Chapter 117 New Battery (Ch 830562449)

Thanks to the recent great success of the Meizu 16 series, the small Zhuhai factory has made the company’s brand and products increasingly popular, and even has a trend of re-emergence.
The small factory in Zhuhai also plans to strike while the iron is hot and launch new products to ensure the popularity of the brand.
The development of Apple phones and domestic phones can be said to be two completely different ways.
Guozi mobile phones are pursuing the boutique route, and its products only include digital and SE series.
Basically, the sales period of each generation of Fruit mobile phones is about one and a half years, which means that after a new generation of Fruit products is launched, the previous generation of products will still have a sales period of half a year.
The previous generation of products will take this opportunity to gradually reduce their prices, slowly dropping to around 4,000 yuan.
Relying on this model, Apple phones maintain their position in the high-end market.
However, domestic mobile phones basically cover every segment with their products, and even continuously output products for the sake of product sales and brand popularity.
Of course, the simplest adjective to describe it is the sea of ​​​​machines tactics!
By adopting the strategy of flooding the market with products, we can gradually gain popularity in the competitive market, thereby increasing the sales of the entire brand.
It can be said that the small factory in Zhuhai has done a lot in this regard. Even when things were difficult at the beginning, it released more than 20 models a year.
That’s right, more than 20 models! It really takes the sea of ​​machines tactics to the extreme.
“This is a brand new battery specially sent by Huateng Organic Materials Technology Company…”
Just as the small factory in Zhuhai was preparing to start designing the next generation of products, Knowledge also discovered the latest batteries purchased by the supply chain.
Zhou Yunlong looked at the data of the battery curiously, and a look of astonishment and surprise flashed in his eyes.
“What? The density of this battery has reached 880KW/L!!!”
There was disbelief in Zhou Yunlong’s eyes. As the person in charge of the entire product supply chain, he was extremely shocked by the data in front of him.
The current competition in the smartphone market is extremely fierce. This is not only a competition in mobile phone products, but also a competition in components.
Mobile phone batteries have always been a very important component in the field of smart phones.
However, compared with processor chips, the development of mobile phone batteries can be said to be very slow.
Take Meizu’s first mobile phone M8 for example, the performance of the processor chip Sanxin S3C6410 used in the first generation was already very good.
However, the performance of the Xuanwu 800 processor chip is 3200% stronger than that of the first generation processor chip.
As for the battery, the first generation product had a battery capacity of only 1200 mAh, while the current product has a battery capacity of only 3400 mAh.
The performance has increased by nearly 32 times, but the battery capacity has increased by less than 3 times.
Compared with the rapid improvement of mobile phone performance, the growth of battery capacity is actually relatively slow.
Especially after the size of mobile phones has increased, the battery volume is much larger than that of the first generation products.
In real comparison, the improvement of today’s batteries compared to the batteries of the first generation of smartphones is very small.
The basic density of lithium batteries used in most current smartphones is 500KW/L.
However, this time, the battery capacity specially sent by Huateng Organic Materials reached a terrifying 888KW/L.
To describe it in a very simple way, the battery capacity produced by Huateng Organic Materials Technology Co., Ltd. is greater under the same volume.
“This is Huateng’s organic material battery L1. It is about the same size as the batteries currently on the market, and 10% lighter, but its battery capacity reaches a terrifying 4,700 mAh!”
“And the capacity of the lithium battery of the same volume we use is only 3,400 mAh!”
After the test engineer at the side displayed all the data, Zhou Yunlong was also completely attracted by this battery.
This is a good battery. If this battery is used in our company’s products, it will definitely cause a stir in the industry.
“What are the data on charging, discharging and life of this battery? I need test data on all of these…”
Zhou Yunlong is very fond of such large-capacity batteries, but as the person in charge of components, he naturally knows that battery capacity is only one aspect of battery properties.
He needs to pay close attention to how much current the battery can accept, how fast the charging power it can support, its discharge and charging speeds, and even the safety of the battery.
And only after obtaining these test data can it be convenient to directly compare them with the lithium batteries used in products currently on the market.
Through comparison, we can understand the level of the battery and finally decide whether to use the lithium battery L1 produced by Huateng Organic Materials.
At the same time, Huateng Organic Materials Technology Co., Ltd. sent engineering samples of battery L1 to most of the domestic manufacturers.
The major technology companies dare not ignore the components sent by Huateng.
After all, in recent years, Huateng has brought a lot of surprises to domestic manufacturers in the field of components.
From the screen panel to the glass cover of the screen, Huateng Semiconductor even designed and produced a brand new Xuanwu processor chip.
However, there is still a lot of demand for Xuanwu processor chips from various companies.
Since the Xuanwu processor chip has been widely recognized by consumers in the market, several major manufacturers have taken turns to seek cooperation with Huateng Semiconductor.
In response to this, Huateng Semiconductor politely declined and temporarily did not agree to cooperate with these manufacturers.
Instead, he went to TSMC in person to place orders for the products.
After all, Huateng Semiconductor did not dare to produce too many chips at the beginning, for fear that they would not be able to sell them.
However, judging from the current market feedback, most domestic manufacturers are very willing to purchase Xuanwu processor chips for use in their products.
Even Lei Jun from Rice Company came to Huateng Semiconductor specifically to find Chen Tong.
“The Redmi smartphone under our company needs a relatively low-end processor chip…”
“But the mid- and low-end processor chips currently on the market cannot meet the needs of our company’s new products…”
Lei Jun personally found Chen Tong and spoke to Chen Tong in a very sincere tone.
The rice company wants to make its sub-brand independent next year, and the first product after independence needs to have some characteristics in certain aspects.
After discussing with company executives, Lei Jun finally decided to position the product as focusing on high quality and popularization of images.
The overall level of mid- and low-end processor chips on the market is really too poor, and their advantages in both performance and imaging algorithms are very small.
Even though Gaotong has recently deployed some high-pixel imaging technologies on mid- and low-end processor chips, the performance of mid- and low-end chips is indeed a bit embarrassing.
As for MediaTek, it may be able to make some changes in performance, but it is too backward in imaging algorithms.
In order to give the company’s first product after independence a certain advantage, Lei Jun deliberately found Huateng Semiconductor this time, hoping to customize a low-end processor chip.
“If your company can really design a mid-to-low-end processor chip, our Rice Company is willing to pay for the subsequent tape-out costs of this processor chip…”
In order to get Huateng Semiconductor to agree to its request, this part was even willing to pay for the tape-out costs.
The cost of tape-out is not a small number!
Of course, the rice company will not voluntarily pay this fee without any requirements.
Rice Company is willing to pay such a fee, but it requires that if Huateng produces such mid- and low-end chips, Rice Company, as a partner, needs a six-month exclusive period.
“Half a year is too long, it should be four months at most!”
Chen Tong thought about the rice company’s request for a long time, and finally spoke slowly.
Half a year is basically half the life cycle of a chip. Chen Tong can’t just make chips for one manufacturer!