i have an electronics factory

Chapter 200 The First Laptop

The original 5.98 car, upgrade a battery pack, and sell it directly to 7+. There is also Polestar X at the same price, with more space and longer battery life...

Of course, Chen Zifan also knows that many people like the exterior design of the Xinghan mini. Polestar X always feels that it is not so distinctive, and the brand power of the Polestar car brand is obviously not as good as that of Xinghan Zhixing.

Although he often said that the brand is not important, it is only because Xinghan Zhixing is a new brand. BMW and Mercedes-Benz are expensive, and the brand occupies a large factor. These things are also valuable.

It can really be put into the price.

There is also a long-life version of the Xinghan mini. The Xinghan mini driven by Chen Zifan is a version modified with a super-large battery. The theoretical cruising range can exceed 400km, but it is definitely not suitable for mass production.

The mass-produced long-endurance version has to be more or less comprehensive, and the driving experience cannot be sacrificed for the sake of endurance, unless it is like Chen Zifan who does not have any requirements for driving quality. After all, he also drove the previous Dandan car very well. Just a little less entertaining.

And the people who ride in other cars will be very painful.

In fact, no matter what kind of car (family car), the driver must be more comfortable than the driver. Some cars have very loud wind noise, tire noise, and engine noise, which is simply a torture to the rear passengers.

Fortunately, Xinghan mini has done a very good job in these aspects, and because it is a tram, there is less engine noise. Except for the high speed limit, it can’t run more than 120, and there are basically no problems.

Most of the people who drive the Xinghan mini are mainly for transportation, they will not pursue too strong performance, and they will not think about overtaking a car on the highway...

The reason for the need for a long battery life version is that many areas are too far away from the urban area, such as a certain town. If you want to go to the city, the distance is only 200 kilometers, and you dare not drive around in the city...

In this case, long battery life is necessary, but one of the reasons for this demand is that there are not enough charging piles and charging stations. In more than 600 cities in China, less than half of them currently have charging stations.

So there is still a long way to go...

Li Yuan believes that the battery life limits the sales of Xinghan mini to a certain extent. If a long battery life version can be launched, the sales of Xinghan mini can increase by at least 10%, but the issue of selling price is more critical.

The current cost of sodium-lithium batteries is theoretically lower than that of pure lithium batteries. In fact, there is not much difference between the two. The cost of upgrading the Xinghan mini’s 20kWh battery pack to 30kWh will increase by about 5500 yuan.

Added to the price of 5.98 yuan (fast charging version) of the Xinghan mini, the selling price is about 6.98 yuan. If other manufacturers follow the routine, the 315 battery life version will definitely sell for more than 7 yuan.

But Chen Zifan thinks it’s not necessary. Xinghan mini also has an important role in opening up the new energy vehicle market. Selling it so expensive at every turn will affect sales, and it’s not cheap now. It takes a little courage to spend tens of thousands of dollars to buy a tram the ~
After a simple calculation, Chen Zifan replied to Li Yuan, allowing him to prepare the long battery life version of Xinghan mini, while other configurations remained unchanged.

At the same time, the market research on the Xinghan 001 personality options is almost enough. First, a few appearance options are tested to see the market feedback.

Chen Zifan also told Li Yuan by the way: "In the future, you can just watch this kind of thing by yourself. You don't need to inform me every day. You are also very clear about Xinghan Zhixing's development philosophy and plan. There is no need to do this every time."

In fact, he couldn't care less, and since Xinghan Zhixing was handed over to Li Yuan to manage, it was somewhat unreasonable not to let him make any decisions.

He also believed that Li Yuan would not mess around casually. For example, this time, Li Yuan must have known that he would agree to make a long-life version of Xinghan mini, so he brought up this matter. If he was not sure, Li Yuan would not mention it.

With Chen Zifan's words, Li Yuan felt relieved, first arranged for the Xinghan mini long battery life version, then held a meeting to vote, and selected several personalized appearance parts for Xinghan 001 to be released.

In the end, he also changed the name of all Xinghan Zhixing's electric motorcycle direct sales stores to Xinghan MOTO. By the way, he also carried out a wave of personnel transfers. After three tricks, Xinghan Zhixing immediately became a new look, especially for electric motorcycles. He is also planning to build A new electric motorcycle factory.

