Reinventing the Millennium

Since arriving in the United States, Fang Zhuo has worked diligently as the head of Yike Logistics, wanting to take precautions to strengthen the company's deep competitiveness.

When the Hummingbird team moved from the secondary Silicon Valley to the real Silicon Valley, Fang Zhuo was completely relieved and also warned himself that acquiring Intrinsity is not a matter of peace of mind. A chip that is enough to be installed on Apple and Samsung's flagship mobile phones will take at least three or four years. Polished.

This polishing process still requires a lot of effort.

IC design is not easy. Morningstar Semiconductor's repeated tape-out failures are the best example. MediaTek's chip progress, which was previously stated by the head of MediaTek, Cai Mingjie, has been temporarily silenced.

But Fang Zhuo was very patient.

The ice core is stretched, not to mention, it is foreseeable that Yike and Qualcomm can maintain their friendship for quite some time.

On the morning of November 9, Fang Zhuo attended a meeting of Yike's chip design department at the Silicon Valley R\u0026D Center.

As of now, the number of employees in the chip design department is 50. Among them, 17 disabled employees have been recruited from Intel. The acquired Intrinsity has a complete team of 22 people, and the remaining 11 are mostly recruited through normal channels. Talent with senior background.

Fang Zhuo simply compared the number of people. After Apple acquired P.A. Semi, there were about 180 people. While Samsung has dominated the world with its own semiconductors for many years, the number of people in the IC design team must be far more than 200.

Just looking at it this way, it is still relatively weak.

However, after watching the meeting, everyone had no objections to the project jointly developed by Intrinsity and Samsung. They also agreed with the idea of ​​​​based on the Cortex-A8 core. The department structure was basically established with the Hummingbird team as the mainstay. This made Fang Zhuo very happy. Rejoiced.

Fang Zhuo now understands some basic semiconductor knowledge, but it is still not enough to see in front of this group of people. As the meeting progressed, he could not understand the content at all, but he had a very intuitive feeling.

They feel that the Cortex-A8-based architecture is quite trendy, and they enthusiastically discussed the 4th ARM Developer Conference just held in Santa Clara, California in October.

The new Cortex-A9 processor was released at this conference, which will support dual-core architecture.

In Fang Zhuo's view, the most useful information he can get is that the A8 generally matches the 65nm process of the wafer factory. The future A9 will follow the improvement of the manufacturing process and just go to the next level, using the 40nm process.

Process technology → core chip → mobile phone performance.

Inside and out, from basics to finished product.

When Fang Zhuo thought about this route, he felt like one minute on stage and ten years off stage.

In the afternoon, he attended another domestic e-commerce meeting in the office.

When the meeting ended and evening approached, fatigue set in. Fang Zhuo took a short nap while waiting for the American King to come over to inspect the work.

At half past five, Yu Hong arrived at the R\u0026D center, walked into President Fang's office, and found her sleepy boss.

"You just woke up? Are you very tired from running back and forth recently?"

Fang Zhuo rubbed his eyebrows, pointed at the coffee, and signaled the American King to make himself a cup while he woke up first.

A few minutes later, Fang Zhuo, who was completely awake, said, "I'm really tired. I've been working on two acquisitions back and forth, but I finally got one."

"From last year to now, we have acquired three companies, sensors, power supplies, and IC design." Yu Hong said about the situation, "Especially this time, we spent 180 million US dollars in just a few days, which would be nearly 1.4 billion domestically. The money is spent, it’s a big deal.”

"The more you earn, the more you spend, the more you do it, it will be valuable." Fang Zhuo took the coffee and stood up to walk to the conference room. This was another meeting related to mobile phone operators.

"Wait a minute." Yu Hong stopped the boss, "I received a call from Weiwei on the way. She said she asked you to conduct another inspection here. What's going on?"

"She is just worried. There were some minor problems during the previous physical examination. The gastric ulcer is gone and there is a thyroid nodule. The domestic hospital requires regular follow-up examinations. She insisted on asking me to check again after I come to the United States." Fang Zhuo said calmly.

Yu Hong frowned: "You have been in the United States for a month, why don't you get checked? Don't hide your illness and avoid medical treatment."

Seeing that she was still blocking the way, Fang Zhuo had no choice but to explain a little more clearly: "The nodules are graded. Mine is the mildest grade 4a, which means the risk of malignancy is 5-10%. There is no problem. But to say the least, even if there is a problem, The cure rate for thyroid cancer is over 90%.”

"Haven't you heard that if you have to get cancer in your life, it's best to have thyroid cancer, so don't worry too much, just follow the doctor's advice."

Yu Hong said expressionlessly: "Then listen to Weiwei, take the time to go to Xida or Langone to check again."

"OK, OK, wait until we return to New York." Fang Zhuo saw her getting out of the way and said as he walked, "Don't worry when you hear about the disease. Let's take the probability as an example. If there is a 90% successful product project in front of you, will you do it or not? "

"It's the same thing."

"President Yu, think about it, will you focus on the 10% risk instead of focusing on the 90% success?"

Fang Zhuo walked into the conference room and put the coffee cup on the table.

"Two different things." Yu Hong said lightly, "There is so much nonsense, just do whatever Weiwei says, don't tell me this."

Fang Zhuo smiled, clinked glasses in the air, and said, "Okay, then, our inventory work before the release of the mobile phone is about to begin, and it's up to you to start first and make final preparations for December."

Yu Hong took the document from the secretary, gestured to hand it to Mr. Fang, and then silently organized in her mind what she would say for the meeting.

December is only twenty-one days away, and it can be said that the launch of mobile phones is just around the corner.

…

Yike mobile phones have been available for pre-sale abroad since October.

However, until November, pre-sale data had not been announced, and even Yike Company declined media interviews.

The only relevant incident that has been reported again is that Yike Company won two key positions in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala advertising bidding, ending Midea's zero-point blessing for four consecutive years.

This thing seems a bit strange.

Pre-sale data is not announced, there are no plans for the domestic market, and relevant mobile phones are not available.

Unfortunately, there are also sources from China Unicom's senior management, and Yike's goal is to create a Lenovo mobile phone with the largest domestic market share.

How to make it? How to make it?

It looks like the answer will only be revealed in December.

However, as Tesco's Double Eleven has come to an end again, many media reporters are looking forward to interviewing Mr. Fang at the Internet Conference to be held on November 25th to ask about the situation of his mobile phone.

Unfortunately, Mr. Fang was absent from this year’s meeting in Pengcheng.

Some people said that Mr. Fang simply didn’t come over because he had a bad relationship with Penguin due to social media issues.

Some people also said that Tesco's tentative launch of many cosmetics categories on Double Eleven touched Taobao's nerves, and Mr. Fang simply did not come.

With the capture of a photo of the meeting, the impromptu discussion became more heated.

——Li Guoqing was in high spirits on the stage, talking about Dangdang’s efforts in B2C.

——Ma Chen in the audience was smiling, listening to the whispers of the people next to him, while Ma Huateng, who was sitting in an empty seat next to him, didn't seem to pay attention to the stage. He frowned, his eyes fell on the empty seat, and his face looked thoughtful.

The good guy announced that this unoccupied seat was reserved for Mr. Fang. Even though he was not here, it still held the heart of his good friend.

Where did Mr. Fang go?

As the Yike official website quietly announced that the mobile phone will be released earlier, December 10, 3 pm.

A real answer is placed in front of everyone.