Technology: Start by selling mobile phones

The news of successfully signing 6 million additional orders with Xiaomi soon reached Mo Ran.

Mo Ran just looked at it briefly and then put it on his desk.

The game with Xiaomi and SanDisk has involved a lot of energy recently. At this moment, his energy has fallen on another thing.

After more than a month of preparations, the staff structure of Nietzsche's "laptop" business department that Wang Fugui had previously prepared was basically in place.

but.

Although Nietzsche is now somewhat well-known in China, Nietzsche still encounters considerable difficulties in recruiting for the blank industry of "laptop computers".

the reason is simple,

Laptop computers are a highly concentrated industry, with almost 90% of sales concentrated in the top 10 manufacturers.

This means that almost all outstanding technical talents are in major leading manufacturers. When new manufacturers like Nietzsche join, they must either rely on connections to recruit people, or rely on high salaries to recruit people, or they can only pick up some that are not wanted by major manufacturers. Offcuts.

finally,

Except for Wang Fugui, who specially hired a department head from ASUS, most of the other key members are young people with only one or two or three years of work experience, or scraps.

Mo Ran was very satisfied.

Strictly speaking, is it highly technical to produce a laptop?

high!

But it is not the kind of technology that produces a top-level aerospace engine or a top-level chip in the traditional sense. It does not require scientific researchers to continuously develop new technologies, new patents, and obtain new breakthroughs.

Its technical content is mainly reflected in many module links such as product design, power supply, heat dissipation, testing, quality control, etc. It is an empirical theory.

It just so happens that Nietzsche's first laptop was the "YT7000 thin and light laptop" provided by the system.

There is a full set of design drawings provided by the system, and no design experience is required. You can just clone it according to the drawing. You can also learn some design experience during the cloning process.

If it doesn't work, Mo Ran can also purchase the second and third "laptop drawings" from the system. In short, there are many ways.

Not long after he joined the company, Wang Tao, the head of the department who was poached from Asus with a high salary, had already received the design drawings of the "YT7000 thin and light notebook computer".

At this moment, he stood in front of Mo Ran's office and couldn't help but feel a little dazed.

Half a month ago, he was personally invited by Wang Fugui to interview Nietzsche.

As the former deputy director of the technical department of ASUS Chengdu Branch, I was used to spacious and bright office buildings and luxurious offices. When I first came to Nietzsche's headquarters, I thought I had gone to the wrong place...

Compared to high-end office buildings, Nietzsche's headquarters looks so shabby and shabby.

If it weren't for Nietzsche's insight... to be precise, if it weren't for the annual salary of 300,000, he would have wanted to leave on the spot.

Eventually he stayed.

The working environment is almost perfect. As long as the team can achieve results within three to five years and can fight its way out of thousands of troops to establish a firm foothold in the market, then a salary increase and a better workplace will be a matter of course.

But just when he was looking forward to supporting the "Nietzsche Notebook Business Department" by himself, on the second day after joining the company, after signing the confidentiality agreement, Manager Wang Fugui directly threw a complete "laptop computer design drawing" in his face superior.

That's right.

This is what he has in his hand, the YT7000 notebook drawings.

As a senior hardware engineer with more than ten years of experience, he quickly discovered that the design of this notebook was very novel and the hardware configuration provided was completely in line with the mainstream of the current market.

Moreover, no obvious problems were found in the most important considerations for laptops - internal heat dissipation, power consumption, and built-in structure.

Obviously, this should be a product designed by a mature team of a major manufacturer.

But after this, Wang Tao felt dumb. He already had a complete design plan. What else could he do as the head of the department?

Responsible for publicity? Or maybe start doing some side work?

Fortunately, it was soon,

Wang Fugui gave him another performance parameter of a laptop motherboard and hoped to use this notebook motherboard designed by Nietzsche. (Almost all laptop manufacturers design their own motherboards.)

