wild 1995

Chapter 109 Appearance
The purpose of Di Ye's recruitment of Tang Renrong is not only for Yuncheng Radio 3 Factory and Panda Electronics, but also to take advantage of the opportunity of the state-owned enterprise restructuring in the late 90s and the 909 Project to integrate the domestic fragmented electronics industry. The strength is not good, and they are fighting each other, wasting a lot of excellent development opportunities.

Among them, the most typical example of internal fighting is the giant dragon communication led by "Great China".

In 1991, invested by the Post and Telecommunications Industry Corporation, the team led by Wu Jiangxing developed the world's advanced Wanmen digital program-controlled switchboard HJD04-ISDN, also known as the "04 machine", and then authorized it to 14 companies across the country In production, I originally wanted to build an industrial cluster, but as a result, these companies competed viciously and slashed prices with each other. Not only did they fail to create an industrial cluster, but they became a mess.

In order to change this situation, in 1995, several companies that produced 04 machines united to form Julong Communication Equipment Co., Ltd., but this did not change the situation of disunity. Capital parties, technology parties, creditors and suppliers often Disputes, management system changes day and night, self-contradictory, employees only care about forming cliques, and technology research and development basically stagnates.

Internal strife led to a major failure of the product in 1996. The production was stopped for more than 1999 months, and then the assets were reorganized, but the status quo did not change. The reorganization in 2001 still did not help. After the third reorganization in 04, The technology of the 3 machine has long lagged behind the times, and the "Great China" has become 1 out of [-], leaving only Datang, ZTE and Huawei.

In addition to the communications industry, the same is true for the chip industry. From 1984 to 1990, 33 semiconductor fabs were introduced and constructed across the country. Most of them have not formed scale production and commercial operation capabilities, and have been reduced to "paying tuition". product of.

In 1995, there were only five chip companies worth mentioning in China, namely Shougang NEC, Xicheng Huajing Electronics, Kuaiji Huayue Microelectronics, Pujiang Belling Microelectronics, and Pujiang Philips Semiconductor. They were all in trouble before and after, and in the end they didn't come up with any tricks.

Among them, Kuaiji Huayue Microelectronics is a product of the 907 Project, and Xicheng Huajing Electronics is a product of the 908 Project, and the results are not ideal. When the country formulated the 1996 Project in 909, it invested tens of billions to start a new stove in Pujiang and built a Huahong. For microelectronics, the future development of Hua Hong can only be said to be okay. In 2023, the products will still be based on the process of 55nm or above.

Since the 909 project focuses on making breakthroughs in chip manufacturing technology and cannot take into account the upstream industry chains such as raw material preparation, chip design, and equipment manufacturing, Di Ye plans to acquire the five chip companies that are fighting each other when the time is right, and use their own mastery The future information, sort out the entire industrial chain, and strive to achieve a take-all.

Wanting to acquire a chip company as a private enterprise requires not only high capital requirements, but also high requirements for contacts and talents. Therefore, when Di Ye recruited Tang Renrong, he gave the example of Blackstone Group, a representative of private equity funds. Instead of Sequoia Capital, the representative of venture capital funds, because Blackstone's business strategy is more suitable for industrial integration.

Of course, these are all things to say later. Tang Renrong is currently in the suspension investigation stage and cannot change jobs yet. Moreover, the debts of Yuncheng Radio 3 Factory have not been divested yet, so we need to wait a few more months, so let’s not mention it for now.

The British Consulate’s super-priority service charges are very expensive, costing thousands of dollars, but the service quality is really good. Di Ye and Xia Fangfei got their visas on the morning of April 4, and returned to Yuncheng by plane in the afternoon. They parted ways at the door, one went to find Liu Shaosong to surf the Internet, and the other went to Fu Wenjing to get new custom-made clothes.

"Come, come, have a look at your desk, are you satisfied?"

Liu Shaosong originally shared the office with a teacher Hunzi. After Di Ye came back to report at the end of March, Dean Fei sent Teacher Hunzi away to make room for him. The desks, chairs and computers were all brand new.

In 1995, ergonomic computer chairs were not popular in China, and almost all boss chairs were used. Di Ye sat on it, turned around with his toes, and complained with a smile: "President Fei is willing to buy such a good chair." , I thought he would just give me a plastic stool."

"For collective purchases, teachers above the associate professor level in the school will be on hand."

"Cut! I thought it was special care."

