Chapter 275 Export of room temperature superconductors
“Nio is certainly short of people. Many of our engineers have been poached by Tesla. In terms of conditions, the gap between us and Tesla is not significant. Big.
Considering the price gap between China and America, I think our salary even has an advantage.
But some engineers still choose to leave, especially some with very high qualifications. Engineers with rich experience.”
The founder of Weilai openly recruited engineers on Douyin live broadcast, and posted the recruitment positions directly on the small yellow cart in the live broadcast room.
Netizens from all over the country are also eye-opening.
America and other developed countries absorb immigrants from China and significantly lower the threshold.
Everyone knows this. After all, in the second half of last year, both Guangjia Aerospace and Tesla were recruiting in Shanghai, and it was promoted by Chinese self-media.
It is said that the technology giants between China and America are competing to see who can attract top talents more.
After the recruitment, some media tried their best to speculate on the number of resumes received by both parties, the proportion of applications and other data, and tried every means to compare the winners and losers in the middle.
The rabbits want to get evidence that Dongda has lost money. You see, the leading companies of Lao Zhong are more attractive. The friends of God naturally hope to get the opposite conclusion.
However, the reality is that gods are fighting, and the companies in the middle group suffer.
Both Guangjia Aerospace and Tesla have recruited satisfactory talents.
Domestic new energy vehicle companies, especially those like Wei Xiaoli, are well-known, somewhat famous, and somewhat scaled, but domestic new energy vehicle competition is still fierce.
Compared with Tesla, which has a near-monopoly, top talents are naturally more willing to jump to Tesla. This is Tesla going to the Texas headquarters, not working as a front line at Tesla’s Shenhai factory. Worker.
“It’s not that Weilai has opened too few”
“Don’t treat talented people as fools!”
“It’s useless to paint cakes, people nowadays don’t accept this”
"Brother Bin, if you get the same treatment as Tesla, they will definitely not leave."
"Are all domestic new energy car companies facing a talent winter?"
There are many people watching the live broadcast.
Judging from the public image displayed on Douyin, the founder of NIO is very open-minded and candid.
The audience doesn’t know who he is in private, but at least in terms of public image, he is much ahead of other founders.
Xpeng is too dull and too idealistic. The image of the founder of NIO is the most popular in the public opinion space.
Coupled with the fact that new energy vehicle companies started open recruitment in the spring of this year, they seemed to be suffering from talent anxiety. The audience thought that since last year, they have been recruiting Chinese engineers from abroad.
This is a rare opportunity to learn about the actual situation from front-line corporate executives.
The more he answers, the more people will come in to watch the excitement, and the higher the probability that the entire live broadcast room will be pushed.
This is a forward cycle process.
“We are definitely trying our best to retain them. Weilai’s salary in new energy car companies is definitely high.
But after all, the average GDP, prices and living standards between China and America There is a gap in cost, and it is impossible for us to give these engineers the same treatment as Tesla.
It’s not that Weilai can’t afford it, but that if we provide this treatment, the entire salary system will have to be adjusted, and the salary of self-driving algorithm engineers will be increased.
What about other algorithm engineers, like nomi’s algorithm engineers? Do they need to improve? Do system development engineers need to improve?
The salaries of engineers who develop software have been increased, but what about hardware equipment? Chassis tuning, motor development, etc., are these people going to follow the general rise?
This is very complicated, and it has to match the salary of Tesla headquarters in Texas. This cost is something NIO cannot afford for the time being. ”
“It’s not Dezhou, Shandong, it’s Dezhou, America.” "Li Bin has a smile on his face and is very good at picking up on the memes thrown by netizens.
"Of course, last year's liberalization of immigration strategies in countries like Amerikan and Neon had some impact on us."
As he was talking, he found a warning on the platform.
He immediately realized that he had said the wrong thing.
This is essentially due to the fact that at the macro level, the chances of winning are getting bigger and bigger. For individuals who have not taken advantage of the industry dividends, the sense of life has not improved.
That is to say, talking about the country’s prospects is full of confidence, but talking about personal prospects is full of pessimism.
Although Li Bin did not discuss these topics in the live broadcast, you did discuss foreign immigration policies in a liberal manner.
