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Chapter 401 Yes, the self-developed system is called Xingchen!

The warm applause didn't seem to stop.

clap clap.

Li Ze stretched out his hand several times and pressed his mouth, but failed to interrupt.

After a while, Li Zecai finally interrupted: "Everyone guessed it... That's right, the starting price of the 32G version in China is 3699 yuan."

"The 64G version starts at 4499 yuan."

"The price of the 128G version is 5399 yuan."

32G版本只比iPad 16G版本贵了11元，64G版本比iPad 32G版本也是贵11元，128G版本才比iPad 64版本贵111元。

It is more or less cost-effective.

In fact, Bolang Terminal has actually adopted some special strategies for the pricing of Xinghai series products, such as raising the threshold by increasing the storage space of the basic version, while maintaining the release of sufficient discounts to the domestic market.

Another example is to highlight the "people-friendly" domestic price by comparing the pricing of the overseas market with the domestic market, and at the same time reduce the price reduction as much as possible to ensure high-end quality.

The announcement of the price of the domestic version revived the applause that had ceased.

After the excitement just now, Li Ze chose to continue amidst the applause: "What needs to be specially explained is..."

"We have considered the current production capacity of the Bolang factory, the actual availability of important components, and other factors. It is estimated that Xinghai Flat 1 will only produce 999 million units."

"This is also the reason why Xinghai Tablet 1 finally cut off the mobile network version, weakening the room for choice..."

"At the same time, in order to let the application ecology take the lead, Xinghai Tablet 1 will not go on sale until Children's Day..."

"I'm very sorry, we finally adopted such a limited business strategy, and a time to market with a gap, I hope everyone can understand."

Such a statement made the venue immediately boil, some people were stupid, some people were stunned, and some people were just playing around.

No one thought that the climax of the product launch did not appear in the product introduction link, or even in the price announcement link, but in the final business strategy announcement link.

Some special shouts could be vaguely heard at the scene.

"Is the limited edition numbered???"

"Do you think it's sold too much?"

"Protest protest protest."

The live broadcast of the press conference through multiple channels also exploded.

"Fuck? If other brands are doing this on electronic products, I'll go straight to hetui, Xinghai... I can only say, I have to stay in front of the computer to snap up, maybe it has collection value."

"Insufficient production capacity? Insufficient supply of core components? It's a bit scary!"

"Have you forgotten that Bolang announced at the beginning of the year that it will build 10 factories across the country? The first phase of the factory in Luohe has been completed and the production line equipment has begun to be stationed. Other places are also completing the first phase one after another. At this stage The production capacity of Bolang is definitely not enough, so there is nothing wrong with it.”

"Fuck, I really forgot that Bolang can handle the downstream manufacturing by itself now, which is very good, so that the after-sales service has a very high guarantee."

"Anyway, if it's another brand, I would scoff at it. If Xinghai does this, I think it may be out of stock soon."

"Is it possible that Bo Lang can't get the goods out?"

"..."

In fact, there are many reasons why Bolang Terminal chose such a business strategy.

Capacity is only a very trivial aspect.

After all, in addition to building a production line for smartphones, Bolang Factory also has a production line dedicated to the production of tablets, because the experimental factory has two lines, and has the same experience in corresponding debugging and other aspects.

It's just that the number of constructions is very small. If you count the 5 experimental factories, the total amount of 999 million will take about 100 days to produce.

The current inventory is not very sufficient, less than 30 units.

The actual opening of production capacity will not be until the end of June. Overall, the total production will be completed by the end of August, and then the production line will be adjusted to produce other devices...not mobile phones.

In fact, the enthusiasm for buying tablets is not very high, so even in such a supply situation, there may not be a rush to buy them.

In addition to the less important reason of production capacity, more reasons are:
Xinghai Tablet 1 is an absolute transitional product.

One is the transition of the Star app store ecology from the mobile terminal to the tablet terminal.

The second is a transition of the product supply chain.

Some of the important components used in the Xinghai Tablet 1 are still outsourced, and this situation may usher in a rare innovation in the near future.

Another example is that the Xinghai Tablet 1 does not use fingerprint unlocking. After the Xinghai 1 series will inevitably iterate the fingerprint unlocking function, the position will appear awkward, and the interval will only be three months.

Beyond that, there is a very, very important transition.

The Xinghai Tablet 1 is the real beginning of the Bolang terminal Xinghai series products from the ARM ecology to the Galaxy ecology.

