Chapter 702: Direction of Technological Development
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"Deyi's digital mobile phone technology lags behind Nokia, Ericsson, Philips, Motoroto and other overseas first-line mobile phone manufacturers, which is needless to say, which is related to Deyi's attention and investment in this area, not that their technical team is also second-rate. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 The success of the Info Aida i19 mobile phone, especially the breakthrough in the technology of the duplex audio track, fully proves the existence of this technical team. Unfortunately, most of the foreign engineers in this R&D team are not willing to work in China for the time being. Even so, the Oak Park Mobile Communication Laboratory still has thirty-one technical backbones at a time, all of whom are excellent, and there are also outstanding people like Kang Zhiwei and Qiu Siyuan, and Cheng Hanzhang, the chief of ESS, praised the two of you for your outstanding performance after joining ESS in a letter to me, "Zhang Ke's eyes were on the faces of the two young people who were about thirty years old sitting in front of him on the left, Kang Zhiwei made great contributions to Aida in just half a year to fully absorb and digest the digital mobile phone technology of Deyi, An all-round talent in the field of digital mobile phone technology, Qiu Siyuan successfully realized Zhang Ke's idea of harmonic sound with duplex soundtrack technology. They had not been given any special responsibilities in Deyi before, but they were only slightly prominent among ordinary Chinese engineers. Of course, the original technical team was split into two parts, one part stayed at ESS, and the other returned to China to absorb more technical forces and develop into a larger department, leaving more room for development for the two of them, Zhang Ke said, "The chief of ESS recommended the two of you to serve as the chief engineer of the Oak Park Mobile Communication Laboratory, and I hope to see you two perform more outstanding in this position in the future." ”
It is a pity that there is no chief scientist in the mobile communication laboratory for the time being, and there is still a lack of a beam that can provoke the research and development project of digital baseband microprocessor (baseband chip). Such a figure is hard to find, and there are several companies engaged in the research and development of baseband chips in the world. To maintain a good relationship with Deyi, you can't poach people from Deyi. Not only can you not poach people from Deyi, but you can't even expose Kumho's ambition to Deyi, at least until the baseband chip is successfully developed, you can't let Deyi know.
Zhang Ke also said: "I often tell others that making digital mobile phone technology public is raising a dog to eat a rabbit, I don't know how much pressure this decision will put on all of you here, my consideration is very simple, if Kumho can't participate in the global competition sequence in the end, then it can't be called a success." If the practice of raising dogs and biting rabbits can make rabbits run faster, you might as well raise a few more dogs......" Zhang Ke drank tea, his eyes swept over everyone, looking at these people, his eyes were more eager than seeing his first love, and said, "I am a layman in technology research and development, but I am not so lonely and unheard." Tan Yunsong... Hange... Zhang Zhenheng... Wei Yuanzhen... Shu Qiang... Wang Weiliang... Liang Qingyang," his gaze slowly swept over everyone's faces, lingering on everyone's face for a second, "You have made great achievements in the industry, your name has been heard of long ago before I met you, and it has always been my dream to invite you first-class scientists to work in Kumho." You sent me a report on Kumho's future technological development, and I read it word for word, read it many times, and sit here, and many inspiring passages are now floating in my mind. The era of digital technology has begun, and we must run because of the weakness of countless foundations, and in addition to all of you, there will continue to be excellent scientists and engineers to join in, and I hope that Kumho can cultivate first-class scientists and engineers......"
The late autumn night of Xiangshan is silent, and those energetic people have already fallen asleep, and in this elegant room near the lake, the white lamp has been on, shining through the window, falling in the courtyard, and dissolving with the moonlight.
Kumho will obtain digital mobile phone technology from Deyi completely public, and want to maintain a comprehensive technological leadership, which is a fool's dream, Kumho should seize the future trend and concentrate on developing its own core technology, as long as it maintains its leading edge in core technology, it can stand at the top of the pyramid.
Sleepless all night, we all have our own opinions on the future development of digital technology, seek common ground while reserving differences, first set the direction of the big research, and concentrate the technical strength in our hands to overcome it.
What to see at the dealer conference? A truly far-sighted person will not admire the glory of Kumho at this time, and the real glory is still to come. Bringing everyone together in Haizhou and at the Holiday Inn at the northern foot of Xiangshan is to agree on a general direction for Kumho's future technological development.
