1. Web Xiaomi wants to acquire Lenovo mobile phones for patents and overseas channels?
Micronet Collection May Report, July
The industry person who has repeatedly broke the supply chain of mobile phones 'Mobile Phone Chip Man', said on May 5th in Weibo that Xiaomi might buy the mobile phone department of L Company, which was once the largest domestic mobile phone company.
According to the analysis, the company he referred to should be a 'Lenovo cell phone'. This boldly-anticipated material made everyone feel unreasonable. However, 'Mobile Phone Chips' has also given several analyses.
1.L company's mobile phone division has been losing for several years. 2.L company also has some M company (MOTO) overseas channels he bought several years ago, which is complementary to Xiaomi mobile phone to expand the international market. 3. Buying L company can also get some patented technology by the way.
However, internationalization is indeed one of Xiaomi’s most important strategies this year. Earlier, Lin Xiao, the president of Xiaomi, stated that overseas sales of Xiaomi’s mobile phones will surpass domestic sales in the next two years. Today, Wang Xiang, senior vice president of Xiaomi’s company, posted a microblog message. , They will enter France and Italy at the end of May this year. At present, millet internationalization is facing two major problems of channels and patents.
With regard to the above rumor, Lenovo's vice president made a response on Weibo this morning. He said that regarding those acquisition rumors, the melons had dispersed. The beasts of June came out of the cage and waited for friends to take the trick. The contest has only just begun. He is still in the sun. Out of the ZUI 3.9.017 stable version screenshot.
It is reported that Chang Cheng is fully responsible for product definition and R&D of the mobile phone market in China. Specifically, it includes: motorola and Lenovo China product planning management, Lenovo product development and management, China mobile phone software development and software ecosystem. (Proofreading/Fan Rong)
2. Saino data: Vivo stands 3000-4000 yuan stall smart machine;
Tencent "One Line" Bu Xiang
In early May, according to Sino data, Vivo's flagship X21 surpassed the vivo X9s in the first five weeks of listing. This means that the X21 continues the vivo X series model posture. In the Huawei P20, Xiaomi Mix 2S is the same as the new machine in the stall. Under the situation, the X21 has become the leading market share in the domestic market for handsets with a segment size of 3000-4000 yuan.
Since 2016, due to the rising cost of raw materials, domestic mobile phone manufacturers have endeavored to enhance their brand image to absorb costs. Major handset manufacturers such as Huawei, OPPO and vivo have successively launched flagships of more than 3,000 yuan, and some even rushed to more than 4,000 yuan. , The average selling price is really more than 3,000 yuan, the majority of the models are still standing, most of the final or to take the amount of 2,000 yuan. The vivo X21 (Standard Edition price of 3198 yuan, screen fingerprint version of 3598 yuan) sales show consumers Increased acceptance of 3,000 yuan price.
It is worth mentioning that this kind of sales trend was taken in the overall decline in handset sales. Starting from mid-April, various research organizations have released the first quarter of this year's smart phone industry data report. IDC released data show that This year, the Q1 Chinese smartphone market fell below 100 million units, a year-on-year decrease of 21%.
At the same time as the competition is fierce, three domestic mobile phone manufacturers continue to enhance differentiation through product innovation. Huawei's new P20 focuses on AI and photography; OPPO launches R15, which adopts a gradient color to break through the mobile phone's shape design to cater to young people's preferences; And vivo is the launch of the X21 fingerprint screen mobile phone production, trying to reach its own young users from two dimensions of technological innovation and fashion.
Xeno's X21 user portrait shows that consumers who bought X21 accounted for 52.1% of the population aged 16-25, followed by the 26-30 age group, accounting for 34.2% of the total. Among the purchasing factors, the top three were screen fingerprints respectively. Innovation point, full screen and loaded artificial intelligence photographic effects.
According to Counterpoint, a third-party statistics agency, the global shipments of 2017 totaled 81.1 million units, which accounted for 17% of the domestic market, ranking third among domestic mobile phone brands. The X20, a single-item series, sold 10 million units. , Become one of the most popular full-screen mobile phone. X21 rely on the development of the X series of accumulation and innovation point of differentiation, and eventually stabilized more than 3,000 yuan price. This may indicate that the future of domestic mobile phone brand to upgrade the only way. Tencent Technology
3. The profits of domestic robotics industry grew by 30% from subsidies;
Wang Shifeng
'Because of the technical gap between the core components such as reducers and servos, domestic manufacturers often have high reliance on international manufacturers and the purchase premium is very serious, which directly hampers further breakthroughs in the Chinese industrial robot industry. The main problems are structural problems, lack of high-end capabilities, low-level redundant construction in the low-end areas, and blind development.
