IT Home January 5 news, according to interface news reports, on January 4, Xiaomi Group senior vice president, president of the mobile phone department Zeng Xuezhong said in an interview with the media that Lei Jun put forward a requirement for the mobile phone department, that is, to become a technical middle office at the level of Xiaomi Group, which can incubate and drive some innovative businesses.
The most direct performance is that Xiaomi's mobile phone department will transfer talents and technology to the automotive business in the future. Zeng Xuezhong said that Xiaomi's mobile phone department is conducting monthly multi-dimensional technical exchanges with the automotive team, involving batteries, imaging, software and supply chain teams. In 2022, the mobile phone department will import a part of the software technology talent to the automotive team.
At the same time, Xiaomi's mobile phone department also hopes to benefit from it, such as using the advancement of car battery technology to feed back mobile phones and major appliances.
When mentioning whether he was worried that this matter would distract the energy of the mobile phone department employees in the short term, Zeng Xuezhong responded, "No, this is a natural thing, this is the sharing of technology." ”
Yesterday, Xiaomi held the third million dollar technology award for internal team projects, in which the CyberDog Iron Egg Four-legged Bionic Robot Team won the highest award, which lasted 10 months to develop and mass-produce a four-legged robot priced at 9999 yuan. Lei Jun said that we will strengthen the construction of our engineer team, and we will continue to recruit 5,000 outstanding young engineers in 2022. Lei Jun also stressed once again that in the next five years, Xiaomi's research and development investment will exceed 100 billion yuan.
IT Home understands that as of now, Xiaomi has 16,000 engineers, and 5,000 engineers have been recruited in 2021 alone.
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