Thinking of this,

Wang Tao's confused eyes gradually came into focus. These few questions were his only way to find a sense of existence.

At this moment, the office door opened slightly and a person walked out.

He knew Huang Hai, the person in charge of the air conditioning business.

It was already April and almost May, and the air-conditioning business had also entered the most important golden cycle of the year. Looking at Huang Hai's depressed expression at this time, I'm afraid the pressure on performance was not small.

Wang Tao's heart skipped a beat for no apparent reason.

After a moment, he took a deep breath and knocked gently on the office door.

"Please come in."

Wang Tao walked in carefully. This was the first time he reported to Mo Ran alone.

Mo Ran obviously noticed something strange about Wang Tao and said with a smile:

"Don't be nervous, just sit down."

After a brief period of nervousness, Wang Tao gradually recovered and quickly spoke out the two contents he was going to report today.

The content is actually very simple.

One is about the choice of new laptop operating system.

The other is the motherboard of the laptop just mentioned.

Although Wang Tao had just joined Nietzsche, he had known something about Nietzsche before. He knew that Nietzsche had his own "Potato OS" operating system on mobile phones and TVs.

In the end, during department discussions, many employees raised this question: Can we learn from Apple computers to use the MAC system, not necessarily the Win system, and make some differences?

Wang Tao originally wanted to refuse directly. Everyone in the world wants to be an apple, but how many apples are there?

But he couldn't bear the thought that he had just arrived and didn't know Mr. Mo's true thoughts. In the end, this problem appeared in front of Mo Ran.

Mo Ran was very straightforward.

"It's not necessary. As our first Nietzsche laptop, there is no need to set a threshold for customers to use it. It can just be a traditional Win system."

"Our 'Tudou OS' system or the dual-system function can be discussed later, but we are not working on it for now."

"good."

Wang Tao breathed a sigh of relief. Mo Ran's answer agreed with him.

Then comes the second question.

A few days ago, after Wang Fugui gave him the functional parameters of the notebook motherboard, he introduced him to Li Zhi from "Yellow River Storage".

According to the original plan, everything from main control chips to laptop motherboards would be produced by Yellow River Storage.

This is also in line with Mo Ran’s original intention of creating “Yellow River Storage” at that time.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he found Li Zhi, Li Zhi decisively rejected the request.

There is no other reason - the current production tasks of "Yellow River Storage" are not ordinary complicated.

In addition to setting aside two photolithography machines to actively expand the production of 32-layer "3D-nand" flash memory particles, other photolithography machines are also responsible for the production tasks of "main control chips" and 38-nanometer and 48-nanometer "NPU chips."

In addition, production capacity must be reserved for the research department to test and improve the yield rate and test chips of various models.

It can be said that the overall task of the entire "Yellow River Storage" is indeed heavy and complicated. Li Zhi really doesn't want to do this job anymore, so he specially set up a production department to organize production for the motherboard.

Mo Ran also understands Li Zhi's difficulties.

However, if you don’t look for “Yellow River Storage”, then who should you look for?

After all, according to the plan, the first batch of motherboards is only 50,000 pieces. This quantity, let alone big manufacturers, even ordinary small manufacturers may not be willing to accept it.

Mo Ran couldn't help but frown. He had to ensure stable quality and be willing to take orders. Such a factory was hard to find even with a lantern.

"If this doesn't work, we have to find Li Zhi. No matter how difficult it is, we must arrange production."

Mo Ran was secretly convinced and was about to take out the phone, but just then, the phone rang early. When he saw the caller, it turned out to be Li Zhi!

"I was just about to call you!"

"Mr. Mo, I know what you want to say, let me say it first, okay?"

"I just happened to think of a good factory. Do you remember Mr. Bao Youcai? It was my last factory, 'Runfa Technology Electronics Factory'!"

"Mr. Bao and others can make a 'laptop motherboard'. You have to find him in person, and he will definitely agree!"

Bao Youwei?

Runfa Electronics Factory?