My rebirth is different

Chapter 745 Formally Entering the Mobile Phone Industry
After the business grows, the Chinese New Year will be very busy, and there will be a lot of phone calls.

Like the old principal, principal Li, and several leaders in the metropolis, Yu Wenfei called yesterday in advance to pay New Year's greetings.

On the leader's side, Yu Wenfei didn't pay a visit.

Firstly, the relationship has not yet reached that level, so it is not easy to say whether others welcome you when you come to the door rashly.

Secondly, he doesn't do those traditional businesses, so he doesn't rely so much on the city, and he has deliberately stayed away from the city in the past few years, because he doesn't want to get involved in some troubles.

He made a lot of phone calls, and likewise, there were quite a few people who called him for New Year greetings.

Those who are closer, like Wang Jinbao, called with Crow last night to say New Year greetings to his cousin.

The two of them didn't go back to celebrate the New Year this year, but stayed in Pengcheng. Legendary mobile phones have been selling very well recently.

The company is very busy, increasing production, shipping, expanding production lines, etc. There are so many things going on. Wang Jinbao is the general manager of the company, so how can we go fast.

So just don't go back for the New Year.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Zhou Mengyi flew back from the capital and brought a surprise to Yu Wenfei.

This time Star Electronics was established, the original new Lenovo Group was reorganized, and the organizational structure of Star Electronics Group was also readjusted.

There is no doubt that Yu Wenfei is the chairman of Star Electronics Group, and the board members include several shareholders, plus three executives, Yang Yuanqing, Zhou Mengyi, and Mike, the vice president of THINKPAD.

It has three subsidiaries, Lenovo, Alien, and THINKPAD. Among them, Alien is still in charge of the old team.

The positions of President of Lenovo Company and President of THINKPAD Company are vacant. Yu Wenfei asked Yang Yuanqing for his opinion and asked him to choose.

After thinking about it, Yang Yuanqing feels that Lenovo is more promising, because Lenovo is in the low-end market, including all factories of the group company, which is the subsidiary with the most assets.

So, he chose to stay in Lenovo.

Then Yu Wenfei gave the remaining THINKPAD president position to Zhou Mengyi, and Mike was the vice president.

Zhou Mengyi and Mike also carried out business division. Mike was responsible for the original product line and business line of THINKPAD, which is the design and sales of THINKPAD notebook business.

And Zhou Mengyi will take charge of the newly established mobile phone business department of THINKPAD, and create an epoch-making smartphone from scratch!
As soon as this phone was put on the agenda, Yu Wenfei personally named it "TPhone".

This is also a mobile phone that Yuwenfei placed high hopes on. For this reason, many employees from Lenovo and THINKPAD Japan Design Center were transferred to work in the mobile phone design department.

Because of the mature industrial design team acquired by IBM, there will be no problems in terms of mobile phone shape, structure, processing technology, etc., but this new mobile phone department also faces an important problem, that is, whether the core components are self-developed and self-developed? Produce or purchase!

If purchased, then TPhone will be no different from most mobile phones on the market, and it will be difficult to maintain a competitive advantage for a long time in the future.

So Yu Wenfei plans to do it by himself. The most important chip in mobile phone components must at least master the key technology by himself.

It is only 2004 now, if this mobile phone is to be produced before the end of 2006, there are still three years to go.

For chips, Yuwenfei originally planned to acquire a chip company with mature technology, and then recruit some elites to continue research and development.

Just like Apple has in history.

In fact, Apple's own mobile phone chip was in 2008.

That year, Apple, which planned to get rid of its dependence on chip design, acquired PA Semi, focusing on ARM-based mobile chips, and only then had its own chip research and development technology.

Prior to this, the components of Apple mobile phones were all purchased from other companies.

Yu Wenfei originally planned to make a comeback and buy that company ahead of time, but the news brought by Zhou Mengyi made him change his plan.

"Did you ask Meng Qi to help you find some chip technology talents when you went to the United States before the Chinese New Year? When she called me yesterday, she said that she was helping you find a top expert named JIM KELLER (Jim Keller). This Ren is the chief chip architect of Broadcom and has just left. This is his resume, you can see if it is suitable."

With that said, Zhou Mengyi took out a document from her bag and handed it to Yu Wenfei.

In fact, when she said the name "Jim Keller" and said that he just left Broadcom's chief chip architect position, Yu Wenfei no longer needed to read this resume, he knew this person!
In the chip industry, teamwork is more important. Whether it is a desktop CPU or a mobile chip, the R&D team consists of hundreds or thousands of people.

This is a manifestation of collective intelligence!

But if you have to find a "superstar" in this industry, then it must be Jim Keller!
Jim Keller is a master of top-level chip architecture, master of command development, nicknamed "Silicon Immortal" by people in the industry.

His experience is even more legendary. During his more than 20 years in the industry, Jim Keller went back and forth between DEC, Broadcom, AMD, Apple, Intel, and Tesla, and studied Alpha, x86, MIPS, AI, and ARM. Over and over again, participating in several top chip designs in the electronics field.

Of course, in 2004, he hadn't gone to Apple, Intel, or Tesla.

But at this time, he had already made his mark in the chip industry. He had just left Broadcom and was targeted by many chip companies. After Zhou Mengqi got the news, he also passed the information over immediately.

"Pack up your things, we will fly to the United States immediately, and take this man down!" Yu Wenfei said without hesitation.

"Ah? Is this person so important?" Zhou Mengyi was a little puzzled. She had never seen Yu Wenfei so urgent, even when he bought Blizzard and IBM's personal computer business before, she didn't see the billion-dollar business. He does.

"It's more than important. If you want to achieve real success in the mobile phone industry, this Jim Keller can be called the cornerstone of the empire!" Yu Wenfei chuckled lightly.

A thousand troops are easy to get but a general is hard to find. This Jim Keller is not only the concept of "general", he can even be regarded as an excellent "commander"!
If Jim Keller is taken down, and then a chip design company is randomly acquired, and ARM's permanent authorization is obtained, then there may be no Apple chips in the future.

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So, on the second day of the Lunar New Year, Yu Wenfei, Zhou Mengyi, and Pei Er boarded the plane again and flew to the United States.

This time in the past, he not only wanted to win Jim Keller, but also directly set up a chip research and development team.

From now on, officially enter the mobile phone industry!
(End of this chapter)