Chapter 645: Facing the Future: Smart Phone Project
Although Chen Xiao thinks the company should keep a low profile, it is absolutely impossible to keep a low profile after the financial report is released.
in the country, Yanjing Lianxiang headquarters.
Yang Qing looked at the Forbes report with a very unpleasant expression on his face.
Once upon a time, Changtian Technology was just a small company that Lianxiang looked down upon.
When Changtian Technology wanted to cooperate with Lianxiang, Lianxiang ignored them at all.
But what now?
It has only been a few years. According to Changtian Technology's revenue last year, Changtian Technology was ranked 10th among the world's top 500 companies, while Lianxiang has just entered the global top 500 and ranked 500th.
In terms of profits, Shenchuan, a subsidiary of Changtian Technology, officially surpassed Lenovo in PC sales last year and became the number one company in Xiaguo, with revenue reaching 872 million US dollars.
Although Lianxiang sold more computers than Shenchuan last year, due to high costs and low profits, the profit was less than 700 million US dollars.
The size of Changtian Technology has already left Lenovo far behind.
Yang Qing also knew very well that based on the current size of both parties, Lianxiang was not qualified to negotiate any conditions with Changtian Technology.
And at Nokia headquarters in Finland.
Simpson saw the profits of Changtian Technology estimated by Forbes and sighed deeply.
Changtian Technology has left Nokia behind.
In 2007, Nokia's annual sales were 15.7 billion euros (approximately 21.5 billion US dollars), and its profit was 2.5 billion euros (approximately 3.424 billion US dollars), which is quite different from Changtian Technology.
And now Nokia is worried about something.
Starting from April 2008, Nokia's sales growth rate in the United States and Europe has stagnated, and overall sales have also begun to decline.
The marketing department has not found the reason yet.
In order to reverse the decline in Europe and the United States, Nokia is preparing to further develop Xia's business.
The solution Nokia came up with was to cooperate with Xia Guo's mobile company to allow Nokia's 3G mobile phones to connect to the network on a large scale.
But according to the current 3G business agreement between Changtian Technology and China Mobile.
Any mobile phone that wants to reach a 3G cooperative sales agreement with China Mobile must obtain the consent of Changtian Technology.
After all, Changtian Technology owns the only intellectual property rights in Xia Guo's 3G technology.
Simpson got a headache when he thought about this problem.
Nokia CEO Ollila walked in, saw Simpson's sad face, and saw the Forbes ranking of Chinese companies in Simpson's hand, and knew what Simpson was worried about.
Ollila said very comfortably: "Man, you don't think this report from Xia Guo is true, do you?"
"Forbes is a company that needs money. As long as you give it enough money, it can even rank you as number one in the world."
Ollila pointed to the relevant text in the report and said: "It is almost universally recognized in the industry that Changtian Technology's financials are absolutely false. Changtian Technology as a whole is not listed, and there is no way to accept external supervision and auditing. The so-called
They can write as much as they want about their revenue and profits, it has no reference value!”
Simpson laughed awkwardly. He knew that his boss was discriminatory against Changtian Technology and even the entire Xia Guo company.
Ollila said: "Let's think about how to sell more mobile phones effectively!"
Changzezhou Changtian Technology Headquarters.
Chen Xiao signed his name on the cover of the finalized 2007 financial report, which means he approved the financial report.
Chen Xiao said to Luo Ning: "It can be disclosed to all subsidiaries and to the senior management of the group company."
"However, we still need to increase our financial capabilities. Our report only came out in May, and relevant outside analysis agencies roughly estimated our revenue and profits last year in March and April, although they were not completely accurate.
But I also estimated it to be 7,788.”
Luo Ning spread his hands and said: "I have already suggested the establishment of a more powerful financial department and audit department at the company's high-level meeting, but unfortunately..."
Luo Ning continued: "At the beginning, Wen Qi was still in our department, but now you have arranged her to the Bird Company. We are also short of people here! Or you can ask Wen Qi to help me."
What Luo Ning said is true.
Chen Xiao laughed and said, "We'll talk about this later."
There is indeed a shortage of people in finance right now.
Changtian Technology Group is different from other companies.
Other group companies can completely hand over their finances to a third party, such as hiring a firm to make financial reports, or completing annual audits within the group and subsidiaries.
But Changtian Technology cannot.
Because there are too many secrets in the internal design of Changtian Technology, Chen Xiao does not want these things to be seen by third-party companies.
Therefore, strengthening the financial department and establishing an audit department are top priorities.
The key is still a matter of talent!
Both departments need people they trust most.
