Reborn Technology Scholar

Chapter 129 Strategic Cooperation (Fourth Update)

Everyone followed Qin Yuanqing to a conference room with doubts.

Qin Yuanqing turned on the projector, then opened the laptop in his hand, entered the computer password, and opened a folder.

I saw a palm-sized mobile phone appear on the screen, one size larger than the current Apple mobile phone, and also thinner.

This is the mate10pro that Qin Yuanqing made in three days. He has used this phone for five years. Its performance is very stable and its battery is very durable. Qin Yuanqing also knows this phone best. The only thing he finds annoying is

Pop-ups pop up from time to time to remind you to update the system.

"This is a smartphone in my mind, using a 10nm process processor and a 5.9-inch 2k resolution screen." Qin Yuanqing introduced one by one, starting from the phone's charger, charging socket, headphone cable, screen, fingerprint lock

, chips, systems, etc.

Mr. Ren and several people from Warwick were all surprised. They did not expect that Qin Yuanqing could actually create such a beautiful and high-performance mobile phone. If this mobile phone was really made, it would be much better than the Apple 4.

"Academician Qin, I have a few questions to ask." A young man came out: "3G has just started, why are you already on 4G, Academician Qin?"

3G has become a hot word since this year, and with the promotion of the country, 4G has only begun to enter people's lives. For people, the 3G era has just begun, as some places have promoted, entering the 3G era.

But as someone who has experienced it, Qin Yuanqing knows very well that 3g is actually just a transitional period. In a few years, 3g will enter the 4g era, and 4g is in line with people's lives.

"3G is based on wcdma. From the user's perspective, 3g means making phone calls, sending text messages, and browsing web pictures. But we should know that video is king. In the 4G era, people can video chat on their mobile phones and watch movies and TV series on their mobile phones.

, you can even use your mobile phone for work." Qin Yuanqing said.

In fact, the 4G standard was agreed upon and completed in 2008. European and American countries began to commercialize 4G in 2011, while China did not issue 4G cameras to the three major operators until 2013.

This shows how rapidly the 4G era has arrived.

"Academician Qin, the current iPhone 4 mobile phone screen is not big, why is the one you designed such a big screen!" The young man expressed his doubts.

Now, every product launched by Apple is an example for others to follow. Everyone is a copycat, but the performance is not even half of that of others.

"A mobile phone is not just a phone call, but a terminal that integrates life, entertainment, learning, and work. Large screens are the development trend of smart phones." Qin Yuanqing is convinced of this. After all, history has proven that,

The small screen has no future.

In a few years, all major mobile phone brands will all use large screens. After all, only by watching videos, watching TV series and playing games can you have a good experience.

Not even Apple can stop the tide.

Even later, curved screens were developed!

"Academician Qin, I wonder how long it will take to produce a mature product?" Mr. Ren looked determined and asked the question he was most concerned about, time!

"It is planned to take two years, and the new technologies formed during this period can be gradually applied to Huawei mobile phones! After two years, all technologies will be mature!" Qin Yuanqing called up a table with the deadline planning for all aspects of technology.

"Two years!?" Mr. Ren pondered for a moment: "How much scientific research funding is needed? How to cooperate?"

"The total scientific research funding is estimated to be 4 billion, and Warwick will provide 2 billion in scientific research funding every year! As for cooperation, the two parties will set up a laboratory in the form of patent authorization, and the details will be decided by our principal. What do you think?" Qin Yuanqing said.

How much is 4 billion in scientific research funding?

Much! A lot!

Shuimu University’s annual education funding is less than 10 billion!

But is it really that much?

In fact, it's not much. Apple invested billions of dollars in developing smartphones, not including chips, screens and batteries.

Therefore, 4 billion in scientific research funding is not much. This is also because Qin Yuanqing has clear goals and China’s labor costs are low. Otherwise, let alone 4 billion, even 40 billion would not be available!

Next came the negotiation between the principal and Mr. Ren. There was no tit-for-tat between the two. The negotiation was fierce and they refused to give in. On the contrary, they talked and laughed, and unknowingly they had finalized the cooperation framework.

For Huawei, the additional investment of 4 billion in R&D expenses is naturally huge, but Huawei currently spends as much as 20 billion on R&D per year, so it is not insurmountable if it bites the bullet a bit.

Qin Yuanqing didn't say much, including the proportion of both parties in the laboratory, authorization, personnel, etc., but he was still asked to serve as the chief designer. According to Mr. Ren, he invested in people rather than projects. It was Qin Yuanqing who touched his heart.

, and not others.

Qin Yuanqing said that he was also helpless. Why did he accidentally get another title above his head? The scale of smartphone research and development is much larger than that of car chassis and gearboxes. At least there are as many as a thousand engineers. Can this be allowed?

People play happily.

