For the establishment of the new mobile phone company, Liu Ruoyi still owed HTC Sister Wang an explanation, so she made a special trip to Treasure Island and had an in-depth and frank communication with Mr. Wang.

For Liu Ruoyi, a new copycat mobile phone company with a preliminarily determined brand called "Tangerine" and a company called Gaowei Mobile Communications. Mr. Wang said that he didn't care, and the two sides were not at the same level at all.

HTC only has Apple in its eyes, and even the current Moto and Noki are no longer regarded as the main competitors, Moto and Nokee are still mainly focused on feature phones, and the so-called smart phones are just pseudo-smart - what kind of smart machines are "smart phones" without an application ecological chain.

And whether copycat mobile phone manufacturers like Gaowei Mobile Communications want to be "orange" or "Xiaomi" will not care at all in the eyes of Mr. Wang.

Elephants and ants have never been a battlefield, so Mr. Wang said very casually that it doesn't matter, there are not a hundred mobile phones in the mainland, at least there are dozens of them, and they don't care about one more miscellaneous fish.

Mr. Wang's attitude, Liu Ruoyi is very satisfied, the current PCCW has to rely on HTC's mobile phones to conquer the 3G market, because PCCW basically monopolizes the production capacity of most of HTC's Android mobile phones, and PCCW's new account opening pre-deposit phone bill to get cheap mobile phone strategy can not be replicated.

Lion City Telecom can only watch as PCCW continues to grow on its own turf.

There is no way, PCCW has made it clear that it is pouring money to open the way, and the method is still very ingenious, and the 3G network is also a perfect match with this Android phone, so even if Lion City Telecom is heartbroken that its high-end users have begun to lose, it cannot be stopped.

It is unlikely that the price of the phone bill will be reduced, but I have about 100 million users, and it will affect the whole body. There is no way to offer a separate discount for high-end users, so as not to anger more ordinary users.

PCCW relies on the pre-stored phone bills of high-end users, which basically ensures the normal income and expenditure of cash flow, and the burden is not enough to the point where Liu Ruoyi needs a blood transfusion.

Even if the expansion of 30 million users starts with the purchase of equipment.

After surpassing 10 million users, PCCW's profitability has increased a lot, with an annual recurring business surplus of more than 10 billion, although it is somewhat inadequate to directly support the expansion.

However, there is no problem in using this cash flow to support the loan construction network, and after large-scale capital expenditures, the company can still have billions of cash on its books for emergencies.

Yongxiang Bank also provides the best low-interest industrial loan support for PCCW, a high-quality customer.

Yongxiang Bank, with a capital of up to 1.5 trillion Hong Kong dollars, has now won large companies and industries related to Liu Ruoyi, including Aurora, Zhongxin International, PCCW, and even Xiao Li's Focus Media Department, and has begun to approach HSBC, the old king of Hong Kong, in the limelight.

Of course, in terms of strength, it can't be compared with this old financial powerhouse, but there is not much suspense about surpassing its Hang Seng.

Therefore, PCCW has no scruples about its development and has a solid capital foundation to compete with Lion City Telecom, a strong competitor.

Grabbing high-end users, this is just Liu Ruoyi's first wave of offend, waiting for this wave of offensive to slow down.

Network tuning is estimated to be about the same, and the next wave is the second wave of offensive against ordinary users.

Liu Ruoyi's second wave of offensive is mainly low-end customers, with the current capacity of tens of millions of users, the business department can at least develop 5 million low-end customers, so that the total number of customers reached about 8 million.

This hybrid user structure with a high proportion of high-end customers will bring a good user base to PCCW's network optimization and design.

This year's development will play a very important role in the next development.

When the expansion is completed next year, PCCW's third-wave development goal is to directly double the number of users.

At that time, the orange mobile phone should be able to catch up.

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With the advent of the MTK platform, there are more regular 1,000-yuan machines on the market, and PCCW's business department has finally determined a mobile phone manufacturer that ships within 1,000 yuan.

According to the customization needs of PCCW, the manufacturer customized the MTK platform version of WhatsApp with high-dimensional mobile Internet, as a killer application pushed out by Liu Ruoyi, and now this is the standard configuration for promotion.

Although the MTK platform of this thousand-yuan machine is not yet a 3G network, it can only be connected to the network through GPRS, but now WhatsApp, which is mainly text communication, is not a big problem, and it can be used very smoothly.

