Chapter 283: Second Alliance

"In the short term, the Little Smart will not be sold. Dongling High-Tech needs the revenue brought by the Little Smart!" Li Dongling said to Ren Yuefeng.

Even if GSM and CDMA develop faster, it will take at least three to five years to slowly popularize. The Little Smart can at least be sold for three to five years.

According to the current momentum of the Little Smart, it is much fiercer than the previous life. In the previous life, the number of domestic Little Smart users was close to 100 million. This is the total number of users, which does not mean that one user only bought one Little Smart mobile phone!

In the domestic market, the Little Smart can sell at least 150 million units, or even more. And as long as it can enter markets like Brazil, Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc., this scale is expected to at least double again.

So next, the Little Smart is not worried about selling at all. When it is sold almost enough, it is time to package and sell the Little Smart to a predestined person.

As for whether Japan Telephone and Telegraph Company will take over, it will be up to them by then. If they don't take it, with the Little Smart's terrifying shipment volume, which of Japan's other major telecommunications operators and overseas mobile phone giants doesn't want to get the Little Smart? As long as Dongling High-Tech is willing to sell, it is not worried about taking over. After all, no matter how you look at it, this is a gold mine. Even if it has been dug by Dongling High-Tech for many years, it is impossible to dig it empty. Normal people will bet on it...

Before, after selling the electronic pet machine to Wan Dai, it finally made Wan Dai sell itself to Dongling High-Tech. If Japan Telephone and Telegraph Company took over the Little Smart, I don't know if it can be like Wan Dai, after harvesting one crop, find an opportunity to harvest the second wave of Japan Telephone and Telegraph Company's leeks.

After talking with Ren Yuefeng, Li Dongling came to Dongling High-Tech's technical department. Now the two departments with the largest number of personnel in Dongling High-Tech, the first is naturally the production department, and the second is the technical department.

The building where the technology is located, the one next to Dongling High-Tech headquarters, already belongs to the technical department, and it is not enough, and a new R&D center is currently being prepared!

Dongling High-Tech's headquarters building has also been hyped by the media several times, but in the end, there was no news. But for the R&D building needed by the technical department, Li Dongling did not blur, and directly approved the budget.

The new technical department R&D center is still in the selection and design stage, but the basic style is a modern R&D building, which will be composed of multiple buildings and experimental venues, expected to accommodate more than 10,000 R&D personnel and various R&D equipment, and also reserved a large enough expansion space.

An R&D center that can accommodate more than 10,000 people is estimated to be enough for Dongling High-Tech for several years. Of course, after ten or twenty years, it may not be enough. Major technology companies in later generations have all entered the era of 10 billion USD in R&D expenses, and the scale of R&D personnel has soared to more than 100,000. Like an artificial intelligence R&D department, it may exceed 10,000 people!

First, after preliminary manual inspection by the security personnel at the door, and then machine inspection, this entered the technical department building.

If it was at the beginning of Dongling High-Tech's establishment, it might not need such strict security checks. At that time, it was just the security personnel at the gate to ensure that thieves and petty thieves would not mix in.

But now, with the explosive sales of Shenzhou digital cordless phones and Little Smarts, it is necessary to guard against people with ulterior motives mixing in. If Dongling High-Tech's new projects are leaked in advance or plagiarized, the losses faced cannot be estimated. Still the same sentence, you can not act like a rogue, but you must guard against people acting like rogues!

Although the security check is strict, and there are access controls and surveillance on every floor, entering the work area inside is not oppressive. On the contrary, the technical department here is quite loose for R&D personnel.

To say pressure, there will definitely be some. Like the projects Li Dongling handed over, the technical department gritted its teeth and worked overtime to get them out, but this is not the norm. It is impossible to rush like this 365 days a year. Basically, when it involves difficult problems or key technologies, it will appear.

For the rest of the time, as long as it is not a particularly urgent project, generally speaking, technical department personnel can rest or relax as long as they complete their work.

Outside the laboratories in the technical building, there are rest areas, gyms, game rooms, internet cafe rooms, coffee snack rooms, soundproof music rooms that can be recorded, and 24-hour supply restaurants.

In terms of salary, the salary of Dongling High-Tech's technical department personnel has always been linked to management. If the salary of technical personnel does not rise, management should not think about rising. In addition, some management positions must also have technical backgrounds, even if it is gold-plated, they must go to the technical department to plate it.

This set of systems can't be said to be very good, but at least it can ensure the status and influence of the technical department in Dongling High-Tech, so that technical personnel will not get cabbage-priced money, do the work of selling that, and finally be driven away by management.

Salary, bonuses, project dividends, and various reward treatments, including free accommodation, free shuttle buses, staff community housing, etc., make the salary of Dongling High-Tech technical personnel dare not say it is the best in the country, at least it is also counted, ensuring the lower limit, the upper limit, equity rewards and other things depend on the strength of technical personnel.

The requirements for personnel joining Dongling High-Tech's technical department have been raised to university students and above, but they can still recruit people. After all, the salary is there. The salary of technical personnel for one month is equivalent to the salary of several months or even half a year in state-owned enterprises or unit departments. In this case, will they choose to come to Dongling High-Tech's technical department?!

