Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 150 S10 Press Conference (Part )
Xu Shenxue was on the podium, looking at the large crowd below. He took a deep breath and said, "Many people know that our Zhiyun Technology is a technology-driven company. Many people, including many predecessors who have achieved great success in the business field, have told me that technology is very important, but things must be balanced. In addition to technology, other aspects such as management and marketing must maintain a relatively balanced development!"

"In terms of corporate expenditure, you cannot invest all your funds in R&D. That would be too risky and very unhealthy for the business!"

"I admire these seniors very much and think their suggestions are very good, so I chose to say NO!"

"Because from the very beginning, we at Zhiyun Technology have been a company driven by technological innovation. Starting from the very beginning of the C1 series of mobile phones, to C2, S9, Yun Book, Yun OS... we have created too many technological innovations!"

“It is these outstanding technological innovations that make our Zhiyun Technology products so special and successful in the market!”

“Therefore, in the research and development of a series of new products, we at Zhiyun Technology have always maintained huge investments!”

"In the past year, we at Zhiyun Technology have invested a total of US$5.3 billion in research and development to develop various technologies!"

As soon as the number 5.3 billion was mentioned, everyone at the scene gasped... Many people suspected that Xu Shenxue was bragging.

This is not 5.3 billion Chinese Yuan, but 5.3 billion US dollars...equivalent to 37 billion Chinese Yuan.

Zhiyun Technology is not a listed company. Although it is preparing for a listing, it is not listed after all and does not need to release various financial reports to the public. Therefore, the outside world can only make simple guesses about Zhiyun Technology's operating conditions, but it is difficult to know the details.

Now Xu Shenxue said that the R&D expenditure in the past year reached 5.3 billion US dollars!
A terrifying number.

Just hearing this number makes a group of friendly competitors despair... Most mobile phone manufacturers do not have this much revenue in a year.

The many people who were watching the live broadcast of the online press conference were also shocked by Zhiyun Technology's arrogance.

In the past, they all knew that Zhiyun Technology was very powerful, famous, and had a high market value. It was the only high-tech company in contemporary times that could be compared with fruit.

But I don’t have a specific concept.

Now, Xu Shenxue said that the R&D expenditure for just one year reached 5.3 billion US dollars... Damn, is Zhiyun Technology so rich?
In fact, Xu Shenxue was already relatively low-key at the press conference, because many things were not suitable to be said publicly, such as the fact that various strategic investments were actually larger in scale.

In the field of chip manufacturing alone, Zhiyun Technology has already invested more than a dozen US dollars, and this is only in the early stages. There are plans to invest billions of US dollars in the next two to three years, aiming to build a chip factory with advanced technological capabilities that can meet first-class chip manufacturing needs, and fully cover the front and back ends.

Zhiyun Microelectronics' goal is to reach 45 nanometers at the current stage, and 32 nanometers and 28 nanometers in the next few years... Its competitors are first-class chip manufacturers such as Intel, Samsung, and TSMC.

In the screen field, the strategic investment in JD.com alone reached more than 1 billion US dollars. In addition, it also supported another domestic screen manufacturer, with an investment scale of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Then, considerable investments were also made in other supply chains. For example, Qianding Technology has received two investments with a total amount of more than 200 million US dollars.

In order to develop the fingerprint module, we spent 300 million US dollars on acquiring overseas companies, and then spent a lot of money on subsequent research and development.

In the field of aluminum alloy fuselages, the investment before and after is also very huge.

At the same time, Zhiyun Technology is also supporting battery manufacturers, with investments also in the billions.

Zhiyun Technology actually has a lot of strategic investments. The various strategic investments in the supply chain range from a few hundred million to tens of billions or even hundreds of billions.

These investment figures are actually very exaggerated in the eyes of outsiders...

And these are just strategic investments in the mobile phone industry chain. In fact, there are a lot of strategic investments that have nothing to do with mobile phones, such as drones, IC design, some semiconductor hardware equipment, and some miscellaneous companies.

Basically, Zhiyun Technology is interested in any field that has something to do with high-tech, and will buy some of it...

Why do you do this?

Why else? Because I have money!

In the past, the revenue was several billion dollars, and the gross profit was so high... It really couldn't be spent by conventional means. Even with the current horrible spending speed of Zhiyun Technology, it still can't be spent. Today, Zhiyun Technology still has tens of billions of dollars in its account...

With a cash flow of over 10 billion US dollars, there are not many companies of this scale around the world.

