Chapter 122 A Preliminary Study on the Huaguo Compound Eye Project
While Tesla and Musk in America are trying to do their job in Washington, Chinese automakers are announcing one after another that they will be equipped with the next generation of solar energy technology.

And they use this as their important selling point.

Lei Jun even announced on Weibo that Xiaomi cars will have even more amazing black technology:

"We will equip Xiaomi cars with advanced technologies that no one can imagine. Xiaomi cars will definitely bring surprises to everyone."

The following comments quickly exceeded 1,000, and netizens' comments were all focused on:
"I just want to know if I can reach 9? If you can, you'll be the God of Thunder!"

“Are there any discounts for Jiangcheng University alumni? If there are discounts, just ignore what I said.”

"Can you tell me what kind of black technology it is?"

"Can you kill Wuling Hongguang?"

Everyone's attention is still more focused on cost-effectiveness.

Competitors all tried to find out what the black technology was. Among them, Xiaopeng and Li Bin, who had cooperated with Lei Jun a lot in the past and had a good personal relationship with him, came to him one after another.

"Mr. Lei, what big move are you going to make this time? Can you tell us a little bit about it first? Don't worry, I won't leak any information." Xiaopeng asked over the phone.

Lei Jun declined: "You will know when the time comes. There will be a press conference at the end of this year. Don't worry, our pricing is not competitive with Xiaopeng."

Xiaopeng was shocked by this, "Are you really planning to grab the market share of Wuling Hongguang?"

Generally, everyone wants to build a high-end brand first, and sell products at a price range of RMB 10 to RMB 20 or even lower. This is really a thankless task. Users may say they will buy it, but they may not really buy it, and it will drag down the entire brand image.

Lei Jun immediately explained: "You have seen our car models, how can we make them under 20? We will lose a lot of money.

Our pricing will definitely only go up, not down.”

Xiaopeng was relieved now. Lei Jun's intention was obviously to go to the 30 yuan price range to attract Weilai: "Mr. Lei, I wish you success and I'm waiting for your good news."

Li Bin and Xiaopeng have completely different styles: "Brother Jun, Xiaomi cars are very popular recently. Let's see when we can come and learn from them."

Lei Jun was one of the earliest investors in NIO, so the two are very familiar with each other.

“Yes, welcome, welcome. We need to learn from you. NIO has done very well in recent years. Every time I go to the Yangtze River Delta region, the new energy vehicles I see the most are NIO and Tesla.

I went on a business trip to Shenhai not long ago, and I saw NIO more often than Tesla with my naked eyes.”

The Yangtze River Delta region is where the highest concentration of NIO battery swap stations is located.

Battery swapping is a product that you will find great once you experience it, and it can alleviate your range anxiety to a certain extent.

It is not so friendly to car companies because it involves heavy assets and high investment. When there is a breakthrough in battery technology, battery swapping will become more and more embarrassing.

Once perovskite battery technology like that of Guangjia Aerospace comes out, everyone can solve the anxiety about battery life by replenishing energy through solar cells, and the competitiveness of battery swapping will be obviously weakened.

Therefore, apart from Tesla, which cannot use perovskite batteries, NIO is the most difficult among new energy vehicle companies.

Fortunately, perovskite batteries are beneficial for use in battery swap stations.

Li Bin said: "Will you be lucky enough to visit Xiaomi Motors at that time?
I have always liked cars, and I am curious about the cars that Jun Ge builds.”

Lei Jun agreed straightforwardly: "Okay, no problem."

In fact, Lei Jun would only let him see Xiaomi su7, and would not show him Ultra.

After Li Bin enthusiastically went to Yanjing to experience the SU7, he felt that the car was far from being disruptive and that Xiaomi had set the tone of its publicity too high and would fail sooner or later.

Domestic new energy vehicle companies are scheming against each other, just like playing a game of Three Kingdoms.

Before leaving, Chen Yuanguang specially invited Lei Jun to dinner in order to help Lin Jia find a suitable job for her in Xiaomi Auto.

"Brother, I'll leave this matter to you."

Lei Jun promised to give Lin Jia a vice president position in Xiaomi Auto, and his specific responsibilities will mainly be marketing.

The reason for this consideration is that Lei Jun feels that she has potential in this area. Previously, when Chen Yuanguang was hired as chief scientist by the Gates Global Foundation, Lin Jia's work in the matter fully demonstrated her ability in this area.

When doing marketing, what you need most is ideas, and they must be holistic ideas.

In addition, Xiaomi itself has rich experience in marketing, and the middle-level managers in charge of marketing will make up for Lin Jia’s lack of experience.

After finishing his conversation in Yanjing, Chen Yuanguang flashed to Yudu to visit the China Compound Eye Project in which Guangjia Aerospace invested 10 billion yuan.

This time, Academician Mao Ke went with him. They set off from Yanjing and took a private plane rented by Guangjia Technology to Jiangbei Airport in Yudu.

Lin Jia returned to Shenhai alone to prepare for the handover. "Yuanguang, as we planned before, we will use a total of 25 30-meter-diameter antenna arrays, which will form a radar aperture of more than 600 meters.

