In the end, Chu Yi took over the order for this 500,000 special chips.

Although Ruikang actually paid for the money to buy chips directly from China Resources Microelectronics, the risks were still on Ruikang, and China Resources only needed to produce and deliver them as needed.

But as long as China Resources participates in the production of functional chips, it will be pulled onto the giant ship of Ruikang.

Even though Chu Yi is not confident about Ruikang's home personal assistant project now, the risk has nothing to do with China Resources. Regardless of whether Ruikang can develop it or not, the contract they signed is just a supply contract.

Within two years, China Resources supplied them with 500,000 cooking chips in accordance with Ruikang's chip design requirements, and handed them in one hand.

As for whether Ruikang's home personal assistant can be launched on time and whether the performance can meet the expected targets, it has nothing to do with China Resources.

Even if Ruikang did not develop a private assistant for household use in the end, the 500,000 chips still had to pay for it.

However, this may be obviously very small. Chen Changan is very confident that he will develop a mature home personal assistant to launch it into the market within two years, so he is not worried that these 500,000 functional chips will be smashed into his hands.

What you need to worry about should be China Resources Microelectronics.

Once the home personal assistant is launched, these 500,000 cooking chips will probably be sold out in no time. Ruikang will definitely have to add orders at that time. If China Resources' production capacity is not enough, it will probably become a worry of happiness.

Of course, it's not just China Resources Microelectronics.

In addition to Mo Shihong's team, Yu Cheng sent a total of five negotiating teams to negotiate with relatively excellent chip design companies in China.

We contacted more than a dozen chip design and manufacturing companies in advance and later, and finally reached a cooperation with eight companies, including China Resources Microelectronics.

Unfortunately, these eight companies chose to sign supply contracts with Ruikang instead of cooperating with the development of chips and selling them themselves.

Compared to supplying chips to Ruikang, selling chips by yourself can obviously make more money and be more autonomous.

But relatively speaking, the risks will be greater. Without Ruikang's order guarantee, if a company does not develop it on time with a personal assistant, or its performance does not meet expectations, the functional chips they have spent one or two years to develop will be wasted, and at least one or two million will be lost.

No company is willing to bear this risk, and their relationship with Ruikang is not so good that they are willing to blindly believe that Ruikang will definitely be a home personal assistant with strong artificial intelligence.

Although Ruikang first came up with a cooperation plan and wanted to give more concessions to these chip companies, there were almost no one willing to participate in this big bet and adventure.

After they all refused the cooperation plan, Ruikang's negotiators came up with a second plan, which is a supply contract directly purchased by Ruikang.

This is not that Ruikang wants to exploit them, but they really don’t dare to take this risk to accompany Ruikang to eat crabs. If they regret it in the future, there will be no place to say that they will go.

This supply contract has actually aroused very high enthusiasm, and several chip design companies signed this supply contract without much hesitation.

For them, the safest choice is naturally to sign a supply contract with Ruikang. Although you will make less money, it is at least safe. With Ruikang's guarantee, as long as you produce according to the contract, Ruikang cannot refuse it. With a contract in hand, you will not be afraid even if you sue.

They don’t have to worry about whether Ruikang can develop a home-use personal assistant, whether it can be sold well, and whether the functional chips will have a market. It has nothing to do with them.

Even if the project of home personal assistant failed, Ruikang still has to pay for the chips ordered by them.

With such a large group as Ruikang, you can still afford to lose money by 1 billion or 800 million, and you are not afraid of losing money at all.

However, after signing the contract, China Resources and others hoped that Ruikang's home personal assistant would succeed.

The reason is very simple, because each of them has received a supply contract of at least 500,000 pieces from Ruikang, which is not a decimal!

The first batch is only 500,000 pieces. If Ruikang’s home personal assistant project fails, there will definitely be no follow-up orders. But if the project is successful, there will definitely be more follow-up orders, and they can also drink soup with Ruikang!

This is like Foxconn signed a contract for OEM 10 million units for new iPhones. Even if the iPhone only sells two million units when it starts selling, the one that will lose will not be Foxconn. They will deliver the 10 million units that should be delivered on time, and Apple will pay them the final payment.

But Foxconn will definitely not want to see this scene. They wish that the new iPhone models will be sold for more than 10 million units as soon as they are launched, so that they can receive subsequent OEM orders and earn more.

These chip design companies have the same idea. After signing the contract with Ruikang, they immediately changed their direction. They hope that Ruikang's home personal assistant can be successfully developed and sold well as it goes on the market, and functional chips are also sold out.

In this way, they can receive subsequent chip supply orders!

And this is the scene Chen Changan hopes to see, creating more companies that are related to home private assistants, and jointly create an ecological closed loop around home private assistants to form a collective of interests, and everyone can protect home private assistants together.

In this way, if something happens to impact the family personal assistant series products, before Ruikang can react, these upstream suppliers will be more urgent and respond faster than Ruikang.

Chip design companies are just the first step for Chen Changan to contact the home private assistant ecosystem.

In addition to them, Ruikang will also contact some of the better domestic robot manufacturing companies and household cleaning equipment companies, and prepare to take them to board the Ruikang ship together and jointly develop a number of expansion components for home personal assistants.

For example, wearable vacuum cleaners, mops, and fire extinguishing equipment can be considered.

In this way, in the future, users only need to purchase a home personal assistant and match it with a set of home cleaning equipment. From then on, they will say goodbye to the tedious housework and leave everything to the robot.

Chen Changan gave Yu Cheng the specific cooperation matters. He just explained his ideas to Yu Cheng roughly. As for which companies to find cooperation and how to cooperate, Cheng followed up.

Chen Changan has one more important thing, and he needs to take action himself.

He is going to visit HiSilicon and negotiate a cooperation with HiSilicon's senior management.

When Yu Cheng listed the list of functional chip cooperation, he specifically removed HiSilicon from the list. It was not that Ruikang did not intend to cooperate with HiSilicon, but that Ruikang wanted to carry out a more important cooperation with HiSilicon than functional chips. Of course, the profit was also greater.

Even this cooperation requires Chen Changan to negotiate in person!
Chapter completed!