Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 213 Autumn Conference and the First Launch of Domestic Dual-core
On Friday, August 5, the annual Zhiyun Autumn Conference officially kicked off.

Just like the autumn press conferences in previous years were hosted by Xu Shenxue himself, this year's autumn press conference will still be hosted by Xu Shenxue.

The two press conferences in summer and autumn were the only occasions where the outside world could see Xu Shenxue. At other times, Xu Shenxue basically did not appear in public.

He doesn't attend ordinary press conferences or accept interviews. The only time he was interviewed was when he first started out, he accepted a few interviews from top media, but he never participated in any more after that.

At the same time, Xu Shenxue never attended any public occasions.

Therefore, it is generally difficult for outsiders to see Xu Shenxue.

Today's press conference is also the first time that Xu Shenxue has appeared in the public eye since the flagship press conference in June.

As the press conference began, as usual, Xu Shenxue introduced several interesting ecological chain products, one of which was a wheeled transport robot. He also demonstrated the cargo transporting on site. The cargo transport was extremely smooth, and it could also identify more complex stacked cargo and transport it to the container for sorting.

However, this robot is still far from being an artificial intelligence robot in the true sense, because most of its behavior patterns are programmed behaviors, rather than AI autonomous recognition, judgment, and decision-making.

However, even this type of robot has great development prospects in the future industrial field, because many so-called industrial robots are actually programmed in advance and operate according to fixed procedures.

This relatively low-level industrial robot is also a major research focus of the Institute of Intelligence.

The industrial robot released today is just a conceptual product and does not meet the requirements for being put on the market. The reason why it was put on the press conference today is mainly to show off its technology.

Let me tell outsiders that although we at Zhiyun are constantly making money in the mobile phone field, we have not forgotten all kinds of black technologies. You see, we are working on this robot. Although we still haven’t achieved any practical results, our attitude towards developing robots is very sincere!

After briefly introducing several interesting ecological chain products, Xu Shenxue stepped down from the stage and handed over the launch of the C4 mobile phone to Ji Chenghe, the group's vice president and head of the marketing department.

Ji Chenghe is also a very familiar person to media reporters and even ordinary consumers.

He basically hosts Zhiyun Technology's spring press conference, and he also hosts some daily press conferences.

After Ji Chenghe came on stage, he said with a smile: "Thank you, Mr. Xu, for giving me this opportunity. To be honest, I have been looking forward to hosting our autumn press conference and introducing our latest products of Zhiyun Technology to consumers, especially smart terminal products!"

"Now I finally have this opportunity. Thank you Mr. Xu, and also thank you to all our partners and media friends!"

“Let’s get back to the point. Anyone who knows Zhiyun Technology knows that the starting point of Zhiyun is the C1 mobile phone. At that time, the C1 mobile phone brought deep memories to the vast number of consumers!”

"As of the end of production in June this year, the total sales of this phone reached 1 million units. It was the most successful phone in the early era of smartphones and was loved by consumers around the world. Many people also got to know Zhiyun Technology through the C phone!"

"Based on the C1 phone, we launched the C2 phone, which is also a very successful phone. It has made great improvements in all aspects compared to the C1 phone."

"Then last fall, we presented the C3 series of mobile phones to users around the world, a product that strikes a perfect balance between price and performance, allowing people to conveniently experience the mobile Internet. This product has been recognized by users around the world since its launch, with sales reaching million units in the past year, making it the best-selling mobile phone ever!"

"Therefore, the C series has special significance for us at Zhiyun Technology and for the vast majority of users."

“And today, we at Zhiyun Technology will bring you the latest C series products, the C4 series of mobile phones developed by our Zhiyun engineering team.”

As Ji Chenghe spoke, the C4 mobile phone officially appeared on the big screen behind him. It continued the design style of the C series mobile phones. The overall look was youthful and fashionable, yet steady.

"We have developed a brand new body frame for this new phone. The inner layer is a steel frame, and the outer layer is wrapped with a PC material we specially developed. This achieves high strength and high toughness. We also use a very special mirror processing technology to make the entire phone shell look more beautiful and elegant, and it feels very good in the hand!"

