Within a few days, Cheng Xiaohua brought a man with a Mediterranean hairstyle to appear in front of Lu Yiming.

Lu Yiming raised his head and glanced at the other person's bald forehead, and was immediately in awe. This looked like the hairstyle of a strong man, that is, his hair had not fallen out, otherwise he would definitely be stronger.

Cheng Xiaohua enthusiastically introduced Lu Yiming and said: "Mr. Lu, this is Fang Yunfeng, my classmate at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He graduated from the University of Defense Technology in Computational Mathematics and Applied Software and obtained a master's degree from the Computer Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is extremely talented and powerful.

There is no doubt about it.”

Fang Yunfeng didn't say anything, but simply nodded towards Lu Yiming. His expression was cold and not enthusiastic at all. At first glance, he looked like the kind of technical geek who didn't like to engage in interpersonal relationships.

Cheng Xiaohua was afraid that Lu Yiming would misunderstand, so he quickly explained to him: "Mr. Lu, don't get me wrong, Lao Fang does this to everyone."

Lu Yiming waved his hands indifferently, obviously not taking Fang Yunfeng's indifference to heart, but said with a smile: "I have always respected scientific research talents, and I didn't spend money to invite you back just to hear you flatter me.

, I don’t care about anything else as long as you can achieve results.”

This was said rudely, but it won the favor of Cheng Xiaohua and Fang Yunfeng.

They are all technology enthusiasts, especially Fang Yunfeng. Apart from scientific research, he is indifferent to other things. When he was at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, this personality offended many people, so he had a very unsatisfactory life.

If Cheng Xiaohua hadn't pulled him over, Fang Yunfeng would have been forced to stay in his original research institute and continue to sit on his bench.

Lu Yiming's statement allowed the two of them to see Lu Yiming's heroic spirit of "recruiting talents in an eclectic way".

"Don't worry, Mr. Lu, we will do our best to achieve results as soon as possible."

"That's good."

Lu Yiming still attached great importance to the USB flash drive project, so after Cheng Xiaohua gathered all the people, he did not give up.

The main reason is that time is tight and all the bullshit has been blown. If a mature and usable product cannot be produced within half a year, Zheng Youyuan will have no way to explain it.

After all, what Lu Yiming and Zheng Youyuan said before was that the USB flash drive was almost ready for production, but in fact, those drawings were drawn randomly by Lu Yiming based on the USB flash drive in his memory, and the product that could be launched into the market had not even been written yet.

Of course, this is not a lie. After all, the technology of USB flash drive is not difficult, the difficulty is just the idea.

Lu Yiming asked: "Director Cheng, where do you plan to start with the research and development of this USB flash drive?"

As the newly appointed technical director of Mingyuan Technology, Cheng Xiaohua couldn't help scratching the back of his head, with a helpless expression: "I don't have a clue yet. I checked the information and found that it is currently on the market, which is a product of Ammon Company.

It is more in line with your needs, Mr. Lu."

The world's first non-volatile solid-state drive based on flash memory was developed by Ammon in 1995.

This can be regarded as the predecessor of the USB flash drive, but the actual function is still quite different from the USB flash drive described by Lu Yiming.

Lu Yiming was not surprised by this. Cheng Xiaohua's scientific research ability was good, but his business vision was not so good. Moreover, because he was obsessed with scientific research, he was not very sensitive to market changes.

To put it simply, it is that it is not easy for him to find the right research direction, at least he does not know what to research, and he can immediately make a product and make money.

In scientific research, the direction is often more important than the method in many cases, because only in the right direction can your efforts be meaningful. Otherwise, no matter how hard you work, it will be useless.

Seeing that Cheng Xiaohua was still confused, Lu Yiming took out a product that had just been launched in China and put it in front of his eyes: "Look at this."

"What's this?"

Cheng Xiaohua looked curiously at the thing in Lu Yiming's hand that looked like a smaller version of a BB player.

Lu Yiming explained with a smile: "This thing is called mp3. It is a player that can play music files. Its function is similar to a walkman, but it does not require discs and tapes. It can directly store songs."

The gadget in his hand is the world's first mp3 player - mpmanf10, launched by Sehan, a subsidiary of Samsung, in 1998.

The price was high and the functions were rubbish, but it was an epoch-making product anyway, so Lu Yiming asked someone to buy more than a hundred of them from Bangguo, originally planning to give them as gifts.

Cheng Xiaohua was greatly surprised, and at the same time he understood why Lu Yiming came up with such a product as a reference for him.

MP3 and USB flash drive are very similar in basic functions. It can even be said that mp3 is a USB flash drive that can listen to music.

Of course, the storage principles of the two are different and cannot be completely equated.

However, for a technical genius like Cheng Xiaohua, the inspiration provided by Lu Yiming is enough for him.

He stared closely at the MP3 player in Lu Yiming's hand and asked expectantly: "Can this thing be dismantled?"

Lu Yiming smiled and said: "Of course, you can take it apart as you like, I bought a bunch of them."

When Cheng Xiaohua saw Lu Yiming's generosity, he immediately called Shang Shang Yunfeng to dismantle the four MP3 players for analysis and research.

Especially the flash memory chip in mp3. With a slight modification, this thing becomes a USB flash drive.

In the next three weeks, after working day and night, the two finally found a theoretically feasible solution.

