Chapter 219 217.! ! !
"No way, no way, I can't do technical work long ago at my age."
In front of Cao Yang, sat an old man with a thin face and silver hair.
He waved his hand, showing a shy smile like a child, feeling that he could not adapt to the job proposed by Cao Yang.
This person's name is ——
Ni Guangnan.
Ni Guangnan is a controversial academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and one of the first batch of academicians in the country. His main achievement lies in the creation of the Lenovo-style Hanka.
In the early computer use, because of the limited processing power of the computer, in order to improve the efficiency of the computer and reduce the frequent access to the memory during the input of Chinese characters, Ni Guangnan led a team to develop the Hanka in 1986.
Using the Han card can effectively increase the speed of the computer and reduce the memory space of the computer as much as possible.
Its advent completely solved the problem of using Chinese characters in computers for the Chinese, and promoted the rapid popularization and application of microcomputers in China.
Later, Ni Guangnan was named an academician for his outstanding contributions to the Chinese computer industry.
The most famous deed about him. It was at the time of Lenovo [The Controversy between Liu and Ni]
In November 1984, the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences decided to establish the "New Technology Development Company of the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences" under the ownership of the whole people.
Abbreviated as "computing company", Ni Guangnan was invited to be the chief engineer of the company in December, bringing all the technologies of Lenovo-style Hancard into the company.
This is the future of Lenovo.
The founder of the company is called Liu Chuanzhi.
At that time, Zhongguancun had the classic story of "three entrepreneurs found three scientists and made three well-known companies": Liu Chuanzhi found Ni Guangnan, developed the Lenovo Hanka, and made Lenovo; Zhang Yufeng found Wang Xuan and developed the Founder laser phototypesetting system. Founder was made; Wan Runnan found Wang Jizhi, developed a four-way typewriter, and made a four-way typewriter.
Ni Guangnan offered three conditions when accepting Liu Chuanzhi's invitation: one is not to be an official, two is not to be interviewed, and three is not to attend a banquet. He wants to concentrate his time and energy on research and development.
Later, he did not break his promise and dedicated all his energy to Lenovo's research and development.
With the cooperation of Liu and Ni, Lenovo has grown bigger and bigger, backed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has excellent technical support, coupled with national support and various preferential policies, and has become the largest computer supplier in China all the way.
As of 1994, Lenovo's sales reached 4.76 billion yuan.
What an exaggerated figure, even in 2004, Bomi's annual income in 2003 was only about 3 billion. (King of Glory series 600 million, Three Kingdoms 0nline 800 million, Audition 1 billion, and game hall 800 million.)
In 1995, there was a serious disagreement between Liu Chuanzhi and Ni Guangnan.
The main point of disagreement is whether to follow the route of [Technology, Industry and Trade] or [Trade, Industry and Technology] in the future.
Technology, industry and trade means to focus on R&D technology and develop trade around R&D.
Trade, Industry and Technology is the other way around.
Ni Guangnan is a staunch 【tech, industry and trade】ist. He has been following the line of insisting on research and development all his life, thinking that technology is the primary productive force.
While Liu Chuanzhi is a businessman, what he considers is how to make more money, and then buy technology when he is rich.
So a scientist who is not afraid of failure and an entrepreneur who needs to be cautious have a disagreement. Their ultimate goal is to reach the dome from the bottom of the round, but they choose the opposite path to attack.
The media referred to the "Liu Ni Controversy" as a duel between the "market faction" and the "technical faction". In that era, not only Liu Chuanzhi, but also other Lenovo directors and senior executives were on his side;
Not only Lenovo, most entrepreneurs at that time chose the same way to deal with international competition;
Not only entrepreneurs, but the Chinese Academy of Sciences unit chose the “Lenovo Route”.
