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Mini LED has high brightness, long life, no screen burn-in, and is not expensive.

Generally speaking, it is the optimal solution and the main development direction in the next ten years.

BOE's layout of 8K not only requires huge capital investment, but also it is difficult to commercialize due to the high initial costs.

Even if 8K is commercialized in five years, it will only be commercialized on a small scale and is destined to be a niche product.

The fatal flaw behind this is not only the lack of 8K resources, but more importantly the lack of broadband support.

Even with gigabit broadband, it is difficult to play 8K live broadcast smoothly due to many factors.

It can be said that if you want to watch real-time 8 live broadcast smoothly, you need the popularization of G broadband.

At present, 500-megabit broadband is not popular. Even in 10 years, gigabit broadband will not be popular, let alone -gigabit broadband.

This series of factors makes the prospect of 8K very bleak. On the contrary, Mini LED has great development.

If BOE had planned and developed it ahead of time, it could have avoided many detours.

To put it bluntly, at present, Mini LED is much more reliable and useful than 8K.

Once Mini LED is developed, it can be commercialized as soon as possible, greatly reducing costs and being accepted by manufacturers and users, thereby generating huge profits.

Even if 8K is developed, it will be difficult to commercialize. It will require a lot of time and money to continuously optimize and develop and reduce costs.

Then we will have to wait 15 years, or even 20 years, until 8GbE becomes popular, and then we may usher in the spring of K.

After listening to Wang Yi's words, Wang Sheng finally understood the logic behind it:

"Chairman, I understand. BOE's R&D funds are still very tight at the moment. We must invest in high-quality projects that can produce output and returns as soon as possible. For example, Mini LED is one of these projects. As long as there is output, it can be commercialized quickly and quickly return the investment and make a profit."

"The research and development of 8K will still require an extremely long payback period, and it may not be profitable in the next five years."

Wang Yi smiled: "8K's profitability will not take five years, but fifteen years!"

At least ten years later, 8K will still be a concept and a flashy niche product.

But Mini LED is different. As long as there is output, it can be directly commercialized and make a profit!

There is no other reason. Mini LED is essentially LCD, but it is a technological upgrade of LCD.

Compared with high-end OLED screens, LCD screens have low contrast, low brightness, grayish black purity, a viewing angle of only 160 degrees, and appear white when viewed from the side...

It can be said that it has too many shortcomings and cannot compete with OLED at all, and the quality is far behind.

The only advantage is that LCD is cheaper, much cheaper than OLED.

But even though LCD is cheap, its quality and display effect are so poor that LCD is really useless, so it is only used in low-end devices.

Nowadays, since OLED is not mature enough, flagship mobile phones and TVs costing thousands of yuan also use LCD.

But a few years later, OLED went one step further, and LCD became exclusively used in thousand-yuan mobile phones, thousand-yuan TVs, thousand-yuan tablets, and office monitors.

It can be said that although LCD is cheap, its quality is too poor and the display effect is too poor.

OLED has good quality and display effects, but it is expensive, expensive, and prone to screen burn-in.

What if both are imperfect?

So Mini LED came into being.

Mini LED is also a type of LCD, but it is an all-round upgraded version.

The backlight module is innovated on the basis of LCD, and backlight zone control and local dimming are realized. This solves a series of problems such as gray dark areas, low contrast and low brightness of LCD, and achieves a qualitative leap, infinitely close to OLED!

For example, the contrast ratio of Mini LED has been upgraded from 1:000~1:10 of LCD to 000:1, which is close to OLED!

As for the brightness, it is even more impressive, upgraded from 300-600 nits of LCD to 1000-2000 nits!

It exceeds OLED’s 600–1000 nits and is not prone to attenuation!

By controlling the light in different zones, even the purity of black is no longer gray, but instead is close to the pure black of OLED!

Although the response speed and viewing angle are still not as good as OLED, they are greatly improved compared to LCD, narrowing the gap with OLED.

More importantly, the cost of Mini LED is only 1.5-2 times that of LCD, which is very cheap, even cheaper than OLED.

It can be said that Mini LED has the low-cost advantage of LCD and the high quality of OLED, with excellent display effects, and has its own advantages over OLED in many aspects!

The result is predictable. The display effect is about the same as OLED, each has its own advantages and disadvantages, and it is much cheaper. Naturally, its future is limitless.

Especially before OLED solves the three fatal problems of screen burn-in, easy attenuation and high cost, it is no match for Mini LED.

It is for this reason that Wang Yi asked BOE to invest huge amounts of money to develop Mini LED as soon as possible.

"Don't worry, the future of Mini LED will not let you down. Once it is done, it can achieve effects close to OLED at a cost close to LCD!"

“The cost is close to LCD, and the effect is close to OLED!”

Wang Sheng was shocked: "Chairman, is this Mini LED technology really that powerful?"

"Of course." Wang Yi said with a smile.

