Super Copy of Great Power Technology

In order to ensure the subsequent supply of Xiaoda mobile phones and MateBook notebooks, Reda Electronics Factory and Rockchip Wafer Factory are also operating at full power. The equipment operates 24 hours a day, workers work in three shifts, and production capacity is at full capacity. There is no day off. Every day, 30 Xiaoda mobile phones and 5 MateBook laptops roll off the production line and are sold through online or offline channels.

Xiaoda's NOTE1 mobile phone is the first smartphone priced under a thousand yuan. It is expected that sales are so popular. MateBook, such a non-X86 camp, non-Windows system notebook product, can continue to sell well, which is beyond everyone's expectations. After analysis, the MateBook notebook has the following major advantages. First, it has good compatibility. The translation software modified by Qiao Ruida is very powerful. Almost all Windows and macOS software, including most games, can be translated on the MateBook notebook. normal operation. The second point is the long battery life. The ultra-long battery life of more than 15 hours is something that no X86 platform notebook can achieve. For some customers who need to use it without power for a long time, MateBook notebooks are the first choice. The third point is that the performance is very powerful. Thanks to the advanced 7NM process technology and advanced architecture, the M1 chip has excellent performance, generates very little heat, and can even beat most desktop computers. The fourth point is that the appearance of the MateBook notebook is very impressive. After all, this set of notebook molds was copied by Qiao Ruida from the Internet ten years later. In terms of aesthetics, scientificity, and craftsmanship, it is at least seven or eight years ahead. , in terms of product appearance, it is reasonable to scorn many friends. With the above many advantages, it is logical that MateBook notebooks can be accepted by consumers and continue to sell well.

The continued sales of Xiaoda's mobile phones and MateBook laptops have also attracted the attention of friends. Not far from the headquarters of Reda Technology, another domestic mobile phone giant, Rice, was holding an emergency meeting. Its founder, Tian Jun, waved his arms and talked, "Everyone has seen the booming sales of Xiaoda's mobile phones next door. 200 million units were sold on the day it was launched, and it has continued to sell at a terrifying rate of 30 units per day. As of today, it has been going on for a week, which means that Xiaoda has sold more than 400 million units. It can be seen that the domestic smartphone market is very huge, with annual sales of tens of millions, hundreds of millions, or even hundreds of millions of units. There is no problem at all that the smartphones we produced in the past could not sell at such high prices as Xiaoda phones. The sales volume is not due to poor quality or insufficient performance, but the price is too high. I suggest accelerating the research and development of Redmi mobile phones and striving to mass-produce them before the end of the year. The product pricing should also be appropriately lowered, at least compared to Xiaoda. NOTE1 is lower. As long as we launch the product quickly enough and sell it at a low enough price, we can still catch up with the wave of replacements from feature phones to smartphones and capture part of the market from Reda Technology.”

Also in the Loongson Zhongke Company in Beijing's HD district, chairman Hu Weiwu summoned technical staff and said: "The popularity of Ritar MateBook notebooks has pointed out the direction for our Loongson research and development. Running Windows software through translation mode is A shortcut to establishing a software ecosystem. We must concentrate our efforts to develop a translator suitable for Loongson and Linux systems as soon as possible. In addition, the MIPS architecture and instruction set have severely limited the improvement of Loongson's performance. Self-developed architecture and self-developed instruction sets are urgent. , it’s time to break out of the MIPS architecture and create a new world. Rockchip Wafer Factory has also begun to undertake 7nm chip foundry business. I hope that our next-generation Loongson chip will use the 7nm process and its performance will definitely improve. Significantly improved, fever can also be better controlled.”

In the far south of Shenzhen, a meeting was also taking place in the conference room of Huawei R&D Center. Yu Dazui, who has just taken over Huawei’s smartphone business, is arranging research and development tasks for this year and next. “Judging from the disassembly report of Xiaoda’s mobile phone, this phone has used a self-developed processor and a self-developed 4G baseband chip. , self-developed power management chips, self-developed fingerprint recognition modules, the localization rate is very high, and we Huawei cannot lag behind. The research and development of Kirin chips and Baron basebands must be fully accelerated, and the research and development plan for 7-yuan smartphones must also be put forward. Schedule. And Rockchip Wafer Factory has opened up the tape-out testing and foundry business of 7nm chips to us. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and we must seize it immediately. According to the research and development plan, our new processor will adopt the latest architecture, the latest IP core, and integrate baseband functions to create a high-end large-scale foundation for our Huawei mobile phones.”

In the headquarter building of a certain conscience, a certain chairman surnamed Liu was yelling at a group of subordinates, "In the past week, our notebook product sales have dropped by nearly 50%. We are a Fortune 500 and international company, and our notebook sales have dropped by nearly %." You can't beat Reda Technology, which has just been established for two years. What do you do for a living? What are you talking about? Self-developed chips, where does our company get the relevant talents? We just rely on the dozens of people in the R&D department. No, it's just a fantasy. Go back and formulate a new marketing plan, put out more ads, and contact more dealers. This is not as cost-effective as investing huge amounts of money in research and development of processors, memory, etc., or just go directly. It’s better to buy from major foreign manufacturers. They have decades of experience in R&D and production, and the products they produce are much better than our domestic products.”

At Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. across the Taiwan Strait, Zhang Zhongmou was operating the MateBook laptop in front of him and asked the technician next to him, "Are you sure the processor used in this laptop is really made with a 7nm process?"

"Yes, Mr. Chairman, our R&D department has carried out layer-by-layer scanning after opening the cover. This M1 chip is indeed manufactured with a 7nm process, and the technology is quite mature, with very little leakage and very low heat generation. I didn't expect that just now Rockchip, which was established less than a year ago, has mastered the 7nm process technology so quickly.”

Zhang Zhongmou stared at the notebook in front of him and was silent. After ten minutes of silence, he spoke again: "I remember that one of our old employees at TSMC, Lin Mengsong, changed jobs and went to Rockchip Fab to become their technical director. You go find some lawyers and sue Lin Mengsong for stealing technology."

Lee Jae-yong, president of Bangguo Four Star Electronics, said with a gloomy face: "Judging from the disassembly report, the M1 processor on this MateBook notebook does use a 7nm process technology, with extremely high transistor density. The heat is very small. I didn’t expect that after our four-star competition with TSMC for so many years, the first company to win the 7nm production process was Rockchip, a company in mainland China that had just been established less than a year ago. , It’s really incredible that we have mastered the world’s leading chip production technology.” (End of this chapter)