Huawei's Hongmeng system had a lot of criticism when it was first born.
A large number of people think that Hongmeng is just a reskin of Android. There is no official statement on whether it is a skin change 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. Back then, the Android system also used Linux as the kernel, and the application layer adopted the Java development ecosystem.
Later, Google spent a lot of effort in litigation after acquiring Android. Because Google uses a lot of open source code, but commercializes Android.
These are too far away from consumers. They don’t care whether Huawei’s Hongmeng is a fake Android. They even hope in their hearts that you are a fake Android.
To use a saying that has been popular on the Internet before: I feel relieved when I see ** being such a gangster.
For consumers, what they care about is whether Hongmeng is easy to use.
In the past, grand narratives could be used to bind consumers, but this method has become increasingly unplayable in the past two years.
More and more consumers realize that no matter how grand the narrative is, Huawei has nothing to do with them even if it wants to go to the stars and the sea.
(As long as the product experience is almost the same, I will try my best to support domestic products, not just Huawei.)
This is especially true for the application of Hongmeng in the industry. The system requirements of industry 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, they must also be able to ensure stability under extreme circumstances.
The industrial sector also requires stability.
Huawei's mining company has performed well in recent years and has entered into the daily production of three large coal mining companies in China.
But in the field of VR, Huawei is completely new, and the only product it can produce is Huawei’s VR glasses from a long time ago.
Those glasses have a bit of an IQ tax in them.
Without the accumulation of relevant technologies, an industrial VR system must be re-developed with Hongmeng as the core.
Li Miaomiao is skeptical about this.
After working in a technology company for a long time, Li Miaomiao still has a certain understanding of technology.
Subordinates will explain some scientific and technological concepts in an easy-to-understand manner when reporting on their work.
Now futureverse is also a system written based on the Linux kernel, and Hongmeng's kernel is also based on Linux.
In Li Miaomiao's opinion, there is no need to re-develop an industrial VR system.
Huawei will not admit that Hongmeng is an Android rip-off, but they also dare not deny that their kernel is not Linux.
Although Huawei prides itself on being completely independently developed, it is not making another Android or another Linux.
The question raised by Li Miaomiao was completely expected by Huawei, and Huawei’s senior executive replied:
"We do have relatively little experience in the field of VR systems, but industrial VR and personal VR are completely different concepts."
"Industrial VR systems developed based on Hongmeng systems can show better stability."
"The smart industry provided by Huawei is a complete solution, which includes biological storage servers, network equipment, Hongmeng systems, etc."
"Hongmeng system is the best platform to connect the front-end application layer and back-end hardware equipment. If it is replaced by another system, it cannot match Huawei's hardware equipment so well."
"It will have an impact on the stability of communication."
“I don’t deny that there are commercial considerations in building an industrial VR system based on the Hongmeng system, but it is more due to technical integrity.”
The two parties reached a preliminary cooperation intention.
The specific method of cooperation needs to be communicated among the internal executives of Kechuang Biotech to come up with a result.
"Director Zheng means that we can cooperate with Huawei in the field of industrial VR, but we need to be clear about the method of cooperation."
After Li Miaomiao set the tone, the executives below expressed their opinions one after another.
“If the technology is licensed only to Huawei, then we can focus on the industrial VR field by establishing a joint venture.
If not only Huawei is authorized, but also other companies are authorized, then I suggest adopting the patent charging method.
No matter who of you wants to engage in industrial VR, we will license the patent, and the specific charging method will be discussed separately. "
Establishing a joint venture will be more troublesome.
Moreover, the technology is only licensed to Huawei, which also involves technology monopoly.
“I think even if we don’t just license flowers, we have to establish a company.
We can completely establish another subsidiary company focusing on the field of industrial VR, and then establish a joint venture through the subsidiary company and partners to adopt a triple structure.
This will not only allow you to deeply participate in the development of the industrial VR field, but more importantly, data.
We need data, and the relevant data used by industrial VR is of high value, so I think we should not just be a technology provider in this field. "
In the past few years with the rise of big data, companies have increasingly realized the importance of data.
Secondmind was mentioned a long time ago. The reason why Mazda chose to cooperate with Secondmind is because of the data Secondmind has accumulated in the field of engine tuning.
“I also agree with Mr. Chen’s statement 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, Byte, Goose Factory, etc. will be affected by the news, and we can get the most data. "
Is manufacturing data valuable? Obviously, everyone knows it is valuable.
But how to implement it and how to realize the value of data is a problem.
When Alipay launched Alipay, it initially used it as an intermediary secured transaction software.
Later, the Sesame Credit score was created based on the transaction data on Alipay.
The credit scoring concept of many personal credit agencies adopts a concept similar to Sesame Credit.
For giants, they have the ability and willingness to spend a lot of energy in areas that seem unable to create short-term benefits.
Domestic giants have not done enough in this regard.
Americen's IBM is a typical case of technology accumulation. It failed to realize its own profits and instead allowed other companies to use their technology accumulation to rise rapidly.
"We don't necessarily need to establish a company through a joint venture. By signing an agreement, we can stipulate in the agreement that the data needs to be shared with us."
“Sharing at the data level is difficult to define through contract terms, and the other party can selectively give you data without distinction.
Only through joint ventures can we get deeply involved in the field of industrial VR.
We can not interfere too much in business operations and avoid distracting energy. "
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“Kechuang Biotechnology and Huawei have reached a strategic cooperation agreement, and both parties will focus on the field of industrial intelligence.
According to Huawei executives, Kechuang Biotechnology has granted Huawei a patent license for the brain-computer connection VR technology and provided technical support.
