August 2008.

Zhongxin International Xiangjianglong factory first trial production tape-out.

Zhang Rujin, Liu Ruoyi, and the heads of the four major families were all present.

Qualcomm took out the latest design of the 7227A processor to try the quality of the Dragon Factory, this mobile processor with up to 1G main frequency, is the most powerful mobile phone chip at present, there is no one.

Zhang Rujin was determined to make a hit, so he did not choose Qualcomm's mature chips for test runs.

Mr. Thompson, Executive Vice President of Qualcomm, also came to the scene, and it is also of great significance to Qualcomm today, if the Dragon Factory can successfully tape out the latest signal, it means that Qualcomm has a new opportunity to shop around.

When it comes to reducing foundry costs, choice is more important than anything else.

Although Broadcom did not come up with a new model for testing, the vice president in charge of production was also invited here.

It's just that obviously the people from Qualcomm don't deal with it very much, Zhang Rujin did not arrange to sit together, but invited him to another large-screen display conference room where the real-time production status of the factory was placed.

"Pete, let's get ready to start!" The crowd was full, and the cut gongs, drums, and lion dances had long been ready to stop, Zhang Rujin actually didn't like these things.

But this is in Xiangjiang, and there is such a custom here, and there is a good omen in it.

For the nearly 2,000 employees recruited by the factory now, more than half of them are engineers who graduated from major universities in Xiangjiang, and Zhang Rujin has to consider their feelings.

"The auspicious time has come!", as the master of ceremonies shouted, Zhang Rujin, Liu Ruoyi and a total of eight scissors cut the prepared red ribbon almost at the same time!

In an instant, the gongs and drums were noisy, and the lions danced wildly! The atmosphere at the ribbon-cutting scene was extremely intense.

On the big screen placed on the side, various machines in the factory were running one after another, although Liu Ruoyi couldn't understand what they were doing at all, but he saw Zhang Rujin's face slowly relax with the shots of the process one by one.

Apparently progress has been satisfactory.

Maybe it was an illusion, Liu Ruoyi felt that it didn't take long for the last person on the factory side to cheer.

"Boss, the first wafer trial production tape-out was successful!" Pete next to him reported the news excitedly after listening to the report on the walkie-talkie, considering that there were foreigners, Pete from the Lion City reported directly in English.

"Congratulations, Zhang! This is great news, and today is also a very good day!" Thompson happily walked up to Zhang Rujin and extended his thumb to congratulate.

The success of the first tape-out is also a great benefit to Qualcomm.

Perhaps, the next thing you can talk to TSMC about reducing the processing fee of flagship chips by 10%.

The success of the prototype tape-out at the Dragon Factory does not mean that mass production will be available immediately.

Thompson knew that this kind of trial production, the yield rate could reach 20 percent, and the factory would laugh at it. In order to achieve economic mass production, the yield rate must at least exceed 50%.

Otherwise, with the same material, TSMC's mature production line can already achieve a yield rate of more than 80%, and with the passage of time, they will further increase to more than 90%.

The current success only proves that this side has indeed mastered the 45nm process flow and has the potential to produce the latest model of mobile chips.

For example, if the previous generation of chip processing is handed over to the Dragon factory, the old products under the 65nm process will have better power consumption control and smaller volume under the 45nm production line.

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Liu Ruoyi couldn't understand the core behind these, she only knew that her investment seemed to have preliminary results, so she was still very happy.

The yield rate is not yet known, and we need to wait for the next packaging and testing to know.

But for the Dragon Factory, the most important hurdle has been overcome, and the Dragon Factory has caught up with the current mainstream level of semiconductor processing.

In the future, Zhongxin International Xiangjiang Dragon Factory will have the opportunity to squeeze into the ranks of top foundries.

As for whether he can become a leader, it depends on Zhang Rujin's ability, there is no shortage of funds, and now the policy environment is very favorable to Zhang Rujin, Liu Ruoyi persuaded Lao Li, after the four major families became shareholders, in fact, in the mainstream circle of Xiangjiang, everyone accepted the emergence of new things in Xiangjiang that would not appear in the original time and space.

It's hard to say whether Liu Ruoyi is right or not, the location is right and now it is built for Zhang Rujin, and the funds are even more large-scale, completely regardless of the return.

The $30 billion pledge is no empty word for Ms. Liu.

Of this, $20 billion is now ready, and Liu Ruoyi will never hesitate to invest heavily in the first five years of high-intensity capital investment.

