Chapter 526 Vientiane

On May 3, a rare joint press conference began.

Today's joint conference everyone knows that the four companies will each release a mobile phone, but it is said that everyone will be competitors in this way, so why are there joint conferences? Because of such doubts, this conference is a It has attracted the attention of many people.

At 10:08 in the morning, the joint press conference began. Hou Weigui was the first to take the stage. After all, these four companies are together at this time, and the C position must be ZTE. Meizu is just a small and beautiful company. An order of magnitude worse than the volume.

Hou Weigui answered everyone's doubts and explained why everyone held a joint press conference, because the four companies established a joint venture company, Vientiane Technology, and Vientiane Technology developed a brand new mobile phone system, Vientiane System, The implication is all-encompassing.

And when they saw the name Vientiane System, many people in the industry thought of another thing. Sure enough, what Hou Weigui said next was exactly what everyone thought, "The Vientiane mobile phone operating system uses the Baichuan kernel."

This is why Andy said, you can say it is them, or it, because the Vientiane system is somewhat special, it uses a brand new system kernel.

The Baichuan kernel is a system kernel that has been quietly developed for five or six years. The developer of this kernel is the Open Source Alliance & Pure Land Lab.

As I said before, as a commercial company, Dafeng Group, at least in the current situation, it doesn’t make much sense to develop its own kernel. All standards have been fixed by Microsoft and Intel. It’s impossible to create a system kernel by itself. It is easy to be directly restricted by others. If you really want to develop the kernel, you have to wait.

But if there is a powerful open source organization doing this, the effect will be completely different.

Open source organizations have always wanted to do what they want to do. Every time Microsoft sues Linux, it sues Linux manufacturers. For the Linux community, Microsoft is all kinds of warnings. The natural nature of open source organizations is to make commercial companies feel helpless.

What if the Baichuan kernel manufacturer is sued by Microsoft in the future? Don’t panic now, because the success of the Pure Land Lab has made the Open Source Alliance famous a few years ago, and then started various cooperations with the Linux community, and even created a sharing mechanism. The Open Source Alliance and the Linux community are now in some In the eyes of open source developers, it is even integrated, so in fact, the Baichuan kernel can be established in five or six years, to a certain extent, thanks to the cooperation with Linux.

Well, if Microsoft wants to sue the manufacturer of the Baichuan kernel, the Open Source Alliance will sue Microsoft, because Windows and Linux have always infringed each other, and in the future, the three systems will infringe each other, as long as they can do mutual infringement, things will be fine Do a lot.

As for whether the Dafeng Group has secretly fallen into the open source organization to promote some products, just like Microsoft said before that the Dafeng Group is promoting the development of the Linux desktop system. This is not clear. The employees of the Dafeng Group are also human beings. Is the Linux community talking about technical crimes in the class? Is it illegal to go to the Open Source Alliance to knock on the code? Not breaking the law.

Of course, Baichuan Kernel also has an inevitable problem now, that is, the development time is too short. Although the technology is relatively mature, the market share is very small. Today, these four companies dare to choose Baichuan Kernel, which surprised many people.

However, the four companies use the Baichuan kernel in addition to wanting to use the kernel. In fact, the more important reason is the technology itself, because the Baichuan kernel is different from the Linux kernel. This is also the prerequisite for the open source alliance to cooperate with the Linux community. If two The kernel is the same, so we still cooperate with a hammer, and the technology parties around the world are not interested in building a Linux kernel. Isn't that a pain in the ass.

The difference between these two kernels is that the Baichuan kernel is a hybrid kernel, and at the very beginning, the Baichuan kernel's goal was a microkernel. The reason for the open source kernel is because they want to create an open source microkernel.

It has been debated for decades about which one is better, the macrokernel or the microkernel, but Meng Qian's view is still more inclined to the demand side, thinking that this thing depends on the demand.

To put it bluntly, the simplest analogy of the debate between macrokernel and microkernel is whether it is better to buy a rough house or a hardcover house. One can be designed by oneself, but it is more tiring, more expensive, and time-consuming. It saves money and trouble to move in with a bag. , but there is almost no room for self-design and the decoration is very sloppy. It depends on what needs the person who buys a house is more inclined to. Both have advantages and disadvantages.

