The staff meeting was very successful, although work hasn't officially started yet.
But everyone is full of imagination about the future, and they can't wait to start working immediately to repay Park Minho's kindness. It can be said that the employees' hearts have stabilized.
Soon, after the staff meeting, Park Minho came to the company's R&D room non-stop, wanting to know what the company's products are.
In his previous life, he had never heard of the brand Hansung mobile phone. Maybe there was once such a brand, but Park Minho in his previous life didn't know such a company—perhaps the company had been submerged in the tide of history.
So Park Minho came to the R&D room of the factory, wanting to know about the company's products.
"Is this our phone?"
Park Minho looked at the two mobile phones in front of him and asked Chen Seok, the technical director beside him.
This Chen Seok is the person in charge of the technical department of Hansung Technology Corporation. It can be said that he is ultimately responsible for all technical issues of Hansung Company.
The two mobile phones in front of him were developed by him, and he is also a talented individual—a graduate student from Seoul National University!
Back then, Park Minho's "biological father" gave him a house and a car, and finally added the temptation of a super high salary, so he stayed and signed a 10-year exclusive employment contract.
At this time, Chen Seok picked up an old-looking black and white screen mobile phone, then put it aside and said:
"Although we have two mobile phones in Hansung Mobile, because the accessories of this mobile phone are more expensive, we no longer produce this old model.
This old model also made a good contribution for us, with a total sales volume of 34,000 units."
Speaking of which, Chen Seok picked up the color screen mobile phone beside him.
This is a "big-screen mobile phone" with a screen size of one inch. A one-inch screen is already considered a big screen in this era.
"Is this mobile phone using a chip from MediaTek?"
In later generations, MediaTek is a well-known smartphone chip provider, but few people know that MediaTek used to be the absolute overlord in the field of feature phone chips, with the company's market share reaching 60%.
This company was mainly engaged in the research and development of decoding chips for CD and DVD discs at the beginning. After their stock price skyrocketed in 2001, they resolutely entered a new field—the field of mobile phone chips!
After that, they naturally developed chips step by step. In the middle of 2003, they finally released the first-generation chip of the MTK series that was successfully recorded in history—the MT6205 chip!
But unfortunately, the MT6205 mobile phone chip they released in mid-2003 did not sell as expected.
Because the MT6205 chip is not essentially different from other mobile phone chips at this time, although everyone admits that this is a chip with relatively good performance among the same type of chips.
But the problem is that if you want to be familiar with a new mobile phone chip, you need study time and inevitably increase the cost of research and development.
In this case, those mobile phone manufacturers naturally don't want to adopt an unfamiliar chip.
So the MT6205 chip released by MediaTek in the middle of 2003 flopped, remaining unknown from the middle of the year to the end of the year. It could only rely on being cheaper than other chips and had minimal sales.
After the failure of this attempt, MediaTek naturally learned from the painful experience, so they decided to carry out great changes in the field of mobile phones.
In 2004, they cooperated with other electronic motherboard companies to establish KyungTech, a mobile phone integrated design company.
This KyungTech company is a company that uses MediaTek's mobile phone chips and baseband chips to directly design circuit boards.
This design directly integrates the mobile phone processor chip, baseband chip, and even the system with basic mobile phone software, directly helping mobile phone companies complete 60% of their research and development tasks.
After that, at the beginning of the next year, there was a one-stop integrated solution for memory and screens.
It can be said that as long as you add peripheral accessories such as casing, speaker, camera, radio module, etc., this becomes a new mobile phone!
This is the one-stop solution of MediaTek MTK, which is famous in history. Because of the birth of this solution, the threshold for manufacturing mobile phones has been lowered infinitely.
It can be said that this one-stop solution laid a solid foundation for the birth and explosion of copycat phones of later generations.
Of course, in April 2004, KyungTech Company was established only a few months ago, and the first generation of one-stop solution products has not yet been launched.
So the first-generation MTK one-stop solution of MediaTek officially appeared several months later.
According to history, after the launch of MediaTek's MTK one-stop solution, it became widely known soon.
After one or two months of brewing, it officially broke out on a large scale in 2005. This year is called the first year of the birth and explosion of copycat phones!
But these are things in the second half of the year. It is only April in the first half of the year, and there are still a few months before the official outbreak of copycat phones.
"I didn't expect the president to know the name of MediaTek, and also know that MediaTek has manufactured mobile phone chips."
Chen Seok glanced at Park Minho in surprise. He didn't expect this chaebol heir to know more than he imagined.
He actually knew about MediaTek Company, and even knew that MediaTek had launched a mobile phone chip. It seems that the president is still very concerned about knowledge of the mobile phone industry.
Since this is the case, it will be easy to talk next, so Chen Seok nodded slowly and said:
"That's right, this phone is indeed using the MTK chip of MediaTek.
After all, our Hansung company doesn't have the capability to design mobile phone chips, so the chips for mobile phones are all purchased from other companies. Because the combination of mobile phones and communication chips from MediaTek is cheaper, when we were preparing to develop the second-generation mobile phone, we finally chose this chip."
"Okay."
Park Minho nodded to express his understanding.
He is not surprised by this, after all, chip design and manufacturing are not as simple as imagined.
Korea is very backward in the chip industry, and the only achievement so far is Samsung's memory chip division.
According to history, this situation will not be resolved until a few years before Park Minho's rebirth.
Thinking of this, Park Minho clenched his fists. This time, he absolutely wants to change all this and change the backward pattern of Korea's chip industry in the future.
He wants to make Korea's chips rise and then supply them to the world, becoming an important supplier of chips in the world!
He wants to let Korea's chips enter the world, into every household in the world, and then tell those who look down on them "We can do it in Korea!"
(End of this chapter)
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