When I am reborn, I just want to be a top student

End of May.

International Data Corporation (IDC) released a "Global Mobile Quarterly Tracking Report". Preliminary data showed that the top five smartphone shipments in the first quarter of 2016 had quietly changed.

Samsung and Apple still occupy the top two positions in terms of shipments, but both their shipments and market shares have declined.

However, domestic mobile phone brands, Xiaomi, Huawei and OV bucked the trend, with shipments and market share soaring.

Xiaomi, in particular, became the fastest growing brand thanks to its new products launched at the end of February.

No matter who sees this kind of performance, they can feel that the popularity of domestically produced smartphones is unstoppable, especially when considering China's status as the world's most populous country.

The major international investors, which have always attached great importance to China's smartphone market, have internally raised their ratings of the Chinese market.

When someone is happy, someone else will naturally be sad.

Thanks to Wang Donglai's appearance, mobile phone fast charging technology, lithium-sulfur batteries and semi-solid batteries, as well as artificial intelligence programs were developed in advance. These achievements can be perfectly installed on mobile phones to improve the performance and operability of smartphones.

In this way, domestic brands have narrowed the gap with Samsung and Apple in practical applications.

As a result, domestic brands have become more popular and have developed better than they originally would have in history.

Although it was Wang Donglai who levied the beauty tax, the lithium-sulfur batteries and semi-solid batteries he developed also increased the cost of domestic mobile phones, leading to a certain increase in selling prices.

However, it did not cause a decline in sales, but instead increased the brand value of domestic mobile phones to a certain extent.

Unless the user is born with brain disability, other normal users are able to make correct judgments.

After this report was released, domestic mobile phone brands were excited and launched a massive publicity campaign.

However, for Samsung and Apple, which have the highest shipments, the situation is the opposite.

Although the two companies are still ranked first and second in terms of shipments and market share, their growth rates have not slowed down but have declined instead, which is very fatal.

According to statistics, the coverage rate of smartphones is still far from enough, and there is still a huge blue ocean market ahead.

Both of them have already shown signs of slowing growth, which naturally makes the shareholders behind the two companies dissatisfied.

Kimchi country.

Samsung headquarters.

A meeting is underway to discuss this matter.

"Marketing department, please give an explanation for the first quarter's shipment volume!"

In the meeting room, the atmosphere immediately became extremely tense as a director took the lead in protesting.

"Although our shipments are nearly 60% higher than the second-ranked Apple, in terms of absolute data, we have seen a slight decline."

"Just because we are still the world's number one smartphone manufacturer, don't think our position as the global smartphone market leader is unshakable."

"Nokia thought the same thing back then. When the smartphone era came, it chose resistive screens over capacitive screens. This choice ruined Nokia's glorious history for many years."

"When you reach the top of a mountain, you should be even more cautious!"

"I don't want to hear any excuses. I just want to know what the company is going to do next."

A middle-aged director looked at everyone present and said seriously.

After the director finished speaking, the head of the marketing department stood up timidly, bowed to the directors present, and then began to report the situation: "In the first quarter of 2016, the year-on-year growth was 5.65%, and the net profit increased by 13.6% year-on-year. The mobile department's profit increased by 42%, mainly due to the hot sales of the S7 series of mobile phones. The mobile department has surpassed the chip department and has become the group's largest source of income."

"The reason why our shipment growth rate has declined is that after research by the marketing department, we found that although the Chinese market is large, as a developing country, its per capita GDP is far behind that of our country, so their consumption habits are very low-end."

"Our mobile phones are high-end products. One phone costs two months' salary or even three months' salary for an average Chinese person. Therefore, these users simply cannot afford our phones and can only buy low-end products produced by local Chinese brands."

"The growth rate is slowing down, but the profit margin is rising, which is the best level."

"At the same time, according to the survey results, China's local brand mobile phones are of poor quality and mostly use outdated technology."

"From the chip to the system, the quality of the whole machine is not high. Only in a backward country like China would there be a large number of users willing to use it!"

