Rebirth 2002: Nano Life

"Wow!"

At this time, the price of ch that appeared on the big screen caused an uproar among the audience below.

It is simply too expensive to increase the price of only two products displayed on the screen.

The price of iwatch is 2,088 yuan, and the sale date is October 1, while the price of itouch is 4,088 yuan, and the sale date is August 1.

Not to mention the iwatch, the price of the itouch is much more expensive than that of the mainstream mobile phones currently on the market.

When other technology companies were still pushing electronic products operated by physical keys, as early as two years ago, the first generation launched by Xia Meng already used the finger touch screen operation, and now the launch of itouch is to control the touch screen Concept pushed to the extreme.

Compared with itouch, the first-generation finger touch screen operation is actually very rough. The main problem is not the screen, but the system and chip.

And itouch uses the company's self-developed operating system from the bottom of the system. In order to make the touch more precise and accurate, and to preserve the UI effect that Xia Meng has had since ipalyer, Xia Meng discovered that a group of efficient This is the power-saving framework, and this is the emergence of "Planet 0".

Originally, Xia Meng Electronics wanted to integrate them into a soc, but the embarrassing thing is that there is currently no soc design factory that can integrate PowerVR and Xia Meng's own architecture on this planet.

And the only SoC design factory that can integrate PowerVR and ARM architecture is Samsung. Previously, Xia Meng originally wanted to hand over the production of chips to Samsung, but Samsung was a big lion and directly asked for Xia Meng's CPU architecture authorization.

From e-paper technology to graphene lithium battery technology, many foreign electronics companies have already started selling Xia Meng as a thriving little crocodile. In a few years, all kinds of surprising technologies and products have been developed, so some media of anti-China forces directly speculate that the real background of Xia Meng is the Chinese government.

For Samsung, which has fully entered the field of consumer electronics, it is different from other Chinese companies that take low-end products. From the appearance of the first generation, it can be seen that Xiameng Electronics is taking the high-end brand route. In terms of layout, Xia Meng Electronics will definitely develop to the upstream of the electronics industry in the future, which also shows that Xia Meng must be Samsung's biggest competitor in the Chinese market in the future, whether it is upstream chips or downstream terminal products.

Even Xia Meng is likely to become one of Samsung's and even global competitors in many key areas.

In the field of display, although e-paper technology is a young child, before 2002, the application and development of e-paper was much behind compared with lcd, plasma, OLED and other technologies. However, after Chen Yizhe's graphene e-paper technology appeared, now it has become a The leader of the display field is going backwards.

No matter in terms of energy consumption, viewing angle, resolution, contrast or black and white contrast, graphene electronic paper is not inferior.

And it is said that the third-generation electronic paper technology is ready to be launched on the market. According to the information revealed by Xia Meng, the original most critical and backward refresh rate has caught up with this generation.

That is to say, the third-generation e-paper technology has completely surpassed other display technologies in various display technologies, and is lighter, thinner and more rigid, except for one thing, that is, the screen of the same size, the products of e-paper technology More than 50% more expensive than others shown. And this 50% price space is the living space for other display technologies.

From the map, the current global panel "outputs" are all concentrated in East Asia, mainly including China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.

In these four regions, a "modern war" of the upstream display industry is being staged.

If there is no electronic paper, then under the technological trend, the future display industry will be converted from liquid crystal to OLED, and at that time South Korea will become the largest country in the display industry with absolute advantages.

In Chen Yizhe's previous life, in 2017, South Korea even occupied % of the global market share, among which LGD dominated the large-size OLED panel, while Samsung almost monopolized all the small-size OLED panel market.

At that time, the reason why South Korea was more advanced in OLED technology was because South Korean companies had already invested in research and development as early as 2000, so they were ahead of other regions in technology.

However, what are the advantages of oled? OLED has the advantages of no backlight, self-illumination, larger viewing angle, richer colors, significant energy saving, and flexible bending. Does it sound familiar, is it the same as many of the advantages of graphene e-paper technology?

The emergence of graphene electronic paper has actually made OLED unable to see the future it should have, because the future that originally belonged to it has been essentially replaced by the more mature graphene electronic paper.

