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Chapter 1078
Seeing Song Yang's expression, Ertian's scalp became numb for a moment, and he didn't dare to ask any more questions. It was obviously impossible for Alcatel to spend money on the graphene project.

Four consecutive generations of flagship phones have become hot models. P1 to P4 mobile phones are sold like crazy. The global sales of P1 mobile phones have exceeded 9000 million units. It is expected that it will officially leave the public eye. More than 2 million phones have become one of the most popular phones in the history of mobile phones!

Even today, next year, the Alcatel P5 mobile phone will be released, and the P1 machine is still in circulation all over the world.

The P1 mobile phone has become a generation of magic phones, accompanying countless users in the most important years of their lives. It can be said to be a generation of classics. It can accompany users in romance and make a comeback. After all, how many four years can there be in life...

There is no place for P1 in America, old Europe and other places. However, due to its durability and main functions, P1 is still popular in Africa where the consumption level is low.

Alcatel mobile phone, the P1 machine whose price has been reduced to 1 or 1 dollars is basically used as an impulse, but Alcatel mobile phone supply chain manufacturers are still willing to produce parts for P1, because of the huge stock market of P[-], even if There is a huge market for the replacement of P[-] machine parts every year, and the production process is fully mature, the cost can be extremely low, and the sales are all net profit!

Song Yang walked towards the laboratory of the R&D department. Along the way, he could see the entire headquarters park, which was completely different from a few years ago. There were office buildings, laboratory buildings, restaurants for staff, libraries, swimming pools, etc. All have been built, and an Alcatel mobile phone employee, if he enters the headquarters and doesn't want to go out, is enough to meet the basic daily life and entertainment needs here.

From these buildings, it can be seen how Alcatel Mobile's revenue has been in the past few years. If it did not earn US dollars, it would be impossible for Alcatel Mobile to spend so much US dollars to acquire these buildings.

And the large parking lot of Alcatel Mobile's three-story basement can also prove how much Alcatel Mobile pays employees. If the salary is not high enough, there is no need to prepare so many parking spaces for employees!
The closer to the laboratory, the stricter the security level. It is impossible for media reporters to take pictures with great fanfare like the so-called graphene research and development center.

"This laboratory is to develop mobile phone screens for Alcatel's "X Project"!"

Accompanied by Song Yang, Ertian walked into a laboratory after going through several rounds of security checks. When he saw it, he could see a team of more than 200 people busy in full swing. Various experimental materials and data are marked.

Project X is the code name of Alcatel's smartphone. It is the highest-level project in Alcatel's mobile phone. From the beginning of its establishment, Ertian has invested a lot of dollars, manpower, and material resources in this project, even P5. The R&D has been affected. If there is no accident, the P5 machine, which will hold a global conference in half a year, will really have the words "ordinary" on its back.

"Smartphone screens are currently jointly developed by Alcatel Mobile, Panda TV and Bell Labs. Even these two companies have only been exposed to this project. It is not clear that the touch screen developed by Alcatel Mobile is used for What!"

For a brand new mobile phone that is completely different from the previous ones, it is impossible for Alcatel to independently develop all the parts and components of the mobile phone. It needs to rely more or less on external forces, and dealing with other companies is unavoidable.

In this regard, Ertian modularized the research and development of smartphones. Even the various laboratories in the R&D department of Alcatel mobile phones do not know what the other party is researching. This must be a bit of delay and waste, but for the greatest extent Keeping it secret, Ertian can only do this.

Nokia, Motorola, and those opponents in the mobile phone industry are all staring at Alcatel mobile phones. If they know what Alcatel's X plan is, then Alcatel mobile phones will never be successfully developed!

"How is the development of the touch screen?" Song Yang asked the director of the screen laboratory who rushed over.

This director, who used to be the director of the R&D department of Barda in Germany, was hired by Alcatel Mobile Phone with a lot of money to be responsible for the research and development of the touch screen.

Balda Company is not well-known, but it is an old precision machinery company with a history of 90 years. It is also one of the few "big companies" in the field of touch screens, with an annual shipment of tens of thousands of touch screens. .

This sales volume is already quite "exploded" on the touch screen. After all, the touch screen is now a small industry that can no longer be "niche". Before the emergence of smart phones, no one paid attention to this industry at all.

"Not ideal, Director Bruno, your requirements are too high. Although the touch screen is not a new technology, but to meet your requirements, Director Bruno, you need to completely redesign the capacitive sensor for sensing fingerprints and recognizing gestures. Device, and with the chip, it can achieve the effect of using the touch screen to control the command of the machine!"

The director of the laboratory who developed the touch screen said to Song Yang. With the serious and old-fashioned face of the German, his expression was full of sadness, obviously it was really not going well.

There is nothing strange about Song Yang. If it were so easy, Song Yang would not have made Alcatel spend a lot of money to develop a smartphone.

"PA Semiconductor will cooperate with the research and development of the touch screen laboratory. The equipment, patents, technologies, and R&D personnel you want will be bought and dug by Alcatel mobile phones for you. The touch screen must be successfully developed!

Next year at the latest, I want to see a sample of the touch screen! "

Song Yang looked at the R&D director in front of him, stared into his eyes and said, the smartphone is Alcatel's last stand, there is no way out at all, almost everything is bet on it.

Walking out of the laboratory, Ertian was also a little worried. According to expectations, Alcatel mobile phone wants to "give up P5". In the next year, it will be a bad year. When Alcatel's sixth-generation flagship machine is launched, it will launch a smartphone with P6 !

But the current research and development progress, whether it can meet the expected Ertian, is really uncertain.

"The first generation of smart phones may not be a full touch screen, but still use buttons to assist the screen, and the technology will be upgraded in the future!
The touch screen patents and technologies invested in research and development now will be able to pay back in the future! "

After leaving the laboratory, Song Yang paused for a moment, and still said to Ertian, it is obviously impossible to rely on a generation of mobile phones to reach the level of mature smartphones in later generations.

As for the research and development of touch screens, there is no need to worry about things that cost too much. When smartphones arrive, these touch screen patents and technologies will be softened by licensing fees and patent fees alone.

After the touch screen laboratory, Song Yang went to the main laboratories such as batteries, motherboards, chips, and smartphone systems. The research and development progress of these departments varies, but basically it is smooth.

"The first-generation smartphone operating system, as well as the software that is equipped with it, the Symbian system can definitely be developed on schedule!"

When he came to the office building in the same park as Alcatel mobile phone, Hobrow, the president of Saipan system of Symbian company, patted his chest and said to Song Yang.

The most important thing about smartphones is that there are only three things on the bright side, the screen, the system, and the chip. Alcatel mobile phones must be self-sufficient.

The touch screen is under research and development. On the side of PA Semiconductor, Doble Poole and Jim Keller, two veterans in the semiconductor industry, do not need to worry about chips.

As soon as the smartphone operating system is released, most of the smartphones have basically been successfully developed. Even if there are still many defects, they can be launched to cut leeks!
"Although the new generation of smartphone operating system is from Symbian, it can be said to be completely different from the Symbian system. The development department has made brand-new changes to the smartphone operating system..."

(End of this chapter)