They used those who removed the flash memory chip from the MP3 player, designed the circuit themselves, and then soldered the corresponding components and USB interface themselves, and created a gadget with a capacity of 8MB and the ability to "plug and play".

The world's first real USB flash drive was born!

In Baiyun No. 1 Middle School, the peaceful school life continues.

Lu Yiming and Shi Qingxue were sitting by the playground. They shared a pair of headphones and listened to Jacky Cheung's songs together.

The breeze is gentle and the years are quiet.

When Lu Yiming was enjoying himself, a noise came from the headphones, and the two of them hurriedly pulled off the headphones.

"This sound is so noisy."

Shi Qingxue frowned and looked at the mp3 in his hand, feeling a little bad.

She turned around and clicked here and there, but the sound in the earphones became louder and louder, and she suddenly felt unhappy: "Why is this thing broken?"

She still liked this gift very much. After all, she liked listening to music and it was given to her by Lu Yiming.

I just didn't expect it to break down so quickly.

Lu Yiming comforted her and said: "Bangguo's products are like this. If they break, they will break. As long as they don't explode, that's fine."

Shi Qingxue was still a little annoyed and punched the broken MP3 player in her hand a few times: "I've only heard half of this song."

Seeing this, Lu Yiming smiled and said: "I have recently opened a new company, and I will customize an MP3 specifically for you in the future. It is guaranteed to be easy to use and durable. Throw this thing away and let's go to class."

At this time, Cheng Xiaohua made a call. As soon as Lu Yiming answered the call, Cheng Xiaohua said excitedly: "Mr. Lu, we have made the USB flash drive you wanted!"

After school, Lu Yiming naturally rushed to the headquarters of Mingyuan Technology as soon as possible.

In the brightly lit laboratory, Cheng Xiaohua immediately showed him the finished sample, the world's first flash drive, lying quietly in the palm of his hand.

Because it is a laboratory product, it does not have a casing, it is just wrapped in transparent plastic.

However, Lu Yiming did not dislike the ugly packaging, but asked excitedly: "How much is the storage capacity?"

"8m."

"So small?"

When Lu Yiming heard this, he was immediately not very satisfied.

Any memory card in later generations will start with 16g. What the hell is this 8m?

Although Lu Yiming was not very satisfied with this first-generation product, looking at Cheng Xiaohua's chicken coop that hadn't been washed for several days, Lu Yiming didn't say much.

After all, in the past three weeks, Cheng Xiaohua and Fang Yunfeng had room and board in the laboratory. Their daily work was to write programs, crack the core technology of the memory card, reorganize step by step, and make progress little by little.

Only two computers were used up, and countless calculation data and manufacturing drawings were drawn. Only then did a breakthrough in flash disk technology be achieved, and the world's first USB flash drive was successfully launched.

Now we can only solve the problem of starting from nothing, and then think about the problem of starting from less to more.

Lu Yiming found a small box lined with sponge and put the world's first USB flash drive into it.

Looking at this gadget in his hand, Lu Yiming couldn't help but feel satisfied. With the advent of the Internet era, the application scope of USB flash drives is quite wide. Even if you don't directly produce products for sale, you can still make a profit just by "collecting rent".

The bowl is full.

In the world before the rebirth, Netac relied on the patented technology of USB flash drives to sue people everywhere for money, and eventually even became the landlord of Penguin.

Relying on the high patent fees, Netac directly built a Netac Building in Pengcheng as the group's headquarters.

However, although the Langke Building is nineteen stories high, only four floors are actually used by Langke. The rest are rented by Penguin at a price of 40 million per year. It is a happy life.

Lu Yiming took several photos from various angles and planned to publish them at an appropriate time.

Fortunately, he had the foresight to apply for an invention patent for the USB flash drive. Not only domestically, but internationally, he also applied for all patents that could be applied for. Now that the product has been produced, he is not panicked at all.

.As long as the patent is approved, all products using this mobile flash memory technology around the world will have to pay patent fees!

There were too many cases of people suffering losses due to not paying attention to patents in the Xia Dynasty in the 1980s and 1990s. The most famous one was Wan Yan’s vcd, which was really a mistake, and everything was wrong.

lose.

Just because founder Jiang Wanmeng did not pay attention to patent registration, his rising business empire collapsed overnight, missing out on a tens of billions of market.

Lu Yiming encouraged: "You have done a good job. This quarter's bonus will be increased by 100,000 for each of you. You continue to study and strive to increase the storage capacity to 8g, or even a t. Moreover, the current deposit and withdrawal speed is still too slow.

, the memory capacity is too small, these are areas that need improvement. I can continue to invest 10 million in it."

When Cheng Xiaohua heard that Lu Yiming was willing to continue to invest money in it for him to do scientific research, he immediately agreed happily. He had been worried that after the flash drive was made, Lu Yiming would no longer invest more.

Now that I see Lu Yiming attaching so much importance to research and development, I feel admiration in my heart.

This boss, who understands technology and is willing to spend money, is very capable.

After leaving the laboratory, Lu Yiming took the world's first USB flash drive, found Zheng Youyuan, and proudly showed it to him: "How is it? I said I can make it soon. This is the prototype product. At present, he

It can store three to four pieces of music, or five million Chinese character documents."

Zheng Youyuan didn't feel much about three to four songs, but five million Chinese characters really shocked him.
To be continued...