Reborn Entrepreneurial Giant.

Chapter 258 Minions

Domestic Internet companies have nicknames, such as goose factory, cat factory, pig farm, dog factory, bear factory, grain factory, etc. What about Jumei?

Qu Li thought about this problem for a long time and created a mascot for Jumei: a minion. He has a strange talent for messing up things, has strong acting talent, and likes cosplay.In fact, he is carefree, energetic, and silly...

I don’t know how to search for Minions. Anyway, this single-celled creature is extremely cute. For this reason, Jumei and Shopee have also established accounts on mainstream social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and Weibo to publish comics, and they just published them on YouTube. Animated video.

Some people also ask whose work this is, of course it is Chen Danlin's creativity. Although it does not have to be a talented girl, it must leave something impressive.Minions are not the official logos of Jumei and Shopee. They are dolls promoted by Sun and Moon Fenghua. They are not cheap and have applied for global patents and copyrights.

Qu Li is busy with work and cannot run the Minions brand himself. He can only pay attention to it from time to time, just like Hatsune Miku who is freeing up in Japan.

It’s not that Qu Li is lazy, there are really many things going on. Recently, a trouble has arisen: the sales of Honor mobile phones have increased significantly, BYD Electronics has expanded its production capacity, and there have been many problems in quality control and safety. I bought thousands of Honor G2 units and resold them.

If you deserve a fine, you will be sent to jail if you deserve it. There is no mercy at all. Honor's conditions are much more relaxed than those of iPhone. Wang Chuanfu is not as ruthless as Guo Taiming, so the gap naturally widens.

In order to ensure that there would be no supply problems, Futukang was approached to share the pressure on BYD Electronics.

Qu Li naturally went to Pengcheng to put pressure on Boatman. It is difficult to guarantee a production capacity of 2000 million yuan a year. The backlash caused by choosing BYD is very obvious.Fu Tukang seemed to be aware of the situation and mocked BYD and Wang Chuanfu from afar.

Lei Jun also came to Pengcheng. This incident had a bad impact, but fortunately it did not affect the delivery.

"If you don't do well, then Glory will have no choice but to find Futukang..."

Qu Li felt that he had been tolerant enough to BYD. He didn't bother them when something happened last time. Although the destructive power this time was not as good as last time, it was really a bad habit.

"There won't be another time, I promise." Brother Boatman is also aggrieved.

"What's the use of promising to me? Mr. Wang won't be able to survive after leaving BYD just because of Glory. Do you want us to teach you how to manage?" Qu Li was not really angry. He knew that some things were unavoidable, but he found out that one case might be behind the scenes. There is a nest, which is very worrying.

After venting a few words, we still have to solve the problem. We must establish strict management systems and conduct safety training. We are killing the chicken to scare the monkeys and severely punishing the perpetrators.By the way, many people on the Internet complained about BYD's management and the serious nepotism. The protagonists in the theft incident are actually related to each other. It can only be said that the system is not strictly enforced, which will lead to endless disasters.

After arranging lawyers to follow up, Qu Li and Lei Jun left. They really had to prepare for both. Just like Apple, there are usually two or three companies in the supply chain. It is normal and logical. There is only one supplier for those key parts. On the contrary, they are alien.

Back at Glory, everyone discussed OEM production, and owning your own factory once again entered the scope of everyone's discussion.

"Forget it, we still have a lot to do, and the foundry doesn't have enough priority."

Su Zifeng helped them set up a mobile phone chip design department in Silicon Valley. It was impossible to start something from scratch. They had to acquire several powerful small and medium-sized enterprises. They not only had to develop mobile phone processors, but also ISP (Image Signal Processing) chips. This was The key to improving your phone’s camera capabilities.

As for the investment in chip research and development, it is actually not very high. MediaTek seems to have not started, and only a few companies such as Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Samsung can provide mobile phone processors.And they all purchase ARM’s public version IP, so the gap between everyone is not big at this time.

Moreover, Qu Li knows the general direction. He knows that chip design must move towards advanced processes, stack parameters, high performance and low power consumption. Honor’s chips are currently using the public version, and will need to be modified at the bottom level in the future. This can somewhat reduce Su Zifeng’s choices. Difficult.

Chips, cars, and operating systems need to be developed. With Honor’s current profit margin, it’s still a bit stretched.

"Otherwise we postpone the development of the operating system, and we won't be able to find suitable candidates now." Lei Jun said carefully. A genius who guarantees a good general direction is more important than 100 programmers.How can there be geniuses to develop operating systems based on domestic accumulation?

"..." Qu Li was in a dilemma. The operating system was not as important as usual.

Honor sold 1000 million mobile phones last year, with a net profit of US$50 per mobile phone, which is US$5 million, but it was invested in supply chain and special equipment.Although he successfully issued corporate bonds worth US$5 million, he has invested US$2 million in the automobile industry and US$3 million in chip research and development plans. The operating system needs people, especially top talents, otherwise it will be difficult to function.

In fact, Juyun Technology has been cultivating and recruiting elite talents in Linux, database, etc., but you can’t poach Jumei’s corners just for glory, right?

"If I can lure Zhang Yaqin from Microsoft, I will let Changfeng Automobile be fully responsible for the development of pure electric vehicles." Qu Li made a compromise and made it more difficult for Lei Jun.

Zhang Yaqin was a young genius at the University of Science and Technology of China in his early years. Later, he joined Microsoft and became the boss of Zhongguo Research Institute. He is a very representative technical master in China and has a very symbolic role. Qu Li did not know his technical ability, but this person can really join It can become a banner of glory.

"You're asking too much."

"If someone of Zhang Yaqin's level had not joined, the investment in the operating system would not have been very large. It would have been just a waste of time and people." Qu Li will not be easily deceived.

"Then I'll try to ask him out." Someone on Honor's side is a big shot from Microsoft.

Putting the operating system aside for now, the laptop computer developed by Honor already has a prototype. It uses an Intel i7 chip and costs close to 300 US dollars. The i5 is not yet on the market and costs about 200 US dollars.Calculating based on the chip price multiplied by 2.5, the price of the Honor notebook will be approximately between 699, 599 and 499 US dollars.

Qu Li opened it and tried it. The all-aluminum alloy body exuded a metallic luster. It was similar to Lianxiang Xiaoxin. It was a thin and light laptop. It was equipped with the Windows 7 beta version. The boot time could be controlled in about 10 seconds. He thought What you want is basically achieved.

"How is this laptop? Is there anything else that needs to be improved?" Lei Jun

"How to install applications for Honor G2 through this laptop?" Qu Li is not a detail-oriented person, but he is very concerned about this.

"Everyone is hesitant between near field communication methods such as WIFI, Bluetooth, and NFC."

"Use them all." Qu Li didn't care about technology, he didn't understand it anyway.

"Without NFC, touch-to-touch transmission cannot be achieved, but NFC is not widely used and the transmission speed is very limited. If all three are added together, it will be difficult to control energy consumption if all three are to function..."

"You guys, please decide quickly. When will Microsoft..." Qu Li

"I don't know, it may have to wait until the second half of this year..." Lei Jun

After looking at laptops and then mobile phones, the processor of Honor G3 will not change. Performance upgrades include memory capacity, cameras, screens, etc. It may be equipped with Android 2.0, and the user experience will be greatly restricted.

There is no other choice but to develop a new Honormate series, which is mainly a business flagship and is slightly cheaper than the HonorG fashion series. At the same time, Honor's new notebook will be named HonorMateBook.

There are more products, but the mood is heavier.