Although it was early spring, the cold of spring followed.

Coming out of the gate of the Ministry of Electronics Industry, snowflakes were already fluttering outside.

Pang Xuelin couldn't help but cover his mouth with his hands, snorting cold.

Ni Guangnan said with a smile: "Mr. Pang, let's eat hot pot at night, I know that there is a copper pot shabu mutton, which tastes very good." ”

"Okay!"

Pang Xuelin naturally would not refuse.

Pang Xuelin followed Ni Guangnan into the car, and the two found a copper pot mutton restaurant near Dashilar, first asked for a copper pot soup base, and then ordered fresh-cut mutton, lamb shank, sheep brain, hairy tripe, shrimp slippery, cabbage, artemisia poles, mushrooms, oil bean skin, etc., and finally asked for six bottles of beer.

After the dishes were served, Ni Guangnan poured himself and Pang Xuelin a glass of beer respectively, and said: "Mr. Pang, this cup is for you, listening to your report during this time, I have benefited a lot." In the past, we used to say that we could see the world with our eyes open, but we were weak, and when we looked at the West with our heads and feet up, all we saw was a shadow that covered the sun. You are the first person I have ever seen in the ICT industry who really understands technology, has vision, and understands the laws of industrial development. ”

Pang Xuelin smiled and clinked glasses with Ni Guangnan: "Ni Gong, I've won the prize." ”

Ni Guangnan drank it all, shook his head and said: "What I said is not an exaggeration at all, don't look at us in recent years to engage in the introduction of foreign capital, thinking about exchanging the market for technology, but are those capitalists in the West stupid?" People don't know what we're thinking? As you said at the report meeting before, the IC industry is a capital-intensive, technology-intensive, and talent-intensive industry, and if we can't do these three things, then don't want to catch up with the West in a short period of time......"

Pang Xuelin smiled, he could feel the grievance in Ni Guangnan's heart.

Having been in this world for nearly a year and a half, Pang Xuelin has a very clear understanding of the development of China's industry.

It's better to buy than to build, which is the political correctness of this era.

The trend of the whole society is crazy and superstitious about the West, believing in the market economy, and opening up the market for foreigners.

Many domestic industries have fallen victim to this political correctness.

Yun Shi disbanded the R&D team, destroyed the technology platform, interrupted the accumulation of technology, lost a large number of talents, and even lost overseas.

The Ministry of Machinery Industry was abolished and the Instrument Industry Bureau was dissolved.

Abandoning the in-house manufacturing route of automobiles, experienced automobile manufacturing engineers have been transferred to research and assembly technicians in joint ventures, and have been completely isolated from the research and development process.

For example, in a joint venture of an automobile factory, there is a line on the drawings, and Chinese engineers cannot change it, and if they want to change it, they must also be reported to the foreign company by the foreigners.

This restrictive clause eliminates the possibility of Chinese engineers gradually understanding foreign technology by modifying the original design.

A large number of R&D personnel in the field of precision instrumentation have gone to sea, and many experienced high-level talents have been included in foreign-funded enterprises.

In the IC industry, the same is true of Ni Guangnan's technology, industry and trade and Liu Chuanjiao's trade, industry and technology dispute.

It is not until 2,000 years later that the Chinese understand that the latecomer market needs to be protected.

Without administrative and tariff protection, it is simply not capable of competing with international giants.

It's easy for someone else's stuff to crush your national industry.

So in 2004, when the Ministry of Railways introduced high-speed rail, China, which had learned to be obedient, played a classic Three Kingdoms killing.

At that time, the Ministry of Railways entrusted China Technology International Bidding Company to carry out 200 km/h EMUs for the sixth major speed increase of the railway, and the bidding announcement made it clear that the bidding enterprises must be "legally registered in the territory of the People's Republic of China, with railway EMU manufacturing capacity, and obtain technical support from foreign partners with mature 200 km/h railway EMU design and manufacturing technology (including Sino-foreign joint ventures)".

This passage is more winding, and it is explained in layman's terms, which means two things: first, the bidding company must be a Chinese enterprise, and Siemens, Bombardier, Alstom and Japanese high-speed rail manufacturers originally wanted to directly participate in the bidding, but this condition blocked them out.

Second, Chinese enterprises cannot invest casually, and must have the support of foreign enterprises with mature technology, which has blocked the "China Star", "Blue Arrow" and other domestic EMUs, because the real goal of the Ministry of Railways is to introduce foreign advanced technology.

