January 12th, the first day of the twelfth lunar month, Saturday.
In the morning, Wen Liang went to his aunt's house and took Xiao Li Rang out for a walk. In the afternoon, he flew to the capital.
In the past five days, Wen Liang completed the final exam for the first semester of his junior year.
Very complete.
For exams, Wen Liang always needs to have the right hands. Mathematics is about thinking methods and ideas, not rote memorization. It is very flexible, and it can be said that you can grasp it with your hands.
There is another special little thing this week.
Wen Liang has decided to stay at South China Institute of Technology for further study, and his major is still applied mathematics. This makes Professor Chang, who teaches a wide range of subjects, extremely happy.
In his previous life, Professor Chang repeatedly expressed that he could open a back door for Wen Liang, hoping that Wen Liang would study for his graduate degree, but in the end he failed to do so.
It is also interesting to see Wen Liang choose to go to graduate school again.
What makes Professor Chang even happier is that he still opened the back door and allocated an extra quota to Wen Liang, because Wen Liang wanted to take the postgraduate route - Wen Liang wanted to take the exam himself, but the Chinese Engineering Department was not very happy, so they simply gave him an extra 10
There is one guaranteed postgraduate spot in the grade-level graduation class, which does not occupy everyone's spots.
It's not that Wen Liang won't pass the exam, but that if Wen Liang gets tired of staying in Yangcheng and wants to go to other colleges and universities, there are many schools rushing to get him!
In fact, Wenliang's personal reputation is very good in many colleges and universities.
For example, Lanzhou University, Nanjing University, University of Science and Technology of China, Renmin University of China, Harbin Institute of Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, NPU, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Sichuan University, Wuhan University and many other universities have nothing to do with the fact that Wen Liang went to several of these universities, but that Wen Liang attended the 2012 graduation ceremony of Huazhong University of Technology last summer.
His speech really touched some university presidents.
Naturally, it has nothing to do with the cooperation between Bolang Terminal and these schools.
It is said that due to the threshold of Qingbei, the basic research plan covering materials, equipment, etc. in the upstream semiconductor industry chain had to add an additional 1.2 billion. The original number was 68 billion, which sounds pretty good.
Perhaps... he felt that Wen Liangtuo would not come forward on his own, so he took advantage of a small subsidiary like Bolang Terminal.
Wen Liang didn't know whether it was true or not. He didn't pay attention to such details. However, Bolang Terminal has indeed not been able to cross the threshold of Qingbei so far, and he does not plan to work hard in this area anymore.
Student Wen Liang’s final exam was very successful and he had completed his junior year of study. Student Su Jian on the other side was not so ‘smooth’.
She found herself a small job.
After the final exam, she participated in a social practice arranged by the school and went to a remote countryside. Not only did she go with some people from her practice group, but she also brought people from the "Wen Liang Gong Jing Rong" charity foundation with her.
This name was not given by Wen Liang, but by Su Jian. It is said that traditional virtues are placed on it, which can be regarded as a mirror.
As Wen Liang is busy recently, Su Jian took the money to do some meaningful charity work. The winter vacation will be postponed for about ten days.
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In the bleak north wind, Wen Liang arrived in Beijing, got off the plane and took an exclusive shuttle bus to leave the airport, and then got into the reception Mercedes-Benz of Bolang's Beijing office.
This time I stayed at the Park Hyatt next to Guomao.
Compared with the failure of autumn in Yangcheng, the cold winter has arrived here in the capital. The days are short and the nights are long, and it gets dark after five o'clock.
I just took a short rest, Wen Liang tidied up, changed into a coat, went downstairs and took the car out.
Although Zhang Sanshi and Shen Nanpeng were both in the capital and knew that Wen Liang was coming to the capital today, Wen Liang declined their offer to pick him up and postponed it until tomorrow.
On the way, Lixia, who was sitting in the passenger seat, briefly reported an important matter.
"Weihui has issued news in the afternoon that they have reached an agreement with mobile phone business dealers and announced that they will completely withdraw from the open market. Specialized operators will customize white-brand mobile phones and will accept all returns."
Wen Liang nodded lightly and said nothing more.
Wei Luo delayed this matter until this afternoon, which was intentional.
As early as the 8th, Director Yang of Weiluo called, and Wenliang called back after finishing the exam. After the two parties agreed on the phone, Weiluo could withdraw the mobile phone business.
