Chapter 89: Entering the Mobile and Telecommunications Market

After Xu Shenxue, Xie Jianyong, Song Changhai and others entered, Xu Shenxue did not forget to say hello to the many R&D personnel who were working.

"How's your work lately? Are there any difficulties..."

"If you have any difficulties, troubles or even unhappy things, you can tell me directly. I am your boss and I am a billionaire. It is no problem for me to solve your small problems!"

"As for the child's schooling, this is easy. Our company is a high-tech company after all, and we have a series of benefits for high-tech talents. You can talk to the administrative department later and see if we can arrange a good school for him!"

"We are all family, why be polite!"

"Besides, anyone who can work as a research and development supervisor in our company is a high-tech talent, no matter what. It won't be a problem to introduce talents and settle down there, and then arrange for their children to go to school!"

"As for the housing problem, let's talk about it. I just told the logistics department to build some apartments near the company as dormitories. I estimate that even if the logistics people are lazy, they should be able to get it done in a month or so. Then you can go and apply for the dormitory apartment directly!"

"Don't worry, the price is cheap. It has to be cheap. You all know the people in our logistics department. They don't have any other skills, but they are good at being stingy. They can ask the landlords to lower the price. Besides, we are renting out the whole building, so it has to be cheap!"

"The company will also subsidize part of your rent, so don't worry!"

"It's about work meals. It's really expensive to order takeout, and it's also troublesome to eat out. I've experienced this a lot. I ordered takeout at noon, but it took an hour to deliver it to me. I was starving..."

"We are also working on this. We are renovating the 25th floor to build an internal restaurant. It will be easy for everyone to eat then!"

Xu Shenxue would walk into a project team from time to time and chat with someone casually... The company was full of young people, and Xu Shenxue acted as if everyone was of the same age and was extremely generous. Then some brave young people talked about some problems they encountered.

Of course, there weren't many idiots present, so they were just talking about small problems in life.

It wasn't until a bald, fat, single guy in his 30s boldly asked Xu Shenxue if the company would provide him with a wife... Xu Shenxue, who had been pretending to be friendly for a long time, was finally defeated...

"As for this question, ahem, human trafficking is illegal. The company certainly can't just give you a wife!"

"But we can still organize a social gathering. I'll tell them to find some companies or units with lots of girls to organize a social gathering. Whether you can find a wife depends on your performance!"

Zhiyun Technology is a typical high-tech enterprise. Except for a very small number of personnel, administrative, marketing and other positions, the employees in the company's main department, namely the R&D department, are almost all men, and most of them are single.

They are mainly R&D positions in the R&D department, which are basically science and engineering positions, and relatively few girls study these majors.

This also leads to a situation where there are more men than women in the company...some programmers can't take their eyes off the few girls in clerical positions.

However, it is impossible for Zhiyun Technology to recruit a large number of single girls to make it easier for them to find girlfriends... This kind of thing is too ridiculous.

However, there are many companies with many female employees in and around the Insurance Building. When the time comes, I will ask the logistics department to contact one or two of them and organize some social gatherings to calm the restless hearts of these single people.

And as long as they are given a channel to meet single women, they don’t have to worry about anything else...because anyone who can enter Zhiyun Technology, even if they are just an ordinary employee in the most ordinary R&D position, can be considered an excellent talent.

At present, Zhiyun Technology is recruiting people in the talent market, not only offering high salaries, but also having very high requirements for talents.

Generally speaking, for those who can enter Zhiyun Technology's R&D positions today, a 211 undergraduate degree is the most basic educational requirement, and a 985 undergraduate degree is the norm... For ordinary undergraduates below 211, one must have a very good resume and very strong professional skills.

In addition, there are a lot of masters... When recruiting for some key R&D positions, they directly require a master's degree as a starting point, and those with a bachelor's degree will not even be given a chance to interview.

At the same time, Zhiyun Technology’s recruitment is not only for domestic but also for overseas Chinese communities. Luo Yinian has even sent a special working group to Silicon Valley to keep an eye on Chinese technical talents in local large companies and poach them back if there is an opportunity!
This is how Mei Jianye from Zhiyun Semiconductor was recruited.

Therefore, it is not easy to join the R&D department of Zhiyun Technology nowadays... It is hard to say about other things, but an upper-middle level academic degree is the most basic.

There is no way. It’s not that Zhiyun Technology likes to discriminate against people based on academic qualifications. It’s just that the R&D positions in Zhiyun Technology are truly about relying on your brain... Without sufficient IQ, professional skills, and learning ability, it is actually very difficult to be competent.

