Reborn in 2007: Dominate the World Starting With a Clone Phone

【Mobile Devices · Sci-Fi · Business · Semiconductors】

Chen Xing transforms a radio factory into a knockoff-phone factory, seizing the last tail end of Huaqiangbei’s knockoff-phone era.

From four cards and four standby lines to a super loudspeaker, from flashy running lights to the Kaisi platform.

From the grueling development of the first-generation smartphone to the layout of a full industrial chain.

What looks like a small, noisy struggle in the cracks between giants is, in fact, the setup for a grand strategic game.

Apple: “Who would have believed it? The company that knocked off our phones back then is the one that took down the iPhone?!”

Qualcomm: “Our former big customer has become our biggest rival.”

Google: “How did I end up creating such a huge backer for myself?”

BBA: “A salute to us? So this is how our glory comes to an end.”

Chen Xing puts his hands in his pockets. “That’s all? We’re just warming up.”

What no one knows is that in 2007, just as Android was open-sourced, Chen Xing already began laying out his own operating system research and development.

In 2009, while Qualcomm was still chasing Texas Instruments, Chen Xing had already begun forming a chip R&D team.

In 2011, before the semiconductor industry tightened up, Chen Xing invested in semiconductors and began planning for a domestic lithography machine.

A sword is sharpened for ten years; when it finally comes out, the world turns cold.