Chapter 238 Controversy about the launch of the first generation system
September 3rd, Monday.
God was not too kind and there was thunder and thunder early in the morning.
The temperature was high and muggy.
However, no matter what, today is the official start of the new semester, so after breakfast, Wen Liang hurriedly sent Li Rang to the primary school attached to China Normal University.
Anyway, on the way.
After seeing off Li Rang, Wen Liang walked into the Huagong campus.
Later, Wen Liang walked into the classroom with Chen Jiaxin, Zhao Mingjie, and Tang Pu.
The first class of the new school year and new semester is as usual a class meeting, with unfamiliar classrooms and familiar classmates.
Speaking of which, today’s Grade 10 Mathematics students are more confident wherever they go.
When meeting people, he would say, "Wen Liang and I are classmates now."
As soon as these words came out, the anger immediately rose.
Hey~ Not only with peers, but also with people of the older generation.
Anyway, when it comes to things like net worth, Mr. Wen is ranked among the top 40 in the country, and only 40 people can be ranked as being worth more than Mr. Wen.
Moreover, in addition to being very rich, Mr. Wen is also very young, only 20 years old.
You name it, you name a 20-year-old person who built such a big family business on his own.
Second generation? If any second generation tries playing with Wen Liang, his father can break his legs.
Seeing Wen Liang and the other four walking in, the eldest sister Liang Yameng raised her eyebrows and joked: "Half Bo Lang is here."
"Haha, this is the end of Sister Yameng's words."
"Don't Boss Wen have a meeting today?"
"That said, Wen Liang is the boss, and it's not him who has the final say whether to hold a meeting or not!"
"I heard that Mr. Chen is in charge of the process and can he manage Boss Wen."
Wen Liang walked to the window seat in the last row as usual, with a smile on his face: "Okay, okay, besides, we, Mr. Chen, should be unhappy."
Zhao Mingjie couldn't help laughing, and said while laughing: "Let's find a place to kill Old Wensha."
Chen Jiaxin continued expressionlessly: "It's the most useless thing to do."
Tang Pu immediately smiled tacitly.
Zhao Mingjie: "..."
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Jia Ju and other more curious classmates also asked some gossip points from netizens.
"Mr. Wen, what kind of department is Bolang Laboratory? How come it lists so many positions that are consistent with the first-level disciplines of science and engineering?"
"Yeah, because of this, there's a huge quarrel on the Internet."
"It is said that Bo Lang will not hit the target without aim."
"I've been told that Mr. Wen is trying to support unnecessary face-saving projects."
"Anyway, I have everything."
Seeing this, Wen Liang asked with a smile: "Then which view do you agree with?"
Jia Ju replied matter-of-factly: "Of course I agree with Bolang that he won't take aim without aim. After all, we are close to the water. We know that Bolang has multiple collaborative laboratories in our school, including Zhang Yulin and Qin Zheng, right?"
Liang Yameng interjected: "I think it can be a face project. After all, Mr. Wen has the ability to turn face projects into actual projects."
It seems like breaking the bank, but it also gives Wen Liang an option to step down.
‘Ya Qi’ is still the number one sister on the Xiaocheng Book Platform. Her status is unbreakable, her net worth has already exceeded tens of millions, and she is considered well-informed.
Facing everyone's curious gazes, Wen Liang said in a casual tone: "There is indeed a demand, but it's still only half and half. If it produces results, it's a targeted project. If it doesn't, it's just a face-saving project."
Everyone laughed, but didn't dig into the details.
…
Wen Liang was not joking.
Bolang Laboratory recruits talents in various basic disciplines on a large scale from society, and there is indeed a demand.
Although the needs were listed earlier, Li Ze, Sun Baoyin and others coordinated resources and refined the positions, but many sub-projects were cross-category. In the end, Yang Yun found that it was not conducive to recruitment.
So Wen Liang directly recruited students based on basic subjects.
These needs revolve around the mobile phone business.
