On Christmas Eve, Minato, Tokyo, Minato, Minam-cho.

Gu Ao's A320 special plane landed at Narita Airport in the slight wind and snow, and then was picked up by people from Tiankun Japan and headed straight to Sony headquarters.

Sony also got an appointment in advance. When he learned that Gu Ao came to interview for new cooperation intentions, he attached great importance to it. The company's CEO Dianxiong Oha personally came out to greet him.

"Gu Sang, I'm very happy to see you take the time to come to Japan to negotiate cooperation. We at Sony are very honored."

As soon as the two sides met, Oga Nobuo took the initiative to shake hands and say hello, and his posture was relatively low.

Oga Nobuo is born in the 1930s and is nearly 60 years old. In front of Gu Ao, a 26-year-old young man, he can rely on his seniority.

However, Gu Ao directly discussed cooperation with Akio Morita, and Nobuo Oga did not dare to act rashly after all.

Akio Morita is already seventy years old this year, so after acquiring the Colombia Department, he felt that he was not energetic and finally completely retreated to the second line and handed over the full management rights of the company to 58-year-old Nobuo Oga.

Whenever he thought of this, Gu Ao also felt quite vicissitudes of life. He made friends and cooperated with Akio Morita for eight years in a blink of an eye.

The leaders and senior leaders of friendly businessmen have changed a generation.

Even himself has gone from an eighteen-year-old boy to a twenty-six-year-old boy.

However, at his age, even if Sony changes to the fifth generation leader, the boss of Tiankun will definitely be Gu Ao himself. If it is based on the original trajectory of history, it will be Nobuyuki Oga's turn to leave Izuki, and changing the fifth generation will only be Kazuo Hirai.

But Hirai Ichio is actually 30 years old this year, and he is still four years older than Gu Ao.

Besides, in this world, I don’t know whether Sony can live for another fifth generation.

"President Dahe is polite. After all, Sony is a senior in the industry. It has many technical fields and is a role model worthy of our Tiankun and Wang An." Although he has a high seniority, Gu Ao is not very generous to the elderly and speaks very casually.

"I won't be fooled with my old friends. To be honest, I came to Sony this time to seek in-depth cooperation in some new materials fields. I think these new materials will bring great innovations to the future consumer electronics field. It is also what industry peers should be prepared for the impact of the openness of personal computer systems and multimedia content."

When Oga Nobuo heard this, his expression was also solemn. He could tell that his attitude changed from being polite at the beginning to being sincere and humble in asking for advice:

"Gu Sang is here to share his outlook and experience with us? That's even more welcome. As we all know, Gu Sang's vision is unique in the entire technology industry, and is unique in the world. When President Morita was in office, I wonder how many times he had expressed his feelings to me, saying that if Sony could have a talent like Gu Sang, why worry about not being able to unify the global electronics industry."

"President Moritian has been too rewarded." Gu Ao said a few politely, and both parties quickly walked into the reception room.

Sony naturally had a beautiful waitress and came to serve with tea.

Gu Ao took a sip and then roughly described his analysis of the importance of future carrier technology.

Of course, there must be some private goods hidden, and it is impossible to tell them all, just to make the Japanese feel that they have the sincerity of cooperation and also to make the Japanese feel in crisis.

"...So, in the future, we can collectively call electronic equipment suppliers that provide functions such as games, music, video, and office documents. And Microsoft-style open operating system computer suppliers, we can call them "multimedia machine suppliers". In fact, I like to call them smart phones, but it doesn't matter, it's just a name.

The key is that the crushing of function machines by multimedia machines is in all aspects. At this time, functional machine companies with insufficient software library need to rely on closed systems and first-party exclusive content to hold on. The key is to ensure that assemblers cannot enter your market. We need to set some threshold.

At this time, the portable type is a good threshold, because the portable type can remove the redundancy in the structural, so that the integrators who can plug and assemble it cannot imitate it. And the most important thing here is battery technology - in fact, I am not afraid to tell you that screen display technology is also very important in the entire consumer electronics field. We only talk about Sony as a friend.

However, the screen display is only important to Wang An and Tiankun, but not to Sony, because you are a walkman and a portable CD player. If you don’t provide screen services, it doesn’t matter. But the new battery technology is also needed for you to make portable music equipment.

I believe you have seen this, so you have invested some resources in lithium cobalt oxide batteries. As for us, Tiankun and Wang An, are willing to sponsor tens of millions of dollars of funds on the basis of Sony, and share with Sony the risks of tackling the lithium cobalt oxide technology, the specific prices and cooperation methods, and we can also discuss in detail."

Nobuo Oga did not know much about technical details, so of course it was impossible to directly reflect what lithium cobalt oxide was. So he immediately asked the head of the technical department to bring a few experts to participate in the talks and help with popular science and literacy.

