As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 240 Cooperation
Hua Wei's Hongmeng system has been criticized a lot since its inception.

A large number of people believe that Hongmeng is just a reskin of Android. There is no official statement on whether it is a reskin or not.

But it doesn’t matter whether you change the skin or not. What matters is whether your system is user-friendly.

Take the Android system as an example. At that time, the Android system also used Linux as the kernel and the application layer adopted the Java development ecosystem.

After acquiring Android, Google spent a lot of effort on litigation because Google used a lot of open source code but commercialized Android.

These are too far away from consumers. They don’t care whether Hongmeng is a skinned Android or not. In their hearts, they even hope that you are a skinned Android.

To use a phrase that was popular on the Internet before: I feel relieved when I see ** is so ruthless.

For consumers, what they care about is whether Hongmeng is easy to use.

In the past, it was possible to bind consumers with grand narratives, but this approach has become increasingly unsuccessful in the past two years.

More and more consumers are realizing that no matter how grand the narrative is, it has nothing to do with them even if Huawei wants to go to the stars and the sea.

(As long as the product experience is similar, I will try my best to support domestic products, not just Huawei.)
This is even more true for the application of Hongmeng in the industrial sector. The industry's requirements for the system are lower than those of individual users in some aspects, but the requirements in key areas are very high.

Just like chips in the aerospace field require extreme stability, stability must also be guaranteed under extreme circumstances.

The industrial field also requires stability.

Huawei's mine has performed well in recent years and has been integrated into the daily production of three large coal mining companies in China.

However, in the field of VR, Huawei is a complete newcomer, and the product it can only produce is the Huawei VR glasses launched a long time ago.

Those glasses have a bit of an IQ tax connotation.

Without the accumulation of relevant technologies, it is necessary to redevelop an industrial VR system based on Hongmeng as the core.

Li Miaomiao is skeptical about this.

Having worked in a technology company for a long time, Li Miaomiao has a certain degree of understanding of technology.

When reporting on their work, subordinates always explain some scientific and technological concepts in a simple and easy-to-understand way.

Now Futureverse is also a system written based on the Linux kernel, and the kernel of Hongmeng is also based on Linux.

In Li Miaomiao's opinion, there is absolutely no need to redevelop an industrial VR system.

Huawei will not admit that Hongmeng is an Android skin, but they also dare not deny that their kernel is not Linux.

Although Huawei claims that it is completely independently developed, it is not making another Android or another Linux.

The question raised by Li Miaomiao was completely within Huawei's expectations. Huawei's executives replied:
“We do have little experience in the field of VR systems, but industrial VR and personal VR are two completely different concepts.”

"The industrial VR system developed based on Hongmeng system can show better stability."

"The smart industry provided by Huawei is a complete solution, which includes biological storage servers, network equipment, Hongmeng system, etc."

"Hongmeng OS is the best platform to link the front-end application layer and the back-end hardware devices. If we use other systems, it will not be able to match Huawei's hardware devices so well."

“It will have an impact on the stability of communications.”

“I don’t deny that there are commercial considerations for building an industrial VR system based on Hongmeng OS, but it is more for the sake of technical completeness.”

The two parties reached a preliminary cooperation intention.

The specific mode of cooperation needs to be communicated among the internal executives of Kechuang Bio.

“Mr. Zheng’s intention is that we can cooperate with Huawei in the field of industrial VR, but we need to clarify the method of cooperation.”

After Li Miaomiao set the tone, the executives below expressed their opinions one after another.

“If the technology license is only given to Huawei, then we can focus on the industrial VR field by establishing a joint venture.

If the license is not only given to Huawei but also to other companies, then I suggest adopting the patent charging method.

No matter who wants to develop industrial VR, we will provide patent licensing, and the specific charging method will be discussed separately."

Setting up a joint venture would be more troublesome.

Moreover, the technology was only authorized to Hua Wei, which involves technological monopoly.

“I think even if we don’t just license the flowers, we should also establish a company.

We can completely set up a subsidiary that focuses on the industrial VR field, and then adopt a triple structure by establishing a joint venture between the subsidiary and partners.

This not only allows us to deeply participate in the development of the industrial VR field, but more importantly, the data.

We need data, and the data related to industrial VR use is very valuable, so I think we should not just be a technology provider in this field.”