Therefore, Zhiyun Technology's R&D positions not only have the highest salary among its domestic peers, but also have very high requirements.

When you go to campus recruitment, often only the top few students in the major are accepted. Ordinary students without any outstanding advantages will not even be given an interview opportunity.

Therefore, the people in the R&D department of Zhiyun Technology, even if they look like they are just doing odd jobs, are actually high-tech talents... otherwise they can't even do odd jobs.

Such a group of elite talents have high incomes, so it is not difficult for them to find girlfriends. What they lack is nothing more than some channels to meet the opposite sex and show their own strength.

Nowadays, companies organize social gatherings to provide them with these channels.

After chatting and bragging with a group of R&D employees, Xu Shenxue finally arrived at a laboratory inside.

After entering the laboratory, Xie Jianyong stepped forward and picked up a silver-gray engineering prototype and said, "Boss Xu, this is the mobile engineering prototype we have initially made. It is based on the C1 mobile phone. The screen, camera, operating memory, storage flash memory, etc. are all the same components as the C1 mobile phone. The main change is the use of the Texas Instruments OMAP3430 chip and the external domestic Spreadtrum TD communication baseband chip."

"The telecom version also uses the same 3430 chip plus the CDMA2000 communication baseband chip provided by Qualcomm!"

"In terms of overall performance, when we were testing, the operating performance of these two separate external communication basebands was similar to that of the Unicom version, except that the power consumption was slightly higher!"

"As for the signal problem, the mobile version is limited by the performance of the baseband supplier's chip, so the mobile version is slightly worse, while the telecom version has no problem."

"Because of the external communication baseband chip, we also adjusted the internal circuit board during the design. Therefore, production may be more troublesome and we need to set up a special production line!"
“There aren’t many other changes!”

As Xie Jianyong spoke, he placed two engineering prototypes, one black and one silver-gray, in front of Xu Shenxue.

Xu Shenxue picked up the phone and looked at it, then took out the China Unicom version of the C1 phone from his pocket for comparison. He felt that there was no change in the appearance design and it still looked highly consistent.

Xu Shenxue was quite satisfied with this: "That's the way it should be. Although the interior may change, the appearance should remain consistent. This will help shape the overall brand!"

It is impossible for Xu Shenxue to develop a bunch of mobile phone models for each operator... Zhiyun Technology's mobile phones will be branded, and there will not be too many product lines in the future. Basically, they are all high-end flagship series. In addition to the current C series, in the future, it may launch another series with the same mid-to-high-end positioning, but with a different customer group.

But no matter what, the core is the series, not a certain model or network standard.

Because mobile phones with different network standards must also follow the same series principles and be as consistent as possible in appearance and user experience.

Then I opened the prototype and took a look at it, and felt that there was no difference in use.

Then he put down his phone and said, "Very well done. Now that these two phones are ready, we should mass produce them and put them on the market as planned. If we don't, the two operators will block my door!"

"You don't know, these operators are also very stubborn when doing things. They urge me to take out my phone every day. A few days ago, they even came to my office to block me. Now I am afraid of them..."

After hearing what Xu Shenxue said, everyone around burst into laughter again!
Every time Xu Shenxue comes to the R&D department, he makes people feel very relaxed. He doesn't show any airs of a billionaire at all, nor does he have the arrogance of a rich second-generation.

How should I put it, it’s very down-to-earth... and he even makes self-deprecating remarks from time to time.

Of course... this is just the opinion of ordinary R&D employees!

However, Xie Jianyong and Song Changhai, who are senior executives of the company, know that President Xu has different expressions in different occasions... Once you leave the door of the R&D department, don't expect Xu Shenxue to smile at you.

At this time, Xie Jianyong said: "Now these two mobile phones still have some final testing work to do. If everything goes well, they can be delivered to the production department for production in about ten days or so!"

Xu Shenxue said: "Very good, of course, although time is tight, all kinds of testing work must be done strictly, and quality issues must be ensured!"

"The C1 series of mobile phones is a key model for us to build our brand. It may not be liked by some consumers, but there must be no quality problems, especially non-human faults!"

Xie Jianyong said: "Don't worry, Mr. Xu, quality has always been my personal pursuit. This was the case when I was working on feature phones, and it is still the case now when I am working on smartphones!"

After seeing these two mobile phones, Xu Shenxue’s confidence increased greatly, and this will provide greater support for Zhiyun Technology!
Xu Shenxue could already imagine the good sales performance of these two C1 mobile phones after they were launched on the market.

Because...these two C1 phones will be the first true smart phones in China that support CDMA2000 and TD-CDMA.

No competitors!

(End of this chapter)

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