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

Chapter 559, Chapter 423-424: Employees are shocked that mobile phones can be used like this! (4000 words)
The news that Hillhouse Capital was going to restart the development of the Mate series spread like wildfire within Hillhouse Capital.

As the self-discipline continues to deepen, Hillhouse’s internal chip shortage is no longer fresh news, but a heavy fact known to most employees.

That's the environment.

After the chip shortage, when will work return to normal?

In fact, no one has a clue in their heart!

Taichi Electronics and Sansang Semiconductor said they would not sell and they won't sell. You really have no way to deal with them.

This can no longer be explained by economic behavior.

Hillhouse is not afraid of head-on collisions and confrontations, but everyone feels that it is almost impossible to guard against such shady tricks outside the rules.

It is under this premise that everyone is actually prepared to endure hardship for more than three years.

Some employees who usually slack off also treated it as a formidable enemy and took the initiative to stay and work overtime every night.

There is no way. Everything seems calm at Hillhouse now. When the Mate and P series can no longer be sold, where will such a large portion of sales be supplemented?

The loss of this huge profit will inevitably cause turmoil for the entire Hillhouse!

However, at such a critical juncture, when the morale of the troops who had been working hard for a year was somewhat shaken, Hillhouse Technology had announced the launch of the research and development of a new generation of Mate series mobile phones. Moreover, it was a rare research and development led by Gao Huaijun. It can be said that a heavy bomb was dropped within Hillhouse in an instant.

"What? Hillhouse Technology is still continuing the research and development of the Mate series? Or is President Gao personally involved?"

"Is there any new news? Taiwan Electronics will manufacture chips for us?"

"My God, this is the best news we've heard all year."

"If the Mate series develops a new generation in the next six months, it means that the company's framework will not change much in the next six months, which is a good thing."

"Hillhouse made hundreds of billions of yuan in profits last year, so it would be easy for it to support a team of Mate series and P series."

"Indeed, Hillhouse is now ranked among the top 50 in the world's top 500 companies. Such a company has influence in many aspects."

"That's not true. Our company's sales have surpassed the last two of the five largest banks and are even greater than giants like China Life Insurance. The country will definitely step in to help put pressure on us."

Although Gao Huaijun has always been extremely optimistic about the future, when he was reborn in 2023, Zhongwei had just been self-destructed for about three years and had already produced a new generation of Mate series mobile phones.

At that time, Zhongwei created it almost without any preparation.

Now, Hillhouse has made preparations over the years. Many components have been domestically produced in advance, and it has also secretly built a chip factory to leave a way out. Therefore, Gao Huaijun does not think that he really needs to wait three years to get through this crisis.

However, people inside Hillhouse Group don’t know this!

This kind of big collision, let alone a company, even if it is a small country that is not one of the Big Five, will suffer serious injuries.

As for what Hillhouse will become in the future, although Hillhouse’s top management has been encouraging the company, no one actually has a clue.

But now that the employees have seen Hillhouse Technology taking action and starting the research and development of the Mate series, they are naturally reassured.

Hillhouse Technology Mate Project R&D Department.

"This iteration of the drawing is so bold! It's actually possible to play like this!" An employee nearby couldn't help but exclaimed.

He didn't take it seriously at first, thinking that mobile phones have now developed to this level and other friendly companies have thought of all the ideas they can think of, so how can we still have room for major iterations?

At most, it is just a minor modification based on the original mate13.

Even if Gao Huaijun were to take charge personally, he is not a god, so what he can do is naturally very limited. It is impossible for him to bring much room for improvement to a product.

However, when he saw the master plan in front of him.

He knew he was dead wrong.

Stacked chips, satellite phones, void grabbing, each and every one of them is simply a miracle.

This is not a small iteration.

It's simply going to turn the Chinese mobile phone industry upside down!

"You still don't know Mr. Gao very well. When Mr. Gao makes a product, he either doesn't do it at all, or he makes it to be a blockbuster that directly subverts an industry." His assistant at the side sighed.

In his opinion, this new young man had no idea how terrifying Boss Gao was.

You have to know that back then, Boss Gao started with nothing. The first time he transformed into making MP3s, the second time he transformed into making mobile phones, the third time he transformed into making cars, the fourth time he transformed into making chips, and the fifth time he transformed into artificial intelligence. He took every step firmly and not a single step was wrong.

Now this Hillhouse Mate20 is just a small matter.

"but..."

"The settings of this satellite phone are really amazing!"

"In our country, no one has ever thought of setting up a satellite phone on a mobile phone!"

He said in a somewhat serious tone.

Unlike those who just took a quick look and marveled at the creativity.

He is a veteran who has worked in the Mate series for more than five years.

Moreover, his main field is radio frequency chips.

He understood how difficult it was to complete such a little gadget!
One is antenna miniaturization and integration.

Successfully miniaturizing the antenna and integrating it into a mobile phone is a world-class engineering challenge.

Antenna design is a key technology in communication equipment, especially when communicating with geosynchronous orbit satellites, signal coverage and transmission efficiency are crucial.

Among the current plans, it is hoped that the new mate 20 will adopt a wide-beam antenna design, which will make the signal coverage wider and can effectively deal with the low gain and high loss problems of high-orbit satellite communications.

Multi-antenna aggregation enhancement technology improves the rate and efficiency of data transmission by using multiple antennas working simultaneously.

Even when he saw this direction, his eyes lit up.

However, this also places higher requirements on the power of RF chips.

Whether it is stability or sustainability, it is not a simple issue of small iterations.

This requires Hillhouse Chip to modify the underlying logic and re-tape out the latest version of the Yuanniao RF chip.

