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 normal circumstances, she would not get up until at least around nine in the morning, and then wash up, 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. She simply went for a walk on the tree-lined avenue of Sichuan University. Although the female bodyguards and Japanese aunts were behind, such beautiful girls often appeared on campus.

Here, it still makes many boys want to make a move.

Yang Na is sharper than Huo Zhuzhu. When she meets a boy who stalks her, she will scold him mercilessly. That's why she has only moved here for a month and she already has an "icy beauty"

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In about September, Yang Na will return to her villa. The villa community there is at least much more spacious and comfortable, and the community environment is cleaner.

She will live with her parents until she gives birth to a baby, and then she will move to a new home in the fourth phase of Yulu Garden.

By then, it had been left open for 8 months. Not only did the villa itself have no smell, but the entire Yulu Garden also had no decoration smell. Yulu Garden was decorated uniformly, not like other villa complexes. The time of moving in was different, and the decoration was different.

The time is different, and some renovations will be done within two or three years.

Japanese aunts are very dedicated. Although they are used to getting up at five o'clock every morning to do things, they don't know how to eat if the hostess doesn't get up to eat.

Because of this, classmate Yang Xiaona, who was too lazy to get up until ten o'clock during this period, had to get up at nine o'clock. Otherwise, it would be very embarrassing to see the Japanese aunts who kept their homes spotless but were hungry.

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

With the increase in the business of Fairy Company, there are more and more employees in Fairy Company, and more and more middle and high-level people can enter the third floor to eat.

Of course, it doesn't mean that others can't come to the third floor. It's just that everyone's positions are not equal, and it will inevitably be uncomfortable to sit next to a group of senior executives to eat, so it is better to eat downstairs or in another canteen dedicated to workers.

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What Xiao Qi wanted was simple porridge, steamed buns and eggs. After eating, he carried a bag to the Fairy Laboratory Building.

When Xiao Qi entered the first floor of the building, he smelled the smell of instant noodles. Then there were at least a dozen engineers sitting together in twos and threes, laughing and eating instant noodles while chatting.

Regarding the topic of eating instant noodles, Fairy Company's General Affairs Department and Logistics Department have discussed it with Sun Manxue, the vice president in charge of Fairy Laboratory, many times.

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

Except for the laboratory area, they can eat instant noodles no matter where they are. The average daily consumption of instant noodles is more than 10,000 packets. Some foreign engineers are so motivated that they will eat 5 packets at a time when working overtime.

Their wives often protested after returning home.

Not only did this leave the smell of instant noodles everywhere, but it also made the chefs at Fairy Canteen feel a little frustrated. They felt that their superb cooking skills were actually lost to instant noodles, which was really a bit embarrassing.

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

There was no other way. In the end, we had to let all the engineers vote. As a result, more than 90% of the engineers refused to give up their right to eat instant noodles in the non-test area of ​​the Fairy Laboratory, so they could only vote at will.

It's up to them.

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

Naturally, it could not be the entire engineering team that came to see Xiao Qi, so two directors and deputy directors came to give detailed explanations. One was Zheng Pingfei, who was poached from Zeiss in Germany, and the other was Han, who was trained by Fairy Company itself.

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Han Chen had been in the United States before. He just came back yesterday, and the one who came back with him was the protagonist Xiao Qi came to see this time.

What was placed 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 testing. If it is put on the market, it can only be used as an upgraded version of Dreamsta2, which will not reach the level of Dreamsta3.

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"Yesterday, Xiao Han brought 12 screen samples back from the United States. We assembled them and tried them. We found that the screens basically meet the requirements. Both hardness and flexibility are very good! After withstanding normal impacts, such as

Even when it falls to the ground, the screen of the mobile phone will not be broken." Zheng Pingfei said with a smile, "It is really not in vain that we have spent a total of 170 million US dollars in research and development expenses!"

"But because of this, our costs are also high." Han Chen continued, "The tempered glass we use from Corning Oriental Company is now 2.5 US dollars a piece, but replacing it with this sapphire tempered glass will cost at least a lot.

It will soar to 10 US dollars per piece. Although it has little impact on the overall cost, in general, the three times the cost of a single component is still not cost-effective."

Xiao Qi smiled and nodded.

Compared with the gross profit of a Dreamsta, which is close to 400 US dollars, an increase of 7.5 US dollars is nothing. But from the perspective of technical research and development personnel, constantly designing cheaper and more usable parts is the goal they have been striving for, and

We don’t just use high-priced parts to improve mobile phones.

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

Corning's Gorilla Glass is now 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 right in front of the helicopter. Mobile phone screens

Because it is very small, only three to five inches, it is still lacking in resistance to falling.

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

But now the sapphire glass in Xiao Qi's hands is different. It was previously used on the highest-end brand Vertu. After so many years of use, it has been proven that it can't be broken!

Of course, the cost and selling price of Vertu are also different. Tens of thousands per unit is common, so they can use sapphire glass.

Xiao Qi has been thinking about constantly making his mobile phone better than other mobile phones. On the one hand, he works 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 Dreamsta was launched, Xiao Qi began to look for manufacturers of sapphire glass.

He remembered that there were not many manufacturers that could produce sapphire glass. There were 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 technology patents for sapphire glass, due to cost reasons, sapphire glass is still lagging behind in large-scale commercial use, so basically they all

There is no production, let alone research and development.

There was no other way, so Xiao Qi could only cooperate with them and invest his own money to conduct research on the use of sapphire glass in mobile phones. He sent a total of twelve technicians there and invested another 170 million US dollars.

Two years later the finished product was produced.

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

But Kohler Optical Company is already very satisfied. If it had not signed a contract with Fairy Company from the beginning, they would have taken this piece of sapphire glass to sell it to major mobile phone manufacturers.

Kohler Optical Company is not at a disadvantage. Once it can pass the test of Fairy Laboratory and can be mass-produced, Fairy Company will jointly establish a production factory with Kohler Optical Company in Vietnam to specialize in the production of sapphire tempered used by Dreamsta.

Glass will then be divided according to the proportion of technology patents and shares held.

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

But even if there are no orders from other companies, thinking about Fairy Company's 13 million units of Dreamsta every month, Kohler Optical feels at ease and has a very positive attitude.

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 sent one after another were originally elites from the optical glass profession. After several years of hard study and research and development, they have fully understood the patented technology of sapphire glass.

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

Moreover, Kohler Optical has a very large business, with debts exceeding US$300 million. Most of them cannot be used by Fairy Company, and they are not specialized at all.
Chapter completed!