Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 383: A Sensation Caused by an Email: Quantum Computer
"Zhiyun has become the first trillion-dollar enterprise in human history!"

"What does the rise of Zhiyun mean to us?"

“Unveiling the secrets of the Zhiyun system and exploring how the most successful high-tech company in human history operates!”

“Why is Zhiyun’s market value so high?”

So many issues and so many media reports filled the entire Internet and other media channels within a day.

Let everyone in the country and even the world know the strength of Zhiyun Group.

On Wall Street and Silicon Valley, local high-tech practitioners and financial practitioners are actively discussing everything about Zhiyun Group... By the way, capital from the United States is still the capital that has purchased the most Zhiyun shares.

Although Zhiyun Group is a competitor of many high-tech companies in the United States, Zhiyun Group has even delisted from the U.S. stock market and moved to Hong Kong for listing.

However, there are still a large number of American investors who choose to buy and hold Zhiyun’s stocks!

After all, capitalists have national boundaries, but capital has no national boundaries.

The surge in Zhiyun’s stock price is also largely due to the boost from these American capitals.

As for Europe, people are mainly curious and amazed at Zhiyun's huge success... Anyway, Europe doesn't have any industrial systems such as semiconductors and consumer electronics now, and they don't have any companies that are competitors of Zhiyun Group, so they can take a detached attitude towards Zhiyun's rise and laugh at the Americans!

In the two regions of Japan and South Korea, Japan is relatively better, with more people being shocked. At the same time, more people are paying attention to the position of Japanese companies in the Zhiyun supply chain, exploring how to better integrate into the process of Zhiyun's rise and then gain the market.

This is indeed true. Since its development, Zhiyun Group has supported a large number of domestic supply chain manufacturers. There are not many overseas supply chains now, and most of the remaining overseas supply chains are concentrated in Japan... It has to be said that Japan still has great advantages in the fields of precision machinery, chemical raw materials, etc. Zhiyun Group has many Japanese supplier companies in the fields of semiconductors, smart terminals and emerging robots.

Every year, Zhiyun Group purchases various equipment, consumables, parts, etc. worth billions of dollars from Japanese companies.

As for South Korea, there are more sour attitudes... and many people are also worried.

After all, Sixin is one of Zhiyun Group’s main competitors, and it has extensive competition from smart terminals to semiconductors.

They are worried that the continued development and growth of Zhiyun Group will affect the survival of large Korean companies such as Sixin and LG, and thus bring economic impact!
Of course, many people also believe that South Korea’s S6 Group, LG Group and other companies also have a good traditional cooperative relationship with Zhiyun Group.

This is also true. Although the two parties are competitors, they also cooperate in many areas. For example, the cooperation between the two parties in the screen field and mobile phone SOC field is relatively extensive.

So far, many mobile phone products of Samsung and LG will purchase large quantities of mobile phone SOC products from Zhiyun Group.

At the same time, Huaxing Technology is also controlled by Zhiyun Group, but companies from Six Star, LG and Japan's Sharp also have shares in it.

Therefore, there is a certain degree of cooperation between Zhiyun Group, Sixin and LG companies in the competition.

This also leads to their more complicated attitude towards Zhiyun Group.

As for some other countries in the world, they don’t even have much of an industrial system, let alone competing with Zhiyun Group, so most of them are shocked, amazed, and curious.

Although people in the above-mentioned countries have different attitudes towards Zhiyun Group, they all have one thing in common, that is, they are discussing Zhiyun Group.

Whether you hate it, like it, or have any other attitude... people are talking about Zhiyun.

Even in Africa, a place that is like a civilization desert, some local middle and upper class people who can get information through the Internet or other channels are also discussing Zhiyun Group.

After all... no matter what your attitude towards it is, Zhiyun Group with a market value of trillions is here, and you can't ignore it!
What's more, Zhiyun Group is a truly multinational giant enterprise that has developed related businesses in almost all countries in the world.

Zhiyun product flagship stores have been set up in more than 150 countries to sell various smart terminal products under Zhiyun.

It provides business services in more than 100 countries around the world, providing semiconductor products and software services, including cloud computing, to local companies.

We have established R&D centers or technical support centers in more than 55 countries around the world, recruiting local technical talents to carry out technological research and development or provide technical support for overseas businesses.

Zhiyun can be seen in major countries around the world...even in the United States.

In the United States, only Zhiyun’s smart terminal business and Internet services were banned, but its semiconductor business and enterprise services were not banned.