So you can see that Zhiyun Technology is rather casual when it comes to R&D and strategic investment. It just does whatever it’s interested in and has prospects.

That’s why there are so many messy so-called ecological chain products: lots of money and messing around…but you know what, even with all this messing around, a lot of technology can still be produced.

For example, the team working on the dancing speaker in Zhiyun Technology, after developing the dancing speaker, felt that the speaker was not going anywhere, so they started working on a dancing robot. Putting aside the so-called dancing, this thing is actually the research and development of robots...

Otherwise, do you really think that the senior R&D leaders in Zhiyun Technology are all fools? The team below just wants to make a music speaker and they will just allocate tens of millions of R&D funds. They are all smart people and they can see the robot technology involved at a glance.

This robot can dance, which means it can walk, run or perform various other actions. It can be used as an industrial robot in industry. Furthermore, it can also be used as a load-bearing robot to carry supplies to the front line, or even carry guns to the front line.

Many things that Zhiyun Technology does may seem like a joke, but behind these jokes are often some of the most cutting-edge technologies, even those with sci-fi attributes.

For example, the small desk lamp… The voice control technology inside it seems to be very childish, but it actually uses the voice recognition technology of Zhiyun Technology’s internal intelligent assistant team… In a sense, this thing is actually a small attempt by Zhiyun Technology’s voice assistant team, but it was a very unsuccessful attempt.

As a high-tech enterprise with no shortage of money, Zhiyun Technology has too many messy scientific research and investment projects. Sometimes even some senior executives of the company can't figure out how many R&D projects Zhiyun Technology has and how many third-party projects it has invested in!
The only one who can take full control is Xu Shenxue!
Under Xu Shenxue's planning and control, many seemingly messy R&D projects actually have profound meanings.

Let's take the dancing speaker as an example... Xu Shenxue is not targeting a speaker, but a robot... Even ordinary toy robots are not his target, industrial robots are his target, and future robots that can be used in the defense field are also his target... The target is not just some random thing, Boston Robotics,

It's just that R&D personnel are often a little idealistic and stubborn... They insist on making an impression, a robot that can dance... What can Xu Shenxue do? What else can he do? Anyway, the technology is common, so let them do whatever they want.

As long as the relevant technology is developed, those technical geeks in the R&D team who graduated from IMT and returned to China can make it dance if they want...

I don't know what kind of bad taste he has. He actually wants to watch robots dance. As a normal person, Xu Shenxue can't understand this idea. He must be sick...

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The $5.3 billion R&D investment shocked the audience and many live viewers. Xu Shenxue then said: "Such a huge R&D investment has naturally brought us some very good technological achievements!"

"First, let's take a look at the camera system of our new flagship S10 phone. We have adopted a very unique algorithm and even specially designed and developed a camera chip to make it the smartest and most user-friendly camera ever!"

"You don't need any professional photography skills. When you turn on the camera, the system will automatically adjust all parameters such as exposure according to the lighting and other conditions. The user only needs to click lightly, and the phone can take a perfect photo for you in an instant!"

"At the same time, in order to better collect light, we also use a very unique dual flash mode. In addition to the traditional cold white flash, there is also an orange flash. The system will automatically adjust the flash tone according to external conditions to give users the best light supplement, enough to take professional photos."

"In addition to the camera, we also used the most advanced mobile phone SOC chip, whose computing performance has been greatly improved compared to the S9. The 1.4GHZ main frequency combined with the revolutionary DD3 running memory has brought revolutionary computing speed to this phone."

"The GPU unit it comes with is also incredibly powerful, enough to provide the best picture display effects for watching videos and playing games."

"In terms of computing power, S10 has made history and turned the impossible into possible!"

Xu Shenxue continued talking, and then talked about the battery life, saying that the battery life under 3G network has reached ten hours, and the battery life for listening to music has reached forty hours.

However, Xu Shenxue did not spend too much time talking about the above-mentioned things, and most of them were just casually mentioned in a few words.

As for these things, apart from the special camera system and the fact that it has its own chip which is worth bragging about, there is actually nothing much to brag about other things.

That is to say, the SOC has been upgraded... Strictly speaking, the rest is not much different from the S9, even the screen is the same 4-inch screen.

After briefly introducing these contents, Xu Shenxue returned to the small podium: "Okay, now, let me introduce you to some really exciting features... In fact, I prefer to call it black technology!"

(End of this chapter)