All of these can be summed up as follows: Bolang not only wants to dilute more research and development costs invested in chips, systems, materials, etc., but also wants to sell faster through limited and limited models, and also wants to maintain brand reputation, so that consumers I don't like this kind of pit.

According to the sales plan, the roughly obtained revenue is 249.2 billion in the domestic market and 183.4 billion in the overseas market, totaling 432.6 billion yuan.

In this way, after reasonably diluting the due research costs, etc., the net profit can be about 100 billion yuan.

You must know that if you ignore the research cost and calculate the material cost alone, the pre-tax gross profit of this thing can reach 230 billion.

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While the audience at the venue and the online audience were still wondering, Li Ze ended the release of Xinghai Tablet 1 in this way.

Then, Li Ze looked at the audience: "Next, our co-founder and chief technical engineer, Mr. Sun Baoyin, will introduce the Starlight language and the new Scode plug-in."

After speaking, Li Ze took the lead and left the press platform while applauding. Sun Baoyin did not appear on the podium, but he appeared on the big screen.

"good morning."

Sun Baoyin appeared in the camera with a smile on his face. The background was an ordinary studio with only one big screen. Obviously this was a pre-recorded video.

"I'm very happy to introduce you to the increasingly perfect Starlight language and Scode."

Facing the camera, Sun Baoyin talked with ease: "In fact, Starlight was born because of a simple requirement: in order to better solve some key programming problems dedicated to the Star system, a new language is needed."

"This task was handed over to me."

"I am very clear that it is difficult to complete my accumulation in school and as the chief technical engineer at Bolang. Fortunately, Bolang is a tolerant platform. In order to solve some problems, I led the team to visit many universities at home and abroad, and finally spent It took about 7 days to complete the main design work of the language.”

"Afterwards, with the joint efforts of hundreds of Bolang engineers and thousands of Bolang part-time engineers, and the internal trial of tens of thousands of Bolang engineers, Starlight Language was able to meet everyone."

"We believe that the increasingly perfect Starlight language will become a better partner for developers."

"In order to solve some boring programming problems, today I brought a new experimental plug-in of Scode to my developer friends. Its name is 'Auxiliary Partner', and the team gave it an interesting foreign name: Copilot. "

"It is an AI programming tool developed based on the deep learning algorithm engine of Bolang Lab, which can help developers automatically provide suggestions when writing code in Starlight language in the Scode development environment, and can automatically write code according to the context...

Including docstrings, comments, function names, code, as long as the user gives a prompt, you can write a complete function..."

"Like this..."

With that said, Sun Baoyin came to a monitor and opened the Scode writing window: "For example... I forgot how to write a function. The common way is to consult the documentation or use a search engine to solve it. Now there is no need for such trouble... We can enter a comment for 'function' and as you can see... it will provide a suggestion option..."

"We believe this will help save everyone's energy in solving some boring problems and improve writing efficiency."

"Of course, the auxiliary partner is not perfect now, and the suggestions it can provide are not rich and comprehensive enough. We hope that all developers and friends can work with us to improve it."

"thank you all."

Sun Baoyin's release process was relatively simple and boring, and his tone was relatively ordinary, but...but it made many people stand up immediately, and there was a lot of exclamation.

Li Ze walked to the stage at the right time: "Is it a bit like a developer conference?"

"Don't get too excited. This plugin will not make programmers unemployed. You can rest assured that it is just a tool, an excellent auxiliary tool to increase the frequency of using Starlight language."

"A small tool to reduce everyone's use of the CV key to the Tab key..."

The excitement in the venue calmed down a little.

This small tool has nothing to do with Wen Liang, it is purely the team's credit, and he didn't know that it would make Microsoft in the future call it an expert.

Because by coincidence, the features and other aspects of this software have bumped into the AI ​​tool software of the same name that Microsoft vigorously promotes in 2022, and it is still a tool that charges 699 yuan a year.

I don't know if this tool software is too...advanced.

The audience at the venue ignored the fact that Sun Baoyin completed the main design work of Starlight language in only 7 days, which is 10 days faster than JavaScript's 3 days.

It is also a specially arranged bragging session.

Because the adjective describes the main design work very accurately, it does not mention how much manpower and material resources it took from the main design work to the launch.

This incomplete language plus that Scode cost 2.1 million yuan.

