Technological Supremacy Chapter 39: Visit 2012 Lab
Unfortunately, Dean Sha Zhan went out to give a lecture, so Gu Pengdong led Luo Jia to the 2012 laboratory.
The 2012 laboratory is Huawei's largest research and development base besides the Academia Sinica, with world-class equipment and personnel.
Entering the laboratory, you can immediately feel the tense and depressing atmosphere. Everyone seems to have a dignified expression. Even the receptionist at the front desk just smiles at Luo Jia and Gu Pengdong in a ritualistic manner, and then puts on the The smile faded away.
"Dean Gong is discussing countermeasures with the technical team sent by the supplier, so there is no way to meet him in person. He asked me to take the two of you to the testing center to find him." The receptionist said.
Gu Pengdong shrugged his shoulders and whispered to Luo Jia, "The rain is coming. Not only is Huawei internally tense, but other manufacturers are also testing various cameras like crazy recently, hoping to find a substitute for Sony."
"Is there any result?" Luo Jia asked.
Gu Pengdong shook his head, "It's difficult. Sony specializes in supplying mid-to-high-end products. Although there are many powerful manufacturers in China, such as Sunny and O-Film, they have all worked hard, but technology is the most afraid of comparison."
"If Huawei mobile phones are equipped with domestic lenses and compared with the Sony lenses used by Samsung, the results can be imagined."
"And if you are a user of the Mate series of mobile phones, one day, you suddenly find that the quality of the camera and the imaging standard have been reduced, what would you think?"
"Customers can only accept better and better products, and will not accept the decline in quality. For major manufacturers, mid-to-high-end products are the most profitable. Many low-end machines with a price of several hundred yuan are For the sake of market share, we are doing it at a loss.”
"Once the mid-to-high-end mobile phones are suppressed, the Big Four will immediately fall into a situation of huge losses across the board. This is not an ordinary war, but a battle of life and death."
Luo Jia is well aware of the current predicament of the Big Four. There are domestic substitutes, but the key is that they cannot reach the top level.
The flagship model is like a company's facade. If any company makes a sloppy flagship, it will greatly affect the company's image in the world. very scary.
The test center has several thousand square meters, which is full of large and small machines, and countless optical, electrical, and acoustic professional 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 currently short of flagship cameras, and major suppliers flock to Huawei like chicken blood, hoping to supply Huawei.
However, the fact is cruel. At present, there is no domestic supplier 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 enthusiastically waved to Gu Pengdong, signaling him and Luo Jia to wait, and then continued to have a heated discussion with the engineers sent by the supplier on how to improve the product.
Since Luo Jia had nothing to do, she turned on her mobile phone and went online to check the news of the past few days.
Samsung's acquisition of Sony's camera division has caused a global sensation, but it has had the greatest impact on East Asia.
Nihong netizens scolded the most, saying that Sony is a traitorous company, for the sake of immediate interests, regardless of national righteousness, it sold the camera department to Samsung, and all executives should go to the rooftop to commit seppuku and apologize to the Yamato nation.
Luo Jia couldn't help smiling, indeed, the friendship between China and Japan depends on South Korea, and the friendship between China and South Korea depends on neon. The three East Asian countries are all of yellow race and have similar cultures, but they can't pee in the same pot.
This Sony-Samsung transaction is definitely not simple. In the commercial field, secret transactions are not written in formal contracts, but are operated quietly through its subsidiaries without anyone noticing.
Luo Jia guessed that apart from the deal on the surface, Samsung must have given other benefits behind the scenes, otherwise Sony would not have sold the camera division so happily. Give up the fat unless you give them a bigger piece.
Huaxia netizens are in a pessimistic mood. They generally believe that this war may be lost, and the Big Four will never recover from the fall.
The Keyboard Man yelled at various forums that such a big country can't even make a camera, but if you look closely at the mobile phone models they use, most of them are Macs, which is really ironic.
And when you open the major forums and websites in Korea, there is a happy atmosphere.
South Korean netizens couldn't wait, and began to celebrate Samsung's return to the top sales champion in advance. They believed that this acquisition not only dealt a blow to China's rivals, but also dealt a heavy blow to Neon Nation. If you want to survive, you can only kneel and lick my big Korea.
