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Chapter 1214 Ranger and Tyrannosaurus Rex
The touch screen is not a new thing, or it is a new technology developed by Alcatel mobile phone, then it is a bullshit, just like the founder of the modification of an electric car official website, it is a bit deceiving, and of course it is even more impossible Apple developed it first.

However, in later generations, Apple was the first to play with the touch screen and touch cross-experience, which made the touch screen famous all over the world, and made Apple touted by the media as the first to eat crabs.

As early as more than ten years ago, IBM launched a feature phone that has no buttons and is completely controlled by a touch pen. At that time, this thing was really high-tech, supporting functions such as telephones, fax machines, calculators, and simple games. , but in fact, that model did not cause any waves at all, because it is very bulky, not to mention expensive, and the touch screen experience is very cumbersome and terrible.

Motorola, Ericsson, and HTC, which acquired Alcatel mobile phones with Song Yang and was established at about the same time, have played with touch screens in recent years. They all wanted to be the first to eat crabs, but they all failed. They used the previous technology The touch screen is not as convenient as the button, and the cost is too high, and it is too prone to problems, which makes the touch screen mobile phone not popular at all.

Song Yang slid the touch screen in his hand. Compared with the mature touch screen technology of later generations, the touch screen in Song Yang's hand is now connected with many data lines. When sliding, there is a slight sense of lag. If the sliding is too fast, it will happen Caton, but compared to those touch screens on the market, this is already much better!
"not enough!"

Song Yang put down the touch screen used for the experiment, and said to Elthian and the director of the laboratory beside him, "When the screen is actually installed on the P6, there will be absolutely no problems with the experience. The touch screen response speed must continue to be optimized. In addition, the card Stoppages and crashes must never happen, and safety must be guaranteed!"

Song Yang can tolerate the response speed of the touch screen of the first generation of smartphones, which is not so fast, but it cannot cause major problems. After swiping the screen a few times, the phone freezes, or even crashes, the temperature is too high, or even explodes. Song Yang Yang is absolutely not allowed to happen. Once it happens, the word-of-mouth of Alcatel's mobile phone will be completely ruined. No one likes to use a bomb that doesn't know when it will explode.

Elthian glanced at the laboratory director who developed the screen behind him, and nodded to Song Yang under the latter's frowning face.

Although Elthian is also worried about whether an expensive mobile phone that does not have a physical keyboard, cannot be used as a sharp tool for sending and receiving emails, and has a battery life of less than five hours, will be popular, but Song Yang's vision still has Alcatel mobile phone has invested a huge amount of dollars, so he has no way out.

After coming out of the screen research and development department, Song Yang went to the component laboratories jointly developed with different companies one after another, such as the joint research and development of batteries suitable for smartphones with Dikler, the smartphone chips developed by PA Semiconductor, and Zeiss. The camera developed jointly with Leica, memory, speaker, earpiece, RF chip and other components developed with EMC are all in the process of intensive research and development.

However, these companies, including companies like Dikoler, are not very clear about which phone the new batteries developed by Alcatel and them will be used in. Alcatel’s mobile phone requirements are too great. He will complain a few words, but in the face of the request of the big sponsor, he does not dare to neglect, and still invests a large number of R&D personnel to continuously overcome difficulties.

Inside Alcatel Mobile, the X project is also confidential, and general supervisors have no access to it, let alone those cooperative companies.

"The power consumption of smartphones is really too high. The existing battery technology can't support smartphones at all. Like feature phones, they can stand by for a week and talk for dozens of hours!"

After leaving the gate of the battery laboratory, Elthian couldn't help saying anxiously, the function of the smartphone sounds very powerful, but...it's too brittle, the feature phone is rumored to be able to block bullets, and the truck will run over it. However, it can still be used, and it can be used in the north and south poles, but the smartphone currently developed by Alcatel Mobile is simply a crispy chicken.

If it falls on the ground, the screen of the P6 may be broken. As for the usable time of the machine, it is far from that of a functional machine. At the beginning, the speed of sending emails and processing files of a touch-screen smart phone is definitely not comparable to that of a fully mature smartphone. feature machine.

