Reborn in 2011, 985 missing from two copies

Chapter 373: The richest man breaks through the defense and competes to develop AI
Williams is responsible for the development of two mobile phone chips at the same time, and he has been under a lot of pressure recently:
"Chairman, the 40-nanometer Kunpeng 500 is a system-level chip. Since it integrates the Yilong 2800 baseband, it is more difficult to develop. It is better to hand over the 28-nanometer Kunpeng 700 project and team without an integrated baseband to George, and I will assist him."

"This way I can concentrate on solving the baseband integration problem of Kunpeng 500. As a result, Kunpeng 500 is expected to be taped out ahead of schedule, almost in October."

"George's team took over the Kunpeng 700 chip without a baseband. With our Kunpeng 500 technology and experience, the 700 will be smoother. In addition, without a baseband, even at 28 nanometers, there is hope that it will be taped out in advance, and it is estimated that it will be around March next year."

Theoretically, the 28nm 700 is more difficult to develop than the 40nm 500.

But the most difficult part of developing mobile phone chips is not the process, but the integrated baseband!

The Kunpeng 700 is an external baseband and has no integrated baseband at all. It only needs to upgrade the CPU and GPU based on the Kunpeng 500.

There is no need to even develop a baseband. You can just take the baseband from Kunpeng 500 and plug it into 700, thus saving yourself a huge problem.

For Kunpeng 500, not only the CPU and GPU need to be developed, but also the baseband needs to be successfully integrated! This greatly increases the difficulty, and is even more difficult than the 28-nanometer 700.

In addition, the development time of Kunpeng 500 SOC was even tighter, so Williams took on the most difficult part himself. Wang Yi had no objection:
"Okay, the Kunpeng 700 chip without integrated baseband will be handed over to George's team. William, you focus on getting the 500 SOC done! Get it done as soon as possible!"

As a result, Williams is responsible for the 40nm Kunpeng 500 SOC with integrated baseband.

The 28nm Kunpeng 700 chip project with external baseband was handed over to George.

Two teams, two projects, advancing simultaneously, supporting and assisting each other.

After all, Kunpeng 500 and 700 are both based on the same architecture, but the 700 has a higher main frequency and a more advanced process. It can be regarded as a semi-upgraded version of 500 without the baseband.

Once Williams has finished developing the Kunpeng 500 SOC, it will directly develop the next-generation 28nm Kunpeng 900 SOC with integrated baseband!

The two teams help each other and compete internally, which greatly improves efficiency and makes them more reliable.

What’s more, as Xingyi Technology develops further and enters the PC industry in the future, it may not necessarily develop its own PC chips!

For the chip R&D department, it would naturally be better to have two more teams!
Williams and George are both teachers and friends. This relationship is very similar to that of Mr. Hu and Mr. Liang, who are also both teachers and friends.

Rather than being wary of each other or harming each other, Wang Yi appreciates this kind of demeanor of being both a teacher and a friend, and helping each other.

"No problem!" Williams responded readily.

"That's fine with me too." George was even more motivated.

Wang Yi was in a good mood: "Then I will wait for your good news. Now that the R&D plant of Xingyi Wafer Factory has been delivered, it is expected that the 40-nanometer process can be trial-produced in August. If everything goes well, 40-nanometer can be mass-produced around October. If the Kunpeng 500 soc can be successfully developed ahead of schedule, it will be ready for tape-out at that time!"

"Okay, Chairman, we'll do our best!" Williams promised.

Wang Yi nodded and left the chip department.

鲲鹏500 SOC，40nm，集成40纳米的翼龙2800基带，性能比45纳米的tegra 3略强。

But it is not as good as Qualcomm's 28nm APQ 8064, also known as Snapdragon 600. This year's absolute flagship, next year's sub-flagship chip.

Nvidia's flagship tegra 3 this year is only equivalent to next year's Qualcomm Snapdragon 400!

After all, the Tegra 3 is 45 nanometers, and Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 is 28 nanometers.

The CPU of Snapdragon 400 is not as good as that of Tegra 3, but its GPU, power consumption control and baseband all surpass Tegra 3.

In this way, the overall performance of Kunpeng 500 is slightly better than next year's Snapdragon 400, but not as good as Snapdragon 600.

This year, Kunpeng 500 can be positioned as a sub-flagship chip, used to replace the NVIDIA quad-core tegra 1 in Xphone 1pro, Xingyi tablet X3pro, and Xingyi TV.

