Set sail1992

Chapter 862
Zhang Qihang really attaches great importance to the establishment of a technology research and development center in the capital. For this reason, he even went back to the capital with Professor He and others.

In the matter of finding a suitable address for Huateng Industrial Group's Beijing Technology R&D Center, Zhang Qihang's mind is very upright. In his opinion, this question does not even need to be thought about: what is more suitable for R&D than Zhongguancun? Where is the center located?
Zhongguancun in the spring of 1998 was not the arrogant Zhongguancun a few years later. In the spring of 1998, NetEase was still in Guangdong Province, and Sina had not yet been established. Although Sohu had been established, it was just one of the countless small and micro enterprises in Zhongguancun. Unremarkable, as for Mr. Li from Bear Claw, he is still in Millikin and hasn't come back yet.Therefore, there was no need for Zhang Qihang to come forward in person, but the Beijing office of Huateng Industrial Group contacted the "village department", and the "village" quickly sent a deputy director surnamed Guo to contact Zhang Qihang...

After a brief chat, Deputy Director Guo asked Zhang Qihang cautiously: "Mr. Zhang, the strength of our Huateng Industrial Group is well-known throughout the country. Our management committee highly welcomes Huateng Industrial Group's entry into Zhongguancun, but Let me take the liberty to ask, what exactly is our group going to do after entering Zhongguancun?"

Zhang Qihang knew what this Deputy Director Guo was worried about, so he first reassured him with a smile: "Don't worry, Director Guo, it is definitely impossible for our group to put a car production plant here."

"Ha ha……"

"That's the case," Zhang Qihang said to Director Guo without hiding it, "Our group plans to use the capital's intellectual and scientific research resources to establish a technology research and development center in Beijing, mainly engaged in the research and development of automotive electronics."

"Automotive electronics?" Director Guo couldn't help being a little disappointed when he heard that. This result was not what he wanted.But in order to avoid mistakes in his own judgment, he asked cautiously: "Mr. Zhang, what is this car electronics? Is it a car radio or a tape recorder?"

Deputy Director Guo also has his own pride. Zhongguancun is China's "Silicon Valley" and one of the four largest high-tech parks in Asia. With the screening system, it is impossible for all companies to enter.

In the name of Huateng Industrial Group, I can personally come to understand the situation and do some work, but if the project that Huateng Industrial Group plans to enter the park is just to do some car radios and the like, then I am sorry.

Zhang Qihang was not at all surprised that Deputy Director Guo would ask such a naive question, let alone ridiculous. He knew very well that this was human nature, and he explained with a smile: "Of course things like car radios and tape recorders It’s also a part of automotive electronics, but if it’s just this kind of automotive electronics products with little technical content, there’s no need for us to come to Zhongguancun, right?”

Deputy Director Guo breathed a sigh of relief, and echoed with a smile: "Hehe... What Mr. Zhang said is..."

Zhang Qihang went on to explain: "The technology research and development center we are going to build is the car's on-board ECU, gearbox TCU, car ESP, car gateway, car bus system, etc..."

Deputy Director Guo doesn't understand ECU, TCU and other things, but it doesn't matter if he doesn't understand them. I couldn't help interrupting Zhang Qihang's words, and said: "Mr. Zhang, wait a minute, the car also needs a gateway and a bus?"

Deputy Director Guo has only heard that a computer needs a gateway and a bus. In his knowledge, a car is a piece of iron, with a higher configuration. The big thing is that it has electric windows and electric seats. But these Things are just a matter of adding a motor. When did the car need such advanced technologies as gateways and buses?

This somewhat subverted Deputy Director Guo's perception of cars, but he still maintained enough humility in the face of a big man in the domestic auto industry like Zhang Qihang.

"Yes, the bus technology developed from computer technology is gradually being applied to cars," Zhang Qihang nodded and said, "For example, the vans and 212 jeeps we often see on the street don't use bus technology yet." Such a high-end technology, but foreign high-end models such as Mercedes-Benz's latest S-Class and Audi A8 have already begun to apply bus technology."

"Is that so..."

Director Guo breathed a sigh of relief: It turns out that the technology applied to the Mercedes-Benz S-Class must be the most advanced car technology in the world. It is normal for me not to understand it.

"Yes," Zhang Qihang said with a smile: "The reason why the bus technology is used is because as the control of various systems in the car gradually changes to automation and intelligence, there are more and more electronic components in the car, such as ECU , TCU, ABS, ESP, car cruise control system, automatic headlights, automatic wipers, etc., have caused the electronic and electrical systems on the car to become increasingly complex..."

Director Guo smiled bitterly and nodded: "I didn't listen to you, I didn't even know that there are so many things on the car now. This is really...beyond imagination."

Zhang Qihang nodded and said: "The development of the modern automobile industry and technology is not limited to the development of traditional machinery. Along with the advancement of mechanical technology, electronic technology, computer technology and the latest network technology have also been widely used. The reason for this situation is that most of the traditional automotive electronics use a single point-to-point communication method, and there is almost no connection between the various subsystems, which leads to the need for a copper cable to connect and exchange data for each signal transmission, causing each A car central computer needs many interfaces. Some car central computers have more than a dozen or even thirty interfaces, which makes the wiring of the whole system very complicated, and also leads to space occupation, vehicle weight, cost, and equipment complexity. and greatly increased instability.

In addition, in order to meet the real-time requirements of various electronic systems on the car, the central computer must also share some public data of the car, such as engine speed, wheel speed, throttle pedal position, and other information with other systems. Each control unit has different requirements for real-time performance...

Just listening to what I said, you know how complicated the current car control is, and such a complicated control requires that the system cannot be problematic. "

Director Guo couldn't help nodding: "Indeed, I just listened to it and found it extremely troublesome."

(End of this chapter)