darknovel #291 - Huawei Technology is having a headache!
#291 - Huawei Technology is having a headache!
Meanwhile, in Shenzhen.
Ren Zhengfei, the president of Huawei Technologies, was in a quandary.
A week ago, Geek Technology extended a collaboration invitation to Huawei, proposing joint research and development of 5G mobile communication technology.
This naturally plunged Huawei into a major debate, with some in favor and others strongly opposed, creating significant internal strife.
This upper-level conflict even affected the mid- and lower-level employees, distracting the entire company from their work.
Faced with this chaotic situation, Ren Zhengfei felt a sense of crisis and knew he had to make a decision quickly.
Therefore, Ren Zhengfei directly reconvened the company's senior executives.
The purpose of this meeting was to decide definitively whether to allow Geek Technology to participate in the research and development of 5G mobile communication technology and share in its profits.
An hour later, the company's meeting commenced as scheduled, with executives from various departments and representatives of major shareholders seated in the conference room.
"Everyone, the theme of this meeting is singular: to directly decide whether to allow Geek Technology to participate in our 5G mobile communication technology research and development.
We have already delayed for a week and debated for a week; this week of debate has impacted the company's development.
Therefore, I don't want to delay any longer; we cannot allow our internal conflicts to continue. Let's make a final decision in this meeting!"
Hearing Ren Zhengfei's words, the people present exchanged glances and then nodded slightly in agreement.
They had all witnessed the recent chaos within the company and knew the consequences of its continuation, so they naturally had no objections to Ren Zhengfei's proposal.
"Since that's the case, let's begin."
After speaking, Ren Zhengfei remained silent, giving the floor to representatives from both sides.
In response, the proponents exchanged glances, and one of them immediately began to speak:
"Geek Technology is the world's largest mobile phone company and the world's largest computer manufacturer and seller, and it also holds the Geek smartphone operating system and the Geek computer operating system.
Their success is not due to other companies voluntarily relinquishing market share; rather, Geek Technology carved out its market position through its own hard work.
I've heard that Geek Technology is currently implementing a plan called StarNet, which initially plans to launch 13,000 high-throughput satellites into space.
This will achieve global, dead-zone-free internet access, autonomous driving cruise control, and ultra-high-precision real-time positioning for missile interception.
It can be said that this StarNet plan has extremely high commercial value and military strategic and tactical value.
Therefore, the military fully supports the StarNet plan, giving Geek Technology the green light to research and implement it without any concerns."
After a pause, the executive continued:
"StarNet is powerful and has high commercial value. Once developed, the effects will be significant. Ignoring the military applications that don't concern us, from a purely commercial perspective, once StarNet is built.
With the initial 13,000 StarNet satellites and the later 29,000 StarNet satellites, autonomous driving cars, delivery drones, unmanned ships—all of these will become truly practical.
It can be said that the pure commercial applications of StarNet alone are enough to support a company with a market value of over a trillion US dollars.
The only drawback of this StarNet plan is its high construction cost: the cost of satellites is high, the cost of launching so many rockets is high, and the communication bandwidth cannot meet global demand."
"What does all this have to do with Huawei? We don't have that much money to invest in the StarNet plan."
Someone voiced their opinion, believing that the proponent was wasting everyone's time.
"Of course, it's related. As I said before, the future of the StarNet plan is bright, but its drawback is that the communication bandwidth of the StarNet satellites cannot meet the needs of all humanity.
This also means that terrestrial 5G mobile communication technology is indispensable; the 5G mobile communication network will still be responsible for meeting users' internet access needs.
This is why Geek Technology wants to develop 5G mobile communication technology with us.
In this situation, if we cooperate with Geek Technology to develop 5G mobile communication technology, then our 5G mobile communication technology will not be just a simple 5G mobile communication technology.
Even Ren Zhengfei, the president of Huawei, couldn't help but waver after hearing this.
The prospects were simply too good, so good that people couldn't help but look forward to the success of the StarNet plan.
After all, once the StarNet plan succeeds, and with the expanded use of terrestrial 5G mobile networks, ultimately achieving ultra-precise 3D spatial positioning for users.
Technologies such as delivery drones and autonomous driving will be truly realized and implemented. Taking delivery drones as an example.
Delivery drones have two directions: delivering express packages and delivering food and beverages.
When a drone delivery system delivers goods, it must achieve precise positioning of the drone and the buyer's location, which means it must call StarNet.
This also means that merchants and platforms that own drones must pay StarNet a fee. Just imagine how many drone delivery requests there are worldwide, and you can know how much revenue can be generated every day.
Then there are the automotive aspects, and the profits in the automotive sector are equally substantial.
Because autonomous driving technology in automobiles includes not only autonomous driving in company or home cars, but also autonomous driving in delivery trucks.
Just think about how many cars worldwide need autonomous driving at any given moment, and think about how many trucks worldwide need autonomous driving to reach their destinations at any given moment.
Finally, in addition to automobiles, autonomous driving control technology can also be extended to the field of engineering machinery or agricultural machinery.