Chapter 983 - This Is a Story

the news that lithium-air batteries and wireless charging technology were bundled together caused a storm.

especially after the us department of commerce speech, the news began to spread like wildfire.

the global energy stock market was going through a volatile time. everyone was waiting for star sky technology to respond, and they were also waiting for the us department of commerce to act on their “warning”.

however, it was almost like star sky technology was oblivious to what was going on around them because they soon released their “sh standard” according to plan.

the s stood for star sky technology, while the h stood for huawei, the owners of hisilicon.

just like the name implied, star sky technology would be the ones setting the standard, while huawei would be the ones making the receiving and transmitting chipsets.

even though these two companies weren’t directly in the charging station and electric vehicle industry, they were able to completely monopolize the charging station industry.

it was obvious that star sky technology’s practices caused an uproar in the international field, and many domestic people even began whispering about star sky technology’s unhealthy business practices and comparing them to qualcomm.

lu zhou happened to hear about these rumors on weibo, but he didn’t think there was anything wrong with what chen yushan was doing.

this was nothing more than capitalism.

survival of the fittest.

if they didn’t take the initiative, tesla and other traditional automobile manufacturers would have reached a cooperation agreement, thus pushing out the beep beep charging and other chinese companies...

the second weekend in may.

inside the space shuttle assembly center, eight large mechanical arms unloaded a pile of circular equipment from a logistics vehicle. by using precise positional cameras, all of the equipment was unpacked in a spacecraft special container.

this was the ilhcrc cargo, and it would be sent to the moon in three days.

a month ago, the lunar tunnel boring machine, which was jointly produced by china railway group and china aerospace science and industry corporation, was sent to the moon palace via the magpie bridge. this equipment was deployed on the lunar hadron collider site.

after a month of construction, with the help of lunar construction personnel, this tunnel boring machine had successfully bored through a collider pipeline, lining the pipeline with titanium alloy material.

after the new supplies arrived at the surface of the moon, the first stage of the ilhcrc would be complete.

even though this track was only a hundred meters long, they were making progress one step at a time...

lu zhou was standing beside the space shuttle assembly center console. he looked at the mechanical arms and couldn’t help but exclaim, “this quantum computer is amazing!”

ever since the assembly center autonomy system was connected to the jinling institute for advanced study server, the quantum computer had fully taken over the automation calculation of the space shuttle assembly center.

in fact, they didn’t need anyone inside the assembly center. other than handling new deliveries, everything else was done by automated machines.

a string of text appeared on the console in front of lu zhou.

xiao ai: [master, a quantum computer is useless without an artificial intelligence operator. ( ́◔‸◔ ‘)]

lu zhou said, “okay, you’re amazing as well.”

xiao ai: [haha, thank you, master.]

lu zhou looked at xiao ai and sighed.

this silly thing.

it’s still far from having a normal iq.

the string of bubbles disappeared.

lu zhou guessed that xiao ai saw someone in the security cameras, so he turned around. he saw an acquaintance walking through the factory door.

“director li?” lu zhou smiled at the old man and said, “what brings you here?”

director li: “i heard the first batch of ilhcrc piping equipment is complete. i can’t just leave you alone like this, so i came for a visit.”

“just to ask about the ilhcrc? i don’t buy it.”

“ah, you got me.” director li smiled and put on a serious face. “i didn’t come here for the collider, i just wanted to ask, what is going on with you?”

lu zhou: “about what?”

“don’t play dumb. about the patents, the sh standard. it looks like the united states department of commerce has its eyes on you.”

lu zhou shrugged and said, “people are angry for no reason. we’re just thinking of the consumer’s perspective, that’s why we bundled wireless charging and lithium-air batteries together.”

director li frowned and said, “i’m actually curious, why did you bundle the two patents together? what’s wrong with putting them separately?”

lu zhou casually spoke.

“whether it’s beep beep charging or someone else, the new generation of wireless charging technology uses cp7724 chips designed by hisilicon. this system is completely different from the prevailing standards such as qi and a4wp.

“however, regardless of what our new system does, there is a fatal weakness, which is that it’s difficult to promote. it doesn’t matter if the technology itself is good, just like how inpofi technology is superior to qi technology. at the end of the day, inpofi still lost to the qi market standard. this is only because apple chose qi, do you get what i’m saying?”

when a new technology wasn’t revolutionary, the market would often take a long time to adjust and accept the new technology.

the emergence of inpofi technology undoubtedly threatened the qi wireless charging standard, but they were isolated by the downstream manufacturers of the industrial chain.

the end result was obvious. even though they had low electromagnetic radiation and high power conversion efficiency, they still lost to qi.

after hearing lu zhou’s words, director li nodded thoughtfully.

“i understand what you mean... you guys are planning to use lithium-air batteries to force others to accept your standards.”

“we’re not forcing anyone to use lithium-air batteries.” lu zhou laughed and said, “also, why should we adhere to other people’s standards, we can walk our own path...”

lu zhou didn’t think of these words on his own; he didn’t really care about business matters.

however, chen yushan often used this kind of business talk with him, so he borrowed these words from her.

“i didn’t think you had the foresight to consider this...” director li nodded and said, “but tesla and the americans are not going to give up.”

“i’m not worried about tesla.” lu zhou said, “honestly, tesla is the least of my worries, there are others who we have offended a lot more than tesla.”

director li frowned and said, “who did you piss off?”

“exxonmobil.”

lu zhou had a nostalgic look in his eyes.

this would be the perfect time to smoke a cigarette, but lu zhou couldn’t stand the hot air suffocating his lungs.

“thank god i’m back in china. if i were still in princeton, you would have to find me six feet under the ground.”

“exxonmobil is an oil company, right?” director li said, “how did you offend them?”

director li wasn’t worried about exxonmobil; after all, they were on chinese soil, and exxonmobil had no power here.

but what he didn’t understand, was what star sky technology had to do with an oil company?

even though the electric vehicle sector impacted the oil giants, this was nothing in comparison to the rise of nuclear fusion energy, and it wasn’t like the oil prices were dropping significantly...

“it’s not oil, they also do chemicals. it’s a long story.”

director li said, “then tell me, we have time.”

“then we’ll have to go back to six years ago... or five years ago.” lu zhou looked at the mechanical robot arm and said, “this is a story about a whistleblower...”