Rebirth of the Wild Age

Academician Ni is undoubtedly at the bottom of his life at this time. With the complete defeat of Lenovo's internal struggle, looking back at his behavior of constantly complaining in the past few years, it can be said that he is a villain in vain.

Academician Ni still has a position in Lenovo, probably similar to an ordinary researcher, who can receive a salary, but does not have any shares.

Come as soon as you come, and bring so many things. Academician Ni accepted the gift with a smile, his mood was relatively stable, and he seemed not to be affected by that incident.

Song Weiyang smiled and said, I wish you an early year, and I wish you a happy new year.

I also wish you a happy new year. Academician Ni said.

Song Weiyang chatted with Academician Ni about the recent situation, and said, Old Ni, why don't you resign from Lenovo and come to lead the work at the R\u0026D center of China Science and Technology.

Academician Ni shook his head and said: Liu Qiang has done a good job. It is enough for me to be a research and development director. I will check for them at critical times. By the way, how many parts of PHS can be localized now?

Song Weiyang said: Just the phone case, battery and LCD screen.

The PHS LCD screen uses STN technology. The Tsinghua LCD Technology Engineering Research Center began research and development six years ago. The company was formally established at the end of 1995 and began production in 1996. Getting the goods from Tsinghua's factory has also greatly reduced the cost of Song Weiyang's PHS, at least lower than the cost of the original time-space Wu Ying's PHS.

Historically, Wu Ying invested 1 million yuan to test the waters of PHS, and did not investigate the suppliers at all. He only imported parts from Japan, and the initial production cost of mobile phones was at least 1,800 yuan.

Academician Ni said with emotion: Only these three things are not enough.

Song Weiyang said: BYD is already developing mobile phone cables. I heard that the speed is quite fast. It is estimated that it will be put into production in a few months.

Academician Ni suddenly said: By the way, BOE has launched tft LCD screen technology. They have three years of technology accumulation, and it is estimated that they will be able to produce results in one or two years. If PHS uses color screens in the future, it can cooperate with BOE. In the current LCD field, Japan, South Korea, and Wanwan are three pillars. Japan's Benzene's tft screen factory has been built, and South Korea and Wanwan are also following up quickly. A friend of mine in the Chinese Academy of Sciences is a researcher of LCD screens, and he also With all your energy, you have to support BOE when the time comes.

Song Weiyang smiled and said, Made in China is cheap, so I definitely support it.

Academician Ni said: This is a means of competition by large foreign companies. When they master the technology, they sell it at a high price to accumulate funds. When the Chinese master the technology, foreign companies immediately cut prices, making it impossible for Chinese companies to recover R\u0026D funds. We It’s a loss, it’s a loss all the time.”

Song Weiyang said: Listen to you, Japan Benzene's third-generation LCD screen factory has been built and put into production, so it is estimated that the price of the second-generation LCD screen will be greatly reduced. This is a good thing for PHS, but it is not good for Tsinghua's LCD screen company. It is very bad in terms of research and development, after five years of research and development, and one year of production, they are facing a big price cut, I hope they can hold on.

Yes, it is victory if you can hold on. Academician Ni said.

China's only countermeasure is to turn high-tech products into Chinese cabbage.

In a few years, Japan, South Korea and Wanwan will monopolize the third-generation LCD screen market, but China will become the world's largest production base for first-generation and second-generation LCD screens. The low cost of manpower makes it unprofitable for Japanese, South Korean and Bend colleagues, so they can only gradually abandon the production of first-generation and second-generation LCD screens.

This is the case in many fields. In the end, China became the factory of the world, at the cost of paying a large amount of patent fees to foreign companies every year.

Song Weiyang said: People in Japan are uneasy and kind. In order to promote phs technology, they set the price of PHS chips very low. Now I just started here. Seeing that PHS is popular in China, Japan immediately raised the price. The price of PHS chips has increased twice within a few months, and now the manufacturing cost of each PHS has exceeded 1,200 yuan.

Why don't you consider buying from Wanwan, it must be cheaper there. Academician Ni said.

Song Weiyang said: Wanwan did not introduce the phs business, so it is impossible for a manufacturer to produce chips and motherboards for PHS. Shenzhou Technology can buy motherboards from Wanwan because Japanese people feel that domestic production is not cost-effective, so they take the initiative to hand over to the Wanwan manufacturer. OEM. As for the chip, the Japanese people hold it firmly in their hands, so how could it be possible for Wanwan to do it?

If you want to get rid of the restraint of foreign businessmen, you can only take the road of independent research and development. Academician Ni said.

Song Weiyang smiled wryly and said, The problem is that there are too many difficulties. Not to mention the chip, it is difficult to make a mobile phone motherboard. Liu Qiang told me yesterday that only one smt technology is enough to make PHS unable to make the motherboard by itself.

Academician Ni also smiled wryly: It seems that after the PHS motherboard is designed, you can only hand it over to the Wanwan manufacturer for OEM.

SMT is the placement technology, which attaches various components to the substrate.

Due to the prosperity of the TV industry, this thing is developing very fast in China, but currently it can only be used as circuit boards for TVs, radios and other products. Want to patch the motherboards of computers and mobile phones? Sorry, although it can be posted, the production cost is higher than that of the bent manufacturer.

The Chinese government is actually aware of this problem, and held various meetings in 1998 and 1999 to plan to introduce some relatively advanced STM technologies.

However, just as the global smt technology is developing rapidly, the speed of China's introduction cannot keep up with the speed of global development. Introduce world-class technology one month, and become second-rate the next month. It wasn't until after 2000, especially after China's accession to the WTO, that Japan, South Korea and Wanwan transferred placement factories to mainland China on a large scale, and China's SMT technology attracted rapid development, and became the world's largest placement factory within a few years. base.

Song Weiyang didn't understand technology at all, and he wanted to make a motherboard with enthusiasm before, but he got stuck with the most basic placement.

Academician Ni suddenly said: You can cooperate with Changhong.

Changhong? Song Weiyang asked puzzled.

Academician Ni explained: Changhong's placement technology is very advanced in China, and there are a large number of high-level workers and experienced technicians. You pay for a research and development laboratory with Changhong, and research while introducing it. Set up a joint venture factory and strive to solve the PHS motherboard placement problem within a year or two.

Would Changhong be willing? Song Weiyang said.

Academician Ni said: As long as Changhong's boss is not stupid, he will definitely be willing. First, the placement technology has come up, which can lay the foundation for Changhong to make high-end TVs; second, the current mobile phone and computer markets are booming. If Changhong can master With cutting-edge placement technology, orders must be in short supply.

Then I'll try it. Song Weiyang said.

Encountered such a seemingly innocuous problem, Song Weiyang could only solve it step by step. For the time being, don’t even think about producing the mainboard of the mobile phone by yourself. At most, it will be used as an OEM by Wanwan.

If you don’t do it, you don’t know. It’s really difficult to do technology. On the way to solve big problems, you have to encounter countless small problems.

Therefore, every enterprise that earnestly researches and develops technology, no matter whether it is Chinese or foreign, is valuable and respectable.

Especially in China's cutting-edge industries, maybe you have mastered the core technology, but suddenly find that there are no supporting companies in the fucking country!