Chapter 950: Lenovo also wants to be a switch
Liu Chuanzhi asked Ni Guangnan to sit down, but who knows, Ni Guangnan waved his hand and said directly: "Liu Dong, you are not going to participate in the founding ceremony of Qingtian, then don't grind, let's go quickly." ”
Hearing this, Yang Yuanqing couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and subconsciously looked at Liu Chuanzhi, only to see that Liu Chuanzhi's face also flashed with a stunned, even embarrassed.
Chief Engineer Ni's focus will be separated from scientific research and technology and put on the inauguration ceremony of an enterprise, which is really an unprecedented thing for the sun to come out of the west, even if this company is a behemoth like Qingtian.
In his mind, the best adjective for Ni Guangnan is a scientific research madman, who can't wait to study for sixteen or seventeen hours a day, leaving time for eating, sleeping, and spending time with his family, which will never add up to more than eight hours a day.
Sometimes he checked the day's work report in the early morning and when he was ready to leave work, he could still see that Ni Guangnan's chief engineer's office was still brightly lit.
Especially two years ago, the development of the Lenovo 286 computer entered the final stage of debugging the prototype.
At that time, seeing that the Hannover International Fair in Germany was about to open, the Lenovo 286 computer had not yet been completely finalized, and it was already at the last moment, and the plane was about to take off, and there were some small flaws.
There was no way, Chief Engineer Ni could only rush to the airport with the prototype, and then find a way to solve the problem after waiting for Germany.
He saw with his own eyes that Chief Engineer Ni was covered with dense blisters on his lips all day long.
When he returned to China, the doctor took a look at it and said that he was in a hurry, and then prescribed some defeats.
Of course, Lenovo's current achievements are inseparable from Ni Guangnan's hard work day and night.
If it weren't for Ni Guangnan leading Lenovo's technical team to overcome one difficulty after another and develop so many new products, Lenovo would never have developed so fast, if nothing else, Lenovo's revenue this year is expected to reach 500 million, an increase of more than 50% compared with last year.
"Chief Engineer Ni, how do you know that today is the day of the founding ceremony of Qingtian?"
Pressing down on the many surprises and mixed thoughts in his heart, Liu Chuanzhi asked with a smile.
"I didn't go to visit Wu Jiangxing today, hoping to learn a little bit of experience from him about the development of switches, so as to accumulate some experience for our Lenovo switches, but as soon as I arrived there, Wu Jiangxing said that he wanted to go, saying that he wanted to attend the inauguration ceremony of Qingtian, so I hurried back. ”
"You should know that Qingtian Communication is now the leader of domestic communication equipment, and its annual output value is three times that of Yanjing Cable Power Plant and Shencheng Bell combined, and if it is put into the world, it can probably rank third or fourth, and I heard that the production and manufacturing technology level of the factory is very high, and it has reached the world's top level. ”
"I think if I go to the inauguration ceremony today, can I meet the general manager of DynaSky, even the vice president, and ask them to agree, let me lead a team to the production workshop of DynaSky Communications, and it is best to visit their R&D center, talk to their scientific research and technical personnel, and learn some experience. ”
"This request, Qingtian Communications should agree, after all, they have agreed to so many colleagues in the communication industry to visit their workshops and R&D centers, but at that time, we Lenovo did not really plan to engage in switches, so we didn't think about going, and now we are determined to do it, which is passive, and now is the best opportunity for us to make up for it." ”
The more Ni Guangnan said, the more excited he became, his eyebrows fluttered, his eyes were shining, and he was flashing with dazzling light.
Since completing the research and development of Lenovo 486 computer motherboards, power supplies, and chassis three months ago, as well as the adaptation of other memory, cooling fans, hard disks, including cables, he has basically been idle.
After all, Intel's next-generation processors will only be ready to be released this month, and according to the past rules, the official sales will not be until at least half a year later.
Of course, those international PC manufacturers can now get involved in the development and adaptation of Intel's next-generation processors.
