The next day, in the morning.
Tiangong Technology Company.
Zhao Ye looked at the senior executives of Tiangong Technology Company and gave instructions: "Germany's precision machining technology is the best in the world. We can't buy advanced technology, but surely we can find talented people who are proficient in technology?"
"Don't worry about the money, poach precision machining talent from Germany like crazy!!!"
Zhao Ye is a man of great ambition and regards money as dirt. His emphasis on talent is beyond what most people can imagine.
Currently, Germany is divided into West Germany and East Germany.
The split is good; it will make it easier for Tiangong Technology to poach talent.
If we rely solely on the hard work of domestic researchers, CNC machine tools will not fail to develop, but it will take a very long time.
The German precision machining talent brought in already possesses advanced technology, which can significantly improve the research and development level of Tiangong Technology Company in a short period of time.
Therefore, working in isolation is unacceptable.
After explaining these things, Zhao Ye left.
Precision machining is not his forte, so let the professionals handle it. He should focus on making money to provide ample funding for Tiangong Technology, and he should relentlessly poach German engineers.
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Back at the group company, Zhao Ye announced the establishment of a CD research institute to further develop CDs.
The first step was naturally to develop CD drives. The first-generation CD drives provided by Philips were too slow, only 150kb/s, which could only be used as a unit of measurement. Thus, this standard also established the unique name of CD drives as "several times the speed CD drive".
CD games require at least a 4x optical drive to meet the requirements.
There's plenty of information about this online from his previous life. If it weren't for hardware limitations, Zhao Ye could have developed even higher-speed optical drives. However, a 4x drive is sufficient for now; further speed increases can be achieved later. Besides, product upgrades allow for more sales. This is a commendable quality that every competent capitalist should possess.
Therefore, some products don't necessarily need to be developed to be so advanced.
Another aspect is to develop new CD formats based on the CD standard, such as VCD, CD-R, etc.
VCDs were incredibly popular in China in their heyday, and most Chinese people knew about them.
It is actually a CD-ROMXA format disc that stores audio and video data in full-motion MPEG-1 format, and can be played directly on vcdyer.
CD-ROM XA is an architectural extension of the CD-ROM specification. It makes minor modifications to the CD's storage format, allowing it to store audio and video data. It was originally developed by Philips, Sony, and Microsoft in 1989 as a supplement to the Yellow Book (CD-ROM).
Clearly, it was only 1987, and Wujiang Group was fortunate enough to get involved.
The reason why Wujiang Group spent a huge sum of money to purchase CD patent licenses is not simply to develop CD home game consoles. In fact, they also plan to participate in the formulation of CD standards and be the first to develop CD-ROMXA.
In addition, Wujiang Group still had much to do, such as MPEG-1, a lossy compression standard for video and audio. The video compression algorithm wasn't completed until 1990. In late 1992, MPEG-1 was officially approved as an international standard.
Zhao Ye believes that the MPEG-1 video compression algorithm is very simple.
He has even more powerful video compression algorithms, but there's absolutely no need to use them.
However, each compression algorithm has its own characteristics. Even MPEG-1 technology was the mainstream technology in the DVR digital video recorder market in its previous life.
Nowadays, as long as Wujiang Group develops VCD technology and leads the world, it doesn't matter if the Americans don't acknowledge it. VCDs are popular all over the world, and it doesn't matter whether you acknowledge it or not, as long as the market recognizes it.
VCDs appeared a bit late in my previous life. DVDs were about to appear, and PCs were already becoming widespread. Back then, who would watch VCDs? Wasn't watching movies on a computer more enjoyable?
In the following days,
Zhao Ye often appears at the CD Research Institute. He is teaching again. From 10:00 to 11:00 in the morning, he talks about the development of high-magnification optical drives. From 11:00 to 12:00, he talks about the development of CD-ROM XA. In the afternoon, he goes to Loongson Design Company to continue to work on the development of EDA chip design software.
In the evenings, he would go home alone to work on the MPEG-1 video compression format.
Although it was hard work, Zhao Ye enjoyed it.
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Japan.
Del Prado was in a terrible mood at that moment.
He contacted several Japanese companies, hoping to sell ASML, but to no avail; surprisingly, no one was willing to acquire ASML.
"Mr. Del Prado, you're wasting your time. No one in Japan will buy ASML! Nikon practically dominates the lithography machine market. Which company can compete with them? Anyone who tries to acquire ASML would be a complete idiot!!!" Matsushima Kusaka, a senior executive at Mitsubishi Group, said sarcastically.
As Del Prado walked down the street, recalling Matsushima Kusaka's words, he couldn't help but think of the Wujiang Group and the legendary figure behind this vast business empire—Zhao Ye!
Is Zhao Ye a complete idiot?
Del Prado believed that ASML was still very valuable, otherwise he wouldn't have let someone acquire ASML.
Half an hour later, Del Prado returned to the hotel. He thought for a moment, and seemed to have finally figured something out. Then he opened a drawer, found the business card left by Rex Aiden, and dialed the number written on the card.
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