The 155th body is in API, and the heart is in IFI

In April 2004, China compromised at the 15th Sino-American Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade and postponed the enforcement of the API standard indefinitely.

However, this is not the end of the IPI standard battle.

In July 2004, Huaguo tried to push the API into the international standard. On the way, progress was not good, and the Chinese delegation even protested against the unfair treatment and resolutely withdrew from the Frankfurt conference in February 2005.

In May 2005, ISO/IEC, which was born from the strengthening of cooperation between the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Organization (IEC), proposed to merge the Chinese wireless LAN standard API and the American wireless LAN standard IEEE8802.11i) in order to reconcile the dispute between the API delegation and the IEEE.

In August 2005, the proposed merger of API and IEEE802.11i failed, with both sides stating that the two standards could not be merged and would be presented as separate proposals.

On October 7, 2005, API and IEEE802.11i entered the substantive voting phase for 5 months at the same time.

In order to escort the API standard war, the State Council immediately coordinated with the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Information Industry, the Ministry of Science and Technology and other departments to hold an inter-ministerial joint meeting to prepare for the API Industry Alliance in China.

Although Zhiyu is a new company, its status cannot be ignored.

The Cambrian 2004C of Zhiyu Information Industry is the top of the list of the world's top 500 supercomputers in June 2005, and the newly developed Cambrian 2004D has set a new record with 844 trillion Linpack calculations per second, and has gradually become a new century cultural brand that China's 1.3 billion people are proud of. The Cambrian 2007 project in the preparation of Zhiyu Information Industry is determined to develop domestic chips for supercomputers. Huaguo wants to play against the IFI alliance led by Intel, how can it be without the bayonet of Zhiyu Information Industry.

Although the Nation series of low-end chips designed and produced by Zhiyu IC is only a low-end product, it has been a great success in the market after all, and has quickly become an industry benchmark in the field of Huaguo chip design; The Leader series chips made by self-entertainment are slowly building a closed industrial chain around the dynamic instruction set SML as the core. What's even more surprising is that Zhiyu Music, which uses the Leader chip and is produced by Zhiyu Technology, has recently reaped the fruits of success in the market, with sales reaching 800,000 units.

Thanks to the previous life technology brought by Wei Dongsheng and the technical advantages brought by the one-way information transparency of computer intelligent life, the one-year efforts of Zhiyu R&D institutions are equivalent to two or three years of international counterparts. The Zhiyu series of companies are all running forward, looking away for a month, looking back at Zhiyu again, many people will suddenly discover new content.

Zhiyu Group is an indispensable part of the API Industry Alliance prepared by the State Council.

In addition to Zhiyu, there are 22 other alliance members engaged in chip design, system product development, equipment manufacturing and operation services in the field of wireless LAN. Among them, the more famous ones are the National Commercial Cryptography Research Center, Xidian Jietong, Yanda Founder Group, China Power Huada, Datang Microelectronics, Datang Mobile, Jiesai, Huawei, Lenovo, Hisense, Haier, and Huaguo Telecom, Huaguo Netcom, Huaguo Mobile, Huaguo Unicom and other four major operators.

Just looking at the name, it seems to be full of talents for a while.

In fact, the so-called API industry alliance is a mess of sand.

The four major operators, including China Telecom, Netcom, China Mobile, and China Unicom, regard the API Industry Alliance as an administrative order, and their attitude is dispensable; Yanda Fangzheng, who has the deepest network resources, not only sent Han Kang, director of the technical management department, to attend, but also opened and closed his mouth to say some unreliable administrative clichés, and his attitude towards APIs was more cold than that of operators. Compared with the IFI alliance led by Intel, what the management of Yanda Founder desires most may be to privatize the shares of Yenching University cheaply like Lenovo, and turn the school into a private enterprise.

The most active one is Huaguo Mobile. Huaguo Mobile gladly accepted the olive branch of Zhiyu, and established a small alliance under the API Industry Alliance with Zhiyu, Yanjing Xingtang Company, a subsidiary of Datang Group, and other enterprises, and promised to join forces with Zhiyu to do API solutions and tests. For the sake of insurance, Huaguo Mobile's starting solution chose to please both sides of the "dual-mode solution", that is, it is compatible with both API and IFI standards.

And voila.

The API industry alliance itself has no morale.

If you visualize the war between the API Industry Alliance and the IFI Industry Alliance, the IFI Alliance is a bunch of majestic purple heroes; On the API Alliance side, it is a militia called by a decree of the State Council and other departments, three or two cats, large and small, not only the weapons in their hands are bamboo knives and wooden sticks, but the morale is even lower to the point that they are in the API heart in the IFI.

Even if the god of war is resurrected, it will be difficult to win this war.

It is human nature to pursue advantages and avoid disadvantages, and it stands to reason that Wei Dongsheng should take the lead in standing on the victorious side to ensure interests. It's a pity that Wei Dongsheng has already set his roots in China, and the industrial layout is also closely linked with China's politics and economy, so he is not qualified to choose to stand on the side of the victor and reap the benefits.

Even though this is a doomed battle, Wei Dongsheng has to stand firmly on the front line of the API industry alliance.

