Chapter 2883 Sapphire Screen

At 8 o'clock in the morning, Xiao Qi appeared on the third floor of the fairy canteen on time.

Yang Na is still sleeping now. According to the usual situation, she will not get up until at least around 9:00 in the morning, and then she will wash, eat and go for a walk.

The environment of Green Town is definitely not as good as Yulu Garden, but it is next to Sichuan University, so she simply went for a walk on the boulevard of Sichuan University. Although the female bodyguards and Japanese aunts are behind, such a beautiful girl often appears on campus However, it still makes many boys want to move.

Yang Na is sharper than Huo Zhuzhu, and she will mercilessly scold a boy who is stalking him, so she has only moved here for a month, and she already has a "cold beauty". of the title.

When around September, Yang Na will go back to her own villa. The villa community over there is at least much more spacious and comfortable, and the environment of the community is also cleaner.

She lived with her parents until she gave birth to a baby, and then she would move to the new home in the fourth phase of Yuluyuan.

By that time, it has been open for 8 months, not only the villa itself has no smell, but the whole Yulu Garden has no smell of decoration - Yulu Garden is uniformly decorated, not like other villa communities, and the time to move in is different. , The time for renovation is different. There are people who are doing renovation within two or three years.

Japanese aunts are very dedicated. Although they get used to doing things at five o'clock every morning, the hostess does not get up to eat, and they do not know how to eat.

Because of this, Yang Xiaona, who was too lazy to wake up until ten o'clock, could only wake up at nine o'clock. Otherwise, I would be very embarrassed to see the Japanese aunts clean up their house and look hungry. of.

Because of this, when Xiao Qi got up, he didn't ask the Japanese aunts to prepare food. Anyway, the Fairy Cafeteria provides meals 24 hours a day, just go to the company to eat.

With the increase of Fairy Company's business, Fairy Company has more and more employees. There are more and more mid-level and high-level people who can enter the third floor to eat.

Of course, it doesn't mean that other people can't come to the third floor. It's just that everyone's positions are not equal. Sitting next to a group of senior executives will inevitably feel uncomfortable, so it's better to go downstairs. Or another canteen dedicated to workers is good for eating.

What Xiao Qi wanted was simple porridge, buns and eggs, and after eating, he carried a bag to the fairy laboratory building.

When Xiao Qi entered the first floor of the building, he could smell the smell of instant noodles, and then at least a dozen engineers sat together in twos and threes, chatting while eating instant noodles with smiles.

Regarding the topic of eating instant noodles, the general affairs department and logistics department of Fairy Company. I have talked to Sun Manxue, the vice president in charge of Fairy Lab, many times.

Obviously Fairy Canteen has all kinds of food, why do the engineers here still like instant noodles the most?

Except for the laboratory area, they seem to be able to eat instant noodles no matter where they are. The average daily consumption of instant noodles is more than 10,000 packs. Some foreign engineers are motivated and eat 5 packs at a time when working overtime. Their wives often protested when they got home.

This not only made the instant noodles smell everywhere, but also made the chefs in the Fairy Canteen a little frustrated, feeling that their superb cooking skills were actually lost to the instant noodles, which was a bit embarrassing.

But Sun Manxue said. This is a kind of enjoyment for science engineers, enjoying the feeling of being able to eat hot food at any time. This feeling has nothing to do with food, but it is already a habit in their lives.

There is no way, in the end, all the engineers can only vote. As a result, more than 90% of the engineers want to have the right to eat instant noodles in the non-experimental area of ​​the Fairy Lab, so it can only be any That's up to them.

Sun Manxue was already waiting for Xiao Qi downstairs, and he accompanied him to a laboratory of more than 100 square meters on the third floor, where two engineers were already waiting inside.

Naturally, the entire engineering team could not be the ones who came to see Xiao Qi, so the two chief and deputy directors were there to explain in detail. One is Zheng Pingfei, who was poached from the German Zeiss company, and the other is Han Chen, who was trained by Fairy Company.

Han Chen had been in the United States until yesterday, and he came back with him. This is the protagonist Xiao Qi came to see this time.

In front of Xiao Qi was a model of a mobile phone.

It is not entirely correct to say that it is a model, because it is completely usable, but there are still some functions under test. If it is released to the market, it can only be used as an upgraded version of DreamStars2. Not up to the level of DreamStars3.

