Big Country Technology Starts with Mobile Phones

The output of the C-level recycling production line is higher than that of the D-level recycling production line, at 30 tons/hour, which also improves the efficiency by a small level.

Moreover, the classification is more detailed, which can more effectively separate heavy metals in e-waste, and then treat some raw materials harmlessly.

But the purpose of Liu Dalang's visit was not only to increase the production capacity of the recycling production line, but also for another important reason, which was the raw materials for the chips.

The C-level recycling production line can recycle the chips into something similar to wafers, which can be used by Nebula Technology.

In this way, Liu Dalang does not need to purchase large quantities of wafers to produce Chang Geng chips. He can be completely self-sufficient. With nanoimprint technology, he can save a lot of processing costs.

You can also sell part of the equipment in the production line, but the risk of doing so is too great. Nebula Technology does not need to make money in this way.

A C-level recycling production line costs 200,000 points, which is equivalent to four D-level recycling production lines, but you can earn it back quickly.

Liu Dalang watched the Earth Recycling Station under Nebula Technology growing day by day. He was excited but also a little helpless. Isn't this just a garbage collector?

China banned the import of e-waste the year before last, but local companies also have e-waste, and they also have raw materials from India.

Fortunately, the [Technology Collection] can be controlled remotely, and you can know the situation of the Nebula Technology Industrial Park in India at any time, without having to run in both directions.

Otherwise, in the current situation, Liu Dalang would be watched by countless people when he went abroad. It would be difficult to go out and come back. The risk would be too great.

From the moment Nebula Technology produced the Chang Geng chip, it attracted the attention of all parties, and Nebula Technology was no longer an assembly plant.

After solving the problem of raw materials, Liu Dalang quickly arrived at the Nebula Technology R\u0026D Department to check the development progress of sensors and baseband chips.

Because he doesn’t know when Nebula Technology will no longer be able to buy baseband chips. Before that, he will either stock up on goods or develop them himself.

Liu Dalang wants both. On the one hand, he imports a large amount of Qualcomm's baseband chips, and on the other hand, he increases investment in Nebula Technology's baseband chips.

When the employees of the sensor project team saw Liu Dalang coming, they were very surprised and said: "Chairman, our sensor trial production was successful!"

"Huh? Show it to me!"

Liu Dalang was not surprised by this. The D-level sensor production line was exchanged and developed at the same time as the D-level nano-SOC production line.

As a result, Chang Gung 1 and 2 have been mass-produced and sold, and Chang Gung 3 has begun research and development. Their sensor has just been successfully trial-produced and has not yet been mass-produced.

If it fails again, Liu Dalang will doubt whether there is something wrong with their group of experts.

In fact, I don’t blame them. At this stage, the Chinese market mainly relies on imported image sensors, and several domestic manufacturers are not strong enough.

In the final analysis, domestic camera brands are still not good. Seagull, Great Wall, Phoenix, Patriot, Pearl River, etc., none of them have developed.

Liu Dalang is very envious of the "Explorer" imaging system in the "Science and Technology Collection", but the price is too high, the same as the price of the full version of 5G technology.

The starting 320 million pixels cannot be put on a mobile phone because there is no processor that can handle it. When it comes to making cameras, Nebula Technology has no experience.

Inexperience is not a problem, Liu Dalang is worried that "exploring the world" will not be able to exert its value, if it is studied by major camera brands again...

After hearing what Liu Dalang said, the employee of the sensor project team handed Liu Dalang a very small camera module. It was really very small.

Mobile phone camera modules without OIS anti-shake are actually not very big. A set of camera modules for some cost-effective models only costs 21 yuan.

Regardless of the tens of millions of pixels they brag about, they are actually just small sensors with large pixel lenses that have been eliminated for a long time, and they are not worth the money at all.

This is why cost-effective models can do so well in terms of paper parameters. The sensors and algorithms are all cut off. What’s the use of having high pixels?

"The pixel size of this sensor is..."

Liu Dalang:......

Listening to the employee's detailed report, Liu Dalang looked confused because he didn't understand the pixel size, aperture, or output resolution.

After listening for a long time, he only heard one thing, and that was that the sensor in his hand was at an upper level among low-end sensors.

The entire camera module is 12 million pixels without optical image stabilization. Using the comparison method, it can even compete with Apple's 12 million pixels.

Of course, this is just a joke. Let alone using this thing to benchmark Apple, even a 100-megapixel camera module will not work.

High pixels don’t matter, but big bottom is what’s great, and it also needs to be supported by a super powerful algorithm, otherwise it won’t be able to fully utilize the strength of the sensor.

"Okay, I get it!"

In the past, Liu Dalang would be very happy when Nebula Technology achieved technological breakthroughs, but now he is not happy and has a little headache.