In order to prepare for the next few new products, he also knows that the outside world is very controversial about Xinghan Zhixing's expansion of electric motorcycle business, which is bigger than new energy vehicles.

There's no way...

It is also thanks to the overall atmosphere of this year that it is not bad. If it is 2022, whether it is film and television works or real life, or whether it is fuel motorcycles or electric motorcycles, the negative images will be greater than the positive ones.

The scenes of motorcycles in film and television works are mostly illegal, gangsters, urban drag racing, modification... Not to mention in reality, some Internet celebrities without driver's licenses and safety awareness take off at every turn.

Every now and then, you have to add two.

No wonder it's so good.

It's just a means of transportation, isn't it good to ride honestly?Does it have to become a controversial topic?
Fortunately, there are still many normal people in reality, and Chen Zifan is aware of these problems, so he is preparing corresponding solutions in advance, but not all places are Haicheng, and not everyone has to take a driver's license test.

What he can do is to help Haicheng increase its influence as much as possible, and then affect more cities, and popularize the awareness of safe driving. Not only electric motorcycles, driving requires a stronger awareness of safety.

After the work of Xinghan Zhixing was handed over to Li Yuan, Chen Zifan could also concentrate more on the work of Stardust Technology. Building buildings is one aspect. Now everyone seems to be saying that he likes building buildings, which makes him very speechless:

"Others like yachts, manors, and airplanes. I just build a few buildings. Who doesn't have any hobbies?"

In the past, there were no conditions, but now that there are money, people, and blueprints, infrastructure construction cannot be carried out?
And another job is to continue to prepare new products. The Stardust 4 series has been arranged, and the Stardust-Yao Soul is also in preparation. The technology of air charging is being tested every day, and it will be ready for mass production soon.

The only difficulty lies in how to make the charger smaller. Due to the complicated internal structure of current air chargers and the need to ensure stable transmission and temperature, the volume is naturally impossible to be too small.

But in this way, the ordinary plug-in board would be fully occupied by plugging in a charger. The project leader provided Chen Zifan with two suggestions: 1. Reduce the charging range, thereby reducing the size. 2. Make a special plug-in board.

Designed for air chargers!

Free up a socket for it to use, and usually just throw it there like a router. The charging range is just a bedroom. When there is no power, you can lie down and manually choose whether to start charging.

It can also be set to start charging as soon as it enters the charging range. If the battery is fully charged, the phone will not give priority to using the battery power, but will first use the power released by the air charger.

Will it be recharged from the battery when playing?

This is certainly not the case, the maximum charging power of air charging can reach 20W, and the main heat source is concentrated on the power adapter, which has almost no effect on the mobile phone, and the power of the whole machine of Stardust-Yao Soul is only in the early 10W, with 20W is more than enough.

10W also refers to 10W in the limit state, and 5W is basically enough for daily use.

It’s no problem to charge and play at the same time!

As for reducing the range... that's definitely not possible. Trying to optimize the structure of the power adapter can't reduce the charging range, which will have a great impact on the experience.

Just continue to let the structural designer optimize it. If there is no other way, the larger the volume, the larger it will be. Chen Zifan will not think that consumers who can spend [-] on Stardust-Yao Soul will be so harsh on the size.

After all, it is a new charging method!

What happened to the big one?
This is stability!

There is also a special project team responsible for the AR glasses. The current progress is not bad. The main reason is that the first-generation version has few functions. If a "big screen" is added to the AR glasses, the workload will be borne by them.

I don't know how long it will take just to debug.

Whether it can be released in June next year is still unknown, but if it is replaced with other new products with a complete supply chain, the development progress will be very fast.

In the last high-level meeting, many high-level executives had already proposed the idea of ​​entering the PC side, but they started with Nvidia and AMD. It is obviously unrealistic to seize the mainframe and graphics card market. Notebook computers are relatively safe and easier to achieve.

But Stardust Technology already has a tablet computer!

It is not possible to build a laptop with a Windows system, and it is impossible to use Windows, and all use the Stardust OS, so what is the difference between it and a tablet computer?How to make the product different is the difficulty.