A former boss of the Chinese Academy of Sciences said: "There are more scientists at the same level as Ni Guangnan than entrepreneurs at the same level as Liu Chuanzhi. When choosing one of the two, you can only choose Liu Chuanzhi. Entrepreneurs are a scarce resource in China." Therefore, not only Ni Guangnan, but Wang Jizhi was also swept out, and Wang Xuan suffered a "forced palace."
The final result is obvious. Ni Guangnan was swept out and left Lenovo.
When Cao Yang approached him, Professor Ni Guangnan was already 65 years old, and he had just experienced another nightmare——
In 1999, Ni Guangnan was just fired by Lenovo, and a man named Li Deti came to the door.
He said he wanted to make chips, the Chinese's own chips.
When the domestic R&D chip field was blank, Li Delei honed a technical team to do CPU. Liu Qiang, Ph.D., Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, is the vice president in charge of R&D.
This technical team made Ni Guangnan's eyes bright. He thought he saw the hope of restarting the "China Chip". He wanted to find money, government, resources, and people for Li Delai, but he didn't want a penny or a penny.
But the R&D funding given above is very limited, only 20 million.
On the other hand, Li Delei is a businessman. When he first heard about the above appropriation, he had already anticipated the end. This time the chip development was destined to be just a dream and a failed ending.
So Li Delei put all the "bao" on ZF procurement, and refused to supply customers in the market. These customers were all brought by Ni Guangnan with his personal reputation, so Ni Guangnan had to leave the Ark.
People also know the subsequent results-
Ark has released two chips, but they are all technically flawed. They cannot be sold at all except to ZF.
Last year, at the end of 2003, after finishing Ark 2, Li Delei withdrew from this plan.
Currently, Ni Guangnan, who is at home freely, has been struggling to devote himself to hardware development twice, and is heartbroken.
When Cao Yang was in his previous life, he was a little bit embarrassed to know this history.
Many people are saying that if Ni Guangnan won the battle between Ni and Liu in the past, would our country be different and would not be stuck on the chip.
Unfortunately, there is no if in the world.
Ni Guangnan endorsed Li Delei, but the Ark chip was in a mess. Later, Ni Guangnan endorsed Hanxin. As a result, the "Hanxin No. 1" fraud caused an uproar in the world.
In February 2003, Professor Chen Jin, Dean of the School of Microelectronics of Shanghai Jiaotong University, invented the "Hanxin No. 1" fraud. With the help of the “Hanxin No. 1”, Chen Jin applied for dozens of scientific research projects and defrauded as much as 100 million yuan. Scientific research funds.
Two endorsements and two backstabs almost ruined the fate of the national chip.
After Hanxin's fraud, Ni Guangnan was suspected by the world. The country invested so much, but you fooled us with some fake things, deceiving yourself and others, and also delayed domestic chip development and production.
From then on, domestic university chip research and development was difficult to obtain funds, and it turned into a private enterprise.
However, there are really few companies that can really invest money and strength to make a difference in the chip industry, which is why they have been stuck in the future.
Ni Guangnan is one of the pioneers of early computer hardware research and development in China. He is also an idealist. He has spent all his life calling for the promotion of our country's high-tech industry.
Although some mistakes were made in the process, it was also because of being older and unable to keep up with young people in terms of ability. At some important moments, he would be a bit eager for quick success and quick gain. But in Cao Yang's view, his greatest contribution is that he has a heart of fist and fist. The development of the country's chip and semiconductor industries has spared no effort to scream and be deceived again and again, and when the wounds are exhausted, they are still willing to trust those who want to do research and development.
Professor Ni Guangnan was injured and stabbed in the back. Now, in retrospect, he is really heartbroken and his face is full of tears.
The two chatted for a while, and Cao Yang told him his true thoughts again.
Because Professor Ni is now an outsider, and he has no selfish intentions and is dedicated to the good of the country, Cao Yang is not worried that he knows the design of the [new phone] will threaten Bomi in the future.
This person should be regarded as the only one so far, Cao Yang told him with heart and soul, and he can still understand.