When Wen Liang left Yangcheng for the capital, he immediately sent a message to accept all returns.
It's obvious that he is a disgusting person.
Because not only Bolang and Weilui, but also everyone knows that the competition between Bolang and Weilui in the mobile phone business will continue until Weilui's mobile phone business is suspended or even cancelled.
Weilui can and can only withdraw its mobile phone business to exclusive operators to customize white-label machines. Bolang will obviously make a fuss about this aspect.
There are only so many results that can be formed.
Bolang uses public relations to persuade operators to completely abolish the custom-made machine business. This is unlikely in everyone's opinion. It requires a high price and may not be successful. It will not sit idly by if it declines.
Bolang also arranged its customized machine business to compete closely with Wei Wai's mobile phone business to compete with profit margins. It is most likely that Wei Wai will eventually be forced to cancel its mobile phone business due to market profit margins.
As for the fact that everyone, including Wei Luo, is not optimistic that he can win the competition in the mobile phone business, that is because of the confidence Bolang gained through Xinghai 1.
As early as the 4th, Bolang terminal released 60,000 more Xinghai 1 units, making Xinghai 1 sales exceed 10 million units in a single domestic market!
A single model sold tens of millions of units within 20 days of its launch in a single market. It has already become a blinding success. It is also selling well in many overseas markets. Some good domestic media are naming Bolang Terminal as the ‘next Apple’.
In short, the competition between Bolang and Weiluo in the mobile phone market is a clear battle between horses and horses.
It should be said that since Bolang established the company Bolang Terminal, Wen Liang's business style has changed. He has changed from taking risks and engaging in strange conspiracies to an upright and scheming way.
For example, before the release of Xinghai 1, Bolang Terminal had already made it clear that it would produce a mobile phone that was comparable to the iPhone 5. Of course, Apple knew about this, but Apple had "nothing to do."
Because this is an obvious competition between product power and brand power.
If another mobile phone manufacturer in the world launches a mobile phone that can surpass Apple's iPhone series, and Apple immediately releases a new model in a hurry to defeat it, that's not called business, it's called bad business.
In an era without Bolang terminals, is Samsung dead?
The pricing, product capabilities, and audience of the S3 are all highly overlapping with those of the iPhone 5. Apple didn’t do much, and the iPhone 5 was released later than the S3.
It's just that the outside world's "crazy" investment in Bolang Terminal was underestimated. I really didn't expect that Bolang Terminal would be so crazy right from the start, destroying a large part of the selling points of the mobile phone industry next year or even the year after.
Of course, this is not a big deal. It is nothing more than everyone starting an arms race.
Samsung and Apple haven't tapped into the technical reserves at the bottom of the box.
Therefore, when faced with the declining mobile phone business, Bolang made no secret of all its plans and jointly announced the establishment of cooperation with ZTE one month in advance.
Now it is also an open conspiracy.
Tell Weiluo clearly, I just want to force you to eliminate your business in the open market, and then focus on competing in the operator customized market.
Compared with Apple's "nothing to do", withering is really the only thing that can do nothing, and now they are resorting to disgusting methods.
Speaking of Apple, his family has actually found something to do with Bolang Terminal in Yangcheng. It is not just disgusting, but has had a real impact. It’s just that Bolang Terminal is too lazy to deal with the Apple personnel who are causing trouble in Yangcheng and puts the competition with Apple
Putting it in overseas markets has brought hunger marketing to its full potential.
Bolang Terminal is also clearly telling the world that XingHai1 has enough product power to support me in creating public opinion and influence Apple's brand power.
There is no fear that things like hunger marketing will be made public.
Consumers who have the ability will not pay the bill.
The first batch of 500,000 units has already been sold out, and the total number of global reservations on reservation pages on several social platforms has exceeded 15 million.
It’s so awesome, it doesn’t matter whether you accept it or not.
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Ten minutes later, the Mercedes-Benz stopped at the edge of an alley.
Wan An, who was driving, got out of the car and opened the door.
Wen Liang straightened his clothes and made a gesture: "Come back in three hours."
"Okay." Wan An responded.
Wen Liang put his hands in his coat pockets and walked steadily towards the entrance of the alley. He nodded to the young men in several directions, walked to one of the courtyards and knocked on the door as usual.
