Reborn in 2011, 985 missing from two copies

Chapter 583: Building core competitiveness, the truth is revealed!
At present, there are no very powerful professional image processing chips.

In its previous life, Sony began to launch the X2015 image processing chip in 1.

By optimizing color, contrast, clarity and other aspects, Sony TV's picture quality has reached a new height, leading a new era of TV picture quality.

Now, Wang Yi can make arrangements ahead of time and develop the X1 image processing chip in advance.

Compared with Sony, Xingyi Semiconductor has more experience and more manpower, so it can completely produce it ahead of time.

Thinking of this, Wang Yi directly called George and said, "George, select some of the engineers poached from Qualcomm and set up a TV chip department. Together with Xingyi TV, develop a professional image processing chip!"

"Okay, Chairman, I'll arrange it right away." George responded quickly.

He knew clearly that the strategic position of Xingyi TV in Xingyi Technology was constantly improving, and that the chips used now were castrated versions of mobile phone chips.

It is only natural to develop image processing chips specifically for televisions next.

Originally, to do this, people from other departments had to be drawn to form a team, which would affect the research and development of other chips.

Now, it’s just right to form a new team by directly using people poached from Qualcomm!
Other departments will not be affected.

Wang Yi was relieved to let George handle this matter, but he then fell into deep thought.

Although Xingyi mobile phones, Xingyi tablets and Xingyi TVs are all hot-selling on the entire network now, we still have to prepare for the future.

In the past few years, when smartphones were still in their infancy, giants such as Xingyi Technology, Apple, and Samsung easily maintained their absolute technological advantages and were far ahead of brands such as Meimi, OV, etc.

But what about a few years later?
After a few years, this advantage will be greatly reduced!

Whether it is mobile phones or televisions, competition will only become more and more fierce in the future.

Especially ten years later, even Apple’s flagship may be defeated by the Redmi K series in many aspects.

This is not alarmist talk, but actual experience.

One year in his previous life, Wang Yi returned to his hometown for the New Year and met his cousin who came to visit and planned to play "Peace Elite".

Neither of them had played for a long time, and Wang Yi15PM's "Peace Elite" needed to be updated with 8G.

My cousin’s Redmi K70 did not download the software, so he needed to re-download 2G + update 8G, a total of 10G.

Wang Yi started downloading first, and the network speed directly reached 20M+, but when his cousin's Redmi K70 started downloading, Wang Yi's network speed at 15PM quickly dropped to 3-7M.

However, the internet speed of my cousin Redmi K70 remains at 15-20M!

The gap is that big.

It was not until his cousin finished downloading two GB and started the installation that Wang Yi's Internet speed returned to 20M.

By the time his cousin finished the installation and started downloading the update package, Wang Yi's internet speed dropped to 3-7M, while his cousin's internet speed was still 15-20M.

In the end, my cousin finished downloading and updating a total of 10G and entered the game. Wang Yi had just finished downloading the 8G update and started installing it.

It’s bad enough that the iPhone’s call signal is poor, but the WiFi speed is also terrible.

It’s bad enough that it can’t compete with Huawei and Xiaomi, but it can’t even compete with the Redmi K70 released in the same year!

What’s even worse is that the 15PM is 9999, while the Redmi K70 is only over .

At that time, Wang Yi didn't know what to say.

I took the two phones and looked at them carefully. The 15PM is thick and heavy, like industrial waste. It makes my hands tired to hold it. The battery capacity is more than 30 mAh, and the charging speed is low, only up to watts. Once the battery health is low, the phone becomes slow, and replacing a battery costs hundreds of dollars.

The Redmi K70 is not only thinner and lighter, but also has a 5000 mAh battery and 120W fast charging...

Moreover, when playing games, the 15PM has no outstanding advantages in terms of frame rate or display effect. In summer, the heat may even be more severe.

