The sudden departure of Su Jing, the god of Huawei technology, has set off an uproar in the automotive circle! Some people think that Ren Zhengfei's heart is too fierce, only to make the Tianzhong Wizards discouraged, and some people think that Su Jing is too crazy, shelling Tesla, scorning a group of friends, his arrogance and arrogance will eventually lead to "disaster from the mouth", so that Huawei fell into the passive public opinion, now, the wood has become a boat, it is time to pull out this cloud of palace fighting mystery fog that haunts the field of automatic driving...
01, "technical talent" uninhibited heart!
On January 26, a number of media reported that Su Jing, the former director of Huawei's intelligent car solution BU intelligent driving product department, confirmed her departure from Huawei, because the destination is unknown, causing a lot of suspicion, a senior executive under the consumer business left, how can He De, can cause the industry to pay so much attention?
In order to more coherently understand the ins and outs of the incident, I will first help you to add the hidden feelings omitted:
Suffered from 4 rounds of sanctions, Huawei CBG's most core business mobile phone sector has been forced to press the suspension, Ren Zhengfei was forced to tear up glory, and Huawei's chip inventory is completely insufficient to feed CBG's nearly 10,000 mobile phone team, so some of these people followed the glory to change their surname, and some stayed, on the job for a day, get a day's salary, Huawei has no goods to sell, what to raise?
Looking around the track, the biggest outlet at the moment is new energy vehicles, directly build cars? The investment is too large, the return cycle is too long, which is equivalent to the urgent need to generate positive cash flow cbg, it is not cost-effective, and if there is a business model that can not only play the advantages of Huawei's talent reserve and technology research and development, but also be relatively asset-light, it will be the best breakthrough for Huawei's transformation, so Huawei's intelligent vehicle solution BU came into being.
And Su Jing was just arranged to focus on the core plate of intelligent car solutions intelligent driving, with what?
Su Jing is an old Huawei person, who led and developed the amazing Da Vinci AI chip architecture in the HiSilicon era, helping Huawei to win the world's first place under the AI computing power of the Kirin chip, and the intelligent car product department was established, and he became the chief architect and the president of the product line.
Huawei does not lack all kinds of gods and geniuses, but like Su Jing, who has the momentum and untamed, among the 200,000 Huawei people, it is definitely a rare species, and it is upright, it will not bend the corner when speaking, and it is absolutely confident in the intelligent driving technology that he mainly grasps, like his boss Yu Chengdong, who once gave him the title of "small mouth total", and his degree of attention is no less than that of the mouth.
Of course, in addition to absolute technical strength, the reason why Su Jing is called a xiongcai is because he has the same wolf temperament as Yu Chengdong and a powerful aura that leads the world, which is scarce for many technical geniuses.
Fortunately, the Internet has a memory, we found a Microblog written by Su Zhen (Jing) 10 years ago, it is unimaginable, at that time, it was still using the D1 equipped with a low-end HiSilicon K3V2 processor, huawei did not have any right to speak in the mobile phone track, Su Jing had such a big pattern and amazing courage.
If it were not for the black hand sanctions, Huawei in the mobile phone track, with its independent SoC, I am afraid it would have been the world's first, but unfortunately there is no if!
Combing through this, it is not difficult to find that Yu Chengdong and Su Jing may be brewing a change in the field of intelligent driving - Huawei once again refers to the "world's first" big plan, which shows the weight of Su Jing's team in CBG.
As the number one cadre under Yu Chengdong's hand, Su Jing, who swallowed the clouds and spit in the intelligent driving, had unlimited prospects, but no one expected that because of an interview, the career of this unruly maniac came to an end:
In April 2021, on the eve of the Shanghai International Auto Show, after the debut of Huawei's autonomous driving technology, spokesperson Su Jing was interviewed, during the banquet, he successfully made Huawei's automatic driving airborne hot search list with a series of sharp and sharp words such as "Huawei's automatic driving is absolutely first", "At this stage, the enterprises that do RoboTaxi are doomed", "fully automatic driving is difficult to achieve in this life", and successfully made Huawei's automatic driving airborne hot search list, and even the low-key Wang Xing could not help but join in the fun.
Technical genius may not need emotional intelligence, left and right Fengyuan and flat and stable are destined to be mediocre style, but the world will naturally reject the "sharp alien", and sure enough, in the next interview, Su Jing because of the continuation of the true color of the speech, the disaster came out of the mouth.
