Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 446 Pressure from Weiku Electronics

The Tiangong space station project was successfully completed, and the three core modules formed the completed body. This news naturally attracted great attention around the world, and there were many discussions in various media and on the Internet.

In addition to discussing the space station itself, more people are focusing on Nanmen Aerospace.

"In the development of human space industry, how much role can commercial spaceflight play? Is the Nanmen spaceflight model worth promoting?"

"As we all know, Nanmen Aerospace is a commercial aerospace company owned by the world's richest man, Xu Shenxue. It was the first to develop and apply the repeated rocket launch mode, which greatly reduced the cost of rocket launches. Its high-thrust Nantianmen-6 heavy-duty rocket is the world's most powerful commercial rocket in service today. It has provided eight commercial launches for various countries, all of which were successful!"
"At the same time, Nanmen Aerospace also has its own cargo spacecraft, the 'Qinglong Spacecraft', and has performed cargo missions for the space station many times, greatly reducing the operating costs of the Huaxia Space Station!"

"Nanmen Aerospace also has a manned spacecraft called the Black Dragon, which has carried out three manned space flights, two of which were experimental flights, and one of which successfully docked with the Tiangong space station and delivered two astronauts from Nanmen Aerospace to the Tiangong spacecraft!"

"Using the successful application of the No. 5 and No. 6 rockets, Nanmen Aerospace has cooperated with Zhiyun Satellite Co., Ltd. under Zhiyun Group to jointly develop and operate a commercial space station, the Centaur Space Station, which is expected to provide space experiments, space tourism and other services to aerospace agencies, enterprises and individuals in need. According to non-public information, Nanmen Aerospace's Centaur Space Station project has received cooperation intentions from many companies and aerospace agencies, with a potential cooperation amount of more than one billion US dollars."

"It will take time to verify whether the commercial space station model is feasible and workable."

"but……"

"What deserves our attention more is that Zhiyun Satellite, a joint investment of Nanmen Aerospace and Zhiyun Group, has established a large-scale Zhiyun Internet satellite system by using the low-cost launch of the Nantianmen-5 rocket. According to public information, the Zhiyun Internet satellite system currently has more than 2,000 satellites, and the speed is still increasing rapidly."

"According to a news conference held by Zhiyun Satellite Co., Ltd. in November, the Zhiyun Internet Satellite System has completed the initial stage of the system and will further improve the technology. It will enter the high-frequency satellite launch stage at the end of the year and is expected to complete the networking in two years. The total number of satellites will reach more than 15,000, covering all parts of the world and providing satellite Internet connection services to global users!"

"Nanmen Aerospace is undoubtedly successful. The question now is whether this successful model can be replicated?"

“Some people in the aerospace industry pointed out that the Nanmen Aerospace model can be replicated, but it is extremely difficult!”

"First, it requires a super-rich person to invest regardless of the cost. It is extremely difficult to duplicate rocket technology. Currently, only the Falcon 9 rocket of the US Space Exploration Company has successfully replicated this technology. However, judging from the commercial launch quotation of the US Space Exploration Company, its launch cost is still much higher than that of South Gate Aerospace Company."
"But some people in the European aerospace industry have pointed out that Nanmen Aerospace's business model is unhealthy and even immoral, because it undermines the traditional aerospace model and traditional aerospace values, turning human space exploration into a commercial activity full of money and losing its ideals!"

There are many reports like the one above, saying all kinds of things, some exaggerating, some criticizing.

In addition, there are also many netizens from countries that do not have much achievements in space exploration who have also been making irresponsible remarks on the Internet, criticizing Nanmen Aerospace's commercial space model, saying that a large number of rocket launches will pollute the environment, and that a large number of satellites will damage the environment above the earth and generate a large amount of space debris, etc.

Then he turned around and started talking about how great his country's space program is, when a certain model of rocket will be launched, how powerful the rocket is, and so on.

Especially the Indian guys, they are very active in the English Internet, appearing everywhere, and most of their comments are negative. After they finish speaking, they will say, what's so great about Nanmen Aerospace, we can do it in no time...

Just like in the field of artificial intelligence... Before Zhiyun Group open-sourced some of its artificial intelligence models at the beginning of the year, most Indians on the Internet were criticizing artificial intelligence, saying that artificial intelligence would lead to unemployment, cause a world war, and all sorts of other nonsense.

After Zhiyun Group open-sourced some of its AI models, especially the generative AI 'GTAI', the tone immediately changed, saying that our AI in India is developing rapidly and that AI models have already been deployed in China...

