Chapter 159: Ni Guangnan
Zhu Bangfu is indeed a very talented person, otherwise he would not have been exposed to programming languages until he was 40 years old, but he could have invented the Cangjie input method and the Chinese coding system that can accommodate more than 50,000 words.
Under his leadership, the technical team continued to overcome various difficulties, and the Chinese traditional Chinese version of Hanka soon had a prototype.
At the same time, for the research and development of the Chinese simplified Chinese version of Hanka, Wu Ming constantly sent people to the mainland to invite another great talent, Ni Guangnan.
Anyone who is familiar with the history of Lenovo should know this person.
After graduating from Jinling Institute of Technology (now Southeast University) in 1961, he entered the Institute of Computing Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. As an early scientific research worker of the institute, he has experienced the process of China's computer from scratch.
According to the development of the original historical trajectory, Ni Guangnan will work at the National Institute of Canada in August this year as a visiting researcher, with an annual salary of 43,000 Canadian dollars, which is equivalent to 70 times the domestic salary at the official exchange rate, and belongs to the 5% of Canada's high-income group.
However, Ni Guangnan eventually gave up the opportunity to stay in Canada with a high salary, and returned to China in 1983 to devote himself to the industrialization of Chinese character processing technology.
In 1984, Ni Guangnan took all the technology of Lenovo Hanka to join the predecessor of Lenovo Group, the Computing Institute Company. In the first few years, Lenovo Group's profits were almost all brought by Lenovo Hanka.
Later, Ni Guangnan led the team to develop a Lenovo brand microcomputer with a self-designed motherboard. It is an exaggeration to say that without Ni Guangnan, there would be no Lenovo Group.
It's a pity that Ni Guangnan, who later had the dream of a strong country, wanted to develop independently, and had a dispute with the managers led by Liu Chuanzhi, who was bent on acting as an agent for foreign products. Then he was kicked out of the company.
History proves Ni Guangnan's foresight. Lenovo eliminated the program-controlled switch division that Ni Guangnan spent his energy building to establish, and missed the strategic opportunity for ICT convergence. At that time, Huawei, which started much later than Lenovo and was not as large as Lenovo's program-controlled switch division, later left Lenovo far behind and became a model of Huaxia high-tech company and dominated the international market.
If Ni Guangnan had not been driven away at that time, with the "combination of production, education and research" of Lenovo and Fudan, there would be almost no competitors in China.
Instead of becoming the "pick-up man" that netizens later jokingly called, he bought the notebook, server and mobile phone terminal business eliminated by others one after another, and spent a lot of money to buy the technology that these foreigners had eliminated.
In order to attract this talent, Wu Ming can be said to have worked hard. not only offered a high salary of one million Hong Kong dollars per year, but also promised to give him sufficient R&D funds.
Under the temptation of Wu Ming's various conditions, Ni Guangnan was finally fooled at the end of May.
Wu Ming looked at the middle-aged man sitting opposite with a smile on his face, and said with a faint smile: "Mr. Ni, you have finally agreed to join us." ”
Ni Guangnan's face suddenly became a little gloomy when he heard this, and he didn't care that it was a child opposite. His eyes widened, and he said unhappily: "Little ghost, if it weren't for so many people to persuade me, I wouldn't have worked for you, a capitalist!"
Wu Ming smiled, not caring about Ni Guangnan's words. In order to invite this talent to join his company, he did use some small means. You can't blame others for whining.
"I believe that Mr. Ni will understand me in the future, and I am also for Mr. Ni's good!" Wu Ming smiled.
"For my good?" Ni Guangnan suddenly became angry and shouted, "For my own good, do you want to force me to work for you like this? Even if you are a child, you are also a capitalist, and you are all a raccoon dog." ”
Wu Ming showed a helpless look on his face, and said with a wry smile: "But I invited Mr. Ni to you for so long, and you have always refused." In a hurry, I had no choice but to make this decision. ”
Then Wu Ming said seriously: "I am doing this in order to develop a Hanka as soon as possible, so that the mainland can enter the information office." At the same time, it is also to enable the development of the software development industry in the mainland so that the level will not be too bad that of foreign countries. ”
In fact, the reason is naturally not exactly as Wu Ming said, but this is also one of the main reasons.
As the old saying goes, if you are poor, you will be good alone, and if you are good, you will help the world.
In his previous life, Wu Ming was just a small programmer who could only manage his own one-third of an acre. In order to make a living, he works non-stop every day.
But after being reborn, Wu Ming relied on the memories of his previous life to establish a large industry. If this continues, sooner or later he will become one of the top people in the world. At least surpassing Bill Gates in his previous life is definitely not a problem.
He already has the ability to make a contribution to the rise of China.
American psychologist Abraham Maslow divided people's needs into five types, from low to high: physiological needs, safety needs, social needs, respect needs and self-actualization needs.
The first four needs, Wu Ming is at his fingertips. So now he wants to reach the state of self-realization, that is, to realize his personal ideals and ambitions.
He doesn't care about anything else, at least in terms of computers. He must let Huaxia catch up with the United States, or even surpass it.
When Ni Guangnan heard Wu Ming say this, his anger disappeared a lot. But he was still angry, and said in a deep voice: "Then you don't have to threaten me with the production authorization of ARM8 chips!"
At the end of last year, Wu Ming had already sent someone to the mainland to invite Ni Guangnan and ask him to join the Xiangjiang branch of Polaris Software and become the technical director here.
It's just that at that time, Star Computer and Polaris Software were not famous at all, so how could Ni Guangnan join this kind of leather bag company! Even if Wu Ming offered a very high salary, he was still unmoved.
Even if during the Chinese New Year, Wu Ming personally came to the door and looked at the thatched house, it was useless. Because Wu Ming's Xingchen Entertainment is so famous, even people in the mainland know that this is a top company in the game industry. Ni Guangnan didn't want to become a game developer in the future.
Even if Wu Ming explained many times, Wu Ming's concept of developing games was already preconceived, and Ni Guangnan didn't believe that he really wanted to enter the computer industry. thought that he, a rich boy, was just impulsive.
Fortunately, some research institutes in the mainland came to the door for the CPU thing, and the fact that Aihua Electronics developed a reduced instruction set CPU at that time shocked the world. Although Huaxia is not well developed, it also knows that Wu Ming, a person who has gone out from the mainland, has developed an advanced 8-bit CPU. At that time, China was thinking about the localization of CPUs, so I found Wu Ming.
Wu Ming wanted to agree on the spot at that time, after all, the 16 CPU was already under development, and the 8 chip didn't need to be held in his hand.
Then he suddenly had an idea, and thought that he could use the production authorization of ARM8 chips as a condition to let China send Ni Guangnan over.