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Chapter 3212: Optimization of running points

Speaking of rogue software, there are two great masters in China, one is Zhou Hongyi and the other is Fu Sheng.

When Zhou Hongyi founded 360, its core business was actually search.

But the competition in the search market is too fierce, and it is impossible to do it.

It is an inconspicuous little software that became popular in the market overnight by relying on some means. This is the 360 ​​Security Guard developed by Fu Sheng. This made 360 ​​change its core strategy from search to security.

Later, after several operations by Zhou Buqi, Ziweixing acquired 360.

Fu Sheng also successfully joined the Ziweixing team.

He played a huge role in the early framework design and software development of the Micropoint system and entered the core executive level of Ziweixing. However, his ideas have never changed, and he always likes to use some crooked ways to promote business development.

At this time, Ziweixing had already become a domestic giant.

This is a bit out of place.

You don't care about face, but Boss Zhou does!
What you are doing is not in line with Ziweixing’s values!
After some internal fighting, Fu Sheng was eliminated.

Zhou Buqi did not ignore his talent and decisively invited him to the United States to start Panda Mobile, which has now been sold to Cisco. Fu Sheng can't sit still, and he will definitely do something in the market.

Invested in several software products in the country.

A product with a rogue feel.

Finally, we found AnTuTu two years ago. Last year, we made a great effort to promote the cooperation between AnTuTu and Astar... AnTuTu quickly became successful and became the largest mobile phone evaluation software in China and even the world.

Not only did AnTuTu succeed, but Astar also gained huge benefits.

Zhou Buqi didn't quite understand this.

However, Ziweixing was also planning to develop a mobile phone evaluation software at one point, but the plan was later stopped. The main reason was that they discovered some shady activities between smartphones and evaluation software, and Ziweixing would never participate in such activities.

And behind this are also the issues involving Aisda and Fu Sheng.

Wang Xiaochuan said tactfully: "Last year, Astar developed a self-developed mobile phone chip, which was quite popular."

Zhou Buqi said: "Well, the self-developed chips are not mature enough and can only be used in the lowest-end mobile phones."

Wang Xiaochuan stopped talking, "I heard that the chip has a very good running score, better than Qualcomm and MediaTek chips of the same level. In addition, it is a domestic chip, catching up with the current trend of domestic substitution, which has caused a great social response. The running score is also very good, so it is very popular."

"okay, I get it."

Zhou Buqi understood it as soon as he heard it.

Sure enough, there is something fishy.

Zhou Shaoning has said many times that the self-developed chips of Asda are still very immature, not to mention Qualcomm, they can't even compare with MediaTek. But this is just the truth told by insiders. In the publicity of the outside world, the self-developed chips have surpassed Qualcomm and MediaTek of the same level, symbolizing the rise of domestic alternative chips!
This is really a proud thing.

With such an advantage, low-end phones equipped with self-developed chips can have very good sales. After ending the call with Wang Xiaochuan, Zhou Buqi looked at Lei Jun, who was sitting opposite him sipping red wine, with a meaningful look in his eyes, "I thought that Kingsoft Software was behind AnTuTu! After all, when it comes to domestic software, you can't avoid Kingsoft. By the way, you are the chairman of Kingsoft now, right? I heard that Kingsoft has done a good job in the transformation to the mobile terminal."

Lei Jun sighed, "The existence of this kind of evaluation software will make market competition unfair."

Zhou Buqi's attitude changed. "I'm not sure about that. I haven't been involved in frontline business for many years."

Lei Jun said: "With the emergence of the mobile phone evaluation industry, many mobile phone manufacturers have to do some special customization and optimization in order to get good results in the evaluation. The biggest share of the revenue from this kind of evaluation software comes from enterprises."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "Internal evaluation?"

"How can this be called an internal evaluation?" Lei Jun said bitterly, "This is clearly an external evaluation."

When a new mobile phone is launched, it has to go through dozens or even hundreds of tests internally.

That is the internal test.

This is a systematic and comprehensive project that covers all aspects and is very expensive.

However, with the emergence of mobile phone evaluation software, many tedious procedures have been added to the testing of new mobile phones before they are launched. It is not enough to just do the internal test, you also have to test it on the benchmark software! If you pass the internal test, but fail to get a high score on the benchmark software, this is not acceptable either!
Therefore, during the internal testing phase of a mobile phone, the mobile phone manufacturer needs to contact the evaluation software and let the internal test machine run the evaluation software to see the data first. If the data is not good, they will quickly make some optimizations for the running score. After the good data is run, the final plan for the mobile phone will be finalized.

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The process of finding evaluation software for testing requires huge costs.

Lei Jun said: "Before a new phone is released, we have to contact the mobile phone evaluation software internally and conduct hundreds of tests. This is an enterprise-side service, and each test costs thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan. For a new phone, the test service on the enterprise side alone costs millions of yuan. After the new phone is released, the test service on the consumer side may cost millions more."

Zhou Buqi was confused. "Consumer-side testing? What does that mean?"

Lei Jun said: "After consumers get the phone, they will also conduct software evaluation!"

"Can I still participate in this assessment?"

"Yes, for example, when a domestic chip is running on AnTuTu, it is directly related to AnTuTu's interests. If it outperforms a Qualcomm chip of the same level, AnTuTu can earn 1.5 cents from the mobile phone manufacturer; if it loses, AnTuTu will have to pay the mobile phone manufacturer 5 cents. For its own interests, AnTuTu will definitely make some adjustments in the calculation of the running score, so that this chip can beat Qualcomm's chip in the running score."

"interesting."

Zhou Buqi nodded.

This kind of gameplay is really unique to China, like what Fu Sheng did.

As for the chip that Lei Jun did not name, it is most likely the self-developed chip of Astar. It was Fu Sheng who interfered and acted as a matchmaker, which not only won the market favor for Astar, but also brought development opportunities for AnTuTu.

Lei Jun sighed and said, "In order to cope with this market change, more and more mobile phone manufacturers will carry out special running score optimization for mobile phone evaluation software. The performance of the mobile phone is not very good, but they have specially optimized the running score, which can maximize the activation of the mobile phone performance during the running score process and get a high score."

Zhou Buqi said: "The fairness of market competition lies in the fact that when unfairness appears in the competition, the market will definitely make changes and tilt, evolving in an unfair direction. In the end, a fair consensus is reached. If only one or two mobile phone manufacturers do running score optimization, this is of course unfair competition. If all mobile phone manufacturers do optimization, it will form a new fairness."

"what?"

Lei Jun was not very satisfied and felt that Lao Zhou was difficult to talk to today.