“If so, the future of Mini LED is limitless!” Wang Sheng said with deep emotion: “I will gather the most professional elites and invest heavily to develop Mini LED!”

Wang Yi nodded with satisfaction: "Let's do research and development. When the time comes, low-end TVs will use LCD screens, and mid-to-high-end TVs will use Mini LED screens. Professional monitors, large car control screens, etc. can all use Mini LED!"

In addition to mobile phones, Mini LED is the future!

Once BOE develops Mini LED technology, Xingyi TVs, borderless TVs, Xingyi computer monitors, Xingyi car central control, car screens, etc. can all be directly equipped with Mini LED in the future!

However, LCD is still the mainstream for notebooks, ultrabooks and tablets.

High-end notebooks will use Mini LED or OLED.

Wang Sheng was thoughtful: "Chairman, Mini LED is only 50%-100% more expensive than LCD, and its effect is comparable to OLED. It is definitely the best choice! Doesn't that mean that the future of OLED is bleak and it will be completely replaced by Mini LED, and there is no need for research and development in the future?"

Wang Yi waved his hand: "OLED still needs to be developed, but the focus is not on TVs, computer monitors, and car monitors, but on mobile phones and notebooks! Especially mobile phones, OLED will still be used in the future!"

Wang Sheng was even more confused: "Chairman, why don't mobile phones use Mini LED?"

"Mini LED backlight modules are thick and complex in structure, which will increase the thickness of the phone body, which is not in line with the concept of thin and light design of mobile phones. In addition, the Mini LED backlight is always on and consumes a lot of power, which will also reduce the battery life of the phone. It is more suitable for use with plug-in devices."

Wang Yi said: "In the future, high-end mobile phones will still use OLED, which is thinner and lighter, has better image quality and lower power consumption."

"So that's how it is." Wang Sheng understood Wang Yi's arrangement.

And they were very receptive to advice. They held a high-level meeting the next day and began to deploy the research and development of Mini LED technology.

This time point is several years earlier than in the previous life.

Wang Yi fully supports this.

Once the output is achieved, the second phase of BOE's factory located in the island city will be able to directly mass-produce Mini LED screens!

By then, borderless TVs, borderless monitors, borderless phones, borderless tablets, car screens, etc. will still be LCDs.

The Xingyi TVs, monitors, and car screens are Mini LED.

In the future, Xingyi mobile phones will also be equipped with OLED screens.

As for the Xingyi tablet, it is most likely LCD.

In the future, Xingyi notebooks will also be dominated by LCD, especially the thinner business notebooks and ultrabooks, which will all be LCD in ten years.

If you don’t pursue an ultra-thin high-end Xingyi gaming laptop, you can go directly to Mini LED!

In general, low-end LCD, mid-to-high-end small-screen OLED, and large-screen Mini LED!

Next, it depends on when BOE can master Mini LED and achieve mass production.

In 2017, BOE started the research and development of Mini LED, made a prototype in 2018, and achieved mass production in 2020. Subsequently, BOE's Mini LED screens made rapid progress and became the world's second largest giant after Samsung.

But this time, with Wang Yi's suggestion, BOE gave up the detour of 8K and chose ALL in Mini LED in 2014. Then everything will be completely different.

In this way, it doesn’t have to be 2020 at all. Maybe it can be put into mass production in 2017, or even faster.

There is no other reason. This time, with Wang Yi's support, BOE has no worries about R&D funds or orders, so the R&D progress will naturally be much faster.

Wang Yi also left BOE and began to return to the imperial capital.

However, on the way, Wang Yi was still thinking about Mini LED.

To be precise, it is Micro LED display technology!

If LCD is the starting point, then Mini LED is the upgrade, and the end point is Micro LED!

That’s right, Mini LED is a transitional technology for Micro LED.

Taking OLED as a reference, LCD is completely inferior to OLED. Mini LED and OLED each have their own advantages and threaten OLED, while Micro LED completely crushes OLED.

It’s a pity that the cost of Micro LED is higher, and even ten years later it will be five to ten times that of OLED.

Therefore, it is mainly used for commercial large-screen and is difficult to use at home.

It is estimated that by 2030, with continuous technological breakthroughs and innovations, Micro LED will be able to enter the homes of ordinary people and become fully popular.

It is worth mentioning that in order to get rid of its dependence on Samsung's OLED screens, Apple acquired a Micro LED company LuxVue, thereby obtaining a large number of Micro LED technologies and patents.

Based on the company's technology and patents, Apple invested heavily and incorporated the company's founder into a "secret display laboratory"!

Trying to create a Micro LED screen to completely replace Samsung's OLED.

But unfortunately, ideals are full and reality is skinny.

Micro LED has a bright future, but the road ahead is tortuous. The commercial launch has been pushed back from 2020 to 2025, and then to 2030, with delays again and again...

And Apple has to continue using Samsung's OLED screens.

However, Apple has not yet acquired LuxVue. Wang Yi is wondering whether he should acquire LuxVue in advance?