Therefore, the hybrid kernel has slowly become a trend, but after all, the hybrid kernel is essentially a so-called optimization based on the microkernel, and it still fails to achieve a great balance, so that in the end, everyone does not pin their hopes on the kernel. Well, I simply put more hopes on the hardware performance. If there is a revolution in hardware performance, many things will be solved.

To put it simply, when you are entangled in the unfinished house or the hardcover house, you expect to get rich, and you don’t have to worry about it if you just win 5 million. Even if I buy a hardcover house, I’m not happy.

But such a hardware revolution, I am afraid that some will wait

But Meng Qian is a relatively rational technician. However, in this circle, the masters just like the microkernel, because they are masters, and they just want to challenge the microkernel, including the minimalist kernel. It has always been a belief in this circle .

What the Open Source Alliance lacks most is aspiring bigwigs from all walks of life. The Pure Land Laboratory has a lot of funds. Any time machine aliens have money to support it, let alone the microkernel. This is the background of the birth of the Baichuan Kernel.

It's just that after two years of work, everyone feels that they can't solve the performance problem. In addition, the masters are a minority group after all, and more people start to consider hybrid kernels, and finally they do it like this and make a hybrid kernel, so Baichuan kernel is in It performs better than the Linux kernel in terms of modularity and scalability. And the four companies have taken a fancy to this new core.

So many companies, including Google, didn't pay much attention to this thing, but when seeing that the four companies in Huaxia used the Baichuan kernel to develop mobile phone systems, Eric had an inexplicable worry.

Because Google was also very low-key when developing Android. That’s because when Google acquired Android, it was a company that had been developing for 7 years. Although it developed rapidly, its foundation was not stable. Being suppressed by the Saipan Alliance, it was very, very low-key.

Now that the systems of the four companies came so suddenly, in Eric's opinion, this approach is too similar to Google, and if he can bear it so far, the system that dares to come up with it now must not be too bad, at least Eric thinks so of.

And Eric is very worried about one thing now. As a result, when he introduced the Vientiane mobile phone operating system at the press conference, Eric's worry became a reality, that is, there is a shadow of Dafeng Group behind this operating system.

The database of Vientiane system is from Dafeng Group, the graphics engine of Vientiane system is from Dafeng Group, the multimedia architecture of Vientiane system is from Dafeng Group, and the security permission mechanism of Vientiane system is authorized by Dafeng Group

As a brand-new mobile phone operating software, Dafeng Group may not have participated in the development, but it has solved a lot of technical problems through technology authorization.

Vientiane System can build a better system with the help of Dafeng Group, and Dafeng Group can earn licensing fees. Everyone is happy, but Google is not happy now.

What makes Google even more unhappy is that he just started talking with Samsung about mobile phone design. On Huaxia's side, four companies have already produced mobile phones corresponding to the Vientiane system.

The four mobile phones all use the Vientiane system + Hongmeng processor, and the CMOS sensors and mobile phone screens are also from Dafeng Group.

Although ZTE and Huawei are relatively large companies among the four companies, when it comes to the specific product of mobile phones, they are launching low-end phones this time.

ZTE launched X850, memory 32M+1G, screen size 2.8 inches, camera pixel 3.2 million, maximum support expansion 8G, priced at 1288 yuan.

Huawei launched the U8220, with 128M+512M memory and a 3.5-inch screen size, which can support expansion up to 8G at a price of 1599 yuan.

On the other hand, Coolpad and Meizu are mid-range phones. Meizu launched the Meizu M8, which has a camera pixel of 6.2 million and a body of 3.54 inches. It has a Corning glass outer screen, memory 64M+1G, and can support up to 8G expansion, and the price is 2599 yuan.

Coolpad's N92 is the most expensive, the body material is very special, the entire back cover and frame are made of high-grade titanium metal, the buttons below the screen are made of ceramic material, this is the first time that ceramic material is used in mobile phones Appears on the button, the memory standard version is 128M+2G, the maximum can be expanded to 16G, and the price is 3666 yuan.

The four mobile phones, with prices ranging from 1288 to 3666, basically make up for the low-end market that Hongmeng missed.

After this joint press conference, the pattern of global smartphones became more turbulent.