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Things are going very smoothly.

Zhou Shaoning immediately led the team to South Korea. At the same time, the internal design and development departments also activated the emergency button and began a full-scale assault on Samsung's chips.

This is also a huge advantage for domestic technology companies.

Qualcomm's latest flagship chip, Snapdragon 810, has serious problems. This is an unexpected incident. Many foreign mobile phone manufacturers have already formulated plans based on the relevant parameters and indicators announced by Qualcomm last year.

Just wait for the chips to be in place and then assemble and process them before the new model can be released.

Unexpectedly, the chip I received was defective!

What to do?

For many overseas mobile phone manufacturers, they are basically left to wait for death. If they want to make temporary changes, they can no longer make changes. All we have to do is bite the bullet, and the end will be miserable. These overseas smartphone manufacturers can be said to be taken over by Qualcomm.

Only domestic mobile phone manufacturers can survive.

Because the domestic Internet and mobile phone related industries have very amazing work efficiency. Innovative technological inventions are China’s biggest weakness; China’s strength is that others raise problems and China solves them!

Now, Qualcomm has raised questions.

In foreign countries, it may take 8-10 months to solve the problem and change the plan. The day lilies are already cold.

It's different in China.

One or two months is enough!

It's nothing more than forced overtime and crazy work, even at the expense of sudden death of employees, to force the product team to work overtime to advance the work process and get things done in the shortest possible time!

So from a macro perspective, it was a good thing that something happened to Qualcomm in 2015.

Prior to this, the smartphone industry was still flourishing. There were many mobile phone manufacturers at home and abroad. Panasonic, Sony, HTC, LG, BlackBerry, Nokia and other companies still had certain market competitiveness. After the Qualcomm incident, only domestic mobile phone manufacturers remained in the smartphone industry.

Zhou Buqi was very happy about this, "The product crisis caused by an internal power struggle at Qualcomm looks like it will overturn the entire overseas mobile phone industry and eliminate all overseas mobile phone manufacturers with poor flexibility, low efficiency and low energy. Out. In this way, the rise of domestic mobile phones and their future expansion into overseas markets will be solidly guaranteed.”

Ning Yaxian called a little secretary and asked her to clean up the cups and fruit plates left by Zhou Shaoning. She looked back and asked, "Samsung is an exception."

"Well, Samsung is different from those companies." Zhou Buqi nodded, "Li Zairong's ambitions are not small, and his strategy formulation is also more complete. He can bravely give up small profits to pursue longer-term goals. I don't know if that's the case." Learned from me.”

The second half of the sentence is bragging.

But according to the secretaries in the office, this is the truth and there is no bragging at all.

Ning Yaxian also admired him very much, "What small profits did Samsung give up? The profits from the mobile phone business?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Yes, in the mobile phone business, he has been deliberately tilting the profits of the mobile phone business towards the semiconductor field. Otherwise, he would not have agreed to supply Aisda so easily this time. There is no pattern and From a long-term perspective, we really can’t make such a decision.”

Ning Yaxian said easily: "Then the negotiation with Mr. Zhou this time should go smoothly, right?"

"Well, it can be seen from Samsung's previous choices." This is also the source of Zhou Buqi's confidence. "If not for this, Samsung may also be trapped by Qualcomm this time."

"What happened?"

"The core of a smartphone is the chip, and a mobile phone is built around the chip. In order to control costs, other high-end phones generally have clear chip goals, including Asda, which are all built around Qualcomm Designed with Snapdragon chips. Once the goals are clear, it can effectively reduce costs and increase efficiency.”

"Samsung has two options."

Ning Yaxian understood what he meant.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "Yes, Samsung gave up small profits and adopted a dual-solution strategy for the development of its own chip business. One team worked around Qualcomm chips, and the other team worked around its own chips. In the past few Samsung models This is basically the case for high-end phones. Most of them are equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon chips, and a small number of them use their own chips. Especially in the Korean market, most of them use Samsung’s self-developed chips.”

Ning Yaxian nodded gently, "One more choice, one more path."

Zhou Buqi said: "Yes, the meaning of strategy is to have more choices. It can be clearly seen this time. Those overseas mobile phone manufacturers found out that there was a problem with Qualcomm chips, and they all panicked. Even Microsoft couldn't deal with it. . However, because Samsung has always adopted a high-cost dual-line strategy, when Qualcomm chips failed, they immediately closed this line and adopted a self-developed chip solution to overcome this crisis quickly and effectively. "

Ning Yaxian said: "Aisda can also handle it."

"Aisda can cope with it not because of strategic preparations, but because of the fierce competition environment in the domestic IT industry." Zhou Buqi couldn't help but sigh, "In the long term, the chip business is a hurdle that must be passed. . At least like Samsung, even if it is not as good as Qualcomm’s plan, there must be an alternative.”

Ning Yaxian pursed her lips, "Have you not planned it for a long time? I heard that the market response to Aisda's self-developed chip is quite good, and the benchmark scores are quite high."

"Uh..." Zhou Buqi felt a little embarrassed, "The market's reaction can often be controlled. With good running data and social media guidance, it is easy to establish a good public impression. This kind of Things, individual usage feelings are often more accurate than public impressions.”

Ning Yaxian was surprised, "Isn't it possible to develop a self-developed chip?"

Zhou Buqi said: "It's pretty good. At least low-end phones are enough, at least enough to deal with Laoyan's copycat phone business. The success of self-developed chips can be said to give Laoyan a competitive advantage in the competition of ultra-low-end phones." an unprecedented advantage.”

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Next, Asda will have two press conferences.

One is in May.

At this conference, two new products will be released, a tablet computer and a Bluetooth headset. At the same time, the latest version of the mobile phone UI system, self-developed chips and a Motorola mid-range mobile phone will be released, with a domestic price of 2,999 yuan.

The other one is in July.

In this conference, the most anticipated new Aster7 will be released, as well as smart watches. The technical aspect will mainly be the introduction of the software level of Aster7, the improvement of the camera system, the upgrade of the AI ​​​​assistant, and the most anticipated A co-branded mobile phone in collaboration with Ferrari.

Between the two press conferences is Asda's IPO, and the time has been basically determined, scheduled for June 16th.

Therefore, the Qualcomm incident will not affect Asda's listing.

Zhou Buqi rarely speaks in public.

This time, in order to promote his Bluetooth headset, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and go on stage as a product launcher to introduce this new product that may change the trend of the headset industry.

It can also be regarded as a platform for Asda's listing.

Zhou Buqi had made full preparations for his appearance on the stage. He prepared twenty or thirty speeches, and then practiced repeatedly to simulate the feeling of scolding Fang Qiu on stage.

This is his decency.

Even if it doesn't meet Steve Jobs's standards, at least don't be too embarrassed. It would be a bit too shabby if you only said something like "RU, OK" or "way ahead" at the press conference. It must at least reach Boss Ma's level.