sinovels Chapter 252 Why Not Find Corning?
Chapter 252 Why Not Find Corning?
The second day after Lu Yi returned from Baodao, he was in the conference room.
"The matter of the lawyer's letter has been resolved, and we have reached a relevant cooperation agreement with China Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. As the plan continues to advance, the corresponding production lines and more procurement of accessories will begin."
Lu Yi, who was sitting in the front seat, spoke.
"Director Lu, the procurement of accessories will inevitably involve the issue of product confidentiality." A senior director attending the meeting said.
At present, the outside world does not pay much attention to Blue Star Electronics.
Internally, Blue Star Electronics also adheres to the principle of silent development and has been working hard to promote the "Peak Plan" and is not willing to be in the limelight.
I'm just waiting for the moment when the pinnacle mobile phone is released and gives the world an unparalleled shock.
According to Lu Yi's arrangement.
The first generation of pinnacle mobile phones must be launched no later than 2007, and must be released in 2006.
It is now November 18, 2004, and there is only one and a half months left before 2005.
In other words, there is not much time left for them, only two years to fully calculate.
Two years is definitely a very tight time to build a real smartphone that redefines smartphones.
But everyone at Blue Star Electronics is very confident that they can do it before 2007!
The Pinnacle Project will develop many innovative technologies, but not all components of the smartphone must be handled by oneself, which is unrealistic.
No company can produce every screw by itself!
To know.
Just a radio frequency chip is a huge industrial chain.
"This is indeed a problem." Lu Yi nodded.
At this stage, the outside world does not pay much attention to Blue Star Electronics, and they are not optimistic about Blue Star Electronics.
But no matter what, any big move made by Blue Star Electronics will definitely attract the attention of the outside world immediately.
For no other reason than because the helmsman of Blue Star Electronics is Lu Dao!
This alone is enough!
"It's not the time to expose the Peak Project yet, so we must hide the news about our smartphone development from the many partners we have chosen, but we also need them to provide us with some necessary accessories..."
It is not easy to hide information from partners, because the other party can make a reverse guess based on your order.
"Let's do this, just use it as a cover-up."
“A dedicated deception department was formed to create some fake drawings and designs, making some partners think that the accessories they provided were another version of functional phones.
As soon as these words came out, the eyes of the executives present lit up.
In this way, the partners thought they had figured out the details of Blue Star Electronics through backward reasoning, thinking that Blue Star Electronics was in the fifth layer, but in fact Blue Star Electronics was in the atmosphere.
After the meeting, Lu Yi wandered around various project laboratories as usual to check out the relevant progress.
He now spends two-thirds of his time with Blue Star Electronics.
As for future technology, Lu Qi can handle ordinary things and doesn't need to worry about him.
Lu Yi first went to the laboratory of [Kunlun Core] to understand the progress of the project with Ni Guangnan. He listened to the other person's explanation of the difficulties encountered, and Lu Yi put forward his own ideas.
Generally speaking, the progress of the [Kunlun Core] project is still very fast.
And Ni Guangnan's work enthusiasm is beyond words, he wishes he could live in the laboratory.
Too.
He used to want to engage in chip research and development in Lianxiang, but Yanagawa Zhi and others kicked him out of Lianxiang, and he failed to realize his desire for independent research and development.
Now coming to Blue Star Electronics, Lu Yi strongly supports the independent research and development of chips. He wants people to give people and money to give money. How could he miss such an opportunity.
Subsequently.
Lu Yi went to the DOS project laboratory again, and the progress was also very gratifying.
R&D personnel develop based on the main framework provided by Lu Yi, saving a lot of work.
On the Android side, Andy Rubin and his team are also working day and night to improve the Android system.
He knew that Lu Yi had also formed a DOS system development team.
However, Lu Yi also said that the future application market of Android system will be larger than that of DOS system.
The DOS system is adapted to Dingfeng mobile phones, while the Android system covers all smart phones except Dingfeng mobile phones.
As long as these mobile phone manufacturers choose Android system.
Screen Project Lab.
Product manager Guo Ziming is complaining to Lu Yi at the moment.
"Dr. Lu, according to your requirements, the two glass covers we selected cannot meet the standards you require." "Guo Ziming said with a sad look on his face.
According to Lu Yi's request, Pinnacle Mobile will eliminate the plastic keyboard and replace it with a large glass display.
The requirement put forward by Lu Yi is that the glass cover of the display screen must be resistant to drops and scratches, and it must be made of glass, not plastic.
It can be summed up in one word - endurance!
to this end.
Guo Ziming collected companies currently on the market that make mobile phone glass covers and found Lansi Technology and Born Optics.
