In 2025, the technological gap between developed countries and developing countries will widen.
The gap is even wider than during the turmoil of decades ago.
The main reason is that the first-mover advantage in the semiconductor field is too obvious. Not all countries have the same resources and mobilization capabilities as China, and can invest hundreds of billions of national resources into industries with unclear returns.
It can be said that only China can do it.
Even if other countries have this economic strength, their policies lack coherence due to political parties taking turns coming to power.
It is impossible for governments ruled by different political parties to invest in projects such as catching up with semiconductors and consume their own resources to cultivate industries and economies for the next one.
In addition, China has caught up with the great shift in the world's supply chain at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century.
This latter opportunity is so rare.
Originally, countries in Southeast Asia, South America, and Eastern Europe had a chance to catch up with this round of global supply chain restructuring.
However, technology is developing too fast, and breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and industrial automation may bring this round of global supply chain adjustments to an abrupt end.
This round is at most an adjustment, unlike the redistribution of supply chains after China entered the WTO, which was a reorganization—a reorganization of the global supply chain.
Zheng Xiang remembered something, and he asked: "What happened to the olfactory sensor produced by Goose Factory?
It seems to be called Black Shark, right? They also sent me some samples, I remember. "
"Black Shark is the name of the company, a company under Goose Factory that specializes in hardware.
Previously, we specialized in gaming phones and some gaming-related hardware equipment.
Later, after Goose Factory invested in Kechuang Future, it was equivalent to already having hardware, and the brain-computer connection VR was almost a monopoly business, and the Black Shark mobile phone was half-dead at the time.
Therefore, Goose Factory later asked Black Shark to transform. After the transformation, it specialized in hardware related to brain-computer connection VR, which can be regarded as an alternative peripheral.
Their product is not called Black Shark.
Their first flagship product is a olfactory device, called Xiuxiu.
At that time, before they were launched on the market, they sent a sample to each of the executives of Kechuang Biotech and Kechuang Future.
The user experience is pretty good, and Xiuxiu has been particularly popular among female users since its launch.
As a female user, to be honest, my range of use is a bit narrow.
In other words, users whose brains and computers are connected to VR have relatively strong spending power.
Users with weak spending power are rarely willing to spend more than a thousand yuan to buy a piece of olfactory hardware dedicated to smelling smells. "
This is just like how Apple’s official mobile phone case sells for 398 and some people pay for it, and Huawei’s official mobile phone case sells for 258 and is considered expensive by users.
If DaMi dares to price the official mobile phone case above 200, DaMi will be sprayed to death by rice fans.
This is related to the initial positioning and consensus building of the brand.
Apple has been so successful in creating a high-tech and high-end image that a polishing cloth can be sold for more than 100 yuan, and people really buy it.
Rice is deeply tied to cost-effectiveness, making it impossible to get rid of this label. This label has always followed rice from rice phones to rice cars.
The futureverse brand under Kechuang Future has been quite successful, and its sense of technology and high-end brand image have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Consumers are willing to pay a certain premium for the product.
For example, after the second generation of futureverse came out, users in China and even around the world were willing to spend several hundred to one thousand dollars higher than the original price to get the product as quickly as possible.
Affected by the successful creation of the futureverse brand image, Black Shark made Xiu Xiu drink soup along with him.
Li Miaomiao continued: “The Goose Factory is so good at business operations.
Their sense of product is indeed the strongest in the industry. "
Many years ago, there were rumors about Goose Factory’s products, Ali’s operations and Qiandu’s technology.
Roughly speaking, Goose Factory focuses on products, Ali focuses on operations, and Qiandu focuses on technology.
After Li Miaomiao truly understood Goose Factory's understanding and application of the product, he mentally agreed with the first paragraph of this sentence.
Not only does Goose Factory have a strong ability to learn from others, its own product innovation capabilities are indeed among the best in China.
Li Miaomiao continued: "Not long ago, a few months before Xiuxiu went public, Goose Factory fully acquired Black Shark.
Previously, Goose Factory only had a 46.44% stake in Black Shark, which they bought from Rice in 2022.
But it is only a relative controlling interest. Not long ago, Goose Factory negotiated with other small shareholders and purchased the remaining shares at a premium.
