After seeing off An Ran and Li Moran, Luo Jia called Shen Lang to her side after school in the afternoon and asked him about his recent study.

At that time, geniuses like An Ran and Cao Yuan had completed six years of middle school courses within one or two years. The geniuses at Star University had higher learning density and more professional teachers, so the progress was very fast.

By next spring, Shen Lang and the best genius in the school will end their high school courses.

The slowest progress are those foreign geniuses. They have to master Chinese skills while learning knowledge, so they lag a lot behind.

However, Xingchen University teaches students according to their aptitude, and each student's progress and course schedule are different. These situations are completely under the control of the school and will not cause any trouble to the teaching work.

In general, Star University's efforts to internationalize was ultimately failed. Due to the boycott of overseas forces, there were very few foreign small geniuses.

Shen Lang frowned and thought for a few minutes, then said to Luo Jia: "I think the teacher's approach to counterattack with great fanfare is very correct."

"Why?"

“Because of faith.”

"confidence?"

"Yes." Shen Lang said seriously, "The entire domestic automobile industry has made considerable sacrifices. The joint ventures have not joined the electric vehicle alliance. Due to the impact of the new energy plan, the entire China is focusing on whether the automobile industry can grow bigger. After all, only when the automobile industry grows bigger can the problem of power laid-offs be truly solved."

"Simply put, power workers are about to lose their jobs, and their nerves are already very fragile and they can no longer lose confidence."

Luo Jia nodded slightly. Although Shen Lang was young, he saw things thoroughly. He would take the blame for laying off others. The reason why everyone can accept laid off is because they are confident that they will find a new position and will still have food to eat in the future.

Therefore, on the road to expanding the automobile industry, Xingchen Technology cannot give in at any step. It must always maintain its strength and give everyone full confidence.

That night, Luo Jia thought for a long time. When the brainstorming reunion gathered in the early morning, he had a complete plan in his mind.

Many people who don’t understand autonomous driving technology will think that this technology is nothing great, and they don’t know that if they want to truly realize autonomous driving, Xingchen Technology must solve four major problems at the hardware level alone.

The first problem is called industrial control machine.

Simply put, an industrial control machine is the brain of an autonomous driving system. You can also understand it as a small computer installed in the car body. No matter how advanced the algorithm or the amount of real-time data is, it needs to be processed by this brain.

Currently, the strongest Baidu Apollo system in China uses a GPU industrial control machine, the model is nuvo-5095gc.

Xingchen Technology's semiconductor division took over the research and development task of industrial control computers.

Fang Yuanchu suggested to Luo Jia that due to the tight time and heavy tasks, he could join hands with his old team, namely HiSilicon, a subsidiary of Huawei, to split some development tasks for HiSilicon, and eventually, Star Technology will be fully integrated.

This proposal was accepted by Luo Jia. There are many domestic semiconductor design companies, but only HiSilicon can rank among the top five in the world.

As for Xingchen Technology's semiconductor division, although it has been quite powerful after years of recruiting troops, since the semiconductor division is not independent, they are still a mystery to the outside world.

Industrial control machines are widely used in the industrial field, but they also have huge levels. High-end industrial control and low-end industrial control have never been one thing.

Just like the most advanced fourth-generation stealth fighter, one of the core technologies is the flight controller. In essence, the flight controller is also an industrial control aircraft, but the technical level is really high. The national team has used a team of tens of thousands of people and has been engaged in flight control technology.

The industrial control aircraft required to realize autonomous driving is of course not as good as aircraft, but it is also a typical high-end technology. The entry of HiSilicon can speed up development progress.

With the relationship between Star Technology and Huawei, it is not difficult to bring HiSilicon over. In terms of interests, Luo Jia has never had a precedent for exploiting partners and has always brought everyone to make a fortune.

As for the second problem, it is called can.

When an industrial control machine interacts with a car chassis, it must pass through a special Can language, so the can thing can be understood as an industrial language decoder.