The Baiyun logo of Zhiyun Group still stands in Silicon Valley, but the R&D center of important R&D projects has been moved away, leaving only the administrative sales department and technical support department of corporate services, in addition to some less important R&D projects.

The entire Zhiyun Group has more than 600,000 direct employees worldwide.

The influence of such a giant enterprise with extremely large scale and tentacles reaching almost every corner of the earth is actually very exaggerated.

Globally, more than one billion people are using various smart terminals manufactured by Zhiyun Group.

Globally, at least three billion people or more are using semiconductor products manufactured by Zhiyun Group, such as SOC chips, storage chips, vehicle-mounted computing chips EYEQ, computer CPUs, GPUs used in smart terminals, and a large number of various auxiliary function chips and semiconductor sensors.

Such a company cannot be ignored!
This is also an important reason why Zhiyun Group has caused such a huge discussion.

Zhiyun Group has attracted widespread discussion in various overseas regions, not to mention in China.

The contemporary Zhiyun Group not only affects people's lives, but is also a powerful tool to enhance people's external confidence... Many people are proud of the Zhiyun Group.

When traveling abroad, Chinese people and foreigners often talk about Zhiyun's S mobile phone and Zhiyun Group... Zhiyun Group has become one of the best high-tech business cards for contemporary China to the outside world.

There is no need for any explanation. Any foreigner who can access the Internet and has a little common sense knows what a powerful high-tech company Zhiyun is.

Of course...many foreigners stubbornly believe that Zhiyun Group is just an exception among China's high-tech enterprises and is not universal.

Many foreigners also believe that although Zhiyun Group’s headquarters is in China, it is a global enterprise and cannot be simply regarded as a Chinese enterprise.

This is also related to Zhiyun Group’s overseas publicity... Because in order to reduce resistance when Zhiyun Group promotes itself overseas, it often describes itself as a global international enterprise, while emphasizing local attributes in different places.

For example, in Europe, Zhiyun’s public relations department would repeatedly emphasize its European attributes, saying how many people it employed in Europe, how many jobs it created, how much tax it paid, how many European companies it helped, and so on.

Then when we go to other countries, we will say the same thing.

In short, we just choose to say words that the locals like... It's profitable, and it's not shameful. Saying a few nice words can win the favor of local consumers. It's a good thing that makes a lot of money.

So...if you surf the Internet overseas from China, especially in areas of some countries where there are a large concentration of local people, you will often see some very interesting words.

For example, when Ji Chenghe went to Europe to inspect the local market in February, he attended a technical forum in the field of artificial intelligence in Paris. When he was giving a speech, he praised the French from time to time, and praised them in various ways, making the French themselves feel embarrassed.

On the way back, he went to India again, and praised the diligence and hard work of the local Indians, and praised India's various industrial achievements, economic achievements, etc. The Indians were so happy that they were praised, and then various local media reported it:
The titles are all like this: "Ji Chenghe, Senior Vice President of Zhiyun, commented on India: India will become a new world power in the near future!
Ji Chenghe believes that India's economic potential even exceeds that of China!
India will definitely be one of the world's great powers in the future!

Indians are some of the smartest and most hardworking people I have ever met.

In short, Zhiyun Group’s overseas publicity strategy is: speak the truth to people and lies to ghosts!

Especially Ji Chenghe, this shameless guy. In order to get Indians to buy more Zhiyun phones, he really dared to say that India’s cow dung is the most fragrant cow dung in the world!

After all, saying a few nice words can get more money out of their pockets, so why not do it?

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When the market value of Zhiyun Group exceeded one trillion US dollars, causing a huge sensation, Xu Shenxue remained low-key as always and rejected all media interview requests.

In fact, Xu Shenxue rarely appears in front of the public media and says this and that... He almost never expresses any opinions on matters other than his own company!

There is no way. My personal influence is too great. At the same time, I have many companies under my name, involving many industries, and I also have a large overseas market. There are many things I cannot say carelessly.

If you talk too much, maybe one day you let something slip and say something that you think is fine, but it may inexplicably make a certain country or a certain group uncomfortable... and then lead to protests against Zhiyun products.

And he couldn't be like Ji Chenghe, who said one thing to one person and another to another, throwing his face directly into the toilet. Xu Shenxue had his own opinions and judgments, and was unwilling to say something against his will.

If a reporter asks him what his impression of India is, he won't want to tell a lie, but if you ask him to tell the truth, he will say: I heard that Indians like lizards very much... Does Zhiyun still want to sell this phone in India?
Therefore, Xu Shenxue simply stopped talking...

This time, the market value of Zhiyun Group exceeded one trillion US dollars, but he still had no plans to accept interviews or appear in public.