In addition, the Ministry of Railways has only designated two companies to be able to introduce technology, one is Sifang Locomotive and Rolling Stock Co., Ltd. of CSR Group, and the other is Changchun Passenger Car Co., Ltd. of CNR, which is called a "strategic buyer".

The Ministry of Railways also requires that foreign manufacturers must sign perfect technology transfer contracts with domestic rolling stock companies before bidding, and if they fail to do so, they will be disqualified from bidding.

What's more ruthless is that the Ministry of Railways has also set up an assessment link, called "Technology Transfer Implementation Evaluation", the object of inspection is Chinese bidding enterprises, and the referee is the EMU Joint Office established by the Ministry of Railways, referred to as the "Joint Office".

Although you won the bid, but the Ministry of Railways does not pay first, and then foreign enterprises as teachers to teach skills to domestic enterprises, the joint office does not assess how well foreign enterprises teach, it only examines how well domestic enterprises learn, as long as domestic enterprises do not learn well, he does not pay.

To be honest, this regulation is a bit too overbearing, foreign companies not only have to teach wholeheartedly, but also are afraid of meeting stupid students, because even if he teaches wholeheartedly, if he encounters stupid students who can't learn well, his money will be wasted.

Therefore, with the help of the huge domestic market, in less than ten years, China has not only completed the work of independent and localized high-speed rail, but also completed the technical transcendence of the former teachers, and entered the overseas market, making it a bright business card made in China.

Even in the IGBT (insulated gate bipolar transistor chip), the core device of energy conversion and transmission (the core device of high-speed rail), China has also completed the localization, and as a national strategic emerging industry, it is applied in the fields of rail transit, smart grid, aerospace, electric vehicles and new energy equipment.

A similar scene also occurred in the LCD display industry, supercomputer industry, mobile phone industry, shield machine and other industrial fields, it can be said that the reason why China can rise rapidly in later generations is inseparable from the rapid development of these emerging industries.

It's just that in this era, it is really difficult to rely on China's current industrial base to overtake Western countries in the corner.

In the field of chips, both in terms of talent reserve and capital intensity, they are far inferior to Western companies.

The only way to develop is to slowly accumulate technology step by step.

When the technology accumulates to a certain extent and the scale of the Internet industry begins to rise, it is the time for Pang Xuelin and them to show their talents.

Pang Xuelin and Ni Guangnan were eating while chatting all over the world.

From the IC industry to the international political and economic situation, from domestic academic corruption to some gossip anecdotes in the industry.

When Ni Guangnan was a little dizzy, Pang Xuelin suddenly said loudly: "Ni Gong, are you interested in coming to Transwarp Technology?" We are going to work on video decoding chips and graphics card chips, and we need an experienced technical leader, and I think you are very suitable for this position. ”

Ni Guangnan was slightly stunned, and when he was slightly drunk, most of the wine woke up in an instant.

Ni Guangnan shook his head with a smile and said, "Mr. Pang, I believe in your vision and ability, but I am staying well in Lenovo now, and we also have a CPU research and development plan in the future, I still appreciate your kindness." ”

Pang Xuelin smiled faintly: "Ni Gong, do you think you can grab food from the Wintel Alliance by engaging in CPU on the basis of X86 instruction set?" ”

"Wintel Alliance?"

Ni Guangnan looked at Pang Xuelin puzzled.

Pang Xuelin smiled, Microsoft's revolutionary Windows operating system windows95 will not come out until next year, although Microsoft is already quite powerful at this time, but there is no Wintel alliance in the industry.

Pang Xuelin said lightly: "The Wintel alliance refers to Microsoft's Windows operating system and Intel/AMD's X86 chip, if nothing else, in the next twenty years, the CPU dominated by the X86 instruction set will undoubtedly dominate the entire personal computer market, and it is not a good way to collide with such a behemoth." ”

Ni Guangnan couldn't help but pause and said, "Then why don't we do anything?" Just watch the opportunity slip away from us. Didn't you still say at the report today that the PC market is about to explode? As long as we succeed in making X86 chips, there will always be a certain market. ”

Pang Xuelin looked at Ni Guangnan with a smile and said, "Ni Gong, do you really believe this?" ”

In Pang Xuelin's view, Ni Guangnan is a typical scientist and engineer, an idealist, and a patriot.

He is really the kind of person who sees money as dung, a quality that can be a scientist, but if you want to be an entrepreneur, you can only be a tragic figure.

