Chapter 70: Advance Layout
"In that part, we also have to find a way to overcome the difficulties and do it first. This product is our current phased achievement. ”
Zhang Tuohai was much more confident about Gu Mojie's last question, and after giving an order, he asked the engineer next to him to take a sample and show it to Gu Mojie.
Gu Mojie pinched it in his hand and played with it, this thing looked like it was just a mobile phone charger. HOWEVER, THE APPEARANCE IS VERY DESIGNED, AND THE AQUA BLUE PORCELAIN COLOR IS LIKE THE CHARGER OF APPLE'S MACBOOK, WHICH IS VERY FUTURISTIC.
"This thing looks like a phone charger?" Gu Mojie asked tentatively.
Zhang Tuohai: "It does have the function of a mobile phone charger, but at the same time, this charger also has the function of automatically backing up the phone's address book - as long as the processor used by the other mobile phone is a chipset of Qualcomm's standard instruction set, or an MTK chipset, it can be compatible." When charging with this charger, the contacts in the mobile phone will be automatically copied to the charger and stored for backup.
There is a simple processing chip in the charger, which has a built-in AT instruction set that is part of Qualcomm's standard, which can automatically send requests, set the status of the phone's USB interface, and the number of transmissions. You can even back up your SMS library if you want to. In the case of developing mobile phones, we first became familiar with the instruction set application and communication compatibility issues of Qualcomm and MTK. Of course, I am not an expert in this area, and the company has recently hired many programmers and hardware engineers from mobile phone companies to do the preliminary investigation. ”
Gu Mojie looked at the creative mobile phone charger, pondered for a few seconds, and then asked how the sales of this charger were. He was relieved to hear that hundreds of thousands of products had been sold, and that he had not received any negative feedback from the market on product quality and performance.
After reading Zhang Tuohai's project at hand, Gu Mojie learned about the research team of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology led by Chen Jingtian. Those people are mainly making energy storage materials. The research of materials science has always invested a lot, and it is normal to spend hundreds of millions of dollars without making a splash.
However, Chen Jingtian is still very powerful, although he has only brought a small breakthrough of 2%~3% for Gu Mojie in the energy storage density of lithium batteries, but at least he has made progress in other non-core indicators - don't underestimate the breakthrough of 2%~3% energy storage density, in today's world, even if it is a large company like General Electric, it invests billions of dollars in battery materials every year, and only increases the battery energy storage density by 6%~7% per year.
Tesla, which has just been established for more than a year in 06, has made progress in battery materials every year because of insufficient financing.
I saw Chen Jingtian take a few new batteries of the real yàn version, as well as a bunch of galvanometers, and explained other technical details while demonstrating to Gu Mojie:
"We have researched a new material formulation that can improve the high temperature resistance and stability of lithium batteries. The current characteristics of lithium batteries can be reduced by the nonlinearity of temperature changes. In this way, even if the battery heats up and heats up when charging at a high current, the current characteristics will not be affected. This allows us to charge new phones with a higher voltage and current.
At present, a 2000mA mobile phone battery in the protected state on the market, on the USB interface with a standard charging voltage of 4.2V, takes 6~7 hours to be fully charged, while our new material can ensure full charging in only 5 hours, and the average charging speed has been increased by more than 20%.
At the same time, one of the most significant improvements is reflected in the fast flush mode when the battery is low - when the mobile phone battery is less than 60%, our new material battery can increase the charging speed by more than 150% compared with all similar products in the world, so as long as 1 hour, you can charge a battery with 0 power to 60% of the full value, while the current counterparts on the market can only do 1 hour to 25%. ”
The last number is really exciting.
Gu Mojie knows that although the current domestic copycat machine market is still clamoring for unreliable advertising slogans such as "ultra-long standby time" and "permanent standby". But in less than two years, the mobile phone of the future will definitely change from a simple communication tool to a complex of entertainment and media applications. At that point, whether the phone is on standby long enough in an unused state will become a ridiculously useless indicator - when the time comes, who will buy a phone and put it there just to wait for the call to answer?
At that time, in the case of low battery of the mobile phone, how to charge the mobile phone to a usable state will become an important indicator. And Chen Jingtian's research today is definitely to the point of the future.
"Can you make sure we're the global leader in this area? I want to hear the exact information. Because of the importance of the matter, Gu Mojie asked.
In this regard, Chen Jingtian only said: "Mr. Gu, you have to believe in the team brought out by President Zhu." ”
Gu Mojie understood. President Zhu Jingwu is the world's first person in the field of low-temperature superconducting materials, and his achievements in other electrical materials are also extraordinary. If you have to find some cutting-edge research on electric energy storage materials among Chinese or ethnic Chinese, you can only find people from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
It should be said that Gu Mojie was very fortunate that the relationship between all aspects of Guò was firmly enveloped by the think tank of HKUST. If it weren't for the perennial friendly cooperation between Qianjiang University and HKUST, if it weren't for Gu Mojie's outstanding achievements in the field of deep learning algorithms that brought him into Academician Qiu's field of vision, and for the mentor-brother relationship between Academician Guò Qiu and President Zhu, he would have been replaced by other domestic Internet entrepreneurs, and wanted to let the top Chinese scientists in those fields "turn in their knots", I am afraid that it would really take a lot of trouble.
