The car chassis shown in the picture is a scalable platform architecture, ScalablePlatform Architecture, or SPA for short, that Volvo spent four years and spent $11 billion to develop in the 21st century. Chasing the reckless wasteland, you have to be quick.

The SPA is a modular, intelligent chassis that can be produced on the same production line, regardless of the size of the vehicle. Standardize a large number of automotive components so that they can be shared across different brands and different vehicle classes.

To put it simply, if the previous chassis could produce different shapes of skincare cars, then the SPA platform is not only as simple as skinlifting, it can also achieve compatibility up and down, that is, from high-end luxury cars to compact family sedans can be integrated on the SAP platform. Greatly reduce the development cost, cycle time and manufacturing cost of the production process. Enhance flexibility and line flexibility in vehicle production.

SAP chassis can be like "building blocks", according to the different shell shapes of the car flexible change of the structure and size of the chassis, sports cars can change, high-end luxury cars can change, urban SUVs can change, compact family cars can change, in short, SPA chassis is like a transformer, on it can be flexibly added or subtracted to configure a variety of different components to adapt to different market needs.

Moreover, SAP is also about 90 kg lighter than the traditional car chassis, which greatly reduces the fuel consumption of the car, and the number of spare parts is also reduced by 60%, making the structure of the car simpler and more reliable.

SAP is a direction for the development of future automotive chassis, so Ling Shizhe directly took it out, and now the only thing that makes Ling Shizhe unsure is that he doesn't know whether the stability of SAP generalized chassis is reliable. Although Volvo Cars is known for its high safety, when Ling Shizhe visited major car websites in his previous life, he heard many car owners complaining that Volvo cars did not perform very well when cornering at high speeds.

General Motors is notoriously stable, and Yang Fawei, the former deputy chief engineer of General Motors' chassis, wonders if he can solve this problem? Ling Shizhe hoped that Yang Fawei would tune him up with a chassis for the king of corners.

Volvo is a well-known luxury car brand in Europe, and SAP is a typical high-end chassis in order to enrich the product line. It can't only be a high-end chassis, so Ling Shizhe came up with the structural diagram of Volkswagen's transverse engine modular platform (MQB), as well as the MLB longitudinal engine modular platform and Porsche's MSB modular standard sports car platform.

In addition to MSB, MQB and MLB belong to the mid-range and high-end vehicle platforms. However, in order to ensure the inheritance of process technology, Ling Shizhe did not mark the detailed parameters on the two chassis of MQB and MLB, just a relatively simple structural sketch, and the blanks in it could only be filled by Yang Fawei himself.

On the contrary, SAP and MSB drawings are marked with very detailed parameters, and in order to illustrate the origin of these parameters. Ling Shizhe listed a large number of calculation formulas on the diagram to illustrate why it was designed this way.

At the same time, there are two books that came out, "The Design and Tuning of Intelligent Chassis", "The Future Development Direction of Intelligent Chassis", both of which were downloaded from his notebook, but the publication time and publishing unit, as well as the relevant information such as the editor and author were blocked.

Seeing Ling Shizhe take out so many things, Yang Fawei's nerves were already numb. On the first day I joined Ambrera, I heard from my colleagues in the company. His boss is an alien, and many problems that cause headaches for technicians, the boss can come up with effective solutions, and many times they are still cross-industry, and technology is said to come out.

Many people are talking in private, saying that there is a group of aliens behind the boss who are helping him solve various technical problems!

There are many such legends, and even some small gossip media in North America have come to join in the fun, talking about whether Ling Shizhe is an alien or not, and as a result, the sales of the newspaper have increased significantly. This wind has also blown to Europe and Hong Kong on the other side of the ocean, and has become a topic of conversation after dinner.

Of course, Yang Fawei will not believe these rumors, but. His own boss does have too much mystery on his body, and today Yang Fawei can be regarded as knowledgeable.

Ling Shizhe didn't pay attention to Yang Fawei's thoughts, he took out so many things for only one purpose, to save costs as much as possible.

Because of airplanes and aero engines. Each of them is a huge gold-swallowing monster, and after the acquisition of Bombardier, it is also burdened with a huge debt of up to 6 billion Canadian dollars, which is a huge burden for the company, and the development of automobile chassis is a gold-swallowing monster, if you don't cheat with a golden finger, the Ambrera Group will be dragged down sooner or later.

Not to mention anything else, taking Volvo as an example, in order to develop the SAP platform, Volvo spent $11 billion, and Volkswagen's MQB is huge, in just 4 years, the cumulative investment is as high as 50 billion pounds, and Morgan Stanley estimates that Volkswagen will invest about $70 billion in the MQB platform in the next 4 years, which means that Volkswagen will invest a total of hundreds of billions of dollars in the MQB platform.

Oh my God, MQB is just a compact car platform, it's such a mid-range car platform, and the development capital is actually hundreds of billions of dollars! It is 3 times the development cost of the F-22 and 10 times that of the Volvo SAP luxury car platform! Is it okay not to open the gold finger?

This is the second time since Ling Shizhe crossed over, the first time was for the blade server, this time for the car platform, and even the aero engine he had never driven it like this (not that he didn't want to drive it, but he didn't have to open it).

