Chapter 611 Seeking truth from facts
As the opening date of the Asian Games approaches, Louis's vacation is finally over.
Just as he returned to the imperial capital from Dagu, the hotel's front desk manager told him that someone had been waiting for a long time.
"President Swan!"
Louis looked at Swan Bai, who was walking out of the elevator in the lobby of Shangri-La Hotel in surprise, and couldn't help but feel happy.
"Louis, you did a good job in the early stages. I want to thank you on behalf of the company. When this job is over, there will be a new position waiting for you after you go back."
Swinbai smiled and gave Louis a hug, patted him on the back with great force, shook his head and sighed: "No one expected that you could contact Hu Wenhai so quickly. And the information you collected before meant a lot to us."
"President, have you seen that Chinese-made mobile phone? Has the Engineering Department given a conclusion?" Louis asked nervously.
"Let's talk as we go."
Swinbai patted his shoulder, walked into the elevator, and pressed the floor where his presidential suite was.
Swinbai's presidential suite and Louis' business room are of course incomparable. Not only does it have a comfortable bedroom and spacious hall, it also has a study dedicated to work, and even a gym.
The conversation between the two did not take place in the study. Swinbai poured a glass of wine for Louis, and then the two found a green corner on the European-style balcony with a view of the Presidential Suite to enjoy the pleasant autumn wind at the beginning.
"The Chinese are so scary!"
Swinbai took a sip of the wine in the glass and looked into the distance and said, "I can't believe that if I enjoy such a service in New York, my income would not be so easy. But in China, I can enjoy all this without any burden, because the prices here are heavenly places for us. The most important thing is that China has so many people, even if the value each of them creates is very low, but it is a huge number to come together."
"Louis, I want to tell you something that just happened. On my way from the airport, the taxi driver had a cup of water with a sentence written on it. I asked him to tell me what it means. He said this was a sentence from the great Chinese figure, called 'Practice is the only criterion for testing the truth'. Do you know what kind of feeling I felt when I heard this? I felt that I heard the truest truth in the world, as if I had an epiphany-"
“This is a magical land.”
Swin tapped on a worn white enamel teapot on his hand, which was written in hairy style. Although he didn't know Chinese characters, Louis still knew that this was the protagonist in the story of Mr. President.
"Well, in the words of the Chinese, we must be realistic." Louis nodded and echoed.
"Yes, be realistic!" Swinbai actually sighed.
"The result of seeking truth from facts is that I have to appear here."
"Because of that phone?" Louis seemed very surprised.
In his opinion, the technological gap between China and the United States is obvious, and it will never be surpassed by one or two geniuses.
No matter how powerful Hu Wenhai is, no matter how talented Wu Xiaoyu is, no matter how sufficient capital is, it is difficult for Xinke Group to achieve China's transcendence of American technology on its own?
Don't joke, this is too unscientific.
In Louis's view, the functions of Tietong mobile phones are indeed refreshing. But at most this is a matter of thinking. With the advanced American technology level, wouldn't it be better to overtake the Chinese in minutes?
Hu Wenhai is indeed a business genius, but he may not be so powerful in technology.
Louis, who knows himself and his enemy, has long studied Hu Wenhai's history of making a fortune. His high-tech products are selected in areas that have not been entered by developed countries. For example, lithium-ion batteries, IGCTs, and general-segment shipbuilding. These technologies are pioneering, and typical ideas determine the outcome.
This shows that Hu Wenhai is indeed a genius, but it also indirectly proves his lack of foundation.
In the traditional advantage areas of Europe and the United States, he did not show any outstanding performance. Instead, he imported a large amount of related technologies from abroad, thereby making huge profits in China.
Importing advanced technology from Europe, the United States and the Soviet Union, and then earning excess profits from China, is almost the summary of Hu Wenhai's business model by most foreign business analysis institutions.
From this perspective, Hu Wenhai is more like a comprador of European and American high-tech companies in China. When multinational companies face high political risks and dare not enter China, it is of course better to have such a channel.
As a capitalist's consciousness, I believe that Hu Wenhai will do his best to maintain the technological generation gap between developed countries for China, because only doing so is the most in his interests.
