At the 2019 Xiaomi Annual Technology Awards event held on Friday, the Xiaomi MIX Alpha R&D team received a $1 million restricted stock award. This evening, Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun wrote an article explaining why the 10 Xiaomi engineers should be rewarded with $ 1million.
Lei Jun said that this young technical team is amazing. They have broken through three core technologies: screen fit technology, antenna solutions and surround screen interaction design solutions.
He said the surround screen technology team fully demonstrated Xiaomi's concept of technical talents: let young people assume more tasks, give young people more opportunities, and allow more technical talents to emerge.
Lei Jun said that as a company based on engineer culture, Xiaomi encourages engineers to boldly explore future innovative technologies, which is the original intention of the Xiaomi team.
The following is the content of Lei Jun's article:
Million Dollar Reward for Surround Screen Technology
First of all, I would like to introduce to you the "surround screen technology" that won Xiaomi's highest technical honor in 2019. It was applied on Xiaomi's world's first surround screen concept phone in September 2019. This young technical team is amazing. They have broken through three core technologies: screen fit technology, antenna solutions and surround screen interaction design solutions.
The surround screen bonding technology is the first technology of Xiaomi, which realizes the form of the surround screen from zero to one. Xiaomi independently developed the layered bonding technology, which splits the screen into the smallest unit that can be split by the current screen, then layered and bonded, solving the stress problem and pushing the boundary of the industry development to "no one Area".
Surround screens challenge the industry's most difficult antenna solution. Compared with 4G antennas, 5G has more antennas and requires higher signal interference. The surround screen form leaves almost no space for the antenna. Xiaomi engineers need to challenge the impossible and compress the industry's 1 mm headroom level to 0.8 mm. Xiaomi pioneered the 5G antenna isolation design and adopted the four-antenna dynamic switching technology to perfectly realize the combination of 5G and surround screen form.
Xiaomi pioneered the interactive software solution for surround screens in the industry. This completely self-developed software solution can not only cope with problems such as false touch caused by the contact area of the surround screen, but also can be used in subsequent folding screens and IoT multi-display device scenarios. Surround screen has made industry breakthroughs in a number of technologies, and has completed nearly a hundred patent applications, which strongly proves Xiaomi's core technical strength.
As a company based on engineer culture, we at all costs, do not consider returns, do not consider mass production, encourage engineers to boldly explore future innovative technologies, this is the original intention of our people.
Xiaomi Lei Jun: Why do you want to reward these 10-surround screen technical engineers for $ 1 million?
Millions of dollars reward for young technical team
Today, we brought the heroes behind the development of surround screen technology to the foreground. Ten front-line engineers share the million-dollar prize. Most of the team are about 30 years old. They have more than 8 years of old employees and new engineers. They are a very effective R&D team.
Letting engineers have a sense of accomplishment and pride is our original intention to set up a million-dollar technology award. Engineers were all behind the scenes heroes, but today Xiaomi wants to make them the most dazzling stars!
Since its inception, Xiaomi has a strong engineer culture. All of our eight partners are from research and development. The first 100 employees, almost 99% of them are technical, and the founding of technology is the gene in Xiaomi's bones. We know this is the key to the company's life and death.
At the beginning of 2019, we set up a group technical committee. One of the several things we need to do is to establish a young, high-end, and large-scale talent team to make the company full of technical vitality.
The surround screen technology team fully demonstrated Xiaomi's concept of technical talents: let young people carry burdens, give young people opportunities, and let more technical talents emerge.
As an Internet company, Xiaomi has always given engineers a strong voice. The award-winning engineer said that many young technical people are envious of Xiaomi's free technical atmosphere.
We have always encouraged young people to be bold in trial and error, bold in innovation, and free to explore technology-free zones. Because we believe that doing technology is to dare to try new things, and it is not terrible to make mistakes, because the ability to explore is worth encouraging. We insist that Xiaomi not only applaud the winners, but also applaud the warriors who are on the way to the unknown, and I believe that only in this way can innovation continue.
The establishment of technology is about the life and death of Xiaomi
The Group Technical Committee was established at the beginning of 2019 to further strengthen the technology industry and build a first-class technical team and culture. Not only must the material team of engineers who have made outstanding technical contributions be rewarded, but also various other forms of rewards for technical personnel to receive honors. And respect.
In terms of technology strategy, the Group Technical Committee grasps the technical direction and pre-researches on cutting-edge technologies; in terms of technical cooperation, it establishes cooperation with government, universities, enterprises, scientific research institutes, and industry experts; in terms of technical talents, it strengthens the construction of the group's technical talents team , Including talent discovery, recruitment, training, incentives, etc .; in terms of technical organization, leading various special committees and technical teams in each business; in terms of technical culture, building a first-class technical culture and outstanding engineer culture, and improving engineers' sense of achievement.
Behind the Million Dollar Award is Xiaomi's continuous increase in R&D investment. Xiaomi's R&D investment in the three years before its listing reached 11.1 billion yuan. In 2018, R&D investment was 5.8 billion. In 2019, R&D investment has reached nearly 7 billion yuan. In 2020, R&D investment is expected to exceed 10 billion yuan.
Today Xiaomi has ushered in a variety of technological innovations in the fields of hardware and driver, communication technology, artificial intelligence, big data, cloud technology, operating system customization, applications and services, industrial design, security and privacy, as of December 31, 2019 As of today, Xiaomi Group has submitted more than 33,000 patent applications, of which the number of patent applications in the AI field has entered the first camp of global Internet companies.
Xiaomi Lei Jun: Why do you want to reward these 10 surround screen technical engineers for $1 million?
Xiaomi will invest at least 50 billion yuan in the next 5 years on the "5G + AIoT" battlefield. For the core technology of 5G + AIoT, Xiaomi's investment in R&D will continue to increase.
We continue to work hard, continue to explore, and use more core technology in 2020 to thank the support and love of global Xiaomi fans!