Now Black Shark is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Goose Factory, and has been integrated into Goose Factory's Internet business group, which is the business group managed by Ren Yu.
When they acquired Black Shark, they asked us if we wanted to join them in the acquisition. Goose Factory expressed its willingness to sell some of Black Shark's shares to us.
It's just that I think we have enough branches now, and there are not enough middle-level cadres and top-level managers trained internally. What we need is precipitation rather than expansion.
Nowadays, a large number of executives of Kechuang Biotech and Kechuang Future are dependent on other Internet companies. I hope to gradually train the management trainees recruited by my school. "
Li Miaomiao's business philosophy is to build a competitive and cohesive team. She wants to change the current situation where all senior executives are recruited from outside.
"Going back to the topic just now, after Goose Factory launched the olfactory device, they subsequently launched two VR system environments: Wonderland Garden and Sea of Clouds Waterfall.
Among them, Fairyland Garden and Yunhai Waterfall can smell the corresponding smells under the influence of olfactory peripherals.
Among them, Fairyland Garden mainly smells of flowers and forests, while Yunhai Waterfall mainly smells of mountain water.
The effect on the sense of smell is average, but Goose Factory has done a very refined job in the system environment.
Goose Factory also claimed that in the future, it will launch more attractive VR environments based on the comprehensive consideration of smell and vision.
The price of Xiuxiu is more than 1,000 yuan, and the two VR environments are 198 each.
But when you buy Xiu Xiu, you will get one of these two VR environments, which you can choose by yourself.
Therefore, Xiuxiu has become extremely popular after it was launched, and almost all female consumers are willing to buy it. "
In China, women's spending power is much greater than that of men. A woman with a monthly salary of 5,000 may have greater spending power than a man with a monthly salary of 15,000.
(The above represents only personal observation and is very subjective.)
“In terms of pure products, they make olfactory peripherals, and I can tell the difference between the sensor and the real smell.
But this is normal, after all, this is a new product. "
The olfactory peripherals launched by Goose Factory are somewhat similar in size to a Bluetooth speaker. They need to be connected to the VR device via Bluetooth and placed next to you.
The intensity of a scent is inversely proportional to its distance from the user.
Zheng Li nodded and said: "This commercial benefit is not the most important thing for the goose factory.
What the Goose Factory values most is the technology and data accumulation on olfactory sensors.
In the future, if we want to develop the metaverse, smell, one of the five senses, must be developed.
At that time, Goose Factory, which has massive olfactory analysis data and user usage data in its hands, can take the opportunity to negotiate prices with us.
This is the true purpose of the Goose Factory. "
Zheng Li has stayed at Blue Star for so long. Although he is not directly involved in the operation and management of the company, he needs to participate in the company's weekly reports and related meetings and make the final decision.
Therefore, Zheng Li already has his own methodology in business.
Li Miaomiao suddenly realized: "I vaguely felt something was wrong. It turned out that the goose factory had such thoughts.
I have always felt that the Goose Factory attaches too much importance to Black Shark.
You must know that Goose Factory almost failed to acquire Black Shark's shares from Rice in 2022.
Now, according to the information I know, at Goose Factory, Ren Yu not only directly manages Black Shark, but also serves as the chairman of Black Shark, and Xiao Ma has to listen to Black Shark’s work reports and progress every week.
It turned out that this was the intention.
In this case, I regret not agreeing to Ren Yu's share transfer at that time. "
Zheng Li comforted him: "It's okay, even if we want to get to the point of smelling, it will still take time.
Besides, I can’t predict anything based on this alone. Kechuang will have shares in Goose Factory in the future.
The goose factory can only choose to cooperate with us, but it will need to make certain steps back when the time comes, but this is not important.
We now also need to start research on sensory aspects. The Lion City said they should start with dizziness.
According to my judgment, the development of dizziness should be very fast.
This means that we will soon be able to launch official hardware peripherals that feel relevant. "
Previously in the Mage Alliance, what was really expensive was knowledge. The more cutting-edge knowledge, the more expensive it was. Materials are not expensive, and the mage can basically be said to have achieved complete material freedom.
Not to mention talking about Dharma God.