This caused the barrage atmosphere in the entire live broadcast room to change.
He quickly added: "These impacts are very small.
Most people are still unwilling to leave the motherland. After all, the country has developed so well, and domestic life and all aspects require It’s more convenient.
There are still problems in adapting to going out, so most people still choose to stay in China.
Only a small number of people are willing to go out. ”
This change of expression and the abrupt turn in the words were caught by the netizens watching the live broadcast, and the barrage went faster.
Fortunately, he was in charge of the live broadcast. The subordinates were alert enough, or had rich experience, to immediately set up blocking words and blocked some sensitive words.
“We are facing more internal competitors now.
If you think about it, manufacturers such as Baidu, Alibaba and Didi have begun to build cars and increase investment in the field of driverless driving. The impact of their poaching of people will also be huge.
Guangshen and Musk also build cars, and they are also poaching some engineers.
In addition, considering that the development of rocket launch technology has achieved a leap in just two years, the cost of rocket launch has been greatly reduced.
In the past, we would not have considered using optical satellites to enhance autonomous driving algorithms.
Because the cost of doing so was too high, only Geely chose that technical route.
It is certainly good to use optical satellites to enhance autonomous driving. With more data, your model will be more accurate and the algorithm will be more intelligent.
Now that Baidu has begun to roll up this track, we have to follow suit.
Just like why Tesla insisted on the autopilot algorithm route of cameras in the first place, it was because lidar was expensive at that time. At that time, a lidar cost more than 10,000 US dollars.
In order to reduce costs, visual autonomous driving algorithms are the most economical route.
If lidar only costs two hundred dollars at that time, do you think Tesla will choose this technical route?
In 2014, the state issued a document stating that it would encourage private capital to develop, launch and operate commercial remote sensing satellites and provide market-oriented and professional services. At that time, autonomous driving was already a very mature concept. Why didn't everyone do it at that time? Because the cost was high. Now the cost has been reduced by Guangjia Aerospace to less than 10,000 US dollars. To launch a single satellite, the launch and satellite are packaged together for 10,000 US dollars.
With such a low price, of course everyone wants to build a network.
Didn’t you watch the news? Some companies plan to build domestic Starlink. Now that they are talking about it, China Telecom and China Mobile have expressed their intention to build domestic Starlink.
Because it has a head start, aerospace is actually a very promising industry. In the past, the cost was too high and it was a project that only a few companies could afford.
At this cost, you will see many interesting applications.
Are we hiring satellite engineers? Of course we are recruiting, the link in the lower right corner is our recruitment position this time.
However, we recruit experienced people first, and fresh graduates second.
I have worked at Guangjia Aerospace for two years. I am engaged in satellite-related research. Can I work at NIO? Of course, welcome, very welcome.
There should be no domestic company that wants to do autonomous driving that would not welcome engineers with a background in Guangjia Aerospace.
Guangjia Aerospace is coming, I will interview him directly. I interviewed in person, sent my resume, and interviewed in person.
There is no need to worry about non-compete agreements, NIO will help you pay liquidated damages.
One thing that may be a bit embarrassing is that because NIO also cooperates with Guangjia Aerospace, the talents we recruit in the aerospace field will first go to Guangjia Aerospace to work and study for about half a year.
We are about to sign a strategic cooperation agreement, which is part of the strategic cooperation agreement.
You may need to adapt mentally after joining NIO from Guangjia Aerospace and then going back to work. ”
Don’t think that entrepreneurs like Li Bin won’t personally interview ordinary engineers.
Like NetEase's Ding Lei, even after NetEase went public, he had to personally review all company internal procurement approvals that cost more than 10,000 yuan.
At that time, a reporter from NetEase News wanted to buy a camera worth more than 10,000 yuan. When the process came to Ding Lei, he refused. The general meaning was that buying 5,000 to 6,000 yuan was enough, why should he buy more than 10,000 yuan? of.
For founders of startups in their prime, it is normal for key candidates for key positions to be interviewed in person.
Mr. Lei will naturally not miss this craze of live broadcasting in person.
No boss of a new energy vehicle company understands traffic flow better than Mr. Lei.
"We are also recruiting people, and Xiaomi is also going to build its own satellite network.
