Chapter 207: Volkswagen wants to buy Ambrera's Seiko Division

Volkswagen (German: Volkswagen), translated as Volkswagen in Taiwan, Volkswagen or Volkswagen in Hong Kong and Macau, and Volkswagen in Malaysia, means "people's car", so it is often abbreviated as "VW".

Headquartered in Wolfsburg, Germany, Volkswagen is one of the world's four largest car producers.

Speaking of Volkswagen, everyone does not know, but when it comes to the founder of this company, I am afraid that few people in the world know - Adolf. Hitler.

That's right, don't doubt it, you heard it right, the founder of Volkswagen AG was the German Nazi leader, the great dictator Adolf. Hitler.

Why Hitler founded Volkswagen, to clarify this, we have to start with the history of automobiles:

The world's first automobile was built by the German Karl Fritledge Benz, when the automobile first appeared, it was mainly for the upper class, that is, in the first few decades of the birth of the automobile, it was just a toy for the rich, a symbol of status, status and wealth, people did not use the car as a means of transportation.

But the American Henry. Ford changed all of that and redefined the car – in 1913, Henry Brown. For the first time, Ford introduced an automobile assembly line and set up the first final assembly line in Hailan Park, which almost increased the assembly speed by 8 times. As a result, a Model T rolls off the production line every 10 seconds every working day.

This great initiative has led to a significant reduction in the cost of the car. The car is no longer a toy for the rich, it has begun to enter ordinary families in the United States and has become an indispensable means of transportation for Americans.

Henry. Ford's invention of the Model T car and the new automobile production model of assembly line production management swept the world like a whirlwind, so the idea of "poor car" began to become popular in Germany.

But the Germans' understanding of the "civilian car" is very different from that of the Americans, and they have always believed that the bus is the real "civilian car". This perception lasted until Hitler came to power in 1933, when it was completely changed.

Adolph. Hitler's understanding of the "civilian car" was the same as that of the Americans, and he wanted German families to be the same as those in the United States, where every German family had a car and everyone could afford to buy a car, and Volkswagen was founded in this context.

Nazism, which is a transliteration of the German abbreviation "nationalsozialismus" and "nazismus", which translates as "national socialism", was a political proposition put forward by Hitler and others before World War II.

As soon as Hitler came to power, he carried out a comprehensive nationalization campaign for all industries in Germany.

In order to thoroughly implement Hitler's concept of the "civilian car", Polscher and his team designed the first Volkswagen Type 1 car that met Hitler's requirements in 1938, which became popularly known as the "Beetle".

Therefore, from this historical perspective, Adolf. Hitler was supposed to be the founder of Volkswagen, and although Ferdinand Porscher was the first director of Volkswagen, he could only be the executor and promoter of Hitler's idea of a "civilian car".

One is the production of automobiles, the other is the production of chips, and the president of Volkswagen actually sent an invitation to Ling Shizhe, asking him to have dinner at the famous "Corsair Restaurant" in Washington at night, which made Ling Shizhe full of confusion.

asked Allison, he didn't understand what Volkswagen meant, but he suggested Ling Shizhe, since the other party invited you, then go and listen to what the other party is going to do first.

In the evening, Ling Shizhe drove to the "Pirate Ship Restaurant" and saw a white-haired old man standing alone at the door, judging from his dress and temperament, it should be Schneider himself.

Ling Shizhe got out of the car and walked towards the old man, who also found him, stretched out his hand with a kind smile, and said, "Hello, Jester. Insult. ”

"Hello Mr. Schneider." Ling Shizhe stretched out his hand to shake him, feeling that the old man's hand was very strong.

"Mr. Jester, I want to apologize to you first for inviting you in such a presumptuous way." Schneider's face was sincere.

Ling Shizhe smiled: "No, Volkswagen is an internationally famous automobile company, Mr. Schneider I have admired for a long time, but I have never had the opportunity to meet, but today I have a wish." ”

Although he didn't understand Schneider's purpose for looking for him, the sedan chair carried people, and Ling Shizhe was not stingy with compliments.

