Giant of the times

Nowadays, state-owned asset holding is a prerequisite for entering China. Foreign automobile companies must abide by this if they want to make money in China. For the SAIC-Rolls-Royce Motors joint venture, SAIC did not contribute nothing. They also provided money and technology, as well as land, factories and workers, as well as SAIC's large-scale raw material acquisition and sales channels.

Raw materials are purchased uniformly, the scale is large, and the premium ability is naturally strong.

In addition, it goes without saying how difficult it is to establish channels. Foreign brands can quickly open up the market in China and increase brand awareness, largely relying on the sales channels of Chinese automobile companies.

Although the outside media has always believed that Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has fallen, it is not. SAIC-Rolls-Royce Motor Company is developing and designing a new brand of cars. As for the brand name, Li Zetian suggested naming it "Veyron". This "Veyron" is naturally not a Bugatti Veyron. The dragon is a Chinese totem and belief, and the Chinese have always prided themselves on being the descendants of the dragon. Therefore, the name "Weilong" is very local, powerful, and easy to remember.

SAIC strongly agrees with this name.

In addition, Li Zetian also came up with a slogan for the new "Vyron" brand: "China's Rolls-Royce!!!"

The slogan not only promotes the Veyron brand, but also promotes Rolls-Royce, letting people know that Rolls-Royce is the world's top luxury car. These four words symbolize the supreme glory of the automobile industry! ! !

Frankly speaking, China at this time is a bit obsessed with foreign countries. They always think that the moon in foreign countries is rounder and good-looking. Even if the Veyron is a low-end car, they will still think of it as the Rolls-Royce of low-end cars. The best quality car in the low range!

Riding in a car like this is a great honor! !

What brand is Santana car? Can I have a Veyron crane?

No matter how much Santana brags, she can't brag about the words "Rolls-Royce"!

If the prices between the two are similar, given the face-saving character of the Chinese people, they will most likely choose the Veyron!

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars sent more than 20 technicians to the joint venture company to guide the work. If it is purely hand-made, the level of craftsmanship will naturally be higher, but there is no need for the Veyron to be so good. What is needed is automotive technology and theory. guidance, and then carry out large-scale production through machinery and equipment. As for the development time of the new car, it is expected to take one or two years, which means that the product will not be launched until 1983.

Li Zetian has been studying artificial intelligence and robots, and the entry point for robots is industrial robots, because industrial robots can make money, but developing other robots may not be profitable for a long time. While developing industrial robots, we also happened to accumulate a lot of technology and experience.

Whenever he thinks of RB's FANUC company, Li Zetian feels that this company is incredibly powerful. Since the advent of FANUC's first robot in 1974, FANUC has been committed to leadership and innovation in robotics technology and is the only company in the world that makes robots by robots. FANUC's robot product series has as many as 240 types, with load capacities ranging from 0.5 kg to 1.35 tons. They are widely used in different production links such as assembly, handling, welding, casting, spraying, and palletizing. Moreover, FANUC CNC system occupies 70% of the global market share, making it the world's number one, firmly occupying the top spot among the four major industrial robot families.

Now that Li Zetian has bought Rolls-Royce and established a joint venture in China, an industrial robot company has also been put on the agenda! In addition, the scale of Ant Factory is growing day by day and requires a lot of machinery and equipment. Instead of cheap RB manufacturers, it is better to develop it yourself!

Li Zetian's crazy money making is largely to build a top-notch robot company with high artificial intelligence! This is a very expensive and extremely difficult goal!

However, since his previous crazy acquisitions have cost him a lot of money, the robot company's plan can only be slowed down for now.

While Li Zetian was accompanying Yu Jingqiu at home, on March 3, 1981, AMR Company led by Wei Xiuping finally developed the ARM1 processor, which was powerful and very suitable for workstations and servers. As a result, Sun Computer Systems immediately replaced the original Intel8086 processor with the ARM1 processor, which greatly increased the performance of Sun graphics workstations. Industrial Light and Magic alone has placed an order for 100 workstations from Sun Computer Systems.

Once the ARM1 processor was released, it attracted great attention in the industry and became a rising star among processor companies!

Originally, the discussion about the advantages and disadvantages of RISC reduced instruction set and CISC complex instruction set has reached a fever pitch. As soon as the ARM1 processor came out, the media, scholars, and university research institutions immediately unanimously favored the RISC simplified instruction set and ridiculed the CISC complex instruction set. However, Intel's 8086 and 8088 processors, which are developed based on CISC's complex instruction set, have been conquering the personal computer market and are invincible!

The ARM1 processor is not suitable for use in personal computers. It is currently only useful in high-performance computers!

People have great admiration for Intel. They have to focus on both RISC and CISC, and both have achieved success!

The Wall Street Journal even used the word "horror" to describe Intel when reporting on it.

Li Zetian put down the newspaper and couldn't help but laugh: "Haha, Intel is really scary!"

Dongfang Yuqin said: "Mr. Li, IBM is also working hard to develop processors based on the RISC simple instruction set, and John Coker, the father of the RISC architecture, is an employee of IBM..."

Not to mention this, Li Zetian gets a headache when he mentions this. John Coker is a top RISC architecture designer. In 1972, he received the highest honorary title awarded by IBM to internal employees. Li Zetian sent people to poach him many times, but he still failed. Can't dig. For his outstanding contributions to RISC and compiler optimization, John Coker later won the Turing Award, the highest honor in computing.

"There is no way, at worst we can just compete!" Li Zetian comforted himself. It was this person who led IBM to develop the famous POWER processor.

To be honest, Intel is not afraid of anything in terms of chip design, not even IBM is its opponent.

IBM is large and complex, involved in everything; while Intel is large and sophisticated, specializing in research on chips.

Make a decision!

"By the way, Mr. Li, I just got news about the acquisition. Apple is in contact with Warner Bros. and intends to acquire Sunbird. Warner Bros. has lowered its original offer of US$2 billion to US$650 million..." Dongfang Yuqin said , "Apple wants to use Sunbird's development capabilities to quickly develop new game consoles and supporting game software. The most important point is that Apple can develop products that are compatible with the Atari 2600. In this way , a new game console will have a large number of original game players as soon as it is released, because the game cartridges in their hands can be played on the new console!"

"Hey, Apple wants to be big!" Li Zetian said in surprise, "Where do they get so much money?!"

"With the support of the Rockefeller Group and the California Group, Apple borrowed US$700 million from the bank..." Dongfang Yuqin explained.

Li Zetian frowned. Apple's actions did pose a great threat to Flamingo.

Next door to Mala, the consortium is awesome if it has bank support!

PS: I’ll update one chapter first so that everyone won’t be impatient.