Author 丨Ma Yuanyuan
Produced by 丨Shenwang Tencent News Xiaoman Studio
Vivo recently held the "2021 Vivo Developer Conference" online, Vivo senior vice president Shi Yujian said during the conference, "2021 is the first year of vivo qualitative change, vivo's goal is to change from 'making high-quality products' to 'creating great products through design-driven, technological innovation', so that consumers from 'choice' to 'love', from 'satisfaction' to 'active recommendation'." ”
Shi Yujian introduced the latest market progress of vivo: in the third quarter of this year, vivo in the domestic smartphone market, the shipment share reached 22.1% (Countpoint data shows that vivo has ranked first for five consecutive quarters), the share of more than 4,000+ high-end mobile phone market ranked in the top three, in the country more than 270 million active users on the network. The global market currently covers more than 400 million users, serves more than 60 countries and regions, and ranks among the top three in the Philippines, Malaysia, India and other countries.
Like other first-line mobile phone manufacturers in China, Vivo has recently significantly increased its investment in underlying technologies such as chips and operating systems. On December 9, vivo officially launched the latest version of OriginOS Ocean based on the mobile operating system OriginOS (the original system) released last year. Earlier, on September 6, Vivo released the first self-developed image chip V1.
Vice President of Vivo and President of AI Artificial Intelligence Global Research Institute, around the recent interview with "Deep Web" and other interviews, detailed the layout and achievements of Vivo in the field of chips and operating systems.
Regarding self-developed chips, according to the surrounding introductions, Vivo officially established a chip department about two years ago, vivo is very eager to be the main chip, but taking into account the feelings of the industrial chain and partners, what is now done is a small chip. Around said that vivo has made it clear that it will not do the main chip of the mobile phone and the 5G Moderm chip, but the chips related to display, storage, computing co-processing, APU, and NPU will do it.
The birth of a chip is divided into four stages: soft algorithm to IP conversion, chip design, foundry tapeout, packaging and output. Vivo has about 300 people strongly related to chip research and development in terms of manpower allocation, and in terms of research and development strategy, mainly in the focus of algorithms, IP conversion and chip architecture design, the deep design of the chip itself and the tape-out and other links are handed over to partners to complete.
"Algorithm classes and architecture classes must be done by vivo itself at the kernel level, and if it is a cache management chip or coprocessor, it should be done with industry partners." Representation around.
Regarding the operating system, the mobile phone operating system is divided into three layers: the kernel layer, the middle layer and the ecological layer.
In terms of kernel layer, vivo research believes that there is no obstacle to the use of the Linux kernel in the past ten years and in the future, and vivo's strategy is to make the iteration and evolution of the kernel better. Vivo ranked more than 40 in the Linux kernel community a year ago, ranked in the top 10 last year, and is expected to enter the top five soon, hoping to give back to the community.
In terms of the middle layer, the surroundings said that vivo is more solid in the IDE environment and rendering layer, taking vivo's watch as an example, if it is equipped with enough memory, it should be able to support about five thousand applications, and run five thousand applications on the watch.
In terms of ecological layer, the surrounding area said that the ecological layer is a layer of problems encountered in China's industrial circles, Chinese mobile phone companies still use Google's ecology overseas, and China's Internet industry basically has no ecology in the world. As a member of the industry, vivo has a limited role on its own, which requires the cooperation and efforts of the industry.
It was revealed around that vivo has about 400 people invested in the operating system, of which about 100-150 people are invested in the middle framework layer and the basic tool chain layer, and about 200-300 people are invested in the kernel, driver, Drive, and window layers.
Vivo began to lay out the IoT field three years ago, and in September 2018, it first released its IoT strategy and launched the Jovi Internet of Things, which has now covered core scenarios such as vehicles and homes.
In terms of intelligent vehicles, around the introduction, vivo redefined and designed the card components of Jovi InCar at the car machine end, and launched the Jovi InCar 2.0 version, which has functions such as connectivity, multi-screen linkage, two-wheeler interconnection, and smart car keys. At present, it has cooperated with 80+ car brands, covering 3000W+ users, and active users use an average of up to 90+ minutes per day.
In terms of smart home, around the introduction, vivo has upgraded and optimized the dimensions of convenient connection of devices, convenient data circulation and ecological support and health protection of fast application capabilities, and active users have increased by 260% compared with last year, and have been united with more than 60 smart home brands, covering more than 95% of the core scene categories.
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