Age of Dreams

Seeing their disbelief, Xiao Qi smiled faintly, "When have I lied to you? If it weren't for the fact that the key technical problems were not overcome this time, I would be able to expand the production of DreamStars3 to 30 million units per month."

"What technique is so difficult?" Li Xiaochao couldn't help but blurted out.

But just after asking, he felt a little regretful.

How could such a core technology be casually mentioned?

However, Xiao Qi did not hide much, "It is a technology about intelligent induction drive. It has been researched for more than 2 years, but it has not been developed yet, but it can be regarded as a great progress. It will be released next year at the latest. It can be applied to mobile phones in half a year."

After cooperating with Xiao Qi for so long, Guo Taiming and the three of them all know that Xiao Qi is a very cautious person. This can be seen from his insistence that the monthly sales of DreamStars 13 million units will not increase.

Now that Xiao Qi said so, they naturally believed it, and while they were excited, they were thinking, what kind of technique is this?

People all over the world know how strong the technology of Fairy Fairy Company is. Even they have to work on the technology for more than three years. Surely it will shock the world once they come out, right?

The three of them had a good idea. If Xiao Qi wants to show his technology, he wants to shock the world.

It is the somewhat tasteless "eye roll" technology in the Galaxy S4 launched by Samsung in 2013 in the previous life.

Eye rolling technology refers to the technology of turning pages, scrolling mobile devices, and even controlling more functions of mobile phones through the activities of human eyeballs.

Before Samsung, in fact, a research team at the University of Copenhagen in Sweden launched the Senseye project similar to eyeball rolling. Users to zoom, center and open web pages and apps.

But these studies of theirs proved to be very immature at the end of 2013.

Take Samsung's Galaxy S4 as an example. Many fans came here for this "eyeball rolling" technology. After taking it back to experiment for a long time, their eyes hurt from blinking, but they still couldn't control the Galaxy S4 as they wished. Successful ones are not so sensitive, and even there are often wrong instructions displayed.

Xiao Qi doesn’t know if Samsung’s mobile phones will be corrected in the future, but because of the Galaxy S4 example, he started to develop eye tracking technology early on, and at the same time emphasized to the engineers that this eye tracking must be designed as a A perfect smart technology can't be brought out halfway, as it would embarrass Fairy Company.

But this kind of eye tracking technology is cool to say and beautiful to think of, but it is only after the actual research and development that it is discovered that there are as many problems as a cow's hair.

The light sensitivity of the eyes, the frequency of rotation, the speed of line of sight movement, the amplitude of up, down, left, and right movements, the distinction between normal blinking and conscious blinking... etc., etc., all of which need to be broken through and studied one by one.

From more than 30 engineers in 2008, to more than 80 engineers in 2009, and now to more than 220 engineers, the number of the entire department has seriously exceeded the standard.

Then there are more than 30 departments assisting them. Although these departments have their own various tasks, but because the eye tracking function is very important, once the department sends a request, they must focus on organizing manpower to overcome technical difficulties.

Fairy Lab's expenses have also greatly increased.

Their department alone has spent more than 5 billion yuan in more than two years, and the speed at which they spend money can be described as throwing gold.

But even so, more than two years have passed, and they are still at the point where they have not made breakthroughs in several key technologies, which really made them very popular. Although the funding of the Fairy Lab is sufficient, but Who doesn't want to have more funds for their research and development? Your eye tracking department asks for so much money, if you give me a little bit, I will have already achieved results!

They themselves took a deep breath. In the second half of this year, they issued a military order to Fairy Lab. This year, they don't want any bonus subsidies. If they can't make it next year, they will all resign as apology.

Of course, Sun Manxue can't agree. If you don't succeed, just slap your ass and leave. How can you do that?

Even though your original intention is to apologize, but your actual actions are to shirk responsibility. If you are gone, who will continue this project? Who is it not to start over? That is equivalent to wasting a lot of time!