China's economy is entering a new phase of the switch between old and new kinetic energy. China's manufacturing industry, once labelled with low-margin profits, has provided a huge market space for domestic robotics companies in the process of transformation and upgrading.
China has become the country with the fastest growth rate of industrial robots in the world. In the latest statistics of the International Robot Federation (IFR), China’s industrial robot density is ranked 23rd in the world, and the government has also continuously supported it through policies. Before, China was built into the top 10 countries in the world for automation.
Rely on government subsidies
Benefited from the huge domestic market demand, the domestic robotics industry has developed rapidly. In 2017, the output of domestic industrial robots reached 131,000 units (National Bureau of Statistics), an increase of 81% year-on-year. In 2018, it also continued its growth momentum. 1, 2 In the month, the output of domestic industrial robots was 18,770 sets, a cumulative increase of 25% over the same period last year.
According to the data in the 2017 annual report, the leading robotics companies such as Xinsong Robotics, Eston, Xinshida, Tuostar, and Huazhong CNC achieved operating income of 2.456 billion yuan, 1.079 billion yuan, 3.414 billion yuan, 764 million yuan respectively. 985 million yuan, of which Xinsong robots had the highest net profit, reaching 448 million yuan and a net profit rate of 18.24%. Subsequently, Xinshida, Topstar, all broken 100 million yuan; the company with the fastest net profit growth was Huazhong CNC. , The year-on-year increase was 146.80%, followed by Tuosida, which was just listed for one year, with a growth rate of 78.15%.
However, at this stage, domestic listed companies are more dependent on government subsidies.
According to statistics from China Merchants Securities, 2016 government subsidies for Xinsong Robotics, Estun, Tuostar and Xinshida listed companies accounted for up to 30% of net profits. The first financial reporter noticed that despite 2017's large Some robot companies have achieved rapid growth, but some corporate profits have come from government subsidies. Under the guidance of national policies, the enthusiasm of local governments has increased, and their development goals have far exceeded the national-level planning goals.
From the national to the local, the robotics industry more meets the economic goals of the future. Obviously, this is one of the reasons why the robotics companies receive huge subsidies from the government. Take Guangdong as an example. The certified robot manufacturing company in Foshan City, Guangdong Province, subsidizes 500,000 yuan; The certified robot system integration and cultivation enterprise, subsidizes 300,000 yuan; The key enterprise that breaks through the major technical bottleneck of the robot body manufacturing, the maximum subsidy of 8 million yuan per year. The total investment of the robots in Dongguan accounts for more than 50% of the total project investment, the highest funding for individual projects is Up to 6 million yuan.
According to statistics from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, there are more than 800 companies involved in the production of robots in China, of which more than 200 are robotic body manufacturing companies. Most of them are based on assembly and processing, and they are at the low end of the industrial chain, with low industrial concentration, and overall scale. Small. The reason why these companies can survive is largely related to the various industrial parks that the government is currently keen to establish and various forms of government subsidies.
Price advantage is no longer narrowing profits
These 'bottomed' robotics companies not only boosted the bubble in the industry, but also dragged down the entire industry's profitability, and thus formed a vicious circle of 'bad money drives out good money'.
According to Qu Dao-kui, president of Xinsong Robotics, although the industry is booming, domestic robotics companies still have a long way to go.
He told CBN reporters that China’s huge market has not bred China’s own robotics company that can compete with the “Four Big Families” (Fanuc, Yaskawa, ABB, and KUKA) in the field of industrial robots.
At present, the Xinsong robot with the largest domestic industrial robot revenue, in 2017, had a revenue of only 2.456 billion yuan, which translates into only US$ 386 million in US dollars.
In contrast, the KUKA, which has the smallest revenue in the 'Four Family's, achieved a revenue of US$1.2 billion in the robotics sector in 2017. The combined net profit of FANUC in 2017 has already reached 10.5 billion.
