Chapter 542 Supporting the Future (Part 1)

People often say that automation is the future. Considering efficiency, confidentiality, and rational calculations, Lille believes that there is nothing wrong with this statement.

The number of human employees in the Atlas Group has actually reached saturation. The cooperation between AI and senior researchers can easily produce a variety of flexible production robots that replace human employees. There is no significant technical difficulty in gradually replacing workers on the production line. It only takes time for engineering.

However, Lille has experienced many waves of unemployment. Some people call them technical, some people call them policy, and some people will constantly invent new words to describe them, such as "frictional adjustment", "employment transition period", "talent flow", "industrial upgrading impact", etc.

However, large-scale unemployment will bring many problems. Some people who worked honestly in the first half of their lives suddenly lost their jobs on the spot due to fluctuations in the financial market. They had no money to provide for their food, clothing, housing and transportation. In the end, they were bewitched by the gangs and became gunmen. It is even common to embrace crime.

Lille feels that facing the same situation again, he can do better-

Brain-computer interface is a very effective auxiliary learning device, and the auxiliary prosthesis controlled by the brain-computer interface is a very good advanced learning device.

Although even so, the speed of letting a person learn something is indeed much slower than directly copying and pasting a machine, but this can also prevent many "good people" from watching the world change beyond recognition and being at a loss.

Of course, this also made Lille suffer a lot of accusations-

He can already imagine that many people say that he has delayed the development window, and that this meaningless "saint" behavior may cause them to lose the "monopoly and anti-monopoly" and "war and anti-war" wars that are happening around the world.

However, Lille's attitude towards this is consistent. If you want to win the war, you have to participate, even if you are a logistics person, even if you do a good job on the production line far away from the battlefield, even if you study hard, or even use some art that seems to have no practical significance to inspire people.

There is always a group of parasites in this world who are pointing fingers and hoping that "their own people" will suddenly develop good things for them to use, win the war for them, and promote their ideas. These people are never within Lille's consideration.

That's why two big car companies came to Atlas Group with a lick of their faces: Roxon also acquired some car companies, but their plan is to further lay off employees and replace workers with fully automated production lines, so there is no need to worry about these two unlucky guys.

As the two old car companies in the country, Chrysler and General Motors still have a total of 300,000 employees after the financial crisis and layoffs, of which Chrysler only has 50,000 employees left, almost on the verge of bankruptcy.

As traditional automobile manufacturing, the two major car companies affect both upstream and downstream companies in the supply chain. Assuming that each of their positions indirectly supports 1.5 jobs, including suppliers and logistics companies, this means 450,000 jobs.

Assuming that each employee supports an average family of four people in this difficult environment, 1.8 million people will be affected.

The living standards of these people will also indirectly affect the industrial status of the service industry, agriculture and light industry. Once the collapse triggers a chain reaction.

But now, the upgraded electric vehicle manufacturing industry can absorb all production lines and also provide new employment opportunities, including software engineers, battery technology experts and data analysts, as well as corresponding industrial workers.

Because of the work experience, coupled with the help of brain-computer interface, the transformation speed is much faster than directly pulling an old black man from Africa who has not even received compulsory education for education. You know, the African Union may have some potential talents, but it has also invested heavily in the infrastructure industry with rapid development, resulting in a manpower gap.

Atlas will finance and control the two companies, and properly dispatch these personnel, and the African Union will purchase Detroit's city bonds to extend their lives. This money will be invested in the International Gene Cooperation Company to arrange brain-computer interface medical insurance for them.

The money will flow into Atlas again, and part of it will be used for infrastructure, and the rest will all be used to invest in the production of military equipment, including vehicles, prostheses and light weapons.

Just talking about saving these two companies and auto manufacturing workers, the circulating funds involved are more than 21 billion US dollars, more than twice the current debt of Detroit, and there is obviously subsequent economic growth.

This is the expansion of this round of low-end manufacturing, with a total increase of 300,000 employees, which indirectly stabilizes the lives of 1.8 million people.

