Chapter 528: People-oriented

The concept of the Internet of Things is not actually new. On the contrary, it can be said to be an old-fashioned thing.

But in fact, it was not until recent years, especially with the promotion and popularization of smart phones, that it began to fully enter the lives of ordinary people, especially when more and more services were connected to mobile phones, and everyone began to have a newer and more comprehensive impression and concept of the Internet of Things.

What is the core of the Internet of Things?

Many people naturally think of the network, but in fact the network is the foundation, and the sensor is the key!

The so-called creation of the Internet of Things for smart cities, the most critical core is to make those traditional, such as trash cans, traffic lights, bus stops, etc., and even a high-rise building, these dead things can speak, and it is precisely the sensors that make them speak.

It is difficult to say whether the concept of the Internet of Things came first, which led to the development of sensors, or it was not until the emergence and development of sensors that the realization of the Internet of Things became possible, but everyone knows that sensors and sensor networks integrated with sensors are the two core foundations for the realization of the Internet of Things. Without one of them, it is impossible to succeed.

Why can the second-generation Zeus mobile phone sell so well and quickly attract other mobile phone manufacturers to follow suit?

It is because of the addition of light sensors and gyroscopes, both of which are sensors. In today's world, there are tens of thousands of types of sensors, which have long been used in various industries and fields. Without sensors, the world will not know what it will become.

Ye Zi Technology established a semiconductor research center in China, not only in cooperation with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, but also with Xiamen University, BJ University, Fudan University and many other well-known domestic universities and research institutions to fund their investment in research and development in this area. I don't know how much money is invested in this every year.

Not only that, Ye Zi Technology has also acquired many semiconductor companies in China and the United States, and has been continuously investing in research and development. There are also many products that are used in tablet computers, and Ye Zi Technology will continue to invest in semiconductor research in the future, because the future prospects of this market are too great.

According to Ye Qiu's idea, for the time being, Ye Zi Technology will be the backing and strongly support semiconductor research and development. When the company has formed sufficient technology and products in semiconductors, it will be separated separately to form a subsidiary of the company, just like Samsung Group separated Samsung Electronics.

Not only that, Leaf Technology is also preparing to gradually separate its businesses and form independent subsidiaries. This will be the first major change in the company structure since Leaf Technology was founded. Eliza Moon believes that only through this separation can the company's business be further stimulated.

As for the semiconductor business, Ye Qiu hopes to have the entire industry chain, from design, manufacturing, packaging to sales, to become a one-stop vertically integrated semiconductor company, just like Intel, Texas Instruments or Infineon.

It's not that Ye Qiu is too ambitious and wants to monopolize everything, but he has to do this because Leaf Technology's current business is too large. If the technology research and development and product matching are not kept up, it will suffer a big loss sooner or later.

Just like another very important business of Leaf Technology at present, smart cars.

Leaf Technology itself is not familiar with the automotive industry, so it has also recruited many experts in this field, and has also cooperated with multiple automakers, including GM, Ford, BMW, Audi, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen, to provide professional support, while Leaf Technology develops intelligent solutions.

At present, Leaf Technology has achieved some results, and car manufacturers have also seen the prospects. There are two important aspects. One is Leaf Technology's positioning of smart cars, safety and convenience.

Technology is always a double-edged sword. It has a good side, but it will also produce risks and crises. Therefore, the most important thing about technology is not to pursue advancement blindly, but to pursue more convenience and bring convenience to people while ensuring safety and reliability.

Therefore, from the beginning, Leaf Technology's positioning of smart cars is safety and convenience, so that people, cars, and life are organically combined, rather than simply bringing mobile Internet into cars. How can it be innovative?

Then, the second aspect is, what kind of operation method is most convenient in the car?

Mouse? Touch? Keyboard? Wrong, it's voice!

Therefore, Leaf Technology acquired Nuance, the industry's largest company specializing in the research and development and sales of voice recognition software, image processing software, etc. More than 80% of the world's voice recognition comes from their technology.

Voice control is a bit useless when used on mobile phones or tablets. In Ye Qiu's previous life, a TV manufacturer used voice to control the TV. My God, how boring would a person have to be to talk to the TV? And if you are sitting in the living room and a guest comes to your house, do you control the TV with voice? Or, stretch out your hand and gesture in the air?

Different control methods have their own suitable environments. For example, voice recognition can only be used when your hands cannot be freed, such as when you are driving. That is why Ye Technology has made great efforts to acquire Nuance, just to improve the important control methods of smart cars.

Of course, this does not mean that voice recognition can only be applied to cars, but that it will show advantages when applied to cars. Leaf Technology is also developing some voice applications and plans to open some technologies to attract developers. However, there are still some problems with voice, such as semantic recognition. It is easy to hear clearly, but difficult to understand.

