Chapter 2974 Outstanding technology
Seeing their disbelief, Xiao Qi smiled faintly and said, "When have I lied to you? If it weren't for the fact that the key technical problem was not overcome this time, I could have expanded the production of Dreamsta3 to 30 million units per month."
"What kind of technology is so difficult?" Li Xiaochao couldn't help blurting out.
But just after asking, he felt a little regretful.
How can such a core technology be mentioned casually?
However, Xiao Qi did not hide much, "It is a technology related to intelligent induction drive. It has been studied for more than 2 years, but it has not been developed yet. But now it can be considered that there has been great progress. It will be launched next year at the latest."
It can be applied to mobile phones in half a year.”
After working with Xiao Qi for so long, Guo Taiming and the three of them all know that Xiao Qi is a very cautious person. This can be seen from his insistence that Dreamsta's monthly sales of 13 million units will not increase.
Since Xiao Qi said this, they naturally believed it. While excited, they were also wondering, what specific technology is this?
Everyone around the world knows how strong the Fairy Company's technical strength is. It has taken them more than three years to develop the technology. It will definitely shock the world once it is released, right?
The three of them thought well. Xiao Qi wanted to use his skills to shock the world.
It is the somewhat tasteless "eyeball rolling" technology in Samsung's Galaxy 4 launched in 2013.
Eye rolling technology refers to the technology that uses the movement of human eyeballs to turn pages, scroll mobile devices, and even control more mobile phone functions.
Before Samsung, a research team from the University of Copenhagen in Sweden had actually launched a project similar to eyeball rolling. This project expresses the same meaning. In addition, in 2013, Tobire also launched a project
Eye tracking technology helps users zoom, center and open web pages and apps.
But these studies of theirs proved to be very immature at the end of 2013.
Take Samsung's galaxy 4 as an example. Many fans came here for this "eyeball rolling" technology. After taking it back for a long time to experiment, my eyes hurt from blinking, but I still couldn't control the galaxy 4 satisfactorily. Occasionally, it happened a few times.
Even if it is successful, it is not very sensitive, and even wrong instructions are often displayed.
Xiao Qi didn't know if Samsung's mobile phones would be corrected in the future, but because of the example of galaxy 4, he started developing eye tracking technology early and also emphasized to the engineers that this eye tracking must be designed.
A perfect smart technology cannot be introduced half-baked, as this will embarrass the Fairy Company.
But such eye-tracking technology sounds cool and wonderful to think about, but when it was actually developed, it was discovered that there were just as many problems as a hair on the head.
The light sensitivity of the eyes, the frequency of rotation, the speed of sight movement, the amplitude of up, down, left and right movements, the difference between normal blinking and conscious blinking...etc., these all need to be broken through and studied one by one.
From the beginning of more than 30 engineers in 2008, to more than 80 engineers in 2009, and now to more than 220 engineers, the number of people in the entire department is seriously exceeded.
Then there are more than 30 departments assisting them. Although these departments have their own various tasks, because the eye tracking function is very important, once a request is sent from this department, they must focus on organizing manpower to overcome technical difficulties.
The expenses of Fairy Laboratory have also increased greatly.
Their department alone has spent more than 5 billion yuan in more than two years. The speed at which they spend money can be described as gold.
But even so, more than two years have passed, and they are still at a stage where they have not yet made breakthroughs in several key technologies, which has really caused them to receive a lot of discussion. Although Fairy Laboratory's funding is sufficient, who doesn't?
Are you willing to have more R&D funds? Your eye tracking department requires so much money. If you gave me some of it, I would have achieved results long ago!
They themselves also held their breath. In the second half of this year, they issued a military order to Fairy Laboratory. They did not want any bonus subsidies this year. If they could not make it next year, then they would all resign to apologize.
Of course Sun Manxue can't agree. If you don't succeed, you'll just slap your ass and leave. How can that be done?
Even if your original intention is to apologize, your actual actions are to shirk responsibility. If you leave, who will continue this project? Who will replace you and not start over? That is equivalent to wasting a lot of time!
