Reaching for the stars with one hand

Chapter 188 The Battle of Words
"Since there is no problem with Hertz's single-frequency chip, it's just that the algorithm is not good enough, and at the same time, the dual-frequency chip is not considered enough. Then why don't we use two single-frequency chips instead of one dual-frequency chip?"

"This," a flash of lightning flashed in the madman's mind, "we have never considered this path in all our research and development. Don't open your mouth, I have to think about it."

After a few minutes, the angry madman who calmed down said: "Of course it is feasible. Two single-frequency chips Die are packaged into a dual-frequency chip, and the cost will be much lower. But there is always a problem without dual-frequency chips. We cannot provide Chip-level services, in this case, others will simply think that our technology is not as good as these two. If you still talk about the German bet, you may still not win.”

Zhang Yong smiled, "Brother, from today onwards, let's stop talking about that bet. It's really meaningless, let's think about it from the perspective of doing things. I don't think doing so will make others look down on us. ..."

"You can continue to develop dual-frequency chips. That may take longer. You can do it slowly. You know how high the cost of an MPW tape-out is. If you always spend money and don't make money, I'm afraid After a long time, Zhonghe couldn't hold it anymore..."

"But the industrial chain of Zhonghe is different from that of the Big Dipper Compass. They are both specialized board and chip manufacturers, while Zhonghe is engaged in the entire industrial chain...."

"So, except chip-level services cannot be provided temporarily. We can solve other problems. As long as your board is usable and easy to use, then why do users care whether you have one main chip or two. In this way, the board can be completed as soon as possible, And Zhonghe’s full series of receivers can be upgraded to new dual-frequency boards. I believe that Mr. Gao will be satisfied. …”

"From my point of view, as long as you have completed the Die packaging of the chip, I don't want to use the board. Since Hertz's underlying capabilities are very good, we will improve its algorithm. I will give up the board and directly use the chip to carry Zhongxun's RTK products. Originally, what Zhongxun wanted was mobile Internet-type RTK products. The lighter and simpler the better. And users, who will open the device to see how many chips are used in it. Even if they really open it, they should I don't care either...”

"In this case, except for dual-frequency chips, we can't provide them. In fact, it's not impossible at all. Some users of packaged dual-chips may also accept them. Others, boards, receivers, we can do it all. I think, this way If we do, our progress will be greatly improved. Do you think we can produce samples in one year?"

"One year," the furious madman's eyes lit up, this vision is too beautiful. "One year is difficult, but I think it's possible to produce samples in [-] months..."

"But you have a problem. It's a good idea to directly carry RTK equipment on the chip. Without Hertz's technical support, you can't handle it yourself."

"So I made an appointment with you today to discuss this matter. If you think this plan is feasible, we can try it. Then we will go to President Gao now and let him coordinate with Hertz."

Gao Ping received Zhang Yong's call and didn't say anything more, "Are you with the professor? Okay, let's come together, I just have time now."

Gao Ping couldn't blame Madman and Zhang Yong for their work, but his inner anxiety gradually became uncontrollable.

Zhonghe's acquisition of Hertz set off a storm in the domestic Beidou circle and earned enough popularity.But now, the dividends from the acquisition are almost used up, and the progress of boards and chips is not great.Of course, he made money from this acquisition, and today's precision agriculture and other businesses are very successful.Especially with the cooperation with Sanmu Group, Sanmu finally started to try some heavy industries made in China, which made SKydon completely out of the game.

But none of these successes was enough to make up for the slow progress on boards.After all, at the time of the acquisition, he once declared to the media that the acquisition would help Zhonghe develop its own Beidou boards and chips.

In today's situation, as long as a bad media says a few more negative words, it may affect the confidence of investors.

Zhang Yong and the angry maniac soon came to Gao Ping's office and explained their new ideas.

Gao Ping was a little happy, but obviously hesitant.

He looked at the madman, "Is it really possible?"

"It's feasible. At least, there will be no problems. It can speed up our progress and reduce the high cost of chip tapeout."

"I have been in business for many years, and I have never done opportunistic things. I always feel that you are lowering the standard. I don't know what will happen, but I always feel unsteady and feel that you are lowering the standard."

"No," Zhang Yong said: "You can understand it this way. We are taking a shortcut, but we are not speculating. We just chose a shortcut, but the goal remains the same. Since the main road is impassable, we climb mountains and take small roads, but We will never change or lower our goal. And on the big road, we have not given up, brothers and they will still open up step by step, hoping that one day it will be smooth. This is our original intention."

