Video Game Empire

"Mr. Li, the equipment has been debugged!" An employee walked up and said. ＋◆＋◆ǎn＋◆小＋◆ said,

Li Xuan nodded to Li Jian and Cai Jian: "Lao Li, let's get started, you and Cai Jian come to conduct the experiment in person, I wish you a success!"

In order to test the performance of this calling card, the program-controlled telephone system inside the Dongfang Experimental Building was specially modified to simulate the local telephone system of the Hong Kong Telephone Company.

Li Jian walked to a specially customized card-type phone, and gently inserted the small card in his hand, which had gathered himself and his old friends for nearly ten months, into the card slot on the phone.

An extra line appeared on the phone's display screen, "Balance: 100.00", and Li Jian smiled slightly, indicating that the card was in good contact with the phone and had entered a normal working state.

He grabbed the microphone and pressed the number "1456" prepared in advance. After two or three seconds, the voice of "du-du-!" came from the microphone. At the same moment, another telephone beside by side rang rapidly.

After waiting for the bell to ring three times, Cai Jian picked up the phone unhurriedly. He glanced at Li Jian next to him, who was also looking at him. The two looked at each other and smiled, but neither of them spoke.

After a moment of silence, Li Jian finally said, "It's almost there?"

"Yeah!" Cai Jian nodded.

So the two hung up the phone one after another. When Li Jian hung up the microphone, his eyes were fixed on the phone screen. The duration of this call is usually 2 minutes and 25 seconds. The price program is preset in the program-controlled telephone exchange in the experimental building. Calls are charged at 1 yuan per minute, and less than half a minute is counted as half a minute. That is to say, the call fee is 2.5 yuan.

On the phone's screen, the numbers behind the balance column. It has been autocorrected to 97.50. Li Jian was still a little worried, so he pulled out the calling card first. Then plug it back in again, and the balance still shows 97.50.

"Success!" Li Jian said with a smile.

Like most people in technology, he is introverted and not good at expressing himself. So that the whole test process is very dull and uninteresting in the eyes of others. It's just two people staring at the two telephones, dumbfounded for a few minutes. It doesn't seem like a major test project, it should be exciting.

Most of the people present were R&D personnel who came to join in the fun in the Oriental Experimental Building, but their performance was not abrupt in the eyes of everyone. This unpretentious attitude is the best scientific research attitude. Everyone gave thunderous applause for the first time, which is respect for hard work.

Before today, Li Jian and Cai Jian had actually conducted countless experiments. There are successes and failures. After careful analysis of each failure and constant correction of various errors, this calling card system has finally matured. Yes, in addition to calling cards, they also designed a special card-type phone.

Today's public test is the result of Li Jian and Cai Jian's team reporting to the senior management of the Oriental Research Institute. It shows that the real money invested by the research institute in them is rewarded.

Li Xuan played with the small rectangular card in his hand. This calling card was a contact card. The so-called contact card means that the chip is exposed on one side of the card, and the card needs to be inserted into the special card slot when using it. The chip cannot be used until it is in contact with the circuit of the card slot.

In contrast to contact cards, there is also a contactless card. That kind of card chip is completely wrapped in plastic card and cannot be seen from the outside. Contactless cards are also called radio frequency cards. In addition to the chip, the card also has a radio frequency circuit.

Between it and the card reader, the read and write operations can be completed through radio waves. Therefore, no special card slot is required. Most of the bus cards in later generations are contactless cards. Passengers only need to put the bus card close to the card reader after getting on the bus. The fee can be deducted with a single click, which is more convenient and quicker than the contact card that requires a card to be inserted.

"The follow-up R&D application you submitted before has been approved, with a limit of HKD 5 million! Now this card can only achieve the simplest storage function! I hope you will further develop encrypted cards and contactless cards, so that The scope of application of our products can be broader." Li Xuan said to Li Jian and Cai Jian with high expectations.

"Mr. Li, we seem to have only applied for 3 million yuan, how did we get 5 million yuan?" Cai Jian asked in confusion.

The other R&D staff who were not scattered around had the urge to faint, this Cai Jian was too upright. Naturally, the more funding for scientific research, the better. Shouldn't we make a fortune in silence at this time?

"This shows that the committee is optimistic about your project, and I hope you will not live up to the expectations of me and other committee members!" Li Xuan said with a smile.

There is an academic committee within the Oriental Research Institute, which is responsible for the review of all R&D projects. Li Xuan is the chairman of this committee. The Oriental Research Institute actively encourages internal technicians to carry out research and development innovation. As long as everyone's scientific research application projects have something to say and have a certain value, they will receive financial support from the academic committee. So far, the Oriental Research Institute has set up a number of R&D centers in Hong Kong, Taipei, Silicon Valley, Cambridge, Tokyo and other places, and the total number of scientific researchers has exceeded 3,000.

