After talking to Lin Shuyi on the phone, Lu Yiming immediately went to the technology research and development department of Mingyuan Technology without stopping and found Fang Yunfeng who was busy.

As soon as they met, Lu Yiming couldn't wait to ask: "How is the development progress of the 128m USB flash drive?"

Fang Yunfeng took out a brand new USB flash drive that was slightly larger than the previous USB flash drive and handed it to Lu Yiming: "It has been made and is currently being tested for stability. It will be put into production after the test is completed."

After reading it, Lu Yiming nodded and praised with a smile: "Okay, the progress is not slow."

Fang Yunfeng, who has always said little, was also convinced by Lu Yiming at this time: "With Mr. Lu's far-sightedness and pointing out the research direction, the R&D team did not make any detours, and the speed was certainly fast. After all, this thing actually has no technical content, and it is not difficult to make it."

It’s high and the basic technologies are all ready.”

In later generations, there are many brands of USB flash drives. When you search on Taobao and JD.com, you will find countless small workshop brands of all kinds, which shows how low the threshold for making this thing is.

Even the earliest commercial USB flash drive, Deng Guoshun and Cheng Xiaohua, worked in a small workshop and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and less than a year to successfully develop it.

Now Lu Yiming has directly established an independent laboratory for this purpose, recruited a large number of people to form a research and development team, and even pointed out the correct direction of research and development. It would be strange if the speed is not fast.

Lu Yi laughed brightly and said: "Then it depends on the strength of your R&D team. By the way, how is the development progress of the solid-state drive?"

Fang Yunfeng replied calmly: "Come on, reverse research and development is very simple."

Hard drives are not new. As early as 1956, IBM invented the world's first hard drive.

In 1968, IBM re-proposed the feasibility of Wier technology and established the direction of hard disk development.

In 1970, Stetek Corporation developed the first solid-state hard drive.

In 1984, Toshiba invented flash memory.

In 1989, the world's first solid-state hard drive appeared.

The timeline has basically stalled up to this point. It was not until 2006 that Samsung released a 32GB capacity solid-state drive laptop, which truly commercialized the original technology.

Flash memory-based solid state drives are the main category of solid state drives. Their internal structure is very simple. The main body of the solid state drive is actually a PCB board, and the most basic accessories on this PCB board are control chips, cache chips and data storage chips.

flash memory chips - some low-end hard drives don't even have cache chips.

Although hard drives and mobile hard drives are not new technologies, Lu Yiming still asked Fang Yunfeng's team to understand this technology thoroughly, and then conduct further development research on this basis to form a product with independent intellectual property rights, which can be installed on the keypad in the future.

Come to the computer.

Mingyuan Technology's technology research and development department is getting bigger and bigger, and Lu Yiming even thinks that it can be considered independent and formed into a pure scientific research institution to specialize in scientific and technological research, and the research results will be handed over to other companies for production.

For example, the current hard drive team led by Fang Yunfeng now has a USB flash drive product series and is working on a hard drive series, which has great business potential in the future.

After giving Fang Yunfeng a few words of advice, Lu Yiming left Mingyuan Technology and took a car to another company he had just established.

Unlike Mingyuan Technology, which specializes in hardware technology, this new company specializes in software, and he has high hopes for it.

As soon as Lu Yiming walked into the main entrance of Yixun Technology Company, he caused a sensation.

"Mr. Lu."

"Mr. Lu is here."

"Hello, Mr. Lu."

As the founder of Yixun Technology and the first-generation developer of mm software, Lu Yiming is still very respected by everyone. In addition, he has achieved such great achievements at such a young age, and everyone admires him very much.

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At present, Yixun Technology is led by Zhang Xiaolong, who is responsible for software research and development. For example, the project currently developed by Zhang Xiaolong is the mm instant messaging system. The product it operates is foxmail.

In Lu Yiming's vision, Ming Yuan and Yixun, one focusing on hardware and the other focusing on software, together with Jianlai Technology and lean casting, have every chance to build an ecosystem that combines software and hardware.

Yixun Technology's current understanding is very small, with only two teams, one MM R&D team and one Foxmail operations team, with a total of only twenty people.

Seeing that the employees were looking at him respectfully, Lu Yiming waved his hand and said with a smile: "Everyone, sit down, don't be formal, just be casual. By the way, where is Manager Zhang?"

"I am here."

Hearing the commotion, Zhang Xiaolong walked out of the beverage room with a cup of coffee and greeted Lu Yiming: "Mr. Lu, why are you free to come here today?"

Lu Yiming smiled and scolded: "Everyone else is working, but you, the manager, are drinking coffee. How is the progress of mm's research and development?"

Zhang Xiaolong said: "The first complete version has been packaged and is being prepared for fluency testing."

"Oh? That's pretty fast. Let me see."

Lu Yiming found a computer and opened the mm software.

The current mm, named mm1.0, is basically similar to the QQ in 2000 in terms of appearance and functions.

