Recently started liking the Mahindra Bolero - underappreciated among urban Indians [COMPACTIDEA]

• If you momentarily forget about the newly-launched, more-chic Bolero Neo [and many or most of the points in this post will also apply to the Neo], then there's no car except Mahindra Bolero which allows an Indian car-buyer to own a large, rugged, spacious [7 seater], powerful car in the INR 9-11 lakh bracket. Everything else that's available is smaller and lighter, with less number of seats, and visibly smaller road presence.
• Yes it isn't as chic as the others, but think about kerb weight - it's 1600+ kg. Bolero gives you more meat than the rivals.
• In a way, the Bolero is like the samosa - old, yummy and reliable, but unnecessarily made to look cheap and downmarket by the urbans.
• A good thing about Bolero is that it isn't as "advanced" as other cars - no irritating touch controls, no fancy chips and software that spies on you, no complicated "features". Simple like the cars of yesterday. With all the essentials.
• A few improvements needed [or at least an optional higher variant with some/all of the below improvements]:
• Less vibration in the cabin.
• Slightly smoother ride.
• More refinement here and there.
• Improvements in ergonomics - like correcting the weird placement of some things in the cabin [rear speakers, power windows buttons, etc.].
• At least a 4-star NCAP rating [engineering improvements needed so that same total weight - hence same cost - provides higher structural safety and also more stability].
• Second front airbag.
• Rear disc brakes.
• Reverse parking camera.
• Rear defogger.
• Option of dual-tone colors.
• Floor carpets.
• Gear-change with less movement of the gear stick.
• Bolero should now be given the Neo's engine, since that's more powerful.
• 5-seater version should be offered in which space on rear seats is much higher, yet usable boot space will not be lesser because two seats will have been removed [plus car cost also might come down somewhat due to this].
• Mahindra might be worried that a too refined and feature-rich Bolero might cannibalize its Thar sales somewhat, especially if someone creates a great modification kit for say 1-1.5 lakh rupees which makes your top-model Bolero look far better than the Thar for a lower total price.
• All said and done, the Bolero is a good car overall and it can be made better without increasing its cost, and these improvements can have additional appeal for the urban folks.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m260Jj_D4eo
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Ideas for Huawei and China - to acquire microchips for smartphones and for more [COMPACTIDEA]

1. Create a new mobile phone company that places a large order for various microprocessors and other chips used in smartphones - camera sensors, NAND flash memory chips, DRAM modules, camera sensors, etc. Once supplies have been received, the company is acquired by Huawei, along with all its hardware supplies. How tough is this if the Chinese government throws its weight behind?
2. Could Chinese government mandate centralized [special single intermediary buyer] procurement of all smartphone-related chips from all Western / risky sellers, and resell these chips to individual mobile phone makers from this intermediary firm?
3. Could Chinese government secretly or overtly force other phonemakers to share a certain portion of their supplies with Huawei? Or with the Chinese government itself?
4. Bigger batteries and liquid / vapor cooling will somewhat compensate for the higher energy consumption of Huawei's Kirin 710A. Samsung's M21 weighs less despite a big battery - so bigger battery doesn't necessarily mean more weight.
5. Safe overclocking?
6. Use multiple lower-performance processors per phone? Not just multiple cores but multiple processors?
7. Shift some workloads to the Cloud, to reduce local processing requirements? Huawei will have to be clever in this area.
8. Huawei must innovate on power-management techniques. Reduce hardware power usage. Smartly monitor and control power usage of apps. Turn off individual chips in the phone when not in use. And so on. Huawei must become a leader in power-management.
9. Innovations in transistor design, packaging and materials to overcome lithography / EUV limitations.
10. Start to use RISC-V to reduce dependence on ARM. Like mixed-ISA processors with some ARM cores and some RISC-V cores.
11. Cars can easily use microchips that consume more energy {inferior process node}, so all products where battery life, size, weight aren't as crucial as in smartphones are open for disruption by Huawei - cars, home appliances, power backup solutions, TVs, etc.