Next year, it can only be positioned as a mid-range chip, suppressing Snapdragon 400, and used in borderless thousand-yuan phones.

The chip upgrade process is so fast, one level lower every year.

As for Snapdragon 600, it is suppressed by the 28nm Kunpeng 700!
Kunpeng 700 does not have an integrated baseband, so it cannot compete with Snapdragon 800, but it can easily crush Snapdragon 600.

In addition, although Kunpeng 700 does not have an integrated baseband, it has powerful performance and supports 4K decoding, so it can be used in next year's high-end Xingyi TV 4K version!
Next year's Xingyi tablet X2pro can also be upgraded to Kunpeng 700.

As for next year's Qualcomm flagship SOC Snapdragon 800, we can only wait and see the progress of Kunpeng 900.

Although they are one step slower than Qualcomm, there is no other way. After all, Xingyi Semiconductor is a rising star, and it is already very good to be able to achieve this step.

Fortunately, Texas Instruments gave up its mobile chip business, and Wang Yi directly took over a large number of Texas Instruments' R&D engineers, semiconductor gurus, and experts. It was equivalent to standing on the shoulders of Texas Instruments to develop, and naturally the development was much faster.

If Xingyi Semiconductor had not made advance arrangements and recruited the big names and R&D engineering team from Texas Instruments, it would have taken an unknown amount of time for it to develop.

If we develop it ourselves, at least the first generation of chips will most likely be like Huawei's K3v2, and it will be difficult to achieve success.

Wang Yi took a shortcut. He not only took over the CPU and GPU R&D experts and team of Texas Instruments, but also incorporated VIA's baseband R&D team and 55Nm baseband technology.

The reason why the 40-nanometer Wing Dragon 2800 baseband has made rapid progress is that it was developed based on VIA's 55-nanometer baseband technology.

With the technical and R&D experts from the two teams, plus Wang Yi's strong financial support and active recruitment, the progress was rapid!
It can only be said that Wang Yi had the best of both worlds.

It just so happened that Texas Instruments was going to give up on mobile chip research and development, and it just so happened that VIA was also going to give up on baseband research and development, and in the end, both benefited Wang Yi!
This is the biggest advantage of the reborn, control over information and continuous picking up of leaks!

The next day, Baidu headquarters.

Li Yan looked at the sales of Xiao Ai speakers and was very envious:

"Wang Yi is really amazing. He made a big splash with a small speaker, and even added AI and smart home features! It's selling so well, it's really amazing."

The vice president also had a complicated expression: "Especially with the infrared function added to Xiao Ai Speaker, it is simply invincible. Originally, those traditional air conditioners and TVs could not be controlled by Xiao Ai Speaker, but with the infrared function, they can also be controlled directly."

Another executive said: "The most impressive thing is the layout of smart home! I feel this is a new track with great prospects."

Li Yan agrees: "Well said. In the social field, Baidu cannot compete with Tencent's QQ or Xingyi Technology's Changliao. In the video field, iQiyi is no match for Xingyi Video. But in the field of smart home, we have great potential!"

The vice president nodded and said, "Yes, Xingyi Technology has advantages in AI speakers, and so does Baidu. Xingyi Technology has Xingyi Music to provide copyrighted content, and we at Baidu have Qianqian Jingting, which also has genuine content. Although our music library only has millions, not as good as Xingyi Music's tens of millions, it is enough."

"Besides, Baidu already has an advantage in the search field. Once we launch Baidu AI speakers, our human-computer interaction and question-answering will be more powerful than Xiao Ai speakers. Similarly, we have accumulated some technologies in AI. As long as we invest money and strengthen research and development, we can make Baidu AI speakers in a year at most!"

"That's right. We have Qianqian Jingting for music, Baidu search engine for questions and answers, and we have accumulated experience in AI. Add to that Baidu's brand appeal. We can say that we have all the conditions to develop Baidu speakers! If we don't develop AI speakers, it would be a waste of resources."

Seeing that everyone in the room fully agreed, with no one opposing, Li Yan nodded with satisfaction:
"Okay, then we will immediately set up the Baidu AI Audio Division and focus on AI audio."

"Yes!" Everyone responded one after another.

