NOVEL WEB Chapter 132
Huawei headquarters.
Over the years,
Huawei has operated many businesses, especially the communication business and intelligent platform business, which are very profitable. Initially, the mobile phone business accounted for less than 10%.
However, when Huawei mobile phones developed, the profits brought to it almost caught up with the big communication business. In its most glorious period, it was almost catching up with Apple in China.
But because of well-known things, since Huawei was sanctioned, the profits of the mobile phone business have been gradually decreasing, and it has completely lost the opportunity to compete with Apple in high-end chips.
This opportunity is actually very similar to the development history of Huaxia Automobile.
At the beginning, these independent car brands of Huaxia were not as bad as they are now when they were making fuel vehicles!!
Some brands have worked hard and developed…
But in the era when joint venture luxury car companies were rampant, if you want to make high-end cars, there are two technical thresholds that cannot be avoided, the top 12-cylinder engine and gearbox technology.
This thing is exactly the same as the chip of mobile phone manufacturers.
It is a huge technical bottleneck.
In addition, the patented technology in the automotive field has long been monopolized by Xiaorizi and countries with early automotive industries in Texas, Europe.
This has led to restrictions and difficulties for domestic cars.
In the field of engines and gearboxes, it is extremely difficult to break or bypass their”patent barriers”.
That is, in the new energy era.
With the strong support of national policies, we can overtake and break through the high-end.
Hongqi was born and took the lead in breaking through battery technology and developing solid-state batteries, which is equivalent to shortening this by half.
But mobile phone manufacturers are not so lucky.
It is no exaggeration to say that chips are more difficult than engine research and development.
Patents and manufacturing thresholds are even more deadly!
Under the blockade, we can only stare blankly!
Even if Huawei has set up a separate R&D department for chip production and invested a lot of money, it will take a long time to develop lithography machines and laser wafer supporting technologies.
So now Huawei can only choose to cooperate with Qualcomm to obtain part of the chip supply, and gradually fall to the same level as other domestic mobile phones.
It can no longer compete with Apple phones in the high-end.
The latest generation of Huawei flagship phone, the”Kirin 9000S”, has a performance that is almost half of the performance of Qualcomm chips in the same year.
There is a gap here.
It’s really heartbreaking to see this.
But the main reason is that Qualcomm uses TSMC’s 4nm process.
Huawei can only use the 14nm process, and only through technical means and design optimization can it barely achieve the performance of a 7nm chip.
“The Kirin 9000S chip may be able to directly surpass Qualcomm’s flagship chip.
Of course, under the strong restrictions of the United States, this is almost impossible.
Huawei can only worry in its heart.
As the main person in charge of Huawei’s mobile phone consumer end, Yu Dazui was still discussing the direction of the next generation of folding flagships with two executives in the conference room that day.
To be honest,
Huawei’s flagship phone now does not have a top-level chip.
It can only reach the high-end through differentiation such as folding phones.
When several people were discussing the details, there were two bangs.
An executive came over.
He looked extremely anxious and brought a news that shook the world:
“The latest news is that Hongqi has just released a 1-nanometer chip, and the domestic chip and lithography machine production chain technology has made a breakthrough!!”
After hearing this,
Yu Dazui couldn’t sit still:”Really? ?”
“It is absolutely true! Mr. Yu, Hongqi has already installed its self-developed 1-nanometer chip in the car computer. It is a luxury to use such a high-precision and high-computing chip in the car!!!”
The executive was beaming with joy.
He could only sigh.
Look at other car companies. What specifications of chips are they still using for consumers?
Most of them are old chips of 10 nanometers and 14 meters…
Over time, as high-precision maps become more and more complex, even when navigating, a song will be stuck for a long time. (To read exciting novels, go to Fulu Novel Network!)
Cold car start is even slower!
It was Apple that came up with the carplay function, which saved many cars whose car machines were stuck to the point that consumers could not accept it.
Some people say that cars are meant to be driven, and as long as the driving quality is good, it’s fine.
Too many configurations will make it easier to break down!! []
But this is obviously a paradox. If this is really the case, they will all return to the era of classic cars.
Even the screen will not be used, and all mechanical buttons will be more exciting! Isn’t it crazy?!!
The essence of the problem is that more configurations and higher chip computing power can be used without them, but they cannot be without them.
Especially when other companies have them, if you don’t, won’t you be backward?
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“Arrange a special plane immediately. I want to rush to the Magic City as quickly as possible!!”
Yu Dazui said nothing more and immediately stood up and flew over.
As long as they can obtain the chip foundry rights of Hongqi’s 1-nanometer process, then the Kirin chip they spent money on will surely revive again!!
No!!
Even a 3-nanometer process is enough!
By then, the Kirin chip will completely surpass Qualcomm and Apple and become the most powerful mobile phone chip of the contemporary era!!
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On the other side.
Xiaomi headquarters.
Lei Zong couldn’t hold back after hearing the news!!
The same mental journey as Hua Wei.
Hongqi developed a 1-nanometer chip for installation, because the era of mobile phones dominated by foreign chips has completely ended.
You know.
Xiaomi also took the path of self-developed chips at the beginning.
The more famous one is the Pinecone architecture bought from Datang, which made the”Surge S1″ chip!
Although the performance of this chip was not satisfactory at the end, it was abandoned in the dust of history, and the architecture design was far from comparable to Huawei and Apple.
But this is also a complete SoC after all. Looking down, there are still a lot of manufacturers who have burned a lot of money and can’t even afford a complete SoC architecture. When
Lei Zong saw that there was no hope at all, he gave up directly.
After all, Xiaomi’s consistent concept is to pursue cost-effectiveness.
Although there are also lofty ambitions in the heart, the road to making chips is too”bitter”.
If you don’t do it well, you will burn money in vain.
But if you do it well, you will be sanctioned again.
From the final result, it is simply”ruthless”!!
Not everyone is as stubborn as Hua Weitou.
With their asset level, what they lack is not money.
It is time and resources.
Time wasted on an industry that is difficult to succeed cannot be made up no matter how much money you spend.
Mr. Lei has been dreaming a lot recently.
He actually dreamed that he entered the car manufacturing industry, and with the help of the current trend of the rise of new energy, he rose in a wave.
Create the glory of the mobile phone industry again.
The details in the dream are vivid at all times, just like the real thing, which makes Mr. Lei feel excited when he wakes up!! He even began to think divergently, considering whether to really enter the field of car manufacturing.
But when he learned a little bit, he found that there is already a Hongqi in the current Chinese new energy car manufacturing industry.
Even if Xiaomi and other companies have assets and resources, it is difficult to squeeze in.
They can only be silent and sad.
So.
When Mr. Lei learned the news, he immediately made the same reaction.
He set off at the fastest speed!
“Arrange a special plane immediately. I want to have a good chat with the CEO of Hongqi, preferably before Hua Wei arrives!!”
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(PS: Xiaomi Su 7 is released, and Lei Jun is invited to make a guest appearance~~~~~）
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