Recall that it has been a year and a half since the release of Stardust 3, Stardust 3+, Stardust-Chenji and other products. Although the Stardust 4 series has not been released yet, Stardust Technology seems to have really achieved an update every two years. .
Being able to not update its flagship product for such a long time, but still dominate the sales list, one can imagine how terrifying Stardust Technology’s current channel strength is.
It also reflects that the product power of Stardust 3 and Stardust 3+ is really ridiculously strong. Other mobile phone brands really have no way to surpass them and can only watch.
However, no matter how good the product is, it has been selling for a year and a half, and there is no limited edition of Cut Leeks yet. Consumers are really a little tired of aesthetics. Since June this year, the sales of Stardust 3+ and Stardust-Chenji have been declining.
However, the decline is not large, and occasionally it rebounds due to some holiday activities.
The sales of Stardust 3 have been stable and explosive. It is somewhat similar to models such as Apple 11, 12, and 13. It is not too affected by upgrades. On the contrary, it has become more cost-effective after the upgrade and price reduction.
The strategy of updating every two years has not reduced the popularity of Stardust Technology, but has instead raised expectations.
Countless consumers are looking forward to it, guessing what kind of "hard work" Chen Zifan will do next year.
If the Stardust 1→3 series is the history of the rise of Stardust Technology, the glorious history of smartphones starting from scratch and quickly becoming complete, then the Stardust 4 series is definitely the beginning of a new era of Stardust Technology.
While Chen Zifan is dealing with other work, the products of the Stardust 4 series have also been in the development stage.
The final mass-produced version is now just a step away. After all, it will be released in about half a year, and the Stardust series of mobile phones has sold tens of millions of units. How could it not be prepared earlier?
Zhao Wushang also suggested that Chen Zifan can directly plan the Stardust 5 series, take one step at a time and prepare in advance, and at least save the previous generation products, so that he will not be afraid when encountering risks in the future.
But Chen Zifan did not choose to do this. Not to mention that the Stardust 5 series will not be launched for another year. The most important thing is that he still needs about a year to unlock some technologies in [Stardust Technology]. Only in this way can we further enhance product capabilities.
But there is definitely nothing wrong with what Zhao Wushang said.
A lot of things do have to be prepared in advance.
While Chen Zifan was thinking on the road, he drove his "royal" Xinghan Mini to the Stardust Factory. It can be said that the current Stardust Factory has undergone earth-shaking changes compared to two years ago. The factory area alone has increased by more than four times. , not to mention production capacity.
The semi-automated production line is very easy to use, and the planning of the factory area is even more orderly. If you walk to any area and look inside, you will be shocked.
Although the product update speed of Stardust Technology has slowed down, the update speed of production equipment is fast! On average, there is a small update every three months, and a batch of "old" equipment will be eliminated in about half a year.
The obsolete "old" equipment will also be sold in various forms to continue to create secondary income for Stardust Technology. In addition to the Stardust Factory in Haicheng, Stardust Technology has also built two large factories in other cities.
One is in Shancheng and the other is in Pengcheng.
The coverage area is very wide~
There is no problem at all in terms of production capacity.
The three factories will then carry out division of labor and collaboration to further improve production efficiency. According to estimates, the three factories can produce 2.5 mobile phones per second and 216,000 mobile phones per day when fully operational.
That month…
This is the real "super factory".
Of course, in Chen Zifan’s memory, Apple’s foundry production capacity was even greater than this at its peak, with sales of hundreds of millions of units, and now Stardust Technology really can’t catch up.
Many workers in the Stardust factory are a little confused. Why is Stardust Technology increasing its production capacity and upgrading its technology so much? The reason is also very simple. The higher the production capacity, the more hands can be freed up to do other things.
Stardust Technology doesn’t just sell mobile phones...
After Chen Zifan passed through the production area of the Stardust Factory, he came to his destination, a factory area that specializes in technology research and development and experimental products.
Most of the technologies of Stardust Technology were actually taken out of his consciousness [Stardust Technology], and then sent to the R&D personnel through a series of packages. Logically speaking, there is no need for further research and development, but technology alone is not enough. Ah, the distance from theory to reality is also very long.
Without practicing it, who knows what the finished product will look like? Does it meet expectations?
But Chen Zifan can guarantee that in the experimental stage, Stardust Technology can take at least 90% fewer detours than other manufacturers. This is also his biggest source of confidence.
As soon as Chen Zifan entered the factory, whether he was an employee or a cadre, he would say hello whenever he had time:
"Hello, Director Chen!"
"Mr. Chen..."
"Dr. Chen looks handsome again today~"
Chen Zifan:......
Appearance: Nodding calmly (●_●)
Heart: Hurry! Praise more()
However, he didn’t come here to listen to the employees’ rainbow farts. Instead, he needed to get the latest progress of the Stardust 4 series products and see how the actual machine was doing.