Of course, the 15PM takes much better photos, but it has little advantage in other aspects, and in some aspects it is no match for Redmi.

Especially the 221g weight of the body is really too much of a burden. My wrist will get tired if I hold it to read novels for a long time.

From that moment on, Wang Yi knew that the iPhone was really no longer useful.

In terms of actual experience, 15PM is on par with Redmi. When compared with the flagship phones of Huawei and Xiaomi, it is hard to describe.

They can only rely on their brand and faith to make a final struggle, but it won't last long.

There’s no way around it, the phones of the future will be this rolled up.

The only way is to do better and achieve core advantages that other brands cannot, otherwise the iPhone will be beaten by the Redmi K series.

The same is true for Xingyi mobile phones and Xingyi TVs.

If you fail to maintain breakthroughs and lead, and are overtaken by your competitors, you will still receive brand bonuses in the short term.

But after a long time, it will become useless.

Brands and beliefs have a shelf life and will not last forever.

Must have absolute core competitiveness.

For example, Sony TV's X1 series image processing chips and tuning technology make the picture quality of Sony TV much higher than that of competitors' TVs. This is the core advantage and core competitiveness.

Even if it is a screen of the same level, or even a higher level, without a processor and tuning technology comparable to Sony, the actual effect will be far worse.

Once Xingyi Technology develops such a chip, Xingyi TV will also stand out!

The current BOE screens can beat Sharp and Samsung flagship screens.

Using the Sharp flagship screen, it can even outperform the same-level Sharp, Samsung, and LG flagship screens.

This core technology can become the moat of Xingyi TV in the future, and it must be developed!
And as soon as possible!
But where is the core technology of Xingyi mobile phone in the future?

Wang Yi thought about it carefully. Super strong signal is one aspect, but it is not enough. Except for Apple, Huawei, Xiaomi and the like, the signals are all very strong.

What remains is that the XOS system continues to become more powerful, which is still not enough.

Then only the most core performance!

And screen technology!
Self-developed instruction set and self-developed architecture ensure absolute leading performance + absolute leading system + screen technology advantages. Only in this way can the Xingyi mobile phone maintain its high-end positioning and be bought by people even if it is sold for 10,000 yuan.

If it is like the iPhone 15 pm, with a price of tens of thousands, but cannot compete with the Redmi K70 which costs just over two points, then who will buy an iPhone in the future?

At least for those who bought 14.15 or , when they change their phones after three or four years, they will most likely not consider iPhone again.

Unless the internet speed is not fast enough, you can pay the bill slowly.

But if you do this too often, no one will want to play with you anymore.

…………

With the personal support of Franz Quentin, the new Qualcomm HR director, Xingyi Semiconductor's talent recruitment progress has been extremely smooth.

Especially after Wang Yi let people do what they wanted, the pace of recruiting people increased even faster.

There is no way. Even if Franz Quentin keeps this a secret, other people are not blind and they will probably find out soon.

What Wang Yi can do is to let the people from Xingyi International take advantage of this opportunity to poach as many people as possible as quickly as possible!

Sure enough, after a few days, someone discovered something was wrong.

This person was Bonnie Neil, a manager in Qualcomm's human resources department. He had felt something was wrong before, but he thought it was Franz Quentin who had not yet completed the layoff target, so he didn't think much about it.

But now, people are constantly leaving the chip R&D department, and many of them are in core positions!
This made Bonnie Neil feel more and more that something was wrong. Even if the layoff target was not met, the number would not be so high.

There will be no layoffs in core R&D positions!
This is wrong!
After thinking it over again and again, Bonnie Neil quickly found Franz Quentin and couldn't help but say:
"Director, look at these resignation applications. Is there anything wrong with them? Given their levels, they are all in core R&D positions. Logically, they should have signed a non-compete agreement."

Franz Quentin's heart skipped a beat. This guy was indeed not simple and he had discovered the problem.