Our recruitment news has been posted. We recruit people with one principle: engineers with sufficient experience.
The treatment provided by Xiaomi is definitely good enough.”
To be honest, Xiaomi’s employees are somewhat arrogant. Xiaomi’s employees jumped to other companies after leaving Xiaomi, and it was not even easy for other companies to pay them. It was too low before.
So much so that netizens joked that from Mi Fan to Mi Hei, it only takes a few years of working at Xiaomi to quickly complete such a transformation.
However, Xiaomi cars are much better than Xiaomi mobile phones. After all, everyone is interested in it, and you can’t recruit people unless you offer high wages.
“Essentially speaking, from L3 to L4, without fundamental changes in computing power, optical satellite networking is the fastest way to achieve a breakthrough.
The accuracy of current high-definition maps is at the meter level, while the accuracy of real-time maps captured by satellites can reach the centimeter level.
Considering the anti-interference capabilities in daily driving scenarios, there are still many optimizations and trade-offs in software and hardware. The worse the anti-interference ability, the higher the misjudgment rate of autonomous driving.
Satellites that monitor the ground in real time can obtain the most realistic source data to avoid autonomous driving algorithms from making wrong decisions.
In the past, people didn’t do this because of cost, but now everyone does it because of cost considerations. ”
Domestic new energy car companies are all interested in autonomous driving, and foreign car companies also want to be involved.
Whether it is Tesla or the traditional Honda Toyota Volkswagen, everyone wants to be involved.
But now everyone is facing the same problem, that is, security issues.
Autonomous driving is great, but it also means that after the background is breached, hackers can make autonomous driving possible. The car breaks down.
Considering that China has achieved a breakthrough in quantum computers, quantum computers can be used to crack encryption systems.
As a result, even if these car companies want to promote driverless driving, they dare not be as radical as China.
Musk made two trips to China in the second half of last year, trying to persuade China to open up the export of key materials.
Tesla is the most radical company in the field of autonomous driving among foreign car companies. On foreign video websites, car owners let Tesla drive autonomously and then do their own things.
When autonomous driving in China was still in its infancy, videos like this from Tesla were already everywhere.
As a result, China has now begun to roll out the next level of autonomous driving. Tesla believes that its technology has arrived, but safety cannot be guaranteed.
Whether it is the United States, Neon, or Germany, they hope that China will open up the export of not the Vast-I quantum computer, but the export of room-temperature superconductors.
Because of quantum computers, they are afraid that you have some backend, just like Huawei's communication equipment. Even if your reputation is good enough, they are not worried. After all, this is what Lao America’s own communication equipment companies do.
They want you to directly export the raw materials for room temperature superconducting, and they will build their own quantum computers.
At the G7 summit that ended not long ago, these countries finally lowered their tone and no longer talked about letting China open up its technology, but instead let China export room-temperature superconductors.
After all, compared with assisted driving, autonomous driving has brought too much bonus to the automobile industry.
If they don’t develop autonomous driving, they will wait for the market to be taken away by Chinese car companies.
In order to protect their own automobile industries, the United States and its allies can restrict them from selling to developed countries, but there is no way to restrict them from selling to the vast number of countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Wuling Hongguang and BYD are ready to push the price of self-driving new energy to US$10,000. If you want the latest perovskite battery, then add another US$2,000 to Liangda and Volkswagen. How to live?
At this point in time when various car companies in China began to launch satellites, they really couldn’t sit still.
"Yuanguang, we invite you here this time because we want to listen to your suggestions."
Chen Yuanguang came to Yanjing to attend the Academician Conference, and the core agency in charge of economics invited Chen Yuanguang to attend their internal closed-door meeting symposium.
Big bosses in charge of the economic and security fields were present, and everyone wanted to hear his opinions.
“The current situation is this. American and Neon said that if China does not liberalize the export of room temperature superconductors, they will restrict cooperation between companies related to the global semiconductor supply chain and China.
Companies like Nikon, Zeiss, Tokyo Electric, etc. will stop cooperating with us. ”
This is collective will.
Neon is behind Nikon, and Germany is behind Zeiss. The automobile industry is the lifeblood of these two countries, and semiconductors are expendable compared to the lifeblood.
(End of this chapter)