Wang Yi sat in the chair, tapping the seat rhythmically with his fingers, thinking about the pros and cons.

LuxVue is a small company. Although Micro LED technology is advanced these days, its future is unclear.

Everyone is pessimistic and knows that this is a bottomless pit and it will be difficult to produce results in a short period of time.

The acquisition funds are not too expensive, approximately RMB 15-20 billion.

The most valuable are Micro LED's core technologies and related patents.

If Wang Yi acquires it, he can obtain these technologies and patents, but they are not mature yet and require a huge investment and ten years of research and development. As for when there will be output?

It’s hard to say, but it will most likely be 15 years later, around 2030.

In his previous life, until Wang Yi was reborn, he had never seen the iPhone use a Micro LED screen.

To put it bluntly, the payback period for Apple's acquisition of Micro LED far exceeded Apple's expectations.

After 15 years, many of Apple's R&D personnel have passed away.

Similarly, if Xingyi Technology chooses to acquire LuxVue, it may face no profit for fifteen years or even twenty years.

Everything is possible.

So whether to acquire or not, that is the question.

Wang Yi thought about it briefly and made a phone call: "Acquire LuxVue, a high-quality Micro LED company, as soon as possible. Fully acquire it. The budget is 15-20 billion!"

"Yes." The person on the other end of the phone responded immediately.

Knowing that Wang Yi said this, it must be a very important matter.

That’s right, in the end Wang Yi chose to intercept Apple, acquire LuxVue, and deploy Micro LED in advance.

The reason is simple. Although Micro LED has a long payback period, it is expected to be the terminator of Mini LED and OLED in the future.

In addition, even if Wang Yi does not acquire it, Apple will do so.

In order to prevent Apple from acquiring him, Wang Yi cannot give up.

Most importantly, LuxVue not only has many patents and technologies for Micro LED, but also many patents and technologies for Mini LED.

After all, Mini LED is the transition technology of Micro LED!

Therefore, the two are of the same origin and have many of the same technologies and patents.

Without LuxVue's Micro LED display technology, it would take BOE three years to mass-produce Mini LED.

With LuxVue's Micro LED display technology, it may only take BOE two years to mass-produce Mini LED.

LuxVue's Micro LED display technology is accumulation.

Whether it is to block Apple, intercept Apple's acquisition, or pave the way for BOE's Mini LED, it has to acquire LuxVue and obtain Micro LED technology and patents.

As for when Micro LED technology will be completed, we can only wait and see.

But as long as we can develop MINI LED as soon as possible, it will be enough for the next ten or fifteen years.

Similarly, with LuxVue and Micro LED display technology, Xingyi Technology will still be leading the way fifteen years later!

With this in mind, Wang Yi decided to intercept Apple and acquire LuxVue in advance!

There are many screen technologies at the moment, but Micro LED is not favored by many people, and even Mini LED is not considered promising.

Therefore, Micro LED technology is not taken seriously yet and LuxVue's valuation is also low.

After Apple acquired LuxVue in the past, friendly companies such as Samsung and LG immediately began to pay attention to Micro LED technology and began to acquire corresponding companies and patents.

But this time, Wang Yi has to make plans in advance.

Mini LED technology and related patents also need to be acquired in advance!

Screen technology is very important, very important.

Samsung makes a fortune from OLED.

However, Wang Yi should not do these things himself and should leave them to his subordinates.

After Wang Yi landed in the imperial capital, he went directly to Lin Shu's house, and he and the rich woman reunited after a short separation.

The next day, Wang Yi came to the headquarters of Xingyi Technology.

Jian Ziyan quickly came up and said, "Chairman, something went wrong."

"what happened?"

"In recent days, some negative news about Xingyi CPUs have appeared online."

Jian Ziyan couldn't help but say, "At first, there were only bits and pieces of negative news, and I didn't pay much attention to it. But now, it seems that there are more and more, and not only in China, but also overseas. In Europe, America, Japan and South Korea."

"An organized and premeditated smear campaign?" Wang Yi said.

"I feel so, but the strange thing is that the other party's actions are very small, sporadic. I arranged people to investigate, but no problems were found." Jian Ziyan frowned slightly.

"Are you worried that this is the calm before the storm?"

"Yes, Chairman. Our Xingyi CPU has a powerful integrated graphics card that is comparable to entry-level discrete graphics cards. It has strong performance and crushes Intel. It is deeply loved by the majority of users and has greatly increased sales. However, Intel CPU sales have dropped sharply due to the impact. I don't think they can bear this and remain indifferent!"

Wang Yi nodded: "Yes, this incident is most likely the work of Intel. But since Intel has taken action, it is not that simple. There must be a big move behind it!"

Wang Yi knew clearly that Intel was not the type to sit back and wait for death.

Seeing the rise of Xingyi CPU, Intel will definitely use a series of actions to suppress Xingyi CPU!

This is inevitable.

After all, the more Xingyi CPUs are sold, the more serious the decline in Intel's sales will be.