Chapter 225 Commercial Aerospace Highland
“What does Mr. Samad plan to use Alpha Technology for?”
This is a question that the entire Malaysian upper class is curious about. They have huge amounts of money in their hands to do artificial intelligence. , which is somewhat unconvincing.
Malaysia is regarded as a data center by various technology giants for many reasons, including cheap and stable water and electricity and a superior geographical location.
But no technology giant really believes that Malaysia can become the center of the artificial intelligence industry, and no one puts its R&D center in Malaysia.
Technology giants in Silicon Valley will choose the Lion City, Shenhai, or even Mumbai to build R&D centers, but they will not choose Kuala Lumpur, let alone Johor Bahru.
Malaysia’s talent pool and attraction to talents are far inferior to that of the Lion City, which is only adjacent to a shallow strait.
Alfa Technology wants to do artificial intelligence and do things that even Silicon Valley giants cannot do. Everyone thinks this is too unrealistic.
Then the true business direction of Samad or Alpha Technology is particularly important. In Amina's view, this will be her asset in the future, and the business direction is related to development prospects and the speed of asset appreciation.
Of course, Amina's question also has another meaning, that is, whether Samad is Oraz.
Oraz smiled bitterly and said: "Princess Amina, I will have the same question, what direction is Alpha Technology going in.
However, I think there is no one in the world except Mr. Samad. Others know.
Out of trust in Mr. Samad, I believe he will lead Alpha Technology to a glorious future.
Princess, I have only joined Alpha Technology for less than half a year. I almost witnessed with my own eyes the process of Alpha Technology going from unknown to world famous.
I also witnessed that Mr. Samad sold the quantum computer purchased for RMB 500 million to Goldman Sachs at a 30 times premium.
Not to mention Mr. Samad’s record on BTC, I just want to remind you that Mr. Samad has never failed. ”
If Chen Yuanguang could hear this conversation, he would feel that being forced to sell the shares to Amina this time was a failure.
But this is also a last resort, since he has chosen to quickly After completing the accumulation of primitive wealth, you will inevitably be targeted by interested people and make some exchanges of interests.
This world has always been like this. Wealth and power cannot be completely separated. Wealth can bring power, and power can also be restricted. Fortune.
After hearing this, Amina nodded silently, a thoughtful look flashed across her thin face: "I understand, I will protect Alpha Technology's development in Johor.
Help me convey my greetings to Mr. Samad, and also convey to Mr. Samad my desire to meet him. ”
After Alpha Technology was “collected”, the goods were quickly recovered. The pawns who did this were caught and those who were fired were fired.
< br>That’s all.
For Alpha Technology, it has ushered in a short and quiet period of development.
Data from Alpha Technology’s Nusajaya campus. The center has the combined computing power purchased by the four Silicon Valley technology giants Microsoft, META, Oracle and Amazon in Nvidia in 2023.
This is an exaggerated number, enough for Chen Yuanguang to establish Alpha, an artificial intelligence with generational advantages.
“Is there really no way we can proceed with our orbital reef program?” asked George, Blue Origin’s head of engineering.
“The damn orbital reef has cost us more than 2 billion US dollars, and it hasn’t even seen its prototype.
Don’t say that the boss is impatient, we are impatient too.
It will cost at least another 2 billion US dollars. This price is enough for us to customize a complete module from Guangjia Aerospace without worrying about the risk of failure," said Abrams, who is also blue. An employee of Origin, he is the head of the commercial department.
"No, Ram, Guangjia Aerospace and the French Space Agency claimed that it was US$5 billion." George said.
“But the French media has already exposed that the Chinese only charge them $2 billion for this project,” Abrams said.
“The French media may be putting up smoke bombs. A complete cabin section can be purchased for US$2 billion. Even for Wright, I don’t believe they can offer such a low price.”
This price is almost the same as the starting cost of Blue Origin’s “Orbital Reef” space station.
They are just a low-altitude orbiting space station.
