Chapter 46: Digging a Pit

If you go back to 20 Chinese New Year's Eve years ago, how are you going to make a fortune? Generally speaking, you can buy lottery tickets for the World Cup and the Olympic Games, and then use the prize money to buy a house and buy gold, and then enter the Internet market, at least a capital predator, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, there is no problem.

If you have some financial and management skills, you can choose to run an industrial business.

In the early years, two refrigerator production lines were introduced, and then you could lie down and count the money.

But remember to sell the production line in 8788, and then wait for the 90s to enter the stock market, what is the deep development of the Bohai Sea in Lu Province and the like, at this time there is anything on the stock market to buy it, anyway, it is brainless to make money, as long as you remember to hide from the 327 treasury bonds in 95.

By the mid-90s, you've killed all the invincible players in China's stock market, and it's time to get out of the novice village.

went to the United States to acquire various Internet and Internet concept stocks, but it is still a brainless wave, and the impression is just to collect.

Wait until the dot-com bubble of 2001 and remember to sell it, and then wait for the bottom.

If you want to prosper the country, you can also use the abundant capital - in the 90s, I guess you will not forget about shearing Japanese wool and the Southeast Asian financial crisis.

You, who are worth tens of billions of dollars, will then acquire various high-tech industries, and then try to move back to China for industrial layout and build a technology empire.

By around 2010, it is estimated that you have reached the top of the world, and you are alone.

But these practices are a little too unchallenging for Hu Wenhai.

Yes, it's challenging.

At a glance, the course of development has been decided, as long as you accumulate money step by step, and then wait to be worshipped.

How boring is this kind of life, which is hardly challenging?

If it's written as a time-traveling novel, it's probably a proper street fight, right?

So for Hu Wenhai, what is money?

In the end, it's just a piece of paper, and it's ridiculous to say that people who take it as a pursuit often don't get it.

And those who do not have it in their eyes are favored by it.

As a reborn, Hu Wenhai's cousin after arriving in the United States has long proved that money is not an obstacle for him.

If you need to, you can always find a way to make money.

If a person is not short of money, his eyes will naturally not be fixed on money.

Hu Wenhai still remembers that he once wrote a time-traveling novel, in which the protagonist traveled to the Austro-Crarian Empire to become Princess Sissi, and in the American Civil War, he took it for granted that he supported the north to curry favor with all kinds of products and sell them to make money.

However, after the reunification of the United States, he suddenly realized why he didn't support the South in bloodletting the United States, or even simply split the United States, or let the United States maintain slavery?

Yes, that's the angle.

Hu Wenhai pulled his eyes away from the perspective of making money, and couldn't help but ask himself, can he ruthlessly pit Americans once before the Internet starts?

To put it simply, Hu Wenhai felt absolutely necessary to try to see if he could lead the Americans to the ditch.

As long as he thought that in the future, the US information industry might develop into a crooked technology tree like Japan's, Hu Wenhai felt that he would not be reborn again in vain.

So, how do you get the Americans into the ditch?

Hu Wenhai thought about it and decided that he couldn't give Intel a hand first.

And Cisco is the one Hu Wenhai chose to use to stab Intel.

But of course, he hasn't fully figured out the specific plan yet.

But at least one idea at the moment is one that he thinks is possible.

Intel is undoubtedly a monopoly, and the agribusiness AMD has never essentially threatened Intel's dominance.

It is this monopoly that allows Intel to maintain a closed system, rather than an open system like ARM.

In the entire x86 architecture market, Intel is the king of facts.

Intel was able to gain a monopoly position, firstly because there were no competitors in the same class, and secondly, because it did not have a similar monopoly in the downstream market.

Think about the fact that there are no assembly machines in this world, and the sales of brand machines are concentrated in the hands of one or two large enterprises.

No matter how much Intel calls for wind and rain in the chip market, it has to kneel in the face of the downstream of the same monopoly, at least it must be greatly suppressed.

So, how can you eliminate the assembly machine and dominate the entire brand machine in one fell swoop?

Hu Wenhai believes that the key to this lies in the elimination of "computers"

concept.

At least who has heard that someone has gone to buy an assembly TV?

Who cares about how much memory the TV has when buying a TV, what kind of on-chip system is used, and what brand of adapter is used?

No consumer will care about these,What they care more about is whether the appearance of the TV is beautiful,Is the plane at right angles,How big is the size,All of them are some intuitive numbers。

Why is this happening?