Lu Yiming logged in to his mm account, tested various functions, and found that they were all smooth and usable.

Lu Yiming said approvingly: "The speed is pretty good, it's ready to be launched. Where is the official website? Has the mm official website been set up?"

"It's done."

Zhang Xiaolong entered .mm.software official website in the browser.

The official website is not complicated, with only one page. When you open the webpage, you will see a rendering of the software. Below the rendering is a download button, and below it is a dynamic display of the number of people online in real time.

Currently, the number of people online in the world is eighteen, which is exactly the number of employees of Yixun Technology plus one Lu Yiming.

Lu Yiming browsed through it and was quite satisfied, and said: "Okay, we can hold a press conference and launch the mm software. Promote it so that everyone can use it. From now on, this will be a traffic entrance."

Zhang Xiaolong said with some embarrassment: "I can develop products, but I can't handle promotion."

Lu Yiming smiled and said: "You just have to hold the press conference. You don't have to worry about promotion. We now have a chain of Tongxin Internet cafes. Install it on the computers in the Internet cafes first. Then the keys will be installed on the computers. By the way.

, who in the company knows the most about Windows?”

Zhang Xiaolong blurted out without thinking: "Zuo Chen! He is my junior and a top student at Huake University. He is responsible for mm's adaptation to the working environment of Windows in the company."

"Oh? Call him over and I'll give him a task."

Zhang Xiaolong walked out of his office and called: "Zuo Chen, come here."

"Oh, here it comes."

A typical Mediterranean programmer about thirty years old came over.

"Mr. Lu, Mr. Zhang."

Zhang Xiaolong said: "Mr. Lu will give you a new task."

Zuo Chen looked at Lu Yiming excitedly and asked: "Mr. Lu, what task do you want to give me? By the way, Mr. Lu, do you really know Bill Gates?"

Bill Gates is not only the richest man in the world, but also a programmer. Such a legendary experience is undoubtedly a beacon of life for everyone engaged in the software industry and a god in everyone's mind. Lu Yiming knows Bill

Gates, at least he is a demigod.

Lu Yiming thought about the history of his dealings with Bill Gates, and said jokingly: "We know each other. I've had several phone calls with him, but he probably doesn't like me very much."

Zuo Chen was suddenly so excited that he began to speak incoherently: "I actually know Bill Gates. Mr. Lu, you are so awesome. I have never dreamed of meeting Bill Gates and asking him some questions."

Lu Yiming smiled and said: "There is definitely a chance. Now I will give you a task. Make a pirated version of Win98 software. It must have a fool-like one-click automatic installation function and an automatic reinstallation function."

What Lu Yiming has to do is install it with one click.

The threshold for reinstalling current computer systems is too high and is very unfriendly to novices, which is very detrimental to the popularization of computers.

Zuo Chen was dumbfounded when he heard this. He just said that Gates is my idol, and you want me to pirate my idol's software?

Are you kidding me?

"No, Mr. Lu, our Yixun Technology is a regular company after all. Isn't it wrong to engage in pirated operating software?"

In this regard, Lu Yiming was quite confident: "I didn't say I would sell it for money, so how can I call it piracy? This is entirely for research purposes. Research, do you understand?"

Zuo Chen didn't believe it, but Lu Yiming said so. He had no choice but to nod and agree: "These functions are not complicated and can be done."

Zhang Xiaolong, who was standing aside, was very puzzled: "Mr. Lu, what's the use of doing this?"

Lu Yiming explained to him: "I plan to make a packaging system with automatic installation function and integrate our mm software into the system. If users use this software, they can reinstall the system with one click without bringing the computer with them.

Go to the repair shop to be taken advantage of. In this way, can we quickly promote our mm?"

"Going a step further, since we can install mm, can we also install foxmail? Or other software we will develop later?"

"Ah this..."

Zhang Xiaolong was shocked and frightened by Lu Yiming's thoughts.

Since it is a fool-like one-click operation, it is natural to install a few more small software in addition to operating the software itself.

But then Zhang Xiaolong became a little worried: "I'm afraid that Microsoft will sue us and sue us for piracy and infringement."

Lu Yiming smiled nonchalantly: "I didn't say I was going to sell this thing for money. As long as it is posted online and spread, those who are willing will naturally take the bait."

Selling pirated CDs would naturally not be something Lu Yiming would do, and there was no need for him to do it. There would be many people willing to make this hard-earned money.

In this way, it can be said that it is effortless for him to promote mm. He does not need to spend a dime, and there are countless "coolies" selling pirated CDs to help him.

Zhang Xiaolong and Zuo Chen were speechless after learning about Lu Yiming's plan, and gave him a thumbs up in confusion.

"Mr. Lu, your idea is really brilliant!"

At this moment, Lu Yiming's cell phone rang. Lu Yiming picked up the phone and saw that there was nothing displayed on the small screen. Although he was confused, Lu Yiming still answered the phone.

"hello."

Lu Yiming immediately recognized that it was Bill Gates's voice.
To be continued...