"Half of Detroit will survive because of this!" The politician from Detroit's political arena was so excited that he almost cried. Sometimes he felt like a beggar.

This is the consequence of an unbalanced social ecosystem: if there is no contradiction in society, it will move forward under a unified will.

How can an entity that originally depends on contradictions live well?

Detroit bet on cars, lost diversity, and enjoyed it. Now it has indeed become a beggar. Others still have a chance to save themselves. They can't even pay the wages of city workers.

The politician grabbed Lille's hand and looked like he was about to kiss her.

"This" Lille pulled his hand away without leaving a trace and turned on the projection, "is the future production line I hope to build."

The projection will be transformed into a holographic projection through the glasses on the guests' heads, and the appearance of the future production line will be presented in all directions in the exhibition area.

Workers using brain-computer interfaces, remotely controlled production equipment and real-time AI assistance, as well as some mysterious assistive robots.

Politicians and executives from both car companies paused, looking away from Lear and toward the holographic projection.

This projection thoughtfully adds the function of clicking on something you don’t know. It is a scene display and scene teaching.

With this done, Lille headed to the next exhibition area.

Manufacturing industries are often connected, especially the automobile manufacturing industry, so the production line is not only automobile assembly, but also emerging manufacturing industries such as prosthetics and graphene batteries.

This involves another high-end manufacturing product that will generate a lot of demand——

chip.

The chip used in the brain-computer interface is a three-dimensional stacked chip designed by Lear based on the benchmark chip that he came into contact with in the cyberpunk world. On the other hand, it is a basic technology, and products with overcapacity are everywhere on the market.

But here, in 2009, the chip industry mainly refers to traditional CPU manufacturers including Samsung Electronics and Intel. They are large and basically monopolized. More importantly, they have basically joined Roxon’s military industry group. , a large amount of production capacity is supplied to military industrial companies like Stark.

But that's not the problem.

In terms of architecture, traditional CPU architecture is more suitable for sequential processing, and its application is more in line with the single-threaded thinking of human tools.

The brain-computer interface needs to process a large number of bioelectric signals. This information has nothing to do with human thinking, and its complexity is far beyond imagination. Therefore, it has given rise to three-dimensional stacking design and special ternary encoding scheme. What is needed is an ultra-multi-stream processor. multi-threaded computing chip.

And AI also has the same characteristics and is not suitable for mounting on traditional CPUs. This just bypasses the traditional CPU manufacturing field and provides a new track.

It just so happens that the companies on this track can only be regarded as small businesses at this time, and they can easily merge, acquire and reorganize related companies that have just started.

These start-up companies have no choice. If Roxon and traditional CPU companies reach the same front, they will naturally transfer orders for Cyber ​​Technology's version of brain-computer interface chips to these companies, making their living space smaller and smaller. If If they can't hold on to Lille's lap, they can only start preparing to rewrite their resumes.

Packaged mergers and acquisitions involve a total increase of 17,000 direct employees, production line changes and brain-computer interface implantation requiring an investment of US$1.6 billion. Direct mergers and acquisitions cost US$8 billion, an investment of nearly 10 billion.

Among the companies that were acquired was XMSC, the company that Lille commissioned for chip production for the first time, but the representative was no longer the former Mr. Wang.

This time, a young man came, also named Wang. However, the two of them did not have a clearly registered legal relationship. They seemed to be an unregistered adoptive father and son.

Looking at the second version of the brain-computer interface chip that Lille had perfected in the holographic projection, he acted a little depressed.

Seeing this, Lear asked: "Where is Mr. Wang?"

The young man seemed to be a little surprised when he came to his senses. After all, this was the first time Lille took the initiative to talk to someone tonight, and the conversation was not just about business.

"The plane crashed and my uncle's family all died."

Lille nodded slightly, accidents seemed to be more common among Roxon's opponents.

I checked and found out that there was also a member of the Berry National Congress on the crashed flight.

He patted the young man on the shoulder: "Do a good job."

"good."