Chen Xiao thought of Wen Qi again.
no!
The mobile phone business department is the top priority of Changtian Technology in the future, and Wen Qi cannot touch it.
Luo Ning is now the head of the financial department, but relying on Luo Ning alone is not enough.
Chen Xiao thought of Shen Wei again.
Shen Wei, Shen Wei!
Chen Xiao was speechless. If Shen Wei could come to the company, based on Shen Wei's ability and work experience, there would be absolutely no problem!
But this little girl insists on becoming a Beipiao.
And based on Chen Xiao's understanding of Shen Wei's character, Shen Wei will definitely not change jobs before the Olympic venue project is completed.
The matter of inviting Shen Wei to Changtian Technology can only be postponed to the Olympics.
The asparagus and pothos plants in Chen Xiao's office are growing very strong, and the sunlight shines through the blinds on the plants, giving the office more vitality.
Luo Ning was wearing a professional attire and had a curvy figure. Her brows were furrowed and she was still worried about personnel matters.
Chen Xiao asked: "Cash last year's dividends for everyone before the end of May."
Changtian Technology's salary system is divided into five parts, basic salary + job salary + allowances (overtime, etc.) + year-end performance + employee stock ownership dividends.
The first three parts are paid monthly, the year-end performance will be paid before the Spring Festival, and the dividend will be paid after the annual report is released.
Luo Ning was very happy and said, "I'll do it right away!"
Chen Xiao asked again: "How will the money be used for this dividend?"
To Chen Xiao, money is basically just a number, but it is still very useful to many employees of Changtian Technology.
When talking about this question, Luo Ning became excited and said, "I'm going to sell my house in Jiangzhou and buy a big villa!"
Luo Ning has settled her family in Jiangzhou. Although she now splits her time between Jiangzhou and Changzezhou, she was born in Jiangzhou and started a new stage of her life in Jiangzhou, so she has a lot of affection for this city.
Chen Xiao joked: "You must invite me to your housewarming."
Luo Ning said with a smile: "Of course, I still have to wait for the boss to give me a big red envelope!"
Chen Xiao laughed.
At this time, the office door rang, and Wang Xiang was waiting outside.
Wang Xiang held a thick pile of information in his hand and said: "Mr. Chen, the smartphone program jointly designed by Bird Mobile Phone, Chip Laboratory, and Yinghuo Technology Company has passed the technical program meeting. Take a look.
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Wang Xiang said: "The new smartphone is named the Waveguide Hanhai series."
All good things come soon.
Chen Xiao gave the design drawings and concepts of the smartphone and handed them over to the laboratory and the waveguide company for polishing.
After more than half a year, the mobile phone was finally designed.
The new mobile phone is named Hanhai. In addition to the Chinese and vast ocean icons, the English logo is iVast.
The Chinese name Hanhai means that the smartphone is a great platform and media that can lead users to travel the ocean of information and data, ushering in a new era of smartphones.
There is still a difficulty in the design of mobile phones.
That is, will Xiaoying Assistant appear?
Chen Xiao’s opinion is that Xiaoying’s voice assistant must appear.
Only in this way can smartphones have truly intelligent performance.
However, during the actual development process, the mobile phone failed to meet Chen Xiao's requirements.
The most fundamental reason is that the chip cannot meet Chen Xiao's requirements.
The size of mobile phone chips is much smaller than that of desktop computers, and the performance is of course reduced.
If this continues, running Xiaoying will be useless because Xiaoying needs to use a lot of resources from the chip.
No matter how good the mobile version of Yinghuo OS is, without any redundant data or running in the background, Xiaoying will still lag when running.
This is the technical bottleneck.
Therefore, Chen Xiao still respected the design team's ideas and cut off Xiaoying's assistant first.
When the chip technology becomes more mature in the future, I can hire an assistant.
In this way, what are the smartphones based on the Yinghuo os mobile version using Changtian Technology's self-developed chips and hardware devices, compared with the increasingly popular Apple currently on the market, and the first Android phone that will be interviewed in October this year?
Advantage?
Chen Xiao needs to think about this carefully.
Hanhai mobile phone, the style and signal of the mobile phone do not require too much.
But make sure every mobile phone is a classic!
Moreover, mobile phones must have their own tests, cannot be popularized, and must have disruptive design concepts.
Only in this way can this series of mobile phones have a foothold in the brutal competition.
And from Chen Xiao's heart, he very much agrees with the saying that good things come in hard times.
2007 is the first year of Apple mobile phones, and 2008 is the first year of Android mobile phones.
