Technological Hegemony

Shanghai, Huawei 2012 Laboratory.

It was only six o'clock in the morning, and the person in charge, Gong Xiangdong, had already arrived at the company.

Looking around, one-third of the workstations in the hall were still lit, and the engineers with afro chicken coop heads and dark circles under their eyes seemed to have stayed up all night.

"If this goes on like this, I'm going to be exhausted." Gong Xiangdong sighed deeply, thinking to himself.

The four domestic mobile phone giants have struggled to catch up with Samsung and Apple in recent years, relying on this group of engineers to work a lot of overtime, overloaded work, and complete it with unimaginable tenacity for normal people.

Of course, the effect is outstanding. Samsung's mobile phone market share in China has dropped from 30% at its peak to less than 1% today.

In five years, from 30% of the shares, all of them have been fucked to only 1% left. What is this concept?

A unique concept in the world!

Tai Nima is cruel!

That's Samsung, the only company on earth that can manufacture all the internal parts of mobile phones, and has a unique entire industrial chain in the world.

Samsung alone accounts for 20% of South Korea's national GDP.

People in the industry have long pointed out that Samsung is simply a country pretending to be a company!

This company is so huge that it is under the care of all departments in Korea from top to bottom.

Any business rival that starts a war with Samsung is actually going to war with the whole of South Korea! The whole of Korea is unanimous to the outside world, and will mobilize the power of the entire country to support Samsung frantically.

However, the four domestic mobile phone giants are at war with Samsung!

It is to reduce their market share in China to less than one percent!

It's just the sweat and heartache involved, ordinary people outside the industry will never know.

Gong Xiangdong walked through the hall and came to his office, put down his paper bag and sat at his desk, looking at the white sky outside the window, fell into deep thinking.

No matter how hard they try, they still hit the ceiling. The United States has issued regulations to completely ban the entry of Huawei mobile phones, and there is no way to break into Apple's stronghold.

In the European market, Asian market, and South American market, Samsung and the four domestic giants are fighting a price war.

Samsung owns the entire industry chain, they can make everything by themselves, and the cost can be reduced to very cheap.

However, because the Chinese mobile phone industry chain is incomplete, the domestic four giants have to purchase a large number of flash memory chips and screens from Samsung.

Some time ago, Samsung made a ruthless move to raise prices.

If you can't do the domestic big four in the Chinese market, you can make up for it with hardware.

Directly and substantially increase the prices of flash memory chips and screens. Huawei, Xiaomi, Vivo, and Opal have been severely slashed and a lot of blood has been released.

As a result, now that the annual report is out, the profit of Samsung's mobile phone department has not increased, but the profit of the electronics department has increased by 27% due to the blood sucking from China.

Huawei is a straight male company composed of engineers. There are more than 200,000 people in the company, and nearly 100,000 of them are engineers.

This ratio is too scary, which leads to a very linear thinking mode of this company. It likes to engage in technology. The harder it is to press its opponents, the more they invest in technology.

So far, Huawei's annual research and development expenses have exceeded 100 billion yuan, ranking sixth in the world, and almost all of its capital reserves have been used for research and development.

As an industry giant, Lenovo's annual research and development expenses are only 8 billion yuan, which is dubbed by netizens as the least enterprising technology giant.

"Operating speed is life, how can we increase the operating speed to a level close to that of Apple?"

Gong Xiangdong fell into deep thinking. His biggest goal was to get close to Apple. As for overtaking on a curve, he never dared to think about it.

In order to improve the speed of mobile phones, in addition to Huawei's own laboratory,

Gong Xiangdong also visited all the top laboratories in the country, promising huge technical returns, including the artificial intelligence laboratory hosted by Sha Zhan.

"They're here!"

Gong Xiangdong was taken aback when he received the secretary's call. He looked at the electronic watch on the table. It was not even eight o'clock in the morning, but Sha Zhan and Gu Pengdong had already arrived at his company?

