Chapter 339

Chapter 339 Baking tricks

Unlike when Song Yang came here before, the current small industrial park has been renovated, at least the house number has been replaced with the banner of Alcatel mobile phone, and there are big and waisted Heishui security company personnel standing at the door, with a A real guy with a Colt M1911.

  Now, whether it is Alcatel mobile phone, or American Telecom, ICQ, Western Pictures and other companies, they all have security personnel, especially American Telecom, which has contributed nearly a hundred security spots to Blackwater Security.

  America Telecom is now opening stores in major cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, etc., in the name of handling broadband services, and is preparing to sell mobile phones.

It is unknown whether Alcatel mobile phone will be able to develop, but this year America Telecom is expected to open as many as a hundred stores. After the mobile phone retail business starts, if revenue can meet expectations, America Telecom will open more stores. Mobile phone store!

  When Song Yang entered the Alcatel Mobile Phone Industrial Park, he saw that the office building and factory building had already been set up. The office building is now serving as a laboratory, and an experimental production line is being debugged in the factory building.

   "Boss!"

  After entering the small industrial park, Elthian brought a group of newly recruited managers to meet Song Yang.

  The new managers, some are professional managers recruited from Wall Street, and some are poached from some companies. At this moment, a group of executives following Ertian looked at Song Yang with some anxiety.

  Song Yang's "bloodbath" of Alcatel's mobile phone management has completely changed his reputation in professional manager circles in America and Europe, and there are various rumors about Song Yang.

   All kinds of rumors, such as the dismissal of a professional manager for a disagreement, the most cold-blooded financial backer in history, etc., all appeared on Song Yang.

However, the Alcatel mobile phone executives who followed Ertian Ertian saw Song Yang with a gentle smile on his face, a Hollywood niche-level face, and when he saw these executives, his attitude was very gentle .

   "Now Alcatel's hardware and software laboratories have been established, mainly developing mobile phone hardware and Symbian system!"

  Eltian didn't dare to take it lightly. The picture of Song Yang dismissing the entire Alcatel mobile phone management team lightly in the study was still printed in his mind.

Song Yang and Ertian entered the office building. More than 400 R&D personnel from Europe, together with the personnel recruited from America, made the scale of Alcatel's mobile phone R&D personnel reach more than a thousand. many.

If you add the cooperation of Bell Labs, PA Semiconductor, America Telecom and other personnel, the R&D team of this building has expanded to nearly 1,500 people, even if it is considered in the entire mobile phone industry, it is already unprecedented. Not less.

   "This is the parts laboratory, and what is being developed now is the built-in antenna..."

After Song Yang entered a laboratory, Ertian introduced to Song Yang that a request from Song Yang had completely changed the layout of the entire mobile phone. There were nearly 80 engineers on the Alcatel mobile phone side. There are also professors invited from San Jose University and Stanford as consultants, specializing in the development of built-in antenna technology.

   "This is a wireless communication laboratory in cooperation with America Telecom and Bell Labs."

  This laboratory is used to develop mobile Internet access technology. There are also a lot of engineers who are constantly debugging and developing, and the progress is not fast.

Song Yang then visited the laboratories of screens, batteries, motherboards and other components. Even if Alcatel mobile phones are self-developed, they can basically only develop a dozen of the most important components, all the components of a mobile phone. , as many as thousands of species, but also needs to be purchased from the partner.

   "Song!"

  In the processor laboratory, Song Yang met the busy PA semiconductor crouching dragon and phoenix youngsters, Dubpool and Jim Keller.

  PA Semiconductor, the first processor developed, is a mobile phone processor chip developed for Alcatel mobile phones.

   It is Jim Keller who is responsible for developing the architecture for this processor, and Doberpool is responsible for turning Jim Keller's design drawings into reality.

   "Because of the functional requirements of Alcatel mobile phones, the processor requirements of this mobile phone are much higher than those of other mobile phone processors!"

Jim Keller, who is in charge of developing the architecture, told Song Yang and Ertian that Alcatel's new generation of mobile phones needs powerful mobile phone processing to support Symbian system, Internet access, games, mail and other functions. devices to support these functions.

"The architecture of this processor still uses the ARM architecture. It uses a 32-bit CPU. It puts instructions, memory, cache, and management unit together. In addition, it can provide instructions to the Symbian operating system independently, and can handle multiple Signals, and apps!"

  The last sentence is the key, with this thing, you can use multiple functions without freezing the phone.

  Jim Keller's mobile phone chip designed for Alcatel mobile phones sounds powerful enough, but it is not so easy to build this thing.