"According to internal estimates, the profit of a low-end smartphone from Chinese brands can only be very meager, which is five or six times lower than ours."

"This profit margin will become larger as our models become more high-end."

Although the head of the marketing department was respectful, his tone revealed a hint of confidence.

After all, the company is making money, and profit margins are rising, not falling.

As for the slowdown in shipments, this is not the fault of the marketing department.

Samsung has always been targeting the high-end market and it is impossible for it to enter the low-end market.

Not only is the profit extremely low, but it also loses its status.

After these two reasons were given, the expressions of the people in the conference room did not change.

Those who can sit here either have real abilities or extraordinary backgrounds.

Everyone understands this truth.

"In any case, China is the world's most populous country with a vast market. Even if the per capita GDP is low, it does not mean that there are no rich people. The company's product profit margin is rising, but the shipment volume has not increased, which means that there is a problem with the company's market strategy."

"As for high-end mobile phones, Apple's sales volume was only 5120 million units, a year-on-year decrease of 16.3%, and its revenue reached US$328.6 billion, which is still the most profitable smartphone product."

"With Apple at the top and other major mobile phone brands catching up, if we only focus on profit margins and ignore shipments, it will inevitably lead to more serious consequences."

"I propose that the Galaxy Note7 flagship phone, originally scheduled to be released in August, be released earlier and the price be slightly lowered to improve marketing in China."

"If this can increase shipments, then it proves that the previous slowdown in shipments is not a big problem. But if shipments remain unchanged, then what does this mean? I think you should all know."

After these words were spoken, everyone in the conference room looked at each other and fell into deep thought.

soon.

Everyone voted by raising their hands on the suggestion to release new products ahead of schedule.

There are just slightly more people in favor than against.

So the proposal was passed.

As for the release time of the new product, it was directly advanced to the end of June or the beginning of July.

After all, Samsung is a Fortune 7 company, and the Galaxy Note flagship phone is a flagship phone equipped with Samsung's advanced technology, so publicity and promotion also need to be done well.

Being able to prepare a month in advance already shows extraordinary coordination ability.

……

the other side.

Wang Donglai had no idea that Samsung had been stimulated and was preparing to launch new products ahead of schedule.

At this time, at Galaxy Technology, Zhang Yizheng and Wang Donglai were reporting something.

The results of the investigation and handling of the Wei Zexi incident have come out.

Since this incident broke out, it has sparked huge discussion on the Internet.

Qiandu received the greatest criticism from the public during this storm.

As for the hospital in Beijing, if no one mentions it deliberately, it would be as if it has disappeared.

As expected, this matter attracted the attention of higher-ups.

An investigation team was immediately dispatched to conduct an investigation.

After about a month, the survey results came out. "What do people think about the survey results given above?" Wang Donglai asked Zhang Yite.

“Applause!”

"The above has given the results of the investigation, saying that the bidding ranking of related keywords on Baidu search had an impact on Wei Zexi's choice of medical treatment. The Baidu bidding ranking mechanism has problems such as too high weight of paid bidding and unclear commercial promotion logos, which affects the fairness and objectivity of search results and is likely to mislead netizens. It must be rectified immediately."

"When the results of the investigation came out, not only did Qiandu's stock price plummet, but all the resentment and anger that had been boiling on the Internet was vented on Qiandu."

Zhang Bie reported all these situations to Wang Donglai one by one.

Wang Donglai nodded and said, "This is the end of the matter. As I told you before, this matter is not a problem in one link, but in all links."

"The Wei family tried all kinds of treatments in desperation, including bidding on Baidu rankings, and the hospital adopted ineffective treatment methods, and there was a lack of supervision."

"The reason why I asked you to keep paying attention to this matter is because it is a typical platform incident and has very important implications."

"I have always emphasized the platform's content monitoring and review work. From the beginning to now, I understand that many people do not agree with this approach."

