Chapter 39 Visit the 2012 Laboratory
Unfortunately, Dean Sha Zhan went out to give a lecture, so Gu Pengdong led Luo Jia to the 2012 laboratory.
The 2012 Laboratory is the largest R&D base of Huawei in addition to the Central Research Institute, with world-class equipment and personnel strength. The GPU TURBO technology that caused a sensation some time ago is a masterpiece of the 2012 Laboratory.
When you enter the laboratory, you can immediately feel the tense and depressing atmosphere. Everyone seems to have a solemn expression. Even when receiving the beauties at the front desk, they just smiled ritually at Luo Jia and Gu Pengdong, and then put away their smiles.
"Director Gong is discussing countermeasures with the technical team sent by the supplier, so he couldn't come to greet him in person. He asked me to take the two to the test center to find him." said the receptionist.
Gu Pengdong shrugged and whispered to Luo Jia, "The storm is coming. Not only is Huawei nervous, but other manufacturers are also testing various types of cameras recently, hoping to find a replacement for Sony."
"Is there any result?" Luo Jia asked.
Gu Pengdong shook his head, "It's hard. Sony specializes in supplying mid-to-high-end products. Although there are many powerful manufacturers in China, Sunny and Ofilm, they are all excited, but technology is the most afraid of comparison."
"If Huawei phones are equipped with domestic lenses and compare them with the Sony lenses used by Samsung, the results can be imagined."
"And if you were a user of the mate series mobile phone, one day, you suddenly found that the camera quality and imaging standards had been reduced. What would you think?"
"Customers can only accept better and better products, not quality declines. For major manufacturers, mid-to-high-end products are the most profitable. Many low-end phones sold at a price of several hundred yuan are for market share and are doing it."
"Once mid-to-high-end mobile phones are suppressed, the four giants will immediately fall into a situation of huge losses across the board. This is not an ordinary war, but a life-and-death battle."
Luo Jia understands the current dilemma of the four giants. There are domestic substitutes, but the key is that they cannot reach the top level.
Flagship models are like the storefront of a company. If any company even makes flagships carelessly, it will greatly affect the company's global image. If it is placed on humans, it will be called a collapse of the character and the chain reaction caused by it is very terrible.
The testing center is thousands of square meters, covered with machines of all sizes, and countless professional optical, electrical and acoustic equipment imported from all over the world, which looks very modern.
Gong Xiangdong is surrounded by dozens of engineers from all over the country. Huawei is now short of flagship cameras, and major suppliers are flocking to it like they are injected with chicken blood, hoping to supply Huawei.
However, the fact is cruel. There is currently no supplier in China that can reach Sony's level. Even if it reaches 90% of Sony's performance, Huawei is not unacceptable. The key is that it is too far behind.
Gong Xiangdong waved to Gu Pengdong enthusiastically, signaling him and Luo Jia to wait, and then continued to discuss fiercely with the engineers sent by the supplier how to improve the product.
Luo Jia was free and had nothing to do, so she turned on her mobile phone to check the news in recent days.
Samsung's acquisition of Sony's camera division caused a global sensation, but the biggest impact was East Asia.
Neon netizens scolded the most, saying that Sony is a traitor. For immediate interests, he sold the camera department to Samsung regardless of national justice. All executives should go to the rooftop to commit suicide by committing suicide by separatist and apologizing to Yamato nation.
Luo Jia couldn't help but smile. It turns out that China-Japan friendship depends on South Korea, and China-Korea friendship depends on neon. The three countries in East Asia are all yellow people, and their cultures are similar, but they just can't pee in a pot.
The transaction between Sony and Samsung this time is definitely not simple. In the commercial field, secret transactions will not be written on formal contracts, but will be operated quietly through its subsidiaries without anyone noticing.
Luo Jia speculated that Samsung must have given other benefits in secret besides the open transaction, otherwise Sony would not have sold the camera division so happily. The camera is a big piece of fat. If a giant company wants to give it away, it will be a bigger piece of fat.
Chinese netizens were in a pessimistic mood, and generally believed that this war would probably lose. The four giants would never recover from now on, and the market share that they had finally gained was to be given up.
The keyboard warriors cursed on various forums that such a big country can't even make cameras, but looking at the models of mobile phones they use, most of them are Apple phones, which is really ironic.
When opening major Korean forums and websites, it is a joyful atmosphere.