Since then, many Android brands have been born, such as HTC (Dopod), Motorola, Coolpad, LeTV, Lenovo Phone, etc., most of which have been lost in the long river of history.
Therefore, Chen Xiao is not in a hurry to launch the mobile phone right away, but must take it step by step, one step at a time.
Chen Xiao said to Wang Xiang: "Leave the information here with me for now. Tomorrow we will go back to Jiangzhou and ask Wen Qi and Wang Yu (the CEO of the hardware company and the head of the chip laboratory) to go together and discuss the mobile phone design issue again."
Due to business reasons, Changtian Technology's Yinghuo Technology Company is still at its headquarters in Jiangzhou.
The design of a mobile phone involves both hardware and software aspects.
The hardware involves chips, storage, communication modules, cameras, etc., and the most important software is the operating system.
So this matter must be decided in Jiangzhou.
In addition, this time Chen Xiao went to Jiangzhou, the most important thing was to visit his alma mater, Jiangzhou University.
The president of Jiangzhou University, as well as the department heads and counselors of Chen Xiao's previous department, have called Chen Xiao many times, hoping to discuss school-enterprise cooperation with Chen Xiao.
With the development of social economy, universities in economically developed areas such as Yanjing, Shanghai and Yangcheng have strong financial strength and an attractive enough environment to attract outstanding talents and the best students, and can also cooperate with high-quality local enterprises.
, doing projects and doing scientific research.
Therefore, the scale of the school is getting bigger and bigger, and its strength is getting stronger and stronger.
As for universities in the mainland, first of all, they lag far behind first-tier cities in terms of teacher resources and student resources.
In addition, the state's support is not strong, and there are no outstanding companies to cooperate with it.
The gap with these first-class companies is also getting wider and wider.
Jiangzhou University, which is located inland, also faces this problem.
Twenty or thirty years ago, Jiangzhou University was still among the top ten universities in Xia State.
But with the development of society, it gradually falls behind.
Take last year’s college entrance examination admission scores as an example.
The admission score of Jiangzhou University is more than 10 points lower than that of some ordinary first-level universities in Shanghai. The gap with universities such as Yanjing University and Shuimu University is getting wider and wider, and even with some ordinary universities in first-tier cities.
All universities are involved.
When students apply for the college entrance examination, they first look at the city where the school is located, and finally look at the school's actual teaching capabilities and overall level.
Because if you graduate from a more developed city, even if your school is inferior, there are still many employment opportunities.
The jobs students find may be better than those found in inner cities.
Jiangzhou University suffers because it is located in an inland city, and Jiangzhou is not yet a first-tier city.
In this way, whether it is the teaching staff, the source of students, or the tilt of national scientific research funds, it is getting worse and worse compared with coastal cities or first-tier cities.
After Jiangzhou University’s transfer scores came out last year, the relevant leaders of Jiangzhou University were very anxious.
Because if this situation continues, Jiangzhou University is likely to become a second-rate university.
But Jiang Zhouda was unwilling to give in.
Jiangzhou University has trained outstanding students like Chen Xiao (at least Jiangzhou University thinks so), and Jiangzhou can support an excellent company like Changtian Technology. How is it possible that it is worse than some first-line ordinary undergraduates?
Therefore, the leaders of Jiangzhou University decided to cooperate with Changtian Technology as soon as possible, hoping to leverage the corporate and technological advantages of Changtian Technology to promote the comprehensive strength of Jiangzhou University's faculty, student resources, scientific research projects, etc.
Therefore, the leaders of Jiangzhou University personally took action. The department heads and counselors of Chen Xiao's previous department also came to Changzezhou to meet with Chen Xiao in person, hoping that Chen Xiao could consider the cooperation between Changtian Technology and Jiangzhou University.
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Regarding school-enterprise cooperation, Chen Xiao has no objection at all.
And in terms of student sources, Chen Xiao prefers students from Jiangzhou University.
The talents that Changtian Technology needs are not students with high talents who think they are great like those from Yanjing University or Shuimu University. What they need are students who may have second-rate talents but are very practical.
This type of students usually attend inland universities like Jiangzhou University.
A very interesting piece of data.
The universities with the highest postgraduate entrance examination success rate are universities in Nam Ha Province.
Why?
Because students from inland cities work harder than students from prestigious schools.
At the end of May, Chen Xiaohe and his team took a commercial flight from Suhang to Jiangzhou.
Although Chen Xiao had already told him not to come to greet him, the relevant leaders of Jiangzhou City and the leadership team of Jiangzhou University were waiting for the plane to land at Jiangzhou Airport early.