After holding group meetings in software and Internet-related fields, Zhao Yi then held group meetings with his companies in the semiconductor, communications and other high-tech manufacturing fields.
Such companies include Hengtong Communications Company, Huawei Technologies Company, Tiangong Precision Instrument Company, Tianxing Semiconductor Company, Qingtian Semiconductor Company, Byte Data Company and Polaris Company.
At this group meeting, Zhao Yi emphasized: "After these years of unremitting efforts, the development of my country's semiconductor industry has become the first echelon in the world, and has gradually left other competitors behind.
Although this is something to be happy about, we should not be blindly optimistic and ignore that we still have some potential competitors. If we do not continue to maintain a high degree of vigilance, we are likely to gradually fall into a disadvantageous situation in the subsequent competition.
Therefore, I hope that all of you here, while consolidating existing achievements, will also continue to increase R&D efforts in the entire field of semiconductors and increase the efficiency of R&D results. You must not be complacent and think that you can sleep on your laurels. .
Especially in semiconductor design, our advantage is not particularly outstanding. Although the world's major semiconductor industry countries have lost their ranks in cutting-edge semiconductor manufacturing, they have shifted their main energy to design.
This can be clearly analyzed from the business structure of Qingtian Semiconductor Company. The proportion of orders placed by foreign semiconductor design companies is increasing, and the creativity and technical content of the design solutions are also getting higher and higher.
Although it has brought very good business performance to Qingtian Semiconductor, everyone, this is also worthy of our vigilance. It shows that we have not yet established an absolute dominance in the semiconductor field, and competitors may catch up from behind.
Especially our semiconductor industry, although it involves the entire industry chain, the competition intensity in each link is not enough, and innovation, especially innovative capabilities that are not necessary without itself, are not enough.
Therefore, I suggest that each company can sort out the entire semiconductor industry chain according to its own business needs, and give each link in the industry chain a higher degree of operating freedom, so that they can participate in market competition more deeply.
For example, chip design, chip manufacturing and chip packaging, etc., can establish relatively independent business entities according to their own conditions and bring them to the market, which can stimulate their greater creativity. "
The meaning of Zhao Yi's words is to break the situation where all links of the entire industry chain eat from one big pot, reorganize the entire industry chain, establish subsidiaries with a higher degree of freedom, engage in fuller market competition, and stimulate their potential.
In the past, the demand side of his subsidiaries put forward the demand, and then Tianxing Semiconductor Company manufactured related semiconductor products according to the demand. This process was very passive, and the links in various countries were suspected of eating from the same pot, which was far away from the real market.
This situation also exists among other companies, but they are not involved in the entire industry chain, but only one link. For example, Hengtong Communications Company and Huawei Technology Company are only involved in the field of chip design.
Tiangong Precision Instrument Company is only involved in the manufacturing and R&D of semiconductor equipment. Although Polaris Company has a wide range of semiconductor business, such as their various electronic screen manufacturing and R&D, it is also a type of semiconductor design and manufacturing.
However, if we consider its main business, Polaris is still engaged in the application of consumer-side semiconductor products, which is very close to the market.
The semiconductor industry under Zhao Yi is still eating up the foundation he left. If the innovation capabilities are not strengthened, it will fall into a weak stage after the foundation he left is used up. This is an issue that must be considered.
Although his technical ability is very strong, he cannot be allowed to be a nanny throughout the whole process. The most he can do is help them along. They still need to walk the road ahead. How far they can go depends on their own abilities.
Zhao Yi then talked about his views on the mobile Internet, and determined that it will become a hot field for a long time and is the second spring of the semiconductor and communications industries. I hope they can study and grasp this well.
At the same time, let Hengtong Communications Company and Huawei Technology Company promote their upgraded technology as soon as possible and strive to reach a certain scale before smartphones are launched on a large scale.
In order to cooperate with the research and development of smartphones, Tianxing Semiconductor Company, Optimus Semiconductor Company and Byte Data Company have cooperated to fight this battle. The first-generation products need to meet the requirements of most daily mobile applications.
In addition, Zhao Yi also requires that the price of smartphones be reduced as much as possible. It is best for the low-end version to be priced around 1,000, so that most consumers can afford it.
In this era, feature phones are actually considered high-tech, otherwise they would not be sold so expensively by Hengtong Communications Company, and the market size is not small.
Compared with smartphones, feature phones are no longer on the same level. According to their characteristics, the price may be ridiculously high, at least more than 3,000 yuan.