"Besides, the reason why our progress is much slower than expected is because Boeing always has problems with the space capsule design and node module design, which seriously leads to the lag in the entire progress." George said
Orbital Reef is a joint project of multiple companies, including Blue Origin, Sierra Space, Boeing and RedwireSpace.
So at this time, the best way is to pass the blame to the allies.
And there is nothing wrong with what George said, Boeing should indeed spray.
Boeing can’t even do its main business well, suffering losses year after year, and its core business of delivering passenger aircraft is not good enough. The customer acceptance rate of Boeing’s passenger aircraft after delivery in recent years is less than 30%. It is precisely because of this that it has led to Their losses continued year after year.
Also affected by the virus epidemic, Airbus has stepped out early and made a lot of money, but Boeing has suffered huge losses. It is trying to move back to commercial aerospace, and its manned spacecraft has been repeatedly delayed.
We can’t even do our main business well, let alone projects like the space station.
“George, Boeing is not the reason why all our projects have to be delayed.
The delay of the orbital reef can leave the responsibility to Boeing, but the New Glenn rocket was always developed independently by us, right? It was supposed to be launched at the end of 2021, but it’s already 2025. Why hasn’t it been launched yet?
This has been delayed for four years.
I will apply with Bezos. Not only do we need to cooperate with the Chinese on the space station, but we also need to cooperate with the Chinese on our recyclable rockets.
Buying products and technology from China is far cheaper than operating it ourselves.
NASA will not purchase space cargo transportation services from Guangjia Aerospace, but it will purchase them from us.
If possible, I think the lunar lander project can be left to the Chinese.
By operating this way, we can turn losses into profits within three years, instead of constantly facing failures like now.
Technical delays are a problem for most companies, but at Blue Origin, the severity and scale of the problem is mind-boggling.
I think Bezos would be interested in cooperating with the Chinese. "
"If we let the Chinese do everything for us, then there is no need for our engineering department to exist. "George said.
He knows that once the other party and Besosti, Bezos will most likely agree.
For Bezos, catching up with SpaceX is his goal. As for the method, it doesn't matter.
George secretly scolded the French media: If you hadn't reported about the $2 billion order, they wouldn't have thought of cooperating with Guangjia Aerospace.
The cooperation between the French Space Agency and Guangjia Space around the space station was announced to be US$5 billion, but recently the French media broke the news, which roughly means that it only spent US$2 billion to buy a complete space station module. part.
This kind of news not only made Blue Origin start to focus on light armor aerospace, but also made Neon people from all walks of life break their defenses. They just built a laboratory module on the International Space Station. over US$4 billion.
This was US$4 billion twenty years ago, but it is worth much more than it is now. But France only needs 2 billion, and anyone else will have to break the defense.
Neon has widely questioned whether there is serious corruption among officials and scientists at the spaceport, resulting in costs far exceeding those of their Chinese counterparts.
Abrams said: "It doesn't matter. I think Blue Origin's top engineers have long been tired of putting Band-Aids on problems.
Cooperation with the Chinese can Let's do something more meaningful
If it were possible to jointly develop with Light Armor Aerospace instead of jointly developing with damn Boeing, I think our engineers would learn a lot and it would be more enjoyable. . ”
The French media’s revelations have brought a large number of potential cooperation intentions to Guangjia Aerospace.
The rise of Guangjia Aerospace is not just as simple as the rise of an enterprise, but also represents the rise of China's commercial aerospace industry.
In the past two years, the entire Guangjia Aerospace has driven an upstream and downstream output value of more than 50 billion RMB.
China's commercial aerospace industry is experiencing unprecedented prosperity, giving rise to a number of small but beautiful start-up companies.
Everyone has various connections with Guangjia Aerospace. They are basically suppliers, or suppliers of suppliers.
But this is still the rapid rise of the entire Chinese commercial aerospace industry.
Therefore, this year’s 10th Commercial Aerospace Summit Forum held in China is different from previous years when only government and business representatives from Asia, Africa and Latin America participated. This year, many representatives from developed countries came.
"Mr. Lin, say hello to Dr. Wright for me. Blue Origin hopes to launch a series of cooperation with Light Armor Aerospace like the French Space Agency." Dave Limp said.
