After returning from BOE, Jiang Qinghuai said with emotion in the car, "But it's really beautiful and technological. The screen can actually be bent..."
Ten years later, the evaluation of curved screens is polarized. Some people like it very much, while others dislike it. Just looking at the sound on the Internet, it is simply an existence that people hate and dogs hate.
However, there must be a reason why from the first Samsung to later Huawei, and then more and more manufacturers followed suit to make curved screens.
In addition to being loved by some consumers, an important reason is that the curved screen can greatly improve the quality of mobile phones.
This is a shortcut for domestic mobile phone manufacturers that have little background in the high-end market and want to hit the high-end market, so they naturally flock to it.
When curved screens first appeared, the shock to ordinary consumers was even stronger.
In the fall of 2014, Samsung and note4 released the first curved screen mobile phone Samsung noteedge. As a brand new attempt, only one side of Samsung noteedge has a curved screen, but it still caused a sensation and made the original protagonist note4 look dull.
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Seeing this situation, Samsung decisively stepped up its efforts on the S6 the following year and launched the S6 edge with a double-sided curved screen.
——Whether it is market feedback or word-of-mouth, S6edge has been a great success, stealing all the limelight from S6, which also has a metal frame, glass back cover, and greatly improved texture.
While the iPhone6 and iPhone6plus are a huge success, the S6edge has become the only smartphone on the market that can compete with the iPhone6 series.
Huawei followed up later and the mate9pro launched in 2016 also used a hyperboloid screen, and it was supplied by Samsung, so just like HTC, its supply was cut off.
In fact, before this, Huawei P1 was also cut off by Samsung. It’s not that Huawei doesn’t have a long memory, it’s just that it has no choice. It has no choice in terms of OLED screens.
This led to the cooperation with BOE, and in 2018, the Mate20 Pro, which was the result of accumulated efforts, adopted BOE’s OLED curved screen.
Because of Wei Qingfan's intervention, BOE in this world invested in the research and development of flexible screens earlier, and was committed to the mass production of flexible screens for mobile phones from the beginning, but the progress was not smooth.
The first is the issue of the arrangement of OLED screens. The "diamond-like arrangement" proposed by Wei Qingfan is not safe because there is no way to circumvent Samsung's patent and still requires Samsung's authorization (which was also required historically).
Secondly, in terms of the production of OLED screens, pixel arrangement is not actually the biggest problem, or the biggest difficulty is not here.
After all, although BOE's "2-in-1" delta arrangement (commonly known as the "Zhou Dongyu arrangement" on the Internet) has a higher loss than Samsung's diamond row, the pixel loss rate of the diamond row is 81%, while the little yellow duck arrangement is
It's 71%, but it's still usable after all, and the display effect is actually pretty good.
For the current domestic OLED screens, what needs to be solved is the problem of "availability", not whether it is easy to use or not.
BOE is capable of producing and supplying goods, so Samsung will not dare to cut off supply easily.
At present, including ten years from now, what is troubling the development of domestic OLED screens are more upstream materials and production lines. Even ten years from now, the localization rate of materials is extremely low.
For example, in 2023, the domestic proportion of hole layer injection/transport materials and electron layer injection/transport materials will only be 12%, and the domestic proportion of luminescence materials will be less than 5%.
This is the cruel truth behind the "rise of domestic OLED screens" in the eyes of consumers, and it is also a mountain that the industry has to move away.
The technical barriers behind it are not much more difficult to overcome than those in the semiconductor industry.
In terms of production lines, Samsung built a 4.5-generation AMOLED screen production line in 2007. The first 4.5-generation production line in China was only established by Tianma in 2010;
Then BOE skipped the 4.5-generation line in 2014 and directly put into production the 6-generation line - this was also the main reason and goal for Wei Qingfan to find BOE.
Tianma’s 6th generation line will not be put into production until 2018, and CSOT’s 6th generation line will not be put into production until 2019.