Because in the minds of consumers, TVs are consumer goods, while computers are scientific devices.

Hu Wenhai's goal is to turn computers into consumer goods like televisions.

Only in this way can it be possible to produce a downstream force that can sit on an equal footing with Intel.

Only in this way can we easily get rid of the x86 architecture system one day.

Reflecting on the implementation of this strategy, Hu Wenhai's first thing to do is to change the cornerstone of the future Inte network - routers.

Since you want to sell computers as TVs, let's first transform the TV network.

However, these ideas are still relatively far-sighted, and for the time being, Hu Wenhai needs to grasp the direction of Cisco's development first.

"Because I think the talents of both of them can be trusted. ”

Hu Wenhai's face remained unchanged, and he said sincerely: "The router will definitely be able to achieve market success under the promotion of the new company, so why should I do superfluous things? I hope that the two of you can give me a chance, not only to acquire the patent share in the hands of Stanford University, but also to take out a sum of money for the formation of the new company, as the initial operating expenses." ”

"I don't know Mr. Hu...... How many shares do you intend to own?"

Leonard asked cautiously.

"I'd like to start by asking, what is the current transmission rate of your multi-protocol routers?"

Hu Wenhai did not answer directly, but threw out another question.

Leonard and Santi glanced at each other, and then hesitantly said the answer: "Our router can reach a transfer speed of 64KB/s." ”

"But your router still uses a leased line?"

"Yes, with coaxial cables. ”

Leonard nodded in acknowledgement.

Hu Wenhai couldn't help but laugh when he heard his answer.

After all, this is 1984, the era when the Internet has not yet been invented, and it is the wild era of the Internet.

There are three types of network protocols, X.25TCP/IP and IPX/SPX, which are composed of LAN networks that cannot communicate with each other because of different protocols.

It is not right to say that there is no Internet, because at this time, the original network of the United States is still stored in Zài, and it can communicate through the telephone line, but this efficiency is quite "hehe"

Finish.

At this time, the modem used in the military network is the 80-103A produced by the Hayes company, and the transmission rate is only a pitiful 1.2Kbit/s.

The unit is Kbit/s, which means that the real speed of KB/s is divided by 8 in the application...... In order to transfer several points between two computer LANs, of course, a relatively large amount of bandwidth is required.

Cisco's routers can reach a speed of 64KB/s, which is already the speed of 512K broadband in later generations.

For the LAN in 1984, it was already quite a speed.

But in order to have such a fast speed, the price is the cost.

Cisco's early routers were not small, and the operation and maintenance were also complicated, so the line could only be a dedicated line, not to mention the use of local calls!

Moreover, it has to be a coaxial cable line.

This construction cost is really unbearable.

"Well, I have an idea. ”

Hu Wenhai vowed: "If the two of you agree with my idea, then I can invest one million dollars, accounting for 49% of the shares." If you don't think it's appropriate, then it's a pity, and I'm willing to pay $300,000, 30% of the shares. ”

This is clearly an unequal choice, with 1 million on one side accounting for 49% and 300,000 on the other side accounting for 30%.

The former is equivalent to valuing the future Cisco at 2.04 million, while the latter valuing Cisco at 1 million.

But instead of recklessly choosing the former, Leonard asked, "Can I listen to your idea?"

"Absolutely. ”

Hu Wenhai said briskly: "I have a plan, what if we connect all the local area networks in the whole United States through the guò router?"

"It's not possible for the time being, it's too costly. ”

Leonard subconsciously retorted.

"No, the cost is low, we work with cable networks. The plan to transform the cable television network and use cable television transmission lines is not out of reach. ”

"This ......"

"Think what a big market!"

Seeing that Leonard was a little hesitant, Hu Wenhai made persistent efforts and said: "Relying on the company's own slow promotion, how long will it take for the market to accept the router product? If you can get through the network of the guò cable TV network and directly enter the homes of many ordinary people, this is the real big market!"

"What kind of ordinary person, what do you do with a router in your home?"

"There's a lot we can do, we can develop a new product that can connect to a TV to output images and access other computers through the guò router. You can play games, visit WÈN's newsgroups, work on WP, and even visit WÈN's LAN to collaborate with others. Of course, there are many other features that we can develop over time. I gave it a name, it's called a home information terminal, or you can call it a TV box. The most important thing is that the operation of this product will be extremely simple, so that even people who have never touched a computer can use it lightly......"

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