Zhang Ke is not an outsider, digital technology in the field of consumer electronics must eventually be applied to electronic products to be considered successful, who can know better than him the development trend of consumer electronics in the next decade?
The trajectory of history has changed, and the popularity of an electronic product has its inevitable historical trend, as well as a great accident, as well as the factors of wrestling and entanglement between electronics giants.
Of course, those who have a keen vision of the consumer electronics market will not be much worse than Zhang Ke in their understanding of the future development trend of consumer electronics.
Zhang Ke is not from a technical background, and his knowledge of integrated circuits, engineering materials, etc., has just reached the popular science level, but when he invites top talents like Tan Yunsong to join Kumho, Zhang Ke insists on having a long talk with him before it is finalized. After such top talents join, they will dominate Kumho's technological development direction to a certain extent, and Zhang Ke must first make sure that his technological development ideas are in line with historical trends, which is a quality that a leader must have, and he must first lead in the right direction. Kumho doesn't have too many resources to waste if it wants to surpass Samsung and Sony, so it's important to grasp the right direction of technology development from the start.
It's easy to come up with an electronic product concept, and it's easy to make a beautiful industrial design, but it's not so easy to finally form a flawless product.
It has been two years since Zhang Ke proposed the concept of MP3, and Kumho has concentrated almost half of its technical strength to overcome the related technical problems, and it is only now that it is barely agreed. In other words, overseas electronics giants such as Samsung or Sony can launch a relatively perfect product in only three or five months after proposing a product concept.
That's the gap.
What Kumho lacks is not a new product concept, but the technical strength and technical foundation to realize the product concept, which includes all the technical forces including Oak Park, ESS Laboratory, major product design centers, and application technology R&D centers, as well as a complete electronic industry production system.
stayed up all night, Zhang Ke talked with everyone all night.
Power management, LCD display, radio frequency technology, wireless technology, testing technology, etc. are all specific core technology branches to be developed in the current digital mobile phone technology, but Kumho wants to become a real leader in the mobile phone industry, and even be able to provide a mobile phone development and design platform for other mobile phone manufacturers, at least have the ability to provide a digital baseband microprocessor (baseband chip) or one of the application microprocessors.
At this time, the mobile phone has a single function, and the technology of applying microprocessors is relatively simple, and most of the current mobile phones even adopt a single digital baseband microprocessor to architecture, and there is no special application microprocessor.
With more and more value-added application functions such as multimedia integrated into mobile phones, the technical integration of this application microprocessor will exceed that of digital baseband chips.
The development of microprocessors for digital mobile phone applications is a relatively easy way for Kumho to get started, and after getting started, it is necessary to concentrate more and more technical resources. Of course, at this time, it is only relatively easy to develop baseband chips, and it is not so easy to really do it, Kumho is still a technical gap in this area, and the digital mobile phone technology from Deyi does not include microprocessor technology. Zhang Ke wanted to get a piece of the pie from the baseband chip, and at this time, there was naturally no reason not to do this application microprocessor, especially seeing that Hange had rich development experience in the application of microprocessors, he asked him to lead a team to do this professionally.
Zhang Ke believes that in seven or eight years, especially after the emergence of smart phones, the importance of this application microprocessor will exceed that of the baseband chip.
Zhang Ke also put forward an additional requirement, that is, to enter the group of Oak Park into the field of embedded Linux systems.
Digital mobile phones have entered the intelligent era early, and the electronic dictionary developed by Aida Education Electronics Co., Ltd. is only a PDA, a "low-end product" of a handheld computer, and does not require an embedded operating system.
It is precisely because of the low-end that Kumho can calmly enter the field of embedded Linux systems, and develop its own operating system based on the Linux kernel from easy to difficult.
In ninety-seven years, there were very few technicians in China who knew that there was a Linux system, let alone relevant development experience. When Chen Xinsheng was selecting R&D personnel in Southeast Asia, Zhang Ke deliberately asked him to pay attention to technical talents in this area. Wei Yuanzhen's qualifications are slightly worse than Tan Yunsong, Han Ge and others, but he has rich experience in embedded Linux system development and team leadership, and Zhang Ke certainly did not hesitate to hire him as the chief engineer and he will preside over this work.