In terms of flexible OLED screens, Samsung officially announced the mass production of its sixth-generation flexible production line in 2015, and BOE announced mass production in 2017, only two years later than Samsung.
Yes, it's "only" two years late, which is a huge improvement.
What Wei Qingfan wants to do is to allow BOE, which is already catching up, to catch up faster. It is best to achieve mass production in 2015.
——The Gushi curved screen mobile phone can be released together with Jiangjinjiu 4 in the autumn of 2014, go on sale in small quantities by the end of the year, and then be shipped in 2015.
Judging from the current progress, it can only be said that there is some hope, but it is relatively slim.
Wei Qingfan didn't know much about technical issues. He only knew the general direction. While searching for directions, he pointed out the directions that he didn't know much about, while using his most powerful weapon: making money!
With the increasing voice and influence in the upstream and downstream industrial chains, Gushici Company now has more stringent requirements in cooperation, but it is also really generous when it comes to money.
In addition to the cooperative companies being able to join in the soup, the company has another requirement this year: the salary of the team that cooperates with the ancient poetry company must meet the requirements of the ancient poetry company.
To put it simply, the other party must increase the wages of team members who cooperate with Gushici Company.
Mainly for domestic companies, because the treatment of employees of foreign cooperative companies is already very good.
This can effectively improve the working enthusiasm of the cooperative team.
The same is true for the cooperation with BOE. Yu Wei Qingfan even provided additional bonuses and promised that there will be more bonuses after mass production.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Such actions are very effective in improving morale, but how much of it can be converted into work progress is currently unknown.
"I'm quite looking forward to it..."
Jiang Qinghuai knew the difficulties inside and Wei Qingfan's worries, so he consciously comforted him, "Miaomiao should be even more surprised. Don't tell her yet. I won't tell her either. Wait until the engineering machine is built one day."
, give it to her directly, she will definitely be surprised."
"I am looking forward too."
Wei Qingfan smiled, took one of her hands and put it on his thigh, gently caressed it and said with a smile: "Don't worry, don't worry about me. I've basically done everything I can do. I don't have any regrets whether I succeed or not.
And in the worst case scenario, we will definitely be able to produce it by 2016, which is enough."
"Um."
Jiang Qinghuai nodded and was about to speak when her cell phone suddenly rang. She took out her cell phone and saw that it was her father calling, so she turned to look at Wei Qingfan.
Wei Qingfan pursed his lips, indicating that it was just a phone call and he didn't need to let go.
Jiang Qinghuai was angry and funny. He glared at him and then answered the phone, "Hello, Dad?"
"Qingqing, are you busy?"
In the receiver, Jiang Qifeng's voice sounded a little low, giving people a feeling of exhaustion.
"No, I just finished my work and I'm on my way back to the company. What's wrong?"
Just after the meeting, she received news from Zhao Yu, and then asked her father and learned that the wallpaper he wanted had been found, so she was basically sure that it was not that matter.
"..."
Jiang Qifeng was silent for two seconds and asked, "Are you busy with work recently?"
"It's okay...what's wrong?"
Jiang Qinghuai felt something was wrong, "Is there something wrong?"
"Yes, there is something wrong."
Jiang Qifeng sighed softly, "If you can ask for leave, go home as soon as possible, okay?"
"ah?"
Jiang Qinghuai was startled, "What happened? Tell me."
Jiang Qifeng said: "I can't explain it clearly on the phone. Come back first and I'll tell you in person, okay?"
"No, what happened?"
Jiang Qinghuai was a little anxious, "Are you sick? Or is Auntie sick? It can't be that something happened to Yingying, right?"
Jiang Qifeng said: "No, don't think too much. Ask Wei Qingfan for a leave and go home as soon as possible, okay?"
"What do you want to tell me first? Otherwise, how can I ask for leave?"
Jiang Qinghuai was anxious and helpless, and said in a somewhat irritating tone, "Is there something you can't tell me? I won't go home if you don't tell me."
