At five o'clock in the afternoon, the winding bell rang.

Xia Yu breathed a long sigh of relief, and found that many people around him were flushed.

The math and science questions are more difficult than in previous years!

He felt that his answer was quite smooth, but it was by no means the foundation of the Olympiad in his freshman year of high school, but a lot of perspectives that he had cultivated at Stanford.

But after I was done, the next semester was a semester of relaxation, and I just happened to focus on the mobile phone division of Polestar Electronics.

After completing the acquisition of Jinling Panda, the foundation is almost over, and it is time to talk about the results.

According to the arrangement, there is a group dinner after the exam in Nanyue Province, Xia Yu doesn't plan to go, what time is there to waste after the exam, but to say hello to Huang Rendong, along the way, I found several candidates discussing the exam just now.

I only heard one person nervously ask: "The most important question, is it friction and acceleration that cancel it?"

Another person replied: "After the second lap, isn't there still a thrust ahead?"

"Oh no, I forgot!"

"Forget it, don't talk about it, I can't think of ideas for the math finale at all, so it's just empty!"

"Me too!"

Someone has to believe it, at least the first step is still mediocre.

Xia Yu felt funny when he heard it, and many students have this habit after the exam. These are still in Yangcheng No. 1 Middle School, and Xia Yu knows each other, but he doesn't have the heart to mix and discuss, so he sped forward in a few steps.

Suddenly, her eyes lit up, the girl in front of her was not Fang Yuanyuan!

She was walking with her head down, and today she was wearing a red woolen hat and two balls of yarn hanging from her temples, and she looked even younger.

He rushed up and asked, "Hey, Fang Yuanyuan, how did you answer?"

Seeing that it was Xia Yu, Fang Yuanyuan hurriedly stopped and said, "It's okay." It should be fine. What about you?"

"Make do with it! The full score is estimated to be a bit hanging, after all, several questions are relatively raw, and you can only rely on feelings. ”

Fang Yuanyuan couldn't help but laugh "giggled": "You really want to get a full score, tell you that Huaqing University doesn't have more than three perfect scores in physics and mathematics every year, you can only try your luck!"

"Just think about it! By the way, you're also on vacation, so I'll invite you to dinner tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow, I don't know if I'm free, wait for my call. Anyway, you, the big boss, take exams and invite girls to dinner, so idle?"

"What a big boss. I will occasionally come up with ideas", seeing that Huang Dongren was in front, he waved his hand: "Then I will continue to wait for a treat, anyway, if you don't give me a chance, I will continue to wait!"

"Got it!"

Huang Dongren is taking a roll call here, he can almost recognize everyone now, and when he saw Xia Yu coming over, he also asked, "How did you do in the exam?"

Xia Yu pretended to be obedient and made up a reason: "It's okay, thank you Principal Huang for your concern! That, I have relatives in Yanjing, and I said I would go there for dinner tonight." So I'd like to take a leave of absence for dinner in the evening......"

Huang Dongren didn't doubt it, anyway, Fei Jiangsheng briefly told him the situation at that time, waved his hand and said, "Go ahead, then you won't go back with us tomorrow?"

"Hmm. I still have some things, thank you Principal Huang for taking care of me for these two days!"

"Don't talk nonsense, go ahead, remember to call me if you have something!"

……

Xia Yu did a lot of things when he came to Yanjing this time.

First and last, there are several companies invested by Bluestar Ventures, and he plans to take a look.

Thereinto. After several months of development, Douban was preparing to launch the internal test, and Yang Bo specially invited Xia Yu to come over and watch. After all, the idea of this new Douban network is much more perfect than he originally imagined, and it is all Xia Yuti's opinion;

And Autohome has been launched a long time ago, and the operation performance is okay.

Li Xiang's team is relatively mature, especially with strong execution, and the development speed is faster than in the previous life after getting the investment, and now it is competing fiercely with the car channels of several major portals.

In addition, it is the third project of Bluestar Venture Capital in China, Sky Network.

They are a mobile phone application platform, which is quite compatible with Polestar Electronics now. Xia Yu originally wanted Song Tao to go to the North American office to be responsible for the research and development of the mobile phone software platform, but Song Tao didn't want to go back to the United States, so let's go back.

If necessary, it can be acquired directly by Polestar Electronics and supplemented by the R&D center.

Of course, the most important thing is to communicate about mobile phone chips, he has already communicated with Qualcomm and Philips, and is ready to talk one by one.

……

Early the next morning, Xia Yu came to the Philips Beijing office building on Jiuxianqiao East Road as promised.

It's a free-standing building, of course, it's rented, but it's also quite magnificent.

This time I made an appointment with a vice president of the Philips chip division, named Liu Niansheng, who was two levels higher than Jia Feirong, who had a good relationship before, and was also the person in charge of the mobile phone chip.

It's also Polestar Electronics, which is not small now, otherwise it would be more troublesome to make an appointment.

After registering at the front desk, Xia Yu sent a text message to Liu Niansheng, and then sat aside to observe, thinking about what to say for a while.

Yang Chunsheng had been in contact with this side before, but he didn't pay much attention to it.

Mainly because they don't have a molded mobile phone chip that meets the requirements of Polestar Electronics on their product line, it is not difficult to customize, but after all, it is troublesome.