Even though his comrades-in-arms were a group of half-hearted speculators, Wei Dongsheng had to raise the battle flag and fight bloodily.

There is no other way.

Since his roots are in China, Wei Dongsheng can't devour the master and help the IFI alliance led by Intel step on the API in advance; Since it has been decided to develop a quantum fluctuation circle, we cannot passively wait for Huaguo to collapse step by step, and finally acquiesce to IFI becoming the mainstream of the market.

In this doomed battle, Wei Dongsheng could only rise to the occasion.

Fortunately, it's not all bad news.

In order to encourage the API camp to invest in research and development, the three national ministries and commissions are preparing to issue the "Opinions on the Implementation of Government Procurement of Wireless LAN Products", and state organs, institutions and organizations at all levels should give priority to purchasing products that meet the national wireless LAN security standards and pass the national product certification, and the national projects with special information security requirements must purchase certified products. Although this document mainly protects the profits of three companies, including Xidian Jietong, Minghua Aohan, and Yanda Founder, Zhiyu operates through the big public relations department, and there is a 90% chance that he will later become one of the API standard setters.

In the API industry alliance, the most active is Xidian Jietong.

Xidian Jietong is the initiator of the wireless LAN API standard. Xidian Jietong is an enterprise initiated and established by the State Key Laboratory of Integrated Business Network Theory and Key Technologies of Xidian University, and only plays the role of a spokesperson. The State Key Laboratory of Integrated Business Network Theory and Key Technologies of Xidian University, the State Key Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, and the State Key Laboratory of Antenna and Microwave Technology have been working for the national defense and military industry.

Behind the small vest is the big one.

Perhaps that's why the response from the IFI Consortium has been so violent.

Except for Xidian Jietong, the rest of the APi Industry Alliance are half-hearted.

Except for Huaguo Mobile, other companies are too lazy to carry out in-depth cooperation with Zhiyu on API business.

Xidian Jietong's insistence is also because he is the initiator, even if the API situation is not good, as long as Xidian Jietong grits its its teeth and persists, there will be a steady stream of financial subsidies. Such persistence lacks the sense of urgency of a normal enterprise to win or die, and is not trustworthy. The only one who really attaches importance to the API standard war, is really willing to invest a huge amount of money in it, and really dares to fight a tough battle with Intel may be the Zhiyu Group led by Wei Dongsheng.

In order to show his attention, Wei Dongsheng personally participated in the API Industry Alliance.

However, Lang has no intention of having a concubine, and other companies despise the role of the API industry alliance, and they are all pawns who have no decision-making power; Talking with Cao Jun, general manager of Xidian Jietong, Xidian Jietong regards API standards as its own interests and is unwilling to "share profits" with Zhiyu. Only the "dual-mode solution" in cooperation with Huaguo Mobile has a slight shadow of success. Realizing that he could not expect the assistance of his teammates in the future, Wei Dongsheng became more and more depressed after returning to Yanjing from Hangzhou, and gradually looked down on the value of the API Industry Alliance.

For this reason, Ji Susu listened to it, but Ji Susu couldn't understand it.

Ji Susu is unaware of the Quantum Wave Circle Project, so it is difficult to understand why Wei Dongsheng tirelessly pursued influence in the field of communication equipment, and why Wei Dongsheng joined the API industry alliance that seemed doomed to failure.

Since this is the case, Wei Dongsheng simply hid his depression in his heart.

Ji Susu noticed Wei Dongsheng's melancholy when he talked about the API Industry Alliance, and he was unable to get rid of Wei Dongsheng's troubles, so he simply quietly changed the topic: "I saw a video of you arguing with Ma Yun, Ma Huateng and others on the Internet, and you said that you only started to contact the Internet after graduating from junior high school. How did you learn computer science when you first started? I mean, what do you learn first, and then what do you learn? ”

Wei Dongsheng couldn't say that this was all from the memories of his previous life, so he made up a white lie temporarily: "I, I'm learning while practicing, and if I can't find it, I will search on the Internet to find the answer." This is how Spring and Autumn Search was born. ”

Ji Susu sighed and said annoyedly: "But, I don't understand." When I encountered a place, I used the Spring and Autumn Search to find the answer, but found that there were several things I didn't understand in the answer. Looking up these questions that I don't understand, each one of them gives rise to new questions, and the original questions are forgotten. For example, if I read a book to the storage system, I found that the name of the hard disk read/write is different, the English for 'read' is read_cache, and the English for 'write' is rite_buffer. The read and write operations of the hard disk should be the same thing, why do the former use cache and the latter use buffer? I was stunned. ”

It's normal for Ji Susu to be confused.

Having the skeleton of the program first, and then the details of the flesh and blood, is the normal learning method.

Without the overall impression of the skeleton of the program, if you want to rely on search engines to quickly understand a certain industry, you will probably fall into the dilemma of "at first glance it seems to be the same thing, but in fact, the general direction has long been wrong". However, Ji Susu is a software engineering major after all, and after she has established a skeleton impression after reading the basic textbook, she will know where the boundaries of learning are, what she doesn't understand needs to be understood, and what she doesn't understand is not necessary to understand.