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Chapter 197 Mr. Lei's Second Visit
The leaders of the five laboratories looked at each other, and finally nodded.

Zhuge Chuang and the others knew each other better. They gave up high-paying jobs abroad and returned to China for the development of China's semiconductor industry.

Such a person should be quite trustworthy.

It's not that they don't believe in Zhuge Chuang, but they have doubts about the future technology behind Zhuge Chuang.

If Zhuge Chuang's own company invested in them, they wouldn't even ask.

After drinking and eating, Zhuge Chuang arranged for someone to send them all away.

After the investment of these five laboratories is settled, the future technology will really develop the semiconductor industry and it will be regarded as a certain foundation.

Zhuge Chuang then reported all the investment situation to Guo Yuan.

After listening to Guo Yuan, he nodded and said: "The matter is done well, and you will be responsible for these follow-up laboratories."

"Boss, don't worry, just leave it to me."

Guo Yuan nodded to indicate that Zhuge Chuang could go out.

After Zhuge broke away, Guo Yuan asked Cheng Shuqing to go out and closed the door by the way, then he opened the Omnic Crisis and started playing.

"Dinglingling~" When Guo Yuan was playing vigorously, the phone rang suddenly.

He glanced at the caller ID on his phone, and it was written that Mr. Lei was from Rice.

Guo Yuan paused while playing the game. After saving the game, he picked up the phone.

"Mr. Guo, good afternoon! Didn't disturb your work?"

"No, no, I don't have anything to do right now."

"That's good, when we were eating together before." Boss Lei cheerfully flirted with Guo Yuan.

Guo Yuan followed Mr. Lei's words and kept nodding his head.

The two exchanged pleasantries for a long time, then Mr. Lei changed the subject and said, "By the way, Mr. Guo, I will come to Hangzhou tomorrow because of work. Are you free there? How about we have a meal together?"

"sure!"

"Then let's meet at the old place at noon tomorrow."

"no problem."

After Guo Yuan hung up the phone, he deliberately murmured to himself: "What's the matter with Mr. Lei coming to see me?"

[Mr. Lei learned from a senior executive of Tesla that you want to help Tesla complete the L3 autopilot technology, and Musk trusts you very much, and has already completed the plan according to this technology.

Mr. Lei did not expect the agreement you could reach with Tesla, so the last company meeting did not pass your conditions, but Mr. Lei still wants to talk to you to see if it is possible to obtain L3 autopilot technology. 】

"So that's the case. It seems that Rice is wrong. It should be said that Mr. Lei still attaches great importance to making cars!"

[Yes, Mr. Lei personally attaches great importance to making cars with rice, because in Mr. Lei's view, the automobile industry is a very, very important part of the industry, even the core part of the industry. 】

Guo Yuan nodded when he heard the words. He also thinks Mr. Lei's idea is quite reasonable.

Just building a car is not so easy. Bill Gates once said that the automobile industry is the crown of human industry.

But it is not so easy to wear this crown.

At least for fuel vehicles, due to historical reasons, neither Dami nor other domestic car companies are likely to catch up with foreign countries.

Therefore, in recent years, the higher-ups have attached great importance to new energy vehicles, because in the view of the higher-ups, the new energy vehicles represented by electric vehicles are the best time to overtake on curves.

It's just that although new energy vehicles are much simpler than fuel vehicles, they can't be built in a short time.

And because of the tilt of the policy, there are always some companies thinking of empty-handed wolves, taking advantage of the benefits of the policy.

One to two to go, which makes the higher vigilance of new energy vehicle manufacturing companies very high.

Dami's new energy vehicle technology is full of enthusiasm. Without real technology, it is not so easy to pass the review of the above.

Of course, Rice is not trusted by the higher-ups, not only because of this, but more importantly, car manufacturing belongs to hardware, which is completely different from Rice's previous business.

Before Dami wanted to start a new business, it only needed to recruit talents from various departments. As long as it was in the mobile phone manufacturing related industry, most of the talents were general-purpose, but it was obviously not feasible to make cars.

So in order to dispel the concerns of the higher-ups, Dami directly recruited many people from traditional car companies such as Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Porsche, and Rolls-Royce.

These are the guys who figured out the rest of the car besides batteries and self-driving.

From the car body, doors, chassis, tires, to the small car glass, seats, and steering wheels, these are all designed by former employees of major manufacturers.

Rice’s series of moves, coupled with the impressive road data of the following rice cars, finally changed the attitude of the higher-ups towards rice-making cars. Now it can be said that rice-making cars are only a short distance away from passing the approval and receiving policy support. One step away.

At this time, there are two problems facing Rice: first, how to further pass the examination and approval of its own technology, and second, who to find as an OEM to produce cars.

Rice is not capable of making cars by himself, and design and manufacturing have never been the same thing.

Huawei's Kirin series chips are completely self-designed, but they do not have the ability to produce chips.

Back to car manufacturing, in fact, not only rice has, but Apple also has its own car manufacturing plan, and they are also stuck in the foundry step.

In fact, Apple has been working on new energy vehicles. Their first new energy vehicle has already been designed, but no one is willing to produce it for them.

Apple, like Rice, has no manufacturing experience at all, so their first model must adopt the foundry model, that is, the car is designed by themselves, and then handed over to a professional car company for production.

It's just that the automotive industry is not the electronics industry. Dozens of assembly plants can be brought in casually. Foxconn has entered the world's top 50 by virtue of Apple's orders.

Automobiles are the crown of the industry. There are only about a hundred companies in the world that can manufacture total vehicles.

But each of these companies is a Fortune 500 car company. It is tantamount to wishful thinking for such a company to do OEM.

So although Apple completed its own new energy vehicle design one step ahead of Rice, but because it couldn't find an OEM, there was no more.

These brands of cars are basically companies established 100 years ago, and the youngest Hyundai is over 50 years old.

Like the oil industry, these companies have very little change in market share, even if they compete with each other, they simply look down on Apple, an "upstart".

The same is true for rice cars, so if Mr. Lei wants to really develop rice cars, he must solve these two problems.

(End of this chapter)