Integrated solution or will drive the rapid development of Tablet PC

“The rise of tablets is a new historical opportunity.” Yang Pengfei, director of the Zhongwei Hi-tech Zone Management Committee in Huizhou, is very optimistic about the future prospects of tablet PCs. On October 14th, Zhongkai Hi-tech Zone launched the construction of the China Tablet Computer (Huizhou) Industrialization Base (hereinafter referred to as the Huizhou Base). Yang Pengfei stated that Huizhou Base will strive to achieve an output value of about 5 billion yuan for the tablet PC industry in 2011, reach 10 million yuan in output within two years, reach an output value of 20 billion yuan in 2015, and strive to become China's largest tablet computer design and production. base. The first batch of music investment technology parked in the park will support the development of the tablet computer industry with its WowPad solution.

"The development of the tablet PC industry has only just begun. There is still a lack of truly mature and stable software and hardware integration solutions." Yu Shuo, CEO of Le Castel Technologies, former chief technology officer of Google, said that unlike PCs, tablets can be used With more hardware, how to tune the Android system to work well with the hardware and bring about a better user experience will be the key to tablet competition.

System tuning into the program competition key "Some cottage products have also appeared in the market, but many often die, this is due to poor system tuning." Yu Shuo said stability, interface experience and ease of use Sex is the most important factor in determining the success or failure of a tablet computer. The most basic one is stability.

In the traditional PC architecture, due to the hardware and software, especially the most basic processors and operating systems are more standardized, the stability can be guaranteed to a certain extent. However, for tablets, the situation is not the same. Due to ARM's licensing strategy, there are many suppliers of ARM chips on the market, and each vendor's chips are different. The reporter consulted several chip solutions commonly used in tablet PCs and found that the difference between different chips is very large. In addition to the core architecture has different options, its integrated graphics modules, network modules and other functional modules are also different, which is proposed for system tuning High demands. "We solved a few thousand bugs on a product." Yuo Shuo said that in the early days of the development of the tablet, if the stability of the product is not enough, poor user feedback will even affect the future development speed of the tablet. "There is no easy way to solve the stability problem, only more tests." Yan Shuo introduced, Le vote in the test of the program to the "nearly paranoid" degree, and program testing for different processors to ensure that the overall program stability.

Need to improve ease of use in many aspects "For example, the original ecosystem of the Android system, the video decoding support is not perfect, can only decode a few kinds of video formats." Technology origins of the advantages and disadvantages of Android Know that. Therefore, he also improved the Android deficiencies to improve the user experience.

"At present, we focus on high-definition decoding, network resource search and other aspects of research and development work." Yan Shuo introduced, WowPad currently made in the ease of use of the most prominent improvements in several aspects: First of all, for video playback, music vote A dedicated organization team conducts R&D to enable the WowPad solution to support almost all video encoding formats. Second, in response to the user's demand for consumer content resources, Leap has also developed a search engine that can search for corresponding texts and videos based on user needs. Application resources are available to users; In addition, Leap has invested a lot of power in the development of automatic software upgrade programs and user interface customization programs. At present, WowPad already supports a variety of interface effects. In the future, it will further improve the UI and give users a better first experience.

In order to improve the user's ease of use, chip suppliers also strive to integrate more features in the chip to give users a better experience. Infront Micro's IMAPx2 chip integrates modules such as 1080P video hard decoding unit and 2D/3D GPU to meet user's application requirements.

Play the role of industrial clusters Music investment technology is the first batch of tablet computer-related business representatives settled in the base of Huizhou. “In the initial phase of the construction of the base in Huizhou, the High-tech Zone plans to introduce some R&D-oriented companies, including suppliers of systems and software solutions. In the future, the Hi-tech Zone will further introduce the motherboard industry chain of motherboards, complete sets, semiconductors, and even panels. Enterprises settled in, thus forming an industrial agglomeration effect.” Yang Pengfei told reporters that the Zhongxu High-tech Zone was originally equipped with hardware, mold, and other aspects of a good supporting capacity, and thus the Huizhou base will focus on the introduction of the system, the program's suppliers. The planned area of ​​the base is 3 square kilometers, and the first phase of construction will invest 1 square kilometers. Zhongkai High-tech Zone will also provide support for the introduction of enterprises from the perspective of talent introduction, tax incentives, and policy support.

“The tablet PC industry will be an important growth point for the future Zhongli Hi-tech Zone and even the future economic development of Huizhou City. We also hope to enhance the park's independent innovation capability through the development of the tablet PC industry,” said Yang Pengfei.

This reporter learned that before entering the base of Huizhou, the WowPad solution has been applied to the second-generation tablet PC of Gome.