Riding the wind of rebirth

"Mr. Zhou, nice to meet you again. Is this girl your girlfriend?" Ikeda Oka greeted Zhou Zhi gently.

"Her name is Mai Xiaomiao, Xiaomiao. Sister Ikeda is the general manager of Sony Greater China, and Sister Zhang is the general agent of Samsung China. These two sisters are both strong women. I should learn more from them if I have the chance."

“Yes!” Mai Xiaomiao agreed obediently: “Hello, Sister Zhang, Hello, Sister Ikeda.”

"Then let's go. Mr. Matsui and Mr. Jin are still waiting for us in Houhai." Zhang Silu invited.

Sony and Samsung's business in China has developed very well in recent years, and the configuration of their headquarters in the capital is even more luxurious. Zhang Silu and Ikeda Oka now have full-time drivers. Ikeda Oka brought a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter seven-seater commercial vehicle that has just started to be sold in Asia this year. This car has not yet been sold in China. It was transferred from Europe by Sony. The interior is also extremely luxurious, and it is obviously used to receive important customers.

Zhang Silu also got in and asked the driver to drive his Audi behind so that they could chat.

To be honest, the cooperation between these two companies and Clover is very deep. The main business of Samsung's cooperation with Clover is the wafer fab and memory chip factory used to produce memory chips, as well as memory sticks used in various digital products.

The cooperation with Sony may seem inconspicuous, unlike Samsung, which has built several large factories in Shanghai, but the business profits are not low.

They mainly make profits from dividends of intellectual property rights, including DVD chips, players, discs, as well as cooperating film companies and digital alliances. In fact, they have formed a digital content supply platform jointly led by both parties.

However, due to the limitation of network transmission speed, the main business of this platform is still music business, and the video content involved is relatively small. At present, it is mainly an animated short video called CloverFlash made by netizens according to their interests.

CloverFlash itself is not actually the name of an animation class, but a vector animation production software developed and upgraded by Clover Group's JAVA team in the United States based on current online video production conditions after acquiring the copyright of FutureSplash Animator.

FutureSplash Animator was originally just a small plug-in for two animation production software. After developing the official JAVA and the corresponding ALUA, the JAVA R&D team of Clover Group has built the best network application development ecosystem for the next few decades.

However, it is not enough to have only a research and development ecosystem. More development tools must be added to enrich this ecosystem. Therefore, FutureSplash Animator, a software with vector animation production function, caught the attention of the research and development team. They acquired it and developed it into a vector animation software compatible with ALUA.

The difference between vector animation and ordinary animation is that the animation content is decomposed into graphic vectors and action vectors, both of which express graphics and actions through computer language. This makes it possible for large-scale streaming media software that previously required frame-by-frame interpretation to be replaced by a data file with a concise description and small resource usage.

Of course, this kind of animation requires special tools to interpret, so it needs a Clover browser loaded with the CloverFlash plug-in to play it.

The JAVA R&D team also configured CloverFlash with an MP3 compiler, allowing it to edit MP3 digital audio tracks for use as dubbing for cartoons.

Because this set of tools is so convenient, many amateurs now even abandon professional music production tools when making their own music works, and use CloverFlash's audio production function to make their own music works.

Of course, the promotion of the Digital Alliance is also indispensable. Now the Clover Browser, JAVA, and CloverFlash have almost become the three-piece set of network development for young people.

Even the experts who use CloverFlash to make animations have a special name, which is called "Flasher" in English and "Shanke" in Chinese. In addition to the cooperation in digital products and content supply, the three parties also have a cooperation project, which is the production of industrial control chips based on MINICOS and the production of TYPE-C interface chips.

Both of these are "small" businesses because compared with traditional chip particles, these two chips are really too small.

But the profits are astonishing, especially for the TYPE-C interface chip, because the TYPE-C interface is a "panacea". It is smaller and more convenient than USB, and can be used as a power interface, data transmission interface, flexible expansion and many other excellent functions. It has now become a standard feature of various digital products, and the supply required is too large.

As a commercial return to Samsung and Sony for their cooperative investment in China, Zhouzhi also authorized the production of TYPE-C chips to Samsung and Sony. The patent licensing fees charged were lower than those given to Europe and the United States, and the condition was that they needed to invest in building factories in China for production.

Both companies are also very happy. One characteristic of the chip industry is that it does not attach much importance to production areas and brand effects. China's labor and production costs are very low, which is undoubtedly a good place to produce chips.

However, these technical things are too professional. Zhang Silu and Ikeda Qiu are both managers, mainly in charge of personnel, finance, and market analysis. When chatting with Zhou Zhi, they can only talk about the big things.

However, both of them were shrewd people. The business they talked about with Zhou Zhi had an annual income of billions, but the girl next to Zhou Zhi looked calm and not surprised at all. Zhou Zhi did not avoid her at all, and he understood that the relationship between the two was indeed unusual. At least the girl knew how big Zhou Zhi's industry was.

Although the guess was correct, there were actually some deviations in their estimates of Mai Xiaomiao. Mai Xiaomiao did know the scale of Zhou Zhi's industry, but that was not what Zhou Zhi told her. Instead, she had hacked into the internal system of the Clover Group and looked through Zhou Zhi's work log.

However, even though she knew this, this girl had never had any concept of money and had never linked Zhou Zhi's work to money. In her mind, such a large investment in Xiaozhi Computing Matrix was just a number to determine whether it was enough to support current computer tasks and development plans.

The old capital of the Ming Dynasty was still a "water city". It was once densely networked with rivers and lakes, carrying the capital's water transport, nourishing the royal gardens, maintaining the lives of the people, and enriching the poetry of literati...

By the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the capital's water network began to shrink and dry up, and the water in the wells began to turn bitter. According to the notes of Qing people, the water in the capital was already very hard, to the point that if the tea sets were not wiped for three days, they would be covered with scale.

At that time, the royal family had to go to Yuquan Mountain to fetch water.

But for such a large city, even if the water network shrinks, some of it will remain, such as Kunming Lake in the Summer Palace, the first three seas consisting of Beihai, Zhonghai and Nanhai, and Shichahai consisting of Qianhai, Houhai and Xihai, also known as the "back three seas".

Early summer is the most charming time of Houhai Lake, when the lotus flowers are in full bloom. There are still people swimming in the lake today, and there are quite a lot of people at the small stone platform where the lake goes down to the water.

The vehicle drove into a private residence beside an alley. After getting off the car, Zhou Zhi discovered that it was an independent courtyard house. However, many of the courtyard house's unique layouts had been demolished and connected, and it had become a high-end restaurant.

He also had a dozen courtyards in the capital, but the Haichao Temple next to Houhai had been sold to the painter Cui Ruzhuo in exchange for his Shi Tao Arhat album. (End of this chapter)