After coming to Blue Star, Zheng Li found that knowledge here was not expensive. Even China's CNKI cost only tens of yuan per article, and foreign journals were also very cheap.
Of course, the bargain here is for Zheng Li, and it is cheap compared with the Mage Alliance's knowledge charging standards.
Therefore, Zheng Li has never minded sharing interests with others since he came to Blue Star.
As long as the other party can show corresponding value.
For example, Goose Factory can spend a lot of money to hire cutting-edge R&D teams related to smell and sensors, and then spend money on commercialization.
The performance of Goose Factory made Zheng Li willing to give up some of his interests appropriately in future negotiations.
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"This time you have become a famous figure in the school. During the time you were in coma, everyone was frantically looking for me, wanting to get first-hand information about you."
“The cheerleader, the leader of the dance club, the most beautiful girl in our class, etc., they are all asking me for your contact information.
Their subtext is that they are willing to date you and have a romantic date together.
It will be great for you to go back to Manchester.
Why wasn't I on stage at that time? I was just one number short of being drawn. "Herman's tone was both ridiculing and envious.
The fat on his excited face trembled.
Lawrence lay on the hospital bed and pointed at his head, which was bandaged into a rice dumpling. "How can I think about going on a date like this?"
"Besides, don't you know why they want to date me?"
"No one is interested in a weirdo like me."
Both Herman and Lawrence were unpopular objects in school, marginalized people who joined the group to keep warm.
Even Herman is a little better than Lawrence. A fat guy with a sense of humor is more popular in Western universities than a geek with his head buried in books.
It would be wrong to say that Hermann and Lawrence hugged each other for warmth, because they had known each other since childhood and grew up together.
He-Man smiled strangely and said, "Of course I know."
“Isn’t it that they want to date you just to become popular on tik tok?
You must know that you have now appeared all over the world. At the futureverse press conference, the scene where you took off your helmet blankly on stage and was knocked down by the water element has been watched by at least one billion people.
Do you know what nickname you were given on the school forum? "
Before he finished speaking, Herman started to laugh, and Lawrence read a hint of ill-intention on his face.
Lawrence had slept all night since he fainted, and he just woke up.
After waking up to see his old friend beside him, Lawrence was quite pleased with their friendship.
But now Herman's gloating look made Lawrence want to punch him twice: "What?
Unlucky boy? "
Lawrence shook his head and said, “No.
You are now known as the Helmet Man on the school forum hahaha. "
Seeing that something was wrong with Lawrence's face, Herman calmed down slightly, the smile on his face gradually disappeared, and then he added:
"And this nickname is still gradually extending, and now the Manchester Evening News has also begun to call you Helmet Man."
Lawrence screamed: "Does that mean my parents saw how ugly I was?"
"Oh no! I'm going to be laughed to death by my parents and my damn sister when I get home."
Lawrence had a grimace on his face, but before he could recover from his helplessness, Herman held the phone in his hand and handed it to him to give him a stab.
"Here, look."
Lawrence only saw on the screen, he took off his helmet and stared blankly at the water element, and then put on his glasses in a panic.
In the end, after eating the water element, he fell to the ground after being fired from a missile. The photographer even "maliciously" filmed the scene where he fainted and fell to the ground from directly above him.
Lawrence buried his head in the white quilt unique to the hospital ward: "Destroy it!"
Herman prompted: "Look at the number of views."
Lawrence's head emerged from the quilt, took a glance, and then retracted: "I don't want to live anymore."
More than 20 million views on the YouTube platform.
Herman continued to add insult to injury: “This video of yours, especially the scene where you fainted and fell to the ground with broken glasses, has become a popular material on TikTok.
In other words, there are far more than 20 million people who saw your last appearance. "
Lawrence was completely speechless and paralyzed in bed: "Maybe this is fate.
No wonder they want to date me, it would be strange not to take advantage of my good 'material'. "
Herman nodded and said, "It's great that you think so."
"I was still worried about how to persuade you to take advantage of this wave of popularity and start a self-media business together."
"My tik tok followers have been stuck at four digits. Just with your popularity, I am sure to become a blogger with millions of fans on tik tok."
"We will split the account profit 50/50!" Herman's little eyes were shining with the light of financial obsession.
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