Military Industry of Great Powers: Build the Strongest Flanker.

Chapter 253 Money is not enough again

Fred manages 80% of Zhongxun's business departments, and even the most important human resources and finance are under his management.

But the only department he can't get involved in is the R&D department.

This is Teacher Xiao Zhao’s forbidden love.

"Current mobile phones are limited to calls and text messages. Oh, and they can also be used as an intermediary to connect to the Internet!"

Manufacturers around the world are confused about the development of the next generation of mobile phones.

As early as two years ago, when Zhongxun launched the WCDMA mobile phone, Zhao Guoqing said with certainty: "In addition to taking into account the above functions, the third generation mobile phone must also have entertainment functions!"

“And the entertainment function will become more and more important!”

At that time, R&D personnel were still confused about how to develop the entertainment functions of mobile phones.

Teacher Xiao Zhao pointed out the direction for them, which is multimedia.

"With sound, you can listen to music through your mobile phone, you can play games through your mobile phone, and you can also take photos through your mobile phone..."

Opening the flip cover, in Zhao Guoqing's opinion, the screen is small, the resolution is low, and it is crude. However, in this era, it is already a transcendent product.

Zhao Guoqing still remembers the scene at that time. Everyone felt that Teacher Zhao was crazy.

Now, 102 Institute has successfully developed a CCD chip with a diameter of 6 mm, and the 102 Optical Research Laboratory has also developed ultra-fine lens processing technology, making it possible to put cameras on mobile phones.

Cai Zhengdong, leader of the lithium battery project team, blushed. Although samples of lithium batteries have been produced and the technical conditions are met, there are still two mountains that cannot be overcome.

The operating system is a streamlined Linux kernel. It removes the embedded platform and supports many devices on the microcomputer platform, and adds the management of the baseband chip.

The weak ARMv3 processor paid a huge price to cope with this small window screen, and could not provide excess computing power to install other programs. In fact, although this machine was equipped with a Linux system, it could only It can be attributed to the category of functional machines.

"Take pictures with your phone?"

The interface is very simple, with multiple layers of nested pages. You use the four-way keyboard on the keyboard to select. There is a confirmation key in the middle, a return key on the right side of the top keyboard, and a menu key on the left.

At this time, Teacher Xiao Zhao was holding a prototype phone. This should be the world's first flip phone. The all-metal casing looks very high-end.

Xiong Zhaohua, chief engineer of the R&D Department, said: "The screen consumes too much power and the battery capacity is too small. It can only be operated for half an hour!"

One of the problems is that safety cannot be guaranteed. Not to mention the physical damage caused by puncture, even a shock can cause a fire.

The screen is a Samsung 2-inch (diagonal length is about 5 cm) 150X120 resolution LCD screen with 16 colors. The display particles are large and thick, but the human shape can still be recognized on the screen.

Another problem is commercialization. If you want to mass-produce, you need to design corresponding automated production lines to reduce costs. Otherwise, 10,000 batteries per battery will have no commercial value at all.

"Mr. Zhao, the new manganese ferrite (Mn3-xFexO4) nanosheet anode material lithium battery laboratory has been demonstrated and has higher energy density and safety! But..." Cai Zhengdong lowered his head as he spoke...

It’s still a matter of price. Teacher Xiao Zhao has been paying attention to the progress of lithium batteries. The manufacture of manganese ferrite (Mn3-xFexO4) nanosheets requires a double-chamber vacuum high-temperature still to deposit a layer of manganese ferrite atoms on the silicon wafer, and then use An oxygen plasma gun is used to oxidize a manganese-ferroalloy nano-film with a certain crystal image, forming an oxide layer with an area only the size of a fingernail and a thickness of nanometers. The cost is very expensive, more expensive than chips of the same area, and has been excluded by Zhao Guoqing. However, this technology has not been abandoned. With the improvement of processing technology, it still has great value.

Zhao Guoqing said: "Institute 102 has completed the commercialization of polymer lithium batteries, and safety issues can be guaranteed. We can use their batteries!"

Teacher Xiao Zhao intentionally or unintentionally castrated Zhongxun's R&D functions. The processor of this mobile phone uses ARMv3, and the communication baseband is still the original 2g communication baseband chip. In order to display the interface, it also integrates a vertex unit and a texture unit. display chip. In addition to the digital-to-analog conversion chip and the radio frequency chip, the five chips are all independent and require huge bus resources to coordinate the work of each chip.

The current work of Institute 102 is to integrate the processor, baseband and display chip into one chip, which will greatly simplify the complexity of the data bus.

The basis of the design is 180nm support.

On January 1993, 1, Sinocom's 11 financial report came out. The total annual global sales of mobile phones was 1992 million units, which was 1000 units short of breaking the million annual sales mark.

Total sales revenue exceeded the US$100 billion mark, reaching US$109 billion, net profit was US$32 billion, and patent income was US$6 million.

Its SMIC chip foundry has also achieved fruitful results. It achieved total revenue of US$13 billion in three months after being independent. Thanks to the support of 500 nanometers and no competitors, the net profit reached US$5 million.

The entire Zhongxun company's annual R&D investment reached an astonishing US$30 billion, and % of the company's profits were eaten up by the R&D department.

Involving liquid crystal materials, battery materials, baseband chips, processors, mobile phone operating systems... A single capacitive screen project cost 70 million US dollars...

"The money is not enough!" Zhao Guoqing sighed.

Fred said: "BOSS, the profits distributed to shareholders last year were only US$7 million. Goldman Sachs is very dissatisfied!"

Zhao Guoqing said: "What are they dissatisfied with?"

Fred shook his head and said: "They want more profits to be distributed to shareholders, rather than developing new products that are useless!"

Teacher Xiao Zhao looked at Fred and was very dissatisfied. He said, "If you have any opinions, they can raise them at the shareholders' meeting. Just don't get involved. It has nothing to do with your work content!"

Fred shook his head. It was your words at the shareholders' meeting. What they said was in vain and of no use at all.

"BOSS, I don't want to get involved, but have you forgotten? Goldman Sachs controls the supervisory board, and they doubt the accounts of the R&D department. Lawyer Maririado Liliansru told me that they have the power to organize an investigation team and even invite the third party to investigate. The three-party financial team audits the accounts of the R&D department!”

"..."

Teacher Xiao Zhao said indifferently: "They can check if they want. By the way, I have changed my mind. The US$700 million is included in this year's special budget to increase the CRT monitor production line, and the proceeds will not be distributed... …”

"..."

"I feel that the color TV market in China is very promising. We can slightly improve the CRT color monitor and produce TV sets!"

Is this tit for tat with Goldman Sachs?

(End of this chapter)