Yang Fawei has been deeply attracted by the new car chassis design concept, and he is already indifferent to the origin of Ling Shizhe's information, in fact, he will not tell him if he asks Ling Shizhe, it is better not to ask. He was like a dry sponge, desperately absorbing the nutrients of intelligent chassis technology, and he was unaware of Ling Shizhe's departure.

Ling Shizhe found Zhang Wei, the administrative director of the automotive chassis laboratory, and told him that in the most five years, the SAP platform must be taken out for me, and it must be a mature product.

When he came out of the lab and saw that it was already dark, he asked Zhang Ke to drive to a villa on the outskirts of Montreal for a night. Return to Raccoon Town the next day.

The villa was purchased by Ling Shizhe after the acquisition of Bombardier for future work, and is only a 10-minute drive from Bombardier's Industrial City.

Passing by a supermarket on the way, Ling Shizhe decided to go shopping for something. When I walked into the supermarket, I found that it was very lively and crowded. The corner of the supermarket was even more crowded, and the crowd heard a burst of cheers and regret from time to time.

When they got closer, it turned out that they were playing an arcade game, and the supermarket owner had entered a total of five arcade machines. All of them are games from Ambrera Games, a Contra, a Double Dragon, a tank fight, a squirrel fight, and the latest 1941 air combat game from Ambrera Games.

The background of the game is the air battle between American fighters and Japanese fascists after the Pearl Harbor incident. 1941 is a multiplayer game played by four players, each of whom can choose from three American fighters: the P-51, the F6F, and the Pirate Flag.

Each of these three aircraft has its own advantages and disadvantages, with the P-51 being a great fit for first-time players, while the other two require some experience in the game.

Through the "Contra" game, Ambrera Games has completely gained popularity, and there is no need to go around various exhibitions to promote itself like other game companies.

All arcade game operators can be attracted by simply passing through the computer and electrical retail outlets all over the world. Ambrera paid only a few fax fees.

"1941" is the world's first air combat game, and it is the world's first game to reflect World War II, coupled with extremely high playability, so the game was sought after by the world as soon as it was released.

In the past few days, the marketing team of Ambrera Games has been able to pick up dozens or even dozens of arcade operators from Montreal's Trudeau International Airport every day, and take flights from various countries to Raccoon Town to participate in the promotion meeting. Of course, the reason why Dongfang Electronics is so popular is because this new arcade game deserves such a grand treatment.

Most of these arcade operators are from Europe, the United States and Japan. Because the population in North America is so dispersed, the main buyers of arcade machines are experienced people like supermarkets, laundries, grocery stores, gas stations, and movie theaters. Unlike places such as Europe, Japan, and Southeast Asia, there will be large arcade stores that specialize in arcades.

North America, Japan and Europe are Ambrera Games' three main markets, while Australia and Southeast Asia are mosquito legs. There is still a little bit of meat, and other markets like South America, the Middle East, and South Asia are basically negligible. Even so, the global marketing network that Ambrera Games has built up over the course of a year has seen hundreds of arcade operators attend the game's presentations.

The popularity of Ambrera Games has made the originally inconspicuous arcade game suddenly become the brightest star industry in Canada. Therefore, it is natural that there will be people who want to get a piece of the pie and enter this industry.

For this. These days, there is a steady stream of employees in the arcade division who have been poached by other companies and resigned. Although this has caused some impact on the company, it is still manageable. Ling Shizhe has long considered this situation, and the R&D backbone has signed a non-compete agreement in advance, prohibiting them from joining other game companies within three years after resigning, and of course, the price Ambrera Games pays for this is a higher salary.

Seeing that the game launched by his company was so popular, Ling Shizhe nodded with satisfaction, went to the shopping area to buy something, and left.

Back in the car, Ling Shizhe has decided to launch the FC learning machine on the market in the near future.

Now it's time to launch, because the arcade has just been launched, Ambrera's game market has not yet stabilized, in order to prevent home game consoles from impacting arcade machines, so Ling Shizhe postponed the launch plan of FC and learning machines. He had also planned to wait until the arcade was upgraded to 16-bit before launching the FC home console.

But looking at the situation just now, Ling Shizhe felt that his previous idea was wrong, if the arcade machine was upgraded to 16 bits, it would take 5 years, and it would be 80 years to do it, these five years were enough time for Atari to occupy the home game console market, and if you want to enter the home game console market again in the future, it will be much more difficult than now. You must know that Atari was acquired by Warner Group in the 80s.

With such a behemoth as Atari's backing, Ling Shizhe himself doesn't know if he is sure to compete with Atari, although Atari was devastated in 84, but this time is too far away for Ling Shizhe, and he has to fight for the day. It is necessary to keep the market firmly in place from the very beginning.

First launch the computer learning machine, and after gaining a firm foothold, then launch the FC game console, the game is the FC ported version of those arcade games, and then launch a few special home game console games, such as "Mario" or "Crash Bandicoot" or something, and by the way, "Tetris", the most famous super money-absorbing game in history. (To be continued.) )xh118