But someone couldn't help but say, "Chairman, Xingyi Music and QQ Music have both acquired copyrights on a large scale, and their music libraries are worth tens of millions of dollars in lossless sound quality. Since we acquired Qianqian Jingting in 2006, we have had copyrights worth millions of dollars. In the past six years, there has not been much increase. Now we have to compete with Xiaoai Speaker. As a content supporter, Qianqian Jingting is far behind in terms of copyrights, only one-tenth of the other party. This will also affect the sales of Baidu AI Speaker."

"Yes, your concern is correct." Li Yan took a deep breath: "When consumers see that Baidu AI speakers only have old songs and no copyright for new songs, they will probably immediately return the products within seven days without any reason! Or even give up buying Baidu AI speakers directly!"

"Yes, that's what I'm worried about. I suggest increasing Qianqian Jingting's investment and purchasing a large number of music copyrights."

Li Yan nodded: "Okay, then Qianqian Jingting will be upgraded to Baidu Music, improve the strategic level, increase copyright funding, and provide content support for Baidu AI speakers."

"The chairman is wise!"

"By the way, Chairman, Xingyi Technology's AI speaker is called Xiaoai Speaker. What is our Baidu AI speaker called? Xiaodu Speaker?"

"Baidu? Xiaodu Speaker?" Li Yan nodded: "Yes, this name is good. Baidu is the best signboard, so let's call it Xiaodu."

"The Xiaodu Audio Division is established today. Immediately transfer key personnel from other divisions to develop Xiaodu for me! At the same time, the Baidu Smart Home Division is established to develop the Baidu Smart Home system."

"We can't let Wang Yi take over such a huge market for smart home! We also have to make up for the losses we suffered in the fields of maps, film and television!"

"Yes!"

Everyone was full of fighting spirit and couldn't wait to have a big battle.

There is no way. Baidu and Xingyi Technology have been fighting each other recently, and both have been defeated time and time again. Everyone is very convinced.

Now that we have finally found a way out, we are of course holding back our energy and waiting for a year before Xiaodu speakers go into mass production and launch a strong counterattack.

But what they don’t know is that a lot can happen in a year.

At JD.com headquarters, Da Qiangzi also set his sights on Xiao Ai Speaker:

"Xiao Ai's speakers have such high sales? More than two million units sold in three days?"

The subordinate shook his head and said, "More is needed. According to reliable information, Xiao Ai speakers are selling well all over the world. In three days, global sales have exceeded three million. It is estimated that they will be out of stock tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow at the latest."

"Damn, a speaker that costs 1399 yuan is selling so well. They must be selling it at a higher price overseas, right?" Da Qiangzi was very convinced. It would be a lie to say he wasn't envious.

"Yes, overseas, it's 299 US dollars per unit, which is equivalent to 1900 RMB! But even so, it's still in short supply and out of stock in many cities. The second-hand market has been hyped up to 399 US dollars!"

"Crazy, really crazy!" Da Qiangzi was filled with emotion.

"There's nothing we can do about it. A few years ago, Bill Gates showed off his new home, which was fully equipped with smart home appliances. Since then, foreigners have become crazy about smart home appliances. The slogan of Xiao Ai Speaker is to bring the smart home appliances of the richest man into the homes of ordinary people!"

"..." Da Qiangzi's mouth twitched: "This porcelain is too outrageous, isn't it? Too exaggerated?" "The problem is that foreigners believe it, and Xiao Ai Speaker really does it. Because it supports infrared, any device with a remote control can be paired with Xiao Ai Speaker, controlled by Xiao Ai voice, and remotely controlled by Zhijia APP."

"In a sense, it does make Bill Gates' smart home affordable to ordinary people. It's not an exaggeration!"

"Plus, the price of $299 is equivalent to 299 RMB in developed countries in Europe and America, which is very cheap, so naturally people rushed to buy it."

"Alas!" Da Qiangzi sighed, but was unable to refute:
"Wang Yi is such a marketing genius. He actually thought of using Bill Gates' smart home to promote Xiao Ai speakers and the Xingyi smart home ecosystem!"

"It's so shameless!"

"But he's so useful!"

“What the hell!”

The subordinates were all silent: "..."

There is no doubt that this wave of publicity was very successful.

What's more, it can't be considered as false advertising, it is indeed a substitute for the richest man's smart home.

But Bill Gates had a hard time. His family started working on smart home the earliest, starting in 1997. It took him seven years to complete it, until 7.