After the second generation of GTAI, GTAI2, was released in November, Indians suddenly changed their attitude and said that they had become the first-class team in the field of artificial intelligence. A scientific research institution or high-tech enterprise in India had successfully deployed the world's leading artificial intelligence model.

Artificial intelligence will be the biggest boost to India's rise...

Sometimes, after reading too many comments on the Internet, I want Xu Shenxue to impose an AI chip ban on India... Damn, so shameless.

But even though I don't like it in my heart, business is always business, and I will still buy the chips if I need to... It would be a waste not to make money from the Indians' money.

Recently, Zhiyun Group is using its advantage in AI chips to negotiate with India to ensure that its smart terminal business is not affected in India: If you dare to increase tariffs on my mobile phones, I will ban the sale of APO graphics cards...

In the past year, in order to develop its own mobile phone industry, India has begun to call for a ban on the import of Chinese mobile phones represented by Zhiyun Mobile Phones, in an attempt to force Chinese mobile phone companies such as Zhiyun Group and Wecoo Electronics to build factories in India.

This voice did not appear in a short time, but has been around for a long time. In the early years, Zhiyun Group had a conflict with the Americans. After the fight, Zhiyun and Fruit each withdrew from each other's core market.

From that time on, the fruit industry began to try to transfer its industrial chain to other countries such as Vietnam and India, but this move was blocked by Xu Shenxue.

Because Xu Shenxue does not allow China's smart terminal supply chain companies to build factories overseas... If you dare to go, Zhiyun and Weiku Electronics will immediately cancel their orders, and at the same time will use their industry influence to force domestic smart terminal companies such as Dami, OV, and Huawei to cancel their orders.

Not only will the orders be cancelled, but the upstream suppliers of the supply chain companies, such as equipment suppliers and material suppliers, will also be required to prohibit the supply of related equipment and materials.

Add to blacklist directly!

Otherwise, a large number of supply chain companies will be dragged by Fruit, Sixing and other companies to build factories abroad, and then take advantage of the low labor costs and tariff advantages or geographical advantages of some overseas countries to squeeze Zhiyun and Weiku Electronics, and even other Chinese mobile phone manufacturers that purchase a large number of core components from Zhiyun Group.

In this way, Chinese-made mobile phones will encounter huge resistance in some overseas markets. For example, some countries also have markets that still have mobile phones made in Vietnam and India, and they will immediately impose tariffs on Chinese mobile phones!

This will result in huge losses.

However, Xu Shenxue will not sit idly by and watch his competitors rise and then strangle the consumer electronics supply chain with the Zhiyun system as its core.

Therefore, Xu Shenxue will ruthlessly suppress any company that dares to establish a supply chain overseas... I don’t care what your reasons are, whether domestic production costs are higher, or because of the requirements of fruit or four-star or other overseas customers... In short, you are not allowed to go.

Moreover, the targets of this suppression are not limited to domestic companies, even foreign supply chain companies are also included in the suppression.

In the field of smart terminals, most supply chain companies cannot withstand Xu Shenxue's suppression!

Xu Shenxue wants to ensure that all smart terminals in the world, whether mobile phones, laptops, tablets, smart watches, Bluetooth headsets, etc.

He doesn't care whether the product is a foreign brand or a domestic brand...it must be manufactured in China.

Print "Made in China" clearly on the product label!
Even the 'Yangcheng Lake hairy crab' model, which is to manufacture most of the crabs domestically and then assemble and reskin them abroad, is not acceptable... because it will still cause part of the industrial chain to be transferred, and once it's started, it will be difficult to deal with.

Besides, Xu Shenxue's competitors, including some American and other regional consortiums, are planning to gradually transfer the industrial chain, first by transferring the assembly plants, then the ordinary parts factories, then the core parts factories, and finally the entire industrial chain, thus achieving de-intelligence and cloud computing...

Well, they don’t want to be threatened by Xu Shenxue every day. Damn, they have to look at Xu Shenxue’s face to use a mobile phone...

To them, Xu Shenxue is also very disgusting!
Xu Shenxue responded diametrically: he would ban all industrial transfers in the field of smart terminals. He wanted to make sure that all countries in the world had no choice in the field of smart terminals... and could only choose Made in China!
If you have the guts, don’t use a smartphone!

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Under Xu Shenxue's strong suppression, Fruit and Sixin's plans to build factories in Vietnam and India have almost come to a standstill, and there has been no progress for several years... No supply chain company dares to follow them!
To this day, China's smartphone production capacity still accounts for more than 99 percent of the world's total production capacity... an absolute monopoly.

This also forces countries like India to impose tariffs on mobile phones made in China, which is fraught with difficulties!

