I asked you to save a bankrupt factory and you became the richest man in the world.

Chapter 108 Chapter 109-110: The new product is actually this! (Second and third updates)
After a while, a young man in his early 30s appeared in front of everyone.

After he sat down, Gao Huaijun happily introduced him, "Let me introduce to you. This is the new person in charge of the chip section of our company - Li Zonglin, Mr. Li! After graduating from Baodao Jiaotong University, Mr. Li He has come to the beautiful country of Qualcomm to work. He is the person in charge of Qualcomm mobile phone chips. He has very strong coordinating capabilities in the field of chip research and development. Everyone welcomes his arrival!"

A wave of turmoil arose in the hearts of the executives present here!
Hillhouse Technology has just entered the mobile phone field and wants to play with chips. How big is its ambition?
You want to set up an electronic technology trust group, right?
After a burst of warm applause, Li Zonglin stood up and apologized slightly, "I am very happy to meet you all. This is my first time to work in the motherland. I have many things that I am not clear about. Please give me your advice."

Gao Huaijun smiled and nodded.

Now Hillhouse Technology, with an output value of several hundred million, is no longer the small company that was on the verge of bankruptcy at any time, so it now has the opportunity to expand into some upstream areas of electronic technology.

Although Li Zonglin is only the team leader of a first-generation SOC chip, he is one of the few people in charge of the Snapdragon S1 series SoC from start to finish.

In this era when mobile phone chips are far from being taken seriously, the profits of chips are not high, so Gao Huaijun has the opportunity to poach him back and establish a subsidiary affiliated with Hillhouse Technology - the person in charge of Hillhouse Chip!
At this time, Li Zonglin was also curiously looking at the boss who was a little too young in front of him.

He was shocked by his boss's audacity!
You know, he is just a small person in charge of SOC chips now.

In this way, he also used himself as the head of a start-up chip company.

This is really brave to employ people!

He knew that his boss was already a legend in the electronic technology industry!
When he was in danger, he took over his father's job and was forced to become a boss.

As a result, the company's annual revenue increased by several hundred million!

The reason why Gao Huaijun considered chips so early was because he had carefully studied the growth history of Pingguo Company in his previous life.

Pingguo, a company, has formed a monopoly position in the high-end mobile phones of later generations, and has formed an aura of high quality. The core reason for the formation of this monopoly position, in addition to its superb appearance, is the most important reason. Has strong chip self-research capabilities!
Its three major ecosystems, iOS, App Store, and hardware ecosystem, are Guozi’s deepest moat.

Among them, the hardware ecology is the moat within the moat. The other two can only grow under the protection of the hardware ecology.

Later generations of Heisei also followed the same path, and in later generations used the Kirin 9000s chip to achieve overtaking in corners and achieve high premium capabilities for mobile phones!

For products like mobile phones, the path is actually very clear and obvious, which is to build up technology.

At the end of the game, everyone is a bright star. Whoever has a more advanced technical path can occupy the high-end market!
Now Pingguo's self-developed chips have just started, and the economic blockade of the beautiful country is still early. From the perspective of time, more than ten years of accumulation time is still sufficient.

If Hillhouse Technology can seize the opportunity of chip research and development and come up with a self-developed chip that is acceptable to the market, it can iterate slowly and directly destroy the development of IOS after a period of time, which is equivalent to defeating Pingguo. achievement.

Pingguo was certainly scary in the later stage, but now Pingguo is just an ordinary company.

Gao Huaijun feels that as long as he plans a strategy and controls every detail, he can stabilize the basics of the Mate series and block the success like Zhongwei did!
For some reason, he suddenly thought of "The Three-Body Problem".

So, let’s call this big plan to block high-tech products from Western countries, the wall-breaking plan!

As a result, Gao Huaijun suddenly felt that he had a strong sense of historical mission. This wall-breaking strategy could simply affect the entire world!
The thought of becoming the 'wall-breaker' for Pingguo, the pillar of technology in the Western world.

Gao Huaijun couldn't help but feel a sense of secret joy.

Although everyone is absolutely convinced that Hillhouse Technology’s chip development is unreliable, after all, this thing burns money faster than paper!
But after all, the company is in someone else's company, and no one has the ability to stop Gao Huaijun.

