Chapter 377 Laying out new energy and developing AI(2/3)
Xingyi Technology is much simpler. Millions of AutoNavi taxi drivers travel all over the country. They are simply millions of walking drawing cars!
It is fully capable of achieving the most accurate and rapid real-time update of the map.
There is also the precise map blessing of Amap, no matter it is L2, L3 or L4, there is no pressure.
As for building cars?
You have to do it yourself!
In the previous life, even Huawei, when cooperating with third parties, encountered obstacles and was cheated everywhere. It was not until it finally joined hands with Xiaokang Automobile, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, that it finally found its way out.
Wang Yi didn't want to suffer from this cowardice, so he went to work on the Xingyi brand and built the car himself.
And car manufacturing qualifications have become a big problem!
There are two qualifications for new energy vehicle manufacturing, one is the major qualification from the National Development and Reform Commission, and the other is the minor qualification from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Both of these qualifications are difficult to obtain.
For example, the major qualifications of the National Development and Reform Commission require financing capabilities, R&D capabilities, production capabilities, quality assurance and service capabilities, as well as positive R&D capabilities, relevant invention patents, and mastery of vehicle control systems, power battery systems, vehicle integration and integration.
Vehicle lightweighting and other design and development, testing and monitoring capabilities.
In addition, the factory will be built within two years and vehicles will be sold within three years.
However, from 2015 to 2017, the official relaxed the qualification conditions and issued a full 15 new force qualifications.
But it was tightened rapidly after 2017. If you want to build a car in the future, just like an OTT license, you can only spend money to acquire it.
Wang Yi plans to start the layout as soon as possible, invest heavily, and try to establish a team within two years and reserve technology patents.
Qualifications were obtained within three years, the factory was built, and sales started within four years, that is, around 2016, Xingyi Automobile was launched.
This time is just right.
After all, if the cost of new energy batteries cannot be reduced in the early stage, the technology cannot be broken through, and the battery life is short, it will not make much sense to launch efforts too early.
In previous lives, new energy has gone through three stages of development.
The first stage, before 2017, is the exploration period of new energy, mainly replacing oil with electricity, mainly mini-cars, and cheating on subsidies.
The second stage, from 2018 to 2020, is the industry reshuffle and clearing period. With the decline of subsidies, mini cars have suffered a critical blow, pure electric and plug-in hybrids have begun to develop, Tesla has been introduced, and the catfish effect has begun.
The third stage, after 2021, is a period of competition and explosion. Domestic new energy sources will usher in a big explosion, with technology, quality, and experience all-round improved, and they will crazily devour the oil truck market.
As for the fourth stage, it must be the shift from electric vehicles to electric vehicles. The range of electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles has been greatly improved, the cost has been greatly reduced, and the market share has surpassed that of oil vehicles and replaced oil vehicles.
The most interesting thing is that around 2016, the government provided large subsidies to new energy to strongly support the development of new energy.
As a result, many companies did not cherish the opportunity, but instead manufactured shoddy products and defrauded subsidies.
Which of the products we make are new energy vehicles? They are obviously Laotou Le!
This forced the authorities to introduce Tesla as a catfish to clean up the market.
But this time, Wang Yi was ready to take action in advance. When his friends were cheating on subsidies, Xingyi Technology acted like a catfish and directly used excellent new energy to kill the friends who were cheating on subsidies.
Xingyi Technology directly built a factory in Shanghai and developed on a large scale.
In this way, there is no need to introduce Tesla.
By then, Xingyi Technology will swallow up all of Tesla’s domestic market!
In 2016, Xingyi Automobile will open up its future with L2 assisted driving.
A few years later, L4’s highly autonomous driving will be used to compete with Baidu’s Carrot Run, giving Amap drivers and Amap taxis a way out.
Wang Yi doesn’t want to be killed by Baidu’s Carrot Run when taking a taxi on Gaode!
The entire research and development process of autonomous driving will take at least ten years, or even more.
In the previous life, Baidu had been researching and developing it for more than ten years, and L4 level highly autonomous driving was only carried out in limited areas.
Similarly, Huawei and Tesla have been engaged in assisted driving for more than ten years, but they have not reached L3 level.
If it really reaches L5 level of fully autonomous driving, which does not even require a steering wheel, Wang Yi feels that fifteen years may not be enough, or even twenty years.
That is, around 2030, there is hope that fully autonomous driving will be possible.
At that time, cars did not have steering wheels, and the driver and passenger were made into sofas.
There is no need to take a driver's license test. After getting in the car, tell the car your destination and just go to the car. The automatic driving will go directly.
And this premise is that Wang Yi starts planning from now on!
For this reason, on the second day after returning to Xingyi Technology from iFlytek, Wang Yi immediately summoned the top management of Xingyi Technology and the AI algorithm department.
Even the person in charge of the Xiaoi Robotics Department arrived at the Imperial Capital in advance for a meeting.