After all, to put it bluntly, the half year from the release of Intel's next-generation processors to the official sale is reserved for these PC manufacturers, except for Intel's own production capacity ramp-up and the accumulation of product quantities.
But obviously, at this time, Lenovo is not qualified to mix in the pre-research work that has not been released, and even received some support and help from Intel.
After all, Lenovo was just an agent of IBM personal computers and AST personal computers before, and it was only two years ago that Lenovo really developed its own computer brand.
Therefore, you can only wait until the Intel processor is officially released, and then you can pay for the Intel processor yourself, and then you can develop some accessories such as the motherboard and the corresponding adaptation work.
Moreover, it is said that Intel's next-generation processors have changed dramatically compared to this generation, and the naming convention is not the previous 186, 286 and the like, but what is the Pentium series.
According to the information released by Intel, the processors of the Pentium series can execute two program instructions per clock cycle, making its processing power much larger and faster than the previous generation of Intel chips. At the same processing speed, the Pentium processor executes instructions about five times faster than the 486.
This greatly reduced some of the research experience he had gained before, and he could only start his research after he actually got the Pentium processor.
And during such a long window period, he couldn't be idle, so he pondered what to study to see if he could add some new products to Lenovo Group.
Isn't that the target of the switch?
Although neither Hanka nor a personal computer seems to be the same thing as a switch, in addition to the need to apply more communication principles, the switch is actually not much different from a computer, which is composed of processors, memory, storage devices, power supplies, and motherboards.
The biggest difference is in the application of systems and functions, but for him, this is not a big problem.
Moreover, even Wu Jiangxing can get the 04 machine, why can't he do it?
You must know that before Wu Jiangxing engaged in 04, he was also engaged in computers like him.
In 1970, Wu Jiangxing participated in the development of the first integrated circuit computer in China, and served as the leader of the internal memory debugging team, and then participated in the development of the J103 million-time computer as a member of the chief engineer group, and later served as the chief designer, presiding over the development of the GP300 large-scale distributed computer system with a speed of 500 million operations per second.
It was only after 1985 that the transformation and research of program-controlled switches and communication network technology began, in fact, it was not a few years.
In 1964, he participated in the research and development of the first large-scale general-purpose digital electronic computer 119 machine researched, designed and manufactured by himself as the leader of the external equipment plug-in team, and later participated in the development of 17 monitors and SK-1 light pen graphic displays.
It was only in 1974 that he became more interested in the study of Chinese character processing, and he did not participate in the development of other computers.
Of course, this is not a pity, after all, he took out the Lenovo Hanka ten years later.
And another point, Wu Jiangxing's junior college and undergraduate are both computer engineering majors, while he studied radio as an undergraduate.
In the end, he completed all the university courses with a five-year score of 5 points, and his graduation thesis "Pulse Code Communication" also won the university's outstanding paper award.
It is precisely because of this that he was able to enter the Institute of Computer Science of the Academy of Sciences as soon as he graduated.
In other words, his communication is the right business, while Wu Jiangxing is not the right business.
So he is still very confident in his own switch.
Hearing Ni Guangnan mention the matter of R&D switches again, especially this enthusiastic appearance, Liu Chuanzhi's heart suddenly swelled with a sense of helplessness.
To be honest, he agreed with Ni Guangnan's idea of developing a switch, because the switch is indeed a huge profit, even if it is a hundred doors and a thousand doors, it can have nearly 60% of the gross profit.
But now the situation is different, because DynaSky Communications has come out.
And as soon as he made a move, he put on this posture of punching Nanshan and kicking Beihai, and even international communication giants such as Fujitsu, Lucent, and Dongwei Electric were beaten by Qingtian Communications and were embarrassed.
Finally had the power to parry, and Zhu Gehua shot again.
Moreover, since he wanted to make switches, he naturally managed to look at the sales plans of Qingtian Communications, Fujitsu, etc.
Seriously, after reading it, he only had one evaluation for Qingtian Communication!
Lunatic!
This is a plan made by people, he calculated and calculated, according to their plan of Qingtian Communications, this sale of switches, you must lose money, and the loss is not a star and a half, every time you sell a switch, you have to lose at least several million.
