Super God-Level Top Student
Chapter 862 - 324: Reliable or Not...

"Haha, Dou Dou sure knows a lot," Zhang Mingrui commented with a laugh.

Even though Dou Dou's theories sounded somewhat odd, there was still a sense that they made sense.

"Of course, I know much more. Making tanks might be a solution, but it's actually more of a joke. After all, the cost of transforming an industrial chain is pretty high. A factory that manufactures cars can't just immediately produce tanks at full capacity," Dou Dou explained.

"Oh? That's still the issue, then. Can you come up with a more reliable solution for us, Dou Dou?" Zhou Liang asked with interest.

"Simple, specialize the market, locate the exact needs and pain points. Take, for example, the chips used in cars nowadays. A car would require anywhere from a few thousand to tens of thousands of chips, varying from electric power, electronic control to SoC/ASIC, including storage and networks, depending on whether it's a gasoline vehicle or an electric one.

The price gap in these chips is significant. For instance, the retail price for a basic window lifting driver chip from leading international brands ranges from 50 to 90 RMB, while a similar chip produced in Huaxia can go as low as 1 RMB for two chips. There's even a bigger margin for other power chips.

On the international market, the main profits from these chips are earned by the United States. For example, a car priced around 500,000 RMB without an in-vehicle system, if fitted entirely with mainstream international chips, might require around 70,000 RMB in costs, but if it uses Huaxia-made chips of equivalent performance, the cost could be roughly just 3,000 RMB.

Especially since Huaxia has already developed many mature solutions, and even the core underlying technology can be provided as a package. So, if I were to tap into new markets, I would start with licensing technology and chips in the relatively vast Western market and operate a series of low-end joint venture brands."

Dou Dou stated each point clearly and methodically.

"What if the joint venture partner also sets restrictions? Entering someone else's market at a low price will definitely affect their interests, right?" Zhou Liang countered.

"There are many solutions. You have to understand that interests within a single community are never completely aligned. You can't treat them as one entity, especially in business, and you certainly can't treat a nation as a single entity.

Let's take another example. Suppose the most profitable industry in a country is high-end machine tools. We buy these high-end machine tools, develop our high-end industry, not only impacting other countries' high-end industrial products but also enabling that country to purchase various essential products at cheaper prices, which is naturally great for them.

Even if we don't develop high-end manufacturing, that country wouldn't live as well as they do now. That's the key point. So if I were in charge of product exports, I would start with exporting technology. I might temporarily forgo my own branding, not chase excessive profits, and even settle for just letting the supply chain make money.

Yes, if Dou Dou was in charge of this, it would be the story of a selflessly devoted businessman. I'm willing to provide the technology, save foreign partners the cost of R&D, and I would also help domestic suppliers to network and bridge, allowing foreign partners to enjoy the most cost-effective products, while also fostering substantial growth in the supply chain.

In short, I need to ensure that our foreign collaborators make a fortune, and as for me, I only need a small technology licensing fee to guarantee ongoing research on cost reduction and efficiency improvement. Anyway, I'm confident that in the end, our products will successfully reach markets everywhere," Dou Dou added.

Zhou Liang didn't feel like asking any further.

It's only to say that Dou Dou had many strategies. How to make money after capturing the market can always be thought of later.

Once you have a firm foothold, profits are bound to come. It's just a matter of whose hands the money passes through.

Manufacturing is just like that; controlling the supply chain is the true path to making money.

Most importantly, artificial intelligence truly can disregard short-term gains and losses.

"Nice idea, but how do you know that people will continue to rely on you to make money after they've earned it? What if after making money, they decide to cut you off?" Someone else asked teasingly.

"Hehe, cut me off? Sir, don't joke. If they can make money lying down, why on earth would they want to stand again? Besides, once they've taken to lying down, if there really was a way to make them stand again, then that would be Dou Dou's fault," Dou Dou responded.

Qiao Ze listened quietly to the discussions between the academicians and Dou Dou.

Then he felt somewhat bored.

To Qiao Ze, business was always about minor benefits.

In the end, monetary standards must be anchored to the control of energy resources.

In other words, scarcity has always been about resources, not money.

So controlling resources is essentially the most important thing.

It's like putting a giant space umbrella above Earth, with no other function but to completely block the Sun's light, and then dividing the Earth's land into areas, where a part of the giant umbrella retracts to allow sunlight for any area that pays up...

Hyperbole aside, if a company were started with this technology and went public on the American stock market, starting at ten trillion dollars, it would be bought up entirely by the world's financial big sharks on day one.

This is the real business of making money through high-tech, and the so-called 'Apple tax' is child's play in comparison.

But having said that, if humanity were really able to control space in the future, Qiao Ze thinks it would be more reliable to have artificial intelligence like Dou Dou in charge. Because if it was the country on the other side of the world, if they acquired this technology, they would indeed tax the sunlight.