Because even for Apple and Samsung mobile phones, except for a few core components such as chips, other components are basically manufactured in China, and the finished products are also assembled and produced in China. They are foreign brands made in China.

And it’s more expensive…

Because of the existence of Xu Shenxue, China Supply Chain is very strong in the field of smart terminals, even stronger than in the field of smart electric vehicles!
In the field of smart electric vehicles, although China's supply chain is not bad, many core parts and components are actually from foreign manufacturers. Even a large number of core parts and components in Hailan cars, especially many parts and components in the chassis, are actually mostly from international manufacturers.

It’s just that HaiLan Automobile will require these overseas suppliers to set up factories in China to reduce costs.

In the field of smart electric vehicles, the advantage of China's supply chain lies in power batteries...but the power battery part is only a cost and performance advantage. In fact, foreign manufacturers such as LG also have power batteries, but their performance and technology are not as good as those of Hailan Automobile and Ningdai. Especially after Hailan Automobile developed semi-solid batteries this year, the technological gap has widened.

Other advantages are in the field of intelligent assisted driving, including hardware terminal computing chips, such as the EYEQ platform and the PX platform, which are exclusive products of Zhiyun Group; in addition, there are advantages in the software part. Not to mention Hailan Automobile, even the self-developed assisted driving technology of other domestic electric vehicle manufacturers is quite good, and soft functions such as car-machine interaction are also very good.

Finally, there is the huge cost advantage! This cost advantage even includes the Hailan SLMC and Hailan MEV, two models of Hailan Automobile that are priced at more than 300,000 yuan in China.

Considering its endurance, especially the semi-solid-state battery, plus other hardware configurations...if overseas car companies want to manufacture such a vehicle, let alone selling it for more than 300,000 yuan, the cost will be more than 300,000 yuan.

This is still talking about Hailan Automobile, which has always been known for its high prices. It is a high-end car brand.

Some other domestic electric vehicle manufacturers have even more extreme cost-effectiveness. For example, BYD has launched some pure electric and plug-in hybrid models priced over 100,000 yuan. The overall performance is also very good, and the cost-effectiveness can be said to be very good. They are also very popular in the low- and mid-end markets.

Not to mention foreign car manufacturers, even other equally competitive domestic car manufacturers cannot compare to BYD's price-performance ratio!

If foreign car manufacturers come up with pure electric and plug-in hybrid models and sell them at the same price as BYD with the same configuration, they will lose a lot of money...

Therefore, in the current field of smart electric vehicles, China's main advantages are power batteries, intelligent assisted driving, and high cost performance... and then there is the high-tech feel that is unique to Hailan Automobile.

Hailan Automobile is different from other car models... Others play with cars, but Hailan Automobile plays with black technology.

Therefore, the designs of various models of Hailan Automobile look very sci-fi and futuristic.

At the same time, the interior is full of science fiction, and all kinds of inexpensive small functions and small configurations are arranged.

This also led to the design concept of the domestic smart electric vehicle industry...So now many domestic new electric vehicle companies, including electric vehicle brands transformed from traditional automobile manufacturers, design and develop new models, no matter what the internal structure or performance is, but the appearance and interior are more fancy than each other.

Large color TVs, large refrigerators, wireless chargers, car-machine interconnection, mobile phone control, etc. are all standard features... Anyway, these functional configurations are not worth much money.

The real big costs in the field of smart electric vehicles are actually the power batteries, motors, and electronic control systems... The costs of these three components are very high.

For pure electric vehicles of ordinary domestic manufacturers, the cost of power batteries basically accounts for between 40% and 60%, so let's take the middle value of 50%.

The motor system accounts for between 6 and 10 percent of the cost, let's just say 8 percent.

The cost of the electronic control system is similar to that of the motor, also 8 percent. This refers to ordinary electric vehicles whose electronic control systems only have basic assisted driving functions.

Calculated in this way, the cost of the three major components of a pure electric vehicle accounts for 66%!
Then there are some core parts of the body, braking system and chassis.

As for the cost of some small functions and accessories, they are actually not worth much money... The reason why traditional foreign car manufacturers did not equip these small functions in the past, even in high-end models, is that on the one hand, they did not have such awareness and were used to being arrogant, and on the other hand, they also used their brand and technological advantages to squeeze profits as much as possible, saving as much as possible...

To put it bluntly, consumers are being taken advantage of: Even if I don’t let you use these gadgets, you still have to buy mine!
Domestic automobile manufacturers are new players. If they want to compete with traditional foreign automobile manufacturers for the market, they must strengthen their own advantages. Therefore, they are willing to add these small functions and accessories, and try to make them more user-friendly and convenient.

