rebirth of cataclysm

"Mr. Hu, Xiaochen, aren't you in Pengcheng? Why...have you gone to Guancheng?" At the door in front of the company's office building, Chen Xuesheng saw Hu Mingchen and Hu Jianqiang getting out of the car, and asked doubtfully

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When Fang Guoping went to dispose of the brand-new Mercedes-Benz, Hu Mingchen called Chen Xuesheng and asked him to get a car to pick them up. Although Chen Xuesheng was surprised at the time, Hu Mingchen did not explain much, so he had to ask his driver to go to the designated place in Guancheng

The location will take Hu Mingchen and others back to the company.

"Uncle Chen, let's talk about this later. Let's go and take a look at the new mobile phone you mentioned." Hu Mingchen said in one sentence.

Regarding this encounter on the road, Hu Mingchen did not plan to tell Chen Xuesheng, nor did he plan to tell Ma Jiahao and others. He planned to solve this matter himself.

In fact, Hu Mingchen didn't want Hu Jianqiang to intervene, so when he was in the car, even if he wanted to tell his guess, Hu Mingchen quickly interrupted him to prevent him from saying it.

This is not a simple business matter. Even letting them know will not help, so why worry about it in vain. Although those bastards did not tell who was behind it when they left, Hu Mingchen believed that they could dig it out.

"Oh, okay, okay, let's go upstairs and let's go to the technical department." Upon hearing that Hu Mingchen still wanted to see new products, Chen Xuesheng's attention was immediately diverted.

After such a thing happened, Hu Mingchen still tried his best to come to Pengbo Technology to see this newly developed smartphone. This new product has really great influence on the future.

The person who greeted Chen Xuesheng downstairs was Hu Mingrong, but they didn't talk much. When they went upstairs, Hu Mingchen patted him on the shoulder, which was a silent greeting.

In the past, Pengbo Electronics Company only had one building, but after expansion, it has become two buildings. All the company's production has been moved to the six-story factory building next to it, and the first building has become the administrative building.

and technical departments.

Going up to the conference room next to the technical department on the second floor, Chen Xuesheng welcomed Hu Mingchen and others into the conference room, while Hu Mingrong went to call He Xin.

Soon, He Xin came over with a small box in his arms. He Xin was very excited to see Hu Mingchen and the others.

"Manager He, your technical department has developed a smartphone? Let me see it quickly." Hu Mingchen said impatiently when he saw He Xin.

"Yes, this is our first finished product, and it's in this box." He Xin put the box on the conference table and took out a mobile phone with a white shell from it.

Before He Xin could bring it to him, Hu Mingchen stood up and took the initiative to take the phone into his hand, rubbing it carefully and repeatedly.

Press the button to turn it on, use the home button to find the interface, and then use the touch keys to find out all the functions inside.

He Xin was very surprised by Hu Mingchen's actions.

There was no room for He Xin not to be surprised, because this was the second time he took out this product, and it was the first time Hu Mingchen saw it, but he was able to use it without any explanation. You know, this phone is different from what is currently on the market.

The mobile phones on the market are very different.

But then He Xin felt a little relieved. This product itself was developed by Hu Mingchen with great efforts. He, the R&D manager, also approved by Hu Mingchen. During the development process, He Xin also communicated and discussed with Hu Mingchen remotely many times.

"Xiaochen, this is a mobile phone? It can make calls and send text messages? It can also listen to music? It can also... you said surf the Internet? Is it such a small thing?" Hu Jianqiang next to him looked at the so-called phone in Hu Mingchen's hand.

Cell phone, very confused.

"Mr. Hu, this phone cannot access the Internet directly for the time being. However, it can connect to the internal WiFi and listen to music. However, it is still unstable. In addition, the memory is too small, only 64 MB, and it often crashes.

"He Xin touched his forehead and said.

"Then...it's just a defective product. Who are you selling this to?" Hu Jianqiang was a little stunned at that time.

"Third uncle, don't worry, it's really commendable that they can do this." Hu Mingchen waved his hand and said.

"Mr. Hu, thank you for your understanding. For this product, our more than two hundred engineers work more than ten hours a day, sometimes even up to fourteen hours." He Xin said movedly.

For this product, He Xin really worked day and night with his scientific research team. Sometimes he even stayed in the company for two or three days.

"It's all because our foundation is too weak. Manager He, is this screen an LCD?" Hu Mingchen asked.

"Yes, although multi-touch technology has existed for many years, it has not been actually used in consumer electronics products before, especially on small-sized glass screens such as 3.5 inches. For this reason, we

It took three months of research to solve this technology

, In addition, there is currently only one foreign-funded enterprise in China that can provide this kind of LCD technology. In order to let them help us produce, we can only seize their production capacity. Moreover, it was Mr. Chen who came forward and asked, begging.

