The first day that Beep Beep Charging went online, it became a hot topic.
Lithium-air batteries were connected to wireless charging, and the alternative energy industry was entering the realm of "science fiction". Even though not everyone was driving alternative energy vehicles, most people were undoubtedly curious about this new technology.
Regardless of how much of it was true, all kinds of rumors had spread throughout WeChat moments.
With the arrival of the Labor Day Golden Week, the popularity of Beep Beep Charging reached a new peak!
Even the car owners who drove traditional fuel cars expressed a strong interest in this strange new thing. Some people who liked to join in the fun even signed up for a membership, scanned the QR code, and parked their car just to clock in and take pictures to post on their social media.
Anyway, it didn't cost a lot of money.
This was a very successful marketing campaign. Neither Yida Plaza nor Li Tinghui expected that the name "Lithium-air battery + wireless charging", combined with Star Sky Technology, would cause such a stir. Even the number of customers at Yida Plaza on the first day of the Labor Day Golden Week went up.
Looking at the soaring number of user registrations, the stone hanging in his heart finally fell to the ground.
It didn't matter if the follow-up plan would be as smooth as this.
At least this time, they were successful!
Actually, wireless charging wasn't some kind of dark technology.
Although this area started relatively late in China, in fact, in the international scope, related technology research and development has long been invested in the relevant technology, and has even achieved certain results.
For example, when Audi was developing alternative energy vehicles, they designed a set of solutions to the problem of efficiency loss during the transmission process. This solution used a wireless charging system that allowed the transmitter coil at the end of the cable to be closer to the receiver coil at the bottom of the electric vehicle, thus improving the power transmission efficiency.
Going back even further, it could be traced back to 14 years ago, when the Southern Dynasty planned to lay a 12-kilometer "wireless charging road". When a vehicle drove on this road, it could be charged while driving. Of course, due to the high cost and difficulty in maintenance, the technology was only able to reach 12 kilometers and was not successfully popularized.
According to Beep Beep Charging's BP, Beep Beep Charging's wireless charging business would adopt a three-step strategy. The first step would be to occupy more than 80% of large and medium -sized shopping malls and residential parking lots in Shanghai. The second step would be to promote the business to the entire Yangtze River Delta city group.
As for the third step, it was naturally the ultimate form of the technology — even if it was on the road, it could still charge the car at any time. Which was to let wireless charging technology cover more than 50% of the road network in the core area of the Yangtze River Delta city group.
Of course, they had to take it one step at a time. This was only the first stage of the plan.
But even so, the strength displayed by this startup with an angel round of funding of less than 10 million was quite frightening …
Jinling Institute for Advanced Study.
Carbon-based semiconductor laboratory.
A group of staff members in white coats were busy working in front of an experimental equipment that took up a lot of space.
After several months of hard work, with the cooperation of Shenyang Machine Tools, Baosheng Group, and Huawei HiSilicon, this giant "chemical deposition + etching" machine was completed.
This equipment was like the "lithography machine" in the field of carbon-based semiconductors. It could process raw materials that had undergone preliminary treatment and "grow" the carbon nanotransistors directly onto the double-layer graphene material.
A few months ago, the carbon-based semiconductor laboratory could only produce a "manual sample" with a process size of 150nm and an integration ratio of 300,000 per square millimeter. But now, this laboratory could reduce the process size to 80nm, and the integration ratio had increased by an order of magnitude.
If it weren't for electronic products such as phones and computers that required high processor performance, a carbon-based chip with a process of 80nm and 300,000 carbon transistors per square millimeter would actually have a lot of value.
The higher the chip's integration, the better, but not all fields were so demanding for high technology.
For example, surveillance, routers …
Of course, this semiconductor laboratory wasn't developing a monitor or router chip. It didn't even have anything to do with the "Dragon" series of chips. Instead, it had something to do with the recently hotly discussed wireless charging technology.