The First Financial reporter noted that due to the delay in the high-end market, there is a clear trend in the domestic robotics industry that the profits of domestic robotics companies are narrowing. The reasons for this are reported by reporters after many interviews. Because in the past, the domestic robot companies relied on the price advantage to occupy the low-end ecology of the industry chain and were quietly changing.
While the core technology has not yet caught up with the 'four major families', the rapid decline in robot manufacturing costs is threatening Chinese robot companies' foothold before.
It is understood that the average sales price of industrial robots 10 years ago was around 500,000. The price is now four family robots selling at 150,000 to 200,000 yuan. The prices of domestic robots such as Evert and Eston are slightly lower than the four major ones. Family, economical pure Chinese robot terminal sales average price of about 80,000 yuan.
Some industry insiders told the First Financial reporter that with the localization of components such as speed reducers, the average price of industrial robots is estimated to fall below 50,000 yuan.
The First Financial reporter noted that domestic robot companies emphasize their own advantages more from the perspective of 'cost-effective'.
Zhang Jing, director of the Shuanghuan Transmission Machinery Research Institute, told the CBN reporter that taking into account the import tariffs, transportation and production costs, the prices of the reducer produced by the institute could be reduced by 20% to 30% compared with foreign imports. At present, most domestic robotics companies still rely mainly on assembly and processing. They rely on 'cost-effectiveness' rather than core technologies to open the market, and are at the lower end of the industry chain.
The analysis report on “China's robot industry development trend and investment decision 2017-2022” shows that although China’s robotics industry’s revenue and net profit growth has a significant trend, gross profit margin and net profit margin have both been declining in recent years. The gross profit margin was in 2010. Between 2016 and 2016, it fell from 40.89% to 34.53%, and the gross profit rate in the first three quarters of 2017 was 31.65%. The downward trend of net interest rate was even more pronounced. The net interest rate for the first three quarters of 2017 was only 12.34%. In contrast, the net interest rate in 2010 was as high as 23.24%.
Zou Tao, vice president of sales for KUKA Industrial Muse Robotics (Kunshan) Co., Ltd., told the First Financial reporter that because of the technical gap between the core components such as speed reducer and servo, domestic manufacturers often rely on international manufacturers very much. High, the purchase premium is very serious, which directly hampers the further breakthrough of China's industrial robot industry. The CICC research report believes that the current industrial robot production capacity problems are mainly structural problems, lack of high-end capabilities, low-level areas of low-level repeated construction , Blind development.
Wang Ruixiang, President of the China Federation of Machinery Industry, told the First Financial Reporter that it should be clearly aware that China’s robot industry base is still relatively weak, especially the weak capability of independent innovation of enterprises and the lack of core technologies. This has become a constraint on China’s robotics industry. The bottleneck of development.
4. Luo Yonghao talks about Wang Yiru Lei Jun accidentally lays a gun;
Gathering micro-messages (Wen/Luo Ming) Remember how many years ago, Luo Yonghao's Youku Wang framed himself as a king. In a small studio, facing the two sides you came to me with a war of words, full of gunpowder flavor, 'Do not interrupt me. All right?', 'Mr. Luo, you see you interrupt me again.', 'You let me finish all right, OK?' and other similar words continue to come out, the final outcome is the two sides broke up, Luo Yonghao continues to do Machine, Wang Ziru is continuing his evaluation career.
By 2018, the netizen identified the video of Wang Xiaowei's channeling of Wu Yongbo and Luo Yonghao and the hammer last year. In the video, Wang Ziru's unabashedly ridiculed Luo Yonghao boasted from the best in the Eastern Hemisphere to the second best in the Eastern Hemisphere. He was right, and considered that from a technical point of view, he (Rong Yonghao) had problems with the first and second generation products. As for why Luo Yonghao was angry, Wang Ziru said that he was teaching Luo Yonghao as a man in the video.
After seeing this Weibo, Luo Yonghao was very angry. He responded that the money that Lei Jun had invested in Wang Ziru was still playing a role. It implied that Wang Zuru received money to do things. It was not objective, fair, and a third party.
Luo Yonghao talked about Wang Ziru, Lei Jun lying and lying guns, he really is not embarrassing, after all, Wang Ziru is really related to Lei Jun. On the one hand, Lei Jun is the investor of Wang Ziru's team. In Lei Jun’s Weibo, he commented on Wang Ziru and His team: Wang Ziru is a very outstanding young entrepreneur, Zealer is a vibrant entrepreneurial team, I really like their work.