The remarks were quite irritating, and the arrogance in the bones of Koreans must be revealed. Many words such as kneeling, begging, and serving were faithfully presented in front of Luo Jia by the translation software, which made him feel a little nervous. Somewhat unhappy.
At this time, Gong Xiangdong's voice suddenly became louder, and Luo Jia and Gu Pengdong also went to watch curiously.
It turned out that a product brought by a camera supplier had serious technical defects during testing, which made Gong Xiangdong very unhappy, complaining why he didn't test the product in advance before sending it.
And the engineer wearing glasses has an innocent face. He obviously did it according to Huawei's requirements. Why did he fail at all when he got on the test bench? When I go back, I will definitely be scolded by the manager.
"It may be a problem of too low sensitivity." Luo Jia muttered to himself.
Although his voice was not loud, it was heard by several engineers around him. They looked at Luo Jia strangely.
After all, among this group of people, Luo Jia is too young, and such a comment is not too bad from Gu Pengdong's mouth.
The engineer wearing glasses was already in a bad mood, but when Luo Jia suddenly interjected for no reason, his mood became even worse.
But he also knew that Luo Jia, Gu Pengdong and Dean Gong probably knew each other, and they had greeted each other from a distance before.
"My little brother, why did you judge that the failure was caused by too low light sensitivity?" The engineer wearing glasses asked very curiously.
Luo Jia shrugged, "The reason why CMOS sensors can eliminate CCD sensors is because of good high light sensitivity, but in terms of low light sensitivity, CMOS sensors are still not good."
"If my guess is correct, your test 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 test, there is no problem with imaging. Now it is night and there is no natural light, which will make the weakness of the low acquisition rate several times larger." Luo Jia said.
The engineer wearing glasses suddenly realized and slapped his head vigorously, "So, we just need to go back and change a new set of filters, and the problem can be solved?"
However, Luo Jia's answer disappointed him, "I'm afraid it still can't be solved. After changing the new filter, the problem of overexposure of high-light scenes will appear again. The real problem is that the quality of the sensor has not met the requirements. It is the acquisition rate. problem."
"In addition, your algorithm also has problems, unless you use pixel synthesis technology to combine four or even six pixels into one pixel to enhance color accuracy, but in that case, the resolution will not improve, and it still does not meet the requirements. "
"I see, this product needs to be called back and redesigned."
Luo Jia has always been very serious in everything he does. Since people asked, he will answer seriously.
After answering, he realized that everyone at ~IndoMTL.com~ was staring at him, and the eyes seemed shocked.
"How old is he, he really understands!?"
"Yeah, I thought it was just a student who came here to study."
"Do you know him? Which senior engineer?"
"I've never seen it. As far as I know, there doesn't seem to be such a young senior engineer in the circle."
They talked a lot, mainly because Luo Jia was too young, not yet nineteen years old.
Engaging in optics is not like computing. The computer department is dominated by young people, while the field of optics requires at least ten years of work experience.
A senior engineer in his thirties, even if he is very young in the circle, if Luo Jia is a senior engineer in an optical factory at this age, he is definitely too young.
Even Dean Gu, who came with Luo Jia, opened his mouth wide at the moment. He always thought that Luo Jia and himself were colleagues, studying computer science. How could he still understand optics?
Gong Xiangdong was taken aback for a moment. He looked at Luo Jia, then at Dean Gu beside Luo Jia, and suddenly realized that he might have missed something.
Sha Zhan boasted to Gong Xiangdong more than once, saying that the mobile assistant was made by a young junior named Luo Jia, a talent rarely seen in the world.
Dean Sha has always had this temper. Anyone he admires can boast to the sky. Coupled with the powerful and magical performance of the mobile phone assistant, Gong Xiangdong was deeply impressed.
It's a pity that Luo Jia is relatively low-key. Although he has made a lot of money from the Big Four, he has never visited in person, and Gong Xiangdong doesn't know Luo Jia either.
Gong Xiangdong thought, "This young man came with Gu Pengdong, and Gu Pengdong is Sha Zhan's best friend."
"Young, talented..."
"Could it be..."