Not to mention that domestic people cannot afford such a price, even people in developed countries are reluctant to buy it. Although their income is not low, they have many things to spend money on and don't have much money left.
Zhao Yi hopes to drop the price lower than most current feature phones. This is not a decision made blindly, but based on concrete basis. Even at this price, high profits can be guaranteed.
This is also due to Polaris' tablet computer project, which has laid a solid foundation for smartphone manufacturing. In addition, Polaris's tablet sales are very large, and the cost of related parts has naturally dropped a lot.
If a complete supply chain is built from scratch, and even some parts require the establishment of special research projects, the initial cost will definitely be very high, and he will not have such a requirement.
It is precisely because he already has the industrial foundation for manufacturing smartphones that he has set the launch time of the smartphone in the second half of this year, because with the industrial foundation in place, most of his time is spent on design.
In fact, the emergence of smartphones will have a certain impact on Polaris's tablet sales. If the price of smartphones starts at 1,000 yuan, the impact will be even greater.
Because the price of Polaris' tablets is not cheap, but except for the large screen, all other aspects can be replaced by smartphones. If funds are limited, it is of course more cost-effective for people to buy smartphones.
Precisely because he knew that the emergence of smartphones would seriously affect Polaris' tablet business, Zhao Yi asked them to enter the field of smartphone manufacturing to make up for their performance losses in this area.
Zhao Yi then held a separate meeting with Jia Siqi from Shangtong Trading Company. Shangtong Trading Company is a relatively special existence under Zhao Yi, connecting almost all industries and markets under his banner.
And that's not all. Among other domestic export industries, most of them are exported through the channels of commercial trading companies, and their influence is not limited to one company.
This is why the Internet e-commerce industry is handed over to Shangtong Trading Company, because it is very easy for them to do it, and many links can be solved through their existing channels.
More importantly, although Zhao Yi knows that e-commerce is an inevitable product of the Internet era, even if he does not enter this industry, other people will enter in the future. With this, it is better to take it into his own hands.
E-commerce is an inevitable trend of the times, but the rise of e-commerce has also brought about many problems. In the past life, there were many negative comments about e-commerce's impact on the domestic economy.
Shangtong Trading Company already has an absolute advantage in the traditional trade field, and its reach is not limited to the domestic market. Among international traders, it is also the leading giant. Its peers behind it cannot compare with Shangtong Trading Company.
Moreover, the business of Shangtong Trading Company is not only limited to the construction of sales channels. They have also invested in and built a large number of physical manufacturing industries, forming a large-scale manufacturing industry.
In other words, Shangtong Trading Company itself is a huge business empire. Except for the weak link of raw materials, they are involved in all other links, and they do it very well.
Leave e-commerce to them. First, it is relatively simple for them to do it, and the development of e-commerce business will definitely be very fast. Second, only they can balance the interests of e-commerce and offline physical channels, and avoid the consequences of subsequent e-commerce. The problem.
In particular, Zhao Yi hopes to increase the income of domestic people as soon as possible and increase the contribution of domestic demand to my country's economic development. If e-commerce companies blindly rely on low-price strategies and compete with physical channels like in previous lives, this goal will be affected.
First, e-commerce occupies the living space of physical channels, which naturally makes physical channels low-profit and either closes down or barely operates. The consequence is that there are fewer jobs and it is difficult to increase the income of employees.
Second, e-commerce companies only care about their own interests and squeeze out the profit margins of downstream manufacturing industries, causing many companies to operate at small profits. In this case, the income of relevant practitioners will definitely be affected.
Of course, this is not necessarily because e-commerce is deliberately targeting the manufacturing industry. Most of it is because transparency is too high and mutual squeeze causes manufacturing companies to lower prices against each other. In the end, no one can make a profit.
If both of these are managed by Shangtong Trading Company, they can rely on their strong industrial group strength and channel strength to achieve a dynamic balance, ensure that everyone can make money, and ensure the safety of employees in all aspects of the industry chain. Benefit.
Zhao Yi asked Jia Siqi when their e-commerce business could be launched, because it has been delayed for a long time. Now the global Internet construction is in full swing and market variables have increased. It is difficult to guarantee that they will be able to get the first soup.
"In fact, the e-commerce system has been built internally. After careful testing, it has fully met the launch requirements. The reason why it was not launched before was because the user base was too small.
In addition, we hope that when we can launch, it will not only be domestic business, but also global business at the same time, so that we will not give opportunities to latecomers and block other capital from entering this field.