For example, Wen Liang emphasized that it is necessary to master certain key patents in baseband, which requires investing a lot of manpower and material resources in physics, mathematics, communications and other professional fields to conduct a lot of research and sorting out.
In addition to baseband, there are also various types of non-core processing chips, including but not limited to battery management chips, radio frequency chips, etc.
On the contrary, compared with processing chips that can easily burn hundreds of millions without even being seen, these non-core processing chips are either analog chips or radio frequency chips, which do not cost much money. The research and development process is frugal and can be done by thousands of people.
Everything can be done.
Including tape-out!
This thing is still made using a 300nm process. Compared to the 28nm process used in the Mi 2 processing chip released last month, the process is not even ten times worse.
This type of chip can be completed by about 20 people if it is led by an experienced boss.
But there are not many companies that can break through.
Because marketization is not easy to implement.
Low barriers to entry means more competition, it's that simple.
But Bolang is different. Bolang can produce and sell its own products.
As for why Wen Liang wants to do everything by himself, let’s just think of him as suffering from delusional persecution.
After all, in 2202, even the open source code of the Tama open source community has jurisdiction. The idea of Tama without borders is a joke.
Dare to invest like this, because considering the size of Bolang, the cash on the account is too abundant to support these basic hardware-level R&D projects that cost tens of millions in the entire process.
Not to mention the current monthly revenue of hundreds of millions or billions.
For example, the 3 billion raised in early July, except for the billion that was quickly allocated for the land transaction, other planned uses were not immediately spent, and now there is still more than 1 billion left.
With such deep confidence and the infrastructure construction cycle being so long, it was natural to focus on development projects first.
As for subsequent financial planning... isn't there Wang Wanyu?
Polite: "Are you Wang Wanyu?"
Speaking of which, Mr. Wang has been very anxious recently because Wen Liang dumped two more big guys.
One is that the estimated loss of the mobile phone business in the first stage may be as high as 500 million. You must know that this is a project that has not been officially launched!
As the God of Wealth of Bolang, Wang Wanyu must at least ensure that no matter how the business suffers losses, the company can come up with money.
In any case, this budget is definitely not feasible.
The other one is the group’s scientist system. This Wang Wanyu glanced at the draft and immediately felt that it was overwhelming and her investment was exaggerated.
It's all a headache anyway.
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On the first day of the new semester, there is only a half-morning class meeting.
When I entered my junior year, my coursework was significantly reduced.
There are only two basic required courses in this semester.
China University of Technology has a credit system. Taking Wenliang's major as an example, you can graduate after completing 170 credits, of which the basic compulsory credits are as high as 133.5.
I took a lot during my freshman and sophomore years, and I already earned a lot of credits by taking three elective courses this semester.
There will be only one required course left in the next semester.
When I reach my senior year, there is only one compulsory subject for the entire school year, which is the graduation thesis.
Elective?
It depends on your hard work in the previous three years. If you don't have enough credits, you have to take another course.
In short, due to the hard work of his freshman and sophomore years, Wen Liang’s classwork has been quite relaxed starting from this semester.
There are no classes two days a week.
3+2 belongs to yes.
Of course... I have to say it secretly, it doesn't matter whether Wen Liang goes to class or not.
The school even wants to warmly invite Mr. Wen Liang to study for a postgraduate degree. It is best to study for a master's degree and a Ph.D. together!
For example, Professor Chang is looking forward to Wen Liang becoming his graduate student.
Moreover, Professor Chang has always valued Wen Liang’s learning ability.
Based on such a relaxed coursework, Wen Liang and Bai Goose Liu Chiping led a team on a business trip to Fuzhou on the third day after school started.
I had a brief chat with China Mobile and China Unicom over there.
The six-city directional traffic package in Guangdong has been very effective since its launch. Bolang and Baie have shown their sincerity, and the negotiation has certainly gone very smoothly.
After that, Wen Liang began to live a real university life.
At work, I spent three days fishing and two days drying nets.
Studying means three days of fishing and two days of drying the net.
