ã€Global Internet Reporter Zhang Zhiying】 What does it mean for China's mobile communications industry in 2008? On the last day of the year, the State Council's executive meeting passed an important resolution, agreeing to launch the issuance of 3G licenses; this year, the number of Chinese 3G users is "0"; after experiencing the rapid development of nearly 10 years, the year of 2017 will be 10 In March, China has 1.101 billion 3G and 4G subscribers. If we do a simple conversion, during this period, every second of a second, China will add four 3G/4G users, and Chinese manufacturers will also use this one second time to build about 60 mobile phones to sell around the world. China is now the world’s largest mobile communications market, the largest smart phone market and the largest smart phone producer. This is a magnificent picture.
In 2008, Qualcomm, a leading company in 3G, 4G and next-generation wireless technologies, established the Central Research Institute in Beijing. This is the first institute established overseas by Qualcomm’s mobile communications giant based in San Diego, USA. Division. Dr. Fan Mingxi, the current vice president of engineering technology at Qualcomm, is the founder of Qualcomm China Research Institute. Dr. Fan recently accepted an exclusive interview with Global Network reporters and interpreted Qualcomm’s corporate philosophy and management culture through his own stories.
Mission: "from 2 to 2 cents"
“We do our work not only to make ourselves happy and to create value for ourselves, but to really create value for people around us and for this society.†During the interview, Dr. Fan Mingxi’s remark made the reporter’s impression the most profound. This is not only his personal experience, but also with Qualcomm's development model and corporate philosophy. This company of scientists and engineers enters "knowledge" and outputs the same as "knowledge." They provide "source power" technology for global wireless communication companies and related vertical industries, for the entire wireless communication industry, and the entire The society creates value.
Dr. Fan, for example, said that when he first arrived in the United States, he called the domestic relatives. In 10 minutes, it would cost tens of US dollars. This is a big burden for students. This dilemma of reality opens up his dream of communication technology: He hopes that relying on technology can reduce the international call cost from 2 dollars a minute to 2 cents. This simple idea triggered him to make more sophisticated research in communications technology, but also let him find his goal: to promote the connection between people through technology. This also became his sense of mission as a scientist and engineer.
Fan Mingxi believes that his mission is to "connect". This is the core value he practices. He said that the first part of his mission in life is to connect people through technology and to connect and communicate with anyone at any time, anywhere, at low cost, and with high efficiency. Through people-to-people connections, people and missions are connected, even people and resources are connected. On the other hand, managing family relationships, including communicating with friends, he believes and applies the “connection theory†in his personal life.
This is also why Dr. Fan says that when we connect work and mission, we feel very happy. In this process, he saw greater significance beyond self. It may be said that Dr. Fan Mingxi is a practitioner with a communication mission and he reveals Qualcomm’s industrial sentiment and the corporate philosophy behind it. In the industry, some people think that Qualcomm is actually doing research and development for the entire industry. R & D is bound to bear the risk of exploration and trial. For Qualcomm, the space for adventuring and trial and error is the real success. This forward-thinking insight and the spirit of inventors who are brave enough to take risks in innovation are exactly what engineers have contributed to the industry. This is also the sense of mission of Qualcomm.
Now, with the joint efforts of Qualcomm and the entire industry, the increasingly popular wireless communication network has been extended to many industrialized countries to provide users with faster data transmission speed than the wired network; meanwhile, every megabyte of data is moved. The transmission cost was reduced by 99% between 2005 and 2013, and the call cost was even lower. The price of smart phones was only a few hundred dollars.
Qualcomm's contribution to the wireless industry goes far beyond these boring numbers. At the beginning of last month, IEEE presented Qualcomm with the IEEE Electrical Engineering and Computing Milestone Award in recognition of its groundbreaking work on CDMA technology; before that, the IEEE awarded the IEEE honorary medal to one of Qualcomm’s founders, Irving Ya Dr. Boshi, the highest award of the organization, is also the highest recognized award in the world of electrical and electronic engineering. The National Inventors Hall of Fame also placed Edwin Jacobs's brand name alongside Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and Nikola Tesla. It is no wonder that Dr. Fan has always emphasized in his interview that all research today is on the shoulders of giants and stands on the accumulation of their predecessors.
"After work, the vice president knocks on the door."
How does Qualcomm create an environment that can attract scientists to gather and be creative? Dr. Fan Mingxi emphasized that "Qualcomm has a research mentality and technical mentality from top to bottom." He said that different people have three different ways of doing things. The difference is what goes ahead. When I am immature, my mouth is on the front; in some cases, I may only be walking in front of me and focusing on technology; but the real mature R&D personnel should be listening in front of her ears.
About Qualcomm's corporate culture, Fan Mingxi also stressed the "sharing" and "respect." Dr. Fan Mingxi recalled a past that impressed him. When he joined Qualcomm, he completed standardization work after completing the 3G multi-antenna research project. "This is actually a big challenge," recalls Fan Mingxi. At the time, he did not know that there was a very fierce competitive relationship between different companies in the communications standards organization. He admitted that he had prepared the proposal very well and had full confidence to let the proposal pass, but he had returned to the company with dozens of difficult problems.