I begged again and they agreed," He Xin said.

"As long as it can be solved, if we beg them today, it will be their turn to beg us another day." Hu Mingchen nodded.

"Xiaochen, why do people come to us to ask for help? This is a large LCD factory, and it is not our own enterprise in the mainland." Chen Xuesheng said.

"There is only one company now. I think it won't be long before a second and third company pops up. Once our product is launched and sales increase, it will be their turn to grab our orders. At that time, which company to choose?

It's us who have the final say." Hu Mingchen replied.

"Xiaochen, can this product really be a big seller? I think the keyboard alone is a problem, and most people will not adapt to it. After all, the mainstream now is physical keyboards. Moreover, this phone has several

Some of them have not been solved well. One is the operating system. We have no experience in doing this kind of operating system. The second is the mobile phone chip. There is no professional chip specifically used for this kind of mobile phone on the market, so...

"Chen Xuesheng said worriedly.

"So you think its market prospects are worrying?"

"I am indeed a little worried. All the profits of our company are invested in this. If he can't do it, we will be standing still in the past few years, while other companies that only focus on OEM have grown to thousands of people.

Dachang." Chen Xuesheng said seriously.

When he called Hu Mingchen, Chen Xuesheng seemed quite excited, but after chatting with He Xin and his scientific research team, his excitement was half extinguished.

"Uncle Chen, I know, the thing in my hand is still relatively rough. I just used it, and the response was slow, and the thickness is thicker than I thought. It should be connected to the signal, right? The signal is not very good, but we

Don't lose confidence in it just because of this. Really, it can be done

It's pretty good like this. I'm very optimistic about its prospects. Those big OEMs you envy will envy you very much in the future." Hu Mingchen said confidently, then looked at He Xin and said,

"Manager He, how do you solve the problem of operating system and chip?"

"Mr. Hu, we can only use Intel's mobile phone chips for the time being. Qualcomm doesn't provide them to us at all. As for the operating system, we mainly write program code based on the Linux platform and draw on some things from 0SX. In fact, this

We still haven't finished one piece because now

In order for all systems in China to operate on current chips, the program must be reduced by at least 90%, which is very difficult. However, our company has an obvious shortage of relevant technical personnel in this area, and because there is no better chip, we

The program code can only be tested in simulation mode." He Xin replied.

"Manager He, let me ask you now, if this product is based on the company's current scientific research capabilities, how long will it take for it to be mass-produced and launched?" In fact, Hu Mingchen didn't understand the technology, so he simply avoided those and asked directly.

focus.

"This...it will probably take another year." He Xin said not very sure.

"One year? No, one year is too long." Hu Mingchen frowned when he heard this time.

"Mr. Hu, we have tried our best. Whether it is solving the problem of the operating system or finding a way to be compatible with the chip to make the signal stable, it requires a lot of work. We are not satisfied with the 64M memory and plan to improve it to 128M.

, just to make this phone stably support 3G signals, I’m afraid it will take us half a year..."

"Wait a minute, you mean this phone supports 3G?" Hu Mingchen interrupted He Xin.

"Yes, our product is connected to the 3G standard of the International Telecommunications Union. In our previous tests, it was able to achieve it from time to time, but it was not so stable. This may be related to the fact that our place is a certain distance from the signal tower."

"Hahaha, hehehe, okay, okay, I didn't expect you to be able to solve this technical problem. Based on this alone, Manager He, your entire technical research and development team will receive a 30% salary increase." Hu Mingchen said very happily.

Hu Mingchen really had reasons to be happy. Although he didn't know what the first-generation iPhone was like, he had never used it, but one thing he knew was that it did not support 3G, and it would take more than a year for them to

Just solved this problem.

Although He Xin's team is not satisfactory in many aspects, but based on this alone, they can barely tie with the opponent.

"Xiaochen, a 30% salary increase? We don't have that much money now. The amount of money their R&D department spends every day is staggering. If we increase the salary by 30%, we will have to sell the factory.

There is not a penny in the company's books now." When he heard that he needed to spend more money, Chen Xuesheng immediately jumped out.

It’s not Chen Xuesheng’s fault either. Hu Mingchen doesn’t know how expensive firewood and rice are. He’s not in the company at ordinary times, so he doesn’t have a personal experience. And when he’s in the company, he often has to face the problem of He Xin asking him for scientific research funding. On the surface, the company has a lot of problems every year.

There is little profit, but if the money is used to fill the hole of He Xin and others, it will be completely eaten up in a month or two. Even if Hu Mingchen spent 100 million before, he saved again and again, and deducted again and again.