Under heavy rewards, there must be brave men. In the past, why could ZTE, Chrysanthemum Factory, etc., send technical personnel to the African continent? It was not because the salary was high. Working for three or five years is equivalent to working for more than ten or even twenty years in other companies. In this case, can no one be willing to do it?

The salary of Dongling High-Tech's technical department is a light in the current domestic technology industry. Now as long as there is technology, when choosing a company, as long as they can receive an invitation from Dongling High-Tech, then Dongling High-Tech is absolutely the first choice object!

"General Manager Li!"

After entering the technical department, Chen Tao, who is in charge of Dongling High-Tech's technical department, immediately greeted him with technical department deputy manager Luo Zheng and several technical department supervisors.

"Currently, the R&D project groups of the technical department are mainly divided into digital cordless phone project, mobile phone project group, computer peripheral project group, and Manager Luo's mobile communication technology project group.

The mobile phone project department's main product now is the Little Smart, and it is also developing mobile phones with GSM and CDMA standards.

The computer peripheral project group is currently developing mouse projects, U-disk projects, and other projects such as headphones, keyboards, webcams, etc., have also been prepared for R&D."

As Li Dongling's junior brother from Hanxi Jiaoda, Chen Tao talked about the current projects and plans of the technical department to Li Dongling.

As junior brothers, the two call each other casually in private, but in a place like the company, Chen Tao is very disciplined. His relationship with Li Dongling is known to all. Li Dongling is Chen Tao's biggest backer in Dongling High-Tech. As long as Li Dongling supports him, then the technical department managed by Chen Tao will not encounter obstacles within Dongling High-Tech, and he doesn't need to use some small means to borrow momentum.

Since joining Dongling High-Tech, Chen Tao has been quite comfortable. Although there is pressure, Li Dongling has never blocked the technical department in terms of funds, and has given Chen Tao considerable authority. At least compared to when he was in the provincial electronic research institute, his life is much better.

Now Chen Tao's name in the domestic technology field is no less than the names of those technical big shots from the Four-Pass and Jinshan era.

Like Ren Yuefeng, Hu Zixian, and others, Chen Tao also has equity in Feiyan Technology. If Feiyan goes public one day, Chen Tao is estimated to be able to leap to become the richest technician in the country, the kind that throws away the second place by a large margin!

After Li Dongling and Chen Tao visited several project group laboratories, they went straight to the U-disk project group. Li Dongling came over today to see this product.

Before, the U-disk project, although it had been developed, had been in testing and improvement. Now it is

Entering the laboratory, Li Dongling saw several USB flash drives with different colored metal casings on the workbench. Their shape and size were certainly not as compact as those in the later generations. After picking one up, Li Dongling felt a bit of texture; in plain terms, it had some weight, but it was within an acceptable range.

"The USB flash drive we developed is mainly composed of a plug, a storage device controller, a storage chip, and a quartz oscillator. Currently, the USB flash drive's memory capacity is 16M, and the maximum transmission speed is 12 megabits, which is a transmission speed of 1.5 megabytes per second. Whether in terms of capacity or transmission speed, the USB flash drive kills the floppy disk, which currently has a maximum memory of only 1.44M, and it also exceeds the efficiency of a CD burner!"

When Chen Tao introduced the USB flash drive, he couldn't help but look excited. Although the idea for the USB flash drive was proposed by Li Dongling, it was, after all, his team that developed it.

As early as when Li Dongling proposed the idea, Chen Tao had a premonition that when the USB flash drive was born, it would likely be a dimensionality-reducing strike against floppy disks, CD burners, and the like. Now that it had been developed, the effect was even more intense than he had imagined; after all, the USB flash drive was simply too powerful!

Li Dongling picked up the USB flash drive and personally found a computer to try it out. Computers now already had USB interfaces, but the USB interface standards of various computer brands were all different. Plus, without software and hardware support, the USB interface was basically still in an idle state.

Additionally, the Microsoft system running on it also lacked support modules for USB operation. The USB recognition and operating software on the computer Li Dongling was using had been developed by the Technical Department itself.

Software and hardware development in this day and age basically came about this way; everything was in a primitive state. If you wanted to use a certain piece of software, you used what was readily available if you could find it. If you couldn't find it, you had to develop a set from scratch.

As for how much money the developed software could make, that depended on the speed of pirates and copycat manufacturers. Generally, within two months, copycat and pirated goods would appear. If they were fast, it would only take a month—meaning before the company that developed the software even had time to distribute the goods, piracy would already be everywhere. The software development company could directly file for bankruptcy. This was the current state of the domestic software industry.

It was slightly better abroad, but the enemy wasn't pirates or copycat manufacturers; it was the big demon Microsoft. You had to pray not to be targeted by Microsoft. Otherwise, once Microsoft copied and pasted the same type of software, the company that was copied could just wait to die. If you were lucky, you might be acquired by Microsoft; if you were unlucky, you'd be finished without even a media report. Otherwise, how do you think Microsoft's reputation got so bad? The "Star-Sucking Great Art" wasn't practiced for nothing.

Li Dongling operated the computer. To be honest, the USB flash drive's speed was really not that great, and the operation wasn't that simple either, but in the end, he copied the content from the computer to the USB flash drive, and then copied it from the USB flash drive back to the computer, proving that the USB flash drive in his hand was indeed usable!