Wang Yi looked around at the crowd: "The first thing is about AI and technology sharing. One of Xiaoi Robot and iFlytek is good at natural language processing, and the other is good at speech recognition and speech synthesis. I have reached an agreement with Director Liu of iFlytek, and both parties share
Core technologies, shared voice, semantic database, and common progress!"
"The second thing is about AI and business division. After sharing voice, semantic technology and database, the AI algorithms and technologies of Xiaoi Robot and iFlytek will improve rapidly, but the business may also conflict."
"To this end, I have negotiated with iFlytek, and both parties have divided the fields and tried their best to cultivate deeply within their respective scopes and sweep away other competitors. There is no need to fight among ourselves."
"In the future, Xiaoi Robot will mainly focus on the B-side business, with AI smart customer service, smart cities, smart finance, and smart medical care as the core, and deeply cultivate the B-side business. At the same time, it will also be a C-side Xiaoai Audio."
"iFlytek will deepen its business in C-side business, including translators, iFlytek input method, iFlytek Hearing and other C-side businesses, as well as B-side AI education."
After saying that, Wang Yi looked at the leader of Xiaoi Robot, who quickly said:
"Okay, Chairman, this kind of technology sharing and database sharing will increase our strength, and business division will help us avoid business conflicts. I fully accept it."
Wang Yi nodded: "Very good, for the follow-up matter, you arrange for the technical team to contact and integrate with iFlytek. Use iFlytek's speech recognition technology and speech synthesis technology as soon as possible to complete the dialect recognition of Xiaoai Audio!"
At present, Xiao Ai's dialect recognition is very poor and Wang Yi has a headache. He can only use iFlytek's technology and dialect database to solve the problem.
"yes!"
Wang Yi continued: "The third thing is that I got definite news that Baidu and Huawei will set up autonomous driving R&D departments and start deploying autonomous driving research and development, and even lay out the research and development of overall solutions for new energy vehicles."
In the previous life, Huawei started its layout in 2012 and Baidu started its layout in 2013.
Although they have been reborn, there is no doubt that the two major companies will continue to advance this big strategy.
So Wang Yi pointed it out directly.
Hearing this, everyone's expressions changed drastically.
No one would have thought that Huawei and Baidu would now begin deploying autonomous driving research and development.
Wang Yi continued: "The research and development of new energy vehicles is a three-year process, and we are now starting to lay out the layout. The Human Resources Department quickly recruited R&D experts and talents in the field of new energy vehicles to build the Xingyi Automobile Research Center and carry out the three-electric system
As well as the research and development of complete vehicle solutions and accumulation of patents.”
"We will develop a hybrid solution within two years, obtain new energy qualifications and build a factory within three years, and Xingyi Auto will be launched within four years!"
"Yes!" Everyone responded one after another.
I understand Wang Yi’s determination.
When it came to making mobile phones, there was no mention of a four-year plan, but when it came to making cars, it actually had a four-year plan.
Without him, what Wang Yi wants to do is not to assemble cars, but to develop his own three-electric system, electric motor, power battery, and electronic control system!
Wang Yi continued: "The research and development of autonomous driving is a longer process."
"We will first carry out L2-level assisted driving, and after the accuracy of the Amap map is improved, we will simultaneously promote the research and development of L4-level autonomous driving."
"In the future, hundreds of millions of users of Amap and millions of car owners using Amap will provide data every day. Our self-driving database will be updated the fastest, most timely, and most comprehensively. As long as the algorithm keeps up, it will become
The first company to create L2, L3, and L4 levels!”
"Xingyi Automobile, as the most important strategic core of Xingyi Technology in the future, I will personally take charge of it. Only success is allowed, no failure is allowed!"
"Yes!" Everyone responded one after another.
At present, Xingyi mobile phones have reached the first echelon, and so are Xingyi tablets.
It is reasonable to launch Xingyi Auto at this time and make arrangements in advance.
After all, cars are much more complex than mobile phones. If the car is assembled well, it can be built in two or three years.
But it is difficult to develop the three-electric system by yourself. It will be difficult even if it does not take four or five years.
But someone has to do it.
Huawei did it in the previous life, this time, Xingyi Technology can do it too!
"The Xingyi Automobile R&D Center will be recruited as soon as possible and established as soon as possible. As for the autonomous driving algorithm, we will also deploy elite backbones and put it on the schedule as soon as possible!"
Wang Yi gave instructions one by one.
After the meeting ended, Jian Ziyan was left behind again: "Ziyan, next you will vigorously recruit people. Not just domestic ones, but overseas Tesla, Bosch and the like, anyone you can recruit."
Why can Xingyi Semiconductor develop so rapidly, overtaking Huawei and HiSilicon in a corner?
The reason is very simple. HiSilicon recruits its own people and does it from scratch, with a little bit of trial and error.
Xingyi Semiconductor directly recruited the leaders and team of the semiconductor giant Texas Instruments. Standing on the shoulders of Texas Instruments' giants, Xingyi Semiconductor naturally developed faster and more rapidly.
The same is true for car development.
To be continued...