"Okay," Gao Ping no longer hesitated, his tone finally became firm, "What do I need to do?"

"Hertz needs to provide the underlying chip support, and the research and development of the two parties must work together. This requires you to coordinate."

"Okay, I'll coordinate now."

After Gao Ping finished speaking, he turned on the computer to send an email, but after thinking about it, he turned off the computer and picked up the phone.

But after dialing a few numbers, he thought about it again and hung up the phone.

"When are you in the United States?" He called his assistant and checked his timetable.

"Well, let's have an interview on this matter. I will fly over while you are still in the United States. I will take you to an interview with Anderson."

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The Haiyatt Hotel in Miami, USA, the ION (National Satellite Navigation Association) conference, the awards ceremony on the last day.

The chairman of the conference was announcing the awards, and Zhang Yong heard a familiar name, he had seen a madman walking beside this dean, obediently like a doll.

"... I have seen the rise of China's Beidou system. Here I solemnly announce that I will confer the title of XXION academician in recognition of his leadership and technical contributions in the development of China's Beidou satellite navigation system, as well as in advocating satellite navigation. Efforts in international cooperation..., we have please..."

Tai Dou was not present, but a professor from Tsinghua University accepted the award for him and delivered a thank you speech on his behalf.

"Thank you to every colleague who has been with me on the road of promoting the development of Beidou and GNSS international cooperation. This award is not only my personal award, but also the honor of the entire Beidou team. My team and I will continue to work hard to further improve The performance of Beidou, strengthen GNSS international exchanges and cooperation..."

"Why are scholars so low-key these days? You don't even come to participate when you win awards. And you Academician Zhu, you have been given the limelight so many times. If you won the award, I guess I can't let you come. Right? , brother."

Zhang Yong was happy to applaud along with the crowd, but quietly mocked the maddened man beside him.

The madman dismissed Zhang Yong's provocation, "I'm going to reach this level, of course I'm as low-key as the teachers. I haven't achieved anything yet, so if I win an award, of course I will make it public. Please give me a domestic evaluation first. Academician, I will naturally not take the academician of Mr. Yang seriously."

Zhang Yong said: "If I can judge academicians for you, I must be more low-key than you."

The two snickered for a while, and Zhang Yong sighed sincerely, "I still remember when we talked about Beidou at the barbecue stall. I think it will take at least 50 years for our system to be established. How could it be so fast, and now there are already The Chinese have won awards in the field of international satellite navigation, and I apologize to you for my superficiality."

"Well, knowing my superficiality is still helpful. Apology is unnecessary, let's discount it."

"Discount? Brother, if your dual-band board doesn't come out, I will go bankrupt. I always suspect that Liu Yining will take me to court and get back all the money he paid me before."

"I really don't believe he would do this. When he goes to court, everyone will question Zhongxun's professional ability. Let's go out."

There were no more Chinese awards, and the madman dragged Zhang Yong out of the seat with his head bowed, and came to the corridor outside.

"Recently, besides the academician, there is also a Chinese entrepreneur who has become even more popular. Guess who it is?"

"Old Gao, who else can there be?"

"No, no. Lao Gao's acquisition of Hertz only appeared in the news of the GNSS world, and this boss directly occupied the cover of the GNSS world. I think this must be the first Chinese in history. cover."

"Who is it?" Zhang Yong's curiosity was aroused.

The madman smiled and took out a magazine from his computer bag and threw it to Zhang Yong.

Zhang Yong took it, and on the cover, a man in a suit and leather shoes, but with an honest face, looked at him with a smile, and his smile was also honest.

"Master Zhao! Wow, Master Zhao is so handsome, why didn't I notice it before."

"The most handsome part of a man is always making contributions. If you want to be on this cover, countless people will say you are handsome."

Zhang Yong quickly flipped through the profile of the cover character inside, and nodded, "Master Zhao is really worthy of this. At the beginning, he and Mr. Peng had too much disagreement, quarreled many times, and finally separated. It is not a question of who is right and who is wrong , but both of them knew exactly what they wanted.  …”

"Mr. Peng wants to develop his own board and make a Chinese chip. Mr. Zhao positions himself as a manufacturer of domestic GNSS receivers. He also wants to make boards, but that is not the purpose, but the means. With The board can reduce the cost and make your own receiver..."