It must be something important...

"What are you waiting for, invite them in quickly." Gong Xiangdong said hastily.

The three of them met, exchanged pleasantries, and Sha Zhan boasted, "Your new MATE series released recently is of very good quality. Both Pengdong and I are using them, and I heard rumors that this time you used BOE's screens!"

"I really didn't expect that domestic screens can be so good. It should be the first time to provide OLED screens for mobile phones with a price of 6,000 to 15,000, right?"

Gong Xiangdong smiled wryly, "Speaking of it makes me cry. To manufacture top-level OLED screens, you need to use the Nihong Guo TOKKI brand vapor deposition machine, which is the most important machine in the entire production line. Apple has regulations that the screens they use must be made by TOKKI's machine evaporation."

"Do you know what Samsung did? They contracted the production of TOKKI for five full years, and now there is not even a machine like this on the market."

"It's another forced technological monopoly. I've heard too much of the same thing over the years." Gu Pengdong sighed.

Gong Xiangdong went on to say, "BOE spent an unknown amount of money, found an unknown number of channels, and finally got a TOKKI vapor deposition machine, which produced the OLED screen we need."

"We took it for testing. The color accuracy, color gamut, brightness, resolution, resolution, and almost all technical indicators are exactly the same as the top screen produced by Samsung, so we immediately decided to use BOE's screen on our flagship machine."

"As long as the domestic products meet the technical standards, we will certainly support them, but after all, BOE only has one TOKKI evaporation machine, and the output is limited, so this time the MATE series actually uses screens produced by LG, BOE 60%, LG 100% look like forty."

The three were silent for a while.

BOE has produced a top-level 2K screen, and together with the giant screen manufacturer LG, it has become a supplier of Huawei's flagship phone.

I begged my grandpa to tell my grandma how much money I spent to get a TOKKI machine pitifully.

This is the way of the world. The industry giants who have already monopolized the market do their best and have great energy. When they want to block you, you can't even buy a machine.

As for the key equipment such as the top-level vapor deposition machine, only companies in the Neon country are capable of producing it. If our country can manufacture the vapor deposition machine itself, is it still worth the bird's attention?

Hey~

"How can you bring up such a heavy topic?" Gong Xiangdong finally came to his senses, "The two deans came to see me early in the morning, they shouldn't be here to catch up on the old days, right?"

Sha Zhan smiled slightly and looked at Gu Pengdong.

Gu Pengdong opened the small bag he carried with him, and took out three mobile phones from it, namely Apple, Samsung, and Huawei's own flagship mobile phone.

"You try and see which phone runs faster." Sha Zhan said.

Gong Xiangdong frowned, "We're old friends now, so don't make such jokes. We have done this kind of experiment thousands of times. I admit that our mobile phones are not as fast as Apple's, but can't we keep pace with Samsung?"

Gong Xiangdong was a little depressed, "You didn't come to bury me early in the morning, did you? I'm not as skilled as others, I admit it, but we've been working hard."

"We all know the situation." Sha Zhan said lightly, "Believe me, try it and you will understand."

PS: Chapter 12 pretended to be cowardly, but was scolded like a dog in the end.

Every author has his own field of expertise. Since everyone thinks that Jiu'er is not good at writing pretentiously, then I will stop writing. I will introduce more technological inventions and the current industrial chain structure to everyone in the future.

Having written science fiction and science and technology for nearly ten years, Jiu'er still knows a little bit.

PS2: HUAWEI mate20pro, mate20Pro Porsche version, the first supplier is BOE, and the second supplier is LG, all of which are authentic.

This is a domestic OLED screen, and it is the first time in history that it has entered the supply chain of Android flagship phones. Jiuer is very happy, so it is included in this book.

The joke about the tokki evaporation machine is also true. At present, all domestic display manufacturers only have this machine.

There will be no explanation in the following chapters. In short, the content of Jiuer's book will be as close as possible to the real situation of the industry.