Xiaomi and Huawei are both very well-known technology companies in China, and there are many places where their businesses are in direct competition, such as mobile phones, tablets, TVs, and today's cars are all face-to-face collisions.
Recently, Xiaomi cars have become popular on the Internet, especially Lei Jun's various dazzling is to catch netizens and friends off guard, from the scene of the Xiaomi car press conference and some of the content published by Lei Jun in major media, in short, Xiaomi cars seem to be very strong, and there are many core technologies.
Let's first take a look at what hard technologies Xiaomi cars have.
About motors.
At present, Xiaomi V6/V6s, 21000 rpm, has been put on the car. V8s, 27200 rpm, breaking through the industry speed ceiling, and has been identified by the expert group organized by the China Electrotechnical Society and the National New Energy Technology Innovation Center, has reached the "international leading" level, in the field of motors and electric drives, Xiaomi has applied for 155 patents, has authorized 60 specialists, in addition to the laboratory pre-research carbon fiber laser curing program, has achieved 35000 rpm limit speed!
Let's take a look at the battery.
Xiaomi Auto has built an 800V silicon carbide high-voltage platform, using CTB integrated battery technology, and the industry's first battery cell leading technology.
Super large die casting.
During this time, Xiaomi has been blowing a core technology, that is, their self-designed super large die-casting, Xiaomi has built and put into production a 9100t large die-casting factory, self-developed a complete set of die-casting island assembly line, 60 sets of equipment, precise control of more than 400 parameters, and self-developed large die-casting materials, Xiaomi Titan alloy. Xiaomi has become the only car factory in China that has mass production of die-casting materials!
After reading these technologies, do you think Xiaomi is very good, and even many technologies are stronger than some professional companies.
For example, Xiaomi's V6S motor is jointly developed with others, but the more powerful V8S is stronger than the professional motor manufacturer Inovance Technology, so that many netizens ridiculed that the halfway monk is stronger than the professional.
Judging from these core technologies announced by Xiaomi, they have a tendency to wrestle with Huawei, and Huawei also has many core technologies in the automotive field, and they also claim that many technologies are "far ahead".
It's just that compared with Huawei's huge annual R&D investment, Xiaomi's current R&D expenses cannot be compared with Huawei.
Let's take the data for the first three quarters of 2023 as an example.
According to the financial report data released by Huawei, in the first three quarters of 2023, Huawei achieved revenue of 452.26 billion yuan and R&D investment of 114.991 billion yuan, accounting for 25.4% of revenue.
According to the financial report released by Xiaomi, in the first three quarters of 2023, Xiaomi will achieve operating income of 199.726 billion yuan, with a cumulative R&D expenditure of 13.634 billion yuan in three quarters, and the proportion of R&D expenses in revenue is about 6.83%, which is much lower than Huawei's R&D intensity, and this R&D investment is only about 11.85% of Huawei's.
However, although Xiaomi's R&D intensity and R&D investment are not as much as Huawei's, their breakthroughs in many technologies seem to be on par with Huawei, in addition to Xiaomi cars have many self-developed core technologies, Xiaomi seems to continue to make breakthroughs in various fields such as chips.
Because of this, many people say that Xiaomi's R&D efficiency is far better than Huawei's.
Is that really the case? Not necessarily.
First of all, we do not deny that Xiaomi has indeed mastered a lot of core technologies at present, and there are many technologies that are indeed in the leading position in the industry, and even many of them are the first in the world.
But we don't know how many of them are independently developed by Xiaomi, at least from the actual situation of netizens' feedback, many of Xiaomi's technologies are actually cooperated with third-party institutions.
For example, the Xiaomi V6s engine is jointly developed with some companies such as Inovance Technology, and the Xiaomi Titan Alloy that Lei Jun is proud of is not completely independently developed by Xiaomi, but jointly developed with the State Key Laboratory, but this kind of technical achievement is under the name of Xiaomi.
As for how many of the many technologies of Xiaomi cars are jointly developed with third parties, I estimate that only Xiaomi knows, which is very different from Huawei's independent research and development by Huawei's technical team.
This kind of joint R&D can be said to be a strong combination, which can be further upgraded on the basis of the original technology, rather than starting from scratch, which can further improve R&D efficiency and reduce R&D investment, so although Xiaomi's R&D investment is not as much as Huawei's, many of their technologies are indeed more advanced.
For Xiaomi's technology research and development route, we can't say right or wrong, in fact, whether it is Huawei's independent independent research and development or Xiaomi's joint research and development, I think as long as the technology can break through, it is a good thing.
And I think Xiaomi's joint research and development is actually a better route. In this way, we can give full play to the huge scientific research institutions and some technological achievements in the mainland, and greatly improve the efficiency of research and development. Getting more R&D results at a lower cost is actually a good way out for enterprises.