"Today, Mr. Peng and the others are still working hard for board chips, but Mr. Zhao is going smoothly. He became the second high-precision company listed on the market after Shangda. He has made the products to the extreme and the quality control to the extreme. , and achieved the ultimate in sales. Especially overseas sales, he hired Xiao Sewa,... Oh, it was my boss when I was in Mag, as the international sales director, GNSS overseas sales have surpassed Dongfang Company, and even won the The reference station project in France. In my opinion, Huatai is concentrating on the receiver, no matter who its board is, it must be the best, brother, let me test you..."

"Yo, I'm a little nervous to test me." The angry madman had a frivolous demeanor of indifference.

"If the base of a high-rise building needs to be positioned, but the antenna is attached to the stairs, the signal will be blocked, and the five stars cannot be received, and RTK positioning cannot be performed. How do you deal with it?"

"Add a range finder to the RTK handbook to measure the distance of the wall. If you know the azimuth, you can use the offset to calculate it. Or measure two points in an open position in front of the building, and after the distance measurement, do the front intersection.  … ..."

"That's right, the scholars of M University are really clever. It's a pity that these methods are no longer used. If you use Huatai's RTK, you only need to point the bottom of the mobile rod to the corner, extend the antenna, and extend it to a position with a signal to locate it. The centering and leveling we learned in school is now obsolete, and it is no longer used.”

"Is that so?" The angry scholar, who was obviously not familiar with the instrument itself, widened his eyes, "What is the principle?"

"Inertial navigation, attitude determination."

The angry madman nodded, "Excellent. I like this design. It's not like the gimmicks of some products. This is a design that can really help users solve pain points. Just for this, Lao Zhao should be on the cover .”

"Today's Chinese manufacturing has become the most mainstream product in the world. We are just short of the last step, a Chinese chip. And we have already taken this step, but it has not yet landed."

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The two looked out the window and chatted, and two white men who attended the meeting came behind them.

The two were also chatting while walking. When they passed by Zhang Yong and the others, they should have seen their black hair and knew that they were two Chinese.

One person suddenly raised his tone, "I really don't understand why the ION chairman is simply crazy to award that Chinese academician title. Don't talk about the political reasons behind Beidou, as far as the system itself is concerned, it actually affects our GPS signal Caused a lot of damage. And gave them an award, OMG, I think the Chinese government should pay us."

Not only did the two speak to Zhang Yong on purpose, they even stopped in their tracks, clearly provocative.

"Brother, this is a deliberate provocation, how should I deal with it. If I do it, I'm fine. It seems inappropriate for you, a professor, to fight with others."

The maniac sighed, "I've held this kind of meeting abroad for a long time, and I know that although most people are friendly, I always meet some of them. Their deep-rooted prejudice against China is hard to get rid of so quickly. Don't worry about it. They are gone, let them go. The academicians have already won awards, and they have lived their mouths."

Zhang Yong nodded, he didn't want to cause trouble either.

"Hey, Mike, this is not an international conference, why are there some people who don't speak English. If they can't speak it, they still think their country's weird language sounds better."

"Maybe there are two reasons, haha." The two laughed together, and then prepared to walk away.

"Sorry," someone behind them stopped them.

The two smiled disdainfully and turned around. Facing the two Chinese who did not seem to be angry, they asked in a pretentious manner, "What's the matter, gentlemen, do you need help?"

Zhang Yong replied politely, "Yes, if you are willing to help, I will be very happy. Sorry, I seem to have heard something impolite about racial discrimination just now. I would like to ask you to explain it."

When the two heard the word "racial discrimination", their faces changed. They didn't expect that this Chinese person caught their vitals right away.

"No, it won't. This is an international conference, and there won't be any racist remarks here. Right, Mike?"

"Yes, absolutely not." The two immediately denied it.

"Oh, so we heard the talk about China, what's that?"

Seeing that the other party no longer pursued the matter of racial discrimination, the other party was relieved.

"My name is Thompson, and I am from the US military. I don't agree with some of ION's practices. I think that the Beidou signal has damaged the GNSS satellite system and caused more interference to GPS. So I think China should compensate us. Sorry, I don’t have any prejudice against China, I’m just talking about it from a technical point of view. If you have different opinions, discuss it from a technical point of view, okay? I haven’t asked your names yet.”

(End of this chapter)