"Of course, of course," Liu Xun was a little incoherent when he heard Xue Xuewu's question. He was so excited about the success of the VCD research and development project, but Liu Xun then realized that he could return to his hometown all of a sudden. If you don¡¯t go to China, even if you book a flight immediately, you won¡¯t be able to return to Changping City within two days.
"Sister Wu, I am in the United States right now. I will go back in two or three days. And I may have to go to Deshun to do some things. The Jingshan School in Country Garden also has to cut the ribbon. You and everyone will go first Celebrate, hehe, everyone is a hero of Huaqing, and the entire R&D department is a big contributor. I will celebrate everyone after I go back. Well, the promised rewards will not change. As for the reward plan, hehe, Sister Wu You make the plans first, and I will announce it to everyone when I get back."
Xue Xuewu naturally agreed repeatedly. She did not expect Liu Xun to rush back immediately. Xue Xuewu knew what was going on when Liu Xun stayed in the United States for more than a month. Although she felt that it exceeded Microsoft's goal It seems a little incredible, but since we met, Liu Xun has always been a person who is good at creating miracles, isn't he? After hanging up the phone, Xue Xudan smiled heartily. He was such a heart-warming little man, and immediately prepared to take the entire R&D department staff to the Dongguan Hotel to celebrate.
After Liu Xun hung up the phone, this kid was still uncontrollably excited and couldn't calm down for a while, so much so that Shan Xiuling and Gao Daier didn't even notice when they came into his office.
Liu Xun also did not expect that Xue Xuewu and Jiang Wanmeng would be so powerful after the combination, and they could complete research and development in such a short period of time. You know, this is a full fifteen months earlier than in another time and space, and scientific research , has always been a step-by-step action that cannot be discounted. Fifteen months in advance, Liu Xun had the idea of ??hugging Xue Xuewu and kissing him.
But thinking about it, it should be said that it is unexpected and reasonable. After all, in another time and space, Jiang Wanmeng started this research and development project much later, and did not have such a strong research and development team and financial strength. After all, Jiang Wanmeng was the one who developed VCD in his previous life, and his level was naturally the same. With his participation, and the great genius Xue Xuewu, it was natural that the speed would be faster. Liu Xun just didn't expect that the good news would come. So fast and so sudden, the fruits of success can be reaped in just a few months.
He knew that Xue Xuewu would not make this call if no stable product was developed, and the call just now meant that their research and development was already very mature. As long as it was put on the production line, the world's first VCD would be launched. No, it is the first batch of VCDs in the world that will be launched on the market soon, and this time is more than a year earlier than another time and space. It is so far in advance. How can this not make Liu Xun excited?
Liu Xun's excitement is not entirely because of the huge VCD market that will exceed 10 billion yuan every year in a few years. Although in another time and space, during the glorious period of 1996, 97, 98, VCD once sold 1,000 yuan a year. Two million machines have created an astonishing performance of more than 10 billion yuan in profits for the entire industry chain. But for Liu Xun now, the number of 10 billion yuan can only make him slightly excited, but it cannot make him lose his temper. Moreover, what he is doing now What we pursue is not just business success.
Hey, let me ask, there are Cisco, which can aspire to be the world's most valuable company, and Great Wall, which may surpass Microsoft. The market value of these two companies is in hundreds of billions of dollars. In comparison, although the profit of vcd is It can be considerable, but tens of billions of yuan will not make Liu Xun lose his composure. Moreover, he also knows that after 1997, the popular VCD will be in decline, and it will become more useless by then, so no matter what, he It shouldn't be such a gaffe.
The reason why he is so excited is because he knows that although VCD is small and inconspicuous, this inconspicuous thing carries the hope of the future of Chinese home appliances, perhaps it should be said that it is the only hope.
Since modern times, the development of many domestic fields has lagged behind Western countries. The reason can naturally be traced back to the isolation of the country in the Qing Dynasty. However, we have to bear the current situation and consequences. Especially the backwardness in the field of electronic technology is very serious. In the semiconductor field, which is the cornerstone of the electronics industry, China has made almost no achievements in large-scale integrated circuits. Most of the introductions from abroad ended in failure. Even if they succeeded, they were several generations behind foreign technologies and could not keep up with the mainstream. development, the money wasted has to be calculated in tens of billions.
Since the 1990s, the domestic home appliance market has been booming day by day. However, for products such as computers and mobile phones, which are very profitable, the country has no say at all. Most of the profits are captured by foreign companies. Domestic companies only earn OEM profits obtained from cheap labor.
