Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 333 Is this world crazy? Or am I crazy?
It is now January 16, and the fierce competition in the smartphone field has come to an end.

In the past few months, major mobile phone manufacturers have launched an extremely brutal competition, fighting tooth and nail to gain market share.

Some are happy and some are sad during this process.

In the past six months, the biggest winner in the mobile phone market is naturally Zhiyun Group.

Relying on the epoch-making S15MAX, Zhiyun's S series mobile phones have once again raised the technical level of top flagship phones. Its unique 3D face recognition has become the hottest technological innovation in the past six months, or even in the past two or three years, and has been hotly discussed by countless people.

Regardless of whether consumers like this 3D face recognition technology or not, the technical content of this thing is really super high. Even if Zhiyun is against it, it has to first say "Although 3D face recognition technology is advanced", and then follow it with a "but".

At present, this technology can be said to be a black technology and is very eye-catching.

Relying on the uniqueness of 3D face recognition technology and the compromises made to enable 3D face recognition, the notch screen has a very high appearance recognition.

This caters to the preferences of many people.

Some people buy it for the 3D facial recognition technology, but it is undeniable that many people buy it purely for the high recognition of the notch screen.

When you pick it up, people around you can tell at a glance that you are using a mobile phone worth tens of thousands of dollars. It’s really impressive!

All these have led to the sales of S15MAX far exceeding everyone's expectations.

Not only did the outside world underestimate the sales volume of this phone at the beginning, even the Zhiyun Group underestimated the sales volume of this phone at the beginning.

Since its official release and launch in mid-August, the S15 series of mobile phones, including the S15MAX, have been launched in markets in more than countries and regions around the world.

As of December 15th, in the past four and a half months, the entire S series has shipped more than million units, with extremely exaggerated sales.

There has been a shortage of supply in the previous few months, and the sales of the S15 series gradually slowed down after mid-December.

However, only the S15 and S15Pro have slowed down in sales, while the sales of its core model, the S15MAX, continue to maintain a relatively high shipment level.

Of the 15 million S15 series shipments, SMAX accounted for %, with shipments exceeding million units, breaking Zhiyun Group's single-model mobile phone shipment record.

On January 15, Zhiyun Group officially announced the shipment data of the S15 series of mobile phones, which attracted heated discussions around the world... This is actually also for advertising, to carry out a wave of publicity, and then stimulate the continued hot sales of the S15 series, especially the SMAX mobile phones.

If you want to sell more mobile phones, it is not enough to just make a good phone. You also need to maintain a relatively high popularity to stimulate potential consumers who have not yet purchased the phone to make up their minds to buy it.

S15MAX sold million units in four and a half months, and this achievement shocked countless people... It's crazy that such an expensive phone can sell million units in just a few months.

Many people can't even understand why so many products can be sold.

"Is the world crazy? Or am I crazy?"

"How could such an expensive phone be sold in so many copies? This must be fake!"

"The whole world is full of rich people, and I am the only pauper!"

"Are people so rich nowadays? Are they willing to buy a mobile phone with a starting price of 8,000 yuan?"

“Am I underestimating people’s incomes, or am I overestimating my wallet?”

"After looking at the S15MAX and my bank card balance, I realized that I had paid for it by mistake!"

Of course, there were also people who cursed Zhiyun crazily, in a sarcastic tone or even swore at him. In short, there were all kinds of people.

This situation is not just a domestic evaluation, but occurs in most countries... Of course, the United States is not included. Zhiyun's smart terminal products withdrew from the US market last year, and this year's S15 is also not sold in the US market.

Since it is not sold in the United States, local consumers naturally have nothing to complain about... Even if they complain, they will only blame the United States for blocking Zhiyun, which forces them to buy parallel imported S15MAX at a high price.

That’s right, in fact, American consumers can still purchase Zhiyun phones, including the latest S15MAX.

Very few people go directly to the two neighboring countries of Mexico and Canada to buy, or to other countries to buy.

Of course, most people still buy smuggled fruit phones.

