Recently, the head company of the new domestic car-making force, Weilai, has entered the mobile phone industry, and Yin Shuijun, the former president of Meitu Mobile Phone, has joined Weilai and is responsible for leading the mobile phone business. According to a person familiar with the matter, "the project has been established for a period of time, and the current team is located in Shenzhen, doing personnel recruitment." ”
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New domestic forces: Xiaomi, Huawei to build cars, Weilai, Geely to build mobile phones
Weilai plans to make a mobile phone, which is actually not unexpected. Before there are domestic enterprises such as xiaomi, Huawei and other mobile phone manufacturers layout in the field of car manufacturing, and then there is Geely to go all out to make mobile phones, cars and mobile phones, two industries that are far apart, but they are integrated by the Internet, and it is reasonable to have more weilai.
In September last year, Geely officially laid out the mobile phone field and invested more than 10 billion yuan in Wuhan to establish Hubei Xingji Times Technology Co., Ltd., although it acted in a low-key manner afterwards, but let the outside world have a lot of speculation about it. At the beginning of 2022, a person familiar with the matter revealed that Xingji Times was in contact with Meizu to negotiate the acquisition. In this regard, Geely did not make any response to the outside world, and said that the high-end mobile phone research and development business is progressing in an orderly manner, and Meizu expressed its gratitude to the public for its concern.
When the new car-making forces are going all out to build mobile phones, mobile phone manufacturers such as Xiaomi and Huawei have also made good progress in car-making projects in the past year.
In March last year, Lei Jun, founder and chairman of Xiaomi Technology, decided to build a car and declared that he was "willing to bet on the entire reputation of his life." Subsequently, Xiaomi Automobile officially set up the project, and then vigorously recruited troops, and the factory was also settled in Yizhuang, Beijing Economic Development Zone. According to informed sources, Lei Jun has visited Changan, SAIC, Wuling, Great Wall, FAW and other car companies, and has visited leading suppliers such as Bosch and Ningde Times. Lei Jun said that in 2024: Xiaomi mobile phones will become the first in the world; Xiaomi cars will be mass-produced in 2024.
Huawei has always declared that it "does not build cars", but judging from the actions in recent years, Huawei has long been deeply laid out in the field of car manufacturing. In April 2021, Huawei and Xilix jointly created the SF5 Huawei Smart Edition to be sold in Huawei's flagship store. At the end of last year, Huawei and Xilix created a new brand "AITO Asking" interview, which was also sold in Huawei's flagship store. There is also news that BAIC Polar Fox and Avita will have models in Huawei's flagship store. At that time, there will be 4 different brands of cars will be included in Huawei channels, selling cars in mobile phone stores, and Huawei is the first "person".
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Foreign Silicon Valley bigwigs: Apple released a new car 25 years ago, and Tesla's mobile phone design draft flowed out
Starting in 2021, Apple has been moving continuously in the development of electric vehicle projects. Just in February, According to a recent report by Macromors, Apple has developed a self-driving function chip module and its packaging work with the help of an outsourced semiconductor assembly and testing (OSAT) company in South Korea. Mark Gurman, another Apple whistleblower, said that Apple has filed a large number of patent applications related to automotive technology, aiming to release fully autonomous electric vehicles in 2025.
Also new is Tesla. At the end of 2021, Musk hinted in an interview that Tesla was ready to enter the mobile phone industry and claimed to beat Apple and let users permanently and free Internet access. It is reported that Tesla's first mobile phone or named Model Phone or Model π, the design of the main technology + industrial wind, 4K screen, Qualcomm Snapdragon 895 platform and 2TB memory may appear on Tesla mobile phones.
Whether Weilai and Geely follow Musk we don't know, but in many areas, Musk accurately predicts the development of the industry and is at the forefront of the industry. For example, on the track of human life, Musk has rarely met opponents.
It is reported that the brain-computer interface Neuralink founded by Musk has done a lot of animal experiments in the past two years, and showed the macaque Payer playing games through the mind control computer through the video. Perhaps, the brain-computer interface can really become one of the directions for the eternal life of human beings in the future. In addition to Musk's heavy investment in the field of regenerative medicine, Musk's 75-year-old mother, Meyer, is trying to repair DNA in many ways, prolong life scientifically, and aspire to a healthy life until the age of 98.
Meyer, who has a master's degree in nutrition, does not trust the traditional nutritional supplements already on the market, but is willing to try a "ORIGEN gold" anti-aging molecule similar to the popular domestic Beijing-East platform. The substance has achieved remarkable results in research and development, and top universities such as Harvard Medical School and the University of Tokyo have confirmed that this substance has a reinforcing effect on the old indicator "telomeres".
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Building an Intelligent Ecosystem: Mobile Phones and Cars "Two Mistakes"
Speaking of the new forces of the Internet, in the eyes of the industry, whether it is a mobile phone company making a mobile phone or an automobile company making a mobile phone, such a cross-border is to build its own intelligent ecosystem for extending and developing its own business.
The car has long been no longer a traditional means of transportation, but a smart terminal. The attributes of the car-to-human interaction experience have been enhanced year by year. The automobile may largely copy the evolution path of the mobile phone industry, from "mechanization" to "intelligence", while competing in hardware performance, the competition of software ecology will also be put on the table.
From the perspective of mobile phone manufacturers, from the production of mobile phones to automobile manufacturing, it is expected to accelerate the transformation of automobile intelligence; and from the perspective of automobile manufacturers, it is a more secure way to steadily advance their own business while completing intelligent transformation.