In order to achieve this goal, we have made active preparations during this period, carried out relevant logistics construction and warehousing construction in major economies around the world, and negotiated relevant cooperation agreements with major offline suppliers.
At present, our work is progressing very smoothly. In terms of logistics, we try to adopt a self-operated model and invest a lot of advanced technology to reduce logistics costs and logistics time.
In terms of warehousing, there is a previous foundation. Basically, you only need to copy it abroad as needed. There is no problem in this aspect of work.
Finally, we reached cooperation with major commodity suppliers. Although we have a foundation in traditional business in this area, everyone is not familiar with e-commerce and still has doubts about entering the field of e-commerce channels.
In order to achieve cooperation with them and obtain more favorable online prices, we made certain profit concessions in the traditional sales field to allow these cooperation to continue.
Now that all conditions are in place, we originally planned to go online in these two days, just in time for the New Year period, which will have a huge promotion effect on our domestic business.
However, after receiving news about smartphones, we planned to postpone this plan until around the time when the smartphones are launched. There are two main reasons for doing so:
First, the current Internet user base barely meets the preliminary requirements, but there is still a big gap from what we expected. Postponing it for a period of time will provide better development ground.
The second is our research results on the impact of the mobile Internet era on e-commerce, and we have concluded that the promotion of e-commerce by mobile Internet is unmatched by the current Internet model.
Therefore, with the concept of having a good meal without fear of being late, on the one hand, we will make all aspects of our work more solid, and on the other hand, we will make relevant adjustments and technical reserves for the mobile Internet era. "
After listening to Jia Siqi's report, Zhao Yi was really shocked by their courage. Even he had hoped to adopt a gradual development model before, first developing and consolidating domestically, and then slowly expanding outwards.
On the one hand, this can accumulate e-commerce development experience and face new things. Without any experience, this is the safest way and will not lead to operational chaos.
On the other hand, Shangtong Trading Company’s domestic warehousing and logistics foundation is very solid, and it is operated by itself, making it easier to do e-commerce. While foreign developed economies have a good foundation in transportation, they definitely have more constraints than domestic ones.
Jia Siqi obviously also knew the difficulties in developing e-commerce abroad, so she took advantage of this blank period to build e-commerce warehousing and logistics systems abroad.
Because labor costs abroad are higher, logistics costs are much higher than domestic ones, and various reasons also cause their logistics efficiency to be very low.
In order to increase its e-commerce competitiveness, Shangtong Trading Company can only solve the problem through technology. They themselves have advanced warehousing and logistics system-related technologies, and this solution can be copied in the past.
However, in the last mile of distribution, there are serious problems with cost and efficiency, and they began to conduct relevant research on the last mile of distribution.
The autonomous driving technology jointly developed by Fanxing Software Company and Shenlong Automobile Company has opened a window for them, and autonomous logistics vehicles have also been included in their field of vision.
However, automatic logistics vehicles will definitely be out of business in a short time. This is not only related to technical matters, but also the traffic regulations of various countries. Moreover, in an unmanned environment, it can also be easily destroyed by low morals or competitors.
Although this road was not feasible, the idea was opened up. They decided to use drones to provide last-mile delivery services. The research work was progressing very smoothly, but the difficulty was stuck in the problem of insufficient battery power.
However, this problem has been solved with the emergence of new batteries. This is one of the reasons for their delay, because it will take at least half a year for Xinhui Energy Company's new batteries to be put into production.
During this period, they not only need to wait for the launch of new batteries from Xinhui Energy Company, but also actively expand the production capacity of logistics and distribution drones in preparation for the launch of e-commerce.
As for the performance of the logistics and distribution drones they developed, Zhao Yi also made relevant inquiries. A single drone is not a big problem, and I believe they can solve it well with their strength.
However, if logistics distribution drones are used as the main distribution method, it means that each distribution point needs to manage thousands of drones, and the difficulty of management and operation is not simple.
Moreover, it is also necessary to ensure that thousands of drones can accurately identify aerial routes and accurately deliver goods to each consumer's home, which has increased the difficulty by several levels.
And there is no mobile Internet everywhere now. Even the upgraded mobile Internet has too high latency and is not suitable as a wireless communication method for delivery drones.
“In order to manage a huge fleet of drones, we actively cooperated with Building Block Software Company and used their smart city brain-related technologies to develop a central intelligent control system.
After our testing, a single system can manage up to 100,000 drones at the same time, allowing them to move flexibly in the air, automatically charging, automatically planning flight routes, etc.
