292. Already hungry and thirsty

In August 2006, the self-provided functions of Bomi mobile phones have been improved and can meet the standard of mass production, which means that Bomi mobile phones will enter the mass production stage in the future.

After Bomi mobile phones were officially put into production, the demand for various parts has also steadily increased.

The mobile phone screen alone was ordered from LG according to the previous demand, and delivered in half a year.

Just when Bomi reached a cooperation agreement with LG and signed an order agreement, a US company called Apple was also seeking cooperation from LG to purchase the H-ips screen developed by LG.

And two years ago, Jobs visited him in person and provided them with a design book for demand.

Both parties communicated in very detailed communication of the required screen size functions and confirmed that there was no big problem.

The only problem is-

Apple's demand is too similar to Bomi's?

Moreover, the monthly production of LG's mobile phone screens is now almost at around 1 million, which is based on the previous requirements of Bomi.

Since we have signed an order with Bomi, the supply volume for Apple is not very sufficient.

Fortunately, Apple has not yet entered the production stage, and there should be some technical problems that have not been solved. If Apple goes into production in the future, LG will not have that much supply.

LG has signed a confidentiality agreement with Bomi and Apple.

However, when seeing the screen design cooperation needs sent by the two companies, Li Xiangmo, the head of the LG mobile phone screen production department, wanted to laugh.

What the hell is this?

Why are there any design crashes?

"Mirror? What's wrong?" Li Xiangmo asked for the mobile phone screens on both sides, and couldn't help but frown.

Although mainstream mobile phones are still operated with keyboards, just like Motorola and Nokia, after brainwashing by Bomi and Apple, LG people have begun to look like future smartphones in their minds.

If it was a joke that China Bomi Company came to visit and said that it was a big deal to make a phone that completely abandoned its keyboard, then when Li Xiangmo received the demand from Apple, he couldn't laugh.

Bomi can ignore it, but Apple still has influence. Apple computers have been representing the highest design technology of personal computers for so many years.

Now that Apple wants to enter the mobile phone market, it also needs to create a brand new phone that does not require a keyboard, so it needs LG's mobile phone screen.

By this time, Li Xiangmo had already felt a new wind, sweeping towards the entire industry.

A storm is coming.

Thinking back to Bomi, who came to her house almost half a year earlier than Apple, Li Xiangmo felt a trembling all over her body now.

This shows that a Chinese company has been ahead of Apple in terms of design philosophy at least half a year.

Is this possible?!

No matter how you think about it, it is nonsense. Li Xiangmo, the company of Bomi, even specially asked someone to find out. After all, the order quantity given was indeed too large. Then he found that Bomi had no experience and manufacturing history in this area before making mobile phones. This is completely a typical Internet company, providing Internet instant messaging services and value-added services around these businesses in China. If you want to say that the most profitable thing in this company should be their gaming department?

Can a company with games as its core really make a good mobile phone?!

Li Xiangmo deeply doubted.

But when he saw the demand given by Apple, he fell into deeper doubts—

Design crash, is Bomi's company's design philosophy even ahead of Apple?

What is this situation?

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This time I don’t know if it’s Apple or Bomi phones that will win.

"In the end, it depends on who has better quality and design, right?"

The information that LG can get is relatively limited.

If we talk about the biggest difference between the two, then it is probably because the mobile phone screen size that Bomi needs is much larger than Apple's?

It looks like Bomi’s phone doesn’t look like a mobile phone, it’s more like a brick.

Although Apple's phones are not small in size, they are relatively close to the current mainstream phones.

From this perspective, Li Xiangmo would think that Apple has a bigger chance of winning.

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Cao Yang didn't know if Apple was ready, but Bomi's mobile phone was ready.

Although the following mobile game projects are still in the approval process, when Cao Yang reported this situation to the leaders, he immediately received support from the state.

August 15, 2006.

Leaders of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the State Intellectual Property Office brought together relevant local departments, three major operators, Bomi, Huawei, SMIC, and Baidu, to hold a conference.

This time, it was completely led by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and it can be said to be a legitimate Internet summit.

The specifications are quite high, much higher than the specifications of the Internet summit that was spontaneously organized by entrepreneurs. This conference can be said to be very awesome.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, on March 11 this year, was newly established directly under the background of China's "large-department system" reform. The above integrates the relevant responsibilities of the National Development and Reform Commission's industrial management, the responsibilities of the National Defense Science and Technology Commission except nuclear power management, as well as the responsibilities of the Ministry of Information Industry and the State Council's Information Technology Office, and is included in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

Perhaps it is because the domestic Internet industry is developing too fast that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, which should have been established in 2008, was established two years ahead of schedule.

I don’t know how much of this is due to Cao Yang.

It can be said that the current Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is in charge of all information and industrial manufacturing departments, of course, including the Internet industry.