Judging from the current situation, in addition to the communication baseband and radio frequency, and even the internal core processing software application of Qualcomm chipset, Gu Mojie can already be sure that Hatsune Intelligence will definitely have the strength to enter the mobile phone industry in a high-profile manner next year. And at least it must be stronger than all domestic copycat machine companies, and comparable to domestic first-line genuine LICENSE manufacturers (that is, those large companies that officially spent tens of millions of yuan and asked Qualcomm to buy a chip license).
For a company that makes mobile phones in the first year, if it can really achieve such results, it is very good. A sane boss can't ask for more.
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After a whole day of inspection and mapping at Hatsune Intelligence, Gu Mojie had a better understanding of the current situation of the hardware industry under his name.
It is also more clear that now I am still missing something from a good mobile phone.
When I returned to the company the next day, I inevitably convened Ye Weilun to discuss, and also found some consulting companies related to the communication industry to understand the situation and ask each other to make plans. A few days later, a clear overall solution was placed in front of Gu Mojie.
AS SHOWN ABOVE, THE FIRST THING THAT HATSUNE NEEDS TO ADDRESS IS A SOFTWARE TEAM THAT IS FAMILIAR WITH QUALCOMM CHIPSET FIRMWARE DEVELOPMENT, INCLUDING ALL CORE INSTRUCTION SET APPLICATIONS.
Secondly, it is necessary to have a hardware team for the implementation of the baseband electronics of Qualcomm chips, that is, a group of corresponding electronic engineers.
Finally, there are the talents who tune RF. Including antenna, the electromagnetic compatibility of the whole machine.
Collect these three teams, and Hatsune's mobile phone business can be officially launched.
Software and baseband talents, mainly have to find domestic first-line mobile phone brands to poach people to change jobs.
RF talents can also be poached by mobile phone manufacturers, but Gu Mojie's experience in the two lives vaguely tells him that the top mobile phone RF talents may not be able to be found in mobile phone manufacturers. On the contrary, those companies that do operator network equipment will have more powerful RF engineers than mobile phone manufacturers.
For example, the operator equipment giant that has been leading in China for 20 years and is now moving towards the world's first, Shenzhen's Xia Wei Technology.
Gu Mojie cleared his mind and decided to take two steps. First, find a mobile phone manufacturer to start poaching first. Second, after the team is complete, I have the confidence, and then go to Shenzhen to talk about cooperation with Ren Zhengren, the boss of Xia Wei Technology.
As for other network equipment suppliers that are worse than Xia Wei's technology, such as ZTE and Datang, Gu Mojie can't look down on them at all.
The only problem with this poaching plan is that Hatsune Group has not yet announced a mobile phone development plan, so it is not possible to formally recruit on a large scale. You can only go through guò headhunters first, cast a net to understand the dynamics of insiders, and see if there are any industry bulls who are not satisfied with the status quo and have the idea of moving their positions.
After the matter was arranged, Gu Mojie didn't pay much attention to it. More than ten days have passed in a blink of an eye, and the business has progressed smoothly, and Gu Mojie himself is relatively free, and he can be the shopkeeper for a few days.
The efficiency of the Beacon Headhunter has always been okay, and in just a few days, he finally gave Gu Mojie a piece of valuable information.
When Ye Minru sent the information to Gu Mojie's desk, he was drinking coffee there and thinking about things with nothing to do.
Ye Minru threw away the things and said bluntly: "The technical director of the mobile phone division of Xia Xin Electronics, a senior engineer named Feng Guorong, is said to have recently submitted his resignation application, and it is estimated that he will be released after the year-end bonus." That person is said to have the strength to pull a team under his original command, jump out together, and set up a program research and development company to work alone.
However, according to the information of Beacon, this person still has some difficulties in terms of initial funds, so he does not rule out the possibility of taking refuge in a powerful large company that is ready to enter the mobile phone industry, and continue to work for people after taking a little share option. ――Would you like to arrange a time to meet? Or do you leave it to the human resources department to talk about? ”
Gu Mojie: "Of course, I'm going to meet in person. We haven't taken the first step in the mobile phone industry yet, so it's better to be a corporal of Lixian. ”
While speaking, Gu Mojie looked at the calendar on the computer and added, "Then the afternoon after tomorrow, just make an appointment with the other party." Where is that man at the moment? Is it convenient to come to Qiantang? ”
Ye Minru: "Of course, it is in Hujiang - the mobile phone division of Xia Xin Electronics, which is in Hujiang. ”
Gu Mojie: "That's quite convenient. (To be continued.) )