Zhiyun Group's mobile phones are compatible with all networks worldwide and can be used with cards from any operator. At the same time, the versions sold in Mexico also include so-called international versions and international duty-free versions... In fact, the international version is a special version for several US operators.

The duty-free version is sold in Mexico, but it is sold in duty-free shops. After you purchase the phone and enter the United States, you pay the tax yourself.

It is worth noting that the United States is only closely following the sales of Zhiyun's smart terminals in the United States, but has never prohibited Americans from buying Zhiyun phones abroad and bringing them back for use, and there is no way to prohibit it... Can you stop Americans from buying a phone abroad and bringing it back?

Naturally, people can buy whatever they want. The worst that can happen is that they just have to pay taxes when entering the country.

Of course, there are also some illegal elements who will not pay taxes obediently. After purchasing large quantities of international duty-free versions, they will smuggle them directly into the country to save taxes.

After being smuggled in, they are sold at a higher price.

Such a price is naturally very expensive. At the beginning, in the gray market in the United States, a 32GB version of S15MAX cost more than two thousand US dollars. Even for the middle class in the United States, it was very painful to buy it.

It’s a little cheaper now, but it still costs more than a thousand dollars, which is very expensive.

Many Americans are very dissatisfied with this... Why can the Mexicans next door use the cheap S15MAX, but we have to be the fucking suckers and use the S15MAX that costs twice as much?
Just relying on the smuggling gray market, a statistical analysis agency came up with a fact that embarrassed many people.

The S15 series of mobile phones, which have not been officially launched in the US market, have unexpectedly entered the mobile phone sales list. Although the ranking is not very good, the shipment volume has still reached to units...

And everyone knows that these S15MAX phones are basically smuggled in.

If we include the S14 phone that was also smuggled in, Zhiyun’s phone shipments in the United States this year could reach about million units!
This is fucking crazy.

Many illegal armed elements in Mexico have now switched to smuggling smart phones... transporting them by submarines, by small planes, or simply digging tunnels on land!

A mobile phone can bring in several hundred dollars in profit, and mobile phones are small and very easy to carry.

Some small-time people simply carry the phones at the port. Even if they bring in a few phones at a time, they can make a profit of several hundred dollars, which is very easy to make.

The overall profit is very good, and the risk is much smaller than transporting illegal drugs... After all, if you transport and sell illegal drugs, the American anti-drug judicial personnel will not let you off the hook. They will pull out their rifles directly, and the personal risks of the transporters are extremely high.

But it’s just smuggling a mobile phone...it’s not that serious. As long as you’re not too stupid, you will be caught and your life won’t be in too much danger.

As for whether the goods can be sold after being smuggled in.

It turns out that some American consumers still prefer Zhiyun...

Basically, unless they are die-hard Apple users, their best choice is the Zhiyun S series mobile phone, followed by the four-star Galaxy series. As for the flagship phones of other brands, they are not even up to the standard.

American consumers are not stupid. They won't eat whatever the conglomerates feed them.

Even many rich people and some celebrities own an S15MAX.

Of course, relying on smuggled fruits to sell more than one million mobile phones is nothing for the huge Zhiyun Group, and Zhiyun Group is too lazy to care about it.

And the fruit competitor is too lazy to pay attention to it.

The current mobile phone market in the United States is still very large, with sales in the fourth quarter of this year reaching nearly 40 million units. Among them, Apple naturally took the lion's share, followed by Samsung, which replaced Zhiyun's ecological niche, then LG and Motorola after being acquired by Lianxiang, and finally HTC, which is not dead yet.

Then, except for Lianxiang, which acquired Motorola and used the Motorola brand, other domestic mobile phone manufacturers suffered major blows and their market share was very bleak.

Last year, Zhiyun Mobile was forced to withdraw from the US market, which caused a sensation, but in fact several domestic mobile phone manufacturers were also hit.

Last year can be said to be the year when domestic mobile phones, including other smart terminals, withdrew from the US market on a large scale.