Moreover, Sun Manxue did not agree to their request not to have any bonus subsidies, but decided to halve the deal, and during the Spring Festival, collectively give them a one-month paid vacation, let them rest their minds, so that they can be more relaxed when they come back. to work.

As a result, this group of people was even more moved in their hearts. They continued to work hard, working overtime is common, and vowed to break through technical difficulties as soon as possible.

Xiao Qi is a knowledgeable person. After going to them several times to listen to the progress report, he knew that they were only a little bit close to enlightenment. Once this threshold is broken, the future will be flat.

That's why Xiao Qi told Guo Taiming and the others that the next DreamStars4 will be able to use new and breakthrough technologies.

With Xiao Qi's guarantee, the three left contentedly.

Although DreamStars3 is just ready to go on the market, and there is still a year and a half before the listing of DreamStars4, they can also prepare in advance.

The purchase and commissioning of the production line, the training of skilled workers, etc., can all be done in advance.

Only by making full preparations can we get a bigger share of the DreamStars4 production expansion feast.

Think about it, even if it is not 30 million units, even if it only increases to 25 million units a month, it is almost equivalent to doubling.

Even if Yan Chenglong can get a monthly production of 6 million units, Guo Taiming and Li Xiaochao will share the remaining 6 million units equally, that will be hundreds of millions of net profits, billions a year, isn't it good enough? ?

In addition, as the production of DreamStars4 increases, the shipments of various optional accessories will inevitably increase greatly. The two main suppliers of optional accessories, Yan Chenglong and Li Xiaochao, will naturally get more benefits—of course, They will not take it all alone, this matter can only be successful with Guo Taiming's help, so they will compensate Guo Taiming in other aspects, everyone is happy, that is the most important thing for cooperation!

After they left, Xiao Qi reopened the folder that had been closed just now, and carefully read the report sent by the Fairy Lab.

What Sun Manxue sent was good news.

If the eye-tracking technology is about to usher in success, then the foldable LCD panel-OLED technology that Fairy Company has been laying out since 2007 has now fully entered the actual production test.

After more than three years of hard work, with the technical support of Samsung and the joining of many experts in this field, OLED technology has passed the strict inspection this month and can be applied to the actual mass production of LCD panels. above.

However, there is still a gap between the success of the experiment and the success of mass production. If the time is short, it will take three months, and if it is long, it may take more than half a year.

The price of finished products in the laboratory is very expensive, and one of the major goals of mass production is naturally to reduce costs as much as possible.

But in any case, the success of the experiment means that the most difficult step has passed, and all that remains is to do more parameter adjustment and matching, so that the effect in mass production can be closer to the effect in the laboratory.

Of course, the foldable LCD panel technology cannot be said to be completely successful, at least in terms of size, it has not been able to shrink.

The size that can be made now can only be an LCD panel of more than 10 inches. If the size is too small, it will not be easy to maintain the effect.

As a result, it can only be used on the DreamPad, not even the DreamPadMini, which really makes Xiao Qi a little regretful.

Next year is the time to launch the DreamPad Mini. If you add this foldable LCD panel, what a sharp creation it will be!

However, technology is constantly improving after all. Although foldable LCD panels are only suitable for 10-inch or larger panels, their project team has not been disbanded, but continues to research on miniaturization.

I believe that after another two or three years, I dare not say that the DreamStars series can use this technology, and at least the DreamPadMini can.

From this point of view, it is reasonable for Xiao Qi to spend tens of billions of dollars every year on the Fairy Lab.

After all, there are only a little more than two years left in my memory of reincarnation and rebirth, and if these outstanding scientists and engineers grow up, they can largely offset the threat of foreign companies, so even if they are gone With the memory of reincarnation and rebirth, Fairy Company has continued to develop and innovate, at least it can continue to develop smoothly.

Fairy Company must continue to have such outstanding technologies that are ahead of others, so as to continuously obtain its own leading advantages, and continue to become the "king of the world's smart electronics" as a Huaguo company! (~^~)