After a while, a young woman wearing simple clothes welcomed Wen Liang in.
After crossing the screen wall and passing through the hanging flower door entering the courtyard, I saw Lao Miaotou sitting in the east wing restaurant.
Lao Miaotou saw Wen Liang looking around and said angrily: "Don't look, there is no one else at home. My wife has gone to visit her grandson."
Lao Miaotou is almost 58. It’s normal to have grandchildren. He’s just young. He’s incomparable to Su Jian’s age.
This is the house he was assigned, and the living area will certainly not exceed the standard. There are no three courtyards in this courtyard, and the total is only about 200 square meters, which is within the standard of 220 square meters.
The old man who was dressed at home also spoke in a more "homely" tone, not so particular and straightforward: "I'm too lazy to take care of your taste. Home-cooked food, just take one bite."
"As long as it's hot in the mouth, I won't pick it." Wen Liang said cheerfully, sitting down opposite Lao Miaotou, picking up Kuai Zi and starting to eat, not at all polite, "It's okay for a cadre, this is a homely standard.
I can almost catch up with my company’s canteen chef.”
Lao Miao glanced at Wen Liang, but still showed some hospitality: "Would you like some drinks?"
"No, no, no." Wen Liang waved his hands repeatedly, "I'm just here to have a meal, and I don't have anything to be bold about. I have to be busy tomorrow."
The old man sneered: "You just want to drag me down blatantly, right?"
"How can Mr. Miao be so unqualified?" Wen Liang looked as if he was making a fuss, "What do you mean by pulling someone off? I'm your cover."
"No, don't blame me. I can't afford it." The old man quickly stopped talking.
After all, Lao Miaotou took out a bottle of wine from under the table: "You go to Lao Li's place just to eat and drink. I don't have a cute and well-behaved granddaughter like Su Jian. I still have two bottles of good wine. I can't let it go."
You found fault."
"Drink some."
Wen Liang quickly took the wine bottle and poured three coins for each of them: "Hey, this wine smells good."
"Forty-five years old, I can make you drink for free!" The old man also had a gentle look, but still had a bad look on his face.
In fact, Wen Liang had prepared this thing a long time ago and asked Wan An to pick him up in three hours. He couldn't talk without eating or drinking.
The old man has no nice words to say, but his etiquette is still in place.
After all, Lao Miaotou was just not satisfied with Wen Liang's behavior of deliberately trying to start a relationship immediately after coming to the capital, and even getting on top of him.
This kid's intentionality is completely undisguised.
When I got off the plane, I wanted to go to Lao Miao's house for dinner without leaving my luggage. This was not a trip to work, but a trip to home. It wasn't fun, but outsiders would judge it 10,800 times.
Despite this, Lao Miaotou still did not refuse Wen Liang's visit.
Not necessary.
Walk upright and sit upright.
Moreover, capable companies and people are different wherever they go!
If other companies can produce the same results as Bolang Terminal, and can start investing tens of billions to seriously engage in basic research on materials and equipment, and also cultivate talents through universities, Mr. Miao will still sweep it.
Welcoming each other on the couch.
There are two major things that the Industry and Information Management Bureau deals with.
Industry and information.
Bolang now occupies both ends, and it still occupies the one with the highest technology and the one that needs the most investment in research and development.
And that industrial chain is so young...old people are drooling just looking at it.
The key is not only that it is long, but also that its distribution range is extremely wide. At present, large, medium and small companies in the existing industrial chain cover all provincial-level units in the country, including Tibet and Xinjiang.
The most upstream research also covers more than 100 universities.
It's enough to take.
The old man took a sip of his wine and mentioned this issue: "Why are the two schools in Qingbei never included in your collaborative research?"
"Their threshold is high, but our level is not even good enough." Wen Liang replied tactfully.
The old man glanced at Wen Liang and changed the subject: "The noise you made is a bit big."
"It's not us, it's decline." Wen Liang corrected.
Then he said it bluntly: "I don't ask what other companies will do, even those who were born in the Academy of Sciences can just go for profit, but I can't bear the behavior of using a knife behind the back."
"If I had the ability, I could ride a horse and wipe out the decline. What kind of rubbish? With so many resources, I don't ask him to expand the territory, but how about doing some human work on a horse?"
