A few years ago, when many overseas companies began to restrict Huawei's Kirin chip business, Bill Gates had the foresight to believe: Such suppression is meaningless and will only make them (mainland) self-sufficient. path . Nowadays, Bill Gates’ prediction is happening step by step.
As Bill Gates wished, overseas chip prices have plummeted, while mainland production has been increasing day by day.
With the oversupply of chips this year, overseas chip companies have suffered a wave of order reductions, and prices have even experienced a "big plunge." Looking back at the mainland market, the chip industry has ushered in a stage of rapid growth, with output increasing day by day. Why is there such a big gap between ?
In fact, after Huawei's mobile phone business had no choice but to enter a dormant period, mainland technology giants clearly understood that: chip manufacturing has become a shortcoming that cannot be ignored. Only by strengthening their own technological strength can they not be controlled by others. Since then, Xiaomi , OPPO and other domestic mobile phone brands have increased their investment in technology research and development, and have embarked on the road of self-developed chips without hesitation.
Anyone who knows something about digital should know that the core of Apple products is: self-developed chip + self-developed system , Jobs and Cook have won many users by virtue of this perfect closed loop word of mouth. Previously, in order to stand out in the fiercely competitive market, Xiaomi had to build the ThePaper S1 chip at all costs and mass-produce it on Xiaomi 5C, which was a blockbuster.
After four years of development, Xiaomi's core-making strategy has undergone certain changes, that is, has moved from SoC to dedicated chips, from mid-range phones to flagship models. In 2021, Lei Jun officially unveiled the ThePaper P1 charging chip and ThePaper C1 imaging chip at the annual speech, which were installed on Xiaomi 12Pro and the folding screen MIX FOLD respectively. In a CCTV documentary of the same year, Xiaomi engineers made it clear that the investment in R&D of Soc was beyond imagination, and they would still return to design and manufacturing in the future.
"Technology-based" is probably the iron law of development for every technology company , and Xiaomi has obviously not slowed down its progress. Just recently, the debut of ThePaper G1 chip is really amazing. On the one hand, it can detect battery safety in real time and increase the battery life of mobile phones. On the other hand, it completes the last piece of the puzzle in the charging field for Xiaomi and realizes the entire battery management chain. A breakthrough in self-developed road technology.
According to current opinions, Xiaomi 12S series products will be the first to be equipped with ThePaper G1 chip. Interested students can check it out.
Today, chip manufacturing has become the next battleground for technology giants. As Bill Gates wishes, the entry of domestic mobile phone brands has accelerated the process of self-research, and the mainland's chip production is increasing day by day. What do you think about this?
