Reborn Entrepreneurial Giant

Ant Forest of Fanxing Fund cooperates with many companies. In addition to Time Jumei and Honor, there are also Meituan and Didi. Cashless mobile payment, including no need for tableware, is considered a "low-carbon life", which will harvest "energy" and accumulate more You can plant trees, protect the environment and donate money.

After Double Eleven, the annual Internet conference came soon. Qu Li did not attend. He was counting the year's harvest in Yangcheng. The key point was how many trees Ant Forest planted.

Because we have to ensure the survival rate and pay attention to the ecological environment, we cannot plant a single tree species, so even though we have cooperated with more than a dozen environmental organizations, their progress is not fast. In the many years since the establishment of this project, they have only planted about one tree species. Billions of trees.

The key is that there are really many mobile Internet users participating in Ant Forest. They are now close to 300 million people. I don’t know when it will have 600 million users or when it will reach 1 billion users. It is difficult to achieve it in China alone. Still have to go abroad.

Qu Li will not go overseas to send warm and soft products overseas now. At least he will wait until the relevant departments directly deal with the American daddy, and then he will make great efforts. Why do this? Because the goodwill of the poor is cheap, the goodwill expressed by a big country after it becomes rich and powerful will be unforgettable.

While others were bragging in meetings, Qu Li was promoting the development of his NIL lithography machine company. This company is located in Shanghai. As for technology, of course it relies on acquisitions. For example, Canon, which later monopolized NIL lithography machine technology, acquired an American nanoimprint basic technology research and development company called MII.

The NIL lithography machine was a concept first proposed by Chinese-American scientist Professor Zhou Yu in 1995. Unfortunately, this technology has huge shortcomings and has not been developed. Lithography machines and X-ray lithography proposed by Russia are a technology for pattern inscription based on X-ray light sources; the European DSA solution is a self-assembly technology that uses the principle of self-interaction to self-assemble polymers into desired patterns. The American BLE technology solution uses electron beams to directly write patterns on the chip.

Qu Li chose the NIL lithography machine because it is the least difficult, low-cost and can be used in emergencies. Canon will soon apply this technology in Hynix. Changjiang Storage will most likely be able to use NIL lithography machines in the future. In the long run, BLE technology solutions may be better, and the problems of high cost and low efficiency should be solved through technological progress.

When I really wanted to join this industry, I found that there were more difficulties than I imagined. It was not a matter of money, but that there were too few companies in the relevant industry chain and talents were scarce. It took twenty years to accumulate talents for domestic semiconductor foundry and lithography machines. how long it takes?

Therefore, after establishing a company in Shanghai, we still used capital means to acquire or establish branches and laboratories overseas, and cooperated with universities in related fields around the world for development, and we also maintained a certain distance and isolation from the United States.

Compared with their difficulties in the field of lithography machines, Liang Mengsong quickly improved the 28nm process after joining China-Singapore International, and the yield rate increased to 90%. Now he is starting to build a new factory for 14nm wafers and strives to put it into production next year. However, at Qu Li's request, he continued to keep a low profile and kept it secret if possible. It must be said that he had to hold back.

For example, the yield rate of the 28nm process will be increased to 90% after half a year of production before it can be made public. Regardless of whether it is useful or not, don't waste it if you can now, buy yourself more time and increase the production capacity of the 14nm wafer factory. In the future, if you get rich, don't be stubborn if you can afford it, and increase the confidence of the team.

He was busy here. Without him attending, the Internet Conference was successfully held and was still the center of the news. I thought someone would target Time Jumei, but I didn’t expect that it would be Ali. Someone invited everyone, but not everyone. Ma Yun.

This was embarrassing. Qu Li had been worried for a long time. He didn't expect that someone would make such a fuss. He had never asked others to stand in line, and he didn't care about these things. Fortunately, no one blamed him for the incident, but Time Jumei was definitely not free from suspicion.

After the Internet Conference, Yangcheng held a "Fortune" forum, which was organized by the well-known American magazine. Qu Li, who had not yet left, was invited to participate in this forum. They have been promoting this forum around the world since the beginning of the year, so I have to come.

There is no doubt that with Qu Li present, he is the only protagonist. Even if Ma Yun blows back, he will not be more attractive than the world's richest man.

"Why did you choose to leave Time Jumei and Glory, the two companies you founded?" asked a reporter in an exclusive interview with the forum.

"The main reason is because I am too busy and I still have a lot of things I want to do. Secondly, the teams of these two companies are very good..." Qu Li answered in English

"Aren't you worried that the development of the two companies will not meet expectations after leaving?" Reporter

"I don't like to set goals for myself and the company. These are requirements of capital. They want to see better and better, but I am more concerned about whether the existence of the company can create value for society..." Qu Li

"Some people think that you don't understand technology and can't keep up with the changes of the times, so you choose to quit. What do you think of this view?" Reporter

"It makes sense. Compared to changes, I pay more attention to the things that remain unchanged in the company, such as allowing consumers to buy better quality products at more reasonable prices..."

"Don't you pay attention to the changing things? For example, artificial intelligence."

"Also pay attention. 5eOne Geometry is still doing research on autonomous driving. Honor and Time Jumei have invested a lot of research and development in the field of artificial intelligence." Qu Li

"Do you think artificial intelligence will threaten human society?"

"I'm not worried about machines becoming like people, but more worried about people becoming like machines, abandoning empathy and values, and doing things regardless of the consequences..."

"What do you mean?" Qu Li became bad at communicating and often needed guidance from reporters.

"We believe technology can be the biggest force that changes life, but technology itself is not good or bad. Everything is decided by us humans. We must inject humanity into technology. This is a better commitment to society and families..." Qu Li answer

This kind of answer is of a high level and can be understood by both Eastern and Western minds. The reporter continued to ask: "It is now generally believed that Google, Baidu, and even Tesla's autonomous driving surpasses Honor and Future. What do you think of this?"

"I don't care what the outside world thinks. I stick to first-principle judgment. There are roughly three steps to implement autonomous driving, perception, and control." Qu Li has done a lot of research on this and has the right to speak:

"The development direction of Geometry Auto is towards vehicle electrification and intelligence. Now it can be upgraded online through OTA. This is the beginning of software-defined hardware. It can also be said that we have the strongest control over the car."

"Perception is the collection and processing of environmental information and in-car information. You need to use cameras to see the road, use radar to listen to surrounding obstacles, and use extremely fast speed analysis to determine road conditions, drivable areas, traffic rules, and speed limits. , and what are the obstacles?”

"Planning is based on our goals and combined with perceived information..."

"This requires us to have powerful hardware, such as cameras, radars, GPS positioning, navigation, etc.; we also need excellent deep learning algorithms and powerful computing power..."

"Now the entire industry chain is not perfect. Honor and CMEF are working hard to make up for it bit by bit through investment and other methods. It can be said that there is no foundation for autonomous driving. How can they achieve industrialization? Are they dreaming?" Qu Li said unceremoniously