"Come back quickly."
Jiang Qifeng sighed, "Dad really has something to do, otherwise it won't affect your work. Come back soon, okay?"
"...Okay, okay."
Jiang Qinghuai agreed sadly, "I'll go back later."
"Hey, okay, then I'll hang up."
Jiang Qifeng simply hung up the phone. When Jiang Qinghuai heard the blind tone, he took the phone away, looked at the screen again, and then turned to look at Wei Qingfan. The expression on his innocent and sweet face looked a little confused.
Wei Qingfan gently touched her palm and said with a smile: "Don't think about it. It's probably not a bad thing. Otherwise, I would have called you. There is no need not to tell you."
"Then why is he so anxious to let me go back?"
Jiang Qinghuai breathed a sigh of relief, looked at him with clear and bright eyes and said, "Then I'll take a leave and go back to take a look. I'll come back if nothing happens."
"Okay, then you tell Sister Min and ask her to book a flight ticket for you first."
Wei Qingfan nodded and said, "Let Brother Yong take you there later."
"Need not."
Jiang Qinghuai shook his head and said, "I can just go back by myself."
"I have nothing to do here anyway. I will be in jail at the company all afternoon."
Wei Qingfan smiled softly and said, "I won't go see you off, just be good."
Jiang Qinghuai had something to do in the afternoon and couldn't get away. Hearing what he said, he nodded with a blush and said: "Then I'll take you back to the company first, and then Brother Yong will take me to the airport."
"Aren't you going to take some luggage back?"
"I'll go back and get it later."
While talking, Jiang Qinghuai sent a message to Pang Yingying, asking if anything happened at home.
Pang Yingying quickly replied:
"ah?"
"No!"
"I don't know anything!"
Jiang Qinghuai became even more worried, so he called Yu Xiurong, who had become a stepmother. The call was quickly connected. She hurriedly asked: "Auntie, what happened? Why is my dad so anxious to let me go home?"
"I couldn't tell you clearly on the phone."
Yu Xiurong over there sighed softly, "Qingqing, listen to your dad, go home first, and we'll talk about it when you get home, okay?"
"I have asked for leave and will go to the airport right away."
Jiang Qinghuai still refused to give up and was worried that something big would happen, "I'm going back, why didn't you tell me?"
"I can't explain it clearly on the phone. We can talk about it when you come back first, eh?"
Yu Xiurong still said the same thing, and then comforted: "Don't worry, we are all fine, no one has an accident, just come back as soon as possible."
"It's okay, so why are you so anxious to let me go back?"
"You will know when you come back."
"All right."
Jiang Qinghuai had no choice but to hang up the phone. When he saw Wei Qingfan chatting with someone next to him, he said angrily: "What are you doing?"
"I'll be your secretary."
Wei Qingfan continued typing and said with a smile, "Ask Sister Min to buy you a plane ticket at 3:20 in the afternoon. Is it too late?"
They arrived at BOE at around ten o'clock and had lunch there at noon. It was already almost one o'clock, and she had about two and a half hours, enough time for her to pack her things and head to the airport.
"Um."
Jiang Qinghuai nodded, frowned, and asked doubtfully: "Tell me, what could it be?"
"We'll find out when we get back."
Wei Qingfan actually had a guess, but it was hard to tell Jiang Qinghuai.
Is there something so urgent that Jiang Qinghuai must go home quickly, but he can't tell her over the phone?
Based on the experience in novels and TV, it is easy to deduce a possibility:
If this matter had been told to Jiang Qinghuai in advance, she might not be willing to go back!
For example...arranged a blind date for her.
There is no way to say this, because if he does, Jiang Qinghuai will definitely not be willing to go back. If it is not a blind date, but really serious business, it may be delayed.
Anyway, even if a blind date is arranged, Jiang Qinghuai will not go then. He still has this confidence and is not worried.