I just sent an email to the company's internal employees, mainly to thank many employees for their hard work over the years, and then briefly imagined the company's future:

In the email, Xu Shenxue said that the company will continue to increase investment and development in the fields of smart terminals and semiconductors. This is the foundation of the company and no matter how much attention is paid to it, it cannot be overstated.

At the same time, he continues to invest heavily in the two fields of artificial intelligence and robotics, hoping to create better products and expand the market as soon as possible. He believes that the future robotics market will be a market that can reach at least hundreds of billions of dollars or even larger, and there is great potential for the robotics market.

We must also develop and deploy various types of new technologies, such as low-orbit satellite Internet, smart cities, brain-computer interfaces, virtual games, quantum computers and many other emerging fields.

Finally, he hopes that employees will continue to work hard with him to create greater glory and bring a better life to mankind.

But even the content of the email was not written by him... The Chinese version was drafted by the elites in the president's office of Zhiyun Group, and then translated into English before being sent out.

Zhiyun Group is a multinational company with branches in all major countries and local employees. Therefore, these emails sent directly to all employees of the company often have English versions in addition to the Chinese version. Some emails with specific content often have Spanish, German, French, Japanese and other versions.

So this email, which seems to be sent by Xu Shenxue personally, was actually drafted and sent out by Xu Shenxue's assistant team based on Xu Shenxue's main opinions.

Xu Shenxue only sent an internal email. Although this internal email is internal, because it was sent to employees all over the world, including grassroots employees, it is almost the same as a public email.

Ordinary people just read Xu Shenxue's email for fun, but people in the industry, especially those working in high-tech, finance and other fields, analyzed it line by line.

Because this email, to a certain extent, represents Xu Shenxue's personal judgment on the future strategic development direction of Zhiyun Group and represents Xu Shenxue's personal views on the future.

Why do they take this email so seriously?
Because Xu Shenxue has used his successful experience over the past years to let people know one thing, that is, Xu Shenxue has never made any mistakes in his strategic judgments in the field of science and technology... or has never made any big mistakes.

Xu Shenxue talked about mobile Internet, artificial intelligence, robots, drones, autonomous driving, etc. Almost all of them have been proven by reality.

Although people can know through analysis that in fact the companies under Xu Shenxue are doing all kinds of things, and there are actually a lot of failed projects, it’s just that people always like to see the successful side and turn a blind eye to the failed side.

Relying on the scientific research system, Xu Shenxue actually supports his technical R&D personnel to give full play to their creativity and carry out any project they think is possible... Even if Xu Shenxue has never seen a successful project in the original time and space, Xu Shenxue will generally let them do it.

Not only artificial intelligence, robotics, brain-computer interfaces, virtual games, but even plasma engines for spacecraft and even controlled nuclear fusion are all being worked on by people...

In this process, there are actually a lot of failed projects... and there are even more projects that continue to struggle without producing any results.

Why does Zhiyun Group spend so much on R&D every year? It's because there are too many messy R&D projects... It's not just Zhiyun Group that has a lot of R&D funds. Almost all the companies under Xu Shenxue have a lot of R&D projects.

The Materials Research Institute controlled by Fairy Mountain spends nearly 2 billion US dollars on research and development every year...and this Materials Research Institute is only involved in basic materials research and development, which falls into the realm of metaphysics.

There is also HaiLian Automobile, which has a large number of R&D projects. For example, solid-state batteries require a particularly large R&D investment... In addition, they are also working on hydrogen energy or other new energy sources... Not to mention their advantage project, which is the field of autonomous driving.

Even Yihai Technology, which was initially positioned as an Internet company in Xu Shenxue's career map to export culture and make some pocket money, is now also engaged in sci-fi things such as virtual games... Mainly to cooperate with the virtual equipment project in Zhiyun Group: Zhiyun Group has always wanted to make a set of virtual equipment that can make people highly immersed, through external equipment such as omnidirectional treadmills, VR glasses, tactile clothes, etc., to allow people to reach a highly immersive environment.

Zhiyun Group makes equipment, while Yihai Technology is responsible for content creation...

Among the many messy black technology research and development projects, some have failed, some are still in progress, and some have been successful and even commercialized.

The field of artificial intelligence is the most typical representative!

In the original time and space, artificial intelligence technology had not reached the level of Zhiyun Group, and there was no artificial intelligence fighter jets or artificial intelligence robots.

However, in this era, Xu Shenxue relied on the role of the scientific research system and provided a large amount of research and development funding support. The scientists under him developed artificial intelligence technology that far surpassed the original time and space.