As for the high-level technology developed by China, it ended up in the hands of multinational groups? In their opinion, Mr. Hu Wenhai is the best friend of capital.
Of course, his success has its own personal struggle, but we cannot ignore that the whole of China is standing behind him. If there was not such a big market supporting him, why could Xinke Group be able to make a prosperous life in the world?
The field of communication technology is obviously a traditional advantage project of the United States. In the past few years, China has not even made programmable switches domestically. The military's communication equipment is still the level of the US military's World War II. The number of telephone gates in the country may not even be as high as a city in New York. How can such a country achieve a comprehensive overcoming of American communication technology?
So behind Tietong mobile phones is Hu Wenhai's consistent solution, using ideas to make up for technical shortcomings.
As long as he absorbs his ideas, it is not a problem to surpass them.
Just letting yourself get valuable mobile phone samples like this is definitely Hu Wenhai's most serious mistake.
Louis believed this before.
But things often don't develop so easily according to his script.
Swinbai's face turned a little dark. He nodded and frowned: "The engineering supervisor of this mobile phone technology has given me a very detailed report. If his conclusion is not wrong, the Chinese will be ahead of us in this regard by at least ten years."
"ten years!"
Louis's voice was as sharp as his fingernails were slashing across the blackboard, and his eyes glared like Fan Shaohuang.
He has always been proud of his baritone with a calm personality.
"How is this possible?" Louis looked unwilling to believe it.
"Yes, that's what I told Kane too."
Kane was the director of Qualcomm Engineering. Louis nodded and reluctantly calmed down and waited for Swinbai's explanation.
"This phone has a very strange antenna, which we have studied for a long time. It was etched inside the phone case. This design inspired Kane. Indeed, we never seemed to think that the antenna could be placed horizontally. However, as the research deepened, we found that we could not imitate the antennas of the Chinese because as long as the parameters of the antenna are slightly adjusted or some parameters of the RF IC are changed, the acceptance effect will immediately drop greatly."
"This means—"
Louis took a deep breath and said incredibly: "This shows that the Chinese have a set of formulas that specifically optimize the etched antenna. Without this formula, we would not be able to adopt this antenna method."
"Yes, Chinese mobile phones are designed based on this kind of antenna. With this kind of antenna, they can distinguish more sensitive signals and transmit at less power, which leads to smaller batteries and longer usage time. Good antenna design allows them to optimize the algorithms of baseband chips, and the same processor can provide more computing functions, so they can make more complex operating systems..."
"This is just an antenna design technology. What makes people care more about is the railway information network they integrate into their mobile phones. Audio communication is only the beginning of the second generation of wireless communication technology, and data communication is the future. And this future has now been put before us by the Chinese."
"After our tests, Chinese mobile phones have not only the call function, but also the data communication capability of 64K/s. The railway information network is actually very similar to some network technologies that are in the laboratory, in short..."
Swinbai didn't know how many times he shook his head and sighed today: "If we were to develop such a product by ourselves, ten years would be a more reasonable time."
Louis asked unwillingly: "Then now we have the physical product of this Chinese mobile phone, is it difficult to fight against them?"
"It will take time, maybe not ten years." Swinbai pursed his lips and hesitated: "Maybe it is five years, maybe three years, Kane has not given me any accurate information."
Louis took a breath of air conditioning: "That is to say, even the most optimistic estimate, the Chinese will dominate the mobile phone market for three years?"
“Not necessarily.”
Swinbai waved his hand: "We still have an advantage. There are not just competitions in the market for technology. There are too many things in the world that have advanced technology but business failures, so I don't mind another Xinke Group."
"Oh, the president must have already had a way to deal with Xinke Group?"
"Well, the Chinese have such advanced products, but no news has been heard. Don't you find it strange?"
"Maybe it was a confidential R&D strategy, isn't that surprising?"
"It's very strange!" Swinbai finally smiled slightly: "No product is so mature and needs to be kept confidential? Can it be sold on Chinese trains? Is it so difficult to advertise on TV? But the Chinese just didn't do that!"
"There are some interesting information here, such as..."
Chapter completed!