The Grandmother in the Siheyuan

Chapter 591 Three Eggs
“Master, older people should eat less salty food, as it can easily cause high blood pressure and coronary heart disease.” Lei Jun said with a smile, “A light diet is the key to longevity.”

"If there's no enjoyment in eating, then why do people live so long?" Liu Hua countered. "I'm already over sixty, almost seventy. The ancients said that I can do whatever I want now."

"You've only just begun! The average life expectancy in our country is over seventy. You should break at least a few more records."

Regardless of what the old man said, the rice company was finally established. Lei Jun assigned employee numbers to the company's employees; he himself was number 001, and Liu Hua was number 000.

So Liu Hua mocked himself: "See? This traitor gave me three zeros, which means I'm nothing, I'm no good at all."

The meeting room erupted in laughter. Lei Jun explained with a smile, "Master, you are the beginning of our company. Only with you, the zero, could I, the one, exist."

"Don't explain, explaining is just covering up." Liu Hua joked, "I heard that Alibaba has an office culture where everyone has to give themselves a nickname. From now on, my nickname will be Master Three Eggs."

Everyone burst into laughter again. They hadn't expected this academician to be so humorous. They had been very nervous when Liu Hua first appeared, just like when they had failed a test in elementary school and were facing their teacher.

In less than two hours, everyone's worries were gone, because Liu Hua knew exactly how to get along with the young people.

Because Liu Hua was a young person when he transmigrated in his previous life, and he has been spending many years in the laboratory with young students, there is basically no generation gap between them.

Getting back to the main topic, Lei Jun began discussing work. He said with a smile, "Everyone has been busy with their own things these past two days. I have some good news that I forgot to tell you. I visited my master a couple of days ago, and our Master Sandan was so happy that he helped us solve most of our problems."

Someone eagerly asked, "What do you mean, 'most of the problems'?"

Liu Hua cleared his throat and said, "Let me answer your questions. My Taiyi Group's new energy company can solve your mobile phone battery problem, the Hetu rune can help you solve the chip problem, and I also have the Linux operating system, which I can authorize to be modified into a mobile phone operating system."

Lei Jun smiled and said, "The old man can also handle the camera and screen. He has shares in BOE, and Seagull has some connections with him."

"Seagull camera?"

Some people were surprised, saying that seagulls had once been his dream camera: "Old man, your profession has absolutely nothing to do with seagull cameras."

Liu Hua countered, "What do you consider my major?"

Mechanical design.

"Aerospace".

"New energy".

"Research on new materials".

Liu Hua slammed his hand on the table: "Are you all pig-headed? Lei Jun just called me 'Grandmaster.' What's Lei Jun's major? He studied computer science." "Yeah, it seems Academician Liu was originally a professor in the Computer Science Department at Tsinghua University."

Liu Hua then said with a smile, "Finally, we're getting to the point. I used to be a professor of semiconductors at Tsinghua University. In the 1980s and 90s, I designed three supercomputers for the country. The network prototype we use now is from our country, and I also designed the local area network."

"But what does this have to do with cameras?"

Lei Jun shook his head: "Idiot, have you forgotten something called a digital camera?"

Everyone suddenly realized what was going on. Liu Hua smiled and said, "That hit the nail on the head. My lab designed and manufactured my country's first digital camera. The research funding came from Seagull Factory. We used so much of their money, but we estimated that the market wasn't very big at the time and we would lose money. So I gave Seagull Camera another idea: to produce point-and-shoot cameras."

"A point-and-shoot camera? Isn't it supposed to be a smart camera?"

Another person laughed and said, "Saying you're stupid is the same as saying you're not smart. A point-and-shoot camera means anyone can use it, while a smart camera means it's very simple and has intelligent adjustments, so anyone can use it too."

“I love listening to those stories,” Employee No. 008 said with a smile. “If the people involved didn’t tell us, how would our staff know these things? It broadens their horizons.”

Number 002 frowned and asked, "Academician Liu, you just said that you can solve the chip problem. As far as I know, although the Hetu Rune can produce chips, they are generally simple industrial chips, not consumer-grade chips."

“That’s ancient history,” Liu Hua said with a smile. “Hetu Rune’s main business is producing industrial-grade chips because industrial-grade chips are more useful and have higher profits, but that doesn’t mean we can’t produce consumer-grade chips. Last year, we were already able to produce 90-nanometer chips. There are so many counterfeit phone manufacturers in China now, and more than half of them use our chips, while the remaining small half use MediaTek.”

"Ninety nanometers, that should be enough. Academician Liu has indeed given us a great surprise. However, it's not enough to just produce chips; we also need to be able to design them. Our rice company doesn't have the capability to design chips yet."

"Don't worry, the Hetu runes are not simple; they are just a chip manufacturing plant. We also design chips. We design chip manufacturing machines and manufacture chip manufacturing machines."

Everyone gave a thumbs up: "As expected of Academician Liu, he truly has great foresight."

"The price shouldn't be too high, right?" someone said skeptically. "After all, we know that lithography machines are very expensive. Although the market is very large now, the cost of producing chips is indeed not low."

Liu Hua waved his hand: "Let me reassure you, our chip production cost is very low, and we have a completely new technology roadmap. We leave MediaTek, Qualcomm, and Intel far behind."

Seeing that everyone seemed to want to ask about chip manufacturing technology, Liu Hua shook his head directly: "Don't ask. Everyone in my factory responsible for chip production, from top to bottom, has to sign a confidentiality agreement, so don't keep digging into it. Eggs are delicious, there's no need to see what the hen looks like."

Everyone felt a chill run down their spines; there was a secret involved, and probably quite a big one at that.

Lei Jun was most familiar with Liu Hua, and jokingly said, "Master, everyone here is one of us, why are you keeping it a secret?"

"If a ruler is not discreet, he will lose his ministers; if a minister is not discreet, he will lose his life; if important matters are not kept secret, they will cause harm." Liu Hua said with a smile, "Things that should be kept secret should be kept secret. It's not to protect you, but to achieve a more important role at crucial moments."

(End of this chapter)