Moreover, Sun Manxue did not agree to their request for any bonus subsidy, but decided to reduce it by half, and give them a month's paid leave during the Spring Festival to let them rest their minds more so that they can be more relaxed when they come back.
Go to work.
As a result, this group of people felt even more moved. They continued to work hard and worked overtime. They vowed to break through the technical difficulties as soon as possible.
Xiao Qi is a knowledgeable person. After going to them several times to listen to progress reports, he knew that they were only a little bit close to understanding it. Once this barrier was broken, the future would be smooth sailing.
That's why Xiao Qicai told Guo Taiming and the others that the next Dreamsta4 will use new and groundbreaking technology.
With Xiao Qi's guarantee, the three of them left with satisfaction.
Although dreamsta3 has just been prepared to be launched, and there is still a year and a half until dreamsta4 is launched, they can also prepare in advance.
The purchase and commissioning of production lines, training of skilled workers, etc. can all be done in advance.
Only by being fully prepared can you take a bigger share of the feast of Dreamsta4's production expansion.
Think about it, even if it is not 30 million units, even if it only increases to 25 million units a month, it is almost equivalent to doubling.
Even if Yan Chenglong can get a monthly output of 6 million units by then, and the remaining 6 million units will be divided equally between Guo Taiming and Li Xiaochao, that will still be a net profit of several hundred million, which is several billion a year. Isn’t that enough?
?
In addition, as the production of Dreamsta4 increases, the shipment volume of various optional accessories will inevitably increase greatly. The two main optional accessories suppliers, Yan Chenglong and Li Xiaochao, will naturally get more benefits. Of course, they will also
They will not monopolize it. This matter can only be successful with the help of Guo Taiming, so they will also compensate Guo Taiming in other aspects. Everyone is happy, which is the most important thing for cooperation!
After they left, Xiao Qi reopened the folder he had just closed and carefully read the report sent by the Fairy Laboratory.
What Sun Manxue sent over was good news.
If eye tracking technology is about to usher in success, then the foldable LCD panel OLED technology that Fairy Company has been laying out since 2007 has now fully entered actual production trials.
After more than three years of hard work, with the technical support of Samsung and the participation of many experts in this field, OLED technology has passed the rigorous test this month and can be applied to actual mass-produced LCD panels.
above.
However, there is still a gap between the success of the experiment and the success of mass production. If the time is short, it will take three months, if the time is long, it may take more than half a year.
The price of finished products in the laboratory can be very expensive. A major purpose of mass production is naturally to reduce the cost as much as possible.
But in any case, the success of the experiment means that the most difficult step has passed. All that is left is to make more parameter adjustments and matching, so that the effect in mass production can be closer to the effect in the laboratory.
Of course, foldable LCD panel technology cannot be said to be completely successful, at least in terms of size, it cannot be reduced.
The sizes that can be produced now are only LCD panels of 10 inches or more. If the size is too small, it will not be easy to maintain the effect.
As a result, it can only be used on Dreampad, not even Dreampad fans, which really makes Xiao Qi a little regretful.
Next year is the time to launch the dreampad fanni. If you add this foldable LCD panel, what a sharp creation it will be!
However, technology is constantly improving after all. Although foldable LCD panels are now only suitable for 10 inches or more, their project team has not disbanded, but continues to research on miniaturization.
I believe that if we wait for another two or three years, I dare not say that the Dreamsta series will be able to use this technology. Dreampad fans will at least be able to use it.
From this point of view, it makes sense for Xiao Qi to spend tens of billions of dollars every year on Fairy Laboratory.
After all, I only have a little more than two years left in my memory of reincarnation, and if these outstanding scientists and engineers grow up, they can largely offset the threat of foreign companies, so even if they are gone,
With the memory of reincarnation and rebirth, Fairy Company has continued to develop and innovate, and at least it can develop smoothly.
Fairy Company must continue to have such outstanding and ahead of others' technologies, so that it can continuously gain its own leading advantage, and then it can continue to become the "King of Intelligent Electronics in the World" as a Chinese company! (To be continued.
Chapter completed!