   "At present, Texas Instruments is the most advanced mobile phone processor, followed by Motorola and other manufacturers. If Alcatel mobile phones want to produce this chip, I am afraid that they need to cooperate with Texas Instruments or Motorola!"

Dubpur also said to Song Yang that the competition in the mobile phone chip industry is not as fierce as that of computer chips. After all, the functions of mobile phones are still in the "use" stage, there are not so many functions, and the requirements for mobile phone processors are not so high. .

  But after Alcatel's new mobile phone, it is estimated that it will set off a new era of mobile phone function requirements, and the requirements for mobile phone processors will naturally become higher and higher.

   But even if the required processor technology is not too high, the current empty shelf of PA Semiconductor does not have the technology to produce this chip at all, and it needs to rely on the production lines of Texas Instruments or Motorola.

  Doberpool seemed to see Song Yang's thoughts, and reminded, "If PA Semiconductor builds its own production line, or finds cooperation with other manufacturers, I am afraid that the pass rate and cost will be much higher!"

Alcatel's mobile phone chip has high requirements, and the cost is much higher than the processors in the mainstream mobile phone industry. If the pass rate problem is added, the cost of this chip will probably make Alcatel's mobile phone even more expensive. It's hard.

  Song Yang just nodded when he heard what Doberpool said, and didn't express his opinion immediately. He said to Doberpool, Jim Keller and others, "PA Semiconductor, complete the development of the Alcatel mobile phone processor as soon as possible!"

   "When the development of this chip is completed, I promised PA Semiconductor that it will be completed!"

   After Song Yang drew a big cake for Doberpur and the others, he left with Ertian and the others.

Hearing Song Yang's words, the chip engineers such as Doble Poole and Jim Keller couldn't help but cheer up. When Song Yang bought PA Semiconductor, he promised them that he would buy ARM from Apple for PA Semiconductor in the future. , and even included DEC's semiconductor division in PA's pocket!

Seeing Song Yang leaving, Dobpoor and a group of engineers from DEC's semiconductor department looked at each other. If Song Yang could really acquire ARM and DEC Semiconductor for PA, plus the support of Bell Labs, then No way, PA can really produce Alcatel mobile phone processors by itself, but the production cost and defect rate may be higher than Texas Instruments or Motorola. If Song Yang is willing to bear the cost...

After leaving the laboratory, Ertian looked at Song Yang's figure, hesitant to speak, and he also saw Song Yang's thoughts, the key components of Alcatel mobile phones, technology research and development, and chip production. As for the industry chain, Song Yang obviously wants to control the Alcatel mobile phone.

But in this way, the cost of Alcatel mobile phones is destined to be much higher. Now Ertian is worried that if Alcatel releases new mobile phones, if the price is higher than that of Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, etc. , I don't know how big the market will be.

After viewing the various laboratories, Song Yang came to the Alcatel mobile phone design department. There are obviously many Asian faces here, and there are also many people who speak Japanese and Bangzi accents, obviously from Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, etc. On the manufacturer's side, give the manpower dug over.

   "Do you think buyers will accept such a design?!"

   Facing the design manuscript of the first version of the mobile phone sent by the head of the design department, Song Yang only glanced at it and threw it aside.

The design department is responsible for the internal design in addition to the exterior design. They make requirements, and then each parts department develops qualified parts. No matter which company or product, the design department is the best Easy to take the blame.

  Anyway, after the user buys it, the designer will always be the first to scold, and the one who calls to complain will always be the designer who gets the knife first.

Seeing Song Yang, they directly rejected their first version of the design. Several directors of the design department suddenly became frowning. Although they knew that Song Yang might not be satisfied, being directly rejected still made all the designers feel a little nervous. have no choice.

   For these engineers, removing the long antenna of the mobile phone and redesigning a new mobile phone is a huge change.

The staff of Alcatel's mobile phone design department designed a new mobile phone with an S-shaped appearance, using mechanics and ergonomics, which is already a major breakthrough. The default is 480 hours of standby time, 130 minutes of talk time, plus various These functions are powerful, but the weight has reached 170 grams, which is almost half a catty. When you go out, you can hold this thing, not only for making calls, but also for self-defense. You can lie down directly on the opposite side with a mobile phone. Down…

  "Alcatel's new mobile phone is to redefine the mobile phone, not only in terms of function, but also in appearance design. We want to make this mobile phone a new trend and an object for all mobile phone brands to imitate!"

  (end of this chapter)