After the recruitment staff expired one after another, the two-story office building leased by Hillhouse Technology in Huaguang Building was solidly filled.

Min Weiguo was very dissatisfied with the entire messy and crowded office environment, and Ning Yuan had to lease the next floor of office space from the property owner of Huaguang Building for the use of the R&D department, which calmed the dissatisfaction of the R&D department.

Huaguang Building was naturally very happy.

While other companies lease 1/8 of a cubicle on one floor, Hillhouse Technology leases the entire floor.

The image is good, the lease term is stable, and the quality of employees is also high, and even the centralized business of their podium has become better.

And for Gao Huaijun.

The current business of M1-MP3 does not seem to be too secondary.

Because of the simple structure of this small product, the main function is only to stay in listening to songs, and the appearance is good-looking, so it has attracted a group of beauty fans.

However, Hua Qiangbei's reaction was very fast!

Almost not long after the Chinese New Year, the first copycat versions of M1-MP3 appeared on the market.

Although the quality of this batch is rough, the plastic is extremely strong, and the sound quality is poor, it is cheap!

At a price of less than 500 yuan, this batch of imitations was unexpectedly welcomed by the market as soon as it was withdrawn.

However, the sales of the M1-MP3 have stagnated.

After all, the impact of 500 yuan on 1200 yuan is too big!

As soon as the 500 yuan product is launched on the market, it will make people feel that the market differentiation of M1-MP3 will not be too high, which affects the appearance of some fans who buy this product.

Under the impact of copycats and other brands of newly launched MP3s.

In April 2005, the sales volume of this product was only more than 4,000 units, which was only 1/5 of the peak sales of M1-MP3.

The impact of copycat products is really fast and fast!

"Mr. Gao, the sales volume in April was only more than 4,000 units. In the next four months, it is conservatively estimated that the sales volume will only be between 12,000 and 15,000 units, and the sales volume is expected to be only about 15 million. Ning Yuan said to Gao Huaijun with a solemn face.

Although the senior management of Hillhouse Technology had been prepared, they did not expect that the competition in this market was so fierce.

This clever MP3,The core advantage is that the appearance is high,There is no strong market segmentation strength,Its own technical moat is not high。

Therefore, compared with other competing products, it is expected that sales will decline rapidly.

"Don't worry! What's the hurry! There are still 4 months, 4 months later, our new M2-MP3 will be on the market, and the debut of this product is the time to really change the outside world's view of Hillhouse Technology. Gao Huaijun drank the tea poured by the little secretary standing aside, and said.

He now has a company with sales of tens of millions, and he is becoming more and more domineering president.

After all, Hillhouse Technology is already a powerful technology enterprise in Xicheng!

"Let's all work in a better direction." Ning Yuan said with a smile.

Now Hillhouse Technology is like a high-speed train, the inertia is very huge, but if there is any setback in the previous section, it is very easy to hang up.

Now the new upgraded MP3 project, M2-MP3, is actually a more risky thing.

Sales in the next four months are only less than 15 million.

And the profits accumulated in front of him are still a few million.

Now Hillhouse Technology has more than 100 employees, and in the next month, there will be more than 160 employees.

Now Hillhouse Technology, although the cash flow is still relatively abundant, but after 4 months, if the new product is launched, the sales are not good.

It's really easy to gack off.

"Hillhouse Technology, in my hands, advance and retreat freely, you don't have to worry." After speaking, Gao Huaijun lightly flicked the ash of the cigar in his hand into the ashtray, and put it in the hand of Shang Yayan, who was a little surprised on the side.

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Immediately after, Hillhouse is running at high speed!

For the rest of the year.

Gao Huaijun considered that this is a product with relatively high technical content, and he asked Min Weiguo to list the large and small parts, including software and hardware, into a table according to the priority order of research and development, and arrange the order of research and development according to the three-level nodes.

Some important difficulties should be made first.

In this way, there is a fault-tolerant time before the switchboard test, and the relevant parts are connected in an orderly manner.

After all, even he felt that there were less than 4 months to reach the mass production node, and he was really nervous.

But in any case, Gao Huaijun hopes that there will be no problem of extended development time.

After all, the foundation of Hillhouse Technology is still too thin, and if there is a problem with research and development, it is very likely that the military will quickly become unstable and finished.

In addition, he also asked Min Weiguo and Ning Yuan to cooperate across departments, and listed a complete procurement list, and some of the ones that need to be customized are listed at the time point that needs to be customized, so that Min Weiguo can conduct research and development in advance.

The current M2Compared to M1, although it is just one more screen, but the complexity is much more, if the cooperation is not good, the mass product can't come out, then it will be embarrassing.

First of all, there is a partial renovation of the Hillhouse factory, and Gao Huaijun is ready to outsource all the electric fan business to OEMs for production.

At present, the internal space of the Hillhouse factory is limited, and there is no need to waste space for these low-value products.

Although these two small products are not large, they can also contribute some profits.

The second is the production and manufacturing of core electronic components such as motherboards, display screens, lithium batteries, buttons, single-chip microcomputers, etc., which require the selection of suitable parts and components.

Now is the era of large-scale production, and Huaguo is a big manufacturing country.

If you don't use so many parts and components and produce them all by yourself, wouldn't that be brain-pumping?

And now the cost of M2 is higher than that of M1, Gao Huaijun still wants to control the quality.

Finally, the most important thing is that the built-in software function settings of this M2-MP3 are now available for images, video functions and recorder functions, all of which are new, and how to perfectly integrate these two into this machine is the biggest problem!

This is also the core reason for recruiting more than 100 people.

I can't do this without money.

Gao Huaijun can only provide a direction.

In a blink of an eye, more than a month has passed, and Min Weiguo has roughly developed the configuration of more than 10 core components inside.

Gao Huaijun looked at the semi-finished product he developed, frowned, and said, "... ”