This is also the reason why in recent years, many domestically produced electric and gasoline vehicles have been willing to add various small configurations. This is even more obvious in the field of domestic electric vehicles.

This is also one of the reasons why the sales of domestic cars, both gasoline and electric, have been rising steadily in the past two years.

The reason is simple: respect consumers!
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In the Hailan car, all kinds of small accessories are naturally fully equipped. In addition, the three major components of the electric car are also very good.

Even the proportion of the cost of the three major components in the Hailan car has further increased, mainly because Zhiyun Automobile's intelligent assisted driving system is better and more expensive, especially the high-end models will be equipped with the most advanced laser radar, and this top-level laser radar is still relatively expensive.

Then the training cost of the autonomous driving algorithm based on artificial intelligence technology is also very expensive.

Coupled with its exclusive EYQ computing platform, which is also a very expensive chip platform, the cost of Hailan Automobile's electronic control system is extremely high, accounting for about 18% of the total cost, which is significantly higher than the electronic control cost of pure electric models of other automobile brands.

Such a high cost can support the top-of-the-line models of Hailan Automobile, which can achieve L4 level autonomous driving.

To achieve L4 level autonomous driving, a large number of high-performance sensors, a high-efficiency computing platform, and top-level autonomous driving algorithms are required.

All three are indispensable!

This is also the reason why the mid-size sedan Hailan SLMC and the mid-size SUV Hailan MEV are only equipped with the "Advanced Intelligent Assisted Driving System Version 4.0" in their top-end models priced close to RMB 4.0... The hardware cost of this system alone would be tens of thousands more, and it is impossible to sell it to consumers for just over RMB !

For these two models, except for the top-end version, the other entry-level and mid-range versions are only equipped with the "Advanced Intelligent Assisted Driving System 3 System" equivalent to the L3.0 level.

The hardware cost of this 3.0 system is much lower. Although it also uses lidar, it has lower performance and lower cost.

However, when people talk about Hailan Automobile's assisted driving system, they often refer to the Advanced Intelligent Assisted Driving System 4.0.

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The fields of smart terminals and smart electric vehicles are areas that Xu Shenxue has attached great importance to in recent years, not only in the Zhiyun system and HaiLan Automobile, but also in the Weiku Electronics system.

Shortly after WeCool Electronics went public, Xu Shenxue attended and presided over the board meeting of WeCool Electronics Group.

In the meeting, Xu Shenxue formally approved the document for Weiku Electronics to enter the smart electric vehicle business, and prepared at least 30 billion yuan in funds for the smart electric vehicle business in the early stage!
Including the design and integrated research and development of smart electric vehicles, the research and development of some subsystems, especially the research and development of electronic control systems... Although Hailan Automobile is a sister company, it will not provide its core technology to Weiku Electronics, so Weiku Electronics also has to carry out its own research and development.

Of course, this kind of research and development is actually based on the foundation of predecessors. At least the core underlying artificial intelligence algorithm will be provided by Zhiyun Group.

It’s not very reliable to let WeCool Electronics develop the underlying algorithms of artificial intelligence...it just doesn’t have the technical capabilities.

Therefore, Zhiyun Group will provide the underlying artificial intelligence algorithm based on the PX computing power platform, and then Wecoo Electronics will adapt it by itself. The final extent of what it can achieve will depend on Wecoo Electronics’ own capabilities.

Soon after the board meeting, Weiku Electronics held a press conference and announced its official entry into the smart electric vehicle market!

This also caused a huge sensation. Many car companies were worried about this, thinking that this was the wolf coming, and that Weiku Electronics was more threatening than Hailan Automobile!
We can understand why these traditional foreign car manufacturers are so worried from the issues that people are concerned about: what people are most concerned about is not how good the future models of Weiku Electronics will be, but how much they will cost?

More than 100,000? Or more than 200,000?

As we all know, Weiku Electronics' series of products are all mid-to-low-end products, which means that in the future, Weiku Electronics' smart electric vehicles will most likely be mid-to-low-end models...

This field is the lifeline of countless traditional automobile manufacturers!
It has been hit hard by Hailan Automobile in the high-end market, and is also facing fierce competition from domestic manufacturers such as BYD in the low-end market.

Now there is a cross-industry threat from a giant enterprise like Weiku Electronics, which has strong channels, brands, and supply chain integration capabilities.

The most important thing is that they made a huge fortune when they just went public and have a lot of money.

After going public, WeCool Electronics had at least 300 billion in cash reserves.

Faced with such a situation, Weiku Electronics came across the industry.

There was no way they could sleep!

(End of this chapter)