Cao Yang gestured in the air with his hands, and from time to time used pen and paper to draw the smart phone design in his memory.
It took more than 3 hours, and Ni Guangnan listened more and more fascinated.
"Wow!"
After listening to Cao Yang's description, Ni Guangnan suddenly stiffened.
He was really amazed by Cao Yang's thoughts.
Now the world is using button-type mobile phones, the best operating system is Symbian, but Symbian is also designed based on button operations.
The idea put forward by Cao Yang is a bit too advanced and too bold.
Ni Guangnan fell into deep thought, and did not speak for a long time.
"Awesome, so amazing, this is something that is only found in science fiction." Professor Ni said.
"But I think we can make it. These are all feasible."
What Cao Yang said is that not all the hardware is made by ourselves. Bomi provides the design, develops its own operating system, and then all the hardware is bought by others.
Then buy it back and assemble it yourself.
is the same as the previous millet.
No, as long as the operating system is its own, it is a lot taller than Xiaomi, at least you can see Apple's back.
Smartphone, there are 3 things that are the most core——
First, the operating system
Second, chip
Third, display screen
In addition to the operating system, the Chinese can still have enough, but everything else is difficult.
Chip needless to say, even if you can design it, you can't make it. Even if you can make it, you can't make it so detailed and precise.
It requires too many pre-processes. It takes a lot of time, manpower and material resources to research it just for the lithography machine.
If you don't want to develop your own lithography machine, you have to buy it from others.
The technical barriers of the display are also very high. There are too many things involved in this industry chain, and it is also a very important part.
However, among these, the operating system is the most important, because the operating system is the rule.
Like Apple's IOS and Google's mobile phone Android, the operating system is used to define how all the content in this phone is stored, how to call, how to operate...
After these rules are defined, there are other things.
People who make rules in the world often gain the most.
If Google did not open source the Android system back then, there would be no Xiaomi in China.
Huawei researched and developed its own operating system, and it took 8 years from 12 to 20 years.
But in fact, if there is no Apple and Android, Huawei can not use it for so many years.
In order to bypass the patents of Apple and Android, they did not use Linux-based or UNIX-based cores for research and development, but adopted a hybrid kernel composed of Linux, Hongmeng microkernel and liteos.
This research and development is obviously more difficult.
Cao Yang does not need to do this, because ios and Android are not coming out, they can develop based on the Linux kernel, which can save a lot of time.
"Um……"
After listening to Cao Yang's analysis, Professor Ni Guangnan's eyes lit up, as if the flames that had been extinguished in his heart were re-burning.
"Awesome, too amazing. If our country can really produce the kind of smartphone you are talking about, then we can open up a new field."
Cao Yang laughed happily, “So, Professor Ni, you will come with me. I will definitely not let you down. I plan to invest in mobile phone manufacturing at least 10 billion this time.”
"this……"
Ni Guangnan covered his mouth in surprise, and he was suddenly moved.
In this era, young people who are willing to devote themselves to technology and invest so much in this field, especially young businessmen, are really rare.
Many people come to Ni Guangnan to endorse, but they are actually only for the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the network resources behind him. Once they get the research funding from the state, they will not care about the specific output.
However, this young man, Cao Yang, not only does not want the country's money, but also spends 10 billion in it.
What kind of boldness is this? !
Furthermore, you must know that doing research and development of this kind of thing is time-consuming, laborious and costly. It is possible that you will spend 10 billion, and you will end up with a small splash, not even a splash.
But Cao Yang is still willing to do so, one can imagine how determined this young entrepreneur is.
Ni Guangnan was very excited, his fingers trembling, and he couldn't help himself for a long time.
It took a long time before he said, "Mr. Cao, I can't hold any position in your company. I'm really old and I can't keep up with the times in technology.