After a while, Schneider invited him into the dining room. Schneider, who came to the box, said enthusiastically: "Mr. Jester, what do you drink?" ”

"Let's have a cup of coffee." Ling Shizhe had had dinner before he came, and Schneider must have something to talk about when he came to him, so he only ordered a cup of coffee.

Schneider also expected it, so he said hello to the service industry and ordered a cup of coffee like Ling Shizhe.

The coffee was served, and after the service industry went out, Schneider made a gesture of please, Ling Shizhe took a sip, and the other party opened the chatterbox, and chatted all over the world.

As the president of the Volkswagen Group, Schneider is very eloquent, can speak everything clearly, and the language is also witty, not boring at all.

"Ling, your company's gel battery is a great invention, and we at Volkswagen are also customers of Ambrera."

"Thank you Volkswagen for your love to us, the gel battery can be recognized by Volkswagen, this is a worthy thing for me to boast to the world, Ambrera has always pursued quality first, and will not disappoint the public to our trust." Ling Shizhe replied modestly, he knew that the meat drama was about to begin.

"Ling, have you ever thought about selling Ambrera Precision Equipment Co., Ltd. as a whole?"

Ling Shizhe was stunned for a moment, looked at Schneider and wondered: "Mr. Schneider, if I remember correctly, Volkswagen should produce cars, right?" And Ambrera Precision Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd. mainly produces semiconductor processing equipment and industrial robots, and there is no relationship between the two. ”

"It matters, it has a lot to do with it." Schneider smiled, "Ling, we are very interested in the ECU you invented, and I came here for this." ”

Ling Shizhe has never understood what Schneider is looking for him, he understands everything when he hears the ECU, no wonder the other party dares to stab him directly, if Ling Shizhe wants to make a difference on the driving computer, it is indispensable to deal with the car company, but he didn't expect them to come over so quickly, and the first to find him was Volkswagen in Germany.

In its original history, ECU was born in the mid-to-late 80's and developed with the development of spot injection engines. Before the advent of automobile engine injection technology, the device used to mix air and fuel in automobiles was called carbrator, but with the advent of the era of EFI engines, carburetors have withdrawn from the stage of the era.

After Ling Shizhe crossed over, he did not design the ECU according to the original development trajectory of the ECU, but directly crossed all the previous steps and directly followed the mature ECU structure of the later generations, which is why after the ECU was developed, the volume would be as large as a coffee table.

You must know that in the early days when the EFI engine began to be popular, ECU was actually just a fairly simple controller, relying on reading the signals such as the distributor panel, air flow meter and crankshaft speed to control the opening time of the fuel injector, and the ignition was only controlled by the distributor panel, and there was no control mechanism for advancing and exiting the ignition.

After the development of the injection fuel supply system for a period of time, in order to improve the fuel efficiency and performance of the engine, the car factory needs to manage more and more accurate ECU systems, so the importance of ECU at this time is relatively much higher, such as the basic fuel supply, ignition time, to the variable air intake system, variable valve system, O2 monitoring, detonation monitoring, etc., ECU needs to manage and control more and more projects, which makes the ECU system more and more complex, and the management of projects is not as simple as in the past.

By the time of Ling Shizhe's crossing, the ECU has developed quite maturely, it is like a human brain to control the whole car, in addition to the most important engine fuel supply, ignition management, but also control the gearbox, electronic throttle, ABS braking system, vehicle dynamic management system, airbags, etc., some cars even control vehicle maintenance.

At the end of the 60s, integrated circuit technology was like a chick that had just hatched, and it was very naΓ―ve in all aspects, and it was still very early to mature. Under the current hardware conditions, if Ling Shizhe wants to develop ECU, the correct way should be to make a simple throttle electromagnetic controller first, instead of ignoring the facts, directly skip all the previous steps, and open the plug-in to design a relatively mature ECU system, resulting in the tragedy that the technology is too advanced to use.

At this time, the engine still used a carburetor, and the direct injection technology did not begin to be applied until the 80s, in other words, even if the ECU has met the requirements for commercial use, there is no platform for it to be used, which is why Alison will first use ECU technology on motorcycles after the acquisition of Bombardier.

No matter what, the hardware of the ECU was still made after all, no matter how much Ling Shizhe regretted it at that time, he could only go on with his head.

