it was clear he had already noticed that Sun Cheng had deliberately not provided some crucial data or even the technical extrapolation direction in the document.

Sun Cheng understood what he meant, but with a half-smile on his face, he teased slightly: "Class Counselor, everything is written clearly, what else do you want me to do!"

Xu Chun's face flushed slightly, and he gave an awkward smile, avoiding his gaze.

Indeed, just now, after realizing the authenticity and feasibility of this document, he was truly tempted by the Fourth Generation Access Technology and new materials mentioned by Sun Cheng.

If he could obtain more useful information, with the strength of Nanjing University of Technology in the field of Micro-electronics, perhaps they really could research something.

At that time, for him, that would truly be capital for advancement.

He hurriedly pushed up his glasses, taking the opportunity to hide the embarrassment in his heart.

Xu Chun was not bad by nature; he had just been momentarily greedy.

Now that his student had pointed it out so bluntly, he quickly dispelled the thought and corrected his attitude.

Just as he was brewing his words, he heard Sun Cheng say again, "Class Counselor, you might as well help me mention it to the higher-ups. I'm not in a hurry for the quota; if the school is unwilling, I'll just wait a few more years. I just have one more thing I hope you can help me pass on. I only want the qualification for the Laboratory's plaque; I can solve the equipment procurement, site selection, and funding myself..."

After finishing, he made an excuse and soon left Xu Chun's office.

He had already gone this far for a plaque qualification that could save him a few years of effort; if Nanjing University of Technology still didn't have the foresight, that would be their own business.

Anyway, China is so big; if he left them, Sun Cheng still had plenty of other choices.

After leaving Xu Chun, he did not contact him for several days. Although Sun Cheng did not know how things were going, he knew that he had to stay calm at this time, so he simply acted as if he had never mentioned the matter and busied himself.

The office in the old teaching building of Nanjing University of Technology could no longer be used. After searching in Nandu for two days, he finally rented an entire floor in an office building in the suburbs of Huxi District; this would be the future office location of his Cybertron Technology Company.

The reason he chose Huxi District, which is far from the administrative and commercial center of Nandu, was another important reason: Huxi District has many mountains. The countryside 30 kilometers away from the office building he chose is typical hilly terrain; although one couldn't call it full of high mountains, one could see small hills everywhere.

Sun Cheng chose this place precisely for these hills; he was preparing to buy mountains!