Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 204 Qualcomm's Crisis
Xu Shenxue said: "This is very normal. It is natural for them to be worried!"

"Because once a competitor threatens our Zhiyun mobile phone, we will cut off supply without hesitation!"

"But even so, we still have to develop the market as much as possible. We have invested a lot of money in the SOC business. Although it is mainly for our own use, it would be a good thing if we can sell more to dilute the cost!"

"We only need to control the high-end flagship chips, and sell the other mid- and low-end chips freely. There are so many mobile phone manufacturers, and not every one of them is confident that they can threaten us in the future, so there is no need to worry about supply interruption!"

Ji Chenghe said: "I understand. I will contact some small and medium-sized mobile phone manufacturers to see if I can sell more S100 series chips!"

Xu Shenxue said: "As for Qualcomm and Texas Instruments supporting other mobile phone manufacturers, this is also unavoidable, don't worry too much!"

"Since we came up with the S100 chip last year, everyone knows that we want to develop our own mobile phone SOC chips!"

"This year, we have developed the S200 chip. Although it is only an initial model with a 1.2GHZ main frequency, it is enough to make Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and other manufacturers feel the crisis!"

"Once they lose us as a major customer, if they don't have other customers to take over, their mobile phone chip business will be declared bankrupt!"

"In this case, they must find a replacement and provide support!"

"So don't make a fuss, just follow our normal pace. We should still cooperate now, and even next year we may have to continue the cooperation, after all, we still have old phones to sell!"

Qualcomm and Texas Instruments are feeling the crisis now, but as component suppliers, they are also helpless...

If you want to find a bottleneck...it's not that easy!

As soon as Qualcomm was blocking our supply, the CEO of Texas Instruments had to fly to Shenzhen overnight to sign a contract with Zhiyun Technology, directly increasing supply to fill the gap left by Qualcomm.

On the other hand, if Texas Instruments quits, Qualcomm will also be laughing to death.

This is a super order worth 20 to 30 billion US dollars. No one will talk to you about the code of conduct or long-term interests... Wouldn't it be better for me to swallow these billions of dollars first?

Ten thousand dollars is enough for a person to hold an AK and shoot. Twenty or three billion dollars... if you find the right place, you can make a small country start a war for you.

It is impossible that this kind of order will not be sold to Zhiyun just because Zhiyun wants to develop its own chips...

Even Qualcomm and Texas Instruments, both American companies, fought tooth and nail to snatch Zhiyun's mobile phone SOC orders at the end of last year... You still expect them to join forces, which is unrealistic!

Even if they join forces, there is an ambitious Nvidia next door, and then there is Four Star... They have actually been trying to sell their new flagship dual-core chip to Zhiyun, but they have not been successful.

At worst, Zhiyun has successfully developed a dual-core chip. Although the current S200 is still slightly inferior in performance, and the mass production time cannot catch up, and the short-term production capacity is limited, Zhiyun really has it.

It's meaningless to put a stop to other people's own things!

At worst, Zhiyun can postpone the press conference for half a year, by which time it can still use the S200 chip on a large scale and release new mobile phones.

So...it's not that easy to hold Zhiyun back in the SOC field!
Even cutting off Zhiyun’s chip foundry business is not an option!

Because Zhiyun has its own Zhiyun Microelectronics, the 45-nanometer process has achieved a breakthrough.

Zhiyun Technology can manufacture its own S200 chip!
Unless they cut off Zhiyun's financial support directly and impose very deep and extensive sanctions on Zhiyun.

But the current environment is not at that level!
Of course, in order to prevent sanctions, Xu Shenxue also made a backup plan...

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Xu Shenxue put down Gao Tong's report and said:

"We still need to continue our cooperation with Qualcomm and Texas Instruments!"

"As for the competition among many manufacturers, Apple and OnePlus need to pay close attention to them, while other international manufacturers won't be around for long, so just keep doing the same. However, some domestic mobile phone manufacturers need to keep paying attention!"

"There is no need to worry too much about these simple commercial competitions. We at Zhiyun Technology have already built a relatively complete moat. Unless the United States directly imposes comprehensive sanctions based on its national will, it will not shake the existing advantages of our Zhiyun Technology."

"But Weiku Electronics may be facing a lot of trouble!"

