Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 492 Yun VW Release
December 8th, Qianshan International Conference Center, Shenzhen.

Zhiyun Group's official conference center is used so frequently that not only some of Zhiyun Group's large and important press conferences are held here, but also various industry conferences, developer conferences and the like are held here.

This place is to some extent linked to Zhiyun Group, and for this reason Zhiyun Group even directly acquired this place many years ago.

In addition to undertaking many of Zhiyun Group's own business activities, it also undertakes some external business conference activities on weekdays. There are also several exhibition centers of Zhiyun Group in the conference center.

Today, this conference center once again welcomed many high-tech industry insiders and a large number of media personnel.

Among the many high-tech professionals who came, there were not only many people from the smart terminal and semiconductor fields, but also a relatively rare group of senior managers from the overseas Internet industry.

From the invitation letter sent by Zhiyun Group, we can also see that today's release of virtual devices is closely related to the Internet field.

Many media personnel were a little dazed when they saw the management of many high-tech companies appear. Those who didn’t know thought it was Zhiyun Group’s annual flagship phone launch conference.

Zhiyun Group actually holds quite a few product launches, but not many of them can attract the attention of a large number of people. Generally, they are new product launches held at the Zhiyun Group level, such as the spring launch in March, the autumn launch in August, and the winter launch in December.

Around these three press conferences, Zhiyun Group will successively release its main smart terminal products and smart home products.

There is also a robot launch event in April.

The above-mentioned press conferences have great influence and involve a large number of participants.

There are also various press conferences held at the subsidiary level. For example, Zhiyun Semiconductor holds chip press conferences in May, October and January every year.

Among the blockbuster products are the W series SOC chips for mobile phones; the APO series graphics cards; and finally the conventional desktop and server CPUs, the X series gaming graphics cards, as well as other PX medium and large general-purpose terminal computing chips, LC lightweight general-purpose terminal computing chips, and so on.

Zhiyun Microelectronics, a subsidiary, will also hold some press conferences on its own, mainly to introduce the progress of their new process technology to the market in order to attract foundry business, and also to promote to the market the performance improvements brought about by their own new process technology.

In addition to the group level and two core subsidiaries, Zhiyun Group occasionally holds various new product launches at its headquarters or other overseas subsidiaries.

Zhiyun Group is a huge multinational giant enterprise with a total number of more than 700,000 employees worldwide.

Throughout the year, there are numerous new product or technology launches, press conferences, and the like.

But what really attracts global attention is the flagship mobile phone launch and the robot launch!

Or to be more precise, these were the few press conferences hosted by Xu Shenxue himself.

Whenever Xu Shenxue personally holds a press conference, it is either about core products, such as the S series mobile phones, or the upgrades of Zhiyun robots... or about some new black technology that Zhiyun Group has come up with.

Just like this virtual device launch conference!
Zhiyun Group has already announced that the meeting will be hosted by Xu Shenxue himself.

The name Xu Shenxue alone is enough to attract a lot of people's attention.

After all, Xu Shenxue seldom attends public occasions, and the only time the media can see him and people can hear what he says is basically at these press conferences.

In this respect, Xu Shenxue is very different from the helmsmen of some other large multinational high-tech companies.

Xu Shenxue has always been very low-key and rarely speaks publicly to the media... Mainly because he cannot speak carelessly. With his status and position, speaking carelessly will bring him huge trouble.

For example, if he publicly expresses his pessimism about a certain industry, there is no need to wait until tomorrow. Within ten minutes... the stock prices of related listed companies in this industry will immediately suffer a setback and fall!
In addition, many overseas media reporters sometimes ask questions that are difficult to answer to domestic core entrepreneurial leaders such as Xu Shenxue, such as asking him how he views the recent trade sanctions.

For ordinary companies, trade sanctions are naturally a change in the overall environment, which has both advantages and disadvantages. However, no matter how it changes, ordinary companies are on the passive side and can only go with the flow.

But for Xu Shenxue, the issue of trade sanctions has a great deal to do with him, and he has no choice but to back down!

There is a sequence of events here.

First, the major Chinese companies, led by the Xu Group, continue to move towards the more profitable and important high-tech fields.

In this process, it was inevitable that the interests of European and American financial groups, especially the American financial groups, began to be snatched away.

This will lead to counterattacks from the other side: various trade sanctions, tariffs and so on!
After all, the consortium is not stupid. How can they just watch you snatch their interests? Naturally, they will take various measures to suppress you.

The high-end mobile phone market is so small. If you sell one more Zhiyun phone, Apple will buy one less phone.