In the early stage, 20 radars will be deployed, and the radars at key locations will be deployed after the new generation of detection radars are successfully developed. "

After more than half a year of close cooperation, Mao Ke has a new understanding of Chen Yuanguang's strength, so his attitude has changed from keeping a distance to being friendly.

He is an academician. Over the years, he has attended academic conferences of all sizes. He has also met too many people, including the doctoral and master's students he has supervised and the doctoral and master's students his disciples have supervised. Some are hardworking, some are gifted, and some are both hardworking and talented.

In his opinion, Chen Yuanguang is very special. He is special in that he is extremely talented. If talent has levels, Chen Yuanguang must have it at the maximum.

Discuss something with him today, he will give you ideas tomorrow, give you a detailed design plan a week later, and the samples will be delivered to his office at Yenching University of Technology a month later.

Mao Ke claimed that he was old, and whether it was the talent or the business achievements of Chen Yuanguang, it was enough for Mao Ke to make this connection and pave the way for his descendants.

Chen Yuanguang listened and thought: "The radar optimization idea is still in accordance with what we discussed before.
Can we improve the radar's detection range and resolution by increasing its transmit power and receive sensitivity? "

Mao Ke nodded: "That's right. Improving the sensitivity of the receiver can receive weaker signals, thereby improving the detection capability of the radar. At present, the main focus is on improving the radar's transmitting and receiving devices, and the signal processing algorithm has been optimized for several versions.

We mentioned earlier that using AI to optimize signal processing algorithms, but we currently don’t have a good idea in this area, and the designed algorithms cannot meet our needs.

Since last year, our group has been recruiting students majoring in computer science for both master's and doctoral degrees, especially those who are good at algorithms.

We plan to change the two professional courses for the postgraduate entrance examination this year to electromagnetism and data structure. "

Mao Ke worked at the Institute of Electronic Radar of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Yenching University of Technology at the same time. He recruited students in the name of the Institute of Electronic Radar, while some teachers in his group recruited students in the name of Yenching University of Technology.

The university has more admission quotas than the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Last year alone, their group recruited 20 masters and doctors.

As for the difference between a master's degree and a doctorate? The only difference is that a doctorate is easier to exploit. Not all masters want to do scientific research. Some masters just want to get a diploma and then go to work.

This kind of master's degree is not good for PUA.

It’s different for a PhD. You PUA him, and then let him graduate normally, and he will be grateful to you.

Mao Ke went on to say: "In addition to the radar itself, we have also optimized the radar array design this time, mainly to enhance its multi-target tracking capability."

This is because when it comes to asteroid mining, you can't have just one goal. You can be sure that this one goal can meet your needs, your automatic spacecraft can go up, and once up, your technology can bring back the ore.

They must be screening from multiple targets, and then letting the rocket carry multiple detectors at one time, further detecting multiple targets together, and finally confirming the target.

Such an operating process leads to higher requirements for radar, which are reflected in many aspects.

When Chen Yuanguang was working at Guangjia Aerospace, the cooperation model between various teams was that he led them and told them step by step what to do specifically.

Many times, without him, the entire group would make no progress for a week.

Guangjia Aerospace's dependence on Chen Yuanguang is particularly high, much more serious than Guangjia Technology.

This is also why Chen Yuanguang has always wanted to poach people from the aerospace institute, especially experienced researchers.

The cooperation with Mao Ke is so smooth. You propose a goal, he gives you a solution, and you tell him what problems may exist with the solution and how to make it better. Then the next version of the solution he brings will be almost usable.

Chen Yuanguang only needs to compare it with the radar array design drawings at the end of the 21st century, think about what shortcomings there are, and then hold a remote conference with Mao Ke to make a decision.

This cooperation model made Chen Yuanguang feel that Mao was worthy of being an academician. Although his scientific research ability had deteriorated greatly, he had reached the pinnacle in project management.

"In terms of signal processing technology, we will only make specific optimizations after the subsequent core radar optimization is completed. The main directions at present are adaptive filtering, target detection and tracking algorithms.

I heard from the project team that we are in great need of high-performance graphics cards. Last year, we started to cooperate with Huawei to purchase their Ascend processors. We at SeaLion hope to build AI models to solve these problems.

There is limited progress at the moment, let’s see if things get better after we recruit more people this year.”

“Since OpenAI released ChatGPT at the end of last year, America has banned Nvidia from exporting high-computing graphics cards to China, causing universities to face a computing power shortage.

It seems that everyone is suddenly short of computing power. Old people like me often hear young people discussing computing power.

However, our project has sufficient budget. If we cannot buy Nvidia graphics cards, we can buy Huawei's Ascend series. We are not short of computing power, but we are short of people. "Mao Ke joked.

Whether it is a research institute or Yenching University of Technology, the way they recruit people is different from how companies recruit people. It doesn’t mean you can recruit people just because you need them.

Either students have to be included in the plan, or researchers or young teachers have to be recruited, and there are personnel restrictions.

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