First of all, the first problem faced by Ling Shizhe is that there is no suitable engine, in order to solve this problem, he bought back a batch of carburetor system engines from the market and made substantial modifications, for which he also invited several engine technical experts with high salaries, fortunately, the United States has a developed automobile industry, and there are many such talents on the market, as long as you can afford the price, you are not afraid of not being able to dig people.

At the beginning, it was okay, but with the deepening of the research, it has become more and more difficult to modify the engine alone, who said that the ECU structure designed by Ling Shizhe is too mature, and the carburetor engine and the EFI engine are two different ideas.

Simplify, simplify, the ECU has been simplified to the extreme, and at this time, a retired engine expert at General Motors told him that if you want to continue your research on the ECU, the only way is to design an engine that can match the ECU.

I flirted with it, Ling Shizhe almost didn't go berserk on the spot, I just wanted to do ECU, but I didn't plan to do any car engines, now in order to continue the research of ECU, I have to develop engines, what is the situation? This pit is getting bigger and bigger, whether to fill this pit or not, Ling Shizhe is in a dilemma.

If you don't give up, then everything you have done before will be all in vain, and Ling Shizhe will be very unwilling; What engine is used as the platform for the ECU? With doubts, Ling Shizhe retreated in the office for a week, looked through all the data stored in the circuit that crossed together, and finally found what he was looking for - Mitsubishi 4G63 four-cylinder 2.0-liter engine.

In later generations of China, anyone who has played with cars will be unfamiliar with Mitsubishi's 4G63 engine, because it is the originator of domestic sedan engines.

A 2.0 displacement engine can reach 280 horsepower, if the ECU restriction is lifted, after some professional component modifications, this engine can easily output 400 horsepower, and can even exceed 700 horsepower or even higher.

Such data, even in 2010, there are still many so-called latest engines, which have not yet reached such an output power.

Another advantage of the 4G63 engine is that it adopts the mature modular, standardized and serialized design of the later generations. It is very convenient to upgrade it in the future, and a series of advanced technologies such as single overhead, double overhead, VVT, EFI, turbocharger, supercharger, etc., can be installed as needed.

The most critical thing is that the 4G63 series engine is simply born for the ECU, it is simple and reliable in structure, the most critical technology of this engine is on the ECU, if the performance of the 4G63 engine is to be thoroughly exerted, the ECU should reserve the best valve timing parameter value, as well as the crankshaft position sensor, throttle position sensor, water temperature sensor, intake manifold air pressure sensor, etc. Only then can the hydraulic control valve be commanded.

Once you've found the platform, print out the drawings and find the original engine specialist who retired from General Motors. Mr. Madewrow, threw the drawings to him and asked him to lead his team to clone 4G63.

Brad. McCraw was stunned on the spot, he had never seen an engine designed like this, many things only needed Ling Shizhe's simple guidance, and it suddenly became clear.

The United States is worthy of being a powerhouse in the automobile manufacturing industry, and in less than two months, Brad . McCrow's team came up with a 4G63 prototype, and then pressed the ECU to start the difficult journey.

The 4G63 engine provided by Ling Shizhe is the most primitive model, only the two cores of double overhead camshaft and VVT, not that Ling Shizhe doesn't want to take out more, the key is that the VVT alone is enough for them to work hard for several years, not to mention the 4G63 engine for Brad. McRaw's team said that it was a completely new engine, and there was no finalization, so you had to tune it and develop the ECU at the same time, and you can imagine how big it was to have the ECU and 4G63 at the same time.

The entire R&D team has more than 4,000 people and is divided into three groups, a motivation group, an ECU group and a software development group. In Brad. Under the leadership of McRaw, at the beginning of 75, the initial mature ECU was finally come out, and there was also a 4G63 engine that had just been finalized.

After the success, 4G63 Ling Shizhe did not bring it to the market, and did not build a car, what did he do with 4G63? Therefore, after applying for a patent, the engine was mothballed by him, and ECU was his focus.

All the world's well-known automobile companies, Ambrera's sales staff have all run over, but none of the companies have purchased ECUs, and there have been no results in a few months, Ling Shizhe has given up, but he did not expect Volkswagen to recruit and propose to acquire Ambrera Precision Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

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