Moreover, the international giants such as Qingtian, Fujitsu, and Lucent have a lot of money, and dozens of billions of dollars are thrown in, and Lenovo's small body can't afford to play with it.
Take the advance to the Post and Telecommunications Bureau as an example, in terms of Lenovo's cash flow, if you can't advance a few units, it will be completely finished.
In addition, the R&D funds and the funds required to put into production of the switch are a burden that Lenovo can never bear now.
Of course, Lenovo can eat step by step as Ni Guangnan said, and make small switches first.
After all, the small switch technology is simple, the investment is small, and it also perfectly dodges the meat grinder where Qingtian and Fujitsu are located.
Because Qingtian and Fujitsu produce local 10,000-door program-controlled switches, they have not really extended their tentacles to the field of small and medium-sized switches, so those small and medium-sized switch companies are still living very well, and their profits have not been greatly affected.
After all, their customers are some factories and mines, hospitals, schools, rural telephone bureaus and the like, and these tens of millions of program-controlled switches worth tens of millions of doors are by no means affordable for these enterprises and institutions.
It's okay if that's it, but he knows Ni Guangnan too well, and after the switch project is launched, Ni Guangnan will definitely study the Wanmen program-controlled switch.
Then this is a big trouble, and even if it is not good, it will affect Lenovo's other businesses, which he absolutely does not want to see, and it is absolutely impossible to allow.
It is precisely because of this that he did not notify Ni Guangnan, but planned to take Yang Yuanqing over quietly, and then come back quietly to solve this matter quietly.
But who knows, people are not as good as heaven, Ni Guangnan actually got the news from Wu Jiangxing.
Ni Guangnan said a lot happily, just stopped his mouth, wanted to take a breath, and suddenly realized that it seemed that the atmosphere in the room was not quite right, and the two people in front of him were not as happy as he thought.
"Liu Dong, what's wrong?, is there anything wrong?" Ni Guangnan didn't hide it, and asked directly.
"It's nothing, I was just thinking about the feasibility of what Chief Engineer Ni said, I have to say, far-sighted, very feasibility, although we will not be able to get 10,000 doors program-controlled switch for a while and a half, but Qingtian communication is still very meaningful for us. Liu Chuanzhi said with a smile.
Hearing this, Ni Guangnan's face instantly filled with smiles again.
Looking at these two, almost holding hands, walking hand in hand, laughing and laughing continuously, Yang Yuanqing quietly wiped the sweat on his forehead in the back, and he found that his Taoism was really 108,000 miles behind Liu Dong.
At this moment, Ma Yun pushed open the door of Qingtian's chairman's office, only to hear a burst of noise in an instant, chirping like twenty ducks opening their mouths at the same time, and speaking Chinese, English, and Russian, I don't know how these people communicate together.
He took a big look, Berezovsky, Chen Mingyong, Yelena, Shen Wei, and Jin Zhijiang were all here, while Deng Jun was chatting with Mr. Fang.
If you count him again, it can be said that all the senior leaders of the entire Qingtian except for Duan Yongping, the president, are already here.
And in addition to them, there is Huawei's Ren Zhengfei, and a young man about twenty years old, with a young face and a worried expression.
After simply saying hello, he pulled Zhang Ying to sit down, they were all acquaintances anyway, and even Zhang Ying had already seen it at the reception banquet arranged by Mr. Fang yesterday.
At this time, Li Yinan felt that he was going crazy, just like a small boat in the stormy waves, which could be swallowed by the waves at any time.
Probably because they took care of Shen Wei and Jin Zhijiang, Berezovsky and Yelena spoke English when they communicated with them.
So the words president, vice president, mayor of Moscow, army, smuggling cars, etc., kept pouring into their ears.
The few people in front of him, especially the two Russians, are simply a one-handed existence in Russia.
It seems that there are no big people in Russia that they don't know, but what surprised him the most was that the Russian border guards were actually driven by them in an organized way to escort their smuggling cars and make a big fuss.