When it comes to Ni Guangnan, we have to say that the classic case in the commercial field in later generations, the "Liu Ni Dispute", is also called the dispute between "technology, industry and trade" or "trade, industry and technology".

This is a huge dispute that affects not only Lenovo, but also the development of computer technology in China as a whole.

The so-called technology refers to technology research and development.

The so-called work refers to production and processing.

The so-called trade refers to commercial trade.

The controversy between "technology, industry and trade" and "trade, industry and technology" refers to whether technology is given priority or trade is given priority.

This is a huge dispute caused by the development focus in the process of expansion.

As we all know, whether in the past, at present, or in the future, China's electronics industry, including computer hardware, has always used foreign components for assembly.

Especially in the computer area, most of the chips, including the core chip CPU, are imported from foreign products to assemble.

This is a huge constraint on the development of China's computer industry.

In the business of Lenovo, Liu Chuanzhi is the president, Ni Guangnan is the chief engineer, one is a respected entrepreneur, and the other is an effective scientist.

One person is in charge of business and one person is in charge of technology.

It stands to reason that this is a perfect match.

In the beginning, it was.

In order to establish the image of Lenovo as a high-tech company and to launch his own "technical business card", Liu Chuanzhi began a god-making campaign against Ni Guangnan, and in order to maintain the prestige of "God", Liu Chuanzhi even did not hesitate to damage his authority.

Lenovo's president and chief engineer, the intimate "Gemini" became a role model for many companies at that time.

However, one who operates according to market thinking and one who does research according to technical thinking are destined to conflict in the direction of the company's development.

This is the conflict between trade, industry and technology and technology.

According to Liu Chuanzhi's idea, on the road of the development of the computer industry, according to the existing situation, Lenovo must first develop trade and earn sufficient profits through assembly, and then have sufficient economic conditions to conduct technical research.

However, Ni Guangnan felt that in order to break out of the development of China's computer industry under the numerous technical barriers of foreign countries, it was necessary to start its own product and technology research and development as soon as possible.

Only with its own technical patents and products can it really become bigger and stronger.

It is a fierce contradiction and conflict.

At the beginning of the conflict, Liu Chuanzhi successfully alleviated this contradiction with his high emotional intelligence and his generosity.

But in 1994, Microsoft launched the Chinese version of indos 3.2, which made Lenovo Hanka useless.

You know, this is a business that Ni Guangnan has put a lot of effort into.

Before 1994, Lenovo Hanka was also one of Lenovo's pillar industries, relying on Lenovo Hanka, which not only gained huge profits, but also gained a huge reputation.

However, as soon as the Chinese version of indos was launched, Lenovo Hanka, based on hardware technology, was abolished at once, and there was no chance of saving.

After learning from the pain, Ni Guangnan felt that China's computer industry must have its own core technology.

As a result, the contradiction escalated.

In terms of personality, Ni Guangnan is a typical technical thinker, belonging to the kind with low emotional intelligence, and it is difficult for anyone to change his mind about what he identifies, including Liu Chuanzhi.

Unless he hits the south wall and is willing to turn back.

In the case of escalating contradictions, no matter how high Liu Chuanzhi's emotional intelligence is, it will never be eased.

It's a conflict over each other's bottom lines.

The most important thing is that in the previous god-making movement, Ni Guangnan had become accustomed to anyone obeying him.

But now, people up and down Lenovo, including Liu Chuanzhi, began to say no to him, which made it difficult for him to accept it all of a sudden.

People with low emotional intelligence and tendons are easily overdone under the influence of extreme emotions.

Because of the opposition, Ni Guangnan began to take a series of extreme measures against Liu Chuanzhi, including reporting to the Computer Research Institute, saying that Liu Chuanzhi was suspected of corruption and the like.

As a result, the decades-long friendship between the two broke down.

In desperation, the resolute Liu Chuanzhi directly swept Ni Guangnan out of the door of Lenovo.

This is the famous Liu Ni dispute in the industry.

The controversy over trade, industry and technology and technology caused an uproar throughout the country at that time, and later generations regarded it as a typical business case.

The reason why it can be typical is because the story is not over yet.

There is no doubt that Liu Chuanzhi, who swept Ni Guangnan out of the house, eventually achieved great success, as evidenced by the fact that Lenovo led by him can become one of the world's top 500 companies and the world's largest PC manufacturer.

However, what if Ni Guangnan was not swept away?

The result?

This problem also involved another business of Lenovo at that time, that is, the program-controlled switch division personally presided over by Ni Guangnan.

When Lenovo Group's development is booming, Ni Guangnan, who has always been a strong advocate of independent core technology, insisted that Lenovo should enter the core technology in the next step and make early deployment in line with the trend of computer and communication convergence (ICT).

To this end, Ni Guangnan established a project in 1992 to develop Lenovo program-controlled switches.

In July 1994, Lenovo and Huawei obtained the network access certificate at the same time.

At that time, Lenovo's program-controlled switch division had become the second largest department of Lenovo Group, second only to the microcomputer department led by Yang Yuanqing, and its overall strength surpassed that of Huawei at that time, and even Zhongnanhai purchased Lenovo's program-controlled switch.

But as soon as Ni Guangnan was swept away, Lenovo's program-controlled switch division quickly disappeared.

Some people in later generations have been analyzing: If Ni Guangnan had not been swept out of the house and continued to develop the program-controlled switch business according to his ideas, would Lenovo be better than Huawei in later generations?

This is not a dream.

You must know that Ni Guangnan is a well-known technical expert of the Institute of Computer Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his influence in the industry is very large, and he can easily organize a group of technology research and development forces.

If the relationship between the two does not break down, his skills, coupled with Liu Chuanzhi's marketing skills, that kind of assumption is not impossible.

You must know that in later generations, Huawei eventually developed into the world's No. 1 telecommunications equipment manufacturer and wireless communication network solution provider, and its status is far from being comparable to Lenovo.

As for the result, this is just a conjecture of later generations, and no one has a definite answer.

As for the current Wu Xiaozheng, he doesn't care about that result.

What he cares about is that a computer expert and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, who is destined to be swept away by Lenovo, appears in front of him, does he need to catch it?

Does he have what it takes to catch it?

You must know that Ni Guangnan is not only an expert, but also a hard bone that is difficult to gnaw, and ordinary people can't convince him at all.