"This kind of body material gives us more design space and allows us to prepare very nice colors for this phone, such as silver pearl white, olive green, rose red, light sea blue and dark night black!"

"In addition to the regular colors, we have also added the exclusive Star Sand color, Starry Sky and Pink Purple color that were previously available on the C series Pro to the entire C4 series!"

"We at Zhiyun Technology are committed to providing more choices for everyone, so everyone can choose different colors according to their preferences."

Ji Chenghe started by talking about the appearance and color scheme. After introducing them once, he began to say, "Everyone should know that the S11 series of mobile phones we released in June used a powerful dual-core chip, and today, we also brought the dual-core chip to the C4!"

"The entire C4 series will be equipped with a powerful dual-core custom chip with a dual-core main frequency of 1GHZ and dual GPUs. Compared with the previous generation C3, the overall performance has been improved by five times. This will be the most powerful C series mobile phone ever."

"In order to give full play to its powerful chip performance, we configured a powerful 1GB of running memory. The computing power provided by the combination of the two is amazing."

"In addition, the chip also has extremely powerful graphics processing capabilities, and coupled with 1GB of RAM, it is enough to provide users with a powerful video viewing and gaming experience!"

"Of course, if you want to get a strong visual experience, you can't do without a large screen. We have equipped the entire C4 series with a -inch screen, which has very good resolution and color performance!"

Ji Chenghe did not introduce to the public that this screen is a domestically produced screen... This is the first time that a domestically produced screen supplier has entered the Zhiyun supply chain. Although the overall quality of this screen is not as good as that of Sharp and LG, the overall level is still remarkable.

In the past two years, Zhiyun Technology has accumulated tens of billions of dollars in strategic investment, and with the support of orders for mid- and low-end screens from Weiku Electronics, it has forcibly pulled out two domestic screen suppliers, BOE and CSOT. Because the investment is so huge, Zhiyun Technology has now become an important shareholder of these two screen suppliers, and even the controlling shareholder of CSOT.

This is also nonsense. Xu Shenxue felt from the beginning that the development of domestic screens was actually quite good, so he did not plan to get too deeply involved. He only provided regular strategic investment and order support.

However, he did not expect that by supporting the company, he would become the controlling shareholder.

There is no way. Zhiyun Technology is advancing too fast. It is difficult for domestic screen suppliers to catch up on their own even if they try hard. In order to get rid of its dependence on foreign screens as soon as possible, Zhiyun Technology has been sparing no effort to support it.

Then Huaxing, seeing this, said directly, "Brother, why don't you just take control of me, then invest money quickly, and send orders to me. It doesn't matter if I own a smaller share, as long as I make more money."

LG also felt Zhiyun Technology's determination to make its own screens, but it was impossible for them to give up, and they had no way to influence Zhiyun's decision. Finally, they proposed a plan, which was a joint venture... LG would use some factories and technical support, including a large number of patent licenses, and Zhiyun would also invest money and orders, and then Huaxing would also join in, and finally a three-party joint venture would be established.

Then a brand new Huaxing Technology emerged, with Zhiyun Technology holding 51% of the shares, LG holding 20% ​​and Huaxing's parent company holding 29% of the shares.

With the financial support of Zhiyun and the technical support of LG, and after the new screen company took control, Xu Shenxue was also able to assign scientific research quotas to the company's R&D personnel, so the development of the new screen went relatively smoothly.

At the beginning of this year, we successfully developed a new screen technology that can be used to create high-end screens. Although there is still a gap in overall performance compared to first-class foreign products, it is already very good.

Under such circumstances, Zhiyun Technology did not hesitate to fully adopt this new screen technology for its C series mobile phones, while Huaxing Technology tailor-made a 4-inch high-end screen for the C mobile phone.

This is how the domestically produced screen was used on the C4 mobile phone at the press conference.

However, Zhiyun Technology has never liked to say at press conferences who the spare parts are from or how awesome they are, and it will never deliberately mention whether they are domestically made or imported products.