Shuimu University and Warwick held a press conference. This is the largest single scientific research funding Shuimu University has received, so it naturally needs to be well publicized.

The strategic cooperation between the two has also caused a huge sensation. After all, Warwick Company is already a Fortune 500 company and its reputation in the country has gradually surpassed that of Lianlian University. Shuimu University is the best school in the country. The strategic cooperation between the two is simply

It's a strong alliance.

What's more important is that Warwick has invested 4 billion in scientific research funding, and that's for two years! According to Mr. Ren at the press conference, there is no cap on scientific research funding.

And Qin Yuanqing also realized Mr. Ren's vigorous and resolute actions. The day before signing the cooperation agreement, relevant technical leaders from Warwick had arrived in the capital, including the later famous HiSilicon Semiconductor.

It was also at this time that Qin Yuanqing learned that Huawei also had its own research institute in the capital!

The research and development of the entire project will not only be carried out at Shuimu University, part of it will be carried out by Warwick's R&D department, and part of it will be joint research and development between the two.

Qin Yuanqing was also very busy. First of all, it was the establishment of the project, the financial co-work account, the decomposition of the project, and the determination of the person in charge of each sub-project. Although there were helpers, it still took half a month to complete.

Smoothed out the entire project team.

The person in charge of the chipset is HiSilicon technical director Yang Yong. The chipset is mainly completed in the HiSilicon R&D department. Shuimu University will send 20 people to the HiSilicon R&D department to participate in the research and development. Qin Yuanqing will baseband, processor, co-processor,

The technical indicators of rf, touch screen controller chip, memory, wireless ic and power management ic are listed, and he checks the progress regularly.

The LCD screen group is headed by Huang Yinshu, a professor at Shuimu University, who has conquered LCD screen technology. The most critical thing about LCD screens is fingerprint lock and touch screen technology, and some technical barriers must be avoided, otherwise lawsuits will be filed.

The lithium battery pack was handed over to the New Energy and Materials Chemistry Laboratory of the Institute of Nuclear Energy and New Energy Technology of Shuimu University. This laboratory was built in the early 1990s and is the research center for lithium-ion batteries and fuel cells at Shuimu University.

As the main unit, after years of research accumulation, the laboratory has established a relatively complete experimental platform for lithium-ion battery and material research.

This is also the group that Qin Yuanqing is most optimistic about. After all, it has strong technical strength and sufficient experience. Making a large 4000mah battery that supports fast charging is not a big challenge for the laboratory.

The real tough battle is the mobile phone operating system. This was done by Qin Yuanqing himself, because neither Shuimu University nor Warwick has enough influential technical personnel. As for the mobile phone operating system, I don’t know why, but it still remains the same.

Adopt the name Hongmeng Operating System.

If it were not for the little butterfly Qin Yuanqing, Hongmeng operating system would not be officially released until August 9, 2019, when Huawei held the Huawei Developer Conference in Dongguan.

However, the promotion of Hongmeng operating system has encountered great resistance, and it has not gained much market share in two years.

In addition to the more than 100 engineers sent by Warwick, Qin Yuanqing recruited directly from outside. It took him a month to recruit more than 300 engineers. There were 500 engineers for the mobile operating system alone.

The research and development of mobile operating systems is not that easy. Otherwise, none of the mobile operating systems produced by so many mobile phone manufacturers in China will be well received. Most of them are even modified systems based on standard Android and are said to be their own systems.

, in fact it is still an Android system.

A mobile phone operating system alone requires so many engineers, and a more complex computer operating system will be even more difficult.

Therefore, it is normal that China has not been able to come up with a decent computer operating system for so many years.

Once a technology monopoly is formed in Internet technology, technical barriers will really cause headaches.

However, the strategic cooperation between Warwick and Shuimu University has not attracted much attention from mobile phone giants such as Samsung and Apple. As those who have experienced it themselves, they know how expensive technology research and development is. Apple has spent tens of billions on it.

US dollars in research and development expenses have established its status as the king of the new era of smartphones. Samsung has also continued to spend tens of billions of dollars to gain such a small position. What can it do with just 4 billion yuan?

Nokia and Motorola even scoffed. If smartphones were that easy, then they wouldn't be able to watch their stocks continue to decline and be helpless.

Once a technical barrier is formed, it becomes a wall. It is not that easy to get over the wall.

Domestic public intellectuals also criticized one by one. They were completely unfavorable, saying that it was a waste of people and money, and they did not overestimate their own capabilities and cited various data.

Qin Yuanqing, on the other hand, was running both directions, taking care of both the smartphone project and the two laboratories, and wanted to split himself in half.

As for the various voices on the Internet, Qin Yuanqing was noncommittal. The technical barriers to smart phones have not yet been formed. If we don't do anything at this time, we will basically be helpless in the future.