Through the science and technology tree query, there are very few manufacturers in the field of electronics and integrated circuits that have reached the Lv6 level.

Lv6 level: Fruit, Paste Tong, Broadcom, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Texas Instruments.

Lv5 level: 13 companies such as HiSilicon (Gold), Lianhuake (Gold), Sansang (Gold), and Hynix.

Zhou Zhen looked at the data in front of him with a hint of curiosity in his eyes.

What does this (gold) mean?

After the explanation of the technology tree, Zhou Zhen finally understood the meaning of (gold).

The suffix (gold) means that the level of this company has reached the strength to break through the corresponding level, and only needs the corresponding excellent high-quality products to appear, and it can officially rise from the corresponding level to a level.

This also means that although HiSilicon and Lianhuake are now at LV5, it will not be long before they can upgrade to LV6.

"The future of chip design and manufacturing is the focus of development! Now is the time to consider upgrading this branch temporarily! ”

After hesitating for a moment, Zhou Zhen considered adding the remaining technology points he had now to this branch.

[Spend 10,000 Tech Points to upgrade an IC to Lv4, the next level of Lv5 will cost 100,000 Tech Points!] ］

Soon Zhou Zhen upgraded this branch to the Lv4 level.

Looking at the number of technology points that need to be upgraded next, Zhou Zhen did not hesitate to spend 100,000 technology points to upgrade to the Lv5 level.

However, after upgrading to Lv5, Zhou Zhen was a little troubled.

The next branch of technology has two different upgrades.

[Upgrading to Lv6 costs 3,000,000 Tech Points!] ］

[Upgrading to Lv5 (Gold) costs 1,500,000 Tech Points!] ］

That's right, this time the branch upgrade of the tech tree has two different upgrade schemes.

You can directly upgrade to Lv6 by spending a large amount of science points.

It is also possible to upgrade to Lv5 (Gold) for half of the cost of science points.

The so-called Lv5 (Gold) level can be regarded as Lv5.9 level, and it is only one step away from Lv6 level.

Of course, technology is also very user-friendly.

After upgrading to Lv5 (Gold), you can still spend 1,500,000 Tech Points to continue upgrading to Lv6.

After considering the number of technology points he had, Zhou Zhen finally chose to put all the technology points on the upgrade Lv5 (gold).

After all, Lv5 (Gold) is not particularly far from Lv6 level, and if you have the chance, you may be able to break through to Lv6 level.

At that time, you can save 1.5 million technology points that need to be upgraded.

Of course, if the technology tree knew Zhou Zhen's thoughts, it would inevitably ridicule Zhou Zhen.

Want to save 1.5 million tech points for upgrades? Thinking too much?

If you don't take the technology point upgrade, where will the upgraded technology patent reward come from?

Besides, Lv5 (Gold) of other manufacturers has a very deep foundation and accumulation, and it is one step away from Lv6.

With the current state of Zhou Zhen and Rou Yu, even if they are upgraded to Lv5 (Gold) in the technology tree, it is difficult to quickly upgrade to Lv6.

Of course, although Zhou Zhen now has the plug-in of the technology tree, it still takes some time and energy to fully realize the technology on the technology tree.

After exiting the panel of the technology tree, Zhou Zhen also began to think about the next development prospects.

Rouyu Company and Zhenyu Company are still their most important core industries and the core focus of development.

Secondly, Zhou Zhen still needs to be a snack for the Redmi product manager, at least don't do too bad in product design.

On the other hand, we should consider setting up a semiconductor design company.

Soon the time is coming to June, and June is the graduation season for various colleges and universities.

Rouyu and Zhenyu need to recruit enough outstanding fresh graduates in the graduation season, and excellent fresh graduates will be injected into the company as fresh blood to make the company full of vitality again.

On the other hand, Zhou Zhen also plans to set up a corresponding semiconductor design company within this month, and began to recruit corresponding talents during the graduation season.

Of course, Zhou Zhen understands that the establishment of a corresponding semiconductor design company is likely to have no corresponding source of income for a period of time in the early stage.

And during this period of time, Zhou Zhen still needs to keep investing money to burn money like crazy.

However, Zhou Zhen believes that with the blessing of the plug-in of the technology tree, it will only take more than a year for his own semiconductor design company to improve.

At the beginning of June, the news finally came out from the rice company, and the company's senior management agreed to Zhou Zhen's request and decided to hand over the half-dead Note series to Zhou Zhen.

Zhou Zhen also went to the headquarters of the rice company in person, and officially joined the rice company and became the product manager of the rice note series project team.

Of course, Rebus also knew that Zhou Zhen's affairs were a little busy, and the restrictions on Zhou Zhen were not very high, which could be regarded as giving Zhou Zhen a little face.

At the same time, Zhou Zhen also officially took over the project team of Xiaomi mobile phone note series products.

The project team has a total of two departments.

The first department is mainly responsible for the design and planning of products, as well as the stacking of components inside the product mobile phones.

The first department is the most core department in the entire project team, with a total number of only 20 people, and it is also the department with the least number of people in the entire project team.

The second department is mainly responsible for communication with the supply chain department and publicity.

This department is mainly responsible for the procurement of original parts for the supply chain of new products, as well as the production, promotion, and transportation of products.

On the whole, the first department is the core department that mainly works for product design, and the second department is the department that cooperates with the first department to invest in the overall production of products.

A master intrinsic design.

The other is mainly responsible for the production and sales of external products.

The two departments complement each other, and the total number of people in the entire project team is 70 people, which is also a very large project team.

And Zhou Zhen also met his old acquaintance Wang Teng in the project team.

A newcomer to the supply chain department of Rice has now been dropped to the head of the product production department of the Red Rice project team.

As the new director of the rice note project team, he is also the second-in-command of the entire department.

The first leader is naturally the newly appointed product manager Zhou Zhen, and Zhou Zhen will be mainly responsible for the internal core department in the future.

As for the procurement of components of the product and the production of the corresponding products, it is naturally handed over to Wang Teng.

After all, Rebus understands that Zhou Zhen is still relatively busy, and as for these dirty work, it is naturally handed over to Wang Teng, who is young and strong and has unlimited potential.

"Dong Chou, we meet again! You can just call me Xiao Wang! ”

"Director Wang, in the next few days, I hope we can cooperate happily!"

For the company's arrangement of Wang Teng as his deputy, Zhou Zhen is a hundred satisfied.

Wang Teng, capable and energetic! A very nice person in charge.

Zhou Zhen even felt that my deputy Wang Teng had the posture of a king.

Even in the future, many things about products can be handed over to Wang Teng to do, and he has saved a lot of energy.

"About the design ...... of the Rice Note3 series products"

On the first day of Zhou Zhen's arrival in the project team, he went directly to the theme.

How to design the next Mi mobile phone note3 series is the most important issue for the entire project team at this stage.

The cost budget given by the company is still very sufficient, but the time is relatively urgent.

After all, as a high-end product, it has high requirements for product design and corresponding hardware stacking.

Of course, the core of high-end is the experience of the product and the core technical strength of the product.

After all, the so-called high-end is not something that can be achieved in the real sense by relying on hardware stacking.

This is also verified by the failure of Rice's previous Note series products or later digital series flagship products.

"To be a high-end flagship, there can be no compromise!"

Zhou Zhen looked at the products designed by his product design department earlier, and directly rejected the previous product design.

It is necessary to impact the high-end and consider the cost.

Let's not talk about the core technology and experience.

I don't even dare to pile up the material, and I don't dare to talk about high-end.