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Chapter 357 The birth of the smartphone

Infinity Company, as usual, is working intensely day after day.

When Chen Weidong is not dealing with complicated documents, he will also visit major laboratories and inquire about the progress of some projects.

In recent years, special laboratories have been put into use one after another, gradually showing amazing results.

Members of the project team only need to input some relatively perfect experimental data into the robot's main control program, and then the robot can repeat the steps.

For example, in microelectronics operations, researchers can produce an electronic component that meets the requirements, but it is difficult for each component to maintain the same quality.

But now, in special laboratories, this impossibility has become possible.

By calling the same successful operation program, the success rate suddenly jumped to more than 80%, which is simply unimaginable!

The success of the special laboratory shocked all research departments of Infinite Company.

Before each experiment, countless researchers come to observe.

Looking at the laboratory and the precise operation of the robot, all the testers were amazed. When they saw its final operation results, almost every researcher present had his eyes lit up.

The person in charge of the materials department came, and the person in charge of the computer department came, including Zhao Gong, who was in charge of automation. They also bothered Chen Weidong every day, hoping to equip them with such a special laboratory.

It is also called euphemistically, in order to better promote Industry 3.0 and prepare for the transformation of China's manufacturing industry.

Everyone can see that many repetitive operations in the future can be completed by special laboratories.

They are all looking forward to the fact that in the future, the experimenters' daily work will be to sit in the main control room, use computer programs to select successful experimental operation data records one after another, and copy and add them to the robot's control system.

What was the biggest headache in the past was to perfectly reproduce the successful experiment, and now no one needs to worry about it.

With this treasure in hand, Infinity Company's research efficiency has suddenly increased several times!

After completing these complete experimental procedures, data analysis, and comparing failed experiments, researchers can quickly find the crux of the problem and propose improvement plans.

Infinite Company's experimental process suddenly rushed to the fast lane, achieving success after success at an incredible speed!

In the automation department, under strict regulations on various parts, the cost of setting up a special laboratory is only 60% higher than the original laboratory!

Who wouldn't want such a good thing?

As soon as they saw the results of the special laboratory, all the research departments of Infinite Company sent application documents requesting the establishment of a special laboratory.

Among them, the research and development progress of smartphones has made breakthrough progress.

He Zhao, the general person in charge of the mobile phone R&D department, saw Chen Weidong wandering around the laboratory and hurriedly ran over with a prototype.



As early as five years ago, Infinite Company had different disagreements with Symbian Company on the issue of whether the system should be open source.

The software department of Infinite Company believes that after the system is open sourced, it can better expand the market, allow designers from all over the world to participate, and improve the ecology of the entire mobile phone system, thereby achieving the goal of monopolizing the market.

But Saipan rejected the proposal.

The Symbian system was developed by Symbian Company (led by Nokia). Its excellent and stable performance made them the absolute king of this period, and no opponent dared to claim it.

Although other mobile phone brands can also use this system, they need to pay a licensing fee of approximately US$5 per mobile phone.

Samsung, Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson and other mobile phone brands all use the Symbian system. The licensing fees they pay to Symbian alone amount to billions of dollars every year.

Symbian's management was unwilling to give up this huge source of income, and coupled with the uncertainty after open source, they directly rejected Infinite Company's open source proposal.

Facing the arrogant Symbian company, Chen Weidong could only set up a smartphone research and development department.

Members of the R&D team have long had the ability to "copycat" Nokia mobile phones, but Chen Weidong's request was to develop a "smartphone."

This stumped everyone.

People in this period had a very vague concept of "smartphones".

There is no real smartphone on the market that can be used as a reference.

Therefore, the members of the project team can only continue to supplement and improve the various functions of this mobile phone according to Chen Weidong's instructions.

The main components of a mobile phone can be roughly divided into five modules.

Processor, storage, input device, screen, battery.

Among them, the processor (chip) is the most important component, and a smartphone contains a radio frequency chip, a radio frequency amplifier chip, a processor chip, a power management chip, a memory chip, a touch screen control chip, etc.

About twenty chips.

Fortunately, Infinity Company has a large number of microelectronics researchers, and its supercomputers are unique in the world. If you want to make a mobile phone chip, you are not completely without technical background.

However, smartphones refer to the general term for mobile phones with mobile operating systems that can expand functions by installing application software, games and other programs, and can achieve wireless network access through mobile communication networks.

If you want to create a "smartphone" that surpasses all mobile phones in the world, the algorithm performance of the chip is very demanding.

Relying on the original thinking, it is obviously impossible to meet Chen Weidong's requirements.

Whether it is a computer or a mobile phone, although the processor can run tens or hundreds of millions of times per second, the processor does not exist alone.

It needs to exchange data with the memory and temporarily store part of the calculation results in the memory, so that it can then continuously call the temporarily stored calculation results to complete the operation.

Other devices such as processors and memories need to exchange data through the system bus.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! But the frequency of the bus is not so easy to increase.

They thought about it, saw the company's supercomputer system, and suddenly had an idea. They decided to use a multi-core manufacturing method to integrate two processor cores into a chipset, which can effectively avoid data transmission restrictions and

The performance of the chip is maximized.

With the assistance of multiple laboratories, the mobile phone R&D department discussed it for nearly a year before deciding on the final plan.

Finally, two years ago, the world's first dual-core mobile phone processor was produced.

After that, the researchers worked non-stop, pooled everyone's efforts and worked hard to design the most efficient data processing pipeline structure.

And designed the instruction set one by one, and finally drew the complete circuit diagram structure of the smartphone.

Self-developed chips, glass screens, multi-touch, cameras...

Hundreds of parts form a complete palm-sized quadrilateral, representing the most advanced combination of human technologies.

Chen Weidong suppressed the excitement in his heart and pressed the power button on the side with some trembling.

Buzz~

After a vibration, the classic logo of Infinite Company jumped out of the screen, followed by a robot image that stayed briefly, and the screen entered the complete interface of the system.

Chen Weidong swiped the phone screen with his fingers and found that basic communication functions, including making calls, sending text messages, cameras, radios, and media players, were all included, except for some applications.

"Lao He, you did a good job. Can this phone now access the Internet?"

Chen Weidong was very satisfied with this prototype. He felt that it had surpassed Apple's first mobile phone in later generations. He clicked on the center of the screen with his thumb, and opened the only application software, the browser.
Chapter completed!
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