Back then, Zhiyun Group was very powerful, and its market share in the US market continued to rise. However, the other side took decisive action: it directly banned the sale of Zhiyun. In response, Zhiyun also banned the sale of fruit in the domestic market.

This wave of mutual sales ban actually benefited the fruit industry greatly, at least they retained the vital domestic market!
Otherwise, with the strength of Zhiyun S series mobile phones at that time, it would have been able to defeat Apple in the US market!
However, they banned sales to each other and managed to survive the most difficult years by relying on the domestic market and continued to compete with Zhiyun Group on a global scale.

If they hadn't done this back then, Zhiyun Group would have gone bankrupt due to the fruit business.

The situation is similar for Big Four. The development of their high-end phones is also very dependent on their domestic market. However, they will not do it too much overtly. They rely on some indirect means to control the domestic market and squeeze out Zhiyun phones.

Relying on years of cultivation in the local market, Sixin has also successfully developed the Galaxy series.

Without the protection of their home market, the Galaxy series would have died long ago under the double blow of Zhiyun and Fruit, and would not have survived to this day.

This is the importance of trade protection!

The same is true in the field of smart electric vehicles. In fact, the United States, Europe, and ourselves all attach great importance to the development of electric vehicles!

But you, HaiLan Automobile, are actually ahead of the others. Their electric vehicle development plan is greatly threatened, so they start looking for trouble.

During this process, some consortiums chose to cooperate with HaiLan Automobile, while some chose to resist, and some chose to cooperate while resisting.

This has created a complex melee in the global smart electric vehicle market, to the point where even ordinary people can’t tell friend from foe for a while!

For example, Hailan Automobile has formed a strategic partnership with Tesla, but on the other hand, it is fighting with GM, Ford and other automakers...

The situation in Europe is even more chaotic. For example, Hailan Auto is cooperating with local consortiums to build factories in Spain and Hungary, and is cooperating in the fields of power batteries, vehicle computer technology, chips, and supply chain.

But on the other hand, there is extremely fierce market competition.

The current smart electric vehicle market is relatively complicated, because there are not just one consortium, but many... and not all consortiums are enemies of Xu Shenxue. Some of them are still in a cooperative relationship with Xu Shenxue, while others are cooperating and confronting each other at the same time.

It’s hard to explain it right now, but overall it’s still competition-driven, and the competition is fierce.

There is also the most core semiconductor-related field...which is the core field where Xu Shenxue and the American consortium have been fighting for many years. The intensity of competition has directly risen to the intensity of physical attack.

Over the years, so many people have died on both sides of the competition in the core field of semiconductor equipment and consumables...

The above-mentioned areas are just a microcosm!
After all, the Xu Group is only a part of China's many enterprises. In addition to the companies under the Xu Group, there are also a large number of Chinese companies that are also engaged in various high-tech activities and continue to snatch the core interests of European and American groups!

During this process, they will be met with continuous counterattacks from the other side, so people will see the so-called trade war, tariff war, anti-dumping, anti-subsidy and other messy things!

The earth is so small and has so many resources. If others eat more, you have to eat less!
In this situation, if you ask Xu Shenxue what he thinks about trade sanctions, what opinion can he have... He can't tell the truth, and he doesn't want to tell lies!
So just shut up and be done with it!
Xu Shenxue also knows this, so he never discusses economic or other topics in public. In order to avoid this, he rarely accepts media interviews.

In this case, the media can only see him at some new product launch conferences. Today's virtual device launch conference is such an occasion.

A large group of media flocked to the scene, wanting to see what kind of black technology Xu Shenxue would come up with and what kind of market changes he would bring.

As the guests arrived and took their seats one after another, the press conference officially began.

After Xu Shenxue came on stage, he said some meaningless welcome words, then walked on the stage and said, "Everyone who knows me will know that I am a person who likes all kinds of new technologies!"

“I am happy to try all kinds of new technologies and try to find the best solution!”

"At the same time, I am also a person who has a great interest in various black technologies!"

"Many years ago, I saw the concept of virtual games in a science fiction novel, and then I had an idea: I also want to make a virtual device!"

"So, eight years ago, I formed a virtual equipment R&D team and started a long road of R&D!"

"There are also many achievements, such as the VR glasses launched by Zhiyun Group, as well as the AR glasses and AI glasses we launched before. These are our continuous exploration of virtual technology!"

"But this is far from enough!"

"I don't want a wearable smartphone, I want a real virtual device that allows people to be fully immersed in the virtual world and move freely!"

“It must be a completely realistic, 360-degree realistic picture presentation!”

“It has to be able to walk, run, jump… and all the actions of the user.”

"Most importantly, this action is performed by the user himself, not through the mouse, keyboard or other indirect operation methods!"