Li Yizhong took a group of bigwigs to hold a meeting in the imperial capital.

At the meeting, Ms. Liu Yuhua, Director of the Science and Technology Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, specially commended the three companies, Baidu, Huawei and Bomi.

Baidu's technological breakthroughs and innovations in the field of artificial intelligence, especially smart search engines, have made great contributions to our country's self-developed search engines, and also protected the security of national data.

Therefore, Baidu was awarded a reward certificate of [Intelligent Search Innovation Winning Unit].

How do you understand this sentence?

If there is no intelligent search engine provided by Baidu, then our country will be lagging behind internationally in the field of information search platforms, or it will introduce foreign Google engines.

This thing is a huge hidden danger for user data security, because the records that users browse through search platforms every day, as well as the huge database and resource integration behind it, are a very terrible amount of information. If these things are not in the hands of Chinese people, but are allowed to enter foreign industries, the consequences will be unimaginable.

It is equivalent to everyone's online behavior being under surveillance.

These shocking cases make the people above very alert to information security.

Therefore, search platforms like Baidu that require the collection of large amounts of user data are not only personal user usage data, but also domestic news, information on major domestic companies, domestic trend information... and search platforms that integrate information in all aspects are even more uneasy to leave it abroad.

This is also why our country has not allowed Google to come in.

Data storage and information security are a big problem.

Baidu deserves its reputation for getting this [Innovation Winning Unit].

Then, Liu Yuhua, Director of the Science and Technology Department, also praised China Mobile, Huawei and ZTE for their breakthroughs and contributions in network communication technology, which has allowed our country's mobile communications to keep up with the international pace. Now the pilot performance of ten 3G cities across the country is very good, and it is expected to popularize 3G nationwide at this time next year.

So they also obtained the certificate of [Winning Unit for Science and Technology Innovation].

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Then comes Bomi.

Li Yizhong said, "This time Bomi Company has done a very good job and can drive a whole industrial chain through the new smartphone solution. It attaches great importance to future innovation and production in the mobile phone field."

This time, Bomi's smartphones really drive a whole industrial chain. Mobile phone design and operating system development are mainly carried out by Bomi. The chip design is designed by Liu Qiang, but Huawei also participated in the joint design, which allows Bomi's smartphones to make major breakthroughs in a few years.

The midstream and downstream industries of mobile phone production were immediately driven. In terms of patents alone, all participating companies can have almost 600 items.

For this reason, the country also subsidized Bomi Company, with the subsidy amount reaching US$1 billion. At the same time, it will also reduce taxes and fees for smartphones within the first five years, which is very good news.

The above meaning is very clear-

Our country has finally had a high-tech product that can be at the forefront of the world. We must open up the situation, even if it is subsidized by the state, it will be unavoidable.

"So, if there are any problems or troubles, Cao Yang, please mention it here, and we will help solve it as much as possible." Li Yizhong looked at Cao Yang.

Cao Yang nodded in a little flattered manner, "Thank you, thank the country, thank ZF."

"By the way," said Li Yizhong, "How are you applying for patents here?"

Patents are not just Bomi’s own patents. Huawei is involved in the production of smartphones. There are also many patents on mobile network communications, including SMIC’s chip production... and BYD foundry...

There are many patents born throughout the entire industrial chain, and there are 500 or 600 patents in total.

Everyone looked at Cao Yang, including Huawei's CEO Ren.

Originally, when it comes to qualifications, Mr. Ren must have the most say, but this time Li asked about the content of the smartphone, and the leader in this area was Cao Yang.

Although compared to everyone here, Boss Cao seems a little too young to be out of place, everyone knows that Bomi is the protagonist in today's meeting.

Cao Yang nodded, "We have applied through PCT."

PCT, international patent system, before applying for an international patent, you must first search whether there are similar patents. If there is no, you can prepare information and start an international patent application.

First of all, international patents do not exist, and the exact name should be "International Application for Patents".

The Patent Cooperation Treaty, referred to as PCT, when a national of a contracting party wants to apply for patent protection from one or more countries of the Patent Cooperation Treaty for a certain technology, he or she may submit the application documents in the designated language to the receiving unit or the International Bureau designated by the Patent Cooperation Treaty in accordance with the procedures stipulated in the Patent Cooperation Treaty. This submission procedure is deemed to have submitted a patent application in all the Patent Cooperation Treaty parties.

The Patent Office of the State Intellectual Property Office of China is the acceptance unit for the formulation of this treaty, and Chinese is also the language designated by the treaty. Therefore, Chinese people can submit "international patent applications" at the State Intellectual Property Office of China in Chinese.

Before PCT, in the past, to obtain patent protection in several countries, patent applications must be processed one by one with each country, and the procedures and procedures were very cumbersome.
To be continued...