Just this alone, not to mention the money spent, which is at least hundreds of millions, and whether there is enough time is a headache.

The second is software optimization and communication protocol.

At the software level, what Hillhouse needs to solve is how to achieve clear voice calls under extremely low bandwidth.

Using advanced coding and artificial intelligence to empower and optimize, Hillhouse needs to reduce the bandwidth required for voice calls to a very low level, which is very different from the traditional understanding of communication needs. In addition, it is necessary to build or access an efficient network scheduling system to ensure that users' needs in satellite communications are met, which is a huge challenge both technically and economically.

In a nutshell, it is impossible to do this without deep research in communications.

Hillhouse is not Zhongwei, and it has never done research and development of base stations!

Although Hillhouse Academia Sinica has brought together a large group of former Zhongwei people to conduct research and development in related fields, he feels that it is really difficult.

The third is hardware and signal processing.

In addition to antenna design, Hillhouse also needs to develop or optimize modem chips to adapt to signal integrity under ultra-low signal-to-noise ratio conditions and provide sufficient power to ensure the quality of transmitted signals.

This is equivalent to redesigning a satellite phone to meet modern technological standards, involving complex hardware design and signal processing technology.

These things are still on the technical level.

Finally, Hillhouse Capital is already under the influence of its own criminal conduct. How to legally use satellite communications on a global scale and how to create a profit model are issues that Hillhouse Capital needs to resolve.

There are also patents including communication methods, devices and antenna designs. These patents constitute technical barriers, and some of the technical barriers of satellite phones need to be circumvented.

This is also the core problem they have faced for some time.

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This is not a technical thing.

"The idea of ​​satellite phones is really bad. Who among the high-end people nowadays doesn't want to protect themselves from the dangers of the internet?"

"With just this function, even if the chip is inferior, it would be easy to sell millions of units."

His apprentice standing by said with admiration.

In fact, these ideas are neither difficult nor easy.

Satellite phones are available on many ocean-going ships, and it can be said that almost every ship is equipped with a satellite phone.

But who thought of pairing satellite phones with cell phones?

Especially at this juncture, because Hillhouse Capital has cut itself off, the localization of all industries has been put into process. So now even the navigation system used by Hillhouse Maps uses the latest Beidou satellite system that has just been launched!

In the absence of users for Beidou satellites, a mobile phone manufacturer now wants to develop a satellite phone. If you were the person in charge, would you strongly support this move?

Not to mention other things, many civil servants in state-owned units will have one each.

What a huge market that will be!

He could only describe the fact that this antelope-hanging-horns-style connection of two unrelated things suddenly produced a wonderful chemical reaction with admiration.

Boss Gao is indeed the god of business. He can use a random combination to create a powerful move.

“In fact, the highlight is not just this satellite phone. Look at this, the void grabbing technology, it’s amazing! I don’t even know if it can be landed.” An old employee on the side said excitedly.

In his opinion, this void grabbing technology actually refers to an AI-based air operation function, which allows users to control the phone through gestures without directly touching the screen.

This function may seem to have very little practical use at first glance, but in fact it is highly recognizable and can be very useful for showing off.

If you buy a new mobile phone but cannot let others know that you have bought an expensive and trendy new phone, then what motivation do you have to change your phone?

“There are still many difficulties in this technology.”

"One is precise gesture recognition. To accurately recognize the user's gestures, highly accurate sensors and advanced machine learning algorithms are required."

“This involves quickly capturing, analyzing and understanding the user’s hand movements, ensuring correct recognition under a variety of lighting conditions and background interference.”

“I don’t know how Hillhouse AI is doing.”

"The second is low-latency response. In order to provide a smooth user experience, the system must respond quickly to the user's gestures, which means that the entire process from gesture recognition to command execution requires extremely low latency. This requires highly optimized software and hardware."

“The third is the adaptability of the user interface. The virtual grabbing technology needs to be seamlessly integrated with the existing user interface to ensure that the gesture operation is intuitive and easy to learn. This is a challenge for UI/UX design and requires rethinking the way users interact with devices.”

"The fourth is the filtering of environmental interference. In daily use, background movements and environmental factors (such as other people's movements, light changes) may be mistakenly recognized as gestures, so algorithms are needed to effectively filter these interferences."

"To be honest, I find it very difficult to implement these technologies. The technology is very cool, but it is not easy to implement them!"

His little apprentice at the side said in a deep voice.

The old employee standing by heard what he said and nodded with satisfaction.

It can be seen that his little apprentice is growing very fast.

When he came in, Hillhouse's system and framework were not yet fully complete, and it was very tiring for a newcomer to grow up.

The work is a lot and complicated. You need to bear the pressure of work while finding time to study.

If a new employee lacks self-discipline, he or she may be eliminated in less than half a year.

The elimination rate of almost all new employees within one year of joining the company is astonishingly high, over 40%.

The number of people who stay until the third year is estimated to be less than 10% of the initial number.

But now we have a sound R&D system.

The survival rate of his young apprentices' generation is much higher.

However, compared to his time, the opportunities are much fewer now, which means there are gains and losses.

“It is difficult to realize this technology, but the key lies in Hillhouse’s artificial intelligence.”

"However, this technology always gives me the feeling that it is a transitional technology."

"Based on my understanding of Boss Gao, he would not come up with a technology with less functionality."

The old employee looked at the drawing in front of him and muttered to himself.

His apprentice standing by was also lost in thought.

Void Grab...

Gesture recognition...

user interface...

Environmental interference . . .

At the beginning, the new employee didn’t think about it in this regard. It was not until the old employees reminded him that he connected these key words together!

"This... is the precursor technology for 3D naked-eye technology!" He shouted with a hint of horror on his face!

(End of this chapter)