At the beginning of the year, the Korean media wrote an article analyzing the future trends of the display industry. The content of the article directly pointed out that the biggest rival of the Korean display industry at present is none other than one company, and that is China's Xia Meng Display. If South Korean companies do not defeat Xia Meng Display as soon as possible, it is likely that South Korea's display share in the world will be handed over to Xia Meng Display in the future.

And it is precisely because other display companies are vigilant about graphene electronic paper technology that in January this year, panel suppliers in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have significantly lowered panel prices, and even Samsung, LG, Sharp and other manufacturers have Change the attitude of technology blockade and start the joint venture to build a high-generation production line project in China. The purpose is obvious, as shown by the joint encirclement and suppression of Xia Meng.

Xia Meng showed that it came from Xia Meng Electronics, and now it is also a company under Xia Meng Group. How could Samsung easily be willing to contribute to Xia Meng Electronics' CPU.

Regarding Samsung's lion opening, Chen Yizhe's instruction was to ignore it, but to hand over both "Planet 0" and "Planet 1" to the domestic SMIC responsible for production.

"Planet 0" was actually taped out at the end of last year, and mass production began in May this year. It's just that the qualified rate of finished products is a bit scary, only 25%. The reason why the pass rate is so low is that one is because of the problems with SMIC's technical equipment. After all, the 130-nanometer process technology is already the most advanced production line of SMIC, and the other is the difficulty of the overall structure of "Planet 0". design.

Simply talking about the impact of process technology and output on performance and cost, in the case of very small domestic CPU output, even if a very cheap process technology is used, the price ratio will be more expensive.

At present, SMIC can only produce less than 10,000 qualified "Planet 0" per month. Since the current monthly output is not high, coupled with the 25% qualified rate of finished products, this also leads to In the end, Xia Meng Electronics paid about 700 yuan for each chip.

Chen Yizhe had expected this for a long time, but he did not expect the final price to be so expensive. But no matter how expensive it is, he finally decided to hand over the task of cpu production to domestic manufacturers.

Don't look at the price of itouch at 4088 yuan, in fact, its hardware cost price is at least more than 2400 yuan. If you add other development costs, you will find that the price of itouch is not high.

However, consumers don't know the specific cost of the product, and the announcement of ch's price still disappoints everyone.

Although the price is not close enough to the people, in general, there are many surprises at the conference of Xiameng Electronics, such as the appearance of "Planet 0" and "Planet 1", as well as the IXL operating system, and p2p communication chip technology, as well as software program development kits, etc...

That night, major online portals reported news about Xia Meng's conference for the first time.

Sina.com, which is close to Xia Meng, wrote the title "Xia Meng Electronics' Black Technology! ” article, the main focus of the content is not on the two new products released, but on the various black technologies behind these two new products, from hardware analysis to software, whether it is the chip on the hardware or the software on the software. The operating system needs the support of the software ecosystem, and Sina is very sure that Xia Meng is actually playing a very big game.

Several other portals are certainly not far behind:

"The technology is amazing, the price is touching! "This is news from Sohu.com.

"The mobile phone with only the baseband of the mobile phone - itouch! 》

"Can the fashionable and simple iwatch lead the new fashion? 》

"Xiameng Electronics, which is ahead of domestic chip design manufacturers! 》

"Shock! The cpu of the independent architecture developed in China based on the self-developed instruction set! 》

"The new communication technology - p2p! 》

"On the past and present of the new instruction set RISC-C! What advantages does it have? 》

"Is Xia Meng moving away from ordinary consumers? 》

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As a foreign media that is also very concerned about Xia Meng Electronics, a large number of foreign media have made a special trip from abroad to participate in this conference of Xia Meng!

And Xia Meng did not disappoint them, because there was too much content to write about. You know, just for the CPU, Xia Meng can hold a press conference to introduce it in detail. However, Xia Meng only briefly mentioned it.

The domestic media headlines are exaggerated enough, but the foreign ones are not weak. Some foreign media even said that Xia Meng is likely to become a software and hardware giant in China. Xia Meng's growth rate is too fast, faster than various technologies The presence of people feels overwhelmed.