However, although smart terminals cannot be sold, the US market is still an important market for Zhiyun Group... It sounds nonsense, but it is the fact.

Because many of the mobile phones sold in the US market today use W series chips from Zhiyun Semiconductor.

Including Samsung, LG, Motorola and HTC...their flagship phones this year all use the W806 chip.

Then a large number of other smart terminals, PC products, home appliances, etc. sold in the US market also have a large number of various chips from Zhiyun Group.

From mobile chips to PC chips, memory particles, flash memory particles, there are many.

Then a large number of American companies adopted it, and it can even be said that there is no alternative for enterprise-level high-speed flash memory arrays. On the surface, the supplier is an American company... but in fact, this supplier is a subsidiary of Zhiyun Semiconductor. From the solution to the flash memory particles, they are all made by Zhiyun!
Then there are automotive-grade chips... Whether it's Ford, GM, or even Tesla, the automotive-grade algorithm chips required for the assisted driving functions used in their vehicles are all made by Zhiyun.

There is currently no product on this earth that can replace Zhiyun's EYEQ series chips.

There is also the AI ​​field which is inaccessible to ordinary people but is highly valued by major high-tech companies. The series of APO series graphics cards and NVIDIA graphics cards used in it are also owned by Zhiyun.

The sales volume of the above-mentioned products in the United States can be said to be quite large, and there was an increase in 15.

The US market has been able to provide Zhiyun Group with more than 20 billion US dollars in direct or indirect revenue to date... It's quite funny to say.

Do you think those American companies don’t want to ban... They want to, but they can’t!

Many of Zhiyun’s semiconductor products have been blocked, and they can’t even find replacements!

Besides, Xu Shenxue always plays the game of "if you are cruel, I will be more cruel than you" and he never shows mercy!

If you block my smart terminal, I will kick out the fruit.

If you mess with my semiconductors, I will kick out Intel, Qualcomm and other American semiconductor companies...

If you play something darker, I also have something darker. If you dare to shoot bullets at me, I will dare to throw rockets at your house!
Who is afraid of whom!
In such a situation, the other party actually has concerns and will not easily further expand the scope of hostility.

Business competition has always been so simple and plain!
At least that's what Xu Shenxue saw.

But in the eyes of some people, it is not like that. They think that rules are above everything else and they are afraid of this and that. If someone blocks you, Zhiyun, you have to reflect, improve, and then beg!

How can you allow rockets to be thrown at people's homes just because they blockade you... This is not decent and very dangerous, and will trigger larger-scale confrontations!

But Xu Shenxue believes that other means are useless against the American consortium, especially playing within the rules. How can you play within the rules they set? That's courting death!
You need to play outside the rules he established, such as throwing a rocket directly at his house, and the effect will be different.

Only when the other party has concerns will they sit down honestly and discuss a new rule that both parties can accept, and then everyone will play together under this new rule.

At present, Zhiyun Group and the other party are playing under this new rule. The temporary oral agreement reached by both parties two years ago is still valid.

As for how long this temporary agreement can last, it depends on subsequent changes in the overall environment!

Before that, the US market was still an important market for Zhiyun Group, with annual revenue of more than 20 billion US dollars.

Zhiyun America is still established in Silicon Valley, but on a much smaller scale.

Currently, Zhiyun Group’s branch in the United States, Zhiyun America, is a pure sales and after-sales technical support company without any production system.

As for the scale of technology, it is much smaller than in previous years. The current Zhiyun Technology R&D Center has only more than a thousand people in total. These two thousand people in the R&D center are mainly used to localize some of Zhiyun's semiconductor products and provide technical support to major corporate customers.

The entire Zhiyun Group's US branch now has only more than 5,000 employees, most of whom are administrative, sales, and technical support personnel, including NVIDIA and some other subsidiaries.

Compared with the previous peak period of more than 10,000 people, it has dropped a lot.

All core R&D institutions have been abolished, and even Nvidia's gaming graphics card business R&D project team has been moved to China and Europe.