In the years since the rise of big data, companies have become increasingly aware of the importance of data.

SecondMind was mentioned a long time ago. The reason why Mazda chose to cooperate with SecondMind is that it was attracted by the data accumulated by SecondMind in the field of engine tuning.

“I also agree with Mr. Chen that this is a good opportunity to get involved in the manufacturing industry. We only need data to empower enterprises.

After the news comes out, not only Huawei, but also Ali, ByteDance, and Tencent will take action, and we can obtain the most data. "

Is manufacturing data valuable? Obviously, everyone knows that it is valuable.

But how to implement it and how to monetize the value of data is a problem.

When Ali first created Alipay, it initially only used it as a middleman guarantee transaction software.

Later, the Sesame Credit score was created based on the transaction data on Alipay.

Many personal credit agencies use a credit scoring concept similar to Sesame Credit.

For the giants, they have the ability and willingness to spend a lot of energy on areas that seem unable to create short-term benefits.

Domestic giants have not done enough in this regard.

IBM of America is a typical example of technology accumulation. Instead of realizing the value of its technology, it allowed other companies to rise rapidly by leveraging their technology accumulation.

"We don't necessarily need to set up a joint venture company. We can sign an agreement and stipulate in the agreement that the data needs to be shared with us."

“Sharing at the data level is difficult to define through contractual terms, and the other party can selectively give you non-differentiated data.

Only by establishing a joint venture can we deeply intervene in the field of industrial VR.

We can avoid interfering too much in the operation of the business and avoid distracting attention.”

“Science Biotech and Huawei have reached a strategic cooperation agreement, and both parties will focus on the field of industrial intelligence.

According to Huawei executives, Kechuang Bio will grant Huawei the brain-computer connection VR technology in the form of a patent license and provide technical support.

In the future, Huawei will build industrial VR around brain-computer connection technology and continue to make efforts in the field of smart manufacturing. "After the news came out, the industry discussed it very enthusiastically.

Everyone knows about industrial VR. This concept has existed for a long time.

There are related practices, but this is the first time that brain-computer connection technology and industrial VR have been combined.

Huawei and Kechuang Bio are both giants in their respective fields, and the impact of the cross-border cooperation of giants on the industry may far exceed expectations.

The manufacturing industry has faced many challenges in recent years.

Not only is the so-called "demographic dividend" almost disappearing, there is also the problem of manufacturing transfer.

In the past, domestic manufacturing wages were three thousand, and now they have risen to five thousand. However, wages in Southeast Asian countries are only two thousand. At this time, capital will transfer manufacturing.

China originally hoped that inland provinces would take over the manufacturing industry from the southeast coast, but the share of manufacturing that has actually transferred from the coast to the inland is very small.

Multinational giants are able to transfer manufacturing to Southeast Asia, and Chinese companies are also moving low-end manufacturing to places with lower manufacturing costs.

For example, in 2022, Asan first imposed a fine of 5.6 million yuan on Rice, and then froze Rice's assets worth 48 billion RMB.

India would never dare to do something similar to European and American giants.

Chinese companies are hesitant about going to Southeast Asia, and risk control and compliance management have been raised to unprecedented levels.

This is the case in Southeast Asia, which is right next to us, not to mention Africa, where the regulations and political situation are even more turbulent.

“How do you evaluate the cooperation between Kechuang Biotechnology and Huawei in the field of industrial VR?”

The news tended to be professional, so it did not attract much attention on popular social media.

Most of the people are Hua Wei’s haters and fans attacking each other.

In the past, rice flour and pollen would spray each other, but now everyone sprays pollen and rice flour has no turn.

Related issues are discussed quite heatedly on Zhihu, and Zhihu is the place where the Industrial Party gathers the most.

In the past, niche forums like Beichao, Tiexue, and Tianya, which were home to a large number of Industrial Party members, have gradually died out.

A large number of industrial parties choose to continue to be active on Zhihu.

“Thank you for the invitation. As a veteran in the field of Huawei Industrial Internet, I would like to share my thoughts.

Huawei began to regard the industrial Internet as one of its strategic directions in 19, but it was not until 20 that it invested resources on a large scale.