On the other hand, Lei Jun was Wang Ziru's entrepreneurial tutor. In an interview with the media, Wang Zirui mentioned Lei Jun many times. He said that after experiencing setbacks, he is now willing to listen to Lei Jun.
Photo Credit: Tencent Technology "Wang Ziru: I Only Like to Listen to Lei Jun"
Soon after the Hammer’s new product launch conference on May 15th, Luo Yonghao’s public conduct of the event was really out of place. (Proofreading/Fan Rong)
5. With the luxury brand name Xiaomi new machine will be named;
Set micro-message (text / Luo Ming) millet's own model Valentino's mobile phone appeared running sub-site Geekbench, from the exposure of the picture, single-core 1485 points, multi-core 5440 score performance is not bad.
It is noteworthy that the aircraft is not only pre-installed Android 8.1 operating system, built-in 6GB large memory, equipped with the processor is still not seen on the market Xiaolong 638, its frequency display is 1.44GHz, from the Longmei 636 processor red rice Note5 Pro run to see, the difference between the two running is not, Xiaolong 638 is likely to be the high-frequency version of the Xiaolong 636. (The earlier Xiaolong 636 was identified as 660 in Geekbench, This is because the Snapdragon 630 and 660 are themselves the same development platform. Just like the previous 617, 650, 652, and 653 are also the same development platform. The development plan is the same as the pin, but the Geekbench site was modified later.)
Considering that the Xiaolong 636 processor has been used in the Red Mi Note 5 grade model in the Xiaomi mobile phone family, this Xiaolong 638 processor is undoubtedly slightly higher in positioning, so it is used in the red rice mobile phone family. In that case, perhaps the legendary Red Rice Pro2 is more likely to carry this new processor.
Interestingly, Valentino (Valentino in Chinese) is also the name of a global haute couture and luxury ready-to-wear luxury brand. Don't know how Valentino's consumer groups would have felt if Xiaomi's mobile phone, code-named Valentino, was to be seen? (Proofreading/Fan Rong )
6. LG mobile phone business transformation: Abandon high-end to cost-effective to return to China;
In the global smartphone market, Chinese manufacturers and Samsung Apple have formed a certain kind of 'sandwich' market structure. Many companies caught in the middle have been very difficult to survive, and many companies have ceased to make changes.
South Korea’s LG Electronics is also among the companies caught in the middle. According to foreign media’s latest news, LG did not choose to stop production and business operations in the face of the loss of mobile phone business. Instead, it will change its business strategy from high-end mobile phones to cost-effective. Will return to the Chinese market.
In the past many years, LG Electronics’ smartphone has been recognized by the industry. The company is often able to make some major innovations, including the first launch of a modular mobile phone. However, in general, LG mobile phones are positioned high-end and Samsung Apple is regarded as Opponents, overpriced prices hurt their global market share.
Earlier this year, Korean media reported that LG Electronics is rethinking the failure of the mobile phone business and may abandon the high-end market.
According to the Korean Herald website, LG Electronics executives confirmed the above-mentioned transformation strategy. Recently, the company launched a new mobile phone, the G7 ThinQ. Related executives also introduced the future mobile phone business to the media.
Huang Zhenghuan, the new head of the LG mobile phone business, said: 'Our current main focus is to provide better mobile phones at a lower price.'
The new mobile phone released by LG supports artificial intelligence and other functions. It will be available this month in South Korea, the United States, Europe, Latin America and other places, but the specific price has not been announced.
The above executives stated that the company will consider a variety of market factors and set reasonable mobile phone prices. 'Although we (mobile phone business) continue to suffer losses, we are not prepared to immediately profit from new products.'
According to reports, at the end of last year, Huang Zhenghuan was appointed as the new head of the mobile phone business. His major challenge was to adopt a new business model to reverse the company's long-lost mobile phone business.
When asked by the media whether it would launch a new mobile phone in the Chinese market, the responsible person stated that he was seriously preparing for the return to the Chinese market. He said: 'We hope to use Hong Kong as a springboard to enter the Chinese Mainland market in the future. In order to promote sales, LG Korea's sales department will be responsible for Hong Kong and mainland China from this year.