In the future, Huawei will build industrial VR around brain-computer connection technology and will continue to make efforts in the field of smart manufacturing. "
After the news came out, there was heated discussion in the industry.
Everyone knows about industrial VR, and this concept has been around for a long time.
And there are related practices, but the combination of brain-computer connection technology and industrial VR is still the first time.
Huawei and Kechuang Biotechnology are both giants in their respective fields, and the impact of the crossover of giants on the industry may far exceed expectations.
For the manufacturing industry, there have been many challenges in recent years.
Not only is the so-called "demographic dividend" almost gone, there is also the issue of manufacturing relocation.
In the past, domestic manufacturing wages were 3,000, but now they have risen to 5,000. However, in Southeast Asian countries, wages are only 2,000. At this time, capital will transfer manufacturing.
China originally hoped that inland provinces would take over the manufacturing industry on the southeast coast, but the share of manufacturing that actually moved from the coast to the inland was very small.
Multinational giants are able to move manufacturing to Southeast Asia, and Chinese companies are also moving, moving low-end manufacturing to places with lower manufacturing costs.
For example, in 2022, Asan first imposed a fine of 560 million yuan on Rice, and then froze Rice's assets of 4.8 billion RMB.
Ah San would never dare to do similar things to European and American giants.
Chinese companies have reservations about going to Southeast Asia, and risk control and compliance management have been raised to unprecedented heights.
This is true in Southeast Asia on our doorstep, not to mention Africa, where regulations and current situations are more turbulent.
“How do you evaluate the cooperation between Kechuang Biotechnology and Huawei in the field of industrial VR?”
The news was biased towards the professional realm and therefore did not generate much buzz on popular social media.
Most of the time, Huawei's Kuroko and his fans were attacking each other.
In the past, rice noodles and pollen would spray each other, but now they are all spraying flowers, so the rice noodles can't even get their turn.
Related issues are discussed quite heatedly on Zhihu, and Zhihu is where the Industrial Party gathers the most.
Niche forums that used to have a large number of industrial parties, such as Northern Dynasty, Iron Blood, Tianya, etc., have gradually withered away.
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 explain it.
Huawei began to regard the industrial Internet as one of Huawei's strategic directions in 2019, but it was not until 2000 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, a series of processes from mining to washing to shipping are empowered through Huawei's mining system.
Effectively improve the safety and efficiency of coal mine production.
We have invested a lot of resources in this area over the past five years. Nowadays, Huawei's mine monitoring system is not only used in domestic coal mines, but also has entered other mining fields.
Recently, we have reached a cooperation with Qingdao Zhongcheng, and the mine monitoring system will be applied to the Madani Nickel Mine, a giant nickel mine in Indonesia.
However, in more fields of manufacturing, there are still many shortcomings based on current technology.
Even in the coal industry, we can only release part of the productivity and cannot achieve complete unmanned operations. In some areas, manpower is still indispensable.
Not to mention other areas of manufacturing.
This time, the cooperation between Huawei and Kechuang Biotech can solve this problem to a great extent.
Simple and repetitive problems are handled unmanned by artificial intelligence, while complex and tedious tasks are solved by humans operating industrial VR.
Huawei's industrial Internet solution forms a complete logical closed loop, and only ten people will be needed to manage hundreds of factories in the future.
If you want to use a case to make an analogy, it is somewhat similar to traditional system architecture and cloud architecture.
In the past, each 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 became popular, the system was placed on the public cloud and maintained by the public cloud vendor for you. You only need one system operation and maintenance personnel to ensure its stability.
The smart factory of the future will be similar to today’s public cloud services.
It can definitely bring China's manufacturing industry to a new level.
Manufacturing industries that have gone to Southeast Asia due to labor costs will return. "
"Thank you for the invitation. There is no doubt that the cooperation between Huawei and Kechuang Biotechnology is promising, and I think this matter is the most important thing for China's economy this year.
The employees at Huawei upstairs are right. The Industrial Internet can help the manufacturing industry return to the market. 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 reshor manufacturing.
First of all, manufacturing will flow to Southeast Asia. As an industry insider, I can tell you responsibly that manufacturing is not just flowing back to Southeast Asia.
Just because we are in Asia, we feel that manufacturing is returning to Southeast Asia.
In fact, the capital of various countries is guiding the manufacturing industries of various countries to move around their own countries.
Neon and Koryo’s capital is deployed in Southeast Asia, Amerikan chooses their surrounding Mexico, Argentina and Brazil more, while Europa chooses to move to Eastern Europe.
The restructuring of supply chains around the world has been ongoing, and China is also guiding its manufacturing industry to move inland.
Why should capital guide the relocation of manufacturing? It is obviously because China's labor costs have increased and it is no longer as attractive as before.
In addition, the cost of shipping has increased significantly in recent years.
Amerikan has placed its supply chain in South America. Now there are autonomous trucks for transportation, and the transportation cost is 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 why Amerikan hopes to rebuild the world-wide supply chain system.
But why do governments in developed countries continue to guide the transfer of supply chains, while China's manufacturing industry does not seem to have suffered much losses.
That's because the advantage of China's manufacturing industry is not only in labor costs, but also in the comparative advantages of water, electricity, coal, resources and other resources.
For example, Wanwan is prone to power outages, which seriously affects the manufacturing of semiconductor manufacturers, so Wanwan would rather cut off residential power to ensure TSMC's industrial power.
You don’t have to worry about this problem in China.
Electricity is only a small aspect, and 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.
The manufacturing industries currently being transferred out are mainly low-end manufacturing industries.
Does this mean that China's manufacturing advantages cannot be replaced? Can Amerikan's plan succeed?
I personally think it is very possible to achieve it, because China's manufacturing industry is not as powerful as the so-called media promotes. "
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