After work, the then senior vice president of the company knocked on the door of Fan Mingxi's office. There was no trace of censure. The vice president picked up the pen and wrote the questions and the details of the proposals in the standard proposal one by one on the whiteboard and discussed with Fan Mingxi. The first day of discussion was 8 pm and the next day the discussion continued. At that time, Fan Mingxi was an engineer who was just getting started at Qualcomm. The senior vice president had always been talking to him like an ordinary colleague. He was not only willing to pay off time to help Fan Mingxi solve professional problems, but also continued to trust him and let him continue on the standardized battlefield. work out. He wanted Fan Mingxi to stand at the front desk to solve the problem and also told him that he would support and help him in the face of any difficulties. "I'm really touched."
Not only within the company, Qualcomm has also been passing this "shared" and "respected" values ​​to the entire wireless industry, especially China. Dr. Fan Mingxi said that China’s telecommunications companies have been obscured from the era of 2G to the rapid emergence of 3G and 4G eras, and Qualcomm has been strongly supporting it. According to market research company data, in the second quarter of 2017, half of global smartphone shipments came from Chinese manufacturers, and seven of the top ten mobile phone brands are Chinese manufacturers.
Dr. MIT had poor mathematics?
As a scientist who leads the team to achieve its goals, Fan Mingxi does not believe in the myth of success. In the interview, Fan Mingxi did not evade the experiences of his studies and work experience setbacks. He often said: "Life is growing up in brokenness. I have experienced many failures." Fan Mingxi even revealed that mathematics was not good in childhood. . However, in the face of a top student from the MIT undergraduate all the way to read the doctoral class, it is hard to believe that he also experienced this stage.
"I remember when I was in elementary school in grades five and six, I heard that there were two students in the whole class who failed in mathematics. When I saw the scorer who scored 52 points below, it wasn't me. I'm so happy. I'll see 59 points and that's me." Fan Mingxi He recalled modestly, “At that time, my mathematics performance was not good, and the overall performance was not very good.†When I was young, I was frail and sick and I often entered the hospital. These experiences made Fan Mingxi taste the frustration. He said sincerely that he is a very ordinary person and has experienced many failures, but he has been encouraged at different stages of his life. Without such encouragement, he may never find his own mission. In his work, Fan Mingxi encourages people around him as much as possible. "I believe that everyone has their own mission. Of course, this mission is achieved step by step."
Fan Mingxi believes that the light that a person has blossomed is to go through all sorts of difficult challenges but still insist on not giving up and continue to stand up. This is the splendid achievement of tenderness and life.
5G will be as important as electricity
5G is a hot topic in the world. Our interviews naturally cannot be separated from 5G. As a 5G expert, Dr. Fan Mingxi currently has dozens of U.S. patents. This “universal technology†that is considered as important as water, electricity and steam engines is very much in line with what Fan Mingxi described as “creating value for the entire societyâ€. Regarding 5G, Dr. Fan Mingxi first talked about “bringing in the future,†and he stated that 5G is a leap forward based on 4G. Companies with solid technology accumulation in the 3G and 4G era will have even greater advantages in the 5G era. "In 2002, our company had already developed 4G technology, and the 4G standard was not finalized until 2008. It was commercial in 2010." And 5G is also the same. As early as more than a decade ago, Qualcomm conducted forward-looking research and development in 5G. At that time, many markets did not have commercial 3G.
Dr. Fan Mingxi, who is a 5G expert, summarized the 5G development picture: immersive, reliable automation, and ubiquitous. "Reliable automation" is in line with the "Internet + advanced manufacturing" recently proposed by the State Council. Dr. Fan explained with the recent introduction of the world's largest single-unit automated terminal in the media. 60 to 70% of cargo transportation and logistics of Yangshan Port is controlled by wireless. If using today's LAN technologies, such as WIFI, once there is blockage, the connection will be broken and the whole operation needs to be stopped. It is a great efficiency. loss. After working at Qualcomm for many years, Dr. Fan Mingxi actively led the team to extend cellular network technology to the use of unlicensed spectrum, which has greatly improved coverage reliability and capacity for similar scenarios and provided an optimized interference solution. Through cooperation with industry, technology is brought from concept to commercial use. Today based on 4G carrier aggregation, the future will be based on 5G. 5G can increase the bandwidth, and its latency is very short. The 4G air gap is about ten milliseconds or so. The 5G air gap can be shortened to one millisecond or even shorter, providing a very reliable wireless-based control system. .
According to previous investigations made by Qualcomm and research institutions: The overall economic benefits of 5G will be realized globally by 2035, yielding products and services worth as much as $12 trillion. By 2035, only the 5G value chain itself will generate up to $3.5 trillion in output, of which $980.4 billion will be generated in China and create 9.5 million jobs. According to the survey, China is eagerly looking forward to the arrival of 5G. More than 90% of respondents said they expect 5G to help companies improve their international competitiveness and productivity.
Dr. Fan Mingxi pointed out that Qualcomm is constantly expanding the boundaries of wireless communications and letting the Internet of Things come faster. Currently in China, Qualcomm is working closely with all parties in the industry chain including Chinese operators, equipment vendors, and terminal manufacturers, in 5G, artificial intelligence, mobile Internet, cloud computing, Internet of things, big data, smart terminals, integrated circuits, robots, Drones, virtual reality and many other areas work together to innovate and achieve win-win results.
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