According to Korean media reports, in the face of long-term losses in the mobile phone business, LG has questioned whether the mobile phone business needs to continue. However, the company’s executives are still not ready to give up, hoping to continue to gain market share.
According to reports, in the past two years, LG's mobile phone business has been losing money. In the fourth quarter of last year, the loss amounted to 200 million U.S. dollars.
In the world's largest smart phone market, China, LG handsets have had a certain influence in the past, but LG and Samsung Electronics are disappearing rapidly from the perspective of consumers. Among them, the latest market share of Samsung Electronics has fallen below 1%. Become the 'sacrifices' for the integration of China's mobile phone market.
'sandwich layer' rout
In both China and the global smartphone market, there has been a trend of giants to be centralized. Samsung Electronics, Apple, and China’s four major mobile phone manufacturers (Huami OV) control more and more shares, and other manufacturers’ survival space is becoming increasingly narrower. .
LG is not the only troubled mobile phone manufacturer. The market share of Sony's mobile phone business in Japan has also shrunk dramatically, but Sony did not give up the business.
HTC Corporation of Taiwan, China, has also positioned high-end mobile phones in the past, but was defeated under pressure from Apple Samsung. The sales volume and operating income of the mobile phone have plummeted. The company’s market share is also approaching zero. There are industry figures and media that if HTC want to win in the virtual reality gamble, then they must focus on resources, that is to completely give up the failed mobile phone business.
Previously, Canada’s Blackberry Corporation also completely abandoned the smartphone market. The company's trademark was licensed to a mobile phone manufacturer in Guangdong, China.
The Microsoft company that spent more than US$7 billion to acquire the Nokia mobile phone business also suffered a major setback. The company’s mobile phone hardware and mobile phone operating system plan failed. Microsoft no longer developed its own important software for its own mobile operating system. , Official website sales of its own mobile phone has been withdrawn from sale. Tencent Technology
7. Sanjiao Maoyi is no match for the seven-year itch: Hold up the moto people in China's smart phone industry;
Xiaomi's listing cheers, Motorola's distraction
Xiaomi wants to go public. Lei Jun’s flag, which was withdrawn from Kingsoft ten years ago, has finally come true. In the days when Xiaomi’s prospectus was read, Lei Jun’s open letter and Qian’s employee’s wealth and freedom were rumored, it seems that no one has paid attention to the former. A few days ago, the chief scientist of the millet Zhou Guangping resigned.
Not long ago, Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun issued an internal e-mail, announcing that Xiaomi co-founder Zhou Guangping and Huang Jiangji resigned from the company for personal reasons. It is worth noting that among the seven co-founders at the beginning of the establishment of Xiaomi, someone left for the first time.
A generation of new people exchanged old ones. A news became old. Dr. Zhou chose to leave before Xiaomi went public in the early days of Xiaomi’s creation. There was quite a bit of grief that 'Birds are dead, rabbits are dead.'
Before joining Xiaomi, Zhou Guangping served as the chief engineer and senior director of Motorola's R&D center in Beijing. In the early days of the outbreak of smart terminals in China, Motorola exported a number of quality technical talents to various startup companies and was hailed as 'in the mobile phone industry'. Whampoa Military Academy '. More than millet teamed up with a group of Motorola executives. In fact, the executives of Samsung, LG, Sony, Xiaomi, Lenovo and other industry giants were all from Motorola.
It can be said that the rise of Chinese smart phones, Motorola has indelible achievements. But over time, this group of Motorola people have been constantly marginalized, the more famous addition to Zhou Guangping, there are hammers before the CTO Qian Chen.
Who is the Motorola Whampoa Military Academy?
Lei Jun 'Three Careers'
Let's talk about an old story first.
In July 2010, when Xiaomi Company prepared to start the hardware project, there was no professional talent to join.
As the big brother of software and Internet industry, Lei Jun found someone who could do mobile phone system, mobile phone software and design. He just couldn't find someone who could make mobile phone hardware.
Lei Jun’s goal at that time was to have VP-level talents who had the technology to do hardware research and development. There were backgrounds that could support the talents in the supply chain. But in those years, the cattle who could enter the eyes of the Leijun Army often stayed in multinational companies as executives. High-paid, low-risk, risk-free, business trips can live five stars, Who will take a fancy to a startup company?
