"Mr. Chen, let's go. ”

In the Zhongguancun VIA Electronics Office Building, two middle-aged men are standing there.

These two, one is Chen Wenqi, CEO of VIA Electronics, and the other is his good helper, Lin Zimo, who is also the deputy general manager of VIA Electronics. It's just that the two didn't have the high spirit to come to Zhongguancun back then, when they came to Zhongguancun in Beishi from Taiwan and established an office building in Zhongguancun, they hoped to take the opportunity in the mainland market to have a long time with Intel.

Unfortunately, it backfired.

Over the years, their chip business has been losing and retreating.

At that time, Chen Wenqi once thought that this was because Yingerte was engaged in monopoly, and they were suppressing VIA Electronics.

But then Chen Wenqi thought clearly, this is not Intel's monopoly, but that they had a lot of technologies in Intel's hands before.

For example, in their chipset business, Intel itself integrated the Northbridge chip into the CPU, and VIA's business was directly lost. And then again, VIA actually seized on Intel's mistakes back then, which created the situation of VIA Electronics.

Now that Intel has grown up, it's normal to suppress you.

However, despite this, Chen Wenqi is not a person who takes defeat lightly.

The chipset business was suppressed by Intel, and they also had the CPU business.

Although it is not as good as Intel in terms of overall performance, VIA is more powerful than Intel in terms of energy consumption.

To this end, they targeted the laptop market.

In addition, for the laptop market, VIA has also launched a CPU called "C3".

But VIA is strong, and Intel is even stronger.

At the time of VIA's launch of the C3 processor, Intel launched an epoch-making technology last year, Centrino Technology.

Centrino Technology is not a processor, he is the brand name of a mobile computer technology launched by Intel.

The technology consists of three main components: a PentiumM processor with a 90nm Dothan core (2MB L2 cache, 533MHz FSB), a new Aviso chipset, and a new wireless module, Calexico2 (Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG or 2200BG wireless LAN component).

Once the technology was launched, it quickly became a benchmark in the notebook industry, and VIA's C3 processor was directly killed.

At this point, the PK dream between VIA Electronics and Intel was shattered.

VIA Electronics no longer has the strength to compete with Intel.

At the same time, the VIA Electronics branch in Zhongguancun was also closed.

"Zimo, what do you say we will do with VIA in the future?"

Looking at the four words of VIA Electronics, which will be delisted in the future, Chen Wenqi sighed.

I remembered that the ambition to compete with Intel back then has become a joke today.

This kind of gap is really incomprehensible to ordinary people.

"Mr. Chen, we ......"

Lin Zimo opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.

While Intel's crackdown is unlikely to bring VIA out of business, it has become insignificant.

At most, they can pick some less important chipset businesses to do, but then they want to change the pattern and affect the entire industry, even with Intel Pk, which is a fool's dream.

"Mr. Chen, victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, let's go back to Taiwan and think about it, we will always find a way. ”

This is naturally comforting.

Lin Zimo, who has a technical background, knows that the brand of VIA Electronics will be less and less known in the future.

Or in the next ten or twenty years, maybe no one has even heard of the name VIA.

"Zi Mo, don't comfort me, you know better than me about the situation of our VIA Electronics. ”

Chen Wenqi smiled bitterly, and then said, "Zimo, how old are you now?"

"45, Mr. Chen, what's wrong?"

"I'm 3 years older than you, 48, and 50 in two years, shouldn't we retire?"

"Mr. Chen, where did you think of it again? ”

"Okay, okay, just kidding, at 50, if I retire, I won't die alone. ”

Although the market has been defeated by Intel, VIA has also had a brilliant time.

And isn't VIA still dead?

"By the way, will the guy who is going to rent our building come for a while?"

He said. ”

"Okay, wait for him. ”

The branch here in Zhongguancun is going to be closed, so naturally you have to find the next sublease.

If it was normal times, how could Chen Wenqi have time to deal with this matter, just leave it to the company's people to deal with.

However, I heard that the person who subleased their office building seems to be doing IT, and he is still a young man in his 20s.

This made Chen Wenqi very curious about this young man.

Is it necessary to build such a large office building in your 20s?

After waiting for about ten minutes, the person Chen Wenqi wanted to see came.

"I'm sorry, you two, for keeping you waiting. ”

"You're the one who just rented our office building?"

"Yes, my surname is Chen, Mr. Chen, and we are our family. ”

The person who came was none other than Chen Yu.

When he knew that Chen Wenqi was in Beishi, Chen Yu killed Zhongguancun.

Before, he thought that if he wanted to find Chen Wenqi, he would have to go to Taiwan.

It seems that I am lucky to be able to meet him in the mainland this time.

"Looks like it's fate. ”

Chen Wenqi shook hands with Chen Yu.

"Mr. Chen, I don't know what you are renting this office building for?"

"Laptop. ”

"Do you represent a computer brand?"

"No, we're going to launch a brand new laptop, which I call a netbook. ”

"Netbook, what does that mean?"

It is a notebook that is positioned for ordinary users to chat online. ”

Chen Yu explained the concept of this website.

Both of them are experts in this area, but when they heard it, Chen Wenqi and Lin Zimo were suddenly moved.

Chen Wenqi glanced at Lin Zimo, and Lin Zimo said knowingly: "The idea of this netbook is very creative, can you talk about it specifically?"

"Of course. ”

Chen Yu nodded, and then said: "It seems that our netbook is a kind of notebook, but it is actually completely different from the traditional notebook. We didn't plan to install Microsoft's Windows operating system, because I thought it was too expensive and bulky, and we were going to install a leaner, smoother Linux system. In addition, for CPUs, we also wanted to find a CPU that was smaller and consumed less power. For example......"

Speaking of this, Chen Yu looked at Chen Wenqi: "For example, your company's C3 processor. ”

That's right.

What is the sublease of the office building of VIA Electronics, Chen Yu is waiting for Chen Wenqi today.

"May I ask who you are?"

Looking at Chen Yu.

Chen Wenqi and Lin Zimo's hearts were turbulent.

They didn't expect that when they were terrified of ashes, a miracle suddenly appeared.

A young man in his 20s made them feel empowered, and they figured out everything at once.

It's just that when they look at Chen Yu again, they know.

The 20-year-old man in front of him is definitely not an ordinary tenant who subleases their office building.

"Reacquaint. ”

Chen Yu stretched out his hand again: "CEO of Huanyu Technology, Chen Yu." ”

As he spoke, Chen Yu introduced himself once.