Both of these companies provide mobile phone glass cover solutions.
Moreover, in previous lives, they were all members of the fruit chain.
And the two companies are inextricably linked.
Zhou Roufei, the founder of Blue Silk Technology, came from the factory of the brother of the boss of Born Optical.
Guo Ziming was very happy to find Lansi Technology and Born Optics, because he did not expect that there were actually glass covers for mobile phones on the market.
To know.
At this stage, the mobile phone market is still dominated by feature phones.
The display covers are all plastic, and the displays are all black and white.
The first color screen mobile phone was the sausage-Qtek7070, which was released only this year.
"Oh? What's the specific situation?" Lu Yi asked.
"Is such that."
Guo Ziming began to explain.
"Based on your request, we found two companies, Lansi Technology and Boen Optics, and selected the glass covers produced by them for drop and scratch resistance tests."
"The scratch resistance is good, and it can meet the standards."
"But when doing a drop test, basically if you drop it once, the entire glass panel will break. It cannot meet your requirements of falling from a height of one meter to a rough surface. It can withstand 15 hits without any damage. damaged."
"The glass covers produced by these two companies are among the best in the industry."
Guo Ziming said with a sad face.
It's not like he hasn't looked for other manufacturers.
However, the quality of the products of these manufacturers is far inferior to that of Blue Silk Technology and Born Optical products.
According to their feedback requirements, Blue Silk Technology and Born Optics are also improving, but the results are not ideal.
even.
The heads of the two companies also had some criticisms.
Because they felt that Blue Star Electronics’ requirements were too outrageous.
There is simply no glass cover on the market that meets this requirement.
Moreover, manufacturers such as Nokia and Motorola have no requirements in this regard at all.
"When the glass cover failed to meet the requirements, we replaced it with a plastic screen, but this time it was more resistant to falls, but it was scratched when scratched." Guo Ziming added helplessly.
"Didn't you find Corning?" Lu Yi asked subconsciously.
Guo Ziming looked stunned.
Corning Incorporated?
Never heard of it!
Among the companies he collected that make glass covers for mobile phones, there is no Corning Company at all.
Seeing Guo Ziming's confused expression, Lu Yi suddenly reacted.
At this time, Corning really did not have a mobile phone glass cover business.
Most of the glass covers used by well-known mobile phone brands such as Qianshiguo, Sanxing, Huawei and Dami are Corning Gorilla Screens.
But Corning still produces Gorilla Screen because of love!
Funny to say.
Corning originally produced special glass, and never thought of making screens for mobile phones.
Because in the non-smartphone era, mobile phone screens were quite small and generally difficult to break, and there was no need for high-end technology like touch screens, so ordinary glass was enough.
The predecessor of Gorilla Glass was produced by Corning in the 1960s. It is a special glass with bulletproof functions and is often used in helicopters. Under normal circumstances, unintentional damage will not cause scratches.
But Gang Leader Qiao came out of nowhere and opened the curtain of smartphones with his crazy love.
There are many differences between smartphones and non-smartphones.
But one of the things is that smartphones have a touch screen, and the screen is much larger than that of non-smartphones.
This brings up two problems.
One is that ordinary glass is relatively slow in transmitting electronic signals.
On the other hand, when ordinary glass is enlarged, the mobile phone screen is more likely to be broken.
Gang Leader Qiao is a person who pursues perfection. How can he tolerate this imperfect flaw in his (good) perfect love?
So Gang Leader Qiao found Corning, which was mainly producing special glass at the time, and asked Corning to develop a mobile phone screen glass specifically for Ai Feng.
Corning Company initially disagreed with Gang Leader Qiao's request.
Because smartphones had not yet shown their huge market potential.
Later, it was only after many requests from Gang Leader Qiao that we reluctantly made the mobile phone screen glass required by Apple.
With the launch of Ai Feng, the smartphone market has been completely detonated.
The global hot sales of Love Crazy also made Corning’s Gorilla Glass popular.
Since then, Corning's Gorilla Glass has become an instant hit and has become the first choice for mobile phone screens by major mobile phone manufacturers.
And this is the reason for the later Corning Gorilla Glass screen!
At this time, Gang Leader Qiao is just starting to launch the Love Crazy Project, and has not even looked for the Corning Gorilla Glass screen.
No wonder Guo Ziming didn't collect relevant information.
Because the current Corning Company is simply not the Corning that will be famous for its Gorilla Glass screen in later generations!
"Okay, I understand this problem."
"Your project team continues as usual. I will personally resolve the issue with the glass cover screen supplier."
Lu Yi said.
When the boss said this, Guo Ziming naturally had no objection. .