After passing various written examinations and interviews, Xu Haifeng became the first batch of employees of Changtian Technology's chip laboratory.
Currently, Changtian Technology’s chip team has a total of 20 people, three of whom have overseas academic backgrounds. The rest either graduated from prestigious universities like Xu Haifeng or have worked in overseas chip companies for a long time.
Some of these people were not accustomed to the living environment overseas, so they returned to Xia to work.
After searching around, I found that there are not many chip design and development companies in Xia Guo (Xia Xin International is one of them).
Only Changtian Technology was reliable and the treatment was pretty good, so I joined Changtian Technology.
Indeed, in terms of talent quality, the quality of the current batch of 20 people is not particularly high.
After all, first-rate Xia Guo chip talents must work in chip companies in the United States, second-rate talents will work in companies in Japan, South Korea, etc., and third-rate talents will go to chip companies in Xia Guo Wanwan.
And fourth-rate talents will enter Xia Xin International.
After all, Xiaxin International is preparing to be listed in Xiangjiang City.
Only low-level talents will come to Changtian Technology.
Of course, Xu Haifeng felt that he was excepted.
Because Xu Haifeng has worked in Lianxiang for more than ten years, he has personally witnessed the overt or covert competition between Changtian Technology and Lianxiang in the past few years.
Xu Haifeng firmly believes that Changtian Technology will be able to create miracles in new products, so he still joins.
The chip needs to be developed, but the process must be kept confidential. In addition, carbon crystal storage has had problems before, so Chen Xiao has formulated strict work confidentiality measures and regularly conducts qualification reviews of all core personnel.
After the establishment of the laboratory, the team soon had its latest task.
What Xu Haifeng got was a mobile phone communication chip, not the computer chip he imagined.
Xu Haifeng held the chip in his hand and looked at it in detail. It was a Freescale MXC series chip.
This chip is used in the Nokia S60, which was just released overseas at the beginning of this year.
Freescale MXC can be equipped with Nokia's smartphones that released the Symbian 6.1 Symbian system. As soon as the system and the phone were released, they immediately became a hit and were sold well in Europe and the United States.
Likewise, this chip is also a 3G chip.
Xu Haifeng looked at this chip and knew that Changtian Technology hoped not to widen the gap with the West in mobile chip technology.
The chip department rushed into work.
As for Chen Xiao, holding a thick piece of information in his hand, he was thinking about a question before negotiating with Xia Guo Mobile.
Should we negotiate first or announce the technology first?
One is that when Xia State was still in a very dark 2G era, 3G had gradually begun to spread in the United States and Europe.
"Eternal God Emperor"
Chen Xiao hopes that Changtian Technology can achieve a leading position in the mobile business and establish its own standards, so it must make simultaneous efforts in three steps: chips, communications, and mobile systems.
The reason why Chen Xiao is so anxious is because currently, globally, this industry is still an undeveloped virgin land and it is still a blue ocean market.
If Changtian Technology can establish a competitive advantage in the next two or three years, then when Android and iOS are born in 2007, Changtian Technology will be able to face it calmly and calmly.
Otherwise, Xia State's mobile communication Internet will once again follow the old path of computers - the chip is in the hands of others, the system is in the hands of others, and the ecological chain is in the hands of others.
In fact, in the field of communications, especially in the field of 3G communications, Xia Guo has lagged behind.
Among them, the wcdma patent, which is the most widely used, the most convenient and the best signal, is in the hands of overseas technology companies such as Nokia, Ericsson, Qualcomm, and Siemens.
Among them, Nokia and Ericsson both hold more than 20% of patented technologies.
Xia Guo has zero eggs.
Before Chen Xiao was reborn, Warwick figured out the algorithm from 2G to 3G around 2003 because of the difficult public relations efforts of Russian employees, which gave Xia Guo's communications business a chance to breathe.
From 2003 to 2006, Warwick conducted difficult research on 3G technology, and then obtained the basic right to use the technology. It owns about 5% of the basic patents, which means that through cross-licensing, Xia Guo can be promoted domestically. 3G technology will not be subject to too many restrictions due to patents.
However, 5% of the patented technology can only be used by Xia Guo in the 3G field, and it is still at a disadvantage in the competition.
Xia Guo then panicked and introduced related technologies that had been abandoned in Germany, and asked Xia Guo Mobile to develop a TD-CDMA, 3G technology.
As for how different this technology is compared to WCDMA, or whether it is better or worse, future generations will have their own judgment. However, according to Chen Xiao, TD-CDMA is more like the Loongson chip independently developed by Xia Guo in the global chip market. status - just able to save one's life.
Why didn’t Xia Guo launch large-scale commercial use of 3G technology across the country until around 2008?
One is because the cost of replacing 2G base stations with 3G base stations is very high, which affects the interests of many people.
Another problem is that the patented technology is not in place. Even if we use part of Warwick's technology to obtain the right to use 3D technology, and invite companies such as Ericsson and Nokia to build 3G base stations, the cost will be quite high.
Seeing Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and other 3G mobile phones selling like hotcakes in overseas markets, and staring blankly at himself, Chen Xiao decided not to wait any longer.
The relevant technical instructions were sent to Xia Guo Mobile Company.
Changtian Technology described in detail the current development trend of global communications services in its technical description, and made it clear that Xia Country is currently in a great era for the popularization of mobile phones.
Rather than spending a lot of money to purchase European 2G technology and asking Ericsson, Siemens and other companies to authorize the construction of base stations, it is better to directly build 3G base stations.
This will save a lot of money, and allow Xia's mobile phone users to directly skip feature phones and enter the era of smartphones, in line with international standards.
Chen Xiao calculated that if it succeeds, it will shorten the development process of Xia Guo Mobile's business by at least about 5 years.
Why doesn’t Chen Xiao directly launch 4G or 5G technology?
Or is it because the current backwardness in chip technology is not enough to carry relevant technical standards.
If 4G or 5G technology is launched at this time, and the United States and Europe take the lead in chips, Changtian Technology will be counterattacked.
So 3G is a good entry point.
Chen Xiao is very confident in Changtian Technology's letter. The reason why he chose Xia Guo Mobile is because Xia Guo Mobile has a relatively wide user base and a wide offline coverage, making it a very strong partner. .
However, what surprised Chen Xiao was.
It took nearly half a month after Changtian Technology sent the letter, but Xia Guo Mobile didn't even receive a reply.
This made Chen Xiao quite puzzled.
Did Xia Guo Mobile not receive the relevant letter, or is it just not interested in this matter?