Xu Shenxue pointed to the page about Dami Technology in the report and said, "This is a competitor worth noting. I'm afraid it will have a certain impact on Wecoo Electronics!" Ji Chenghe said, "I've also been paying attention to Dami Technology. Its founder is Lei Jun, an Internet entrepreneur with a lot of ideas. This time he crossed over to make mobile phones and attracted a lot of capital to join... After all, when we were making mobile phones a few years ago, many investors wanted to get on board, but failed. Now there is a new mobile phone manufacturer, and it is a mobile phone manufacturer with Internet genes. Naturally, these investors also attach great importance to it!"

"They have done a good job indeed. They have released customized and improved Android systems since last year, and have gained a certain reputation through online dissemination."

"I have tried their system and it feels pretty good. It is much better than some domestic customized Android systems!"

Xu Shenxue said: "Their system is interesting, at least it is made with great care, and their mobile phones are extremely cost-effective. If other domestic manufacturers and even those traditional international mobile phone manufacturers continue to be complacent, they will probably lose a large part of the market to this rice!"

I have to say that the Android customized systems of traditional domestic mobile phone manufacturers these days are really not that good...

Even if you can't achieve the level of Yun OS, you should at least modify the native Android to suit the usage habits of Chinese people... But I don't know if everyone is lazy or lacks the ability, the modified Android systems are very difficult to use.

This also gives the Rice operating system room to survive... Many people who buy smartphones of other brands will flash their phones to use the Rice operating system.

This is how rice gained its fame!
But this doesn't threaten Zhiyun!
Even Zhiyun mobile phone users generally don’t do this... because the Yun OS system is different from other Android systems, and many things are different.

There are now two branches of Android. One is the Yun OS system developed and used by Zhiyun itself. Its improvement direction is to attach great importance to system fluency, and it still maintains a semi-closed ecosystem.

Another one that Zhiyun also participated in the development of is the open source version of Android that Google still leads. It still emphasizes multi-tasking and open ecology, and takes a differentiated route from the IOS system and Yun OS system. However, there are still some defects. For example, the current native Android does not even have an information notification system. Google has been working on it, but it has not been released yet.

According to the feedback from Zhiyun engineers who participated in the open source project, based on Google's progress, it is estimated that this information notification system will not be released until next year.

This information notification system is not a useless little function, but a very important, even extremely core function.

It is directly related to whether the system can be used more smoothly!

The reason why Apple's IOS and Zhiyun's Yun OS systems dare to boldly and confidently kill background processes and maintain system smoothness is because of this underlying information notification system, which prevents users from missing out on information pushed by the APP.

Then comes the more critical point. Because Google has withdrawn from the Chinese market, this means that even if Google launches this core function in the next major version update, it will still not be available on domestic Android phones.

At the same time, other mobile phone manufacturers have not tried this thing, or they want to try it but they can't do it...

Google and Zhiyun are not doing open source for charity.

Google aims to promote its own services and occupy the mobile Internet market.

Zhiyun’s goal is to expand the Android ecosystem, obtain sufficient ecological content, and then compete with other manufacturers, especially Apple.

At the beginning, Gugou didn’t have so many ideas, but after seeing Zhiyun’s magical modification, he felt a sense of crisis: If everyone does the same as Zhiyun, I will be left with nothing!
In addition, Zhiyun is also constantly instigating that Android is open source and they should just use it, but they should not be allowed to make any changes... Otherwise, the promotion of various Google services will be ruined.

Then, the two companies discussed it privately and began to lay mines in the open source system.

Very bad!
You can use the Android open source system developed by Zhiyun and Google at will, and you can also freely adjust the surface services such as interface fonts.

It is the core of the underlying system. If you change a punctuation mark randomly, a bunch of bugs may occur.

As strong as a four-star company is, it is now struggling to modify the Android open source system jointly developed by GOOG and Zhiyun, and there has been no significant progress so far. On the one hand, there are too many landmines, and on the other hand, the joint R&D center of Zhiyun and GOOG is launching new Android versions from time to time.

The engineers at Four Star have been working hard for half a year and have just modified a few pages of underlying core code, but they ended up directly updating it to a major version.

Then the four-star engineer looked at the underlying core code of the new version, and then looked at the old version. Damn... they were completely different again. Some old codes were even deleted directly.

The engineers at Four Star couldn’t even figure out why the engineers at Zhiyun and Google deleted these old codes…

As a four-star software engineer, every time I encounter something like this, I feel like jumping off a building...

As for other mobile phone manufacturers, they don’t even bother to make any changes. They basically just change the interface and font.

There is still one chapter to be published in the afternoon.

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