At that time, there was not even a company specializing in smart home products, so they were all custom-made by him, and the money he spent was countless, a full 6000 million US dollars!
As a result, the smart home that Bill Gates spent 6000 years and 7 million US dollars to build was immediately completed by Wang Yi’s 299 yuan Xiao Ai speaker, which directly turned traditional home appliances into smart homes!
Where to reason?
Even Bill Gates broke through the defense!

Western consumers are going completely crazy.

Some media even called Wang Yi "the man who beat the richest man with 300 US dollars!"

Taking advantage of this incident, Xiao Ai Speakers became more popular abroad than in China, with higher sales!
Even Da Qiangzi was shocked: "It seems that the market for smart home is huge, and we need to get involved!"

"That's right, Chairman. We can't handle high-tech things like mobile phones. But smart homes are easy."

The subordinate said: "More importantly, as the largest e-commerce platform, JD.com has close cooperation with major electrical appliance brands. As long as we launch JD.com smart home and let major electrical appliance brands join, then our smart home system will be completely established! Maybe we can overtake them and develop better than Xingyi Smart Home!"

"Good idea!" Da Qiangzi's eyes lit up. "That's great. Our JD's advantage is our platform, the No. 1 e-commerce platform in the country! We have no shortage of electrical appliances."

At present, JD.com’s revenue cannot compare with Taobao, but in terms of home appliance sales, Taobao is not as good as JD.com.

Especially for large electrical appliances or digital products, consumers’ first choice for online shopping is JD.com!

"Whether it's Gree, Midea, or Haier and Hisense, they are all our customers! As long as all these big customers join JD's smart home ecosystem, Xingyi Smart Home will have no development and will not be worth mentioning!"

"That's right, Chairman, this track is completely feasible. I suggest that we immediately set up the JD Smart Home Division and develop JD AI speakers!"

"Okay!" Da Qiangzi made the decision on the spot: "JD Smart Home Division will be established today."

"Chairman, I have a suggestion for the name of our AI speaker. What do you think of Ding Dong Ding Dong?"

"Ding dong ding dong?"

“Jingdong Jingdong?”

Da Qiangzi's eyes lit up: "Good attention, just call Ding Dong Ding Dong."

"But there is another problem. Both the smart home ecosystem and Dingdong speakers require AI algorithms."

The subordinate only spoke half of his words, but his meaning was clear.

Da Qiangzi frowned, "This is a big problem. We at JD.com have limited investment in the field of AI, and the JD.com AI customer service system is outsourced to Xiao Ai Robot. If we set up an AI algorithm department, recruit talents, and develop from scratch, it will be too slow. It may not be successful in three to five years."

"Yes, Chairman, I suggest that we directly cooperate with a third-party company that is good at AI algorithms. We can set up a joint venture to jointly develop smart homes."

"It's a good idea to learn from each other's strengths and make up for each other's weaknesses." Da Qiangzi agreed: "Do you have a goal?"

"We have three targets at the moment. The one that's doing the best right now is our old customer, Xiaoi Robotics, but it's been acquired by Xingyi Technology, so we're now competitors."

"Well, let's not consider the little i robot. It's not suitable." Da Qiangzi directly denied it.

"The second one is Baidu. Baidu is invincible in the field of Chinese search and has also made achievements in the field of AI. If we cooperate with Baidu, it will not be a problem to make Ding Dong speakers within a year."

Da Qiangzi waved his hand and said, "Baidu is not an option. Li Yan's ambitions are too big. They are likely to develop Baidu smart home and do e-commerce, so they are also our competitors."

"Then we can only consider the third company, iFLYTEK!"

"iFLYTEK input method?" Da Qiangzi became interested.

The subordinate nodded: "iFlytek has been developing accurate speech-to-text technology and has profound attainments in the field of AI. If we cooperate with iFlytek, we can also master the AI ​​algorithm within a year and launch JD speakers and JD smart homes!"

"Good, very good." Da Qiangzi was very satisfied:

"iFlytek is a perfect fit. First, their technology is good and just meets our needs. Second, iFlytek's market value is only over 7 billion, much less than our JD.com, and it is easy to control. If we cooperate with Baidu, JD.com can only serve as Baidu's foil. But by cooperating with iFlytek, we JD.com can take the lead!"

"Yes, I also agree to cooperate with iFLYTEK." Several other vice presidents expressed their opinions.

"Okay, let's go to iFLYTEK to negotiate tomorrow." Da Qiangzi said.

