Super Copy of Great Power Technology

Chapter 289 Laptop R&D Plan

What Qiao Ruida mentioned are still some ways to make money in the early stages of smartphone development. In a few years, the smartphone market will develop to a certain level and shift from incremental market competition to stock market competition. In order to make money, various mobile phone manufacturers will do a lot of tricks. How to create a full-coverage ecological chain; what remote OTA casts magic to reduce the performance of old mobile phones; what cloud synchronization data charges extra; what collection of user information and sells it to software developers, and so on, only you can't think of it, but he can't do it.

Jamel Xiao scratched his head and said with emotion: "I didn't expect that there are so many ways to make money in a small mobile phone. From this point of view, our mobile phone, sold at a price of 999, not only won't Even if I lose money, I can still make a lot of money, so I just go ahead and do it. By the way, our phone hasn't been named yet, how about Mr. Qiao, can you pick one for me?"

"How about a name? Since our flagship phone is named Reda plus a number, then this low-end 1-yuan phone will be called Xiaoda. This is the first generation and will be called Xiaoda 2. There will be replacement models in the future. They are called Xiaoda 3 and Xiaoda . Remember to register Xiaoda as a trademark. In the future, the mobile phones launched by Reda Technology will adopt a dual-brand strategy. The high-end flagship phones will use the Reda brand, and the low-end mass models will use Xiaoda. Brand." Qiao Ruida thought for a while before saying.

"Xiaoda mobile phone, Xiaoda 1, the name is not bad. You can tell at a glance that it is related to Reda mobile phone, but not exactly the same. I believe that our Xiaoda 1 mobile phone will be launched on the market at the ultra-low price of 999 After that, the sales volume will be booming and it will become the best-selling smartphone in history. It will completely swallow up the last position of feature phones and copycat phones." Jamel Xiao commented.

Speaking of copycat phones, it seems that Xiaomi phones in previous generations were called "copycat phone killers" because they significantly lowered the price of smartphones and squeezed the living space of copycat phones. This generation of Ruida mobile phones has risen strongly, and it was the first to push the price of smartphones to below 2500 yuan. After a while, Xiaoda mobile phones will be launched, and will be the first to push the price of smartphones to below 1000 yuan, almost leaving copycat phones behind. Unable to survive, the title of "copycat phone killer" is no longer available.

"By the way, Manager Xiao, there is another research and development task for you, which is to develop a Reda brand laptop as part of our Reda ecological chain." Qiao Reda seemed to have remembered something and said to Xiao Jingsheng .

"Oh, are we going to enter the notebook production field? Which processor do you plan to use, Intel or AMD? As for the mold, do you develop it yourself, or buy a mature notebook mold?" Regarding Ruida Technology's entry into the notebook manufacturing field, Jamel Xiao had already expected it. After all, he had already made mobile phones and tablets, and he had the production capacity of memory and SSD hard drives. There was no reason to let go of the huge laptop market.

“I don’t want to use CPUs from Intel or AMD. The power consumption of their processors is too high. No matter how many batteries are stacked, the battery life cannot exceed ten hours. In my opinion, this is seriously unqualified. I I plan to launch a laptop based on an ARM architecture processor. I have designed the processor and successfully tape-out tested it. It is built using the latest 7nm process and has 4 performance cores, 4 energy efficiency cores, and a 7-core graphics processor. , 16-core neural network engine. The ultimate performance is even stronger than Intel's desktop i7 processor. More importantly, the power consumption of this CPU is very low. With special circuit design, the battery life of the laptop can exceed 15 Hours, ensuring daily office use throughout the day without plugging in." After that, Qiao Ruida took out two silver upper-rectangular chips from her pocket and put them in Jamel Xiao's hand.

Rockchip Wafer Fab has obtained an EUV lithography machine and achieved small-batch manufacturing of 7nm process chips. This news has not been announced to the public, but Xiao Jingsheng, a core member, knows it. He has also seen memory chips produced using the 7nm process. There is even a physical EUV lithography machine in the chip laboratory of the R&D Building for tape-out testing. It’s just that chip designers like them are not specialized in chip process research, so they have never been able to deal with this big guy.

Jamel Xiao took the two chips with the Reda logo and M1 engraved on the surface, and his whole body trembled with excitement. After all, this chip is likely to be the world's first general-purpose computing processor manufactured using the 7nm process. The top-notch process technology, coupled with advanced architecture and IP core design, can unleash such surging performance that it is well worth the wait.

"Is this M1 a chip model? It is manufactured using a 7nm process and has a large and small core design similar to mobile phone chips. Power saving is a must. I just don't know if the performance is as good as you said, boss. Even if the performance is worse, it can be used for daily use. It is enough for office work. The trouble is the operating system and software ecology. This M1 chip is based on the ARM architecture design, and it is definitely not related to the Windows system. It can only use the Linux open source system, but the software ecology of Linux has not been very good. Many office software , video and picture processing software, and industrial software, there is no Linux version. Even those software that have Linux versions only support X86 architecture processors, and they may not necessarily run on ARM architecture processors." Jamel Xiao said Allaying his worries, the software ecosystem is a hurdle that no new operating system can get around. The X86 architecture general-purpose processor has been around for more than thirty years and has always occupied a dominant position in desktop PCs. There are too many software developed on the X86 processor plus Windows platform, covering almost all aspects. Now it is not easy to design a general-purpose processor and a new operating system based on the ARM architecture to challenge the dominance of X86 processor + windows on desktop PCs.

"The model of this processor is indeed M1. In terms of performance, it is better than what I said. You can test and verify this in the future. As for the operating system, I plan to use our own Kaitian system under the framework of the existing system. , just develop a desktop and interactive mode based on PC operating mode. In terms of software ecology, Kaitian system inherently supports the running of Android APP, and can also run Windows software through translation mode, and even Apple IOS software. Run through translation Software and laptop performance will definitely suffer some loss, but the performance of the M1 chip is strong enough to make up for the performance loss during the translation process, ensuring that general software can run smoothly without any problems, and even some large-scale 3D game software can be tried. "

(End of this chapter)