In this case, even if Zhiyun Group is subject to comprehensive sanctions from the United States and is banned from any operations in the United States, the losses will not be too great, and there will be no risk of leakage of core assets or technology.

The U.S. market is relatively special for Zhiyun Group. Its revenue is still large, but it faces the risk of further sanctions escalation at any time.

Therefore, Zhiyun Group’s attitude is: earn as much as you can!

Of course, this is limited to some enterprise-level services and semiconductor products.

As for smart terminals, both sides have already torn their faces in this field and then imposed reciprocal sanctions. There is no way to change it.

Zhiyun Mobile can only sell some smuggled goods, the quantity of which is extremely limited and not worth mentioning, and has no impact on the huge Zhiyun Group.

However, the S15 series has sold hundreds of thousands of parallel-imported units in the United States in just a few months, which still proves the strong appeal of the Zhiyun S15 series of mobile phones, especially the S15MAX.

This is true in the United States, let alone in other countries or regions.

In the domestic market, Zhiyun's S15 series has shipped more than million units in the past four and a half months, and more than million units in the EU market. There are also significant shipments in many other markets such as Japan, India, Russia, ASEAN, South America, and West Asia.

The S15MAX is even more controversial! Not all of them are praised, in fact there are a lot of criticisms... mainly because of its high price and ugly notch screen.

However, this still cannot conceal the huge sales volume of S15MAX!
Then after Zhiyun announced the sales of the S15 series, many people fell silent and even began to doubt their lives.

This shouldn't be!
Why do so many people buy this broken thing?

Then... it caused a wave of public opinion, with many media outlets frantically reporting on the huge shipment volume of Zhiyun S15MAX, which made more people curious and expectant about this phone.

Then when I change my phone, if I have enough money, I will consider buying an S15MAX, at least to see the magical 3D facial recognition that is touted.

And once you use it, you can’t live without it.

3D face recognition is combined with raise-to-wake, which is very convenient to use. At the beginning, 3D face recognition may not be able to recognize people wearing masks or glasses.

However, in October, Zhiyun Group pushed a system update, optimized the 3D face recognition algorithm, and added mask mode and glasses mode, allowing people to accurately unlock their phones even when wearing masks and glasses.

Whether it is in the scenario of unlocking the mobile phone, in the scenario of mobile payment, or used as a password for various APPs, 3D face recognition has demonstrated extreme security.

Far more secure than traditional fingerprint recognition.

This can be seen from the fact that various payment manufacturers, including banks, have upgraded their APPs to support Zhiyun's 3D face recognition function. The security of this thing is beyond doubt.

Users also don’t have to worry about 3D face recognition data being stolen, because the 3D face data is stored in the local security core of the mobile phone and is randomly encrypted by the local security core.

This kind of security data will not even be uploaded to Zhiyun's data center server...even if it needs to be randomly encrypted locally before uploading.

But Zhiyun doesn’t even upload it, it stores it directly locally.

All of these are aimed at improving security and reducing user disgust, while also completely prohibiting any APP manufacturer from accessing security data.

Security is a slogan that Zhiyun Mobile focuses on creating!
For this reason, Zhiyun Group has publicly rejected investigations by judicial authorities in many countries.

Back in December, when the British judicial department was investigating a vicious murder case, they found that a suicidal suspect was using a Zhiyun S11 mobile phone, but there was no password and the fingerprint mode had expired, so their judicial agency could not open it!

They sent a letter to Zhiyun Group, asking Zhiyun Group to cooperate with them to unlock the phone... Zhiyun directly refused!
This also caused quite a stir in public opinion.

Of course, facing official agencies in various countries, Zhiyun was relatively tactful, saying that we are powerless... The password data is stored locally and is randomly encrypted, so we cannot decrypt it ourselves.

If you need it and have clear legal permission documents, I can flash your phone... and give you a new phone after restoration.

But if you want to directly obtain the personal data of the original owner, I'm sorry, I can't do anything...