For example, the current vehicle speed is 60, and the sensor measures the speed per hour, but how do you tell the industrial control machine this information? Everyone is a machine, and no one can speak.

Therefore, can technology is needed to solve the problem of information paths between machines.

The third problem is global positioning technology and inertial measurement unit.

Global positioning technology is not difficult to solve. China has a Beidou system. If combined with the North American GPS system, it can form a dual positioning channel to obtain accurate vehicle positioning information.

But the inertial measurement unit, which is called IU, is more difficult.

Relying on global positioning and IU, we can know where the vehicle is and which direction it is driving. In addition, IU can also provide richer information such as yaw angular velocity, angular acceleration, etc., which helps the positioning and decision-making control of autonomous vehicles.

The fourth problem is sensors.

In current autonomous driving vehicles, three major sensing systems need to be used simultaneously, namely vision sensors, laser sensors, and radar sensors.

Vision sensors are binocular cameras, which can provide stereoscopic visual perception, not only should autonomous driving technology be used, but also future robotic technology.

Industrial binocular perception cameras and mobile phone cameras are not the same thing, and the biggest player in this field is Star Optics, a subsidiary of Star Technology.

After years of expansion and development, Star Optics is no longer a small factory that only knows how to build cameras, but a large-scale complex with sensing, remote sensing, laser, astronomy optics, medical optics, optical software, and many other fronts.

There are three major foreign competitors, Israeli mobileye, Canadian pointgrey, and German pike, all of which are lower than Star Optics.

Laser sensors are divided into single-line and multi-line. For each additional line, the cost will increase accordingly and the detection effect will be enhanced accordingly.

At present, the highest level in the world's civilian field can reach the 128th line. There is no problem in the military field to reach thousands of lines because it is spared no expense.

The more well-known laser sensor manufacturers include velodyne and quanergy in the United States, ibeo in Germany, and domestic ones include Sagitar Juchuang, Hesai Technology, and Star Optics.

Finally, there is radar sensor, which is more common. Front and rear reversing radar is a typical radar sensor. The main ones who study this thing are auto parts manufacturers, Denso, Bosch, Mainland China, Delphi, etc.

Radar sensor Star Optics has not done it, but another subsidiary Star Electric, they have a radar sensor team and production line.

It can be seen from this that although sensors are the most complex and of the four major hardware, they are the natural strength of Xingchen Technology. Xingchen Optics has vision and laser, and Xingchen Electric has radar. You can use it directly without the need to develop separately.

At this point, even if the tasks of the hardware department are arranged, Fang Yuanchu's semiconductor business department will be led by, and Huawei HiSilicon and Star Research Institute will cooperate.

Luo Jia glanced at the words on the whiteboard and said to everyone, "On November 1, 2017, Google, a global Internet giant, officially gave up the development of autonomous driving technology, and its subsidiary Waymo was completely closed."

"After spending billions of dollars in nearly ten years, Google still chose to give up. This shows that autonomous driving technology is actually very difficult and the technical level is also very high."

"In addition, there are Apple, ibm, Microsoft, etc. These giant companies have self-driving research teams, but who has launched real products? No, none of them."

"Because autonomous driving not only needs to solve hardware problems, but what is even more difficult to solve is software problems."

"Thankfully, we started the pre-research on autonomous driving technology when we launched the electric balance bike two years ago, and we also have the largest industrial software team in the world."

"The software center that Li Moran is responsible for has now reached a scale of nearly 20,000 people. If it is not enough, we will also pull out the subsidiary Xingchen Search! It is also a top team with more than 12,000 people!"

"In the software field, we are also the strongest on this planet!"

After hearing Luo Jia's words, everyone proudly raised their chests.

No one will forget that the software legion of Star Technology once won three epic projects: search engine, operating system, industrial software, and the two projects also created history.

It can be seen from this that although the software legion of Xingchen Technology is low-key, its strength is not low-key at all.
Chapter completed!