If a total of 6 current state-of-the-art production lines cannot make Xiangjiang Zhongxin International enter a breakeven state, Liu Ruoyi also resigned to fate.

Next, HTC came with good news, the first Android mobile phone, has been named HTC G1, after the sample was sent to Xiangjiang, connected to the latest improved HSDPA network of PCCW on the Xiangjiang side, after initial use, Liu Ruoyi was greatly relieved.

Although there is still a gap in the smoothness of use compared with the fruit machine at this time, there is not much delay in basic operations such as answering and dialing, sending and receiving text messages, and taking pictures.

As for games, this platform is just getting up now, and there are no games to play at all.

A few card games are also acceptable.

In terms of appearance, it adheres to Liu Ruoyi's requirements, and the screen is larger than the first product of the fruit machine, which looks more atmospheric and beautiful, and there are obviously not too many problems in terms of workmanship.

After all, it is a high-end mobile phone at a price of 4000, and HTC is still more willing to use good things in all aspects of materials.

The only bad thing is that the good multi-device is a relatively cutting-edge goods, the pricing is a bit high, the initial cost is not low, although the 4000 yuan shipping price can make money, but the profit margin is far from as high as imagined.

After playing for two days, Liu Ruoyi felt that the battery life was a bit short, which was nearly an hour worse than the fruit machine she was using now.

However, it is not satisfactory to say, the current mobile phone call fee is still relatively expensive, and few people have a few hours of talk time a day, so charging once a day is definitely enough to use for a day.

"Sent a formal order to HTC, PCCW's first order of 500,000 units remained unchanged, requiring delivery within the year, and the future plan is to set another 500,000 units, requiring the initial delivery of not less than Q1 2009.

Put forward new customization needs for them, the screen is reduced to 3.5 inches, and the components are reduced to re-customize a mid-range model priced at 2500 Hong Kong dollars, but it must support the HSDPA network, and it will be supplied from Q2 next year, and the number of orders for PCCW will not be less than 1 million units. ”

Liu Ruoyi made up her mind and explained her request to Vivien.

PCCW's big move depends on HTC's G1.

Things are ready, the mode of delivery has been scored, and now Liu Ruoyi still lacks a relatively loud propaganda slogan.

Whether in the Chinese circle or in Southeast Asia, the PCCW brand is relatively unpalatable, so the large-scale promotion of 3G business, after stepping out of the small pond of Xiangjiang, Liu Ruoyi needs a name with better brand communication.

After thinking about it, Liu Ruoyi took out a piece of propaganda in her memory.

The future has come, all in one net!

Upgrading his own one-netcom business to a brand of mobile business, if it weren't for the fact that Mobile's Global Pass has been launched, Liu Ruoyi would definitely not hesitate to occupy it directly.

However, Yiwangtong has not yet been registered, and it feels okay in Chinese, but the momentum is not as strong as that of Global Pass.

In terms of English advertising, Liu Ruoyi's brand name is the ONE, "Touch the Future, the ONE".

On the whole, it has a concise meaning, and the phonics is easy to remember.

The network construction in Southeast Asia is basically ready, and the Q3 is just right to be promoted with the HTC G1 mobile phone.

As for whether the market can accept it, Liu Ruoyi doesn't know.

Now her main strategy is to use the flagship G1 to promote it in Southeast Asia at half price in the form of a bundled 3-year service package, and see if she can get high-end users a handful.

If this trick doesn't work, G1 will start to promote in Xiangjiang and Baodao Casino, providing benefits for old users and discounts for new users.

However, this is only a matter of hardware and communication business, and now that the era of mobile Internet is coming, Liu Ruoyi's most important thing is how to follow up this era.

The first is to add instant messaging apps to mobile phones.

But at this point, Liu Ruoyi was a little hesitant.

Mobile phone Q already has it, although it has not yet been introduced on Android, of course Liu Ruoyi will not stop it.

But the famous WeChat has no shadow now, is this big killer made by itself, or is the concept to the penguin father to realize?

If you do it yourself and the penguin loses this thing, can it still become the powerful big penguin empire in the previous life?

This is not a butterfly fanning its wings, this is directly blowing a big storm on the mobile Internet.

After Liu Ruoyi's long time of thinking and deduction, she decided to start her own work first!

According to the function in his memory, let's make this thing first, considering the uniqueness of the mainland market, Liu Ruoyi divided this mobile instant messaging software into two markets for consideration.