After leaving the experimental building, Song Yang came to the office area of ​​PA Semiconductor not far away. Song Yang was not so worried about Ertian's worries.

"If a TV was put together with an old computer from the 80s, which one would you choose?!"

Ertian froze for a moment, but said without hesitation, "Computer!"

No matter how bad a computer is, it is much more powerful than a TV. Even if the latter has problems, big or small, the functions of the two are not at the same level.

"In the era of smartphones, users will vote with their feet when facing feature phones and smartphones!

The problem will always be solved. The battery drains too fast. When the battery technology is difficult to break through, the development of fast charging and flash charging technology, which may only take half an hour to fully charge a mobile phone, is also a solution. Alcatel The mobile phone may not be the best, but as long as it is better than the peers, it is enough! "

Before entering the PA Semiconductor Building, Song Yang patted Ertian on the shoulder and said, leaving Ertian in deep thought.

Battery technology has actually been updated and iterated, but the development of large-capacity battery technology has actually fallen into a bottleneck, especially after the arrival of the lithium battery era, it is not those giant companies and R&D institutions that are unwilling to research and develop. On the contrary, they have invested a lot The technology is being developed, but there is little progress.

Bypassing the problem of battery capacity and researching the technology of charging the battery, it seems that it is to avoid the problem, but there is no way to do it. It can be said that Alcatel's mobile phone is bad, but...it depends on who you compare with, as long as you compare with the peers If it is so strong, the Alcatel mobile phone is not bad, it all depends on the counterparts!

"President Doble Poole!"

Entering PA Semiconductor, Song Yang met the person in charge of PA Semiconductor, Dobpur. Dobpur, who had been clamoring to retire a few years ago, now feels a bit old and strong. do not mention.

"Song!"

Seeing Song Yang, Dobpoor immediately stepped forward. He can't be called a second spring now. When he was in DEC Group, he was a great figure in the chip industry, but in PA Semiconductor, his career has reached a new level. peak.

PA Semiconductor is now the second largest group in the field of mobile phone chips, second only to Texas Semiconductor. In the computer chip industry, it also relies on Apple Computer to gain a large share. Its ARM is the world's largest chip design group. Its Diamond high-end graphics card has returned to the first-line graphics card camp, and even the old company, the brand of DEC Group, has also entered the hands of PA Semiconductor!
Naturally, these things made Doberpool feel like an old man talking about being a teenager, and he was going to break his wrists with Texas Instruments and Intel. He would not talk about retirement. He is not only for PA semiconductors, but also for fame and fortune. Not only for his social status, but also for his own posthumous reputation.

"This is the Tyrannosaurus Rex X6 processor, the latest architecture model developed by PA Semiconductor for P1!"

Doberpur, who knew why Song Yang came here, took Song Yang directly to a laboratory without any nonsense, and took out a chip from the laboratory bench with a proud face.

"This is the processor architecture jointly designed by Jim Keller and ARM. For this chip, Jim Keller rejected the poaching from companies such as Intel, AMD, DEC, Nvidia, Broadcom, and Qualcomm. Jim Keller threatened that the T-Rex X1 processor was a product that he was willing to retire when he was done!"

Speaking of "Chip Ranger" Jim Keller, Dubpool couldn't help but feel a little sad.

Over the years, Jim Keller, as the right-hand man of Doble Poole, has helped PA Semiconductor develop a series of top-level chips, the PA series chips carried by Alcatel mobile phones, the chips supplied to Apple computers, and help Diamond to return to the first-line graphics card camp Most of the high-end graphics cards of the "Monster" series are from the hands of Jim Keller. PA Semiconductor has been able to develop so smoothly in recent years. It has launched a series of classics and continuously grabbed the market. Jim Keller has definitely made a lot of contributions. .

But Ranger is Ranger after all. Seeing that PA Semiconductor is on the right track, Jim Keller also gave birth to the idea of ​​leaving PA Semiconductor. The T-Rex X1 processor is most likely Jim Keller’s last masterpiece in PA Semiconductor.

(End of this chapter)