There is no need. Zhiyun Technology never brags about concepts such as domestic or imported products... Even if it wants to brag, it usually brags about its own research and development.

Dual-core 1GHZ chip, 1GB running memory, dual-network or full-network communication baseband, Zhiyun's exclusive multi-functional chip, plus a -inch domestic high-end screen.

Finally, let’s inject soul into this phone: Yun OS4.0 system!

However, what disappoints people is that the system on the C series mobile phones does not have the built-in artificial intelligence 'Xiaoyun'.

Xiaoyun is Zhiyun Technology’s current flagship product. Its brand positioning is greater than its actual functional positioning, so Zhiyun Technology is very cautious in the use of artificial intelligence (AI), and only uses it in the S and A series.

It will not be compatible with the C series, and the system from sister company WeCool Electronics will not have this function either.

Zhiyun Technology needs to maintain the high-end nature of its artificial intelligence technology... If you want to experience artificial intelligence, come and buy my high-end machine!

Just like fingerprint recognition technology, it is exclusive to high-end phones, so don’t count on it for the C series.

But even so, the C4 series of mobile phones, relying solely on a dual-core chip, 1GB of RAM and a -inch large screen, can still gain a considerable advantage at the yuan price point.

Currently, a large number of dual-core mobile phones from international brands are often high-end flagship phones, and the cheapest ones cost more than three thousand or even four thousand yuan. In the mid-range market, single-core mobile phones are the mainstream.

At the same time, relying on the exclusive Yun OS system and brand value, this C4 mobile phone will have no problem selling in large quantities.

Finally, Ji Chenghe introduced the domestic prices of various versions of C4.

The C4 8GB version is priced at 2999 yuan.

The C4 16GB version is priced at 3299 yuan.

The C4 32GB version is priced at 3699 yuan.

At this time, people noticed that this generation of C series mobile phones did not have the previous Pro version, but was directly replaced by a 32GB version.

But the overall price is still relatively affordable... after all, it is a dual-core processor with 1GB of memory and a -inch large screen.

The low-end version of the C series has always been regarded as a conscientious work of Zhiyun Technology in the eyes of outsiders, and the price is not too expensive.

The low-end version of this generation of C4 still failed to break the yuan price range, which made many people who were paying attention to the new generation of C series mobile phones feel a little relieved.

After Ji Chenghe introduced the C4 mobile phone, he left the stage and Xu Shenxue returned to the stage!

This time, according to the program, he will release the A11 mobile phone, an important sub-high-end project in Zhiyun Technology.

Xu Shenxue stood casually on the stage and faced the audience: "I think some people should have guessed what I am going to talk about. That's right, it is the A11 mobile phone that many people, including myself, are looking forward to!"

"But before I officially introduce this phone, I want to talk about a chip, a high-end chip developed by Zhiyun Technology!"

"Intelligent Core S200!"

While speaking, Xu Shenxue held a very small chip between his fingers and faced the audience: "Our semiconductor department under Zhiyun Technology has developed a top-notch dual-core chip after a long period of research and development and the efforts of many engineers!"

"Based on our self-developed ICore 1.0 architecture, we have further derived the ICore 2.0 architecture, which is a high-performance dual-core chip architecture with the characteristics of high performance and low power consumption."

"We have integrated two CPU cores on this self-developed chip, with a main frequency of 1.2GHZ, and this is a dynamic main frequency. Using our excellent power management solution, we can adjust the CPU frequency according to the real-time needs of the mobile phone to save energy and increase the overall battery life."

"We also use two GPU cores of our self-developed AP60 architecture, with a frequency of 400MHZ, which can provide extremely powerful graphics processing power."

"At the same time, it also integrates our Zhiyun self-developed dual-network communication baseband core or triple-network communication baseband core."

As Xu Shenxue spoke, a rough schematic diagram of the S200 chip appeared on the large screen behind him. There were many divided areas on it, allowing people to clearly see that the entire SOC chip has a large number of various functional cores.

(End of this chapter)