In fact, this is also the fundamental reason why Ni Guangnan was finally excluded from Lenovo.

In later generations, some people also sprayed Ni Guangnan, saying that he shouldn't be desperate to build a personal computer CPU, and also mocked him with the Ark CPU and NC2000 machine pit people that he later forced.

But Ni Guangnan's real contribution is precisely that he has always been despised and ironic, campaigning for domestic chips, and even not hesitating to draw cakes, fooling, and even losing his reputation on the ark by being fooled.

However, compared to Ni Guangnan, what did Liu Chuanzhen do?

In the 90s, Ni Guangnan not only proposed core projects such as CPUs and operating systems, but also proposed displays, ASIC-related chips, large-scale system software, printing technology, and so on.

However, Liu Chuanzhen did not strictly select suitable projects from Ni Guangnan's projects that were in line with Lenovo's reality, and continued to cultivate in these fields, so that Ni Guangnan's scientific research team gradually grew up and became the backbone of the company.

Instead, it will be squeezed out directly, so as to embark on the road of no return to marketing, trade, and capital operation.

If a technology company does not focus on R&D, it will lose its soul!

If other companies give priority to trade because of their initial survival, it will be in the past.

However, Lenovo is the most technology-centric company.

Because you were backed by the Institute of Computing Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, you were backed by the most advanced technology and the best scientific research resources in the country at that time.

Pang Xuelin pondered for a moment, and then asked: "And, Ni Gong, do you really think that Mr. Liu will agree to invest a lot of Lenovo's resources in the research and development of CPUs?" ”

Ni Guangnan's face couldn't help but turn pale.

In fact, a few days ago, he had proposed to invest in R&D in the fields of operating systems, CPUs, and ASIC chips at Lenovo's internal board of directors, but the response was not optimistic.

In recent years, although Lenovo has developed rapidly, but the various struggles within the company have become increasingly fierce, and the dispute over the route of technology, industry and trade and trade will break out every once in a while, although Ni Guangnan does not think that he will lose, but thinking about it like this, Lenovo can really provide him with a stable research environment, Ni Guangnan does not dare to guarantee.

"Mr. Pang, do you have any plans for the research and development of chips?"

Ni Guangnan asked.

Pang Xuelin laughed and said, "Mr. Ni, you should have seen the heat of our Star Ring CVD, right?" ”

Ni Guangnan nodded.

Pang Xuelin said: "Last year, our company's revenue exceeded 500 million yuan (not counting stock market income), and this year I am sure that the company's total revenue is not less than 3 billion. Of course, the short-term goal is the video decoding chip, after all, this chip can be directly used in its own products and can be realized at any time, the medium-term goal is the motherboard, graphics card, DSP chip, FPGA chip, IGBT chip and some reduced instruction set chips used in the industrial field, and the long-term goal is personal computer chips and server chips......"

Ni Guangnan's eyes couldn't help but light up.

Compared with Lenovo's buckle rope, Pang Xuelin is really atmospheric in terms of scientific research funding.

Pang Xuelin paused and continued: "And I will also cooperate with Lanzhou University, Chang'an Jiaotong University, Huake, University of Electronic Science and Technology, Xidian, Beijing University of Posts and Posts and other schools to strengthen the training of computer hardware engineers, and at the same time, I will also poach people from major domestic scientific research institutes, as long as someone is willing to come, the treatment will be doubled, and the company will also recruit returnees from top foreign universities to enrich our talent pool as much as possible!" ”

Ni Guangnan was obviously a little moved by Pang Xuelin's words, pondered for a moment, and said: "Mr. Pang, I have to think about what you said, and you also know that my position within Lenovo is not low, even if I want to leave, it is not so easy." ”

Pang Xuelin laughed, raised his glass and said, "Ni Gong, this is not in a hurry, I will wait for you at any time when it is convenient for you to come over!" ”

Ni Guangnan breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That's good, Mr. Pang, cheers!" ”

"Cheers!"

……

That night, the two talked until nine o'clock before the dinner ended.

Pang Xuelin returned directly to the hotel, and as soon as he returned to the room, Pang Xuelin's eldest brother rang.

Pang Xuelin hurriedly picked up the phone, and Sun Yansheng's voice rang on the other end of the phone: "Mr. Pang, are you still in Beijing?" ”

"Yes, what's wrong?"

"I'll be in Beijing tomorrow morning, and we'll talk then!"

"Okay, no problem."

Hanging up the phone, the smile on Pang Xuelin's face became a little bigger.