We currently have very good results in the fields of coal mining, steel, chemical industry, etc., especially in the field of coal mining, where we empower a series of processes from coal mining to selection and washing to shipment through Huawei's mining system.

It effectively improves the safety and efficiency of coal mine production.

We have invested a lot of resources in this field over the past five years. Now Huawei's mining system is not only used in domestic coal mines, but also in other mineral fields.

Recently, we have reached a cooperation with Qingdao Zhongcheng, and the mining system will be used in the giant nickel mine in Indonesia - Madani Nickel Mine.

However, in more areas of manufacturing, current technology still has many shortcomings.

Even in the coal industry, we can only release part of the productivity and cannot achieve completely unmanned operations. Human resources are still indispensable in some areas.

Not to mention other areas of manufacturing.

This time, the cooperation between Huawei and Kechuang Biotechnology can solve this problem to a great extent.

Simple and repetitive problems are handled unmanned by artificial intelligence, while complex and tedious work is solved by humans operating industrial VR.

This means that Huawei's industrial Internet solution has formed a complete logical closed loop, and in the future only ten people will be needed to manage hundreds of factories.

If we use a case to draw an analogy, it is somewhat similar to traditional system architecture and cloud architecture.

In the past, every company needed to store its own system, which required servers, networks, and storage devices, and then dedicated personnel to maintain this complete system.

After the public cloud becomes popular, the system is placed on the public cloud and maintained by the public cloud vendor. You only need to have a system operation and maintenance personnel to ensure its stability.

The smart factories of the future will be similar to the public cloud services of today.

It will definitely enable China's manufacturing industry to reach a new level.

Manufacturing that has moved to Southeast Asia due to labor costs will return.”

“Thank you for the invitation. I am undoubtedly optimistic about the cooperation between Huawei and Kechuang Biotechnology, and I think this is the most important thing for China’s economy this year.

What the employee of Huawei above said is very right. The Industrial Internet can help the manufacturing industry return to China, and I agree with this.

The return of manufacturing means that China's economic engine will reach a new level.

I will explain in detail why the Industrial Internet can help the reshoring of manufacturing.

First of all, manufacturing will flow to Southeast Asia. As an insider, I can tell you responsibly that manufacturing will not just flow back to Southeast Asia.

It's just because we are in Asia that we feel that manufacturing is moving back to Southeast Asia.

In fact, the capital of each country is guiding its manufacturing industry around its own country.

Neon and Korea have their capital deployed in Southeast Asia, America is more likely to choose neighboring Mexico, Argentina and Brazil, and Europe is choosing to move to Eastern Europe.

Supply chain restructuring is ongoing worldwide, and China is also guiding its manufacturing industry to move inland.

Why does capital want to guide the transfer of manufacturing? Obviously, it is because China's labor costs have increased and are no longer as attractive as before.

In addition, the cost of sea transportation has increased significantly in recent years.

America has placed its supply chain in South America, and now has automatic trucks for transportation, which makes transportation costs much lower than sea transportation.

Capital is profit-seeking, and manufacturing in China cannot bring them such high returns.

There are also some obscure reasons. American hopes to rebuild the global supply chain system.

But why are the governments of developed countries constantly guiding the transfer of supply chains, while China's manufacturing industry does not seem to have suffered much damage?

That’s because China’s manufacturing industry’s advantages lie not only in labor costs, but also in comparative advantages in water, electricity, coal, and other resources.

For example, Taiwan often suffers from power outages, which seriously affects the manufacturing of semiconductor manufacturers, so Taiwan would rather cut off residential electricity to ensure TSMC's industrial electricity supply.

You don’t have to worry about this problem in China.

Electricity is only a small aspect. A complete and huge supply chain is the biggest comparative advantage of China's manufacturing industry.

Therefore, it is difficult for any more complex manufacturing industry to completely break away from the Chinese market.

Currently, the manufacturing industries that have been transferred out are mainly low-end manufacturing industries.
Does this mean that China’s manufacturing advantage cannot be replaced? Will America’s plan succeed?
I personally think it is very likely to be realized, because China's manufacturing industry is not as strong as the media claims."

Thanks to Changqing1040 for the reward!
I am continuing to write now. I will add another chapter today as a reward for the last time. The reward for Changqing 1040 will be added during the Dragon Boat Festival~


(End of this chapter)