This is not the first time that a judicial agency has asked Zhiyun to decrypt the information, but Zhiyun’s attitude is always the same...helpless.

As to whether it is truly powerless or just a false claim, only Zhiyun’s own core engineers know… Anyway, what Zhiyun has publicized to the outside world is not possible, and whether you believe it or not is business for outsiders.

Of course, if Zhiyun does not have a solution, there will still be some third-party cracking companies, some of which can also unlock some older models of Zhiyun phones, basically by exploiting some undiscovered security loopholes.

Finally, the British judicial authorities found a data company to crack the system and successfully obtained the personal data of the S11... However, after the news was announced, Zhiyun urgently pushed a security update to Zhiyun mobile phone users around the world the next day... and blocked this "newly discovered" security vulnerability.

Zhiyun Group is serious about security.

This is one of the foundations for Zhiyun mobile phones to become popular all over the world. When consumers buy your flagship phone, they don’t just consider one aspect, but all of it!
Security is no exception!
Zhiyun promotes 3D face recognition as the most advanced and secure unlocking method currently, at least fifty times stronger than fingerprint unlocking!
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While the S15MAX continues to sell well around the world and reaps the wallets of global consumers, Zhiyun Group also took the opportunity to launch a new generation of PC products in December.

The main focus is still the ultra-thin business notebook series, including the three series of YunBook13, 14, and 15. In addition, mini hosts and integrated hosts have also been released.

The above-mentioned PC products all have one feature, that is, they all use the latest generation of CPUs using 14-nanometer technology.

This is the WZ5000/U series that Wichita Technology just released in November, and Zhiyun Group's PC products are the first to be equipped with this series of chips.

Is this series of chips powerful?

Just look at its 14-nanometer process.

This is the second CPU chip in the world to use the 14nm process, and it is only less than a year later than the first Intel.

At the same time, Intel's fifth-generation Core processor, launched at the beginning of the year, did not actually have much impact because of the old architecture and the fact that it was only a mobile CPU, so it was not well-known. Many people had not even heard of the fifth-generation Core processor.

This is also the reason why Intel quickly launched the sixth-generation Core in the second half of this year. The sixth-generation Core has desktop and mobile versions, covering entry-level, mid-range and high-end, and is Intel's flagship core product.

After Intel's sixth-generation Core processor was launched on the market, the CPU businesses of AMD and Visionox Technology came under greater pressure.

Intel is still very powerful these days and is the only dominant player. In the 15 years of CPU market share, including desktop, mobile, and server markets, Intel alone has a market share of about %.

AMD occupies about 20% of the market share, while Weizhi Technology, a subsidiary of Zhiyun Group, only occupies about 10% of the market share.

Facing Intel's sixth-generation Core, AMD and Visionox have launched their own next-generation CPU plans.

AMD is a bit special. Some of their new CPU models are manufactured using TSMC's 16nm process, while some high-end models are manufactured using Zhiyun's 14nm process, in order to reduce costs as much as possible and compete on cost-effectiveness.

Weizhi Technology, a subsidiary of Zhiyun, successfully obtained a small amount of Zhiyun Microelectronics' 5000nm process production capacity after October, and used this capacity to produce WZ/U series chips.

Especially the W5000U series chips, which are expected to be installed on Zhiyun business notebooks. They bear the heavy responsibility of Zhiyun Group's PC business revenue, and therefore have obtained relatively large production capacity.

As for the WZ5000 series CPUs used in desktop computers, only a small number were actually produced. In the early stages, they were mainly supplied to the Zhiyun mini host and all-in-one computer series, which had relatively low sales. However, the sales of these two series were not high to begin with, so the demand for CPUs was not great.

As for external supply, the current production capacity is not enough. It is expected that large-scale supply to the outside world, mainly to cooperating PC manufacturers such as Lianxiang, Tongfang Computer, Shenzhou, Asus and other computer manufacturers, will be possible only after February.

In addition, the desktop version will also be released for sale simultaneously.