“A world where people can move freely is a complete virtual world, not just a 3D picture!”

"Based on these requirements, my virtual device R&D team started a long road of R&D!"

"Last year, they finally made the first generation prototype!"

“We subsequently conducted a lot of tests and improvements based on the prototype!”

“Finally, we have achieved the development of a mass-production model!”

“Now, let me introduce to you our latest product from Zhiyun: Yun VW!”

As Xu Shenxue finished speaking, the curtain on one side of the stage was pulled open, and then an omnidirectional virtual device appeared in everyone's sight.

If you just look at it, you can't tell what it is at first glance!
It has a white disc with a diameter of three meters. There is a railing around the white disc, and there is a beam on the top with something similar to a backpack hanging down!

On one side, there stands a large cabinet!
In front of the cabinet, there is a very conspicuous black helmet as well as black clothes, gloves, and shoe covers.

When seeing these, the people in the audience who were also working on omnidirectional treadmills opened their eyes wide. This thing was very similar to the technical route they were working on!

As for the omnidirectional treadmill, this thing is not invented by Zhiyun Group. Similar concepts have existed for a long time, and there are several corresponding startups, and their basic route is the VR omnidirectional treadmill model.

However, this field is just in its infancy, and most people have not developed any technological achievements. Even the PPTs are unreliable, let alone producing practical products.

Is this technical route correct? Did we make the right bet?
For a while, many people in the VR treadmill industry had exciting ideas!

It’s not worry or fear, but joy... Zhiyun Group is doing it, and has succeeded, which means that I have chosen the right path and the future is promising!
When people from some large high-tech companies saw this thing, they were also thinking that the VR omnidirectional treadmill doesn’t seem to have much of a technical threshold. If Zhiyun can do it, so can we!
Of course, they soon discovered that the VR omnidirectional treadmill they were making or envisioning was different from the omnidirectional virtual equipment made by Zhiyun Group! The two looked a bit similar... no, they didn't even look similar.

No VR omnidirectional treadmill comes with a large cabinet that is more than one meter high... Industry insiders can basically determine that this is a server just by looking at the appearance!
Xu Shenxue walked to the universal virtual device and continued to speak into the microphone: "As you can see, it is a universal virtual device!"

"It has a movable disc with a diameter of 2.3 meters. There are a large number of motors under the entire disc to support its high-frequency and micron-level movements!"

"Most importantly, with the support of a large number of high-precision sensors of various types, it can capture all the user's movements in real time and give corresponding feedback!"

"This is the most important system in our universal virtual device: the universal motion system. Only with it can users move freely in the virtual world!"

"At the same time, in order to present the most perfect picture to users, we also equipped a display helmet that can be called black technology!"

"It has two 1.8-inch ultra-high-definition screens with a pixel density of 5,500. They are the best screens available today, bar none!"

"Such a screen is enough to provide users with the highest-definition picture presentation!"

"And the above are not the core of our Yun VW system, these are just peripheral components!"

"Although most of the components in these devices represent the most advanced technology at the moment, and even technology that other companies cannot catch up with for many years, but... this is still not the core soul of our system!"

"The core soul of our Yun VW system is this seemingly inconspicuous cabinet in front of you!"

"Many friends may have noticed that this cabinet looks like a server!"

"Strictly speaking, this is indeed very similar to a server!"

"It is the central computing center of our Yun VW, or the mainframe, whatever you want to call it!"

"Now, let's see what's in there!"

At this time, the lights in the cabinet also lit up, and through the outer transparent glass chassis, you could see a large number of various components and circuits inside.

"Did you see what's on top of the cabinet? It's four large computing power cards!"

"APO5000 is the server GPU computing power card newly developed and produced by our Zhiyun Group using equivalent -nanometer technology."

“We haven’t officially released this graphics card for sale yet, but it will be soon. You will be able to see it in January!”

"The APO5000 graphics card has more than 80 processing cores, 1500GB of high-speed video memory, and more than 32GB per second of memory bandwidth. Its TF4600 computing power is times that of the APO, and the computing power for some tasks is times!"

Next, Xu Shenxue praised the APO5000 graphics card.

Finally, "The Yun VW system is equipped with four APO5000 computing cards, which are powerful enough to support the local deployment of a large-scale generative AI. However, we only use it on this virtual device!"

"Not only the APO5000 graphics card, but also our latest development, the ZY38 chip, which is also based on 34-nanometer technology and has not yet been released to the public. The data processing capacity of this chip is four times that of the ZY chip!"

"The APO5000 graphics card and ZY38 together form the central processing center of our system!"

"Only such a large and powerful central processing center can support the processing of huge amounts of data for our virtual devices!"

(End of this chapter)