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Fang Nian pondered for a moment and said calmly: "From my perspective, I don't think now is a good time to make a decision."

As he spoke, Fang Nian lowered his eyes, paused briefly, and continued.

"To be honest with Mr. Lei, the Luzhou project has some other purposes. Strictly speaking, it is not allowed to fail in July."

After hearing what Fang Nian said, Lei Jun reacted immediately.

His complexion changed slightly.

After all, he is half a system man.

But there was no interruption.

Jing Jing listened as Fang Nian continued: "According to the current sales trend of Xiaomi Mi 1 being sold out quickly after it goes on sale, Xiaomi Mi 1s can indeed be delayed until September, which will play a good delaying role;

But there shouldn’t be enough time for perfect hardware adaptation and adjustment. After all, a mobile phone SoC is not only a central processor, but also very different from a PC.”

"In addition, if the success of Xiaomi 1 cannot be continued on Xiaomi 1s, it will have a serious blow to Xiaomi."

At this point, Fang Nian raised his eyelids and looked at Lei Jun across from him: "My suggestion is to release Xiaomi 1s in advance and secretly launch the Xiaomi 2 project, aiming to release it on New Year's Day next year."

After listening to Fang Nian's words, Lei Jun fell silent and didn't make any excuses this time.

Before raising this topic, Lei Jun specially called Lin Bing over to exchange greetings and give him a time window to think.

Finally, I made up my mind to take the risk and ride the frontier train.

Lei Jun was very clear about Fang Nian's strategic vision.

And he is very aware of Fang Nian’s current influence.

Basically, as long as you follow Fang Nian, you will have meat to eat... Who can resist this!

In particular, Impact Club and Impact Fund were quickly established in just a few days, gathering 25 investment institutions in one go;

It almost completely brings together the most powerful companies in China’s venture capital industry.

Among them are Chinese branches of top international institutions.

In a few words, 10 billion yuan in cash funds have been gathered, and these are only the first steps.

This is further evidence that if you follow Fang Nian, you will have meat to eat.

Therefore, Lei Jun was willing to take such a huge risk at the beginning of Xiaomi's development.

Because compared to the risks, the rewards may be beyond imagination.

The absolute leadership of core hardware is likely to make Xiaomi mobile phones reach the top in all aspects.

Of course, Lei Jun also agrees with Fang Nian’s views.

Since the birth of smartphones, SoC replacement has been difficult.

Encryption has now gradually begun to be implemented on SoC and baseband.

In the future, core chips of the same type and model will not be interchangeable externally.

This is completely different from PC. PC has great compatibility. If you know a little bit about computers, you can replace various parts such as CPU by yourself.

Although the chip being developed by Baize Laboratory is partially designed based on the popular ARM standard and has good hardware system compatibility, it still cannot be used directly.

Especially...

The chips produced by Baize are brand new and have no previous use history.

Who knows what magical problems may arise in the integrity test.

It definitely takes time to polish it off.

No matter how well prepared Xiaomi is now, everything may be in vain before the chip is officially launched...

After a while, Lei Jun said calmly: "It is more risky to directly test a brand-new chip on a brand-new series."

After saying this, Lei Jun's demeanor became obviously much more relaxed.

"I will carefully consider Mr. Fang's suggestion. Now is indeed not the best time to make a direct decision. It just so happens that the overall industrial design of 1s still needs to be adjusted, but..."

After a pause, Lei Jun smiled softly: "Mr. Fang, can you tell me the tape-out time of Frontier Project?"

"Tentatively scheduled for early April." Fang Nian said frankly.

Hearing this, Lei Jun's eyelids twitched quickly: "That's too much, Mr. Fang. With this little time, what's a good time?"

"Maybe I didn't express it clearly. The chip designed by Frontier Luzhou Baize Chip Laboratory is scheduled to be produced using a 28nm process. I won't say anything about the failure rate," Fang Nian said calmly.

"First of all, there is no way to tape-out in the form of MPW (Multi-Project Wafer). It can only be done in the form of Full-Mask. The cost is said to be a bit scary. Maybe during the tape-out process, the cutting edge The Luzhou project can be dragged down and go bankrupt."

Hearing this, Lei Jun said seriously: "In this case, Xiaomi should take risks on 1s!"

Seeing this, Fang Nian waved his hand and shook his head: "Mr. Lei, you are hopeless, really."

"..."

Although there was no direct verbal agreement.

But Lei Jun’s meaning is actually very clear, that is, he plans to gamble on chips produced by Frontier Luzhou on Xiaomi Mi 1s.

The most advanced manufacturing process, the best design, the best performance experience...

Taken together, these are likely to make Xiaomi Mi 1s one step ahead of the world in the smartphone industry.

Especially...

Lei Jun knew about some relatively distant pre-research arrangements for the Nuwa system.

From this perspective, we can also deduce why Frontier suddenly started rapidly preparing chip design projects at that point in time after taking over Nuwa Systems.

It even rarely mobilized 12 billion yuan of cash funds to enter the market.

because--

The software is so good that no hardware on the market can match it!

As an entrepreneur struggling to catch up with Apple, Lei Jun knows very well the similar views of Jobs:

Apple is just a software company.

And when Jobs released the first-generation iPhone, he quoted Alan Kay, the 2003 Turing Award winner, as saying:

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

Lei Jun didn't say any more.

Fang Nian couldn't possibly know what Lei Jun was thinking.

Even if I knew it, I wouldn't be surprised.

This is indeed part of the purpose of the Frontier Luzhou project, even if it is more to achieve the goal of dominating the mobile Internet base.

but.

Fang Nian is idealistic in this project!

He hopes to promote the rapid development of China's semiconductor industry.

He hopes to realize his personal dream of Chinese rejuvenation in advance under the Chinese dream of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation guided by the supreme leader.

Anyway...

Fang Nian visited Xiaomi for the second time and somehow found a buyer for Baize Chip Lab in advance.

and……

Baize Chip Lab has not yet put the chip naming plan on the agenda.

Before leaving Xiaomi, Fang Nian did not forget to say to Lei Jun: "Lend me the car for two more days, um..."

"I'll fill up the tank for you."

Lei Jun: "..."

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Before noon the next day.

In the restaurant of the Park Hyatt Hotel in Yintai Center, Guan Qiuhe, Gu Yu and others were returning from business.

Guan Qiuhe has already put on the clothes that Fang Nian compensated for her.

Fits quite well.

Showing the elegant temperament of a domineering lady.

Especially the length of the trousers is just right, leaving a little gap when you sit down, exposing your fair ankles, adding a playful touch.

"..."
To be continued...