And the media with fan power strongly doubt Xia Meng's specific attributes. Why can a company that has only been established for three years develop so many amazing technologies one after another? What's the secret in this? This is most likely an enterprise in which the Chinese government has a large background, so why does the Chinese government do this? Maybe there is a bigger conspiracy behind it, so we should be wary of Xia Meng's products entering the market of our country!

"Damn, this kind of nonsense news can also be published?" Yang Zhihao said angrily after reading the news of the Korean media directly translated on the Internet.

At this time, it has been a week since Xia Meng's new product launch conference.

"Let's not talk about foreign countries, even domestic media have smeared our company. Moreover, with the development of the domestic economy, ***** will inevitably appear in the mouths of foreign media, and as a domestic high-tech enterprise, we are unavoidable. They should also be treated differently by some European and American countries!" Chen Yizhe laughed.

"Also, don't you think that the more they smear us, the more they are actually afraid of us?" Chen Yizhe asked.

"I said so, but I always feel very uncomfortable." Yang Zhihao said.

"Haha, you earn money from the people of their country, and they still feel bad!" Chen Yizhe laughed.

"Then they have to be willing to buy it! And the price of this product is so high, but domestic consumption, I feel that foreign consumers are also very difficult to accept." Yang Zhihao said with a frown.

"I told you a long time ago that I do not pursue this point as to whether the two new products will sell well. This time Xia Meng's conference is only releasing certain standards and solutions, such as our new architecture chip solution, Smart watch solutions, as well as the most important p2p communication chip technology standards, etc. Whoever masters the standards means that they will get the entry ticket to the market first, and then gain huge economic benefits from it, and even become the industry's definer. Therefore, if Xia Meng wants to be big, he must not focus too much on the gains and losses in front of him." Chen Yizhe said.

Although Xia Meng's two new products will have to wait for some time to go on sale, after this conference, there are countless manufacturers who come to inquire about chips, operating systems, and p2p communication technology. A place that will be successful.

Especially for chips, you must know that in recent years, the domestic government's research and development funds and support for domestic chips are still very large. More manufacturers want to get Xia Meng's authorization, but Chen Yizhe's requirements for authorized manufacturers are relatively high, so there are only less than 10 manufacturers who can continue to talk about it. This also shows that domestic chips How backward the development is relative to other industries.

Chen Yizhe continued, "There is a sentence that clearly reveals the true meaning of the high-tech industry, 'first-class companies set standards, second-class companies make brands, and third-class companies make products', and this sentence is also a general law of market development. For example, the United States Qualcomm, which does not produce mobile phones~www.wuxiahere.com~ but has core CDMA technology standards, and now Chinese mobile phone manufacturers have to pay a fee to Qualcomm for every CDMA mobile phone produced. This is the importance of standards If Chinese companies want to become bigger, they must formulate 'Chinese standards', and then with an absolute leading edge, they can limit the access of other companies by raising the threshold and raising standards, and weaken the advantages of their opponents!"

"Why does this sound like being a referee and playing football at the same time?" Yang Zhihao asked.

"You can understand it this way, so if China really wants to enter the World Cup finals, it can only be one of the framers of the rules of the competition." Chen Yizhe laughed.

"How can it be so difficult to enter the finals, isn't it in 2002!" Yang Zhihao said.

"Haha!" Chen Yizhe could only use this word to express his feelings.

"Speaking of football, Yizhe, why don't you buy a football team to play with!" Yang Zhihao suggested.

"Don't, I can't afford it!" Chen Yizhe immediately refused.

"You earn so much money, do you want to leave all the preparations to Xia Yiguan? It's okay to show a little bit from your fingers!" Yang Zhihao said with contempt.

Just as Chen Yizhe wanted to refute, he only heard the phone ring. Looking at the caller ID, it was his father Chen Hua.

Chen Yizhe frowned. His father seldom called him except during the New Years and holidays.

After answering the call, before Chen Yizhe spoke, he heard Chen Hua's choked voice, "Yizhe, something happened to your brother!"