Compressing Costs

Chen Feng quickly called Professor Li. After all, it was better to contact him as early as possible. Once the blockade lasted for a long time, it would be basically difficult to find a replacement supplier.

A rather deep voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Who is this?"

"Hello, is this Professor Li? I'm Chen Feng, the Chief Technology Officer of Corona Technology Company."

"Chen Feng? You're that young kid from Corona Technology Company, right? Professor Zhang mentioned you to me."

"Yes, yes, that's me."

"I even went to your Rising Star Program with Professor Zhang. He praised your program endlessly. I also saw those poor children at that time. After they put on your Virtual Reality Helmet, they were able to attend classes with those people in the city. The Virtual Classroom is indeed a groundbreaking thing with extraordinary significance..."

The other end of the phone directly praised Chen Feng for a while, making Chen Feng feel a little embarrassed.

"Not at all, this is what we should do."

"It's rare to have such awareness. By the way, Professor Zhang recommended you to call me, right? What can I do for you?"

"It's like this, Professor Li. Recently, we've had some conflict with Gaofeng Group, which means they've cut off some of our suppliers. We can't develop the Human Prosthetic Limb here."

The other end of the phone was silent for a while, and then Professor Li continued.

"I've seen your Human Prosthetic Limb, and it's indeed very good. For people like us, we've also been researching Human Prosthetic Limbs recently, but we can't figure out why your cost is so low? You know, if it's not more than 100,000 yuan, are you planning to use Human Prosthetic Technology from the last century?"

"Professor Li, you can rest assured about this. The Human Prosthetic Technology we are going to manufacture is quite complete, even more complete than any product on the market. Although our cost has been compressed to a certain extent, you don't need to worry about material shrinkage. We are also quite generous with materials."

After hearing this sentence, Professor Li became even more confused.

"This is mainly thanks to the key technologies we have accumulated on the Virtual Reality Helmet, so this miniature sensor chip has been greatly improved."

"So that's how it is. However, I still don't quite understand. If you give us a physical object to look at, we'll know. But we still believe in you. After all, the Rising Star Program is not something that just any company can launch and implement."

"No problem. After we develop it, we will definitely give you a Human Prosthetic Limb for research."

Even if this Human Prosthetic Limb was given to them and Professor Li dissected it, it would be impossible to replicate it like this. Chen Feng had this confidence, after all, it required Artificial Intelligence.

"Alright, then we'll shamelessly accept one at that time. As for your material problem, if we help you solve it, it would be unfair to Gaofeng Group. However, there is a way, and that is to cooperate deeply with us."

"How do we cooperate deeply?"

Upon hearing that there was hope, Chen Feng was very happy.

"It's like this, do you know the current situation of Human Prosthetic Limbs in Huaxia?"

"I'm not sure, but we are also conducting statistics. It is said that it is not very optimistic."

"According to statistical surveys, 75% of amputees in Huaxia are rural residents, which means they don't have much economic capacity, and more than 70% of them have only a junior high school or elementary school education. Some people are amputated because they don't have money for treatment, and others are amputated due to various work-related accidents. They can't even afford ordinary prosthetics, because even the most ordinary prosthetics now cost tens of thousands of yuan, which leads to most people making their own prosthetics."

After hearing Professor Li's words, Chen Feng suddenly felt that the task was arduous and the road was long, so he continued to listen to Professor Li.

"If you can produce a Human Prosthetic Limb with extremely high cost-effectiveness and cooperate with us, it will be a great blessing for the disabled people throughout Huaxia. As for your 100,000 yuan Human Prosthetic Limb, it is simply a luxury for these 70% of disabled people. Perhaps your target group is that 30%?"

Professor Li's words undoubtedly served as a reminder to Chen Feng, meaning that he had developed a Human Prosthetic Limb that could be used by some people, but the number was too small, only about 30%.

In this way, the remaining 70% could not afford it. According to Professor Li, making a Human Prosthetic Limb with extremely high cost-effectiveness is actually not a very difficult thing for Chen Feng.

In this case, a 3D Printer can also be used for assembly. Although walking with an assembled structure may feel a bit strange, because a 3D Printer is used, the cost is greatly saved, and he can even compress the cost directly to a few thousand yuan. It is also possible to compress the cost to three thousand.

The miniature processing chip is replicated using Artificial Intelligence, and through a certain degree of technical processing, the cost of a chip can be close to 1500, which is still a very highly intelligent modulation chip.

"How about it, young man? Do you have this ability? I'm indeed asking for too much here. If you can't do it, we can also help you and provide you with certain suppliers, but that's all we can do. If you can cooperate with us, then we can apply to the local government, and at that time, let alone suppliers, we can even directly contract some mining areas for you."

After Professor Li was silent, Chen Feng thought about it carefully and felt that it was feasible, so he replied.

"I need to ask our relevant technical personnel about this. If the cost can be controlled within 4000, then we can cooperate with you, and the effect will definitely not be too bad. The designed Human Prosthetic Limb will definitely be quite good."

"Alright, in that case, you go back and ask first, and then contact me."

After hanging up the phone, Chen Feng had the Artificial Intelligence start calculating. The Artificial Intelligence would take less than a day to calculate the cost of the new Human Prosthetic Limb, and then he could reply to Professor Li. This was another opportunity for him, and he had to seize it.