Technological power starts with upgrading lenses

After accompanying the leaders to visit the future factory of Datang Heavy Industry, the leaders set off for Daqing to visit the commercial version of the oil-producing insect test.

Due to this test, the oil-producing insects need to actually penetrate several kilometers underground, which takes a long time.

Kang Chi felt it was a waste of time, so he handed over the testing task to Yan Hui, who led his technical team to help complete the testing of three barrels of oil.

The leaders all knew that Kang Chi was busy developing photolithography machines, and they all understood.

Before leaving, Chief Lu specially told him:

"Academician Zhang recommended your name for this year's Outstanding Youth Selection. Based on your achievements this year, you are more likely to be selected."

"However, the selection of Outstanding Youth is a small peer review after all, and I can't guarantee that I will be selected..."

"You can also say hello to Academician Wu and ask him to start operations here in advance. The two chip academicians will help you figure it out. I guess it will be a sure thing."

"Jie Qing?" Kang Chi asked with some confusion, "What's the use?"

"..."

Director Lu was silent for a moment, then sighed: "You have never been in the national scientific research system, so you may not have any idea about this."

"Although Outstanding Youth cannot bring you actual benefits, it is an honor that can prove your status and authority in the academic world. At the same time, Outstanding Youth and Yangtze River are also known as the 'cradle of academicians'..."

The cradle of academicians?

Kang Chi's eyes suddenly lit up.

Kang Chi didn't care at all about what Chief Lu said before.

What can academic status and authority do?

It's of no use to him.

He earns all his scientific research funds by himself, unlike scientific researchers within the system who need these endorsements to be more confident in establishing projects and applying for funds.

However, Kang Chi was still very interested in the title of academician.

This title sounds awesome,

With this title, there are several big characters written on the head:

I'm the boss!

No matter where you go, your back is straight.

Kang Chi nodded immediately and said, "You can have this! I'll call Teacher Wu later."

——

When Wu Lihong heard that Kang Chi was running for Outstanding Youth, he was naturally very happy. He immediately patted his chest and assured that there would be no problem.

But soon, he and Zhang Dayuan had strong differences of opinion on the selection unit.

Zhang Dayuan believed that he was the first to propose the recommendation, and Kang Chi should be assigned to the University of Science and Technology.

But Wu Lihong believed that Kang Chi received his doctorate degree from Suzhou University and therefore belonged to Suzhou University.

"But hasn't he graduated now? He has nothing to do with your Jiangsu Province University."

"Who said it doesn't matter? He is now a professor at the School of Microelectronics at Suzhou University, didn't you know?"

Zhang Dayuan was immediately shocked.

"Professor? When did this happen?!"

"just!"

"..."

"It's not Lao Wu, you're a bit messy, aren't you? If you say so, I can apply now and let him be a visiting professor at our University of Science and Technology."

"What does it mean to be messy?" Wu Lihong said calmly, "Kangchi has reached a school-enterprise cooperation with us some time ago and invested one billion R\u0026D funds in the photoresist project. You just say that he does not count us. A researcher at the institute, right? In this case, do you believe I can help him apply for a full professor?"

One billion? !

After hearing this, Zhang Dayuan was completely speechless.

hateful,

Hateful!

That Zhang Yang from the Journal of Electronics of China, why didn’t Zhang Dayuan be chosen as Kang Chi’s reviewer when choosing one of the two? ?

Thinking that after working for so long, I ended up being used as a wedding dress for Jiangsu Province University,

Zhang Dayuan felt as uncomfortable as eating the defense...

——

The day after Kang Chi returned to Pingjiang, a package from the Magic City followed, giving him a small surprise.

This matter will start in October.

At that time, Kang Chi asked Zhang Qing to help Daqin Optics look for a suitable camera R\u0026D team in China that Daqin Optics could buy. Zhang Qing has always taken this matter to heart.

Finally, in early November, she found a mobile phone lens R\u0026D and manufacturing company in Shanghai.

The owner of this company started his career in real estate and made a lot of money at first. Later, after hearing from his friend who worked in security monitoring that domestic mobile phone cameras are basically from Sony and Samsung, he came up with the idea of ​​manufacturing domestic mobile phone lenses. idea.

Nowadays, there are more and more cameras on mobile phones. Some thousand-dollar mobile phones even have five cameras, as if whoever has more lenses is more powerful.

"This is not selling mobile phones, this is selling cameras to islanders!"

This boss from the Northeast has been disgusted with small books since he was a child, so he invested 50 million in mobile phone cameras with a wave of his hand.

In the beginning, they just purchased parts and assembled them themselves.

Later I discovered that not only could I not make any money, I was actually losing money.

Because even if it is the same parts, if it is assembled and OEMed by another person, no one will buy it, and in the end they will have to sell it at a loss.

Since it’s not enough to be awesome, then we should focus on the low-end market first and develop our own mid- to low-end lenses.

The result can be imagined,

A boss who doesn’t understand technology at all and doesn’t have a clear idea of ​​the difficulty of developing a self-developed camera, who only knows how to spend money, ends up with a mobile phone lens that doesn’t even have a 2P resolution and is even disgusted by older phones.

In fact, it is possible to start something from scratch. His R\u0026D team has completed the initial run-in. If he can continue to spend money and make technological breakthroughs that reach the domestic sub-camera level, it is still possible to revitalize the company.

It's a pity that the boss saw that he had spent 200 million before and after, and only got this result, but he had no bottom in his heart. He just wanted to stop the loss in time. In the end, Zhang Qing took advantage of it and sold the entire company to 30 million. Daqin Optics.

Of course, except for Daqin Optics, which happens to have such needs, most people would not dare to pick up this bargain...

After completing the acquisition, Kangchi directly asked them to build a digital camera without any performance requirements, as long as it could take pictures, and the faster the better.

Their technical director, He Yongbin, also had a question mark on his face when he heard Kangchi's request. After repeated confirmations, he finally confirmed that Kangchi really had no requirements for performance...

As long as it's a digital camera that can take pictures, it's fine.

Even if the resolution is only 100, I can accept it!

It's a bit weird.

Since the boss said so, He Yongbin would risk it all.

This guy is also brave. He directly found an old card machine and copied its mechanical structure.

It's just that he replaced the traditional film system inside with a purchased CMOS, and then simply designed a digital system around this CMOS.

After meeting Kang Chi's requirement that he only need to be able to take photos, he boldly sent it directly to Kang Chi.

Anyway, the company has already closed down once, and he is already prepared to lose his job. What else does he have to fear?

When Kangchi received this camera with rough workmanship and full of plastic feel, he couldn't help but call it an expert.

It is probably because the digital camera system was forcibly added to the design of the card camera, causing this camera to look like a seam monster.

The front of the camera is pretty normal, but the back is a bit miserable.

The various modules that have been forced into it look like the butt of an old computer case at first glance. They are so big and ugly.

Can this thing really take pictures?

Kang Chi was full of curiosity,

I guess this is how users felt when they received Daqin Optics’ first-generation lens...