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On the 13th, Apple released iPhone5.
Equipped with iOS6, the private day that supports Chinese conversations is officially launched.
The hardware supports the FDD standard 4G network, and 4G networks can be used in many regions around the world.
It was announced that it will be launched on the 21st. The first batch of sales areas will be Hong Kong, not China.
Large-scale discussions took place on various social media platforms, led by Xiaocheng Book.
The most hot topic is the comment of a communications observer. He believes that iPhone5 lacks the surprises that people are expecting. Cook has turned the iPhone back from a work of art to a mobile phone.
In addition, discussions about private days are also rampant.
Netizens have high expectations for this software.
…
Time flies and it’s Thursday the 20th.
It’s the thirtieth day since Yang Xingshan and Dai Li joined Bolang.
In the afternoon, Li Ze hosted an online meeting.
Among the attendees, Wen Liang did not participate at first.
Forty-five minutes into the meeting, Wen Liang joined in.
In the general manager's office, Wen Liang was flipping through the summary information reported by Lixia and said, "Lisuke summarized the key points of your previous discussion."
"The core dispute is that workers Zhang, Yang, and Dai all believe that the first version of the mobile phone system should not be rushed out because of the launch of iPhone 5. Mr. Ze insists on his opinion out of market considerations, right?"
Li Ze was the first to speak on the phone: "Yes."
Then several voices agreed: "Yes."
Wen Liang first gave his own opinion: "Mr. Ze's consideration is fine. Of course, it is normal to have disputes."
Then he said pleasantly: "I can understand if Mr. Yang disagrees. Mr. Dai, you are responsible for the industrial design of mobile phones. Whether or not the system is launched has little to do with you. I won't make an example next time."
Dai Li on the other end was speechless and continued: "I overstepped my bounds. I'm sorry. Goodbye, Mr. Wen."
Then decisively quit the online meeting.
Mr. Wen has already mastered this simple tapping method.
Wen Liang added: "What do you think, Mr. Zhang?"
Zhang Yulin's voice came from the phone: "Strictly speaking, the current system kernel has only an initial version, which is quite immature and incomparable with any of iOS, Android, and WP."
Wen Liang nodded in agreement, and then asked: "Mr. Yang, it's because the current graphical interface design is not good enough, so he doesn't want to rush it out."
"Yes." Yang Xingshan replied, and then quickly said: "It's my problem to get Lao Dai this time, and I will review it in writing."
Hearing this, Wen Liang said in an easy-going tone: "Just pay attention next time, don't waste energy."
Then he said: "I understand your starting point. To introduce an immature system to the market is neither responsible nor easy to be ridiculed by the crowd."
"However, if a product wants to be more widely accepted, it needs to be recognized by the market, especially for commercial products. The best way to be recognized by the market is for market consumers to personally participate."
"As the saying goes, you can't see a rainbow without going through wind and rain."
"Mr. Ze's meaning is actually very simple. Instead of working behind closed doors, it is better to open the door to welcome guests. The good and bad are both pressure on you and motivation for you to move forward."
Finally, Wen Liang said: "Gong Yang, don't be anxious. Subversion takes time to settle. First solve the problem of creating something from scratch, and then solve the problem of growing from something to excellence."
Yang Xingshan responded: "Don't worry, Mr. Wen, we will refer to market opinions and iterate out a qualified version better and faster."
He said gently and kindly: "This time, Mr. Yang will reserve his opinions for the time being. Let's strive to seek common ground while reserving differences during work."
Yang Xingshan responded again: "Okay, okay."
The meeting ended here.
It's not that Li Ze can't handle it, but that Wen Liang is directly in charge of Bolang Laboratory and is the boss, so he can easily overcome the controversy -
PS: Let’s collect opinions from the big guys. 1. The system name is tentatively determined to be Pangu. If you have other better suggestions, please suggest them.
2. The name of the mobile phone brand. I don’t plan to call it Bolang Mobile directly. I have no idea for a while. Please give me a name~