Downstairs, Xiao Chen drove Li Yan home. Now that Mengmeng has started school, her mother has naturally returned to Chang'an Town to take care of her sister.
However, Mengmeng will return to the city to attend kindergarten next year. This is something Li Yan has decided to do, and he plans to discuss it with his mother in a few days.
After all, the teaching resources in Chang'an Town are definitely not as good as those in kindergartens in the city.
Now that the family is not short of money, it is natural to give my sister better education and conditions.
Coupled with Li Yan's own work now, he is more inclined to grasp the overall situation, rather than keeping an eye on it every day and night in the factory.
In this way, the mother no longer has to take her sister to take care of herself in the town for her own sake.
Xiao Chen drove the car, and Li Yan sat in the back seat. The window was lowered, and a slightly hot and humid evening breeze blew into the car.
Uncomfortable.
As uncomfortable as ever.
Especially after drinking liquor.
But there is no way around this.
Li Yan knew very well that, let alone himself now, even if he was a big shot in the circle of later generations, such occasions would still be inevitable.
I am in this industry, and there are various relationships that need to be maintained, and there are also various relationships that need to be opened.
Wine is the lubricant.
Wine is one of the most useful things to build relationships.
Li Yan never reads some of the speeches on the Internet that call these bad habits.
It is true that it is a bad habit, but the sophistication of people in this society is like a fine spider web, weaving together everyone who wants to grab wealth in the society.
It is difficult to find someone who truly transcends the Three Realms and is not in the Five Elements.
If you want development, profit, and growth, these are the things you must go through.
No matter whether you are at the bottom or at the top, the difference is just whether you have the right to say no at critical times.
Lighting up a cigarette, feeling a little queasy in my stomach, I looked at the street outside.
It was past eleven o'clock in the evening, and there were still people working the night shift coming out of the factory from time to time to have a late-night snack.
After Xiao Chen parked the car downstairs, he immediately wanted to help Li Yan go upstairs, but Li Yan waved his hand, indicating that the other person should go back first and leave him alone.
After Xiao Chen left, Li Yan got out of the car and stood downstairs, looking at some people eating late-night snacks not far away.
The cigarette held between his fingers was burning slowly. Li Yan did not rush upstairs and sat down on a stone bench in front of his house.
Hym, my head is a little dizzy, my drinking capacity is average, beer and foreign wine are okay, but I have never been able to adapt to white wine.
And relatively speaking, my entertainment is relatively small.
Since the initial loan, and later when the Xingchen S1 was launched, we had a drinking game with several agents.
Until now, I am having a drinking game with the executives from MTK headquarters. Strictly speaking, this drinking game is much more important than the previous one.
Li Yan clearly knows that at the end of this year, Tianyu will launch a smart phone based on WM, priced at about 2,400 yuan.
This can be regarded as the first domestically produced smart phone. If Li Yan wanted to, he could actually concentrate his efforts and let Xingchen Technology develop a WM-based smart phone.
But there are several problems.
The first one is the high licensing fee, about $15-$25 per mobile phone, which seriously erodes profits and makes it difficult to reduce the price of the entire phone.
Secondly, the user experience lags behind, and there is a generation gap with the iPhone and the upcoming Android. At this point in time, developing a smartphone based on WM can only be said to be more gain than loss.
Of course there will be profits, and there will be quite a lot of them.
However, due to the cost of the intermediate investment and missing out on the market brought by Android, Li Yan would not choose it.
After all, Android is the future of smartphones, and Li Yan knows this very well.
And Li Yan knew very well that MediaTek's (MTK) first smartphone solution MT6516 was officially released at the Mobile World Congress in February 2009.
This chip supports WVGA-level LCD resolution (800×480 pixels), MPEG-2 decoding, and a 5-megapixel camera, and integrates a variety of video codecs.
Although it was officially released in early 2009, for large companies like MTK, major chip solutions usually complete the design several months or even earlier in advance and conduct internal testing and customer samples before mass production.
This means that if Li Yan's Xingchen Electronics can establish a deep enough cooperative relationship with MTK this year, it is theoretically possible to learn about the progress of MT6516 through internal channels around the end of 2008, and even obtain engineering samples and technical documents in advance.
But this requires Li Yan's company to prove that it has sufficient technology digestion capabilities, mass production strength and market appeal.
If Li Yan can continue to demonstrate strong shipments of Xingchen feature phones in the second half of 2008 and convince MTK that it can become a strong partner in the smartphone era, he does have a chance to become one of the first test customers of MT6516.
This is the important reason why Li Yan must have a good relationship with the director of MTK head office no matter how uncomfortable he was drinking today!
It’s business.
Now that I am asking for help, I naturally have to lower my posture.
To make money, don’t shiver.
Li Yan made some rough calculations. If everything goes well, he will wait until the end of the year to get the first batch of tests of MT6516, that is, after getting the development data, there will still be several stages of management.
The first one is hardware design, which requires motherboard layout based on MTK reference design.
The second one is software development and debugging, driver adaptation, system customization, UI design, and basic application development.
The last step is trial production and testing. Small batch production is carried out first and various quality tests are carried out.
After these processes are completed, around the beginning of 2009, Xingchen Technology’s first smartphone will be online.
Li Yan has been looking forward to it for a long time in the past six months.
Although orders for feature phones are growing rapidly, Li Yan is also very happy, especially when looking at the financial statements and the crazy increase in funds in the account.
However, compared to personally starting an era of domestically produced smartphones, the sense of accomplishment is still far behind.
"Hey? Li Yan!"
Just when Li Yan was thinking in his mind and feeling dizzy, a familiar voice suddenly came to his ears.
Looking up, my memory returned to the last drunken moment.
The difference is that last time I was squatting while vomiting, but this time I was sitting and looking up.
But the same beautiful and snow-white face, youthful and youthful of seventeen or eighteen years old, full of collagen.
She is still wearing the blue and white electronics factory uniform. Such simple clothes make her face look so beautiful.
"Are you drinking again? Here, I just bought a bottle of Coke! It's still cold!"
Different from the mineral water last time, when Li Yan raised his head slightly to look at Liang Xinran, raised his hand to take the Coke handed over by the slender snow-white palm, Liang Xinran's face blushed slightly for a moment.
The hand touched by Li Yan felt like an electric shock.