Chapter 122 Self-research (Ch 830899035)

The emergence of new batteries has attracted the attention of many mobile phone manufacturers.
It’s a pity that this attention came to an abrupt end after hearing the price of this battery.
The purchase price of a battery of about 4000 mAh on the market is about 80 yuan!
However, the price quoted by Huateng for the new battery this time far exceeded the price of all batteries on the market.
The price of a new 5500 mAh large-capacity battery is directly 400 yuan.
Compared with the mainstream batteries currently on the market, the price is much more expensive.
Even many technology companies have gradually become silent after hearing the price of batteries.
It’s too expensive! It’s really too expensive!
Compared with the mainstream batteries currently on the market, the price is four times more expensive!
This is unacceptable to many technology companies!
In order to improve the battery life of the phone, I spent a few hundred more on the cost.
In the eyes of these manufacturers, it seems particularly uneconomical.
Even these originally bustling manufacturers began to fall into collective silence.
They are gradually giving up the idea of ​​using Huateng’s new battery.
After learning the news, Chen Tong also remained very calm.
400 yuan! This price is indeed much more expensive.
Of course, the cost of this battery itself is only 20% higher than that of ordinary lithium batteries.
The reason why Chen Tong chose to raise the price so high is because the current battery production capacity is too low.
Since the production capacity of new batteries is limited, the price is naturally set relatively high.
If the production capacity is increased in the future, we will consider lowering the price of the original batteries to facilitate sales in the market.
Time has gradually come to the end of December!
After nearly half a year, Brilliance Semiconductor has finally upgraded its chip design technology to Level 6 with the help of special program cards!
After taking the technology to a new level, the company has added a research and development branch.
[CPU self-developed core!]
[GPU self-developed core!]
Among so many branches, what caught Chen Tong’s attention the most was the branch of self-developed core architecture of CPU and GPU.
The NPU and ISP are the two parts of Huateng Semiconductor’s self-developed architecture!
Of course, the ability to realize self-developed architecture mainly relies on the technical foundation provided by the original R&D team for support.
The biggest advantage of self-developed products is that they can schedule the original core more smoothly.
And be able to make some changes according to current market demands.
This also means that the Xuanwu processor chip is much stronger in NPU and ISP modules than the processor chips currently on the market.
However, these modules are not particularly important in the minds of some users.
At a time when the AI ​​era has not yet arrived, most consumer user groups are most concerned about the performance release and development of processor chips.
There is no need to say much about the GPU performance of the Xuanwu processor. Thanks to its self-developed optimized core architecture technology, the public version processor can achieve breakthroughs and performance.
However, the CPU cannot really surpass the mainstream mobile processor chips on the market in terms of performance.
The processor chips used in the Android camp now are basically from ARM, and the current chip foundry manufacturers are also those few.
To use a very vivid metaphor, the CPU cores of current processor chips are the raw materials of dishes.
The current manufacturers are TSMC or Sanxin.
With the same raw materials and the same cooking method, the taste of the dishes cooked in the end is pretty much the same.
The most common problem is that different frequencies will lead to different temperatures, which will result in different degrees of doneness of the dishes.
When using the public version architecture, there will basically not be much difference in performance between CPUs.
If the Xuanwu processor wants to comprehensively surpass the processor chips of other manufacturers, it must take the self-developed route in the subsequent market development.
Now, as the company’s technology improves, Brilliance Semiconductor can also begin to carry out specialized design and development of the CPU and GPU cores of the chip.
However, the experience points required at the moment surprised Chen Tong a little. The experience points required for CPU and GPU core resources were almost the same as those required to upgrade from Lv5 to Lv6.
According to the company’s current research and development progress, if the “Multiplier with Half the Effort” card is not used, it will probably take nearly a year to develop a new technology.
Of course, during this period, Huateng Semiconductor still has to do some time-consuming tasks for next year’s chip design.
This means that it will probably take the company nearly two years to fully develop the core design.
At the same time, after the core is developed, it still needs to be continuously adjusted and adapted before it can be truly applied to the product.
“If the CPU and GPU we design are not as powerful as ARM…”
Chen Tong is still a little worried about the company’s current self-research.
ARM has been deeply engaged in core architecture for so many years, and naturally its technology has become very mature.
Currently, the company is just preparing to conduct in-depth exploration of the new core. It may be very difficult to catch up with the ARM public version core in a short period of time.
Although Chen Tong knows that the road ahead is relatively difficult, his company still needs to continue on this research and development path.
After all, if the company does not conduct independent research and development in core areas, if it needs to make breakthroughs in certain technologies in the future, it will still have to rely on other technology companies.
At the same time, the company also hopes to surpass other manufacturers’ chips by leveraging its self-developed core technology.
Chen Tong finally chose to continue developing new core technologies without hesitation.
According to current predictions, it may take three or even four years before we can see the self-developed core architecture on the Xuanwu processor chip.
During these three to four years, the company still needs to endure humiliation and continue to use the public version architecture to gradually increase the popularity of the company’s chips, so as to gradually gain a foothold in the market.
Of course, when Chen Tong was working hard for the development of his own company, he did not expect that the small factory in Zhuhai would be directly hit by a big one!
Good news! The Xuanwu 900E processor chip is finally launched!
Bad news! The small Zhuhai factory did not use this product on its flagship product, but directly used it on a mid-range phone.
Meizu 16X!
The regular version of Meizu 16 uses the Xuanwu 800 processor chip.
As a result, this product, which is positioned more at the terminal end, uses the Xuanwu 900E, which is similar to the flagship positioning!
Although this product has made a lot of cuts in other configurations.
The top Huateng Microelectronics screen has been replaced with a Tianlu LCD screen!
The imaging and peripheral configurations have been completely reduced!
However, it directly upgraded the original processor chip to a new level.
It does not use the Xuanwu 800 processor chip, but instead uses the Xuanwu 900E with higher performance and positioning, which seems to be the opposite of Tiangang.
The small Zhuhai factory did this to increase the popularity of its product. Even when the peripheral configuration was greatly reduced, it still received the attention and recognition of many users.
Even within less than a week after the product was released, the total sales volume exceeded 200,000 units.
This move by the small Zhuhai factory makes Chen Tong feel a little uncomfortable. After all, it is not a good thing for its flagship product to be used in mid-range models.