Technology-intensive industries are usually high-profit industries comparable to monopoly resources. However, in these industries, national?? companies cannot participate at all. In the field of home appliances, domestic technologies can participate, mostly in industries such as electric fans, similar to mobile phones. In the 1990s, it was an industry with unlimited profits, but domestic companies There was no technical production at all. Even if there were domestically produced mobile phones in the late 1990s, most of them were imported and sold as OEMs. Baseband chip technology was simply not an area that domestic mobile phone manufacturers could touch.
More than ten years later, it seems that many high-tech products have been domestically produced. Companies often flaunt themselves by how high the domestic production rate is. However, no matter how high the domestic production rate is, the core technology is always foreign, just like Xue Xuewu has just successfully developed it. Although the VCD product was developed by Huaqing, some core things still require foreign technology, such as the decoding board and movement. The patents are all under the control of foreign companies, and there is no domestic ability to produce them.
Of course, the decoding board technology has fallen into the hands of Liu Xun at this time. He originally spent money to buy the mpeg technology from Scoop. He also accepted the entire project team and established Huaq Company in the United States to conduct research and development of the vcd project. , there have always been members of the mpeg technical team involved, so the decoding board technology can be said to be Liu Xun¡¯s own technology, but it cannot be said to be domestic technology.
In the great country, countless home appliances have entered the family since modern times. Jiang Wanmeng did win glory for the Chinese people. He developed vcd in 1993 in another time and space. This was the first home appliance product developed in China in modern times. Unfortunately, because Jiang Wanmeng did not apply for a patent at the beginning, vcd Most of the profits are captured by overseas companies.
Thinking of this, Liu Xun was suddenly startled. He realized something and quickly called Xue Xuewu back. "Sister Wu, have you arranged for someone to apply for a patent?"
Xue Xuewu chuckled on the other end of the phone, "I knew you were worried. I will not forget Master Xun's instructions. Back then, you repeatedly reminded us that we must remember to apply for a patent when we develop it. We all took it to heart. Now that If the research and development is successful, I will naturally not forget it. Don¡¯t forget, Sister Wu, I have worked in a foreign company for many years, and my patent awareness is much higher than that of domestic technicians. Don¡¯t worry, I will arrange for someone to apply at the patent office tomorrow. Try to get this done in the shortest possible time.¡±
In terms of attitude towards patents, foreign technical personnel have completely different attitudes from domestic ones. In Western countries, the intellectual property protection system has been quite complete, and technical personnel are basically aware of the importance of patents, but they have not yet joined the International Trade Organization, Moreover, in China, which has never paid much attention to the protection of intellectual property rights, most people are not aware of the importance of patents. Just like Jiang Wanmeng, he was somewhat disinterested in applying for patents. This caused another tragedy of Wanyan in time and space. However, he naturally did not dare to take Liu Xun's explanation to heart. Huaqing had a department at the beginning of its establishment that was responsible for applying for patents for various technologies developed by the company. This was Liu Xun's special request. In fact, , most foreign technology companies have this department.
After calling Xue Xuewu, Liu Xun nodded with confidence. However, thinking about this product that carried the hope of the future of domestic home appliances, he couldn't help but feel a little worried. He was a little dissatisfied with the work efficiency of the relevant domestic departments. He was relieved, and besides having offended a young man like Nie Sitong, he was also afraid that the other party would hear some news that might stun him. Therefore, after hanging up the phone, he also called Jiang Xuewu and Gao Wei, hoping that Through some channels, the two of them could make the patent process a little faster. Liu Xun didn't want any trouble for this thing that Liu Xun had high hopes for.
According to Liu Xun's idea, the success of VCD in China should be used as a seesaw to leverage the development of the domestic electronics industry. At the very least, he should get a share of the pie in the field of home appliances such as mobile phones and computers. If conditions permit, he should also intervene in semiconductors. and other industries.
China is lagging too far behind in the electronics industry. In terms of technology, many technologies are more than ten years behind Western countries. It will not be possible to catch up in a short time. For many things, you can participate only if you want to. At this time, vcd is a Nice seesaw.
Strictly speaking, the technology of VCD is not very high, but the creativity of this product is very outstanding, and it is conceivable that it will not take long to replace the video recorder and create a huge market. This is a stepping stone.
A VCD market that may reach tens of billions of market sizes every year cannot be ignored by foreign electronics giants. To take advantage of this, the first step is to participate in the formulation of VCD specifications. Huaqing Company, which owns product patents, decoding board patents, and many outer layer technology patents, is destined to participate in the formulation of this specification. As for the other participants, Liu Xun can imagine them with his eyes closed.