Chapter 544: A Business Miracle

Although the platform price of $25 is not low for a toy, it cannot resist their enthusiasm for innovation for toy manufacturers who are already facing a desperate situation.

After the training of SAL experts, the toy manufacturers soon launched their own unique new models of smart toys, ease of use has always been the characteristics of SAL products, Ark One is no exception, through short-term training toy manufacturers R & D personnel quickly mastered the technology developed on this platform, nothing more than some simple calls, most of the functions are concentrated in the Ark One platform SDK, so the new product development is more difficult to reflect on the creativity.

And some obvious smart toys have been developed, initially tested the domestic market, and the response has been very enthusiastic, especially learning toys, which have become a hot spot for consumers, and dealers have often issued millions of pre-orders! In the face of the hot sales period of the New Year, toy manufacturers who were originally desperate to semi-stop production have now begun to produce new products 24 hours a day.

It's too late to prepare raw materials, so I began to find a way to join this intelligent platform on the original low-end toys, so that these low-end toys can be transformed into a variety of interesting smart toys, so that they can be lively and can speak, but also be able to understand people's speech, for large toy manufacturers, as far as possible to intelligent transformation is the most important task at present.

As if like a storm, in a very short period of time, intelligence has swept the entire domestic toy industry. The vast majority of intelligent new toy products are mainly sold domestically, so that the impact of the EU's punitive tariff restrictions on the toy industry has been minimized, in addition to the small-scale low-end toy manufacturers have not had time to catch up with this wave of bankruptcy, the top ten toy manufacturers have actually taken advantage of this wave of intelligence to achieve contrarian growth!

This unexpected success has put endless pressure on SAL's supply chain, as toy manufacturers have rushed to order tens of millions of units for Ark One! This is still a recent urgent order within 3 months, and there are tens of millions of intentional orders for more than half a year in the long term.

The Gemini2 chipmaker, which manufactures for SAL, is now also working at full capacity to cope with this sudden demand. Fortunately, SAL is now a large company, and the suppliers have a certain margin to be able to provide tens of millions of sets of parts needed for Ark 1 in a short period of time.

But now not only toy manufacturers have taken a fancy to Ark No. 1, soon after toy manufacturers launched a large number of smart toy products based on Ark No. 1, other industries have quickly sniffed out business opportunities, such as access control system integrators have found that the use of Ark No. 1's personal voice voiceprint characteristic encryption mechanism, the development of community public access control system is particularly convenient, after collecting the voiceprint samples of the community owners, the owners of the community can enter and exit the community without hindrance through their own voices, Non-community insiders can only register for entry and exit through security personnel.

Compared with smart cards, this method is obviously much superior, not only do you not need to carry the owner card at any time but also worry about loss, and for people who drive and ride bicycles, through the access control now do not have to stop and swipe the card, only need to make a little sound within 3 meters to the access control, SAL's unique voiceprint recognition technology can confirm whether it is the owner of the community through a short voice.

The access control manufacturers with quick eyes and hands, saw the huge business opportunity of this very sci-fi thing to enhance the image of a community property management, and soon launched the intelligent community access control system based on the Ark No. 1 platform, compared with the previous smart card, the technical difficulty of the implementation of this system is lower, and most of the functions that need to be realized by themselves in the smart card system are now realized by the Ark No. 1 platform SDK, and a simple call can be.

From the point of view of the intelligent access control system after the implementation, its reliability is higher than before, the smart card card swiping system chip may also have poor storage and other reasons often damaged and can not swipe the card, but the owner's voice signature will never wear out after scanning and entering the background system, so the access control system will not have this problem.

With such a diffusion, Cai Siqiang and Zhao Jianwu were extremely surprised to see that the scope of use of Ark 1 was expanding exponentially, and the overwhelming number of orders made SAL unable to cope with it now, and in order to meet the needs of toy manufacturers, it has done its best to implement restrictive purchases for the new needs of these other industries.

After all, for the toy manufacturers who have just withdrawn from the dire situation, they must give priority to satisfying, but in order to prevent toy manufacturers from reselling after ordering, Zhao Jianwu also has to impose special restrictions on the functions of the Ark No. 1 platform according to the needs of toy manufacturers.

Yes, due to the shortage of supply, manufacturers in other industries who cannot get the goods have begun to pay $40 or even $50 to toy manufacturers to buy Zhou No. 1 at a high price. Individual toy manufacturers forget their righteousness in the face of profit, and there are really precedents for reselling. For this reason, Cai Siqiang and Zhao Jianwu were a little crying and laughing, and they couldn't imagine that a new scalper industry was created on this product.

It can be seen that in China, even if it is a public welfare matter, once it is not well considered, it will soon become a new source of bad habits. However, this unhealthy trend was quickly stopped, and the toy industry association first proposed the registration and use system of the Ark No. 1 platform, and in the case that most of the toy manufacturers have not been effectively satisfied, they will severely punish the manufacturers who only care about the immediate interests of the reselling, and be included in the blacklist of the industry association, and request SAL to restrict its sales.

If the purchase quantity of each company's Ark No. 1 platform cannot correspond to the number of toy products shipped, the association will require the manufacturer to explain the whereabouts of the remaining Ark No. 1 platform, and if their own factories are unable to consume, they will be required to transfer the original price to other toy manufacturers, which is a supportive order for the toy industry of SAL company, and use the cost price supply to support the upgrading of the toy industry, and the toy association will not allow a few manufacturers to self-destruct the Great Wall.

In the follow-up supply of the new Ark No. 1 platform, Zhao Jianwu urgently imposed effective restrictions on some functions that could not be used in toy products, making it difficult for this platform to be used in other industries for the time being, which temporarily stopped this unhealthy trend.

It's just that this is not a long-term way, Zhao Jianwu pondered that the demand is so large, maybe it can be considered to let Williams's chip design team develop a new product specifically for this low-end occasion, on the one hand, it can achieve lower costs, and after the cost is lower, the original loss of money and making shouting can have some profits, which can make this platform live more healthily, instead of always surviving in this state of poverty alleviation.

On the other hand, it is also to prevent the development of new products that compete with SAL using this platform in the future.

This is not alarmist, there are really low-end navigator manufacturers who have gotten some Ark One, and made a navigator that is close to the function of Sirius Company, after all, the Ark One originally developed by Zhao Jianwu based on Gemini2, an excellent CPU, is powerful, and the Sirius navigator kernel system is just relatively more simplified.

Of course, that's an afterthought.

With the launch of a large number of new smart toys equipped with Ark 1, the original precarious toy industry has completely reversed the original large-scale loss and bankruptcy situation in the sudden outbreak of a large number of domestic demand, which is an unexpected result.

The magic of Ark-1 is so great that some economists have even called for it to be included in the list of "the most influential economic figures of the year", alongside Cai Siqiang, who led SAL to advance by leaps and bounds! This is a classic business case for a technology platform to save an industry, and it has very far-reaching research value and significance for economists.