With this artificial intelligence technology, combined with some hardware, we can make excellent self-driving vehicles, artificial intelligence fighter jets, artificial intelligence robots and other hardware products based on artificial intelligence technology.

The R&D model of Zhiyun Group and many other companies under Xu Shenxue is actually very exaggerated... This exaggeration is not only reflected in success, but also in failure.

If other companies were to do the same as the companies under Xu Shenxue, trying almost every cutting-edge black technology project... on the one hand, they don't have that much money, and on the other hand, even if they had that much money, they wouldn't be able to do it.

Xu Shenxue's confidence in doing this comes from the scientific research system: it greatly reduces the cost of scientific research, improves scientific research efficiency, and raises the upper limit of scientific research, making many impossibilities possible.

If you don’t have a scientific research system and just follow Xu Shenxue’s example, you will end up going bankrupt sooner or later!

But outsiders don’t know this... They are even too lazy to look at Zhiyun Group’s many failed projects and only see the successful projects.

Then people regarded Xu Shenxue as a scientific strategist with excellent vision who had never made mistakes.

This also led to Xu Shenxue being unable to send this internal email, and the content of the email was leaked and carefully analyzed and studied by countless practitioners.

They want to know what Xu Shenxue is optimistic about in the future and whether they can get involved in it.

For example, this robot sounds pretty good. Xu Shenxue said that this thing will have a market of at least hundreds of billions of dollars in the future.

It must be very profitable to enter such a big market.
Even if we can't make a high-end robot, we can still make a low-end product, or even something like a robot toy.

Therefore, the robotics track, which has been very hot since last year, has once again attracted high attention from capital.

Whether at home or abroad, many small and medium-sized enterprises and even start-ups engaged in robotics have ushered in a new wave of capital inflows.

A lot of funds are frantically invested in various robot projects. The high risk doesn’t matter. Anyway, the big capitals are betting on the track and investing in a large number of robot-related small and medium-sized enterprises... As long as one of them is successful, it doesn’t even need to be too successful, as long as it can be acquired by a large enterprise, then you can make a fortune.

In addition to the field of robotics, other fields have also received attention, such as the field of artificial intelligence in the conventional sense. Xu Shenxue advocated artificial intelligence several times at the beginning of the year, especially generative AI.

Now Xu Shenxue has mentioned artificial intelligence again in an internal email, and said that he would invest a lot of resources in generative AI, so that generative AI can appear on people’s computers and smart terminals, so that everyone can enjoy the convenient life brought by artificial intelligence technology.

Therefore, many venture capital companies have started a wave of looking for various artificial intelligence startup teams to invest in.

And all this happened just because of an internal email from Xu Shenxue.

This also shows the influence of Xu Shenxue's words... Sometimes, the financial statements and business reports released by Zhiyun Group have a greater impact on the high-tech industry and the investment field than Xu Shenxue's own words.

This is also the reason why Xu Shenxue rarely expresses his opinions in public...his influence is too great, and he cannot speak carelessly.

On the contrary, group executives like Ji Chenghe who often appear in the media will accept interviews on behalf of Zhiyun Group or participate in some high-level technical forums and economic forums.

At an economic forum, after Ji Chenghe discussed with people on the stage and shared recent international trade, import and export trade, etc., the reporters did not ask him about these macroeconomic issues.

Instead, I asked him what he thought about the research and development of future technologies discussed by Xu Shenxue in the internal email, such as virtual games and quantum computers, which sounded very sci-fi.

Ji Chenghe naturally boasted about this!
"Over the past years, President Xu has pointed out the direction of development for us, and now, he has once again pointed out the future development strategy of our company. For hundreds of thousands of employees in our company, this is undoubtedly the main line of development direction for the next few years!"

"As for virtual games, I just want to say that it is not impossible. Our company is indeed developing a virtual game device. Of course... it is not the kind of virtual game device in online novels, but a brand new device based on real technology, especially artificial intelligence technology. I think we will be able to see the emergence of virtual games in the future!"

"In the field of quantum computers, our quantum computer research and development team has made breakthrough progress and has developed the first generation of high-performance quantum chips. The quantum computers we have manufactured have achieved ultra-high-speed computing in specific fields."

"Our quantum computer team is conducting all-round research and breakthroughs in the fields of technical theory, hardware materials, manufacturing equipment, etc."

"In the future, as technology continues to advance, we will further improve quantum computers and then launch universal quantum computers!"

"Believe me, it's not too late!"

(End of this chapter)