The subordinate waved his hand and said, "Chairman, we have targeted iFlytek, and other companies may have targeted it as well. In order to prevent any future troubles, why don't we fly over today, arrive in the afternoon, and have the first round of talks in the evening."

"You are right. Speed ​​is of the essence. Vice President, lead the team and set off immediately. We must win the cooperation."

"it is good!"

At noon, Song Si Ning called Wang Yi:

"Chairman, we have discussed the matter of investing in iFlytek with the iFlytek board of directors. The biggest problem is that we haven't agreed on the price yet. We want 20 billion to get 30% of the shares. iFlytek wants 22 billion. I will negotiate it this afternoon and I think we can sign the contract tomorrow."

"22 billion? It's just 21 million. Don't waste time, just sign the contract this afternoon. If it works out, sign it for 22 billion. If not, we have to sign it even at billion!"

Wang Yi said decisively: "Xiao Ai speakers are selling so well, I'm afraid someone will contact iFlytek soon. Don't let someone else show up and let iFlytek ask for the price!"

"I'm worried about this too!" Song Si Ning nodded. "Don't waste the afternoon. I'll go find iFLYTEK and get it signed as soon as possible!"

"Okay." Wang Yi responded, "It doesn't matter if we spend an extra 100 million or 200 million. We will make it back. iFlytek is of the most important strategic significance. We are investing in it for protection."

When the concept of AI just emerged, iFlytek’s market value was only 7 billion.

But Wang Yi knows clearly that the market value of iFLYTEK will rise to 2015 billion next year, more than 600 billion the year after, and reach a peak of over billion in !
In the next few years, it will reach 1500 billion or billion!
Even if technology stocks are collectively halved ten years later, iFLYTEK still has a market value of around 100 billion!
Spending an extra 200 million now is not a problem at all.

The profits will increase more than ten times in the future, not to mention the strategic significance?
With Wang Yi's reminder, Song Si Ning did not dare to be careless. She immediately went straight to iFLYTEK headquarters and found Chairman Liu Yifeng again:
"Mr. Liu, we at Xingyi Technology are sincere and want to invest in iFlytek to form a strategic alliance and develop together. We want to become a strategic ally like Goertek and BYD."

"You can take a look at the stock prices and market capitalizations of BYD and Goertek. Before we invested in them, their market capitalizations were not high, but after we invested, they increased several times!"

"Similarly, with Xingyi Technology's investment, iFlytek's share price and market value will also skyrocket. Now it is 150 billion, and it will soon reach 200 billion, or even billion!"

"This..." Liu Yifeng was moved, very moved.

Xingyi Technology is the stock price appreciation device!

Before Wang Yi acquired shares, BYD's stock price was at its lowest point, at only HK$10.

After Wang Yi bought the shares, the price directly rose to HK$15.

Later, BYD received tens of millions of orders for Xingyi mobile phones and antifreeze batteries, and its share price rose to HK$25.

Xphone 1 was hot-selling, antifreeze batteries were hot-selling, orders were placed crazily, and BYD’s stock price rose to HK$40.

Later, antifreeze batteries became popular all over the world, and major manufacturers scrambled to buy them, causing BYD's price to rise to more than 50 Hong Kong dollars.

Finally, it entered Apple's supply chain and manufactured the Xingyi tablet and Xphone 1pro, and the price once rose to HK$70!

From HK$10 to HK$70, it has increased seven times!
As for Goertek, its original stock price was only 6 yuan.

After Wang Yi invested, Goertek's stock price rose to ten yuan. Later, when it started to manufacture xbuds, its stock price rose to 15 yuan.

With the global hot sales of xbuds, Goertek’s stock price has even reached 20 yuan!
Now that Xiao Ai speakers have become a global hit, Goertek has received many OEM orders and its stock price has directly surged to 30 yuan!

From 6 yuan to 30 yuan, it has increased five times!
And it’s still growing!

One seven times, the other five times!
iFLYTEK is very envious, the board of directors is very envious, and Liu Yifeng is even more envious!

I'm so envious that my back teeth are almost broken!
This is the strength and power of Xingyi Technology!

There is even a legend in the stock market: if you follow Mr. Wang to buy stocks, you will definitely not run out of money.

Whichever company Mr. Wang invests in, the stock price of that company will skyrocket, increasing five or six times!
Liu Yifeng also wants to go to heaven!
(End of this chapter)