The first batch of millions of customized low-cost feature phones of 998 Hong Kong dollars, because of the built-in WhatsApp, so PCCW claims to be an entry-level smartphone.

Compared with high-end customers, the PCCW theONE Southeast Asia brand provides a pre-deposit of 1 year phone bill guarantee for 3 years, and only 499 Hong Kong dollars to get the mobile phone.

Or pre-deposit the phone bill for 3 years and get a mobile phone for free, the call fee and package are exactly the same as the typical package of Lion City Telecom.

This offer is simply full of fatal temptation for new users.

There are still few places where there are "free" mobile phone promotion packages, and Lion City Telecom has never launched such a service.

So the first batch of one million low-end mobile phones was sold in just over a month.

The competition launched by the ONE for low-end users, Lion City Telecom agreed that it could only be in a hurry.

1 million.

2 million.

3 million.

......

After accumulating more than 5 million customers, the ONE network brand has begun to take root in Southeast Asia, and Liu Ruoyi's initial battle for mobile customers has been successful!

In March 2009, the SPARC Open Alliance was established in Pengcheng, bringing together more than 10 large, medium and small server manufacturers and dozens of Solaris-based software developers, including long-standing supporters of SPARC such as Toyo's business giant FJT.

The newly established Pengcheng SPARC Lab is free and open to the Alliance, and if the server manufacturer wants to produce compatible SPARC servers, the SPARC Open Alliance will provide a license and a compatibility certificate through the Pengcheng SPARC Lab in the future.

All of this is a $100,000 a year for the Alliance to pay membership dues, which is all owned by the SPARC Open Alliance Association to maintain the operation of the SPARC Lab and the Alliance's meetings.

If the funds are insufficient, Solar Microsystems will fund it in full.

On this basis, Sun Microsystems proposed a plan for future Solaris cloud services, announcing that it will support Solaris software developers to deploy applications in the cloud in the future.

At the same time, some of the basic hardware for cloud deployment will be designed by itself, and some will be purchased from SPARC member server manufacturers, of course, the latter is purely from the perspective of cost, and the cost of Sun Microsystem's own research and development products is too high, if the purchase volume is small, it is definitely not cost-effective compared to purchasing compatible SPARC servers.

Obviously, these two news are a great positive for the SPRAC Alliance, and with this premise, after the establishment of the Alliance, new members have begun to apply to join.

The open source R&D roadmap for SPARC's new processors has also been opened, allowing future alliance members to produce these open source chips by applying for a free license and paying a fairly low cost for compatibility verification testing.

Of course, considering the cost of mass production, the alliance recommends that everyone unite to find foundries according to their own server production capacity and centralized usage.

In this way, a lot of start-up costs and production line introduction and adjustment costs can be saved.

Surprisingly, the alliance has not achieved much in other places, but in terms of mass production of UltraSPARC T2, an open-source model of CPU, after open source, everyone actually made up a million demands!

Because these were originally SPARC server distributors and authorized manufacturers such as FSJ, there were many orders from customers asking for upgrades, and after a meeting, the number was put together, and the number was as high as more than 200,000 units!

Considering future expansion and price factors, most of these servers are two-CPU dual-socket servers, and tens of thousands of them are four-socket servers with four CPUs replaced by data centers.

In this way, the demand has more than 700,000 pieces, considering everyone's maintenance and replacement needs in the future, we decided to produce more than 200,000 more backups, and the demand for 1 million was gathered.

This number makes the old employees of Sun Microsystem have a feeling of beeping a dog, if there is already a demand for these number of servers, report directly to the company, the company will not be out of business! At least it can survive for a few years.

In the solar microsystem, this is a multi-billion dollar business! The two-way server starts at least tens of thousands of dollars, and the four-way server generally starts at 50,000 dollars, and these hundreds of thousands of servers are enough for the solar microsystem to be busy for two years.

Of course, it can't be calculated like this now, authorized production, and the current cost is of course calculated according to the foundry cost of the foundry.

Originally, it was a 65nm process, and now Zhongxin International's DreamWorks in the mainland has a suitable process to produce production lines, and after handing over the demand to DreamWorks for accounting, plus the import cost and processing costs, etc., the preferential price is calculated at 500 US dollars!

When this price came out, the eyes of the would-be SPARC manufacturers who met in the alliance were a little green, which was simply robbed of money before.

