Chapter 277 Algorithms and Flash Waste Utilization

"Mr. Wu, I think this matter is inappropriate for the time being."

"Oh? Xiao Zuo, do you think it will be technically difficult? Actually, I'm a little confident about this."

"No, Mr. Wu, I'm not doubting your ability, but... I think this is a bit overkill. If you say you want to develop a game console system now, it is equivalent to developing it for Japan's Sega Company, which is equivalent to developing it for Japan's Sega Company. Others make wedding clothes...Wu Laoqian probably understands, right?"

"Oh, yes, the game console is not produced by us, it is something from abroad." Wu Yuannan also immediately understood.

If it comes to researching products for his own family, Wu Yuannan will never hesitate. Even if he is sleepless, he is very motivated.

But it’s not good for outsiders to research products, and in the end it’s the foreigners who get the applause and the biggest benefits.

What Zuo Zhen lamented at this moment was that he was a bit lucky.

I found such a famous person for myself without using the system.

Although the names are different, Zuo Zhen is almost 90% certain that this is Academician Ni Guangnan in this parallel world.

Speaking of Academician Ni Guangnan, he has done too many things.

He led the team to develop China's computer Chinese character processing system. He also has the greatest contribution to the subsequent growth of Lenovo Group.

Unfortunately, the path he persisted in was not recognized and he was kicked out of the company.

In fact, even if this person is not who he imagined, based on the liaison officer's introduction just now, this old gentleman is still a capable person.

"Then it seems that the operating system path is not feasible." Wu Yuannan felt a little regretful.

He actually wants to dominate the operating system.

He feels that this thing is promising, but the market is uncertain now, and if it doesn't go well, it may cause huge losses.

But if you make a compromise and start with the game console operating system, it may be simpler and easier to achieve results and benefits.

But it doesn’t seem appropriate now.

"No, it's not impossible, Mr. Wu, but it's just not suitable for outsiders."

"Huh? What do you mean..."

"Mr. Wu, we can talk about these things in detail in the future. Anyway, I think there is still some progress, but not yet."

Indeed it is not yet.

Now Zuo Zhen also needs to rely on several major overseas game platform developers for development.

But in the future...

Zuo Zhen suddenly felt that some things might be put on the agenda.

For example, let’s get a handheld console first.

Not long ago, Gameboy was officially launched and has achieved good results.

It is actually not difficult to develop a handheld console, but the difficulty lies in game development. Nowadays, the top game developers in the world can be counted on one finger, and NGS is naturally the dominant one.

Then it's your turn to end next.

Of course, we have to wait to talk about this, and get the immediate things done first.

"Mr. Wu, let's discuss flash memory technology again. If the technology is restricted by outsiders now, is there any possibility of us making a breakthrough in the short term?"

Wu Yuannan thought for a moment and said: "It's difficult. Without foreign cooperation, we can't get first-hand science and technology, so we can only immerse ourselves in research."

Zuo Zhen was silent.

He picked up paper and pen and began to review.

First of all, I have a mind from later generations, and I am familiar with some concepts and methods that were only discovered and promoted by later generations.

So do you have any related technologies about flash memory in your mind?

Apparently not.

Zuo Zhen drew a cross on the paper.

He is not in this business. Making a compiler is what he can do, but he can't make hardware. In his previous life, he was only a game developer, not a hardware engineer.

It's a pity. If he had known about time travel, he would have learned a hardware engineering technology by the way, so that he would not have such a headache now.

The system does not have much effect at this time, because the system can only provide itself with help in finding talents and improving game development efficiency.

"Xiaozuo, I heard from Xiaoxu that you worked with him to develop a special compiler to optimize game capacity. Obviously you are very good at the software level. Have you ever thought about using existing flash memory? Can you find some new breakthrough points in technology and your software knowledge?”

Zuo Zhen was stunned and then asked: "Mr. Wu, do you mean to add software to the flash memory? But the flash memory only has a storage function, so there should be no way to combine it, right?"

"No, no, no, I'm not talking about stuffing software into the flash memory. Of course I understand this. What I mean is that since you understand the software, maybe you can also think divergently. It doesn't necessarily have to improve the hardware technology of the flash memory. Maybe at the software level There is also room for optimization.”

Zuo Zhen suddenly fell into deep thought after hearing this.

Using software level optimization on flash?

Is this possible?

Wait...it seems there is a slight possibility.

Zuo Zhen felt as if he had grasped some key points, and the tips given by Mr. Wu seemed to be having an effect.