After some trouble, Oga Dienxiong finally understood and also sorted out Gu Ao's concerns and ideas in screen display technology.

"We are welcome to Sony in this cooperation. Gu Sang, you are not an outsider. Let me tell you the truth. After completely acquiring the Columbia department this year, our Sony's capital chain is also very tight. We welcome some research projects that can cooperate and outsource and then acquire patents.

Regarding lithium batteries, lithium cobalt oxide and lithium manganese oxide do have their own advantages and disadvantages. No one can say in the future that technical route will win - do you really not consider betting on both routes? Are you optimistic about lithium cobalt oxide?”

Gu Ao: "There is no other optimistic about lithium cobalt oxide. I can only say that Tiankun and Wang An are not rich in capital chains at present, so we should prioritize making trade-offs on indicators such as "charge and release times life" and "charge and release speed". In my opinion, it is not unacceptable to charge a portable personal computer for more than ten hours to fully charge. As long as it is taken out for use, it is durable and has a long battery life, and consumers will be satisfied.

As for fast charging, you may be useful to make portable CD machines. You can keep the money to invest. My money can't support me and I can afford to play two lines at the same time."

This posture also prevents Japanese people from starting prices.

Oga Dieno touched his stubborn: "Since that's the case, we will limit the scope of cooperation to the lithium cobalt oxide project. Should Gu Sang only need authorization or all the experimental data."

Gu Ao: "I want all first-party products under the two brands Wang An and Tiankun to use the authorization to cooperate in the development of lithium cobalt oxide batteries in the future. At the same time, I also want to develop data to facilitate our own deepening improvements and other attempts in the future.

Of course, we will not use Sony's technology to sublicense to third parties. I just want to pursue unrestricted free use."

The two sides initially reached an intention, thinking that this was just a matter of tens of millions of dollars.

Don’t think that this money is too much. After all, Gu Ao has never done any research and development in the material field before. To start at zero, you have to find a way to get some basic authorization and data from Sony. It is very cost-effective to spend tens of millions of dollars.

This is still in the late 1980s. If the importance of battery technology was further highlighted in the 1990s or 21st century, the price would not be able to be obtained.

Gu Ao's idea is to follow Sony in the field of battery technology, and follow him after three or four years as an apprentice. After 91/92, he learned the basics of Sony. At least in terms of lithium cobalt oxide, his level is the same as Sony. He will then go solo and find other technical paths.

Standing on the shoulders of giants, as long as they are not controlled by giants, they are always faster than running by themselves from the starting line.

After talking about the battery, Oga Nobuo did not forget to cooperate with Gu Ao in the screen display, and it had already been talked about anyway.

Sony has always felt that it is also the world's first-class echelon in screen display technology.

After all, as early as the CRT color TV era, the "single gun three-beam imaging tube" technology developed by Sony co-founder Ibuki in the late 1960s was also unique to the world for more than ten years, and was not completely replaced in the early 1980s.

Gu Ao has no reason to look down on Sony and insists on cooperating with other Japanese companies.

"Gu Sang, you seem to care very much about the disadvantages of the current CRT imaging tube display. However, if that's the case, you don't have to insist on cooperating with Sharp on LCD technology.

The current response frame rate of LCD is still too slow. After all, it depends on temperature control and color change. Thermal conductivity cannot respond as fast as the photoelectric beam, and it cannot be refreshed 30 times in a second. I have also consulted physiologists that as long as the refresh delay is greater than 20 milliseconds, it will make people feel dizzy, distorted, and intermittent.

Moreover, the largest LCD size in the industry is only seven or eight inches long. It’s almost the same as making a mini TV. Isn’t it too much to make a computer monitor? I understand the progress of Sharp’s technology.

You might as well take a look at our plasma imaging tube technology. Although it is not as thin as LCD, it is many times thinner than traditional CRT imaging tubes. You can try it. If it is for the product trial in two or three years, maybe we can compress the thickness to as thick as half a suitcase, which is also considered a portable type.”

Oga Nobuo said that "half a suitcase" is thick, which is at least 5 cm or more.

Gu Ao thought about the picture. If a laptop computer really turned into a "suitcase computer", the picture would be too beautiful to watch.

If a laptop weighs 10 kilograms, will anyone still take it to run away?

Some people probably still have some, but just to show off, it’s like a big brother who has endured two pounds of weight and is taking him around and answering the phone in public on the road.

But it’s just pretending, practicality is definitely a burden.

However, even if a skill like Gu Ao looks down on, he will not refuse decisively if he is not very proud of his skills.

What's more, Oga Nobuo's confidence in honey also gave Gu Ao some inspiration to reduce the price.
Chapter completed!