At this moment, there was a soft sound of gas being released. The researchers around the experimental equipment all exclaimed in surprise.
Professor Wu Tianqun looked at the data displayed on the computer and had a look of ecstasy on his face.
"… It's done!"
Lu Zhou, who was standing next to him, quickly spoke.
"It's been successful?"
"Yeah!" Professor Wu Tianqun nodded and said, "It's been very successful, it couldn't have been more successful! I'll show it to you later, you'll know! "
Lu Zhou didn't have to wait for long.
Soon after, a thumbnail-sized chip was taken out of the equipment.
Lu Zhou looked at the chip stored in a bottle-shaped glass cover. He had a look of shock and relief on his face.
This was the second finished chip developed by the carbon-based semiconductor laboratory.
The first chip was used on a scientific calculator; it didn't have any special technical content. This one, on the other hand, was used in the wireless charging receiver and transmitter equipment. The technical content was quite high.
As everyone knew, wireless charging technology could be divided into two parts: receiving and transmitting. If the functional components of the receiving and transmitting terminal were further subdivided, it could be divided into chips, coil modules, magnetic materials, scheme design, system integration, and so on.
Coil modules, magnetic materials, and so on were not considered high-tech, and there were not many patent barriers that could not be avoided. However, the chip was different.
Almost all of the technical barriers were in the receiver and system integration design link, which accounted for 30% of the total profits of the wireless charging industry.
Currently, the main customers of these technologies were mobile phones. However, with the continuous advancement of alternative energy technology, alternative energy vehicles were also being developed.
In fact, other than developing their own chips, Beep Beep Charging had other international chip suppliers that they could choose from. In fact, the chips installed on the first batch of charging station equipment were produced by international chip suppliers.
However, since they had already made carbon-based chips, HiSilicon, which was a shareholder of Star Sky Technology, had switched from a "pure R&D + OEM" model to a "semi-R&D + self-production" model, it would be a waste not to take advantage of this.
Even though they were using the chips they bought, they would have to replace them when the time was right.
Professor Wu Tianqun looked at the chip in Lu Zhou's hand and was as excited as a father. He couldn't stop talking.
"After two months of work, we've finally made it. We have to give this thing a nicer name!"
Actually, when Professor Wu said this, he didn't plan on asking for Lu Zhou's opinion. He was just too excited.
However, he didn't expect Lu Zhou to think about it. Lu Zhou thought it made sense, so he began to think about it.
A better name?
It was a little difficult …
Professor Wu Tianqun lowered his head and thought for a long time. Just as he was about to take the chip sample away and store it in the warehouse, Lu Zhou suddenly raised his head and spoke.
"Let's call it … BB System."
Wu Tianqun: "…?"
All the researchers: "…???"
Lu Zhou: "?"
One person looked at a group of people.
The atmosphere became awkward for a few seconds.
Lu Zhou, who was being stared at by so many people, was also confused. He didn't know why these research dogs were looking at him like this.
Emmmm …
What's wrong with the name?
Professor Wu Tianqun broke the silence in the laboratory and spoke. Lu Zhou was a little embarrassed by the atmosphere and was thinking about changing the name.
"This … this name definitely won't do. First of all, let's not talk about whether it sounds good or not. Our project is not that Beep Beep Charging. Even if it's to avoid any misunderstandings, we can't mix it up with them!"
"… Professor Wu, you're right." Seeing that so many people objected, Lu Zhou gave up on this naming opportunity. He looked at Wu Tianqun and said, "Then what do you think we should call it?"
Wu Tianqun spoke in a decisive manner.
"Thunder God!"
"Thunder God?"
"Yeah!" Wu Tianqun nodded. It was as if he was on drugs. He said in high spirits, "Shocking the world with a single brilliant feat! Since our chip is going to go global and shock the world, we can't just give it a random name! "
"Makes sense." Lu Zhou thought for a bit. Even though he didn't think this name was much better, he still reluctantly nodded and said, "Then we'll go with what you say!"
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