my return to life

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Pure smart phones do not include other systems such as Symbian and Blackberry, as well as counterfeit parallel phones.

Total data includes feature machines.

At present, the mainstream smartphone operating systems are MindOS, iOS, and Android.

In other words, MindOS device shipments account for nearly 75% of the current three mainstream systems.

iOS+Android has a total market share of only 25%.

of course……

The comprehensive profit margin is very impressive.

Because the combined profit margin of iOS devices is very high.

Then Wen Ye talked about more specific data.

For example, the shipments of various manufacturers.

Among them, Juchang's Ascend D series was not launched, and sales were unprecedentedly bleak. The problem basically lies in the K3V2 chip. Although it is the smallest 4-core processor, its actual performance is not easy to say.

Another thing is that the popularity of Redmi 1 has dropped a lot, and the shipments in the first quarter have dropped a lot, only about 900 million units.

However, Samsung Electronics is still making great strides.

"..."

Seeing Fang Nian's thoughtful face, Wen Ye continued to report: "Counting the total 37 billion funds lent to the company by you and Mr. Guan, the current disposable funds in the company's account have exceeded 100 billion, and the total new investment in various projects in the first quarter exceeded 40 billion. .”

"Including the more than 10 billion in the frontier of Luzhou?" Fang Nian asked.

Wen Ye hummed.

After a little thought, Fang Nian said: "The disposable funds of Luzhou Frontier can be repeatedly invested in the established research and development projects."

"The other 90 billion or so funds will be fully invested in the second quarter. On the premise of ensuring the investment of other necessary projects, all of them will be invested in Taotie's material research and Wuwu's EUV research. There is nothing to say about the specifics, just spend as much money as possible."

"..."

The office was quiet for a while, Guan Qiuhe spoke first: "That's it?"

"Otherwise?" Fang Nian shrugged and said calmly, "Materials and EUV lithography machines are very important, and they haven't produced any tangible results, so we can only spend more money;

As for other established projects, the R&D investment process is basically set, and they can be done step by step. "

While talking, Fang Nian looked at his watch and stood up: "It just so happens that it's still early, I'm going to the capital to catch dinner, Mr. Guan can help me apply for a flight route."

Guan Qiuhe: "?"

Lu Wei said: "???"

Everyone: "(⊙o⊙)"

Simply unprepared.

Why was he still talking about capital investment one second, and then he said he was going to the capital the next second...

Chapter 808 Is Fang Xiaonian the kind of person who cries for poverty? ! (ask for order)

"Why are you all looking at me like that?"

Facing the blank, suspicious, and puzzled gazes of several people, Fang Nian shook his head amusedly.

"I'm just going to the capital to discuss business. The smell of this wine is also afraid of deep alleys. Besides..."

Fang Nian paused for a moment before continuing, "Tomorrow is April Fool's Day, which is very suitable for visiting Minister Miao."

Hearing what Fang Nian said, several people reacted differently.

"Are you talking about the business of the new Shenlong series with Xiaomi?"

"I'm going to report again. We haven't done anything big recently, right?"

"..."

Seeing this, Fang Nian smiled slightly: "Money at the forefront is not money. Other people's money can make a little noise when thrown into the water. I have to talk about business in person, and cry poorly by the way."

As soon as the words fell, several people said in unison: "Oh~"

"..."

Fang Nian straightened his clothes and walked out of the office first.

The village head drove Fang Nian back to the eastern suburbs of Pudong in an Audi, picked up a small backpack, and then went to Pudong Airport.

The time was just enough for Mr. Guan to apply for the route.

Enter the airport from the business machine building, all the way to the private jet of the Guanzi brand, and the plane rushed into the blue sky in a short while.

This time I go often, Fang Nian can be regarded as alone.

Except for the village chief who was easily ignored sitting there, there was no other person.

Two hours later, under the burning clouds in the sky above the capital, the Guanzihao landed smoothly at the Capital Airport.

After getting out of the airport and getting on the Mercedes-Benz, which is always used for the reception of the Pangu Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Fang Nian took out his mobile phone and made a call.

After saying a few words, he closed the line.

Long before coming to the capital, Fang Nian had contacted Lei Jun and made an appointment for dinner tonight.

Of course Lei Jun happily agreed.

Normally, Lei Jun would not be able to invite Fang Nian, but on rare occasions when he took the initiative, Lei Jun would let go even if he had something big to do.

Almost every time he sat at the same table with Fang Nian, Lei Jun could get some credit.

Not to mention too much, since the beginning of the lunar calendar, Fang Nian has donated a capital of 10 billion to Shunwei Capital to take care of it.

At a time when many industries are about to become hot due to "light payment wallets", the benefits brought by this 10 billion funds can be imagined.

Among other things, the loss of most of the qualified capital in the past two months has directly pushed up the capital value of many small companies.

The value of Shunwei Capital's shareholding has also risen accordingly.

With Lei Jun's ability to wipe out capital, it can be said that it is a pie from heaven.

The phone call after getting off the plane, Fang Nian is of course confirming the place to eat.

About an hour later, Mercedes-Benz arrived at a small alley.

Another private chef that Fang Nian has never been to, this time it is still very particular about official dishes.

In Lei Jun's words, it is not necessarily worse than Tan's cuisine.