The WZ5000/U series CPU, as a new generation of CPU based on the nm process developed by Wichita Technology, can be said to be quite outstanding in terms of hardware, and is not much different from Intel's sixth-generation Core.

Especially for mobile CPUs such as the WZ5000U series, in order to supply their own important PC business, that is, the ultra-thin business notebook series, the performance requirements can be said to be quite high.

After all, Zhiyun's notebooks have always been high-end and directly target fruit notebooks, so they have to reach the limit in all aspects.

The 15th generation notebook launched last year was limited by the fact that the performance of the WZ4000U was slightly behind Intel's CPU. Therefore, Zhiyun's generation of notebooks was somewhat inferior in performance, and was forced to adopt other methods such as upgrading the running memory and improving the screen to offset the gap. However, this also led to higher costs and a decrease in gross profit.

This year, Zhiyun's PC business department gave a strict order to Weichi Technology that the new generation of CPUs must have top-level performance, even if it cannot exceed the performance of Intel's Core 6th generation mobile version, it must be on par.

Otherwise, their PC division would be out of business... just lay it off.

Zhiyun’s smart terminal products have always been the industry’s top products. Even if they cannot lead their core competitors, they can at least maintain their lead.

As for falling behind competitors...that only happens in the PC field.

This made the PC business department of Zhiyun Group very unhappy.

What? Our PC business department is raised by a stepmother, so we have to be the one that lags behind?
Under strong pressure from the PC business department, the R&D department of Wichita Technology also worked hard, mobilized a large number of elite personnel, designed a new chip architecture, and then produced the WZ5000/U series chips.

Among them, the WZ5000U has extremely powerful performance.

For example, the WZ5050U chip has four CPU cores with a main frequency of 2.8GHZ, and the maximum main frequency can reach 3.6GHZ. It also has 8MB of L3 cache and supports the latest and currently top-level LPDDR2133 MHZ running memory.

This mobile chip is designed to compete with the latest flagship i7 mobile version of Core.

而搭载这款芯片的YunBook15 Pro，则是搭载了16GB的标配LPDDR3-2133MHZ运行内存，搭载了512GB的第四代江城储存3D闪存颗粒。

An optional 1TB or 2TB solid-state drive is also available.

In addition to the integrated graphics card built into the CPU, the laptop also provides an independent graphics card. And it is not the independent graphics card of NVIDIA that is more common in ordinary computers, but the APO independent graphics card from the GPU division of Zhiyun Semiconductor. It was also just launched this year. It is a high-end low-voltage version of the graphics card APO4700U for mobile terminals.

This graphics card is not available for sale to the public yet, and is only available to Zhiyun PC business department
Zhiyun Semiconductor's APO independent graphics card now also supports many of NVIDIA's game ecosystems. Of course, this is not important. APO graphics cards have never been known for their game support performance, although it is also very powerful!
In just two years, the APO graphics card has become a rising star in the independent graphics card industry, relying on its unique professionalism. In addition to being used for training AI, the APO graphics card is also the best professional card in the world and is extremely useful for processing images.

Whether it is used for video editing, video rendering, or various large-scale design software, the APO graphics card can handle it easily and has relatively low power consumption!

This is also the main feature that APO graphics cards are born with: low power consumption!

Why do major companies like to use APO graphics cards to train AI? In addition to its powerful performance, it is also because its power consumption is very well controlled. Under the same computing power, the power consumption is less than that of NVIDIA graphics cards, which brings lower computing power costs.

Similarly, this advantage can also be used on laptops.

Every inch of space on a laptop is valuable, the battery capacity is limited, and the heat dissipation design is also relatively troublesome.

The 14-inch and 15-inch Pro versions of the Zhiyun notebook will be equipped with independent graphics cards to meet the computing power requirements of production tools such as video editing and large-scale design software. At the same time, the power consumption of this independent graphics card cannot be too high, otherwise the heat dissipation will not be able to be suppressed and the battery will not last long.

