Chapter 670 Who is in charge of the mobile phone industry?
In recent days, the global mobile phone market has been turbulent.
Guoguo Company changed its CEO, Sanxing Company changed the head of its mobile phone division, and LG Company even announced its complete withdrawal from the mobile phone market.
Among the top ten mobile phone brands in the world, the remaining mobile phone brands are all in China, but currently there is no news at all.
No one knows what these mobile phone manufacturers plan to do.
The big guys have realized the seriousness of the matter and have seen that mobile phone manufacturers will definitely not be able to survive without artificial intelligence technology in the future.
Guoguo Company and Shanxing Company both have this foundation. They can launch a new generation of mobile phones in about half a year by concentrating their efforts on breakthroughs. What about these domestic manufacturers?
These mobile phone manufacturers have no artificial intelligence technology at all. It can be said that they have no idea that one day they will be eliminated by artificial intelligence technology.
What should I do, just let it go?
Regardless of whether it works or not, the sudden unemployment of so many people will cause a chain reaction, which will eventually affect the jobs of millions of people, so it must be dealt with.
But this matter is not so easy to handle. Xingling Group has the technology in this area and has given conditions, but the manufacturers are unwilling to accept these conditions.
It is impossible for Gao Jin to give in. In order to compete with Gu Ge, he will never let go.
Things just came to a standstill. Time passed day by day, and the bosses of these mobile phone manufacturers were living like a year. At this time, a big news came from the United States.
Guge Company announced that it will use artificial intelligence technology to upgrade the Android system, a process that will take about six months.
After the upgrade, all mobile phone systems that were previously derived from the Android system will be unusable. The new generation of Android systems will be incompatible. Any irresponsible tampering will cause the system to crash.
From now on, Guge Company will comprehensively optimize the Guge store system and release a new generation of programming language at the appropriate time.
Software manufacturers can upgrade software based on new programming languages to adapt to the new generation of Android systems.
When the new generation Android system is launched, all manufacturers using the new generation Android system must access the Guge Store. Only programs verified by the Guge Store can avoid conflicts with the main program.
Users can use their mobile phones smoothly.
After the news was reported by the American media, it immediately began to spread around the world, shaking the global mobile phone industry and leaving many mobile phone manufacturers in the dark.
Currently, there are three operating systems for mobile phone terminals: Guoguo Company’s IOS system, Guge Company’s Android system, and Starlight Mobile Company’s Nebula system.
Starlight Mobile Company and Guoguo Company had no reaction to Guge's statement because the two companies were not afraid. No matter how the Android system was upgraded, it would have no impact on the two companies.
The mobile phone division of Shanxing Company is embarrassed, and some domestic mobile phone manufacturers are also embarrassed. They all use the Android system.
If you want to continue to use the new generation of Android systems, you need to abolish the software store ecosystem that you have finally established and fully use Guge's software store ecosystem.
From then on, they had to look at Gu Ge's face to survive and no longer had any autonomy.
On the day Guge announced this matter, Li Chaojun, the director of Shanxing Mobile Phone Division, took a direct flight to the United States and went to the headquarters of Guge Company to discuss the matter.
The media began to use various eye-catching headlines to attract readers, [The global mobile phone market enters the extreme three-wizard struggle for hegemony] [The global mobile phone industry is undergoing a major reshuffle] [Who is in charge of the mobile phone industry].
Continuous reports focused the attention of everyone around the world on this matter. These domestic companies really couldn't sit still. After some communication, many mobile phone manufacturers' bosses flew to the headquarters of Weiwei Company.
The purpose of these people is very simple. They want to inquire about the progress of Weiwei Group's artificial intelligence project. If Weiwei Group can introduce the artificial intelligence project into Hongmeng OS, they will join it collectively.
Mr. Ren always takes the overall situation into consideration when doing things. It is much better to bow to Mr. Ren than to a young man like Gao Jin.
For the group headquarters, Mr. Ren organized a meeting with senior management to discuss the integration of internal artificial intelligence technology into the Hongmeng system.
"Chairman, we cannot integrate artificial intelligence technology into the Hongmeng system in a short time." Qu Wenjun, director of the technical department, stood up and said this.
"Lao Qu, if you can't do it in a short time, how long do you mean?" Boss Ren asked.
"Chairman, this is not a simple technology. With Guge's accumulation in artificial intelligence projects, it will take about half a year to complete the integration."
"Although our artificial intelligence project has made some breakthroughs in recent years, the technical gap between it and ancient songs is still not small."
"Since the launch of the third-generation Starlight mobile phone, I have communicated with the project team leader Fan Gong about this matter. This matter seems simple, but in fact it is very difficult."
"This is not only a problem of artificial intelligence technology, but also involves the problem of terminal database, which is very complicated."
"Not to mention other things, just hardware investment requires an investment of 400 to 500 million U.S. dollars, which is still needed."