One is the mainland, which is still called WeChat, but the version for the rest of the world is called WhatsApp.

Go your own way first and leave others with no way out.

This business is obviously not conducive to development under the PCCW banner, and Liu Ruoyi simply registered a new company to do this.

Initially invested 100 million Hong Kong dollars to establish this mobile Internet company called Gaowei, negotiated from Penguin to dig a technical vice president to be responsible for the back-end server construction technology, and then prepared to find a general manager from Xiangjiang and recruit mobile development engineers from HTC and Google.

The initial version was built on the Android system. In the future, it will be expanded to implement cross-platform applications on existing iOS, mobile, and Symbian systems.

However, instead of waiting for Liu Ruoyi to find a new general manager, Vivian volunteered to do it.

By the way, Blue Core Technology has already borne its first fruit, Vivian is engaged to Dr. Yang Qishan, and will hold a banquet on New Year's Day.

The straight man faced a domineering female president like Vivian, and he was defeated almost without the power to parry.

However, the investment in blue core technology has not been wasted, Yang Qishan's team's new generation of Bluetooth according to the ideal way of use proposed by Liu Ruoyi, found the idea of solving the problem, after more than a year of exploration and research, now the first generation of prototype analog circuit has been successfully verified.

After re-designing the hardware digital circuit, the tape-out of the first generation of Bluetooth chips can be carried out in Q1 of 2009 at the latest.

Dr. Yang Qishan's solution has been patented and submitted to Bluetooth International, and is now in the final approval stage.

It is not surprising that this solution will be one of the standards for the next generation of Bluetooth. Because the preliminary test shows that in terms of power consumption, Yang Qishan's team's solution saves at least one-third of the power consumption compared with the previous generation.

There is no doubt that this is a huge progress, in terms of connection pairing, the simplified connection mode of 4-digit automatic matching confirmation is directly copied from the way Liu Ruoyi used it in his previous life, and the implementation is just one more mode in the software.

Yang Qishan's team has verified the new generation of connection mode on other Bluetooth chips, proving that this method not only greatly reduces complexity, but also greatly reduces pairing compatibility issues.

As for the little loss in terms of security, it has little impact on short-range connection transmission such as Bluetooth.

Similar to mobile phone applications, users often turn off Bluetooth directly after Bluetooth transmission, and there will be no chance for people to connect at will. Therefore, when it comes to daily use, user simplicity is more important than safety.

After Vivian tied her lifelong events to this career, she really put a lot of thought into this part, and has built Blue Core Technology into a more correct chip design company.

Originally, she didn't know much about these, but with a real expert in the industry like Zhang Rujin to ask for advice, Vivian is not a novice who doesn't understand anything.

It is relatively not difficult to dig up a few engineers engaged in chip design and production and quality management in Lion City and Baodao, and when the money is in place, it is easy to say that a start-up like Blue Core Technology does not need many people.

What's more, as a business, Liu Ruoyi is still by her side to give guidance, following Liu Ruoyi for so many years, nothing else, Vivian has surpassed ordinary people a lot in terms of vision.

Liu Ruoyi thought for a while, and finally agreed, leaving this opportunity to Vivian.

On the one hand, the company's initial affairs were relatively simple, and Liu Ruoyi already knew the needs of research and development and the promotion routine, she just needed someone to supervise the implementation.

In this regard, there is no more loyal and resolute person than Vivien.

Blue Core Technology Vivian can manage it in an orderly manner, and this new mobile Internet instant messaging company should allow Vivian to try.

It's just that in this way, it seems that his assistants have to increase the number of people.

After discussing with Vivian, Liu Ruoyi chose a Xiangjiang girl named Fu Yunhui from the secretary group as her second assistant to assist Vivian in her work.

Fu Yunhui has been working in Liu Ruoyi's secretary team for three years, she is a graduate student in management graduated from Xiangjiang University of Science and Technology, willing to endure hardships, quiet personality, personal ability has risen relatively quickly in the past three years, even if there is no vacancy on Vivian's side, Liu Ruoyi is ready to promote her to be a department manager.

But Fu Yunhui is not stupid, the real case of Vivian and Cathy's development makes her not talk much, but in terms of doing practical things, Fu Yunhui has been working hard towards the position of Liu Ruoyi's assistant.

In the future, for Fu Yunhui, it will be to further squeeze to Liu Ruoyi's side.