In the whole of last year, the academic committee received more than 3,000 applications for various scientific research projects from internal and external cooperative institutions, of which about 1,000 were approved. The total amount of scientific research funds invested by the Oriental Research Institute for this purpose is as high as 400 million US dollars.

The conversion rate of scientific research investment is actually very low, and most of these projects are difficult to convert into actual profits. However, there are always some items out there that burst into dazzling light like gold hidden in the sand. Li Jian and Cai Jian's card projects are typical representatives of them.

When they first submitted the project proposal, the application for funding was only HK$500,000, and finally HK$300,000 was approved. The academic committee will evaluate each applied project, and then award research funding according to the potential of the project. Generally speaking, projects with a cost of less than 1 million can only be regarded as unpopular subjects. Projects with a budget of 1-5 million can only be regarded as ordinary subjects. Projects with a funding of more than 5 million yuan are high-potential topics that receive the attention of the academic committee.

Unpopular topics accounted for more than half of all applied projects. Most of these projects were decided by Professor Zhao Weiming, the executive vice chairman of the academic committee, and rarely appeared on Li Xuan's desk. As the vice president of the Oriental Research Institute, Zhao Weiming has completely withdrawn from front-line scientific research, and his main focus is on project management and overall planning.

Li Xuan rarely participates in the day-to-day management of the research institute. Only those high-potential projects with an investment of more than 5 million Hong Kong dollars will attract some of his attention. So when Li Jian and Cai Jian's card project first started, Li Xuan didn't know anything about it.

Li Xuan didn't notice this project until their project was submitted to the mid-term results review report. Originally, Zhao Weiming planned to add 200,000 Hong Kong dollars, but Li Xuan changed it to 700,000 Hong Kong dollars with a stroke of his pen, bringing the total cost of the card project to 1 million Hong Kong dollars.

With only 1 million Hong Kong dollars, Li Jian and Cai Jian successfully took out the first application product of the card - a calling card. And if the phone card can be successfully promoted, the Oriental Research Institute will reap at least hundreds of millions of dollars in profits in the next few decades. Taking the previous r architecture as an example, don’t look at Li Xuan’s investment in R&D as high as tens of millions of dollars. But in just two years, the Oriental Research Institute has already made more than 100 million US dollars in profits from the r processor business supplied to Ikon.

"Hey, Lao Li, have we both gotten ahead and can be bosses in the future!" Cai Jian said excitedly to Li Jian as soon as he returned to the office.

The 5 million research funding is definitely a hurdle inside the Oriental Experimental Building, and all those who cross this hurdle are star researchers. From today onwards, Cai Jian and Li Jian will obviously join the enviable ranks. In addition to being more concerned by the senior management of the research institute, the 5 million project also has some privileges.

For example, project leaders are eligible to apply for external recruitment of new people, and they can submit recruitment requirements to the personnel department according to their scientific research needs. The personnel department will release recruitment information according to the requirements of the project director, and finally the project director will conduct the interview, so it can be regarded as the boss who decides the fate of others.

Of course, it does not mean that these 5 million project teams can recruit people without restrictions. Because at least before the end of the project ~www.readwn.com~ the salary expenses of newly recruited personnel need to be deducted from the scientific research funds of the project.

In fact, even if they don’t recruit externally, it is much easier for those project sponsors with high funding to invite other researchers in the institute to join their teams. The more funding, the easier it is to produce results. This can be said to be an iron law in the field of scientific research. Those researchers who have not applied for the subject, or whose subject has little potential, will definitely choose to join the team that is more likely to produce results.

For projects like Li Jian and Cai Jian that only approved a total of 300,000 yuan at the beginning, naturally they can only fight alone, and it is impossible to persuade others to fight for them. It was not until Li Xuan's attention was drawn to the project of the two that they were included in the list of additional funds that the institute allocated three intern graduate students to be assistants.

The cooperation between CUHK and the Oriental Research Institute is very close. With the support of Li Xuan, the scale of the Department of Electronics at CUHK has been repeatedly expanded in recent years. Compared with when Li Xuan first enrolled, the number of undergraduate students has more than doubled, and the number of graduate students has more than doubled.

The Oriental Research Institute has also reached a cooperation with CUHK on the two-way training of postgraduates. All master and doctoral students of the Department of Electronics will not only receive basic courses in the school, but also participate in front-line scientific research in the Oriental Research Institute. Since last year, the two-way training program has been extended to junior and senior undergraduates in the Department of Electronics at CUHK. (To be continued..)