In the summer of 2010, for three months, Lei Jun met more than 100 candidates for hardware.
For the first time, Lei Jun found Qian Chen, Motorola's design director. He worked for Motorola for 13 years and hosted hardware development for many classic products. Lei Jun chased him for three months, and met for a total of 17 times. On average, he was convinced about 10 hours at a time. At the last minute, Lei Jun asked Qian Chen how many shares he wanted. Qian Chen answered that it didn't matter. Lei Jun felt that he had no entrepreneurial spirit and he gave up and started to look for the next target.
The second Lei Jun found Huo Baozhuang, who also worked for Motorola for many years. But at the time, Huo Baozhuang had just resigned from the position of CEO of Wireless. He founded OnTim, a mobile phone product design company. At the time, he was in the outbreak of an Android phone. During the period, OnTim also received a large number of orders from Ericsson, Huawei, and Tianyu. One side was the order, while the other was the risk. Under the trade-off, Lei Jun accidentally touched another nose.
During this period, another friend recommended Zhou Guangping, Motorola's senior engineer, to Lei Jun. However, Lei Jun, who was repeatedly deceived in front of the “Motorola”, judged that the 55-year-old “older” engineer who had been working at Motorola since 1995 was definitely Will not come out of business.
However, the result was beyond his expectation. After the two people had ended a 12-hour conversation, Lei Jun received a reply from Zhou Guangping. The millet founder jigsaw puzzle was completed.
China Mobile Phone Man Made by Motorola
In recent years, not only Lei Jun 'Three Motorola' has been adopted, but in fact the outbreak of domestic smart phones depends on Motorola's support of half a day.
Prior to Lei Jun, Lu Lei, former vice president of Motorola and Personal Communications Division China General Manager Lu Lei joined Apple and served as vice president of Asia Pacific; former sales director of Motorola's West China market, Jin Hao, went to Lenovo Mobile Internet after being transferred to LG. Vice President of China; former Vice President of Motorola and General Manager of China Mobile Division Ren Weiguang later served as President of HTC China...
After Lei Jun, Motorola's senior designer Chen Mingyu was dug to Cool as the design director. Qian Chen went on a hammer as CTO in Luo Yonghao's six months of hard polishing.
In the 2nd year of 2009, Motorola's market share dropped sharply, and after Google’s acquisition, there was a storm of layoffs. Many Internet companies directly put the job fairs at the door of the R&D center in Motorola's various locations. Motor workers who were laid off lay holding banner rights in the morning. In the afternoon, I went to the booth with banners.
Of course, setting up the booths is only a junior game for startup companies. In the gameplay of big companies, Huawei, ZTE, Lenovo, Coolpad, Xiaomi and even 360 have all organized to dig the walls of Motorola.
When Motorola’s R&D center in Nanjing was laid off in 2012, Zhou Hongjun made an urgent statement on Weibo: 'If everyone is unwilling to leave Nanjing, we can open a research and development center in Nanjing.' At the same time, he also criticized 360HR's reaction speed in Weibo. .
Immediately after Lei Jun announced on Weibo that Xiaomi currently has 70 to 80 former Motorola elites. 'This Nanjing MOTO layoffs, all elites can also consider Xiaomi. Xiaomi had a research and development center in Nanjing a year ago.'
At the same time, as the upper reaches of the mobile phone supply chain, Qualcomm China Vice President Shen Jin also shouted through microblogging: 'Is Qualcomm's HR rushing to recruit for Motorola's layoffs? How many talents has Motorola trained for our mobile and mobile industry?'
Many people refer to Motorola as the Whampoa Military Academy of Chinese entrepreneurship, and more vividly come from the current high-level groups of Chinese multinational companies. According to incomplete statistics, nearly 70% of the major multinational companies in the Chinese IT industry currently. The executives had experience working in Motorola, and the most concentrated is the mobile phone industry. Samsung, LG, Sony, Xiaomi, Lenovo and other industry giant executives are almost all from Motorola.
If China is considered to have truly mobile phone R&D after Android, then graduates from Motorola should be the catalyst.
Unstoppable 'seven-year itch'
The first difficulty that Xiaomi encountered when it came to hardware implementation was that suppliers were reluctant to supply a newly established start-up company because of the problem of the payment cycle. Later, this problem was solved by relying on Zhou Guangping’s contacts, saliva, and wine glasses. .
