Through the technology tree query, there are currently very few manufacturers that have reached level 6 in the fields of electronics and integrated circuits.

lv6 level: Guozi, Yaotong, Broadcom, Nvidia, Intel, amd, Texas Instruments.

lv5 level: HiSilicon (gold), Lianhuake (gold), Sansang (gold), Hynix and other 13 companies.

Zhou Zhen looked at the data in front of him with a hint of curiosity in his eyes.

What does this (gold) mean!

After going through the explanation of the technology tree, Zhou Zhen finally understood the meaning of (gold).

The suffix (gold) means that the company's level has reached the level of breaking through the corresponding level. It only needs the emergence of corresponding excellent high-quality products to officially move up a level from the corresponding level.

This means that although HiSilicon and Lianhua Technology are currently at level 5, they will be able to upgrade to level 6 soon.

"The future chip design and manufacturing fields are key development goals! Now you can consider temporarily upgrading this branch!"

After hesitating for a moment, Zhou Zhen considered adding his remaining technology points to this branch.

[It costs 10,000 technology points to upgrade the integrated circuit to lv4, and the next level, lv5, requires 100,000 technology points!]

Soon Zhou Zhen upgraded this branch to level 4.

Looking at the number of technology points that needed to be upgraded, Zhou Zhen did not hesitate to spend 100,000 technology points to upgrade to level 5.

However, after upgrading to level 5, Zhou Zhen felt a little embarrassed.

The next technology branch actually has two different upgrade plans.

[Upgrading to lv6 requires 3 million technology points!]

[Upgrading to level 5 (gold) requires 1.5 million technology points!]

That's right, this time there are two different upgrade plans for the branch upgrade of the technology tree.

You can directly spend a lot of technology points to upgrade to level 6.

At the same time, you can also spend half of the technology points to upgrade to lv5 (gold) level.

The so-called lv5 (gold) level can be regarded as lv5.9 level, which is only one step away from lv6 level.

Of course, technology is also very humane.

After upgrading to lv5 (gold), you can still spend 1.5 million technology points to continue upgrading to lv6.

After considering the number of technology points he had, Zhou Zhen finally chose to focus all his technology points on upgrading to level 5 (gold).

After all, lv5 (gold) is not very far from lv6 level. If given a chance, it is very likely that one can break through to lv6 level.

At that time, you can save the need to upgrade 1.5 million technology points.

Of course, if the technology tree knew Zhou Zhen's thoughts, it would definitely ridicule Zhou Zhen.

Want to save 1.5 million technology points for upgrading? Are you thinking too much?

If you don’t use technology points to upgrade, where will the upgraded technology patent rewards come from?

Besides, other manufacturers have a very solid foundation and accumulation for lv5 (gold), which is just a short step away from lv6.

In the current state of Zhou Zhen and Rou Yu, even if they are upgraded to lv5 (gold) in the technology tree, it is difficult to quickly upgrade to lv6.

Of course, although Zhou Zhen now has the technology tree plug-in, it still takes some time and energy to fully realize the technologies on the technology tree.

After exiting the technology tree panel, Zhou Zhen also began to consider the future development prospects.

Rouyu Company and Zhenyu Company are still their most important core industries and the core focus of their development.

Secondly, Zhou Zhen still needs to pay attention to the matter of Redmi product manager, at least not to do too badly in product design.

Another aspect is to consider establishing a semiconductor design company.

Soon it will be June, and June is the graduation season for various colleges and universities.

Rouyu and Zhenyu companies need to recruit enough outstanding fresh graduates during the graduation season. Excellent fresh graduates will be injected into the company as fresh blood, making the company full of vitality again.

On the other hand, Zhou Zhen also plans to establish a corresponding semiconductor design company within this month and start recruiting corresponding talents during the graduation season.

Of course, Zhou Zhen understands that when setting up a corresponding semiconductor design company, the company may not have corresponding sources of income for a period of time in the early stage.

During this period of time, Zhou Zhen still needed to continuously invest funds and burn money like crazy.

But Zhou Zhen believes that with the support of the technology tree plug-in, his semiconductor design company may be able to make some progress in just over a year.

In early June, news finally came out from the Rice Company that the company's top management agreed to Zhou Zhen's request and decided to hand over the half-dead note series to Zhou Zhen.

Zhou Zhen also personally went to the headquarters of the rice company and officially joined the company as the product manager of the rice note series project team.

Of course, Rebus also knew that Zhou Zhen was a bit busy with his affairs, so he did not impose very high restrictions on Zhou Zhen, which could be regarded as giving Zhou Zhen some face.

At the same time, Zhou Zhen also officially took over the Redmi mobile phone product project team.

The project team has a total of two departments.

The first department is mainly responsible for product design and planning, as well as the department stacking components inside the product phone.

The first department is the most core department of the entire project team, with a total number of only twenty people. It is also the department with the fewest people in the entire project team.

The other second department is mainly responsible for communicating with the supply chain department and publicity and other matters.

This department is mainly responsible for the procurement of original supply chain components for new products, as well as the production, promotion, and transportation of products.

Generally speaking, the first department is the core department that works mainly on product design, and the second department is the department that cooperates with the first department to invest in the overall production of the product.

A design within the Lord.

The other one is mainly responsible for external product production and sales.

The two departments can be said to complement each other, and the entire project team has a total of seventy people, which is considered a very large project team.

Zhou Zhen also met his old acquaintance Wang Teng in the project team.

The newcomer in the supply chain department of the rice company has now been transferred to the red rice project team to be the person in charge of the product production department.

He is the new director of the rice note project team and can be regarded as the second in command of the entire department.

The number one leader is naturally the newly appointed product manager Zhou Zhen, and Zhou Zhen will be mainly responsible for the internal core department in the future.

As for the procurement of product components and the production of corresponding products, it is natural to leave it to Wang Teng.

After all, Rebus knew that Zhou Zhen was quite busy, so naturally the dirty work was left to Wang Teng, who was young and strong and had unlimited potential.

"Dr. Jay, we meet again! You can just call me Xiao Wang!"

"Director Wang, I hope we can have a happy cooperation in the next few days!"

Zhou Zhen is completely satisfied with the company's arrangement of Wang Teng as his deputy.

Wang Teng is capable and energetic! He is a very good person in charge.

Zhou Zhen even felt that my deputy Wang Teng had the appearance of a king.

Even in the future, many things related to products can be left to Wang Teng, which saves him a lot of energy.

"About the design of rice note3 series products..."

On the first day Zhou Zhen came to the project team, he went straight to the theme.

How to design the next series of rice phone note 3 is the most important issue for the entire project team at this stage.

The cost budget given by the company is still sufficient, but the time is relatively urgent.

After all, as a high-end product, it has very high requirements for product design and corresponding hardware stacking.

Of course, the core of high-end products is the product experience and the core technical strength of the product.

After all, the so-called high-end cannot be truly achieved by stacking hardware.

The failure of rice company's previous note series products and later digital series flagship products also verified this point.

"To be a high-end flagship, there can be no compromises!"

Zhou Zhen looked at the products designed earlier by his product design department and directly rejected the previous product designs.

We need to hit the high end and consider costs.

Let’s not talk about the core technology and experience.
Chapter completed!