But he still waved his hand: "Well, you have a point. But the problem is, if you sign a non-compete agreement, you have to give compensation. You know Qualcomm's current situation. Sales have been cut in half and profits have dropped by 70%. The entire group has laid off employees and cut salaries. How can we get money to compensate them?"

"This..." Bonnie Neil was speechless for a moment, but was unable to refute.

Although it sounds a bit wrong, it somehow makes sense.

Different times, different situations.

There have been layoffs and salary cuts, and we are indeed poor.

But he still felt something was wrong, so he quickly pulled out a few more resumes:
"Director, what you said makes sense. It's fine if those people don't sign in order to reduce the company's expenses. But what about Ryder Gray and the others?"

"They are not ordinary core R&D positions, especially Ryder Gray, who is involved in the development of GPU architecture. For such an important position, no matter how poor our company is, we have to sign a non-compete agreement, right?"

"Fuck! This guy is not easy to fool!" Franz Quentin planned in his mind, but he put his arm around Bonnie Neil's shoulders and said earnestly: "Brother, you are right, it is reasonable to do so. But the situation is stronger than people."

"As the group's vice president, no one knows Qualcomm's current situation better than me. It is actually more difficult than you see."

"If we continue to develop at this rate, it will be a problem whether we can pay our salaries!"

"This..." Bonnie Neil's face changed drastically. She never thought that Qualcomm had become so bad!

Seeing that the other party believed him, Franz Quentin continued to lie: "To be honest, we originally planned to cut only 30% of the employees this time, and then cut another 15% in the second round of layoffs after the new year. But now, profits have fallen too sharply, so we can only increase the amount. We will cut 45% in the first round of layoffs, and as for the second round after the new year... Sigh!"

Franz Quentin was only halfway through his words when Bonnie Neil broke out in a cold sweat: "A second round of layoffs?"

Franz Quentin looked at Bonnie Neil as if he was looking at a fool. "Nonsense! Unless Qualcomm's performance improves and returns to its peak, there will be no second round of layoffs. If it doesn't improve, we will have to continue to lay off employees!"

"This..." Bonnie Neil was horrified. She no longer cared about whether it was legal or not to sign a non-compete agreement. Instead, she began to worry about the second round of layoffs and whether she would be laid off!

I can't even take care of myself, so how can I have the energy to care about Qualcomm?
Franz Quentin smiled secretly in his heart and continued, "There's nothing we can do. This is the current situation. We can only do everything we can to increase revenue and reduce expenditure, so as to reduce the number and extent of subsequent layoffs and protect ourselves as much as possible."

"For example, Ryder Gray and his colleagues, as you mentioned, are all in core R&D positions and earn very high incomes. If they all sign a non-compete agreement, how much more money will it cost?"

"All this money has been spent. When the higher-ups come to investigate, they'll hold our HR department responsible. Then... you..."

Franz Quentin looked at Bonnie Neil with a complicated expression.

Bonnie Neil turned pale and said quickly, "Director, I'm fine. Just pretend I wasn't here today." Franz Quentin nodded with satisfaction, "That's right. Sometimes you should make mistakes when you need to. If you look into it this way, it's at most a mistake, and it's a mistake that saves the company money. It won't have too big consequences."

"But at this critical juncture, the entire group is trying to increase revenue and cut costs. If we still strictly sign the non-compete agreement and spend money lavishly, it will be easy for us to be targeted. Once we are targeted, then..."

“Then it will be optimized!”

Bonnie Neil was frightened and said quickly: "Director, I understand. Thank you for your guidance. I will fully cooperate with you from now on."

"Well, let's go."

Seeing Bonnie Neil leave, Franz Quentin breathed a sigh of relief: "Another one has been fooled away. I wonder how long this will last."

"Fortunately, Xingyi Semiconductor has accelerated its recruitment process, which is a good thing."

But the good times didn't last long. Five days later, the truth was revealed.

