Reinventing the Millennium.

Since arriving in the United States, Fang Zhuo has been diligently serving as the head of Yike's logistics. He wants to strengthen the company's deep-level competitiveness in advance,
When the Hummingbird team moved from the sub-level Silicon Valley to the real Silicon Valley, Fang Zhuo was completely relieved and at the same time reminded himself that the acquisition of Intrinsity was not a peace of mind. It would take at least three or four years for a chip to be equipped in the flagship phones of Apple and Samsung. polished.

This polishing process still requires great effort.

IC design is not easy. Morningstar Semiconductor's repeated tape-out failures are the best example, and the progress of the chip that MediaTek's head Cai Mingjie said before has also temporarily disappeared.

But Fang Zhuo was very patient.

The ice core is pulled, not to mention, Yike and Qualcomm can predictably maintain a friendship for quite a while.

On the morning of November [-]th, Fang Zhuo attended a meeting of Yike's chip design department at the Silicon Valley R&D Center.

So far, the number of employees in the chip design department is 50. Among them, 17 disabled generals have been recruited from Intel, and the acquired Intrinsity has a complete team of 22 people, and 11 people are recruited through normal channels. Talent with senior background.

Fang Zhuo simply compared the number of people. After Apple acquired PA Semi, there were about 180 people, while Samsung has dominated the world with its own semiconductors for many years. The number of IC design teams must be far more than 200.

Just looking at it this way, it is still relatively weak.

However, after observing the progress of the meeting, everyone has no objection to the project jointly developed by Intrinsity and Samsung, and agrees with the idea based on the Cortex-A8 core. The department structure based on the Hummingbird team has basically been established, which makes Fang Zhuo very happy. gratified.

Fang Zhuo now understands some basic semiconductor knowledge, but it is still not enough to see in front of this group of people. As the meeting progresses, he basically cannot understand the content, but he has a very intuitive feeling.

They feel that the Cortex-A8-based architecture is a very trendy thing, and they also enthusiastically discussed the 10th ARM Developers Conference just held in Santa Clara, California in October.

The conference released a new Cortex-A9 processor, which will support dual-core architecture.

In Fang Zhuo’s view, the most useful information he can get is that the A8 generally matches the 65nm process of the fab, and the future A9 will follow the improvement of the manufacturing process, just go up to another level, and use the 40nm process.

Process technology → core chip → mobile phone performance.

From the inside out, from the basics to the finished product.

Fang Zhuo thought about such a route, and he felt that he had worked hard for ten years off stage after one minute on stage.

In the afternoon, he attended another domestic e-commerce meeting in the office.

When the meeting was over and it was approaching evening, Fang Zhuo took a small nap while waiting for the king of the United States to come to inspect the work.

At 05:30, Yu Hong arrived at the R&D center, walked into Mr. Fang's office, and found the sleepy boss.

"Just woke up? Are you tired from running back and forth recently?"

Fang Zhuo rubbed his eyebrows, pointed to the coffee, and signaled the American king to make himself a cup, while he woke up first.

A few minutes later, Fang Zhuo, who was completely awake, said, "I'm really tired. I have been busy with two acquisitions, and at least I won one."

"From last year to now, we have acquired three companies, sensors, power supplies, and IC design." Yu Hong said about the situation, "Especially this time, we spent 1.8 million U.S. dollars in just a few days, which is nearly 14 billion domestically. Spend it out, it’s a big deal.”

"If you earn a lot and spend a lot, it will be valuable if you are medium-sized." Fang Zhuo took the coffee and got up to go to the meeting room. This was another meeting related to mobile phone operators.

"Wait." Yu Hong stopped the boss, "I received a call from Weiwei when I was on the road, and she asked you to do another inspection here, what's the matter?"

"She's just worried. There was a small problem in the physical examination before. The gastric ulcer disappeared and there was a nodule in the thyroid gland. The domestic hospital ordered regular follow-up examinations. She insisted that I check again after I arrived in the United States." Fang Zhuo said calmly.

Yu Hong frowned: "You have been in the United States for a month, why don't you check it? Don't shy away from medical treatment."

Fang Zhuo saw that she was still blocking the way, so he had to explain a little bit more clearly: "Nodules, graded, mine is the mildest 4a, that is, the risk of malignancy is 5-10%, there is no problem, take a step back, even if there is a problem, Thyroid cancer has a cure rate of over 90%.”

"Haven't you heard that if you have to get cancer in your life, it's better to be thyroid, so don't worry too much, just follow the doctor's advice."

Yu Hong said with a blank face: "Then listen to Weiwei, you can go to Xida or Langone to check again when you have time."

"OK, OK, let's go back to New York." Seeing her get out of the way, Fang Zhuo said as he walked, "Don't worry when you hear about illness, let's use probability as an example, if there are 90% successful product projects in front of you, will you do it or not? "

"It's all the same thing."

"President Yu, think about it, will you focus on 10% of the risks and not concentrate on managing the 90% of success?"

Fang Zhuo walked into the meeting room and put the coffee cup on the table.

"Two different things." Yu Hong said lightly, "There is so much nonsense, you can do what Weiwei says, don't tell me these things."

Fang Zhuo smiled, clinked glasses in the air, and said: "Okay, then, our inventory work before the mobile phone release is about to begin, and you will start first, making final preparations for December."

Yu Hong took the document from the secretary, and signaled to hand over a copy to President Fang, and then silently organized the wording for the meeting in her heart.

There are still 21 days until December. It can be said that the release of mobile phones is just around the corner.

……

Yike mobile phones have been pre-sold abroad since October.

However, until November, the pre-sale data was not announced, and even Yike Company declined media interviews.

The only relevant incident that was reported again was that Yike Company won two key positions in the advertising bidding of CCTV Spring Festival Gala, ending Midea's four consecutive years of zero-point blessings.

This thing seems somewhat strange.

The pre-sale data is not announced, there is no plan for the domestic market, and the relevant mobile phones cannot be obtained.

However, there is also a source from China Unicom's top executives. Yike's goal is to recreate a Lenovo mobile phone with the largest market share in China.

How to make it?How to make it?
It looks like the answer will only be revealed in December.

However, as Double Eleven of e-buy came to an end again, many media reporters were looking forward to interviewing Mr. Fang and asking about the situation of the mobile phone at the Internet conference held on November 11th.

Unfortunately, Mr. Fang was absent from the meeting held in Pengcheng this year.

Some people said that it was Mr. Fang who had a bad relationship with Penguin because of social media, so he simply didn't come over.

Some people also said that e-buy tentatively launched a lot of cosmetics categories on Double Eleven, which touched Taobao's nerves, and Mr. Fang simply didn't come over.

With the capture of a photo of the meeting scene, the impromptu discussion heated up a bit.

——Li Guoqing on the stage was full of spirits, talking about Dangdang's efforts in B2C.

——The groom under the stage smiled and listened to the whispers of the people next to him, while Ma Huateng, who was separated by an empty seat, seemed not to focus on the stage. He frowned, his eyes fell on the empty seat, and his face was thoughtful.

The troublemaker announced that this vacant seat was reserved for Mr. Fang. Although he was not there, he still held his good friend's heart.

Where did Mr. Fang go?

As Yike's official website quietly announced that the mobile phone release time will be advanced, December 12th, 10:3 pm.

A real answer was placed in front of everyone.