"Yesterday, Xiaohan brought back samples of 12 screens from the United States. We assembled them and tried them out. We found that the screens basically meet the requirements, both in terms of hardness and flexibility. They are very good! Even if it falls on the ground, the screen of the mobile phone will not be broken." Zheng Pingfei said with a smile, "It's really not in vain. We spent a total of 170 million U.S. dollars in research and development expenses!"

"But because of this, our cost is also high." Han Chen continued, "The toughened glass from Corning Oriental Company we use now costs 2.5 US dollars a piece, but if we replace it with this kind of sapphire toughened glass, the cost will be at least suddenly. It will soar to 10 dollars a piece, although it has little impact on the overall cost, but in general, the cost of a single component that has tripled is still a bit uneconomical.”

Xiao Qi smiled and nodded.

Compared with the gross profit of a DreamStars close to 400 US dollars, an increase of 7.5 US dollars is nothing, but from the technical research and development personnel, it is the goal they have been working hard to continuously design cheaper and better parts. It is not blindly using high-priced components to make mobile phones better.

But for Xiao Qi, it is absolutely necessary to replace Corning's tempered glass with sapphire tempered glass.

Corning’s Gorilla Glass has now been used. This kind of tempered glass used on helicopters is not bad in terms of hardness, but it is based on a large piece of tempered glass directly in front of the helicopter. The mobile phone screen Because it is very small, that is, three to five inches, it is still insufficient in terms of impact resistance.

This is why even in 2013, whether it is an Apple or Samsung mobile phone, the screen is often broken.

But the sapphire glass in Xiao Qi's hands is different now. It was used on the highest-end brand - Vertu before. After so many years of use, it has been proved that it will not break!

Of course, the cost and selling price of Vertu are also different, tens of thousands of one is a common thing, so they can use sapphire glass.

Xiao Qi has been thinking about making his mobile phone better than other mobile phones. On the one hand, he has to work hard on the software and internal configuration, and on the other hand, it is naturally the use of hardware.

This sapphire glass is one of them.

As early as 2008, after DreamStars went public, Xiao Qi began to look for manufacturers of sapphire glass.

He remembers that there are not many manufacturers that can produce sapphire glass. There are two in the United States, one in France, and one in Germany.

For the sake of convenience, Xiao Qi found an American company called Kohler Optics. Although they also have a technical patent for sapphire glass, due to cost reasons, sapphire glass is still lagging behind in large-scale commercial use, so basically they all Not much production, let alone research and development.

There is no other way, Xiao Qi can only cooperate with them, and inject his own capital into the research on the use of sapphire glass on mobile phones. He sent a total of twelve technicians there and invested another 170 million US dollars. The finished product was produced two years later.

Because Fairy has invested huge R&D expenses, 70% of this sapphire glass technology patent now belongs to Fairy, and only 30% of the patents belong to Kohler Optics.

But Kohler Optical Company is already very satisfied. If they hadn't signed a contract with Xiannv Company from the beginning, they would have taken this sapphire glass and sold it to major mobile phone manufacturers.

Kohler Optical Company did not suffer either. Once it can pass the test of Fairy Lab and can go into mass production, then Fairy Company and Kohler Optical Company will jointly establish a production plant in Vietnam, specializing in the production of sapphire tempered glass used in DreamStars. Glass, and then divided according to the technology patents and share ratios.

And Fairy Company also agreed to them, after two years, they can take orders from other companies, the prerequisite is that someone is willing to pay such a high cost to order.

But even if there are no orders from other companies, Kohler Optics feels at ease and has a very positive attitude when thinking about the 13 million DreamStars produced by Fairy Company every month.

As for why Xiao Qi did not acquire Kohler Optics, the reason is actually very simple, because Fairy Company has basically mastered this technology.

The 12 scientific researchers who were sent here and there were originally elites of optical glass majors. After so many years of hard study and research and development, they have thoroughly understood the patented technology of sapphire glass.

When they come back, with the support of the excellent conditions of the Fairy Lab, they can come up with a new generation of sapphire glass by themselves after a year or two of research, and then they can produce it by themselves, so why bother to annex an American company?

What's more, Kohler Optics has a huge spread, and its debts have exceeded 300 million US dollars. Most of them are not available to Fairy Company, and they are not professional at all.

There is still a difference between buying a company and starting a company yourself. (~^~)