The person who discovered this incident was Qualcomm's R&D director Honey Nelson!
In order to speed up the development of Snapdragon 810, he is preparing to gather elite forces to personally tackle the problem, and has named several powerful generals to work together on the development.

But unexpectedly, these people all resigned!
This shocked Honey Nelson!
These people are all senior R&D engineers of Qualcomm. Although they are not project managers, they are the backbone of the team.

With time, it is possible for them to become independent and become project managers, and there is hope that they will become presidents in the future.

The previous Snapdragon 800 was developed by these people.

But now, he has resigned!
And as the director, he didn't even know!
How could this be?
Logically speaking, shouldn't the HR department notify him, the R&D director, of a resignation of this level?
Why is there no news at all?
However, Honey Nelson did not act impulsively. Instead, he immediately began to investigate the entire incident.

You won’t know the results if you don’t check them, but you will be shocked if you check them.

There are quite a lot of R&D engineers who have resigned recently, and many of them are in the most core positions!

More importantly, these people didn’t even sign a non-compete agreement!

This is wrong. Something is totally wrong!

Honey Nelson immediately realized that something was wrong: "Damn it, these people left after the layoffs, which made us careless and mistakenly thought it was a normal turnover of layoffs. But we didn't expect that those who left were all core R&D positions!"

"Damn it!"

"Fake!"

"There's a problem with the HR department!"

"Normally, they wouldn't make such a mistake, unless..."

"By the way, the current director of HR is Franz Quentin!"

"Fuck! Franz Quentin must have done this!"

"Fake!"

"This idiot made all our capable people quit."

"Fake!"

Honey Nelson was furious, but he didn't go to Franz Quentin to argue.

Instead, he stormed straight to the chairman's office.

His status is similar to that of Franz Quentin. Although Franz Quentin has fallen out of favor, he is also the human resources director. If one wants to overthrow him, it is easiest for the chairman to do so.

"Chairman, Chairman! Something big has happened!"

Honey Nelson called out as he entered the room.

"What's wrong? Are you so anxious?" Jacob frowned slightly.

"Chairman, recently a large number of our R&D engineers have resigned from Qualcomm, especially many core R&D engineers!"

“Even Ryder Gray and Jan Isaac, core engineers involved in the development of GPU architecture, have resigned!”

"What! Ryder Grey and Jan Isaac both resigned!"

Jacob's face turned pale and he felt terrible. These two men were very powerful and he, the chairman, knew them and had invited them to dinner many times.

Now he has resigned!
And he had no idea!
how so?
"Fuck! How could such a core R&D backbone resign? Who asked him to resign? Even if they resigned, we can't agree to it!"

Jacob was furious.

"Yes, whether it's by offering a promotion or a raise, or threatening them with a non-compete agreement, we have to keep them and never let them leave easily!"

Honey Nelson also said: "But the problem is that those idiots in the HR department just let him go without even signing a non-compete agreement!"

"And it's not just Ryder Gray and Jan Isaac, many other core R&D engineers and senior engineers also left during this period."

"You mean to say that there is something wrong with the HR department? Did they do this on purpose?"

Jacob grasped the key in an instant.

Honey Nelson nodded: "It's very likely. If there is no big problem, how could it be like this if we follow the rules and regulations?"

"HR department, HR department..." Jacob murmured, "The HR department is full of experienced HR people, they must be familiar with these basic operations."

Honey Nelson sighed, "The HR department is the old HR, but the HR director is not."

"Franz Quentin. Fuck!" Jacob's face turned pale, and he felt terrible. "You mean, Franz Quentin did it? He had evil intentions?"

"I don't know if he has evil intentions. But the resignation approval of these people was approved by Franz Quentin, and he let them go because the approval process was not in compliance with regulations. In addition, Chairman, do you know where these people went after they resigned?"

"Where did it go?" Jacob couldn't help asking, "Intel? No, Intel's mobile chips are almost finished. Could it be MediaTek?"