"You are still an undergraduate, but you enjoy the treatment of an associate professor. Isn't that special enough?"

After chatting with Di Ye for a few words, Liu Shaosong asked, "What kind of secret project are you doing in Pujiang? You disappeared for five or six days, almost giving Dean Fei a heart attack."

"Why is Dean Fei in such a hurry?"

"Dean Fei found that the technical content of WebP far exceeds that of the Athlon browser, and he was eager to let you write a thesis."

The Athlon browser is still in the stage of micro-innovation and does not show heavyweight original technology, but WebP is different. It is a product of the H.264 era and uses new technologies such as intra-frame prediction, which is ahead of the JPEG format. In the two eras, the same image was compressed with the same parameters. Not only was the size much smaller than the JPEG format, but the quality was also better. It is reasonable for Dean Fei to pay attention.

Di Ye shook his head and smiled, pressed the power button of the desktop computer on the desk, and joked to himself: "I plan to write it next semester as a thesis for my Ph.D. After all, I need five SCIs to graduate, so I have to save some money."

Liu Shaosong didn't smile, and reminded him sternly: "Your WebP is open source, and the image compression technology used will spread quickly. If you don't write a paper quickly, there may not be journals willing to accept it next semester, and even if you write it now Well, it must be published in the next semester, and it can barely be counted as a doctoral thesis."

"If that's the case, I'll write it back."

There are many heavyweight papers in Di Ye's memory, and he doesn't care much about the new technologies used in WebP, because the key to these new technologies is not the papers, but the patents.

VCD uses the MPEG-1992 standard released in 1, and DVD uses the MPEG-1994 standard released in 2. Due to the collision between the abbreviation and MP3, MPEG-3 was directly skipped, and the MPEG-1998 standard was released in 4. , in the eyes of ordinary consumers, it seems that there is no new video standard after MP4.

In fact, after 1998, the MPEG working group cooperated with the international telecommunication standardization department ITU-T to establish an organization called JVT, and released the H.2003/AVC standard in 264, where H.264 is the name of ITU-T AVC is the naming method of the MEPG working group. The full name is MPEG-4 part 10 AVC, but this name is too cumbersome, and most people only remember H.264 in the end.

The H.264 standard uses many new technologies. These new technologies involve multiple patents and are mastered by a private organization called MPEG LA. Whether it is a hardware manufacturer or a streaming media website, they must pay patent fees when using codecs. The charging rules are more complicated. For example, there is no charge for hardware products below 10 units, $10 per unit for more than 0.02 units, no charge for video-on-demand within 12 minutes, $12 each time for more than 0.02 minutes, and a cap of $500 million per company per year etc.

In order to avoid the patent fee of H.264, Google acquired a video compression technology company called On2009 in 2, trying to promote the VP8 codec technology developed by them, but the response was not good, and later found that VP8 is very suitable for image compression, so in On this basis, the WebP format was developed, and the result was a great success.

At the beginning, Di Ye contacted a number of law firms in Hong Kong. In addition to formulating the articles of association for the two Little Red Flower Foundations, he also applied for patents for the Athlon browser and various new technologies used in WebP, creating a moat. Prevent future blackmail by patent trolls.

"Miss Liu, don't you use the phone?"

"No, you want to go online?"

"Ah."

When Di Ye was in the joint working group, he was able to surf the Internet through the private line of the Pujiang Stock Exchange every day, but after leaving the working group, the Garden Hotel did not provide dial-up Internet service, so he hadn’t checked his email for two days, feeling like a cat scratching his head After turning on the computer, I found that the browser and mail client were already installed in it, so I immediately plugged in the phone line and started dialing up to surf the Internet.

Amidst Modem's jaw-dropping yells, Di Ye couldn't help muttering, "It's such an old habit that dies hard, to be addicted to the Internet again so quickly."

"What did you say?"

"Nothing, I'm just checking my email."

The R&D team was calm, and the emails they sent were all about technical problems, which could be resolved in a few words. Mark Anderson's reaction was also expected, and he agreed to take Eric Bina to Germany. The only thing that surprised Di Ye was , he received an email from Microsoft.

The email was sent by a person named Thomas Reardon. He introduced himself as the project manager of the IE browser. He got the CSS document from Bert Poss and was very interested in it. Talk to him face to face at the W3C meeting.

"Looking at it this way, the big devil of Microsoft is finally coming out."

(End of this chapter)