What's more, Hillhouse Technology has repeatedly created miracles, all relying on Gao Huaijun's sense of smell.

What if it succeeds again this time?

"Mr. Ning!" Gao Huaijun turned his head and called Ning Yuan.

"I'm here, Mr. Gao!"

"Now the chip section will not be merged into the R&D center, but will become an independent R&D section. Isn't 20F still vacant? If you give this floor to President Li Zonglin, the name of the chip section will be Hillhouse Chip!"

"Hillhouse Chip is not affiliated with the original framework. It will be a parallel framework. President Li Zonglin will report directly to me!"

Gao Huaijun said lightly.

What the hell!

Not only is the chip business established, but the company is also starting from scratch and becoming a parallel company!
Hillhouse Group wants to expand its chip business!

Apart from Hillhouse Technology, are there any other companies that would use this thing?
The senior executives on the side looked at Gao Huaijun with horrified faces, and were so surprised that they were speechless.

Every time there was a meeting, their thinking would be subverted by Gao Huaijun.

Gao Huaijun ignored them. The importance of chips is not something that people today can understand.

This kind of big killer weapon usually doesn't show its prowess. Only when it develops to a certain extent can it first show its prowess.

But in the previous dark period, the character of the person at the helm was very important!

"Mr. Li, there are many things to do when developing self-developed chips, including organizing talent recruitment and conducting targeted chip research and development for our mate series products and M series MP3s."

"We mentioned this during the last interview. Now we are going to create two simple versions of the chips around mate1 and M3, first easier and then harder, so that the chips can be used, and then iterate accordingly. Don't be afraid of too many bugs. Duo, please bring out the charter and we will face the problem together." Gao Huaijun warned Li Zonglin without waiting for anyone to answer.

"Hiss~ This is simply a nanny-level service, and the Mate series and M series are required to provide guinea pig machines to feed chips. Boss Gao, when did you become so tolerant!" The executives couldn't help but take a breath, and couldn't help but feel jealous. .

The treatment offered by the chip company is really great.

It's so good that even veterans like them are jealous!

Li Zonglin nodded.

Gao Huaijun's style of being vigorous and resolute, talking about things when they matter, is very pragmatic, and he still appreciates it!

He is a practical person!
Gao Huaijun learned from the experience of the previous HiSilicon K3V1, and did not forcibly increase the difficulty of self-developed chips. Instead, he started from the simplest integrated chips, starting from the mainstream Arm quad-core architecture, and then slowly iterated.

He has actually been prepared for this chip company to lose money within 5 years!

However, the positive side is that now is the beginning, and the difficulty of chip development is different from that of later generations of 5NM chips.Among the self-developed mobile phone chips, the tape-out cost of 110nm is only about 200 million yuan, and 3-5 times of tape-out is less than 1000 million.

Adding in the initial R&D personnel expenses of about 100 RMB, as well as EDA software, R&D materials, office space rental and other expenses, after one year, if you save a little bit, it will be less than 2000 million, and you can support the shelf!

2000 million to buy a chip, even if it takes a little detour, but the price is so cheap!

【Chapter X】

"Now that we've talked about other matters, let's move on to our most critical matter, the next stage of product development!" Gao Huaijun asked Shang Yayan to turn on the projector before they could react.

All the executives looked over.

After just one glance, everyone took in it and became obsessed with it.

In an instant, the entire conference room was filled with the sound of breathing.

Silence!
What is displayed on the screen is Gao Huaijun, who combined Zhongwei’s Mi Pad 1 and existing resistive screen technology to create a beggar’s version of Mi Pad 1.

This tablet is nearly 8 inches in size, which is 1 times the size of the Mate 4 display!
Compared with mate 1, this tablet looks larger.

"This...Mr. Gao, what kind of product is this! We have never seen it before." After almost 5 minutes of silence, Ning Yuan licked his dry lips and asked aloud.

As senior executives of the group, they don’t even know what this product is for. This is actually a very shameful thing!

When electronic technology has developed to this stage in 06, the product types are actually quite complete.

Laptops, PCs, mobile phones, MP3 players, the four major items, have been differentiated many times, and they are all pretty much the same.