In addition to the central intelligent control system, in order to solve the problem of signal interruption, we also have built-in intelligent systems and map information systems in each drone.
Although due to limitations in computing power, it may not be as smart as the central intelligent control system, there is still no problem with basic delivery and return services to avoid stray incidents.
As for network communication, we still use satellite communication. For this reason, we have reached cooperation with Future Space Technology Company. In the next period of time, we will launch the number of communication satellites that meet business needs. "Jia Siqi said.
After Zhao Yi heard this, he said "f*ck" in his heart. Although these technologies were nothing to him, they were very difficult for Shangtong Trading Company.
In fact, he also knew that the scale of the UAV market was okay, but he just believed that under the current conditions, the development of UAVs was not necessary, so he never mentioned it and only expressed this idea in China Military Industrial Company.
Unexpectedly, Shangtong Trading Company, after going through many difficulties, was able to accomplish this thing, and it was much more advanced than the drones in the previous life, with a higher degree of intelligence and less human involvement.
If there is such a weapon, Shangtong Trading Company's e-commerce business will be unmatched by other competitors, at least among distribution service providers.
"It is a very good idea that you can apply smart technology to this aspect, but how can you guarantee that secrets will not be leaked? You must know that if it is deployed abroad, it can be investigated at any time for various reasons." Zhao Yi asked .
Intelligent technology is the core technology of Zhao Yi's industry and is highly confidential. This is not just a matter of commercial interests, because it can also be applied to the military field.
Hearing Zhao Yi's inquiry, Jia Siqi showed an expected expression and said with a smile: "Of course we will not foolishly deploy core technology abroad, as there are too many uncontrollable factors.
In order to solve this problem, we have deployed the central intelligent system on the communication satellite, and the intelligent systems on all communication satellites can communicate and coordinate with each other.
They can even borrow computing power from each other to balance some computing power shortages caused by regional business imbalances. Moreover, when deployed on communication satellites, the delay can be reduced by half, which is of great significance to the emergency management of drones. "
After hearing this genius solution, Zhao couldn't help but exclaim, "It not only achieves confidentiality, but also reduces the delay problem of drone management by the central intelligent system."
More importantly, such a communication satellite system already has the foundation for the development of mobile communications all over the world. This is also a quite remarkable research result.
You must know that Motorola's satellite communication network system is still just a slogan. It will take more than ten years to develop a mature system.
And this technology only took more than a year to complete. This was something he did not expect. He thought that such a system would require his own work. Obviously, he seriously underestimated the research and development of his staff. Creativity of people.
If such a satellite communication system is combined with the ultra-high data compression communication technology it provides, the number of supported communication terminal devices will increase exponentially in an instant.
Now their single satellite supports a maximum of 100,000 connection terminals. If matched with this ultra-high data compression communication technology, the number of connection terminals per satellite will increase by more than 100 times to 10 million.
This is very scary data. If mobile communication services are provided to everyone in the world, only 60 satellites need to be launched, and the data transmission speed can be guaranteed to be no less than 1Mbps.
"What's the price of a single communication satellite like this?" Zhao Yi asked.
"Due to the adoption of many new technologies, the price is naturally not cheap. The construction cost alone has reached 1 billion yuan. Adding the costs of supporting systems, support, launch, etc., the operating cost of one is 1.2 billion yuan." Jia Siqi said .
After Zhao Yi heard this, he thought about a question. Now that the technology has reached this level, is there any need to upgrade the existing 2G network? These services can be included in his own pocket, so why should he take advantage of others.
Let alone 1.2 billion yuan for a single chip, even if it is increased to 1.5 billion yuan, 60 will only cost 90 billion yuan, and the global population is only 5 billion. If the average person connects to the Internet, the cost per person will only be 36 yuan.
If nothing goes wrong, a satellite will have a service life of at least 10 years. This takes into account replacement factors. If it is based on its natural lifespan, it can be used for more than 15 years.
This makes Zhao Yi very confused as to whether he should do it himself. Even if he charges a monthly service fee of 10 yuan per person, the cost will be paid in a few months, and the net income will be after that.
The monthly service fee of 10 yuan is affordable to people in most countries except for very poor countries. And with satellite communication services, you don’t have to worry about being disconnected wherever you go.
Of course, satellite communication also has its fixed flaws, that is, it cannot be connected to underground spaces or confined spaces. As for receiving equipment like pot lids like in previous lives, it can be solved through technical means.
