Chapter 1408: Tablet
"I once mentioned to you that we should produce a small, powerful, and inexpensive computer, which will become our new profit growth point, let us think about the computer, and truly become the world's No.1. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½ā
"Mr. Feng, what you said is a paradox in the first place. Powerful, how can the price be cheap? How can it be small when it's powerful? Liu Chuanzhi said.
Feng Yu had mentioned it to him before, but he took someone to study it, it was impossible.
Feng Yu waved his hand: "Nothing is impossible. Who thought that such a small mobile phone could surf the Internet, send and receive emails, and take pictures? You should know better than I do how fast the IT industry is changing right now. ā
"The computer I'm talking about is called a tablet, which means that it needs touchscreen technology, and it just so happens that we are now leading the world in touchscreen research. The size should be so big, about eight to ten inches of the screen, the buttons are the same as the touch screen mobile phone we designed, as little as possible, there can be only one to three buttons on the front, and even the buttons can be changed to touch. ā
"This also has very high requirements for the resolution of the screen, and coincidentally, our technology on the LCD screen is also world-leading. Of course, this also requires a small and powerful motherboard, including memory, hard drives, etc., which are good for our technology. ā
"If we have these conditions, why can't we do it? Lao Liu, didn't you even want to make a product similar to IBM's ThinkPad? I think the screen can be rotated and turned into a touch control, right? Now it's time to cancel the keyboard and make the necessary elements such as the motherboard with the screen, what's impossible? ā
"All-in-one machine, didn't you make it too? It's a small or micro all-in-one computer, and it's just a touch screen. ā
Hearing Feng Yu's words, everyone felt that it seemed that what Feng Yu said also made sense. Isn't this just a small all-in-one phone, or a super phone?
"But what about the system? Although the PC system we studied is not particularly large, it also needs more than two G, plus some others, as well as system patches, etc., to occupy at least ten Gigs of memory space. With a machine of this size, we can't make it thicker than a book, right? Qiu Bojun asked.
"The system can be simplified, and our system for PCs and smartphones is very different, but they both use Linux basic code, right? Why can't we make a system that is more powerful than a smartphone system, but less powerful than a PC system? ā
"My request for this tablet is that it can surf the Internet, send and receive emails, play games, listen to songs, watch movies, watch photos, log in to instant chat software, etc., which is also the most used function of the computer. As for the office, we have omitted the keyboard, and this aspect is naturally omitted. ā
"This tablet, we are positioned for entertainment, not work. If it works, you still have to buy something more powerful. Of course, with the continuous upgrade of our hardware and software in the future, it is not impossible to use it for work. ā
"As for the storage space, we don't have to use mechanical hard drives, why can't we use flash memory cards? I remember that our flash memory card technology has advanced rapidly, and now we can produce 4G SD cards, so maybe next year, 8G, 16G flash memory cards will be successfully studied. ā
"Do you think that the functions I just mentioned, the 16G memory card is not enough? 8G is also enough, as long as we reserve a place that can support expansion cards. ā
In the previous life, the tablet, the memory was still smaller, and it was not used normally?
"Ahem, Mr. Feng, you may be too optimistic about our technology. Although our touchscreen technology is very good, and the LCD technology is also very good, when combined, it is not so easy. What's more, the screen you are asking for is so large, even if it is only eight inches, the power consumption is very high. Xu Lihua said suddenly.
"No, I'm not optimistic, but we're going to work in that direction. I know it's going to be difficult to combine the two technologies, but it's not impossible, and touchscreen phones are proof of that. As for power consumption, this is solved by Taihua Battery Company, which is a high-performance lithium battery, which is also the main direction of their current public relations, which can not only be used in our products, but also in mobile phones. ā
"Again, don't forget another product of Taihua battery, power bank. This is equivalent to a spare battery, which can also be recharged, which is enough to increase the battery life of this product. The first product can not be too demanding, but the most important thing is to be able to watch a two-hour movie in a row. ā
If you can't finish watching a movie, then it's still a fart, and the function of watching a movie has become an ornament?
"Maybe we can think of ways to reduce energy consumption in terms of CPUs, graphics cards, etc. It would be even better if you could combine the CPU and the graphics card. Yang Zhiyuan thought for a while and said.
Combined, isn't this the product called APU produced by Chaowei in the previous life, and it is also a product that was used in many later game consoles, tablets, etc.
It combines high performance, low energy consumption and space savings.
"That's a good idea, Tianming, do you have any problems over there?"
"No problem. It just so happens that we all have product research and development laboratories in Huaxia, and in an industrial park, we can cooperate in the development of this product, and I will report to the above and sign a contract with Yingweida as soon as possible. Yi Tianming said.
"I still think that since the screen technology is not outstanding enough, the battery technology, hardware, etc. are not outstanding enough, it should still be done in the way of a notebook. Our products should evolve gradually, not in one step. Liu Chuanzhi said with a frown.
"And we happen to be working on micro all-in-one machines, which is not in conflict with this project."
Notebook? These functions are not the low-end netbook functions of the previous life, and they are also the main functions of many domestic so-called copycat notebooks.
Since the tablet is temporarily lacking in technology, it is okay to make a low-cost netbook.
"You have a point, so do what you want. The main feature of our product is that it is cheap and compact, but it has all the basic functions of a computer. But if you want to play a big online game, forget it. ā
"Mr. Feng, notebooks have always been positioned as high-end products, according to your requirements, the performance of the notebook is definitely not high, isn't it directly lowering the grade?" Jiang Wanmeng frowned and asked.
"Different prices, different markets. These are for the petty bourgeois youth, and young women and female college students are our main sales targets. ā
"In the future, when the notebook market is close to saturation, the tablet we are studying will inevitably become a new growth point for the company's profits, and it is the main growth point!"
ā¦ā¦ (To be continued.) )