Among them, Dave Limp, senior vice president of Blue Origin, is a typical case of companies in developed countries.
Before this position, Blue Origin only had SpaceX in its eyes, so it would not come to China to participate in any forum.
Now we have to seek cooperation with China.
In Lin Jia's eyes, Dave had four words written on his face: money comes quickly.
“Of course we are happy to cooperate with partners from all over the world.
But we have many cooperation models with France, such as technology transfer, space logistics and transportation, technology cooperation research and development, etc., I am not too sure Do you know what kind of cooperation model you are referring to?" Lin Jia asked.
Dave Limp said: "We hope to buy the recyclable rocket technology of Light Armor Aerospace.
There is no need for the second generation, only the first generation, which is what you sold to France Trailblazer One.”
Lin Jia thought for a while, and the Chinese government did not restrict the export of this technology. Because it is a generation behind, it can be sold:
"Yes, I only have two questions, the price and whether the current person in the White House allows this A deal exists.”
Dave said: “You don’t have to worry about this, just leave it to Blue Origin.
As for the price, this is a series of cooperation, and we hope to package it together. Give me a quote.
The second point is that we hope to buy a module from Guangjia Space, and like the French Space Agency, buy an entire module in the space station launched by Guangjia Space. ”
Lin Jia wondered: "The International Space Station is still in the sky.
Unlike France, which has no say in the International Space Station, NASA has said it will work. You can launch another module on the International Space Station."< br>
Lin Jia knows what the other party is talking about. Blue Origin has always wanted to do space tourism, and sending people to the International Space Station is the most lucrative project.
So Blue Origin has always wanted to build a space station or a module of its own.
Dave touched his nose helplessly, and then said: "The International Space Station will be out of service soon, and it is not cost-effective for us to add cabin sections.
We were originally going to launch a low-Earth orbit space station in the second half of 2020, which was jointly developed and launched by us, Sierra Space, Boeing and RedwireSpace.
But due to the virus epidemic and various objective reasons, the entire project was shelved.
When we restarted, we found that there were many real-life dilemmas, and Nanorac, Voyager Space Company and Lockheed Martin also had similar plans.
We hope to launch successfully before them. ”
This is the time difference. There is a big difference between the first commercial space tourism project and the second one.
Lin Jia figured it out. Among the companies Dave mentioned, the main players must be Blue Origin and Boeing, while the other companies are auxiliary. Everyone has been working on it for several years, but found that they couldn't get it right.
The cost, construction period and progress are all out of control. Suddenly a company appears on the market. It sells you a space station and helps you solve all your worries. The cost is much cheaper than building it yourself.
“There is no problem with this in principle.” Lin Jia said.
This is a product for sale, sent to heaven. Even if Amerikan wants to reverse engineer it, there is no way to do it.
Dave continued: "The last collaborative project is the lunar lander.
We hope that Guangjia Aerospace can help us design a device for lunar landing.
It must not only include engines, cryogenic fluid power propulsion systems, and electronic equipment, but also have downlink communications and precision landing capabilities.
For this last project, we hope that through joint research and development, Light Armor Aerospace will only need to provide help on some key technical difficulties. "
Lin Jia quickly knew what project the other party was talking about. Blue Origin took a large order of US$3.4 billion from NASA, which is this lunar lander.
" Moon Landers we haven't done before.
We have to conduct internal research and judgment to determine whether we have this capability.
But I think it shouldn’t be a big problem. ”
NASA originally gave the order directly to SpaceX in 2021 without public bidding. As a result, Blue Origin was very dissatisfied and directly sued NASA.
Later this project After a while, it fell back into the hands of Blue Origin.
Is Blue Origin doing whatever it takes to make a profit? Lin Jia thought.
This is the news that Lin Jia knows. What she doesn’t know is that Blue Origin is the general contractor of this project, and there are also some subcontractors, including Boeing.
Blue Origin has been frightened by Boeing in past cooperation, and delays in progress have become the new normal. This time they would rather do it all themselves and find a Chinese company to replace Boeing.
(End of this chapter)