"..."

After exchanging a few pleasantries, they sat down respectively and drank two sips of warm tea.

Lei Jun looked at Fang Nian and said with a smile: "Mr. Fang, if you need something when you come to the capital this time, remember to say something."

"Mr. Lei is very polite." Fang Nian smiled, "It's true, I want to discuss a new business with Xiaomi."

Lei Jun's eyes lit up: "Oh?"

"Also ask Mr. Fang for advice."

Lei Jun liked the word business that came out of Fang Nian's mouth the most.

Since we have known each other for a long time, the word business is equivalent to equal interests.

The word 'win-win' is also synonymous with Fangnian's business.

Seeing this, Fang Nian said repeatedly: "Boss Lei is so polite, I'm almost speechless."

"It's true that the frontier needs Mr. Lei and Xiaomi."

Lei Jun became even more curious, his thoughts changed, and he said: "But please tell Mr. Fang directly."

Fang Nian didn't hesitate too much, and said frankly: "Bai Ze completed the design of the second-generation SoC of Shenlong mobile phone, and launched a low-end series, Shenlong 211, which also uses a 28-nanometer process, but the processor is 3. core, the processing performance is about 1% higher than that of Shenlong 25."

"It doesn't support 4G network, I wonder, can it be used on Redmi?"

After listening to Fang Nian's words, Lei Jun's thoughts raced and he quickly asked, "What about the price of a single chip?"

Fang Nian replied: "It's not too cheap, the cost is 18 US dollars, and the lowest price for Xiaomi can only be 139 yuan."

"How is this possible? The performance is better than Shenlong 1, and the price is so much cheaper than Shenlong 1?" Lei Jun asked directly.

Fang Nian shrugged: "Dragon 1 has a certain rush attribute, and the cost cannot be suppressed. In the past year, if the cost cannot be reduced while improving a little performance, then Bai Ze is too wasteful."

"In other words, there are high-end series?" Lei Jun suddenly changed the subject.

Fang Nian nodded lightly: "I haven't passed the tape-out yet. The default performance is twice that of Shenlong 1, which means an increase of 2%. It is expected that the price of a single chip will be much higher than that of Shenlong 100."

Lei Jun fell silent, and said, "Let me think about it."

After moving the chopsticks on the food, Lei Jun spoke again: "The cost of 139 yuan is a burden for Redmi."

Said Lei Jun looked up at Fang Nian: "The sales of Redmi 1 have dropped sharply, Fang always hopes to launch a better Redmi 1S as soon as possible to solve it?"

"Yes." Fang Nian nodded calmly.

Lei Jun sighed, and said with emotion: "Let Mr. Fang bother."

Then he thought about it and said: "We internally launched the Redmi 1S plan at the beginning of the year. Redmi 1 has many shortcomings, and user feedback is not young or old, so we also hope to have a big improvement internally, but there has been no breakthrough;

Whether Frontier can make a custom SoC for Redmi 1S, based on the existing basis, use a slightly backward photolithography process, such as SMIC's 40nm, to control the price below [-] yuan. "

Hearing this, Fang Nian pondered for a while, and said: "Redmi 1S is a high-volume model, and it is not impossible to customize the SoC individually, but lowering the process standard will definitely affect the performance, and it may not necessarily reduce the cost. You have to confirm it. .”

Speaking of this, Fang Nian paused for a while, and then said: "But I have an additional proposal, Redmi can use the Baize chip package, which can save a lot of money."

Lei Jun: "..."

He was really stunned for half a minute before he stared at Fang Nian and said firmly, "Mr. Fang, the frontier is not capable of independently completing the design of all the components of a smartphone, right?"

"I think so too." Fang Nian laughed, "But it's not necessary, the frontier is just doing some hardware experiments in conjunction with the accessibility of the operating system, and it's just a matter of convenience."

"What chips are there?"

"Not much, WLAN/Bluetooth, RF, clock management, power amplification, power management, audio decoding, that's all."

"Hey! It basically includes non-core chips, and only the motherboard and memory are missing!"

"The chip category is indeed almost complete. In this regard, other domestic companies can do limitedly, such as connectors, memory, batteries, shell structural parts, display screens, camera modules, etc., all of which are promoted by Shunwei Capital. The next development is gratifying, which is very good.”

"..."

Of course the deal was done.

After cost accounting, the foundry cost of SMIC's 40nm process chip is not high, and there are not many adjustments to be made on the basis of Shenlong 211. Baize even has SMIC's 40nm PDK, and it is estimated that it will be available after the festival. The film is completed and officially produced.

As for performance, further reduction is also limited.

After all, this is a mature design solution.

The total price of the chip set is expected to be around 139 yuan.

After all, it is a discount.

By the way, I also talked about Xiaomi Mi 2.

This is the top priority for Xiaomi, and of course it will choose the refined version of Shenlong 51X + Baize chip set.

Lei Jun does not resist the closer cooperation between Xiaomi and Frontier.

In contrast, Youfangnian's frontier is very reliable.

Then we talked about Xiaomi's new plan: Xiaomi Tablet.

In the era when the Apple iPad dominates, there is actually no tablet of its brand on the market.

Xiaomi is going to take the cost-effective route.

This is destined not to compete with Apple.