After realizing the hidden dangers brought by the ability to "super-strong error correction", he understood Xia Tian's cautious decision.

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"Dr. Sun Yansheng, can you develop a chip for playing audio files compressed according to the mpeg-1 standard?" Xia Tian asked Sun Yansheng again.

His Scope Micro Systems Company has developed the world's first mpeg-1 decoding chip, which is also the world's leading technology.

"A chip that is only used to play audio?! That's OK, but what's the use?" Sun Yansheng asked curiously.

"We can produce a music player that is probably only so small, but can store dozens or even hundreds of songs." Xia Tian gestured at the size of the player, only his index finger, and then smiled, "In that case, isn't it much more convenient than a CD player?"

In the 1990s, the mainstream music player in the world was a CD player launched by Sony in 1982, which specializes in playing CD CDs. Therefore, it is very large and cannot be stuffed into the pocket. Moreover, it is also very expensive, with a price of up to 900 US dollars.

When Sun Yansheng heard this, he was stunned, "But with such a large player, how can he play the CD?"

A CD is bigger than a human hand, and the player Xia Tian mentioned is only the size of a finger. Not to mention stuffing a CD into it, half of it won’t work.

"We don't use CD storage, we use flash storage." Xia Tian reminded.

The concept of flash memory was proposed by people from Fuso Toshiba Company in 1984. But it was not until 1988 that Intel launched the first flash memory, with a capacity of only 256k.

In Hachino, Hitachi launched the second generation of flash memory, which not only reads files faster, but also has a higher capacity. Therefore, Hitachi's flash memory has been recognized by the market and has been gradually promoted. This also gave the foundation for the research and development of mp3 players.

When Sun Yansheng heard this, his eyes lit up.

The current flash memory chip is indeed not big, and the size of the decoding chip, power supply, headphone jack, etc. is indeed reduced by a huge amount.

"But videos compressed using mpeg-1 standard will suffer a great loss in sound quality. Will anyone like such music?" Sun Yansheng asked in confusion again.

According to the mpeg-1 standard compressed audio, the sound quality is more than the music played by the CD machine. In Sun Yansheng's opinion, this is a fatal disadvantage. After all, people listen to music to appreciate the beauty of music. If the sound quality is so poor, how can the beauty of music be discussed?!

"Of course, it's true. The Tuoban book has been typos, and the Tuoban video tape is so shaking that it's impossible to see it. The Tuoban tape is also worse than the original ones, but do you think their sales have been affected?" Xia Tian smiled, "Although people in this world like to pursue high-quality life, under the circumstances of economic constraints, many people will settle for the second best.

Just like listening to music, everyone knows that the sound quality of the gill machine is the best. But the gill machine is too expensive, and you can buy a few thousand yuan and buy a bargain. The best one costs more than 100,000 or even millions. But how many people in the world are listening to gill machine with gill machine?!"

After hearing this, Sun Yansheng suddenly realized, "I understand, Mr. Xia."

"Well, Mr. Sun, I hope you can develop such a player as soon as possible." Xia Tian smiled, "At that time, it will be another flagship product of our company."

"Yes." Sun Yansheng nodded when he heard this.
Chapter completed!