Winning the Battle of Precision, Losing the War for the Platform
While Japan’s manufacturing sector has obsessively devoted itself to the relentless pursuit of hardware refinement
polishing processing accuracy to 0.01mm or silencing motors to perfection
the global competitive axis has shifted to an entirely new frontier: Intelligence.
China is currently mobilizing its national strength to propel “Embodied AI”—a technology that evolves mere machines into learning “lifeforms” capable of independent perception and thought.
From a consultant’s perspective, let me be blunt: the race for superior hardware specs has fallen into a commodity trap.
Future value creation now hinges on two critical factors: the volume of “failure data” fed into AI, and the speed at which frontline know-how is converted into algorithms.
In this arena, China has constructed a massive data ecosystem that leaves Japan, the US, and Europe far behind.