On July 8, 2021, during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Su Jing used the word "killing" when talking about Tesla's brake failure, which caused a huge controversy.
Su Jing said that "when the machine enters the human society and human symbiosis, the machine will definitely cause the accident rate, and the ugly point is "killing", but it is said that we must reduce its accident probability to the lowest possible. Probabilistically, this is something that can happen."
If it sounds complete, Su Jing is not wrong, Tesla autopilot has indeed caused a series of accidents, but after the amplified exposure after the media excerpt, it inevitably triggered a public opinion disaster, just when everyone accused Huawei of being too crazy, just entering the field of intelligent driving, no one in sight, devaluing friends, Su Jing also ushered in the darkest moment, and was dismissed by an executive order issued by Ren Zhengfei shortly after.
On July 27, 2021, Huawei responded for the first time to the fake waiting arrangement (exile within the system) such as the dismissal of su jing, the president of intelligent driving, saying that because of his improper remarks against Tesla, such an excellent talent, saying "wrong" a word, should be exterminated? I'm afraid it's not that simple.
02, Huawei "fell without regrets"?
Just when Yu Chengdong was full of confidence and vowed to take Su Jing's team to make Huawei's intelligent car business bigger and stronger, in an attempt to reproduce the Huanghui road of mobile phones, Su Jing, the technical soul figure, from being "exiled" to officially leaving, undoubtedly poured cold water on the hot Huawei automotive business.
Ren Zhengfei's "bitterness"
Su Jing's "killing" theory may not be malicious, but public opinion will really "kill", why should Su Jing be dismissed immediately if there is improper remarks about Tesla? This involves a perspective conversion of the problem, we continue to take the mobile phone as an example, when Yu Dazui can punch Apple and kick Samsung at the conference, but don't forget, at that time, Huawei was going to produce mobile phones to sell, and Apple and Samsung are competitors, and the competition on PPT is also accustomed to everyone.
Today, unlike in the past, Huawei's auto business is not to build its own cars, but to rely on all the car companies that can be won to provide them with technical solutions. At this time, Huawei's sharp edge is reflected in the product, but it is not suitable for the "mouth cannon".
If Huawei does not say anything after Su Jing's remarks against Tesla, then how will Tesla feel? How will European and American car companies feel? The global layout of Huawei's business, these potential customers and su jing at present, which is more important?
Therefore, Quan should understand that Ren Zhengfei "beheaded" Su Jing with tears.
Huawei has previously ordered five times to say that it does not build cars, an important reason is that Huawei hopes to help other car manufacturers build good cars, Huawei and these car companies are partnerships, if you announce the car, it is the rival relationship, Huawei after calculating, believes that asset-light operation, providing intelligent car solutions, the income may be higher.
Su Jing's "surplus value"!
This time the smart car business leader left, saying that there is no impact on Huawei is unrealistic, but it is not to the severity of the business shutdown, in fact, Su Jing has built the product line and research and development system, and the customer resources are not worried, has finalized the cooperation "Huwei Inside" have BAIC, GAC, Changan and other car companies, as well as the sales of Cyris SF5 and AITO's Q&I MT, etc., are also equipped with Huawei's intelligent driving solutions.
The predecessors planted trees and the people are cool, the huawei intelligent driving business in the post-Su Jing era will still be in a stage of rapid development, even if Su Jing went to compete, there are so many shackles of the non-compete agreement, and it will not pose a technical threat to Huawei, Su Jing's technical "legacy" is enough for Huawei to continue to run for 3 or 5 years.
As for Su Jing's belonging? A number of car companies have long regarded Su Jing as a bag, but for Su Jing, how to integrate the ADS full-stack technology solution of Huawei into the automotive hardware in the most complete way may be the only thing he is interested in.
Yu is "going to serve as CTO of Volkswagen's autonomous driving company established in China." And he will lead a team of 400 or 500 people from Huawei to join the public" Rumors have also become rumors.
Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, in the great Huawei, everyone eats according to their abilities, but such a technical cultivation field will also produce factional battles, the winner is the king, Su Jing's departure has become a foregone conclusion, who will become the new autonomous driving leader? Until the situation stabilizes, a silent palace fight may be inevitable.
Huawei may regret it, but Su Jing will definitely not shed tears!