However, they have never seen what Gao Huaijun is putting on the screen!

What exactly is this used for?

"This is a tablet!" Gao Huaijun took a sip of warm water and said calmly.

tablet? !
what is this!
"In my opinion, this is a product between a mobile phone and a laptop. In some specific functions, it should be better than mobile phones and computers!"

"In my opinion, there is a lack of a transitional product between mobile phones and computers. The tablet itself exists as a transition between mobile phones and computers."

Gao Huaijun smiled and briefly introduced the main positioning of this product.

A transitional product between mobile phones and computers?

"What?" Min Weiguo suddenly stood up, his expression slightly changed.

In the electronic technology industry, there is no so-called blue ocean product. Everyone is a well-known brand, fighting wantonly in the red ocean, relying on hard power.

Now, Gao Huaijun suddenly said that there is a product that is a transitional product between mobile phones and computers. This is equivalent to saying that there is a narrow gap where one can grow freely.

what does this mean?
This means huge profit margins!
How could this not shock Min Weiguo!
Not just him, but all the other executives looked at the tablet product on their computers in shock.

However, Lin Yunshen on the side frowned. When he saw what was on the screen, he didn't feel the same.

why?
The electronic technology industry is not an unpopular industry like the fishing gear used by Emperor He Qiang. There are too many giants competing in this industry.

There are dozens of Fortune [-] companies alone!

These Fortune [-] companies are all so stupid. I didn’t expect this blue ocean product. You are the only one who is smart, boss, did you think of it?
This unscientific!

He had a vague feeling that there was a trap here!

However, Gao Huaijun's previous superb performance made him uncertain, so he was reluctant to express his stance.

"With such a big screen, won't our purpose be unclear? We have PCs and laptops to play games, watch TV, and make phone calls, but we have mobile phones. To make such a product, will we not rely on both sides? What? Is it just possible to touch the screen?" Lin Yunshen asked with difficulty.

"When playing games and watching videos, do you prefer to play while sitting upright at the table, or lying comfortably on the bed? Did you buy our Mate 1 to make phone calls? Lin Yunshen, the current life scene has changed. ! Technology changes human beings, and the change is not because humans have become more diligent, but because humans have become lazy! The core purpose of various things we invent is not to supplement a certain function that does not exist, but more importantly, to make our Life is more comfortable!”

"Tablets are closer to mobile phones with an enlarged screen. Therefore, tablets are more for entertainment and leisure, such as watching videos, playing games, etc., with convenient touch operations and larger screens, while also taking into account higher Ease of use and portability, for example, you can play it lying down or on your stomach, and it’s as big as a book in your backpack.”

"As for this tablet, I'm going to name it Matepad 1. You have to update your concepts!"

Gao Huaijun glanced at Lin Yunshen and said lightly.

After saying that, he continued to slide down the pictures.

This product gives viewers more details.

According to Gao Huaijun's plan, this product will be different from the polycarbonate body of the mate 1. This product uses an aluminum alloy metal shell, which looks much more refined than the mate 1.

In terms of screen, Matepad 1 uses a classic 4:3 7.9 screen with a resolution of 2K and 326ppi, a resolution of 1920x1080 and a resolution of 283ppi, a narrower chin and forehead, and a high screen-to-body ratio.

This design looks more sci-fi than the Mate 1.

In line with the principle of "productivity before buying, iQiyi after buying" for tablets, and in order to meet the needs of original female fans, Matepad 1 is positioned as a drama-watching artifact that can be held with one hand.

Every time Gao Huaijun flipped through the pictures, every executive was shocked.

You know, the mate 1 mobile phone is already very complete in their opinion.

Only through local fine-tuning can we continuously produce iterative products with good cost performance.

This boss Gao always drives it big, which makes people feel like it’s a big iteration, so it’s up to the friends and businessmen to survive!
"Mr. Gao, this product has been iterated too much. The screen, outer material, and internal structure have all undergone earth-shaking changes. Now I'm a little worried that I won't be able to catch it!" Min Weiguo looked at the cool things on the screen. Sci-fi product, thinking of the overtime life in the past, I can only smile bitterly.

(End of this chapter)