Lao Luo Gang started to say that when he was doing a mobile phone, he was particularly loud and loud in the media. Most of the OEMs in Shenzhen came to the door. They all thought that the hammer was to be a branding machine. Lao Luo said that we plan to make our own mobile phones. Say, will you do it? Can you handle the supply chain? Later, Luo said that they had found Qian Chen, who knew it inside the circle, and said that they had misunderstood it.
If Lei Jun does not have Zhou Guangping, Xiaomi may still be struggling with MIUI and rice chat. If Luo Yonghao does not have Qian Chen, the hammer may also be reduced to the fate of Le Frog OS.
At that time, Lei Jun and Zhou Guangping, Lao Luo and Qian Chen were like newly-married couples, and they were very sweet. Lei Jun called for Zhou Guangping’s mouthful of Dr. Zhou at the press conference. Lao Luo and Qian Chen were also working. In addition, photos of the family's travels were shared.
But even the intimate 'Couples' are no match for the 'seven-year itch'. Zhou Guangping joined Xiaomi in 2010, and he was retired by the media for not long ago, almost seven years, and Qian Chen left the hammer a year earlier. .
2016 was not a peaceful year for Qian Chen and Zhou Guangping. In May of that year, Lei Jun issued an internal letter to Zhou Guangping to move away from the supply chain and assume the position of chief scientist. It was not safe for two months. Almost the incident of Qian Chen's 'pants' was reported, and later confirmed the news that Qian Chen was retired.
Qian Chen didn’t wait until Luo’s billion-dollar financing. Zhou Guangping didn’t wait until Xiaomi’s full-screen wave. Why did Qian Chen and Zhou Guangping come down like this when they were Chinese textbook-level Motorola graduates?
According to a previous report from Tencent Shenzhen.com, Xiaomi’s internal staff pointed out that Zhou Guangping’s R&D team had made great contributions in the early days of Xiaomi’s venture, but it has gradually fallen behind in the increasingly fierce competition of domestic mobile phones. For example, in 2015, the product was red. Mi Note3 launched fingerprint identification time is too late, this phone was overwhelmed with bad feedback after the release, the experience is obviously not as good as LeTV and Meizu released in the same period, Le 1S and Charm Blue Metal.
At the early stage of Qian Chen’s work, she did not have a stable security when working on the hammer T1. Qian Chen’s ability to do hardware is always there, but the hammer has always been the software company led by Luo Yonghao. Luo Luo was persistent in doing things without sufficient staff and capacity. A perfect mobile phone, superior design, surprising interaction (all old Luo personally grasped) behind the rest is full of money Chen led the hardware team to fill. So early T1 broke out poor quality control, battery heat is also insufficient Wonderful.
In the era of Qian and Zhou in the Motorola era, the handsets were still hardware-oriented. Therefore, their hardware department had considerable power in the entire project team. The software department needed to follow the hardware design optimization. After Android, the system optimization weights. Gradually from the entire project team to upgrade, you need to combine hardware and software in order to make a good product. This is undoubtedly difficult for Zhou and Qiang, who have fixed the game.
Disappeared right to speak
Another difficulty in mobile hardware is the supply chain. At this point, the performance of money and weeks is also difficult to satisfy.
In 2015, because of the supply chain, Xiaomi 5 could not publish and eventually dragged it to February 2016. This caused Xiaomi not to complete the established target of 80 million handset sales in 2015. Lei Jun is very Angry. And Xiaomi cell phone R & D and supply chain is responsible for Zhou Guangping.
During that time, Qian Chen was similarly bruised in the supply chain. The hammer T2 was only released after a year and a half of T1. It was due to the improper control of the supply chain. On the eve of release, the sudden bankruptcy of T2's foundry Zhongtian also added to the hammer. .
In the report of Tencent Shenzhen.com, the responsibility of the Xiaomi supply chain was lost to Zhou Guoping’s partner, Guo Jun. Guo Jun has a background in government work. The earliest access to millet was responsible for network access, government relations, etc. Later, Lei Jun was appointed to be responsible for supply. chain.
Guo Jun, who did not have experience in the supply chain before, believes that suppliers are not important. In Guo Jun's mind, Xiaomi is a Party A company and the supplier is a Party B company.