Not to mention this kind of highest-end chip, the mainstream chip processor that used to be slightly passable doesn't cost thousands of dollars?!

With such a lucrative business, the solar microsystem can be broken, and everyone is really drunk.

It's just that these people have never thought about how much R&D expenses need to be invested in the development of this CPU, and Sun Microsystem has always been developed by itself, and after the production cost is amortized with R&D expenses, it is indeed a last resort.

The representative of the solar microsystem looked at everyone's eyes a little unkindly, and his heart was actually a little broken.

In fact, this $500 quotation is still because Zhongxin International has no experience in testing, verification and packaging, and if it has experience, the production cost will be further reduced a lot.

Of course, he couldn't say that, but everyone seemed to be very satisfied with the $500 thing, and he had a hunch that these SPARC-compatible server manufacturers would definitely do something in the server space.

In terms of performance alone, the SPARC T2 is already quite good, at least on Solaris, where it outperforms PowerPC's power6 servers.

For industries with high reliability requirements such as finance and telecommunications, there is a certain amount of demand.

After getting the news, Liu Ruoyi of Xiangjiang was a little surprised, but she quickly reacted and asked people to check the servers of Yongxiang Bank and PCCW, and found that a large number of servers were really using Sun Microsystem, but after years of construction, these servers are gradually entering the elimination stage.

Thinking that a large number of applications are still running well, Liu Ruoyi thought about it for a while and decided that it would not flow into the fields of outsiders.

She asked people to sort out the replacement demand, and with the demand of nearly 5,000 units, Tony Tsai put this demand into the first batch of SPARC T2 processors co-produced by the alliance, and forcibly increased the first batch of production demand to 1.2 million units!

Single-socket, dual-socket and 4-socket SPARC servers already have off-the-shelf solutions, and the data centers of Yongxiang Bank and PCCW have put forward the demand for ultra-minicomputers, which require at least 8-socket, preferably 16-socket and 32-socket high-performance ultra-minicomputers as database hosts!

Although the usage is not large, it is significant for the data centers of these two companies.

The reliability requirements of the telecommunications billing system and bank accounting system are extremely high, and the current system architecture has not yet developed to the cloud service composed of PC servers in the middle and late stages of the original time and space to deal with it.

Therefore, it is still necessary to rely on the performance of the heap server to solve the performance problem, the software system adjustment is too difficult, and the high cost is not an economically viable solution.

Schwartz got the demand, and there was also a feeling of being beeped by a dog. According to this order, it is at least $200 million from the highest.

Even at a relatively cheap price, it was more than $100 million.

There was no off-the-shelf solution for the 32-way SPARC T2 server, and that was because the original product department didn't think it would be needed, and the 8-way processor version of the SPARC T2 was already very powerful.

With 64 cores and 512 multi-threads, this server can handle the high-end requirements of today's very mainstream web servers and database servers.

But demand is king, Schwartz did not shirk the needs of customers, the original company developed the SPARC64 VI processor has a 32-way model, compared to the development of the same type of super small computer on this basis, the difficulty is there, but it is really not big.

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Southwest, Computer Center of X Academy.

Standing in front of a set of SUN SPARC Enterprise M9000 cabinets, Li Shijie was full of excitement and emotion.

"Old Song, your good days are coming. Turning his head to Song Jianjun in the simulation research laboratory, Li Shijie said with some excitement.

"Funding has been approved for the development of a new 64-channel SPARC server, and if nothing else, you will be able to use the new server within a year. That's at least ten times stronger than this guy, no, hundreds of times stronger!"

"This guy only has 64 cores, and your new partner in the future will have up to 512 cores that can be considered a supercomputer! But he doesn't have to be as expensive as a supercomputer, and he doesn't have to replace the software system we developed on the Solaris platform, which is a huge improvement. ”

"Lao Li, don't just paint cakes, we have gone through a lot of twists and turns to get our hands on this treasure in front of us, the one you are talking about is simply magical, can it be imported?" Song Jianjun was a little skeptical.

They are sensitive departments, and they will be rejected if they buy ordinary servers, not to mention that Li Shijie's pie is too big.

The performance has been improved by a hundredfold, and the progress of their work has to be accelerated by at least several times! This is a earth-shaking change for improving the core R&D and computing work of the entire base.

"This time we are not importing the whole machine, we are building it ourselves!" Li Shijie smiled mysteriously.

After giving Song Jianjun an unfathomable smile, he walked away without explaining.

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