"If nothing else, I'm just asking, can those Weiluo gadgets tell us which country they are from? As for Director Yang's gadget, I'm afraid it might get stuck!"
The old man was speechless.
Wen Liang sighed and added: "Actually, I know that no matter how many historical allusions I read or how many times I read Mao Zedong's Selections, I can't really understand the thoughts of the superstructure. I don't expect to understand these. My current wealth and status qualify me to pursue
ideal;
This is what I think and what I do, and I can also be gentle, courteous and thrifty. You have also seen that I have shown the business cooperation templates that everyone wants to see in Baie and Sina."
"But I will not let the things that my company has invested a huge amount of money, sweat, and energy in trial and error to be treated casually. This is why I have always shied away from making the Star System public."
"Of course this is only part of it. I personally think that in some areas you will not be willing to look for a perfect solution as crudely as we do."
"In the past three months, we have invested more than 1 billion in new funds to optimize every corner of the Star system kernel to make it more compatible, superior, and leading, and to be used by tens of millions of real users on the mobile platform.
In actual use, with the help of massive supercomputing and even supercomputing centers, our engineering team believes that it can be used for cross-fertilization;
Therefore, we have completed the docking with several special units such as Military Science and Technology, and sent them all the source code of the Star System kernel including iteration process records for free. Preliminary evaluation pointed out that the new kernel has very strong modular compatibility and is suitable for
The scenario is not limited to general computing, and it is more versatile than the existing internal system kernel. Anyway, it is quite interesting."
"In addition, we transferred the compiled programming environment to them free of charge."
The old man raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and was a little surprised: "I haven't heard about this."
"It won't be settled until this afternoon." Wen Liang waved his hand and laughed, "So I came here to take credit."
The old man ignored this: "You have done this better than everyone imagined. I am also relieved. A completely independent and self-developed operating system that has been tested by the open market and has application compatibility is very important."
Wen Liang added: "After the news of self-research of the system is made public in the future, we will open source the old kernel. Before that, we will share the commercial graphical interface with relevant units."
The old man asked with great interest: "How is the progress on the chip?"
"According to the plan, the first generation test product will be available in April." Wen Liang replied.
The old man nodded with great satisfaction: "In the past, plans usually piled up time and energy. You are different. In the first generation, you directly exchanged money for time. This is really courageous!"
Wen Liang smiled: "Everything is difficult at the beginning. Once the first generation is completed, it will be easy later. Take a longer-term view and invest tens or tens of billions in the early stage. Otherwise, we will not start investing 69.2 billion in the early stage."
Regarding the research on the autonomy of the semiconductor industry chain, we still don’t know how much money it will take to fill this hole and catch up with the progress.”
The 69.2 billion is only an experimental level investment, not a commercial investment.
The Galaxy instruction set is now considered semi-commercial. Before it came out, Huagong IC Design Laboratory invested hundreds of millions of dollars, including the time cost of Qin Zheng’s study trip to the United States, which was only an experimental level investment.
The first-generation product here in April is considered semi-commercial grade, and the time is not too tight. After all, not only other manufacturers have successfully used case studies, Bolang Terminal itself has also designed a usable product based on other people's complete solutions.
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So...it's just a waste of money in exchange for time.
After chatting for a while, the decline was mentioned again. Lao Miao asked straight to the point: "Is it difficult to handle the declining mobile phone business?"
Wen Liang answered bluntly: "Of course it is difficult, because what we are dealing with is in the present tense. As long as they remain in decline, they can develop again at any time."
The old man glared at Wen Liang: "I'm asking this time."
"It's not difficult." Wen Liang expressed his thoughts: "In the next two days, we will discuss contract phone cooperation with China Mobile. Xinghai 1 is easy to sell and the profit margin is sufficient;
I have read through the financial reports of the three major operators in the past few years. Their marketing expenses are too high, and they are basically spent on terminal subsidies. Therefore, I would like to mention to Mr. Wang, the state-owned asset manager, to cut off the customized phone business, which will allow the operators to
Getting rid of the low-end impression of giving away a mobile phone by charging phone bills, secondly, it can save expenses, and thirdly, it can save trouble."
"How should I put it? What I want to do is press the withered hand and then whip him directly."
The old man understood what he was saying and said slowly: "Your business methods seem quite simple. You can go straight forward with a single axe."
Wen Liang smiled.
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