Even at a supplier conference held by Xiaomi, the senior executives of the supplier did not wear the clothes made by Xiaomi at the scene and went to the photo session of the assembly. Guo Jun was very angry after seeing, and directly threw down these people. From then on The supplier refused to meet with Guo Jun.
Why did Zhou Guangping not personally take charge of the supply chain? Why did Qian Chen not go to a good factory? Say some heroes were bleak for the past year. Qian Chen and Zhou Guangping, who were the first batch of mobile phone people, had already had nothing in the mobile phone supply chain. Right to speak.
Not to mention the decline of motorcycles component manufacturers have been a big change in the past years, Sony monopolized the mobile phone lens market, Qualcomm has occupied half of the mobile chip, mobile phone screens to allow Samsung and JDI to eat away, the motorcycle supply chain advantages accumulated in previous years (such as Texas Instruments has long been banished from the wave of mobile internet.
In the early years, most of Motorola's mobile phones were built in its own factory and did not accumulate much of the foundry resources. Therefore, Foxconn, Infinova and other companies lost the bargaining chip in front of a group of emerging foundries.
Diverse 'Motor'
Although history has allowed the old "Motor" to gradually lose its technical and channel advantages, it has not lost it as a "gas field" in the management of multinational corporations.
A person who had been in contact with Zhou Guangping once said in front of the media that Zhou Guangping was a person who was proud of himself. He liked to discuss issues with a threat of arrogance. This happened several times in Motorola. Once, Xiaomi had an internal discussion. The problems in the mobile phone supply chain, Lei Jun asked why OPPO and VIVO can not do Xiaomi well in the supply chain. As a result, Zhou Guangping returned with a scurry: 'Then you go to OV's person,' and the whole scene is very awkward. .
Zhou Guangping sometimes did not spare himself, so that Lei Jun did not step down. In the early days of the millenial venture, the two had participated in the micro forum organized by the media. Lei Jun fell down on the hard floor to test the mobile phone. After he went back, he was criticized by Zhou Guangping. Meal.
According to sources in the supply chain, Zhou Guangping had conflicts with Lei Jun. He occupied table tennis in the conference room during office hours, making it impossible for suppliers who came to Xiaomi to have a meeting.
On the other side, Qian Chen’s experience in the hammer is just the opposite. According to rumors that the hammer T1 was in the design period, Qian Chen rejected many unrealistic ideas of the old Luo, and the results were sprayed by the dog. 2014 Luo Youku When the war king was comfortable, Qian Chen also persuaded the truce. As a result, Luo was disgraced by the embarrassing teacher.
Although the “urine pants” incident is difficult to verify, but on the eve of Qian Chen's departure, there are two things that may determine the idea of his departure from the hammer. The first is that Qian Chen opposed Luo Yonghao to once again talk with Hammer Li Zhongqiu on the video site; Second, at the internal conference of hammer technology at the end of June last year, the amendments proposed for the new cell phone Lao Luo to be released were met with the opposition of Qian Chen and other senior executives. Later, it was not necessary to throw mineral water, but with Lao Luo. The embarrassment of the character Qian Chen in front of everyone is indispensable.
Money, before the week, reporting to professional managers in multinational corporations, when there was a problem, noisy and noisy, even if both parties had trouble to continue the financial report data for next year. Hello I am good everyone will be good, this is a cross-border Large companies have the same old law.
But when it comes to startups, it's not the same thing to touch the founder's inverse scale three more times.
Perhaps for Lei Jun and Lao Luo, the addition of Zhou He and Qian Qian not only can solve the early hardware problems, but the additional background Buff bonus also attracts the attention of talents and capital. Therefore, at the beginning, Lei Jun was willing to present Dr. Zhou at the press conference. With the same frame, Lao Luo is also willing to give a lot of space to Dr. Qian for dowry during the interview.
But the higher the holding, the more hurt the fall.
You see that Wu Dezhou, who later took over Qian Chen, is not only low in size, but also very low in attitude. Only a few times in live appearances is what Lao Luo let say to say what; you look at Zhang Feng who later replaced Zhou Guangping. From the position of the purple rice CEO, "Lee always" means where to hit.
People like to call talented people "top-notch", but the top-notch leader becomes a nail.