This technology has already been applied by Polaris Company. Otherwise, the TV sets they sell would need to be equipped with special receiving equipment to receive ATV satellite signals, which would make it more difficult for users to use and sales would not be so high. .
After some rational analysis in his mind, Zhao Yi decided to postpone the process for several reasons:
The first is that Hengtong Communications Company and Huawei Technologies Company have almost monopolized the global communications equipment field, and they also have many enterprise mobile operation businesses, so there is no need to reinvent the wheel.
The second is that there are many uncertain factors, especially when our country has not yet become a hegemon. If we want to take all the benefits and leave no way for others to survive, it will naturally cause fierce conflicts of interest, business and politics. There are pressures from all aspects.
The third is that the technology has already come out. After the e-commerce of Shangtong Trading Company is launched, any professional will be able to see the technical content inside.
On the one hand, this will definitely attract unprecedented attention and a certain amount of panic, but on the other hand, it will really deter those who make small moves, so that they will not intensify the conflicts, otherwise they will face the risk of ruining the situation.
In other words, although Hengtong Communications Company and Huawei Technology Company have monopolized the field of communication technology and made a lot of money, don't be jealous. If they anger us, it will directly usher in the era of global satellite communications.
By then, you mobile communication operators will probably not have a bite to eat. We will eat all the food in our own stomachs. Even if we use administrative measures to restrict it, it will only hurt both sides.
Ignoring this idea, Zhao Yi continued to ask: "What is the cost of your drone? Does it solve the crash problem caused by strong winds?"
“The ex-factory cost of our terminal logistics delivery drone is 10,000 yuan. However, if we replace the high-performance battery from Xinhui Energy Company, the cost may increase to a certain extent. It is difficult to calculate at the moment.
As for environmental adaptability, we have also conducted relevant tests. According to our tests, the drone can basically guarantee stable operation with winds up to and including level 10.
If the wind gets stronger, there will be unpredictable risks, so in the future we plan to stop terminal delivery services when encountering severe weather with winds above level 10. "Jia Siqi said.
Zhao Yi is quite satisfied with this. It is not as high as he imagined. Even if it is equipped with 1 million units worldwide, it will only cost more than 10 billion yuan. Although the investment is still very huge, the saved labor costs and improved distribution efficiency can make up for it. return.
In fact, you won’t need so many in the initial stage. A maximum of 100,000 units will be enough. After the business volume increases, it will not be too late to increase the number.
Moreover, if the number of drone purchases increases, related industries will become more and more mature, and costs will naturally drop very quickly. These are all to be expected.
"Do you have any plans to form an independent subsidiary for the production and research and development of civilian drones to expand the application fields of drones, such as aerial photography and remote sensing? There is also huge market potential here." Zhao Yi asked.
Hearing what Zhao Yi said, Jia Siqi nodded and said: "I didn't have this idea before, after all, it was just to meet the internal needs of the company.
But after listening to what you said, Mr. Zhao, we should indeed set up a special company to operate civilian drones. Anyway, our technology is ready-made. After our company’s internal procurement, the cost will be recovered, and we will make pure profits later.
Moreover, it can also reduce the cost of the entire drone industry, increase profit margins, and strengthen competitiveness. "
After talking about the e-commerce business, Zhao Yi talked about other things. When he saw Jia Siqi going out, Zhao Yi felt that the future was getting more and more interesting. He really wanted to see the sky full of drones. It was a bit sci-fi when he thought about it. asked.
Jia Siqi's management ability has been highly recognized by Zhao Yi before, because Shangtong Trading Company's business complexity is the largest among Zhao Yi's companies, and being able to lead such a giant company already speaks volumes.
But the way she handles her e-commerce business makes Zhao Yiyi's evaluation of her even higher. She has not only management capabilities, but also a very high sense of innovation, and is very good in business methods. Be bold and think big.
Although such innovation may not necessarily be Jia Siqi's personal idea, her ability to decisively adopt such a solution that looks like a science fiction scenario already reflects her ability and shows that the company under her leadership has an innovative atmosphere.
Now that Shangtong Trading Company has reached this point in the field of drones, Huaxia Military Industrial Company should work harder to strive for a certain proportion of unmanned equipment in the next generation of equipment.
Because Shangtong Trading Company has opened Pandala's Box, everyone has seen the potential of drones. Although they are not as technologically as us, they will invest a lot of money in research. It is certain that the process will be accelerated, so this cannot be the same. Step on the ground. (End of chapter)