But this point is a bit vague, and I still can’t figure it out for a while.

"Mr. Wu, have you already thought of a solution?" Zuo Zhen immediately asked tentatively.

"No, I haven't thought about it yet. In fact, I hope that your young mind, Xiao Zuo, can come up with some wonderful ideas. After all, I am getting older." Mr. Wu said with some self-deprecation.

"Mr. Wu's experience is definitely richer."

"Don't flatter me. This world belongs to you young people. I just need to do something to help you."

Wu Yuannan is very pleased to see young people like Zuo Zhen gradually rising.

There is a successor.

This means that China will not lag behind others in the high-tech field in the future.

He has always been worried that if he doesn't push for the lead, it will lose its backbone and lose momentum. In the end, there will be a group of guys who say that it is better to buy than to build.

Blacksmith need its own hardware.

At this moment, Zuo Zhen started brainstorming again.

Since I can use the compiler to optimize storage on game software, can I also use a similar method on flash memory?

There is a possibility, but he is not familiar with flash memory and still needs to confirm something.

Zuo Zhen wrote down a few nouns on the paper, and then picked up the phone again.

"Mr. Wu, I have a few questions about flash memory. I know that data in flash memory is presented in binary, that is, countless 0s and 1s are used to store data."

"Yes, that's true." A middle-aged voice sounded on the other end of the phone. It was an engineer who was better at hardware flash memory technology.

"Xiao Zuo, do you want to simplify the steps of 0 and 1?" Wu Yuannan asked.

Zuo Zhen shook his head: "No, I have already done that to the extreme in the process of game development and compiler translation. Since Mr. Wu just mentioned the combination of hardware and software, then if I provide..."

Zuo Zhen looked at the words he had written on the paper, and finally locked on one word.

"What if I provide a brand new algorithm form that happens to be combined with dedicated flash memory hardware that is very suitable for this algorithm? Will this dedicated flash memory be simpler to develop?"

After Zuo Zhen finished speaking, the people on the other end of the phone were silent for a long time, as if they were seriously digesting the idea proposed by Zuo Zhen.

Zuo Zhen, on the other hand, was waiting nervously.

He actually didn't know if this idea would work, because he had never heard of it in his previous life. After all, he didn't worry much about storage in that era. A game could easily handle hundreds of GB. How can it be that now even 1MB of capacity needs to be searched and searched.

Wu Yuannan spoke at this time, but not to Zuo Zhen, but to the other person on the other end of the phone.

"Is Xiaozuo's idea feasible? Is there such a dedicated flash memory hardware?"

"Mr. Wu... dedicated flash memory may be more difficult to research than conventional flash memory... because no one has traveled this road, and there is no direction to follow. It is equivalent to us starting the mountain on our own."

Zuo Zhen said hurriedly: "I mean we have to study whether there are some technologies that were abandoned halfway through research. Maybe we can pick them up and use them? It happens to be consistent with a certain algorithm I provided."

Wu Yuannan immediately asked: "Is there such a thing as what Xiao Zuo said?"

"This... is indeed true. Our research institute has a lot of abandoned projects in the research process. At that time, it was actually a variety of experiments to find cheaper flash memory materials."

Zuo Zhen's eyes lit up.

really have!

Sometimes the abolished case may not really be completely useless, but it is just temporarily unable to shine.

"Let's have a look. Let Xiao Zuo test some of the flash memory technology projects we have researched, and find out a piece of hardware suitable for Xiao Zuo's so-called algorithm."

"Mr. Wu, these are all our secrets..."

Wu Yuannan was a little serious: "Are you kidding me? As long as it succeeds, it will bring a lot of resources, which is better than doing nothing. I have the final say on this matter. I will hand over the scrapped research projects of our institute to Xiao Zuo." Look, of course Xiao Zuo, you can’t just spread the word, do you understand?”

Zuo Zhen was overjoyed and said quickly: "That must be no problem!"

From what I heard on the other end of the phone, there are quite a few so-called scrapped research cases.

Doing experiments is actually very boring. Sometimes in order to verify the correctness of something, you may do tens of thousands of repetitive tasks in a row, just to get the correct answer once.

And these tens of thousands of failures are not necessarily completely useless. Now it seems to have some effect.

It’s hard to say whether he can become Zuozhen, but it’s better than doing nothing now.

And he also has an advantage, which comes from some ideas of later generations.

For people in this world today, it is the product of a failed experiment, but it may be a different situation in the hands of Zuo Zhen.