Super Copy of Great Power Technology

Chapter 206 Returnee Zhao Hongcai

Zhao Hongcai is 40 years old this year. He has an MBA degree from Cambridge University. He once served as the communications business manager of Motorola and the business manager of Nokia Asia. He can be regarded as a very outstanding returnee talent. The reason why he left Nokia and joined Reda Technology was due to differences in ideas.

In the era of feature phones, Nokia is a well-deserved giant, and its mobile phone products account for nearly 50% of the global market. However, as any company develops and grows, it will experience increased internal friction, slow response, and complacency. If it cannot adjust in time, the company will prosper and then decline. After entering the era of smartphones, Nokia experienced these situations. They were too superstitious about their own Symbian system and failed to follow the trend of Android smartphones, resulting in a rapid decline in mobile phone sales.

As the general manager of Nokia Asia, Zhao Hongcai has repeatedly proposed the development of smartphones based on Android systems, but was rejected by the CEO and the board of directors. Seeing the business he was responsible for declining day by day, Zhao Hongcai was heartbroken, but he had no solution. At this time, a domestic headhunting company approached Zhao Hongcai, asked him if he had any ideas about returning to work in China, and provided him with information about Ruida Technology Company.

Zhao Hongcai has been working abroad since he studied abroad. He got married in Europe, bought a house, and his parents took care of him. Therefore, Zhao Hongcai almost never thought about returning to China to work, even though his work at Nokia was not pleasant. However, after reading this information, he changed his mind and decided to resign from Nokia and return to China. The reason is very simple. He is very optimistic about the future development of the domestic mobile phone market and is also very optimistic about the development prospects of Reda Technology Company. Ruida Technology Co., Ltd. started from e-commerce business. In just one and a half years, it has grown into a 100-billion-level enterprise integrating e-commerce, mobile phone, chip research and development and other businesses. The content of this information was so unbelievable that Zhao Hongcai needed to go back to China and conduct an on-site investigation before he could believe it.

After Zhao Hongcai returned to China, Qiao Ruida personally received him and took him to visit Ruida Technology, Ruida Electronics Factory, and even the Rockchip wafer foundry under construction. Seeing that Reda Technology Company already had a full set of mobile phone design, manufacturing, and sales capabilities, and even the ability to independently develop and manufacture mobile phone chips, Zhao Hongcai was shocked and decided to join Reda Technology Company on the spot. Qiao Ruida did not treat this returned talent badly and directly appointed him as the deputy general manager of Reda Technology Company, taking full charge of the daily affairs of Reda Technology Company.

In the past three months, the R&D work of Ruida Technology R&D Department has also made considerable progress. The chip R&D team has already produced the first version of the design drawing of the mobile phone main control SOC. It is currently undergoing simulation testing and is expected to be taken to the Reda Electronics Factory for tape-out testing after New Year's Day. This first mobile phone main control SOC, named Jiuzhou No. 28, is designed based on the ARM architecture and manufactured with a 28nm process. It has four large and four small, eight CPU computing cores, and internally integrates a graphics processor, a digital signal processor, and an image processor. Modules such as signal processors have very complex structures. Even if the simulation test is passed, it is difficult to pass the subsequent tape-out test in one go. Even if you go back and forth several times, you will not be able to handle such a complex structure. Fortunately, our own electronics factory has a nm chip production line, which is very convenient for both tape-out and testing. Otherwise, you have to go to TSMC or a four-star wafer foundry for tape-out testing. Not to mention the distance is much further, and you don’t know how long it will take just to wait in line.

In fact, after the design drawings of Kyushu No. 1 were completed, Qiao Ruida took the drawings into the dimensional space, handed them to Dimensional Projection, and conducted a tape-out test. The result was that the tape-out failed. The semi-finished chip produced could not realize any functions. After being connected to the power supply, some circuits even overheated and burned out. It was obvious that there were serious flaws in this design drawing. Then he used Goldfinger's photo-scanning capabilities to discover more than a dozen design errors on the scrapped chips. Of course, Qiao Ruida did not tell the people in the chip R&D team about the tape-out test results. One reason is that it is difficult to explain the source of the information, and the other reason is that the process of finding, discovering, and correcting design defects is also a process for R&D personnel to improve their personal abilities. , if Qiao Ruida intervenes hastily, it will not be conducive to the improvement of the personal abilities of R&D personnel. There are still many areas that Reda Technology will be involved in in the future, and the number of chips with various functions that need to be developed will be astronomical. No matter how strong Qiao Ruida's personal abilities are, and no matter how incredible her golden finger is, she can't be responsible for all chip design work. Therefore, from now on, it is necessary to cultivate a chip R&D team that is capable, hard-working and able to fight tough battles.

In terms of mobile operating systems, the current research and development progress has reached about 70%. The core modules of the system have been completed, and the peripheral function modules are being compiled intensively. In this mobile operating system named Kaitian, the concept of the Internet of Everything is introduced for the first time. The so-called Internet of Everything is the combination of people, processes, data and things to make network connections more relevant and valuable. This will bring people richer experiences and unprecedented economic development opportunities. In layman's terms, it connects people and everything around them with an invisible line. In this way, the Internet of Things is formed, which is an extended and expanded network based on the Internet. It combines various information sensing devices with the network to form a huge network, realizing the interconnection of people, machines, and things at any time and anywhere. interconnection.

The Kaitian operating system designed based on smartphones is just the first step in the interconnection of everything. In the future, Kaitian operating system will be developed for use on smart home appliances, smart watches, smart cars and other devices until all devices used in daily life are integrated into the system. All electronic products are included in the scope of the Internet of Everything, forming a complete Reda ecosystem. Of course, this will be a very long process. With the current 3G communication network, it is difficult to take advantage of the Internet of Everything. Only when 4G or even 5G communication networks are popularized will the Internet of Everything really take off.

After several expansions, the R&D Department of Ruida Technology now has 2,000 researchers and tens of thousands of R&D test equipment and instruments, involving dozens of fields such as software, chips, communications, cameras, etc. It has become the department with the largest number of personnel within Reda Technology Company.

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