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What a coincidence.

Just recently, Shen Xiangyang also gave sincere suggestions, believing that Ziweixing should develop in the direction of smart cockpits, the most important of which is the in-vehicle operating system.

Now that the situation has become clear, mobile systems can be used on intelligent connected vehicles, which greatly reduces the industry's entry barriers.

If you are developing a PC-side system, like Tesla, this is really troublesome.

Especially the coming software ecosystem is really difficult.

Things are different now. The general trend of artificial intelligence has shifted from CPU to GPU, which means that smart cars can be equipped with a modified version of the in-vehicle operating system developed based on the Android system. Now is the pioneering period of this industry. If you join now, you will definitely have a firm first-mover advantage.

Zhou Buqi is very cautious in this regard.

The reclamation period means full of uncertainties.

Car service is not cell phone service.

If the mobile phone system crashes or freezes, just restart it.

If the car crashes while driving, there may be safety risks.

Even the bottom layer of an intelligent car is a mechanical structure. Even if it crashes, it is still a time-sharing system at the application layer. It can be restarted without affecting the normal driving of the vehicle. However, many drivers have insufficient driving experience and will be in a hurry once they encounter a crash. Once they are distracted while driving at high speed, they are still prone to danger.

This leads Zhou Buqi to be very vigilant about the provision of Internet services in cars.

Once something really happened, it would not only affect the company's brand image, but also his personal reputation. He didn't want to be saddled with the title of "butcher" or "executioner."

Unexpectedly, BlackBerry's new CEO Cheng Suizhong was also eyeing the same direction.

Not to mention, BlackBerry really has such an advantage.

BlackBerry's operating system is much more stable, secure and reliable than Android. If they want to make efforts in this field, they might be able to do something good.

Cheng Suizong said: "After I became CEO, the first thing I had to do was to clean up the assets of BlackBerry's existing mobile phone business; the second thing was to develop new mobile phones. service business.”

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Well, it's a good direction. Nowadays, cars are becoming more and more intelligent. This is the general direction and trend of the automobile industry. They can't do it well relying on those traditional car manufacturers. !”

Cheng Suizong smiled and said: "Thank you also for leading the artificial intelligence industry in the right direction."

Zhou Buqi waved his hand, very modestly, "What is the right direction? It's hard to say whether it is right or not. There are still many scientists and practitioners in the industry who think that the GPU idea is ridiculous and we should stick to the CPU." The route.”

"Have you touched their cake?" Cheng Suizong disagreed, "Many practitioners in the industry have been studying the direction of CPU for many years, and they wish they had devoted their whole life. Unexpectedly, there was a sudden change, from CPU to GPU. , they are unwilling to give up, and it is not surprising that such people exist in all walks of life. If they cannot quickly keep up with the new trend, they will only become the leftovers in the industry. If you have the title of academician or go to teach in a university, if you are unlucky, you will be completely eliminated by the times.”

The technology industry is changing with each passing day and changing too fast.

This kind of thing has really happened one after another in Silicon Valley in the past few decades.

Not just Silicon Valley, but also domestically.

From the earliest typewriters and Hanka to later PCs and mobile phones... even though smartphones are now popular all over the world, there are still many figures from the feature machine era who have spoken out, saying that constant charging of smartphones is unfriendly to users. There is a risk of radiation if the data transmission through the networking function of smart phones is too large.

Zhou Buqi said: "This transformation idea is very good, but... the car OS business is still a bit niche and cannot be compared with the mobile phone business in terms of scale. If you give up the mobile phone business and choose to make a car operating system, BlackBerry will The size may be reduced a lot.”

Cheng Suizong said: "For BlackBerry, the top priority is to survive first. How big and how large it is is something to consider after the transformation is successful. In my plan, BlackBerry should give full play to its advantages in system-level security, With the advantages of stability and reliability, we provide some systems and software services in the security field.”

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Well, that's a good idea. If you need help, you can tell me and I can help you contact Spotify and Netflix and suggest that they develop special software programs for your car systems."

"Thanks! Thank you so much!"

Cheng Suizong was very happy.

Today's smart cockpits are actually not very imaginative. They just allow you to listen to music online in the car and watch videos when you have time. In terms of application layer expansion and innovation, foreigners are far less aggressive than domestic ones.

With Spotify for listening to music, Netflix for watching videos, and a navigation system, basically the software ecosystem of BlackBerry Car OS has been successfully constructed.

Zhou Buqi said: "It's easy to talk about everything else. Just push forward the patent delivery of BlackBerry and Asda as soon as possible."

Because of the emergence of Zhou Buqi in this life, many industries have undergone relatively large changes.

In the previous life, Blackberry invited Cheng Suizong to put out the fire.

They also rely on Chinese companies.

The OEM service was licensed to TCL, and the patent was sold to Huawei.

Now that Boss Zhou is here, many things are much easier to handle. Boss Zhou has a good reputation in the industry. He will help as much as possible when he can. He is known as "timely rain" in the world, and everyone who deals with him will praise him.

Now BlackBerry is in trouble.

The person who took over was a fellow Chinese, so Zhou Buqi had no reason not to help. Asda can pay a sum of money to buy all the relevant mobile phone patents of BlackBerry, and BlackBerry will use the money to quickly transform its business.

Cheng Suizong naturally thinks this way, but there is one point that is more difficult. "There will be no obstacles from BlackBerry's board of directors and management. I can handle everything well. It's just that the official restrictions are a bit troublesome. Many of BlackBerry's intellectual property rights are It is relatively high-tech. If it is sold to a Chinese company, it requires approval from the Canadian authorities and the US authorities to complete the transaction. "

"The United States also wants to approve it?" Zhou Buqi twitched his lips.

Cheng Suizong was helpless, "The United States and Canada are one."

Zhou Buqi looked at Zhou Shaoning.

Zhou Shaoning had already registered the patent and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter. We will just operate according to Motorola's previous patent delivery case. If it is approved, it can be delivered; if it is not approved, we can just carry out mutual authorization of the patent portfolio."

Cheng Suizong did not hesitate and said decisively: "Okay, let's do it! Anyway, we both work together to maximize the promotion of more intellectual property transactions. BlackBerry has accumulated a lot of excellent knowledge in the field of mobile phones over the years. Many of the property rights can choke Apple’s neck now that they are no longer useful, and I hope Asda can benefit from them.”