But, I can help you pull people, pull resources...I will do my best to help you, as long as you can fulfill your promises, you are really willing to invest money and manpower for this [smartphone]. "
Cao Yang held his hand tightly, "I will do my best to make this smartphone."
Even if you don't make a chip, the realization of the operating system proposed by Cao Yang is already a great achievement in the industry.
Ni Guangnan has the urge to cry. He is looking forward to that day. “With Mr. Cao's words, that's enough.”
Behind Ni Guangnan is the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Even if Ni Guangnan is not working at Bomi, as long as he agrees to help Cao Yang find someone, there is definitely no problem.
Sure enough, a week later, Ni Guangnan recommended two people to Cao Yang.
The first one is the chief technical engineer of Ark Chip, whose name is Liu Qiang.
Although the Ark chip failed in the end, many people were tempered during the production process, and at the same time reserved the fire and foundation for the country's chip talents.
Liu Qiang has accumulated a lot of experience in the process of making the Ark chip, and he also has a lot of his own ideas.
Previous life Liu Qiang, after leaving Ark Chips, he founded Emperor Junzheng Company in 2005 and is committed to chip research and development. By 2020, he has become one of the better self-developed chip companies in China.
This time when Ni Guangnan pushed Cao Yang, Liu Qiang was only 35 years old. He was supposed to be the golden age in his life. However, after the previous Ark chip failure, he was a bit discouraged and had not yet come out of the trough.
At this time, with Professor Ni Guangnan's guarantee, Cao Yang expressed his determination and gave Liu Qiang hope, so he quickly agreed and was willing to follow Cao Yang to develop a new next-generation smartphone.
The second is Chang Cheng, the vice president of Lenovo. Ni Guangnan left to Changcheng to join Lenovo. It was only the relationship between the front and the back. He still admired Ni Guangnan very much.
Chang Cheng in his previous life is Lei Jun's right and left hand, serving as the vice president of Xiaomi.
Now Chang Cheng is the R&D director of Lenovo's notebook business unit, responsible for the research and development of Lenovo's desktop computers, notebook computers and smart phones.
It stands to reason that Chang Cheng is very suitable for the research and development of Bomi's mobile phones. He is working on this piece of content. Although the [smartphone] in 2004 and the future [touch screen smart phone] are two concepts, it is good or bad. It is a person with experience in manufacturing.
If he can be the head of Bomi's mobile phone research and development department, then it is not ideal.
pity……
No matter how hard Cao Yang tried, Chang Cheng declined him.
Even with Professor Ni Guangnan as a guarantor and the two partnered to persuade him, Chang Cheng decided to stay at Lenovo.
It's right to think about it. Now Lenovo is an international company with a business scope all over the world, with annual sales of more than 20 billion yuan, not to mention that Lenovo's treatment for Changcheng is very good, and the position is quite high.
"Hey, I can only say that the current Bomi is not strong enough." Cao Yang summed it up afterwards.
The blame is that I am not as attractive as Lei Jun, and there is no way to impress Chang Cheng through long-term talk, so I finally failed to cooperate, which is really regrettable.
Thinking about it this way, Lei Jun is really dying, at least in terms of persuading people, Cao Yang is really far behind.
Fortunately, there is Dr. Liu Qiang.
Cao Yang directly gave him 1 billion to set up a factory.
Soon, in less than a month, the Bomi mobile phone R&D and manufacturing plant was established in Wuhan. Liu Qiang served as the head and chief engineer of the Bomi mobile phone research and development department, and was fully responsible for the research and development of smart phones.
For this reason, Liu Qiang brought all the original chip team over, and Ni Guangnan helped to find some professionals who had made laptops and mobile phones. Although they did not have the positions and skills of Changcheng, they still had professionalism.
After the establishment of a team of 100 people, it began to enter the R&D stage.
So far, this thing is technical work and has nothing to do with the amount of manpower. When mature products are developed, Cao Yang expects to increase the entire mobile phone production department to more than 5,000 people.
(End of this chapter)
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