It needs to have the capabilities of a professional computing card and also require low power consumption, isn’t this the APO graphics card!
In this case, Zhiyun Semiconductor's GPU business unit has specially developed a low-voltage version of the APO graphics card, namely APO3700U, based on the APO independent graphics card. In addition, there is a low-voltage version of the former, APO3600U, which is supplied to the 14-inch Pro version.

From CPU to GPU, to running memory and flash memory, this year's Zhiyun notebook has once again reached the limit in configuration.

It can be said that the 16 models of YunBook 14/15 Pro have no disadvantages as productivity tools except that they are expensive.

Of course, the YunBook 13/14, which focuses on portability, lightness, and good looks, is different. In order to obtain super long battery life, the CPUs they are equipped with are mainly WZ5010U/WZ5020U. The performance of these two chips is naturally not comparable to high-end chips, but their power consumption is very low.

Especially YunBook 13, which can achieve thirteen hours of wireless network browsing life, which is a number that many ultra-thin notebooks cannot match!

In December, Zhiyun Group launched a number of YunBook models into the market, once again setting off a war in the business notebook field, striving to achieve PC sales of 30 million units next year.

In this era when overall PC sales are weak and have entered a period of inventory, the PC business of many manufacturers has not seen large-scale growth. Only companies like Zhiyun Group are gearing up to try to achieve higher sales.

But whether it can be done or not, we will have to wait a year to see.

After all, in the field of high-end business, the competition between Apple and Zhiyun is extremely fierce, and then companies such as Four Star and Dell have also entered the field, so the overall competition is still relatively fierce.

At the same time, in the PC field, Zhiyun’s PC products do not have unique systems or ecological advantages. They can only compete with hardware, which is more troublesome and has a lower gross profit margin.

However, the low gross profit margin that Zhiyun mentioned is only compared with its own other smart terminals... In the entire PC industry, it is one of the best. It is slightly lower than the gross profit margin of Apple's PC business, but far exceeds that of other manufacturers.

Zhiyun’s products have been criticized by countless people for being too expensive, and there is a reason for that. Its smart terminal products are really expensive!
The PC product was launched in December, and the sales of the S15 series of mobile phones were announced in January. In mid-January, Zhiyun Group released its annual report, with annual mobile phone sales reaching million units. Among them, the core product, the S series, achieved annual sales of million units.

Coupled with the recovery of PC business, annual shipments reached 25 million units.

Bluetooth headset shipments continued to rise, reaching 15 million units.

Tablet computers were affected by the overall tablet environment and saw a decline, but the drop was not large.

The smart watch business has been growing steadily, but the increase is not large.

The above-mentioned core smart terminal businesses have provided Zhiyun Group with rich revenue and profits.

In addition, the export semiconductor business continues to develop, such as the increase in shipments of W series SOCs, the increase in shipments of automotive-grade chips, the growth of memory and flash memory businesses, and the growth of the more important graphics card business, mainly the APO series graphics cards.

Finally, there is also an Internet and software business with a relatively large growth rate, mainly the APP store.

The above-mentioned businesses have provided Zhiyun Group with a total revenue of more than 360 billion US dollars, exceeding the 350 billion estimated by the outside world in the middle of last year.

The net profit reached 58 billion US dollars, making it the most profitable company in the world again. This figure also exceeded the outside world's estimates in the middle of last year.

This news once again sparked public opinion and attracted people's attention to Zhiyun Group.

First in market value and first in profit.

The revenue ranking has risen from seventh last year to sixth. Now, except for a special Walmart, the others ranked ahead of Zhiyun are all oil companies.

Its exaggerated revenue scale and strong profitability have attracted countless attention and heated discussions.

So much so that many people can't believe this fact.

Didn’t they say that Zhiyun was suppressed by the United States?
Didn’t they say they were sanctioned?

Have they even been forced to delist from the US stock market and then move to the smaller Hong Kong stock market for listing?

Why is it getting stronger and stronger?

If this continues, it won’t be long before Zhiyun Group’s market value exceeds one trillion US dollars.

(End of this chapter)