Korean netizens can't wait to celebrate Samsung's re-suming sales champion in advance. They believe that this acquisition not only hits China's opponents, but also a heavy blow to Neon Kingdom. In the future, in the field of mobile phones, if the four giants in China want to survive, they can only lick me, the Great South Korea.
The remarks are quite annoying. It undoubtedly shows the arrogance in the bones of Koreans. Many words such as kneeling, begging, and serving are faithfully presented to Luo Jia by translation software, which makes him feel a little unhappy.
At this time, Gong Xiangdong's voice suddenly became louder, and Luo Jia and Gu Pengdong also went over to watch curiously.
It turned out that a product brought by a camera supplier had serious technical defects during the test, which made Gong Xiangdong very unhappy and complained that he did not test the product in advance and then delivered it.
The engineer wearing glasses looked innocent. He obviously did it according to Huawei's requirements, so why did it completely fail as soon as he went on the test bench? After he went back, he would definitely be scolded by the manager.
"Maybe it's the problem of too low light sensitivity." Luo Jia muttered to herself.
Although his voice was not loud, it was heard by several engineers around him. Their eyes looked strange when they looked at Luo Jia.
After all, among this group of people, Luo Jia was too young and said such comments from Gu Pengdong.
The engineer wearing glasses was in a bad mood, but when Luo Jia suddenly interrupted for no reason, he felt even worse.
But he also knew that Luo Jia, Gu Pengdong and Dean Gong were probably acquainted, so they had greeted him from afar.
"Brother, why do you judge that it is a fault caused by too low light sensing?" The engineer wearing glasses asked curiously.
Luo Jia shrugged, "The reason why CMOS sensors can eliminate CCD sensors is because of good high light sensing, while CMOS sensors are always not good at low light sensing."
"If I guessed well, your tests should have been during the day, right?"
The engineer wearing glasses nodded repeatedly, "How do you know? We just passed the test at the factory this afternoon, and we sent it to Huawei for testing overnight."
"That's right, the signal acquisition rate is too low. During the daytime testing, there is no problem with imaging. It's night and there is no natural light, which will amplify the weakness of the low acquisition rate several times." Luo Jia said.
The engineer wearing glasses suddenly realized and slapped his head hard, "So, we just need to go back and change to a new set of filters, and the problem can be solved?"
However, Luo Jia's answer disappointed him, "I'm afraid it still cannot be solved. If you replace the new filter, the problem of overexposure of the highlight scene will appear again. The real problem is that the sensor quality does not meet the requirements, which is the problem of acquisition rate."
"In addition, your algorithm has problems. Unless you use pixel synthesis technology to synthesize four or even six pixels into one pixel to enhance the color accuracy, but in that case, the resolution will not be improved, which will still not meet the requirements."
"Look, this product needs to be redesigned."
Luo Jia has always been very serious in doing anything. Since he asked, he would answer seriously.
After answering, he realized that everyone's eyes were on him, and his eyes seemed shocked.
"How old is he? He really understands it!"
"Yes, I thought I was just a student who came here to study."
"Do you know? Which senior worker?"
"I haven't seen it before. As far as I know, there seems to be no such young senior engineer in the circle."
They were talking a lot, mainly because Luo Jia was too young and was not yet nineteen years old.
The optics industry is not like computers. The computer department is always the subject of young people, and the optics circle requires at least ten years of work experience.
A senior engineer in his thirties, even if he is very young in the circle, Luo Jia is definitely too young if he is a senior engineer at an optical factory at this age.
Even Dean Gu, who came with Luo Jia, opened his mouth wide at this moment. He always thought that Luo Jia and him were in the computer department and were studying, why did he still understand optics?
Gong Xiangdong was stunned. He looked at Luo Jia, then at Dean Gu next to Luo Jia, and suddenly realized that he might have missed something.
Sha Zhan boasted with Gong Xiangdong more than once, saying that the mobile phone assistant was created by a young junior, named Luo Jia, and his talent is rare in the world.
Dean Sha has always had this temper. Anyone he admires wants to praise him. In addition, the powerful magical performance of the mobile assistant made Gong Xiangdong very impressed.
Unfortunately, Luo Jia is relatively low-key. Although he has made a lot of money from the four giants, he has never visited him in person, and Gong Xiangdong does not know Luo Jia either.
Gong Xiangdong thought to himself, "This young man came with Gu Pengdong, and Gu Pengdong is Sha Zhan's best friend."
"Young, outstanding talent..."
Chapter completed!