"No, they all went to Xia Country, and most likely joined Xingyi Semiconductor."

"What?" Jacob was horrified, and felt as if the sky had fallen:

"Core R&D engineers have resigned from Qualcomm and joined Xingyi Semiconductor. They were poached by Xingyi Semiconductor. Franz Quentin illegally approved the application. Could he really be an undercover agent sent by Xingyi Technology?"

"At least from a factual point of view, it's very likely!" Honey Nelson spread his hands, "Several of my most trusted and capable people have been approved by him to resign and go to Xingyi Semiconductor!"

"Fake!"

"Fake!"

"Someone said before that there was something wrong with Franz Quentin, but I didn't believe it. Now it seems that this guy has a big problem, a very big problem!"

Jacob was furious: "Call Franz Quentin to me immediately and arrange for someone to investigate this matter to see if Franz Quentin has any contact or dealings with people from Xingyi Technology!"

"If I find out anything, Franz Quentin will spend the rest of his life in prison!"

"Yes!" Honey Nelson responded quickly, in a very good mood.

They are all vice presidents and both want to be the next successor of Qualcomm.

Previously, Franz Quentin was valued by Jacob and was trained as the next successor, which made vice presidents such as Honey Nelson very unhappy.

Now that Franz Quentin is in trouble, Honey Nelson and others are eager to kick him and add insult to injury.

Soon, Franz Quentin came to the chairman's office. He already knew what was going on, but he still said calmly, "Chairman, you are looking for me."

"Bang!" Jacob threw a stack of resumes on the table: "Look at what you have done."

Franz Quentin flipped through it and said calmly, "Chairman, they applied to resign and I approved it. Is there any problem? Aren't we going to lay off employees anyway?"

Jacob seemed to have eaten a fly: "..."

"What's the problem?" Jacob's face was livid. "It's fine for other people, ordinary R&D engineers, it's fine if you approve them. But why do you have to approve those extremely important core R&D engineers?"

"An extremely important core R&D engineer? Who is that?" Franz Quentin started to play dumb.

"You don't know?" Jacob was so angry that he laughed, but he was still pretending!
Franz Quentin said innocently, "Chairman, I was parachuted in, so I don't know much about the specific personnel in the R&D department. Is that normal? After all, I was only responsible for the strategic direction and market development of the chip business before, and I am not familiar with the specific personnel in the R&D department."

Jacob's mouth twitched: "..."

Okay, really okay!

Franz Quentin almost said, "I was parachuted in, I'm not familiar with the situation, it's normal for problems to occur, right?"

How shameless.

"I came here from nowhere, I don't know anything about you, good, very good, you are doing fine!"

Jacob said in a deep voice: "Don't let me catch you, or I will make you pay for it!"

"Chairman, I am innocent. What evidence do I have?" Franz Quentin frowned. "What have I done? If the chairman cannot tolerate me, I can leave, but he cannot slander me. I have worked at Qualcomm for many years and helped it develop many big customers and win many large orders. I have made great contributions."

"It's really sad that the chairman slandered me like this!"

"It's better not to do this job!"

"I'm resigning now!"

"Please approve it, Chairman!"

As he spoke, Franz Quentin tore off his work badge and slammed it on the table.

The corners of Jacob's mouth twitched, and for a moment he couldn't tell whether this man was really angry because he was wrongly accused, or if he did it on purpose.

But he still said: "You want to resign, that's fine, I will give you the severance pay you deserve. The premise is that I don't find out anything, otherwise you will end up in jail in your next life!"

Franz Quentin smiled faintly: "A man of integrity has nothing to fear. Chairman, go ahead and investigate. If there is really something wrong with me, I will accept whatever you do to me."

After saying that, Franz Quentin turned around and left, returning to the Human Resources Department to go through the resignation procedures.

Looking at this scene, Jacob didn't know what to say.

(End of this chapter)