"From a utilitarian perspective, the review department can't create much profit at all. Even if the content on a platform is safe, it can be handed over to machines."

“It can not only feed the machine, but also speed up the iteration of the audit system and enhance the deep learning capability of the audit system.”

"However, this idea ignores the inherent flaw of the review system, which is that it is not human."

“This is the biggest difference between machines and humans.”

“Humans have subjective initiative, but machines don’t!”

"This slight difference can lead to very different consequences in the end."

"The content platform business is not easy to do, and I think you understand this."

“After we reach a certain scale, we must raise our awareness of our position and not forget our identity.”

"For overseas products, I will draw a line for you. They must be separated from domestic ones. You can sell shares and absorb international capital, but the money must return to China and cannot stay abroad."

"Everyone has their own ambitions, and everyone has different ideas."

"What I said is the red line and the bottom line. There is absolutely no room for negotiation."

"You can think about it carefully!"

After saying that, Wang Donglai lowered his head and went about his own business.

When Zhang Bietian suddenly heard Wang Dong say this, he was shocked.

He did think about doing something with the natural reason of exporting products overseas.

However, before he had the time to implement it, Wang Donglai pointed it out.

This couldn't help but make Zhang Bietian feel a little scared towards Wang Donglai.

It was as if she was being seen clearly in front of Wang Donglai, completely naked.

This strange thought suddenly came to his mind, but Zhang Bietian reacted quickly and dismissed it in his heart.

"Chairman, I understand!"

Zhang Yitian nodded and stepped back.

After Zhang Bytedance left, a cartoon character appeared on Wang Donglai's computer.

It was Wa, who said, "Boss, I have packed the things you wanted and put them on the table."

As he spoke, a folder appeared on the desktop.

"A bold argument for photolithography factories!"

This document is what Wang Donglai asked Wa to try to do research on her own by using her own computing power and collecting public information online.

Click the mouse to open the folder and view the information inside.

Exposure system design is missing...

The design plan of the workbench mask stage system is missing...

The automatic alignment system is missing...

The silicon wafer transfer system is missing...

The whole machine frame and vibration reduction system are missing...

The whole machine software system is missing...

There are a huge number of files in the folder, but most of them are incomplete.

Seeing this situation, Wang Donglai thought it was normal.

After all, Wa is just an artificial intelligence with limited computing power. It is amazing that it can do the job to this extent in such a short time by relying on its own learning ability.

If Wa really designed a new lithography machine in such a short time, it would be a bit scary.

Maybe when Wa’s computing power is improved, we will be able to do something about it.

Alternatively, we can feed Wa with a large amount of papers, information and data about the various components, equipment and materials of the lithography machine. This will also speed up Wa's research and development speed and improve its research and development level.

Ever since he got Wa, Wang Donglai knew in his heart that he might have to build the world's first super database and computing power center.

Wa's ability level depends on the size of the database and computing power.

Wang Donglai is not stupid enough to be afraid of artificial intelligence and worry that it will rebel and deliberately restrict its development.

However, building a database and improving computing power require a lot of money and unremitting technological research and development.

Funding is easy to solve and is not a problem.

Research and development technology is not a difficult problem.

But there is nothing we can do about time, we can only take it slowly.

Wang Donglai opened the files in the folder one by one and looked at them.

With his ability, after reading it, he will remember it in his mind and doesn't have to worry about forgetting it.

The photolithography machine is indeed a national important tool, and many key points cannot be found on the Internet at all.

Just like many high-precision things, the principles are not complicated and can be easily found on the Internet.

But when you want to make it, you will find that there are very high requirements in many places.

For example, precision, special light waves, etc.

A full hour.

Wang Donglai just finished reading the information in these folders.

After turning off the computer, Wang Donglai thought for a moment and said to Wa, "Next, I will try to show you some cutting-edge paper data, and you can accumulate some by then."

Wa nodded and said, "Okay, Boss!"

And at this time.

Wang Donglai suddenly received a call. (End of this chapter)