It is completely incomparable with JavaScript, a language that can be used by a single person after writing it in 10 days.

It is not difficult to develop a programming language, the difficulty is that the majority of developers are willing to use it.

Developing a new language for no reason, under normal circumstances, would not be used by developers, because of the cost of learning, if it were not for the Starlight system, it would be difficult for the Starlight language to be widely used so quickly.

And in fact, it is the friendly development environment of Scode that is more widely used than the built-in starlight.

Otherwise, the team would not try their best to come up with an AI auxiliary tool...

Li Ze, who came to the stage again, did not delay at all. After calming down the audience, he quickly moved to another topic according to the procedure: "I believe everyone must have wondered why the earliest developer conference around this star system was held. It is called Bolang Research, because..."

"Next, Dr. Tan Jian, chief engineer of our cloud platform team, will introduce the Star Cloud system to you!"

Also under Li Ze's lead and applause, the figure of Dr. Tan Jian, who is not well-known inside Bolang, appeared on the big screen.

Dr. Tan Jian was responsible for the construction of Xyun at the first time. After extensive attempts on the two open source virtualization technologies of XEN and KVM, he finally overthrew everything and started the research work of the Xyun system around the Xyun core.

His considerations for making such a choice are... Bolang's business strategy, the status quo that the wheel must be reinvented, etc.

Referring to KVM, an open source virtualization technology route based on the Linux kernel, Dr. Tan Jian used some of the high-quality features of the Stellar kernel to create a new set of virtualization technology, and formed the Stellar Cloud system accordingly.

And appearing at this press conference is also for Bolang's business strategy.

Dr. Tan Jian is a relatively 'uninteresting' person, and the scene of recording the video was chosen in the computer room of Bolang·Nansha·Data Center Group.

Therefore, the background on the big screen is a large number of cabinets.

"Star Cloud is a rather interesting architecture. It has been deployed on these machines to provide the underlying support for our Bolang Hot Mall, Xiaochengshu, Orange series applications, and Xyun services for Xinghai series products. "

"..."

"We creatively reconstructed the underlying architecture of virtualization technology..."

Dr. Tan Jian's release was even more boring.

Although the time was not long, it still made many developers at the venue think deeply and be quite interested.

After all, cloud computing has already arrived.

The massive emergence of public cloud platforms can also provide many developers with cheap online server resources for more personal attempts.

After all, most developers just use personal computers as the medium to write codes, and most of the trial runs of programs will be submitted to the corresponding servers for execution.

It is true that the configuration of the personal computer is full, and it is true that many background programs cannot be moved, and environmental variables must also be considered.

Then, Li Ze briefly introduced again: "Now, Mr. Zhang Yulin, our co-founder and chief operating system engineer, will introduce Star System 2.0 to you."

In the same short video, Zhang Yulin briefly introduced some new features of Star System 2.0.

Not only for developers, but also for ordinary consumers.

A part of the expectation was brought out, and a lot of suspense was left, after all, everyone knew that there would be a new Xinghai mobile phone.

And some new features are opened to developers in advance so that they can use these new features to develop more interesting applications.

At the same time, it is also mentioned that a large number of engineers will come to the venue to provide developers with a deep understanding of development technology and provide support for them to make full use of the star system in their applications.

It's pretty much what Apple does.

It also means that the real star system 2.0 for consumers will be more mature than what we see now, and will be more perfect in the next few months.

……

Li Ze appeared on the stage again, and said with a smile: "Everyone may be curious, besides the mobile phone system, why does Xingchen have a tablet system and a cloud system?"

"There are many comments and doubts about the Xingchen system on the international network. It is also a system, so why should Xingchen be?"

"In fact, we have never introduced the star system properly, nor have we officially responded to the accusations, doubts, doubts, etc. surrounding it."

"There are some reasons for this."

"About four months ago, we made a small move, which had something to do with the establishment and trial operation of a certain laboratory in Beijing about ten days ago."

"This measure is that we donated the kernel source code and iteration process of the star system to multiple units represented by the military science for free."

"Today, now, we can finally tell everyone that the Xingchen system is a completely self-developed, independently controllable operating system!!!"

"I didn't use the Linux kernel, nor did I use the Unix kernel, let alone Android. Its kernel is called Xingchen!"

"China does not have a history of highly available and highly commercialized self-developed operating systems, which has long since ended!"

There was an instant uproar in the venue!
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