Chapter 516: Contact (Part 2)

The turmoil caused by Sun Cheng's sudden decision to form a group for Cybertron Technology gradually began to subside as more and more talent was recruited into the group.

From the end of June through to the latter half of July, round after round of meetings were held and concluded, with discussion topics ranging from the number of subsidiaries to their development direction, from the arrangement of major positions in subsidiaries to financial allocation, from the independence of subsidiaries to group supervision, and from the establishment of the group's core business to projects to be spun off to various subsidiaries, and so on.

Sun Cheng stayed at the company headquarters the entire time; he granted the group's management considerable power, yet he did not blindly trust these professional managers hired at high salaries.

He kept the three important departments of finance, legal, and human resources firmly in his own hands, and with himself also serving as the group's Chief Technology Officer, he did not have to worry about being sidelined.

The new Cybertron Technology Group includes four subsidiaries under its umbrella.

The core of the group is, without a doubt, the two companies that both bear the name "Cybertron": Cybertron Cloud Drive Technology Co., Ltd. and Cybertron Storage Technology Co., Ltd.

One company is responsible for software development, while the other focuses on hardware.

Cybertron Cloud Drive has annexed Panda Cloud Drive and will continue to be responsible for the development and operation of PC and mobile cloud storage in the near term; in the medium term, it will begin attempting to develop VIP customized cloud service projects for enterprises or individuals, with the long-term goal being internet cloud computing, which has begun to flourish in the last two years.

This company does not seek profitability in the short term, and it would be difficult to do so even if it wanted to.

Cloud storage is a money-guzzling beast; the bandwidth fees paid to broadband service providers every month are an astronomical figure, not counting servers and other expenses.

Even if Cybertron Cloud Drive can save a significant amount on storage equipment, it will still be difficult to see a profit point in the short term; it can only be said that while they might not suffer huge losses, relying solely on cloud storage services will at best result in a small profit.

Cybertron Storage is responsible for the research and development of new storage technologies and new materials, and will eventually possess three major laboratories: the temporarily independently operated Storage Technology Laboratory No. 1, and the Storage Technology Laboratory No. 2 and New Material Research Laboratory, which are still under construction.

As for lies, once you open your mouth to tell one, you have to pay countless times over to cover it up.

The so-called Storage Technology Laboratory No. 1 naturally did not exist originally.

Sun Cheng is currently covering his own lies; some of the many technologies he brought out in the past were claimed to be his own inventions, while others were vaguely attributed to products of cooperation with other friends.

As more and more eyes are fixed upon him, Sun Cheng knows clearly in his heart that in the future, his every move may be placed under a microscope by interested parties for observation.

Sun Cheng has actually always been aware of these issues.

That is why, when he was in contact with the State Security Bureau, he mentioned that there was an organization behind him called P·C·F.

This was to cover up the technologies and equipment he brought back from the Transformers universe, but because he had to maintain this massive lie, there was too much he needed to do.

Storage Technology Laboratory No. 1 will be the nominal technical R&D center for Cybertron Storage in the future.

It will not be exposed to the public in the short term; if the state becomes interested in it, Sun Cheng will also push it onto P·C·F, the organization he fabricated.

In any case, even if the state wants to investigate, it will take time, and time is exactly what he needs most right now.

Once there is enough time, and once the humanoid Decepticon technology developed by Sun Cheng's Decepticon engineers is fully mature, not only will the facade of Storage Technology Laboratory No. 1 be justified, but even the organization he claimed was behind him, P·C·F, will become a reality.

The third subsidiary under the Cybertron Technology Group is Advanced Software Technology Co., Ltd., which specializes in the field of artificial intelligence.

This is a field that requires crazy amounts of money to be poured in, and where there is simply no prospect in sight in the short term.

It is not that Sun Cheng is too pessimistic; in fact, the tech giants of this world have basically all set their sights on this field.

Every tech practitioner knows that future society will inevitably enter the era of full artificial intelligence, and it is only a matter of time before more efficient fully mechanical operations phase out highly inefficient manual labor.

However, in the short term, this step cannot yet be achieved.

Based on the current understanding of artificial intelligence among human tech practitioners, they have only achieved micro-artificial intelligence for the time being, and the number of tech giants that have touched the edge of weak artificial intelligence is few and far between.

But even if it means pouring in huge sums of money, Sun Cheng must get involved in the field of artificial intelligence.

In the Transformers universe, his Decepticon engineers have been unable to solve the problem of the Awakening of newborn Decepticons.

It can be said that once those few fragments of the AllSpark are lost, the development of Base No. 2 will also come to a complete standstill.

Yet, through constant research on the AllSpark fragments, Sun Cheng has surprisingly realized that this thing has even greater uses.

For example, embedding it into the Spark of a body can bring more surging power to his own body.

Or, for example, awakening a dying Decepticon.

However, the AllSpark fragments in his hands are only a pitifully small number; it can be said that every one used is one less.

Because of this, Sun Cheng has to consider using the R&D power of technology in the real world to create intelligent robots for himself, replacing the newborn Decepticons that cannot be mass-produced in the near future.

And the fourth subsidiary under the Cybertron Technology Group is Future Machinery Technology Co., Ltd.

The R&D laboratory established by Sun Cheng in cooperation with his alma mater, Nanjing University of Technology—the Intelligent Machinery Laboratory—is under the name of Future Machinery Technology Co., Ltd.

This temporarily inconspicuous subsidiary is one he specially established for the future development of intelligent robot bodies.

After spending a full half-month at Panda Weiyun, Wang Lu finally returned to Nandu.

Annexing Weiyun took much more time than he had originally imagined; migrating customer data, deciding the retention or departure of Weiyun's original technical and management teams, and simultaneously negotiating item by item with Panda Communications Group regarding the business that needed to be split—all of this took up a massive amount of his time.

So much so that what he originally thought would take at most a week to handle dragged on for a full half-month.

After returning to Nandu, as the company veteran who has followed Sun Cheng the longest and also possesses quite capable skills, Wang Lu was promoted to CEO of Cybertron Technology Group, while also serving as the group's Executive Vice President.

On the second day after taking the initiative to contact the State Security Bureau, Sun Cheng acted as if nothing had happened and as if he knew nothing.

He came to work as usual and presided over the first plenary meeting after all the group's senior executives had arrived at eight o'clock in the morning.

There were only two topics for the meeting: the site selection for the new headquarters, and who to send to be responsible for the acquisition of Xinhai Technology.

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