In the intelligent car system, sensors are also very important means, including tire pressure monitoring, brake system assistance, airbag system and other safety measures, as well as driving assistance systems such as automatic parking, driving safety, power control, fuel consumption assistance, etc., and help car owners collect maintenance, safety and other information. Of course, the last thing is some entertainment services.

From this series of services, sensors are crucial links. Without sensors, these functions and services cannot be realized. Therefore, Leaf Technology sees the future of the semiconductor industry very clearly. Therefore, Ye Qiu invests a lot of money in research and development and acquisitions every year to ensure that Leaf Technology continues to make progress in the semiconductor field.

In the smart ecosystem outlined by Leaf Technology, smartphones and tablets are must-haves that you carry with you. Leaf Technology is currently a leading company in this regard and has a fairly large patent base. What it needs to do next is to keep improving and stay ahead.

Portable devices, such as smart watches, smart glasses, and smart cameras, can only be considered auxiliary devices. In Ye Qiu's previous life, many companies thought too much about these things, and had to make watches and glasses the same as mobile phones, with a lot of functions such as text messaging and taking pictures. Why? Don't people who wear watches carry mobile phones?

If they do, then the mobile phone has the functions of taking pictures and texting, so why do they have to have watches? Is it more convenient to look at the watch screen than the mobile phone screen? Or do some people think that texting on the watch screen is very high-tech?

As Ye Qiu said to the management and R\u0026D personnel of Leaf Technology in a meeting before, technology should always be people-oriented. It always has only one theme, which is to bring convenience to people, not to cause trouble for people!

And similar to smart cars, smart TVs, smart homes and smart cities, these are all parts of the entire smart ecosystem, big or small, social or personal, and they all have their own characteristics. You must develop smart services and devices that adapt to their characteristics.

Just like smart TVs, Leaf Technology has not found an effective user experience even now. Whether it is controlled by voice, gestures, or remote mouse touch, it is obviously unable to achieve real innovation, because in the final analysis, it still cannot get rid of the traditional TV control and user experience. If it is not convenient, smart TV will not be popularized?

At present, Leaf Technology has Youtube and Android Store, these two major content provision platforms, and there is no problem with the content. The main thing is that Leaf Technology cannot solve the user experience for the time being. If the user experience cannot be solved, that is, if the most suitable control method is not found, the smart TV system will not be able to start.

Chen Zhong was really convinced by Ye Qiu's great prospects. At least he knew very clearly that the central government was very concerned and supportive of Xiamen's attempt. Once it succeeds, it will surely be further promoted.

Moreover, the demand for supporting services around the planning of the entire smart city is very large. If Huangtian Group can further cooperate with Leaf Technology, it will surely seize the opportunity before all competitors.

In the next two days, Ye Qiu took Chen Zhong to Leaf Technology's semiconductor research and development center in Xiamen Xiang'an District and Leaf Technology's China headquarters, and showed Chen Zhong the concept of Leaf Technology's smart home, including many concepts and ideas that Chen Zhong might never hear outside.

This trip benefited Chen Zhong a lot, but he was also a worldly person. At first, he was full of amazement, but soon he realized a big problem, that is, such a complex smart ecosystem, although it can bring great convenience and excellent experience to users, but how to ensure security?

For example, the smartphone payment displayed by Leaf Technology, or even the car and the door locks at home will all be controlled by intelligent control in the future, but if they are hacked, wouldn't it cause huge losses?

In response, Ye Qiu said that Leaf Technology already had means to deal with it.

In fact, five days later, he received a call from Eliza Moon in the United States.

While Ye Qiuyuan was on vacation in China, the transfer market in European football was also in full swing.

Manchester United took the lead in the acquisition. After the end of the season, Manchester United took the lead in announcing that the Red Devils snatched the French genius striker Karim Benzema from the French Ligue 1 giants Lyon and from many top teams including Real Madrid for 35 million euros.

This French genius striker is recognized in Europe as a world-class striker in the future. Quite a few people think that in addition to his speed and explosiveness, he is very similar to Ronaldo back then. When Ferguson announced the introduction of Benzema, he also said that Benzema would become a crucial member of the team's forward line.

Benzema's arrival is also seen by many as a signal that Manchester United is going to sell Cristiano Ronaldo, and the most likely destination for the Portuguese superstar is undoubtedly Real Madrid, where Florentino is in power. This is no longer a secret in the core football circle, but no one will tell the public.

In addition to Benzema, Ferguson also announced that he had poached England's newcomer Rooney from Chelsea, but the specific transfer amount was not announced. However, it was revealed that Rooney's transfer fee may reach 50 million euros. On the one hand, Rooney refused to renew his contract with Chelsea, and on the other hand, Chelsea was dissatisfied with Rooney's frequent attacks in the past.