Stardust Technology’s current tablet PCs are all 10.8 inches in size, which can be regarded as a “golden size” of tablet PCs. In Chen Zifan’s memory, the best-selling tablet PCs, whether it is Apple or Android, are all 11 inches in size. Left and right, without exception.

It can print 12.6 inches on the top and 8.8 inches on the bottom, so although there are high calls for tablets of other sizes in the Stardust community, Chen Zifan has no idea of ​​​​new ones for the time being. In his opinion, 12.6 and 13.3 inches of tablets have come to an end. No matter how big it is, it doesn't fit.

Like a 14"+ tablet...

The cost and selling price are very high.

Ordinary people have no need for this.

Why so big?

As a workstation?Why not use a desktop?

Lenovo’s savior Y900 is a living example. A 14.5-inch tablet computer starts at 4999 yuan, and 12GB storage costs 5999 yuan. Chen Zifan feels that Lenovo has never thought of selling this product. Facts have proved that the sales volume is as expected. Very miserable.

The product positioning is not clear, it’s no wonder if it can be sold, 5000 can choose the mainstream 14-inch thin and light notebooks on the market, why buy an Android tablet?
Therefore, according to Chen Zifan’s idea, if you want to distinguish between Stardust Tablet and Stardust Notebook, you must first distinguish in size. The maximum size of Stardust Tablet is 12.6 inches, while the size of Stardust Notebook starts at 14 inches. Above~

And there will be two versions:

14 inches and 16 inches respectively.

The positioning is all thin and light (no independent display).

The next step is the important thing that truly distinguishes tablet computers from laptops: the CPU, the chip used in the Stardust Tablet is the same chip used in the Stardust phone, which is at best better than the performance release of the phone.

The CPU of a notebook computer is completely different, and it will be redesigned separately. The light volume is at least 4 times larger than that of a tablet computer. Needless to say, the performance of the whole machine is also very strong.

The performance release of the CPU alone can reach 55-60W, plus the core display (GPU) and other power consumption, the power consumption of the whole machine can reach 90-100W, which is nearly four times that of a tablet computer.

Of course, the above is only a theoretical state, and it needs to be tested in detail, and sometimes it is not a good thing to release too much performance. The heat dissipation may not be suppressed, which means that the noise will be relatively large.

Specific products need to be more balanced.

Even so, notebooks are much more powerful than tablets. With such a strong performance, it means that Stardust OS can do more "professional" things, and it is different from Stardust OS on mobile phones and tablets. Come on and become a real PC system.

But don't forget that Stardust OS analyzed windows as early as [Synthetic Creation], and joined it. Now that the conditions are met, it is completely possible to separate a team to specialize in PC-side systems.

This is the main difference between a tablet computer and a notebook. The rest is the difference in appearance design and shape. Chen Zifan will not play Apple's fanless design for the time being. An overheating protection has occurred.

But this does not mean that he will not pursue a quiet user experience. It is normal to use a fan at the beginning. When the heat dissipation technology develops further and the notebook CPU becomes more mature, he will naturally try a newer design.

As soon as he said it, Chen Zifan immediately got into the core area of ​​the Stardust Factory. He really prepared a lot of design drawings for thin and light notebooks. There are also many products that can be used for reference in his memory. , Asus Lingyao, Dell Lingyue, etc.

The more cost-effective is the Unbounded Mechanical Revolution. These products are cheap or expensive, but the one that best meets Chen Zifan’s expectations and the product positioning of Stardust Technology, as long as the LG gram is big enough!Light enough!

The face value is also high enough!

The appearance of LG gram style is much higher than the products of some first-line manufacturers, but the price is a bit more expensive, and it is a product that is slanted.

Even if Chen Zifan doesn't like LG as a patent hooligan, he has to admit that they do have a hand in products. In comparison, Lenovo Xiaoxin's design is a bit standard, but the price seems to be okay.

Stardust notebooks are equipped with different systems, and it is necessary to draw some consumers into the camp of Stardust Technology with a sufficiently attractive design.

Of course, the final price of the Stardust notebook will definitely not be as crazy as LG. A thin and light notebook that costs tens of thousands of yuan is no longer a product that most consumers can afford. If the price of the Stardust notebook can be set at 5000-7000 The price range is very affordable.

It also avoids price overlap for tablets.

　PS: Pulled across...

　　
　
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