Xia Yu vaguely remembered that Philips should soon have an ultra-low-end mobile phone chip plan, but he was not sure.

This part of the "memory" is too little, and it is vaguely mentioned in some materials of later generations, he only knows that this ultra-cheap chip appeared in 2006, and the sales are not very good, but he can't remember the initial launch time.

At nine twenty-five, five minutes before the appointed time, the pot-bellied Liu Nian was born.

He recognized Xia Yu sitting in the corner at a glance.

Not to mention age, Xia Yu's temperament that is obviously different from his peers and even ordinary company bosses is still obvious.

Liu Niansheng walked over with his stomach straight, stretched out his hand and said: "Hello Mr. Xia, I'm Liu Niansheng, sorry for keeping you waiting!

Xia Yu couldn't hear whether his words were simple compliments or other meanings, so he stretched out his hand with a smile and said, "Mr. Liu is polite, I just arrived." ”

"Let's go, let's talk to my office!"

As an electronic technology group, like the MP3 field, Philips also has its own mobile phone brand, but the sales and recognition in the market are only average.

There is no problem with the quality and level of the product. However, the cost performance and industrial design are worse than those of top brands, and the market strategy is not strong, so it has not really opened up the situation.

But the technology accumulation of its important subsidiary Philips Semiconductor is not to say, whether it is MP3 encryption and decoding chips, TV chips or mobile phone integrated chips, they are all at the top level.

As for Huaguo's chip manufacturers, because of the lack of experience in communication protocol stack computing and the integration of power consumption, core technology, cost control, and operation, they need to pay relatively high patent fees, and it is difficult to come up with excellent products.

After all, these are the research and development of human and financial resources accumulated by established companies for many years, and they are not achieved overnight.

Ten years later, that hasn't changed much.

In the future, if you have the opportunity, you can try to cut into this field and really build your mobile phone business as an industrial chain platform. But forget it now, Xia Yu can't even think about it.

Only by using these mature chip solutions to assemble mobile phones to make enough money can you be qualified to say anything else!

Liu Niansheng's office is not big, but it has a good view from the 18th floor by leaning on the floor-to-ceiling windows.

Because of the simple communication on the phone before, Xia Yu went straight to the point after a few greetings: "Mr. Liu, we at Polestar Electronics and Philips are also old partners, and this time I still want to see if there are any opportunities for cooperation in the field of mobile phones......

Liu Niansheng held the teacup in one hand. Leaning on the sofa and saying with a smile: "What Mr. Xia said is true! Polestar Electronics has a lot of potential, and this time it will definitely be able to stir up some more storms when it enters the field of mobile phones! Our Philips chip solution is also the top in the industry, which one does Mr. Xia like?"

Speaking of which, the production and assembly of mobile phones is much simpler nowadays. This is thanks to the introduction of the integration platform model of major manufacturers.

Since about 2002, mainstream mobile phone chip manufacturers have begun to create an integrated platform model, that is, in addition to the original baseband chip and processor, RF, co-processor, memory management and even power management circuits are concentrated on one platform. Agree to deliver to mobile phone manufacturers.

In this way, mobile phone manufacturers and solution design companies can adapt to new products more quickly on this basis, and the development cycle has changed from months to dozens of days.

This model has been used to the extreme by MediaTek, a bay island company that has come later. At the end of 2005, they launched a more integrated "turnkey" approach. The craziest period can directly reduce the new product development cycle of mobile phone companies to a minimum of ten days!

That's what Philips is doing at the moment.

Xia Yu has done enough information before coming, and Philips is currently focusing on OM and VP two integrated chip series.

Among them, the VP series has a long history and has been widely known for being used by many Samsung mobile phones, the latter is a new business of Philips in the past two years, oriented to the middle and low end, and has been applied to domestic mobile phones such as Konka, Dibit, and Bird.

For Polestar, a VP chip with a good audio decoder is good for a music phone, but even a low-end OM chip is far from the requirements of the NJStar A100.

So he didn't hesitate, and said directly: "The three solutions of the OM series have been studied by Polestar, but none of them seem to be very suitable......"

Liu Niansheng looked puzzled and said, "Oh, I thought Polestar would choose the VP series to make music mobile phones......"

Xia Yu nodded: "You can consider it, but now that Polestar has a thin foundation, let's practice with an ordinary mobile phone first." Speaking of which, please keep it a secret from Mr. Liu!"

"Of course, but since it's an ordinary mobile phone, OM's three solutions are very comprehensive, do Polestar have any special functional requirements? ”

Judging from Liu Niansheng's words, he still has recognition of Polestar Electronics, otherwise ordinary new companies would not have this treatment.

However, Xia Yu still shook his head: "No, Mr. Liu, you misunderstood what I meant, the functions of the OM series are still a bit much, Polestar Electronics currently needs a black and white screen mobile phone chip with stable communication functions and only basic functions such as address book and text messages, can Philips provide it?"

"What? Mr. Xia is not joking, we at Philips have our own product principles, do not make this kind of chip!" (To be continued......)

PS: The second update is here! There are a lot of work things to do in the past two days, so I can only say that I try my best to write. But I still want to ask for a monthly pass, and Xia Yu has started a new journey......

I would also like to thank Yuan Yuan for their 10,000 yuan rewards, as well as the encouragement of several brothers such as Yu Zhizun, Li Xhua, SO Simple, and LumiaH.