Chapter 853: Outside the Jianghu

Since arriving in the United States, Fang Zhuo has been diligently serving as the head of Yike's logistics, wanting to prepare for the future and strengthen the company's deep-level competitiveness.

When the Hummingbird team moved from the secondary Silicon Valley to the real Silicon Valley, Fang Zhuo was completely relieved and warned himself that the acquisition of Intrinsity was not a matter of sitting back and relaxing. A chip that can be installed in Apple and Samsung flagship phones needs at least three or four years of polishing.

This polishing process still requires great efforts.

IC design is not easy. The repeated failures of MStar Semiconductor are the best example, and the chip progress mentioned by MediaTek's head Tsai Ming-kai has temporarily stopped.

But Fang Zhuo is very patient.

The ice core has been pulled up, not to mention that Yike and Qualcomm can foreseeably maintain a friendship for quite some time.

On the morning of November 9, Fang Zhuo attended a meeting of Yike's chip design department at the Silicon Valley R&D Center.

So far, the number of employees in the chip design department is 50, of which 17 remnants have been recruited from Intel, the acquired Intrinsity is a complete team of 22 people, and the remaining 11 are talents with senior backgrounds recruited through normal channels.

Fang Zhuo simply compared the number of people. After Apple acquired P.A. Semi, it had about 180 people, while Samsung has relied on its own semiconductors to conquer the world for many years, and the number of people in the IC design team must be far more than 200.

Just looking at it this way, it is still relatively weak.

However, after watching the progress of the meeting, everyone had no objection to the project jointly developed by Intrinsity and Samsung, and they also agreed with the idea based on the Cortex-A8 core. The department structure with the Hummingbird team as the main body was basically established, which made Fang Zhuo very pleased.

Fang Zhuo now understands some superficial semiconductor common sense, but it is still not enough in front of this group of people. As the meeting progressed, he basically couldn't understand the content, but he had a very intuitive feeling.

They think that the Cortex-A8-based architecture is quite trendy, and they also enthusiastically discussed the fourth ARM Developer Conference held in Santa Clara, California in October.

The new Cortex-A9 processor was released at this conference, which will support dual-core architecture.

In Fang Zhuo's opinion, the most useful information he can get is that A8 generally matches the 65nm process of the wafer factory, and the future A9 will follow the improvement of the manufacturing process and just take it to the next level, using the 40nm process.

Process technology → core chip → mobile phone performance.

From inside to outside, from basics to finished products.

Fang Zhuo thought about this route, and felt that he had worked hard for ten years off stage for one minute on stage.

In the afternoon, he attended another domestic e-commerce meeting in the office.

When the meeting ended and it was close to dusk, Fang Zhuo was tired and took a nap while waiting for the American king to come to inspect the work.

At 5:30, Yu Hong arrived at the R&D center, walked into Mr. Fang's office, and found the sleepy boss.

"Just woke up? You've been running back and forth lately, you must be exhausted?"

Fang Zhuo rubbed his eyebrows, pointed at the coffee, and asked Wang Mei to make him a cup, and he would wake up first.

A few minutes later, Fang Zhuo, who was completely awake, said: "It's true that I'm a little tired. I've been busy with two acquisitions, but at least I got one."

"From last year to now, we have acquired three companies, sensors, power supplies, and IC design." Yu Hong talked about the situation, "Especially this time, we spent 180 million US dollars in just a few days. If it were in China, it would be nearly 1.4 billion. It's a big deal."

"You earn a lot, spend a lot, it's a medium deal, it will be valuable." Fang Zhuo took the coffee, stood up and prepared to go to the meeting room. This was another meeting related to mobile phone operators.

"Wait." Yu Hong stopped her boss. "I received a call from Weiwei on the way. She asked you to have another checkup here. What's the matter?"

"She is just worried. There were some minor problems in the previous physical examination. The gastric ulcer is gone, but there is a nodule in the thyroid gland. The domestic hospital requires regular follow-up examinations. She insisted that I check it again after arriving in the United States." Fang Zhuo said calmly.

Yu Hong frowned: "You have been in the United States for a month. Why don't you go for a checkup? Don't be afraid to see a doctor."

Seeing that she was still blocking the way, Fang Zhuo had to explain it a little: "As for nodules, they are divided into grades. Mine is the mildest 4a, which means the risk of malignancy is 5-10%. There is no problem. Even if there is a problem, the cure rate of thyroid cancer is over 90%."

"Haven't you heard that if you have to get cancer in your life, it is best to have a thyroid cancer, so don't worry too much, just follow the doctor's advice."

Yu Hong was speechless She said with a serious expression: "Then listen to Weiwei. Take some time to go to Cedar or Langone to check again."

"OK, OK, wait until we get back to New York." Fang Zhuo saw her make way and said as he walked, "Don't worry when you hear about the disease. Let's take probability as an example. If there is a product project with a 90% chance of success in front of you, will you do it or not?"

"It's the same thing."

"President Yu, think about it. Would you focus on the 10% risk instead of focusing on the 90% success?"

Fang Zhuo walked into the meeting room and put the coffee cup on the table.

"It's two different things." Yu Hong said lightly, "There's so much nonsense. Just do what Weiwei says. Don't tell me these things."

Fang Zhuo smiled, clinked glasses across the air, and said: "Okay, then, our inventory work before the release of the mobile phone is about to begin, and you will start first to make final preparations for December."

Yu Hong took the document handed over by the secretary, and gestured to hand a copy to Mr. Fang, and then silently organized the wording in her mind.

There are still 21 days until December, and it can be said that the release of the mobile phone is just around the corner.

…

Yike mobile phones have been pre-sold abroad since October.

However, until November, the pre-sale data was not announced, and Yike Company also declined media interviews.

The only related event reported again was that Yike Company strongly won two key positions in the advertising bidding of CCTV Spring Festival Gala, ending Midea's four consecutive years of zero-point blessings.

This matter seems a bit strange.

Pre-sale data is not announced, there is no plan for the domestic market, and related mobile phones cannot be obtained.

However, there are also sources from China Unicom's senior management that Yike Company's goal is to create another Lenovo mobile phone with the largest domestic market share.

How to make it? How to make it?

It seems that the answer can only be revealed in December.

However, as Yiguo Double 11 came to an end again, many media reporters were looking forward to interviewing Mr. Fang at the Internet Conference held on November 25 to ask about the situation of mobile phones.

Unfortunately, Mr. Fang missed the meeting held in Pengcheng this year.

Some people said that Mr. Fang had a bad relationship with Penguin because of social media, so he simply did not come.

Others said that Yiguo tried to put many cosmetics categories on the shelves during Double 11, which touched Taobao's nerves, so Mr. Fang simply did not come.

With a photo of the meeting site, the impromptu discussion became more heated.

—— Li Guoqing on the stage was in high spirits and talked about Dangdang.com's efforts in B2C.

—— Ma Dian under the stage smiled and listened to the whispers of the people next to him, while Ma Huateng, who was one seat away, did not seem to pay attention to the stage. He frowned, his eyes fell on the empty seat, and his face was thoughtful.

The gossipers announced that this empty seat was reserved for Mr. Fang. Although he was not there, he still tied his good friend's heart.

Where did Mr. Fang go?

As Yike's official website quietly announced the release date of the mobile phone earlier, December 10, at 3 pm.

The real answer was placed in front of everyone.