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Chapter 144 Cool and Interesting Burning Money
In the afternoon, the rain started again.

Wen Liang was driving a Ferrari on the road, the roar of the engine was gradually covered by the sound of rain.

Li Ze and the others also drove away from the school.

Although Chen Jiaxin had taken a driver's shift under the administrative department, Li Ze and the others still drove by themselves on this occasion.

Originally, Wen Liang just wanted to listen to Zhang Yulin boasting after the meal.

I didn't expect to talk so much in one breath.

Things that seemed to take a lot of time are starting to fall into place.

Qin Zheng gave the time point. It is estimated that from RISC-V to self-development in 3 months, it will take about the same time as RISC-V from zero to initial formation, and then it will take about one year to one and a half years to produce the finished product.

张郁林也给了大概时间点，预计从LFS项目这个1到2只需要两个月，再从2到0到1到2总计需要的时间大概是半年左右。

Because now the two months of research from 1 to 2 will not be wasted, and can be used for how to embed the new system kernel in the mobile terminal.

That is to say, the first version of a completely independent commercial mobile phone system can be officially implemented by the end of the year at the earliest.

The Ferrari was driving slowly in the rain, the wipers automatically wiped the front window of the car, listening to the sound of the rain slapping on the car body, Wen Liang felt quite comfortable: "There really is no better time than now!"

"There is really no better choice than putting basic research in a university!"

"Lao Zhang and Xiao Qin are really awesome!"

"Have an entry point, struggle slowly, not in a hurry."

"..."

Wen Liang talked to himself for a while.

I feel more and more happy.

Although the current progress is really going to be implemented, it needs quite a lot of specific detailed planning and improvement, but I finally see a little hope.

Neither Zhang Yulin nor Qin Zheng disappointed Wen Liang.

And now we are reinventing the wheel, not only standing on the shoulders of giants, but also standing on the wave of the times.

As early as New Year's Day, the company's new business planned by Wen Liang was actually smartphones.

Further intervene in the mobile Internet from the level of consumer electronics, and make contributions in this field that is easily perceived by users while eating meat on the table.

In terms of Wen Liang's past life experience, there is indeed no better time than the present.

Let me talk about the high-end chip design that Wen Liang entrusted to Qin Zheng to participate in.

在2010年甚至更早之前，菊厂也有过自研的想法，只是海思K3平台发展成了现在还没出来的K3V2，而K3V2基于ARM授权。

The same is true for K3V2's follow-up Kirin series.

With a premonition that the domestic smartphone market is surging, it is a normal choice for Chrysanthemum to abandon the independent ecological research and development path similar to Apple out of commercial considerations.

As the old saying goes, any developed company cannot avoid considering the feasibility of commercialization.

This is also the reason why Wen Liang must put these basic research projects in the school laboratory for research, that is, to isolate commercial feasibility considerations from the research point of view.

How to implement commercialization in the future, Wen Liang is capable of laying out the layout.

The current choice of Juchang is because it cannot see the specific development in the future.

From Wen Liang's point of view, 2012 is still a time to make self-controllable chips and complete the commercial ecology at a very small cost.

Because the 4G standard has just been released, the 4G license has not yet come.

The real explosion of demand in the domestic smartphone market began in 2015, when 4G was commercialized on a large scale.

Let's talk about the mobile phone system research and development direction that Zhang Yulin will participate in.

2012 is an interesting era.

Not to mention iOS closed source.

Microsoft, Nokia are still struggling;

Android is really bad. The version that is really not stuck and easy to use is Android 4.4, and Android 4.4 was released in November 2013.

According to some news that Wen Liang saw in his previous life, Lei Jun talked about that Xiaomi first chose to make Android UI because the operating system was very complicated, so he found an open source system and worked on the basis of the open source system.

In fact, developing a usable operating system is really complicated, but the most complicated thing is how to build an ecosystem.

In other words, it can be considered that Lei Jun’s start-up Xiaomi also chose the open source and ecological Android for secondary development and MIUI because of commercial feasibility considerations.

The mobile phone business of Juchang and the mobile phone business of Xiaomi basically represent the two directions of domestic mobile phones.

The difference is:

As time goes by, the Kirin series chips made by Juchang based on ARM authorization are very good;
And because of the unfriendly environment, the Hongmeng system was deeply developed based on AOSP (Android Open Source Project);

However, a relatively complete business ecosystem has not yet been formed by 2022, and that is ten years after 2012.

As for Xiaomi, it is widely believed that it has forgotten its original intention.

The same point is:

In 2012 or even earlier, the two companies, out of commercial feasibility considerations, both partially or completely gave up the independent self-research path that was more expensive and difficult to implement.

however!
Looking back from 2022, taking Juchang as an example, the choices they gave up now and earlier still need to be made up at a greater cost.

Therefore, after Wen Liang had plans for the smartphone project, he was very determined to develop independently.

Anyway, no matter how it develops, the rise of our country will inevitably usher in comprehensive sanctions from the West. After all, we must make up lessons in the field of basic research. Only what is in our hands is really our own.

Having a father and a mother is not as good as having one yourself.

Moreover, Bolang's Internet business is gradually developing and taking shape, and its revenue is increasing, so burning money is not burning!

Wouldn't it be cool to do something interesting?

…………

Back at the company, Wen Liang started to draft the "Draft Outline of Smart Game Phone Business Planning".