This is also seen as a signal that Pini Zahavi is reorganizing Chelsea, and the Israeli agent said that Rooney's departure will not affect Chelsea's competitiveness, but many media believe that the Israelis are bluffing. When Abramovich clearly stated that he would not continue to add the club's transfer fee, Chelsea can only rely on selling players to support the team's signings.

At present, the most scarce position for Chelsea is goalkeeper. It is hard to find a good goalkeeper in today's football world. Not to mention the three world-class goalkeepers of Juventus, Buffon, Cech of Tottenham Hotspur, and Casillas of Real Madrid, even goalkeepers such as Reina of Liverpool and Valdes of Barcelona are equally difficult to poach.

According to the information obtained by Peter Kenyon, Chelsea's targets include Ugo Lloris of Lyon, Stekelenburg of Ajax, Igor Akinfeev of CSKA Moscow, and another one is Julio Cesar of Inter Milan, but Inter Milan has made it clear that this one is not for sale.

Good goalkeepers are scarce in today's European football world. Teams such as Arsenal, Chelsea, AC Milan, Bayern Munich, etc. are all looking for goalkeepers. Even Barcelona has not given up the pursuit of goalkeepers, and Manchester United also hopes to find a goalkeeper to take over from Van der Sar, so the position of goalkeeper has become more and more popular.

As for Cech from Tottenham Hotspur, don't even think about poaching him. Let's not talk about whether it's possible to poach him or not. Even if Tottenham Hotspur is willing to sell him, how much money can they offer? Without a sky-high price of tens of millions, don't expect Ye Qiu to ask for it.

Because of this, Chelsea has been looking for goalkeepers almost every year in recent years, but has never found a suitable candidate. Many people even suspect that if Chelsea continues the transfer operation method in the past this season, the goalkeeper will still be out of tricks.

The biggest buyer in the Premier League transfer market is undoubtedly Manchester City, Everton's Lescott, Barcelona's Sylvinho, Arsenal's Kolo Toure and Adebayor, Blackburn's Santa Cruz, Aston Villa's Gareth Barry

Many people have to be surprised to see that Manchester City almost wants to poach all the teams in the Premier League, and after spending more than 100 million euros, they still have the most important signing that has not been announced to the public, that is, the news that Messi from Tottenham Hotspur has transferred to Manchester City for 150 million euros, which has been rumored for a long time.

Everyone is clear about this transfer, just like Cristiano Ronaldo's decision to transfer to Real Madrid. No one is surprised. It's just that the time to announce the transfer has not come yet. Some people say that Tottenham Hotspur is worried that the North American tour will be affected, and some people say that Manchester City is preparing to build momentum for Messi's joining.

There is another big crocodile in the European transfer market, that is the La Liga giant Real Madrid.

Florentino's promise when he came to power was to buy the superstars that Real Madrid missed in the past three years within a year, and to use a year to make up for the regrets of Real Madrid fans in the past three years.

This slogan immediately ignited the passion of Real Madrid fans, and all Real Madrid fans were extremely excited to wait for the superstar to join.

The first to come to the team was Kaka from AC Milan. This Brazilian superstar who rejected Manchester City half a year ago finally left AC Milan and joined Real Madrid. This also confirmed everyone's suspicion half a year ago, that is, one of the important reasons why Kaka rejected Manchester City was that Florentino was determined to return to Real Madrid.

At the same time, Florentino personally called Peter Kenyon and Ye Qiu to inquire about the transfer of three players in Tottenham Hotspur, Ribery, Fabregas and Thiago Silva.

The three players are important components of Tottenham Hotspur's front, midfield and back lines. After deciding to let Messi go, Ye Qiu refused to let Ribery go, and Fabregas is also an important member of the team. Tottenham Hotspur has made it clear that it will not sell, and Fabregas himself is unwilling to join Real Madrid.

As for Thiago Silva, Ye Qiu made it clear that the captain of Tottenham Hotspur is not for sale.

It took a lot of effort to train Thiago Silva, who was the most stable central defender in the Premier League and even European football last season. If he is sold like this, won't Tottenham Hotspur's defense line experience turmoil again?

Florentino is also a decisive person. After clearly understanding Ye Qiu's intention, he did not dwell on it too much. After all, being neat and tidy is his usual style. And perhaps considering the importance of Thiago Silva and Fabregas, and Ribery's performance after returning from injury was not very good, Florentino did not dwell too much on the issues of these three players.

This is also the reason why other European teams like to do business with Florentino. He is very straightforward. If he likes your players, he will talk to you directly instead of contacting the players privately. He always believes that transactions must be consensual, and this secret poaching method is always somewhat inconsistent with his image of Real Madrid.

But giving up Ribery and Fabregas does not mean that Florentino is not interested in others. He began to turn his attention to the other two players and soon offered Peter Kenyon a price that Tottenham could not refuse.