Chapter 218: Communication Laboratory
The program of "Son of the East" was broadcast for only ten minutes, but in 1995, it would be broadcast four times around the clock on CCTV one, two, and four.
The perennial stable viewership has exceeded 300 million. It was one of CCTV's well-deserved golden strong blocking columns at that time.
The whole show was not long, but it made the people of the whole country really recognize Chu Qing for the first time. Although his legendary experience has been famous all over the country since "Moving China", it is due to his low-key style.
There are not many images of him in the outside world, and many news reports are also intercepted from the last "Moving China".
This is his first formal interview, and it is also the first time for the national audience to officially know him as a person.
Sunshine is handsome, calm and confident. Especially the domineering answer to success at the end has become an example for countless young people to learn from for a while.
Entering the 90s, Shi Yuzhu was the first person to become an entrepreneurial role model. This year, it was listed as the 8th richest person in the mainland by Forbes.
However, with the broadcast of CCTV's "Son of the East", Chu Qing gradually has a tendency to replace Shi Yuzhu and become the new idol of young people.
After all, compared to Shi Yuzhu and him, not to mention how much money the two of them have, just in terms of appearance, Shi Yuzhu is a hundred Ma Yun worse than Chu Qing.
Moreover, one of the two is making health care products, and the other is making high-tech, and the technical content is completely different.
Even, many people have changed their impression of backgammon. At the beginning of the year, the smear of backgammon was overwhelming, but it was not so easy for people to change.
It's just that when the show was broadcast, Chu Qingren was no longer in the capital.
"Research is gambling! If you don't dare to do it, you are doomed to failure! "The research institute jointly established by Shenzhen BBK and Huawei, the first thing Lao Ren said when he saw Chu Qing was this.
Although the son of the East, in the end, Chu Qing's part about association was not broadcast. But his words still reached the ears of the upper echelons through some channels.
Just a few days ago, people from the Commission for Discipline Inspection stationed in Lenovo and began an internal investigation into some incidents. Even Mr. Ni, who had already come to the BBK-Huawei Joint Research Center, urgently returned to Beijing to be investigated.
That's why Lao Ren, who had already heard the rumors, was so emotional in front of Chu Qing. Last year, Huawei, if it hadn't happened to meet the critical period of Lao Liu's seizure of power, Huawei's heavy investment in research and development of the switch project would have become a foil.
Many times, even if you bet right, but a little bit of luck will fall short.
"Luckily, I got the bet right." Chu Qing smiled and shook hands with Lao Ren, now that he thinks about it, he is really lucky to win Sony.
Although the last life proved that Sony's choice was wrong, when you are in the game, you will know that any choice will change the direction of history.
After all, in this life, Chu Qing has changed a lot, the Toshiba camp in the previous life was able to win Sony, and there was also a powerful ally Panasonic who joined in the second half.
This time, without Panasonic's relationship in the United States, even if Chu Qing knows the importance of winning the entertainment industry first, there will still be accidents at any time.
"Your luck is indeed good, the pig on the tuyere, this metaphor is very interesting." Speaking of luck, Lao Ren thought of the pig on the tuyere, and also made fun of him.
"This is the tenth person I've heard today, and I've told me this meme. I knew I wouldn't have said that at the time. Chu Qing said this stalk in an interview at the time, and it was indeed just a casual remark.
But the effect after the show was broadcast still didn't expect him. Now as long as I meet someone, I will basically take out this sentence and make fun of it.
"In fact, in my opinion, your sentence is very well summarized, and we can develop, and we are indeed standing on the cusp of the times."
"Hopefully, GSM will be the next big thing." It was not Chu Qing who answered this sentence, but Zheng Baoyong, vice president of Huawei, who was standing next to Lao Ren.
Since Lao Ren came back from the capital and decided to invest in the development of GSM with BBK, there has been a lot of opposition within Huawei.
And Lao Zheng, Huawei's second-in-command and R&D backbone, is the one who is least optimistic about GSM. After all, GSM has not proven itself in this era, Huawei has entered PHS before, and it has just improved a little, so it is in a hurry to invest money to do GSM, and it is inevitable that there will be internal objections.
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"If the tuyere is not the outlet, it's still uncertain, Mr. Ren, Mr. Zheng, let's go first." Knowing that this Mr. Zheng had an opinion on GSM, Chu Qing didn't answer, and changed the topic after a slight reply.
The reason why Chu Qing returned to Shenzhen from Beijing today was actually to attend the inauguration ceremony of the cooperation laboratory with Huawei.
Although as early as more than a year ago, Huawei and BBK jointly established a research institute. But a professional laboratory cannot be built in a day.
In particular, many of the precision instruments in this advanced digital signal processing laboratory have to be imported from abroad.
The procedures alone have gone through a year, and then there are a lot of procedures such as site selection and construction and national review.
It can be completed in a year and a half and put into use, which is already very fast. The location of the laboratory was chosen in the BBK park, a corner near the river.