He immediately found a project leader:
"I remember the last time I came here was two months ago. At that time, Stardust 4 and Stardust 4+ were already undergoing final debugging. How is the progress now?"
The name of this person in charge is Bei Ye Meng Lin, which sounds very similar to the name from her childhood, but it is not. Bei Ye is a very unpopular surname. It is said that it originated from the official position in the Western Zhou Dynasty. When she first came to Stardust Technology, Chen Zifan also paid a little attention.
What impressed him most was:
Kitano Menglin’s pile of certificates was too numerous to count, and he had never seen most of them.
At that time, he once again realized how outrageous the outstanding people in this world are. Fortunately, he cheated. Otherwise, it would be impossible to develop from the bottom to the present just by relying on his own efforts.
But he won’t belittle himself~
Kitano Menglin briefly introduced the current situation: "At present, the completion rate of Stardust 4 is extremely close to 100%. We just need to finalize mass production. Stardust 4+ still needs to be adjusted. The main problem lies in The improvement of imaging algorithms...
There is no problem with the hardware part. The sensors and lens modules used by Stardust 4+ are the best, but in actual tests they do not fit well with the current Stardust OS version. In order to solve this problem, our project The team proposed three plans…”
Chen Zifan:! ! !
In the final analysis, the processor of Stardust 4+, Changhe 4+, is not powerful enough, and the resolution of the GPU is not enough, which is why the current situation is caused.
But Kitano Menglin didn't say that because the 24-megapixel camera was decided by Chen Zifan, since the hardware cannot be changed, let's start with the software.
It can be solved after all, right?
In fact, in Chen Zifan's memory, the processors obtained by most mobile phone manufacturers cannot carry such high-pixel cameras. Think about how many generations of Apple products and how many generations of 12-megapixel cameras have been used?
Are A-series chips not powerful enough?
Or does Apple just want to cut leeks?
Cutting leeks is one thing, because Apple's sales will not be affected even if it does not upgrade the camera, and if it upgrades, it will reduce profits, so there is no need to upgrade, and it is indeed a bit unsustainable.
The pixel increase of mobile phones is actually a kind of pseudo-enhancement, and they are two completely different concepts from cameras.
Give a simple example:
Assume that a pixel unit of a camera is composed of four sub-pixels, namely red, yellow, blue and green. A pixel unit of a mobile phone is also composed of four sub-pixels, but the sub-pixels of the mobile phone are all of the same color.
So the result is-
The 48 million pixels of the camera are real 48 million pixels, while the 48 million pixels of the mobile phone are just 12 million pixels split into 48 million pixels, which is very false.
Even so, mobile phone processors still can't power it. Looking at the later market, hundreds of millions of pixels are available, and flagship phones with top-level cameras still use 50 million pixels, which is not as good as some cost-effective models.
Which cost-effective model does not have 64 million pixels?
Even if the flagship phone uses 50 million pixels, the high-pixel mode will not be turned on in the default camera mode. Many consumers take photos every day and may not even realize this until they change their phones.
From this point of view, sometimes high pixels are not necessarily really good, so why use high-pixel lenses?
Firstly, it can create gimmicks, and secondly, consumers like it, and although the high-pixel lenses have some "false propaganda", they are actually higher in pixels.
It's not false advertising either.
The photography has not improved, but we have indeed used a better camera! The price is also more expensive!
Consumers also like this kind of thing. For example, most graphics cards in the graphics card market have three fans. Two fans are actually enough, but when consumers look at it~Eh? The three fans seem to be more powerful?
Does it look better?
Therefore, the graphics card market has changed from the original dual-fan and three-fan 50-50 ratio to the three-fan mainstream, and the dual-fan market situation only occasionally exists.
It’s all to cater to consumers!
A solution proposed by Kitano Menglin is exactly the same as the Android manufacturer's solution in Chen Zifan's memory. In the default mode, it uses relatively low pixels to take pictures, and after manually turning it on, it uses higher pixels to take pictures.
But Chen Zifan also knows that this is a flaw. The peripheral configuration of Stardust 4+ is too powerful, so powerful that it can be regarded as a mainstream model in 2022. And even if Changhe 4+ has received a wave of upgrades based on Changhe 4, It is also lagging behind at least two generations.
If you convert the Changhe 4+ into the famous AnTuTu benchmark, it can only run between 250,000 and 300,000.
Even if it is almost doubled compared to the Changhe 3+, it is still not enough with such a high hardware configuration.
"I will think about it…"
Chen Zifan also had a headache all of a sudden. He originally thought that Changhe 4+ was so powerful that it could almost be described as an epoch-making mobile phone processor, but after playing around with it, he realized that Changhe 4+ was not enough at all!
Who talks about excessive performance every day?
If it doesn't work, we can only adopt a compromise method and give up part of the configuration a little.
Chen Zifan didn't worry too much about this. There was still time to deal with it, so he wouldn't worry too much. It was already here. Since Kitano Menglin had a solution, she must have arranged for personnel to test it.
(End of chapter)
