Chapter 155 Dream Phone
Duke, who got the production materials for screen and power supply modules, was very excited. These two components are two very important components in the mobile phone. As for system components such as CPU, Duke did not expect these parts. In Bileme's world, it has deviated from the scope of silicon and is completely made using biotechnology. At the current level of earth's technology, there is basically no possibility of production.
However, Duke was soon a little overjoyed. There was no problem with the difficulty of producing the light sensing module provided by Lime. After Duke studied and consulted the information for a few days, he roughly understood that the current technological basis of the production process of this thing is completely feasible.
However, to build a factory that is based on the production process level of Lime, the investment capital needs are relatively large. According to Duke's research, the production and manufacturing standards of this thing are no less than the requirements for manufacturing CPUs like Intel. Without an investment of more than one billion US dollars, this factory cannot be built.
And even if this thing can be produced, Duke sadly discovered after studying the performance parameters that this thing can produce is too small if it is a surface area of a mobile phone.
With such a small power execution, it is not a big problem to simply deal with the standby of the mobile phone, but it is completely impossible to support the phone call. Because the energy consumption of components such as biotech-based CPUs and other components used by Lyme is very huge compared to current mobile phones, and there is no problem with this current coping with the biological computer CPUs. However, it is too difficult to deal with silicon-based components on the earth.
Therefore, this light-sensitive power supply system is just a useless rib for Duke's fantasy mobile phone, and at best it can play a supplementary role.
Compared with photosensitive power supply, it is even more shattering than the display screen production process given by Lime. First of all, the composite material process required to make display screens is even more than that of photosensitive power supply materials. To build a display composite material production factory, the funds required are as high as billions of dollars. According to the current research results of Duke, it is conservatively estimated that it is at least more than 3 billion US dollars.
This is an ultra-high molecular weight composite material with extremely harsh production process. In the starry sky of Bileme, such factories are built in low-gravity and dust-free space bases. Therefore, in order to meet this manufacturing environment standard on the earth, a large number of high-precision intelligent environmental control equipment is required.
According to such factory investment costs, the cost of screens produced at low production volume is quite high. If the maximum annual output of the production capacity is 1 million square meters of screen materials, it is equivalent to 200 million 4-inch screens. After the equipment is depreciated in 5 years, the price of each 4-inch screen product is about US$3. Of course, this is not considered investment interest. If the costs such as materials, labor, water and electricity, etc. are added, the total cost of this 4-inch screen is more than US$40.
Because the production environment of this factory is to maintain the production environment and meet the conditions suitable for production, the energy consumption of this factory is extremely terrifying. Simply put, it will not be much less than a steelmaking or electrolytic aluminum factory.
So compared to the cost of more than $20 for Apple mobile phone screens, this screen is just a much higher production and manufacturing cost than it, and the equipment is not much depreciation and amortization, which is twice as high.
Of course, if you want to sell 200 million high-end mobile phones a year, no one will be foolish enough to believe this plan. Therefore, investing huge amounts of money to build such a factory is obviously a waste of production capacity just for mobile phone screens. However, if it cannot be produced at full capacity, then depreciation and amortization will be very high. Assuming that only 20 million 4-inch screen materials are produced, the amortization cost per 4-inch screen will soar to US$30.
This price is obviously unacceptable. Considering that the mobile phone screen consumption may not reach the limit of production capacity, Duke carefully studied the characteristics of this display screen provided by Bilime and found that in addition to the particularly high display accuracy and the use of the current resolution standards of the earth, it has strong three-dimensional effect, extremely low energy consumption, no refresh time, and is also quite flexible, easy to cut, and can be easily spliced seamlessly to become a super large screen.
This feature has a great advantage in professional use. Compared with professional monitors on the market, using this material can not only make displays within 100 inches, but also splice them into super-large screens of any size. Compared with current mainstream LEDs, the effect is completely incomparable.
This discovery made Duke very excited. It seems that the new fantasy phone is not possible for the time being. Although the two things given by Lime are good for today's mobile phones, they have certain bonuses, but it is difficult to obtain overwhelming technical advantages. However, if this screen is used in the field of professional high-end displays, it is very likely to be used.
Unexpectedly, it was originally intended to obtain a mobile phone technology, but it turned out to be a stepping stone to enter the field of displays. This is also a loss.
However, this thing cannot be taken out at once. Duke has to plan to recruit several experts in researching display materials, and then slowly inspire and induce the re-development of this new display material. This process will take at least several months to go, and it will be through this period to raise the corresponding factory construction funds.
Since there are not many improvements that can be made in hardware, Duke has turned his attention to software. iOS is a private collection of Apple, and Duke has nothing to do. And
Iod is an open source system. After Duke downloads the source code, it throws it to Kerry for optimization.
Initially, Kerry kept the original architecture unchanged. After optimizing the inefficient and redundant code in the existing system, the performance of the simulation and testing system has been improved by no less than 30%. This optimized version can seamlessly connect to the current and
Software developed by IOD third-party, for a mature software platform, is quite amazing.
But Duke is not satisfied, and such performance is not enough to stand out in the current mobile phone operating system. To break the current mobile phone ecosystem, Duke needs a stronger system.
Since the original architecture has reached a dead end, Duke decided to break the original system architecture. In addition to retaining the basic subsystem related to hardware, Duke re-transformed the system architecture, reconstructed the application framework, discarded the support, and directly used pure C++ to re-optimize and rewrite all basic applications of the mobile phone.
Chapter completed!