"Yesterday, I communicated this matter with Mr. Fan again, and the time given by Mr. Fan was at least three years."
"As long as the hardware can keep up, it is possible to achieve a breakthrough by temporarily giving up other research during the past three years and focusing on promoting this technology."
"There is no three years without any hope."
Qu Wenjun told the truth truthfully. Everyone including Boss Ren frowned. They didn't expect that the difficulty would be so great.
Thinking about it from another angle, it is also understandable that it takes about half a year to prepare the technical reserves of Guge, and it takes three years on our own side, which is already very difficult.
"How did Xingling Group make a breakthrough? Is our technical strength so different from theirs?" Mr. Meng, Vice President of Weiwei Group, spoke.
"Mr. Meng, the difference is really big."
"In terms of talent, Xingling Group has two sources. The first is to use high-paying network talents from all over the world."
"The second source is Starlight University. The top students who graduate from the Computer Science Department of Starlight University every year, and the top few are all captured by the Starling Group."
"Following this, the major domestic research institutes poached another group. After all, they can provide formal staffing. This condition is still very attractive in the domestic environment."
"The remaining talents are divided up by major domestic companies with high salaries. In the past few years, the number of students we have recruited from Starlight University has been in single digits."
"The fundamental reason for this result is that we cannot give particularly high salaries and must comply with the company's talent compensation system."
"High salaries can only be given to the top people."
Qu Wenjun told the story truthfully, and everyone had helpless expressions on their faces. They all knew this problem, but it was not easy to solve.
At present, the salary given to R&D personnel by Weiwei Group is already quite high. Compared with domestic counterparts, the salary is high. If this salary system is rashly broken, it will cause chaos.
"We need a change"
"We cannot obtain enough talents from Starlight University, so we must increase our efforts to recruit international talents. Internally, we must also introduce a competition mechanism."
"Flowing water does not rot, this is the truth."
After Mr. Meng finished speaking, he glanced at Boss Ren. The internal flow of personnel has changed less and less in recent years. The solidification of technical personnel is not a good thing for the company.
Clearing out those who have exhausted their talents to make room for them, and reintroducing high-quality talents to replenish fresh blood is the basis for maintaining a steady flow of corporate innovation power.
However, this matter still needs Boss Ren’s nod in the end.
"This matter will be discussed later. At present, we must hold firm and move forward step by step in a down-to-earth manner so that we can remain standing." Boss Ren said this calmly.
The boss understands what these people mean, and he also knows that they are right to think so, but now is not the right time.
Xingling Group's chip technology breakthrough broke the blockade of the EUV Industry Alliance, which freed Weiwei Group from constraints. In the past two years, profits have increased significantly due to rapid development.
But the current state can only be said to be that he took an extra breath and regained a bit of blood, but he has not completely gotten rid of the shackles on his body.
Hastily adjusting R&D personnel will cause R&D gaps in many R&D projects, which is detrimental to the company's development.
Another thing, this matter can only be done but not talked about. If you nod your head during today's meeting, it will spread throughout the company immediately after the meeting, and people will immediately be in a panic situation.
It was carried out secretly, adjusting three or four people at a time to gradually complete the blood replacement.
Mr. Meng and others did not know what Boss Ren was thinking. They looked at each other with expressions of regret. Although there was no expression on their faces, their eyes unintentionally showed dissatisfaction.
Although Boss Ren's eyes were squinted, he also noticed the performance of these people. His expression remained unchanged and he said, "Let's not go too far and continue to discuss the urgent artificial intelligence technology issues."
"What can we do to resolve the current crisis?"
Everyone calmed down and started discussing, which continued until the noon meeting, but failed to come up with an effective response plan.
This is a technical problem. The crushing brought about by technological innovation is very unsolvable.
"I have a solution that is not a solution," Vice President Feng Changrong said with a frown.
"Old Feng, say what you have to say. There is nothing you can't say now." Boss Ren looked at Feng Changrong and said.
"Chairman, although we have an artificial intelligence project team, our technology is much different from that of Xingling Group, Guoguo Company, and Guge Company."
"It's a bit unrealistic for us to catch up in a short time."
"Now if we want to quickly close the gap, the only way is to join forces and cooperate with manufacturers that are conducting artificial intelligence projects."
"Everyone integrates technology and personnel"
“In this way we can close some gaps in a short period of time.”
"I suggest that the chairman come forward and talk to the superiors about whether we can cooperate with the research institutes of relevant departments and produce results. Each of us will account for 50%."
Feng Changrong pulled out all his thoughts, and then it depends on Boss Ren's decision. Whether to unite or not is none of Feng Changrong's business.
Boss Ren began to meditate, and the other senior executives also began to meditate. After careful analysis, Feng Changrong's proposal was very practical.
By joining forces, we can definitely achieve rapid breakthroughs, and the thorny problems at hand can be completely solved, even if it takes half a year.