Because sensors of the same level on the market are cheaper than their own production, it shows that the production capabilities of these manufacturers are definitely stronger than Nebula Technology.

How much stronger it is, Liu Dalang doesn't know, but what can be guessed is that the sensor level of Sony, an international major manufacturer, should be between level B and level A.

Limited to the same type of sensors, even if smartphones have impacted the camera market, no matter how powerful mobile phones are, they still cannot compare to cameras.

In the [Science and Technology Collection], the highest level is the S-level sensor production line. The sensors in the "Exploration" image require an S-level production line to produce.

Further up, there are not just optical imaging systems, but also high-precision radar sensors, radar imaging systems, radio telescopes, etc.

Liu Dalang has not yet had access to these, and the idea of ​​putting a radio telescope into a mobile phone is too crazy, and the technological level is not up to it.

After careful consideration, he decided to put the matter aside until the sensor was mass-produced, and wait to see if there were any orders.

Then he went to the baseband chip project team to check the progress, and found that the employees in the team still looked desperate, with all their hair falling out.

"What's wrong? Is there something wrong?"

"I just have a problem that I can't figure out..."

"Oh? Tell me about it?"

"Why can't we get around design patents at all, but those guys can do it so easily?"

Liu Dalang:......

Of course you can't compete with the NPC, but he couldn't say that, but said with relief: "It's okay, just try your best!"

"No! I can't swallow this breath!"

"Keep going! I don't believe it!"

"..."

The research and development of baseband chips is easy. You can just do it with what you buy. However, it is not easy to circumvent patents.

Unless Nebula Technology has its own 5G technology that allows them to bypass patents through 5G baseband chips, conventional methods will not work at all.

Liu Dalang remembers that Huawei's Barong baseband was only released after the arrival of the 5G era. During this period, Nebula Technology still had four years to go.

As for other project teams, their progress is at normal levels, and the progress of Chang Geng 3 is much faster than he expected. This is good news.

Even though Chang Geng 3 is only designed with a 28nm process, it can be used in mobile phones, and it can already be called a high-end chip in some fields.

Back at the Nebula Technology headquarters, the first message Liu Dalang received was actually from Xiaomi, no, to be precise, it was Redmi 2A.

The Spring Festival has passed. How could major mobile phone manufacturers hold back? Redmi took the lead and began to warm up the low-end product Redmi 2A.

“The lowest price is only 499 yuan!”

Although the starting price of Redmi 2A is low, the memory combination of 1+8GB is only 499. If you want more memory, you have to pay more. In what age are you still using 1+8GB mobile phone? Isn't this a scam?

Liu Dalang wanted to complain, but he held back. Using low memory combinations to lower the starting price and deliberately avoiding this publicity was a common tactic used by major mobile phone manufacturers.

Because there are a large number of consumers who don’t care much about the memory size when buying mobile phones. They just want the ultimate low price.

Originally, the preheating of Redmi 2A had nothing to do with Liu Dalang, but a few good people took the lead and pulled out Dalang V8 to compare with Redmi 2.

That’s right, it’s Redmi 2. Redmi 2A hasn’t been released yet, so we can only use Redmi 2 for comparison.

Let’s compare. The Dalang V8 is definitely better than the Redmi 2 in terms of configuration, but they are not comparing the parameters, but the smoothness of use.

This is no problem, but when Liu Dalang took a closer look, he discovered that the Dalang V8 in the comparison video had a strong lag, which was not the normal level.

At the same time, the commentary in the video said: “After two rounds of application opening tests, we can see that the application startup speed of Dalang V8 is slower.

Moreover, there is a certain gap between system animation and system fluency compared with MIUI, and MIUI is also adapted to 300+ Xiaomi applications! "

Liu Dalang was speechless. It was a Nebula application specially made by Nebula Mobile to adapt it to Nebula OS. How come everyone is copying it?

But he also knew that there was nothing he could do about it. There was no patent protection for things like system functions, and it was common for them to copy each other.

None of this is important. What is important is that Cubing OS is a simplified version of Nebula OS. Dalang V8 has stronger hardware. How can it lose to Redmi 2 in smoothness?

"Could it have been moved?"

The so-called board relocation is to replace the memory chip on the motherboard with another one, but Liu Dalang has no evidence, and it is impossible for him to question it.

The video comparison alone is fine. Another one directly wrote an article in which he compared Dalang V8 and Redmi 2 using various data.

The same two rounds of application opening, background survival rate, system fluency, animation, and battery life are exactly the same as before.

Dalang V8 is better in some aspects, but it is weaker than Redmi 2 on the overall level.

However, Dalang V8 was designed by Liu Dalang himself. How could he not know the various test parameters? So as soon as he came across this article, he discovered a problem: the data in it was falsified.

Even if it is affected by temperature and environment, the data cannot be that different, but this fake article has still spread.

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