According to the public information on the Internet, and sorting out the content with relevant ideas, Wen Liang's thoughts flashed: "It seems that burning money is relative to Bolang."

"Like the part of chip design, the labor cost under normal circumstances has been saved a lot."

Wen Liang noticed the doorway in chip design in the public information.

Under normal circumstances, the smallest front-end design requires a total of 3 architects at the system level, micro-architecture level, and performance level, 5 logic chip design engineers, and a minimum of 5 design verification engineers. Normally, 1 design and 2 verifications;

Back-end work also needs: testability design engineer, physical implementation engineer, etc.

Even need: compiler software engineer, chip algorithm engineer.

Although compiler software engineers and chip algorithm engineers are not needed in the current environment, although back-end work can be outsourced to chip design service companies;
但光是最小规模的前端设计工程师的13人团队，在2012年一年人工成本大概是：150×3＋50×5＋60×5＝1000万。

Wen Liang calculated silently for half a second, then blinked his eyes: "Putting the basics in school, save 1000 million a year in disguise?"

"Xiao Qinniu, you can hit it off with Academician Cao and the others. I'll look for it... oh well, the staffing of the front-end design of the laboratory is 9+20+40?"

"This, this, this... the actual labor cost is 4750 million yuan a year? Hasn't the market cost of Academician Cao's level been included?"

"Also, can the engineers needed for the back-end work be found in Huagong or the sister schools?"

"Cattle!"

Whispering, Wen Liang sighed: "Our student status is so fragrant!"

Among other things, at least in 2012, because of this arrangement, Bolang saved 4750 million in labor costs.

Soon Wen Liang became concerned: "White prostitution can't last long, and we have to make some arrangements at the end of June."

In short, according to this form, for Bolang to design and tape out a chip, the part that really needs to burn money is:
1. For certain patent authorizations that cannot be circumvented and cannot be self-developed, such as WiFi, it will cost several million to start.

2. The eda software license fee starts at a few million a year. It does not rule out that Huagong has a license in the first place. After all, the Faculty of Science includes the optoelectronic part.

3. Tape-out, including the mask plate and tape-out process, with the current process, it is relatively friendly, and tens of thousands are enough, but it is a single fee.

After sorting out this part clearly, Wen Liang also admired himself for being able to use his student status to such an extent.

"It can't be seen that the Chinese workers didn't do anything on the surface. This is really taking care of us quietly!"

……

While sorting out the draft planning outline, an email came in from Zhang Yulin.

After reading it, Wen Liang couldn't help laughing: "Old Zhang and the others feel like they've gone out of the gate when they go back to school. This passion is too much, and the ability is also very strong!"

This email is the collation of relevant materials about the direction of system development that Zhang Yulin mentioned before.

Concisely expounded the planning of their laboratory, more detailed time cycle arrangement and possible research and development funding support.

It is different from Zhang Yulin's previous application for funding to develop an app store.

That time, I found alumni and paid for development.

The research and development funding support required this time has little to do with development remuneration, mainly because it may involve certain general patent authorizations.

Obviously, the laboratory doesn't have much development compensation, and it also includes some care for Bolang led by Huagong.

Wen Liang pondered for a while: "According to the summary of the data, the system will be relatively mature by the end of this year. Maybe we can launch a gaming phone first to test the waters, instead of waiting for the self-developed chip next year or two?"

After thinking about it, Wen Liang made some adjustments to the draft plan.

……

When it comes to this gaming phone, it was really Wen Liang's decision at noon when he was combing his thoughts at the dinner table.

The basis is that Wen Liang knew that the mobile game business would blow out on a large scale in the future, and he let the company develop the mobile game business first.

According to some market reports known in previous lives, a large proportion of demand for smartphones is for playing games.

For example, in the 2020s, one of the promotional links that will definitely not be missing at mobile phone conferences is: game experience!

Based on this, Wen Liang believes that starting from the game experience and organically combining with the mobile game business, there is a high probability that more interesting sparks will be collided.

It can now be clearly seen that Wen Liang deliberately held a retreat with a grand narrative background on New Year's Day, and it can really be said that he has a long-term vision.

This is not only to know the development situation, but also to have a good control over the company's development situation.

Over the past three months of development, Bolang has changed its face and is no longer the small company it was before.

Xiaochengshu has entered the communication social market from the public social platform.

As for self-operated revenue, based on the existing user scale of Xiaochengshu, it can easily reach 5000 million/month.

The mobile game business is also booming. In addition to the leisure mobile game hall, it has already operated three popular mobile games, and has also invested in a mobile game company.

It's only been a month since the official operation of the mobile game business, and the running water is already roaring!

In addition, the situation Bolang is facing now seems complicated.

In fact, the actual economic benefits of the company's Internet business have not yet been related to communication and social networking.

After all, this is the situation directly caused by Wen Liang deliberately controlling Bolang to take the initiative in all aspects, forcing the goose factory to counterattack across the board, and then shifting the core competition conflicts.

The current situation in the social field is very simple. Neither WeChat nor Xiaochengshu can do anything to anyone, and they can't even make the situation clear in a short period of time...

Based on the game mobile phone business plan that has already been drafted, in one sentence:

With Wen Liang at the helm, Bo Lang has done more in paving the way than the outside world can actually perceive!
After taking some time to form a preliminary draft, Wen Liang picked up his teacup and drank two sips of water, in a leisurely trance.
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