It is surrounded by rockery trees. Under the leadership of Chu Qing, the group walked into the five-story building.
From the outside, it is a very ordinary building, if it were not for the introduction of people who know the inside story, ordinary people would never know that the construction of such an inconspicuous building actually cost more than 300 million.
At this moment, several directors of the laboratory are already waiting there. The first person was Xu Wenwei from Huawei's technology department, and behind him stood Li Yinan and Chen Mingyong.
The two sides have been cooperating for more than a year, so today's inauguration ceremony did not go through those formalities.
After all, the main person in the laboratory on BBK's side, Mr. Ni is not here today. After changing clothes at the entrance of the laboratory, the group officially entered the interior of the laboratory under the leadership of Xu Wenwei.
"Here is the Signal and Information Processing Research Center, which currently has three departments, the DSP Hardware Equipment Laboratory, the DSP Algorithm Research and DSP Algorithm Implementation Work Center, and the RF Signal Research Department." Under the leadership of Xu Wenwei, the elevator went down to the second floor, and began to introduce the configuration and functions of the laboratory to the bosses of the two companies through the glass.
"DSP Hardware Equipment Laboratory."
"The main direction of research and development here is the development and application ability of digital signal processing chips. Part of the technology is from Huajing and Marvell's finished design. "This laboratory is currently concentrated in the hands of Huawei and BBK, and all the resources that can be obtained.
After all, as the first private digital technology laboratory in China, if you want to achieve technological breakthroughs without state support, you can no longer hide it.
Fortunately, whether it is Chu Qing or Lao Ren, they both see this very clearly.
"At present, the RF center has developed a mobile phone RF chip, and the next step is the research of the GSM working module."
"This is Liu Jiangfeng, the director of the GSM Research Center." On the third floor of the basement, Chu Qing and his party saw Liu Jiangfeng, who had just moved in.
He and his team were the same people who collectively resigned from Oriental Communications after Chu Qing and the two found Li Shihe last time.
Now they are also part of the laboratory and are part of the main development team for the GSM project.
"How's it going?" This was the first time Chu Qing had seen him since they joined the research institute.
After all, Chu Qing has been either in the capital or abroad in the past few months, and from the beginning of the GSM project, he has no time to ask.
"Luckily, it's going faster than we thought. The main thing is that the equipment is good. Looking at the new equipment in the newly built laboratory, Liu Jiangfeng was also very emotional.
It turned out that they were in Oriental Communications, although it was a state-owned enterprise. But the research equipment and technical information in it are actually all from the sixties and seventies.
Compared to this laboratory, it is several generations behind.
"Now that we have basically figured out the GSM experimental system, we will be able to conduct the experiment next month, and if it is successful, we will be able to come up with a specific commercial plan by the end of August at the most." GSM has technical support in Europe.
But after all, it is communication technology, and the core part needs to be independently developed. It is already very fast to be able to come up with a commercial solution in half a year.
This is also thanks to the fact that BBK and Huawei have PHS technology before, which can make GSM's system development so fast.
If you change to another company, it will take a year at the earliest to produce basic results.
"Thank you for your hard work, GSM is a war, and it is up to you whether we can develop our own communication system. If you have any technical and financial needs, you can directly contact Director Xu. We will fully support you. After listening to Liu Jiangfeng's introduction, Chu Qing patted him on the shoulder with great relief.
What a good talent, he was almost buried by a state-owned enterprise.
"That's enough, that's enough for now, the rest is a matter of time." was slapped like this by Chu Qing, Liu Jiangfeng almost didn't cry.
No wonder Liu Jiangfeng was so emotional after coming here. It turned out that in Dongfang Communications, the monthly salary was only 400 yuan, which rose from the original 170 yuan after working for a few years.
At the end of last year, the leaders above gave them the research and development task of the GSM system, and only gave them a research team of ten people, and allocated 800,000 yuan.
You must know that GSM, even in Europe, is a big project that requires a team of thousands of people. But in the state-owned enterprises, only a few of them were given so much money.
But even in this case, they still have most of the technology of the GSM system.
Even if they didn't have this experience, they could make the system within a year by relying on manpower to slowly grind it.
Now that they have come to the R&D center, their team has not only expanded to 100 people, but also directly given 50 million yuan.
The equipment is also the most advanced in the world. What's more, when they came here, their wages basically rose to 8,000 yuan each.
Although Liu Jiangfeng had heard that Shenzhen was a fast treasure land very early, he only knew that the salary could be so high when he entered the laboratory.
If with such great support, they can't make it within half a year, it will be a shame to meet everyone's expectations.
Zheng Baoyong, who was very opposed at first, was also surprised to hear that GSM could make such rapid progress.
Lao Ren came back and said that he wanted to cooperate with BBK to develop GSM, but the reason why he opposed it was because he didn't know anything about this new technology and rushed into it for fear of dragging down Huawei's capital chain.
In the last life, Huawei plunged headlong into GSM without understanding anything, and then it was trapped.
However, in this life, Chu Qing came forward and directly found the communication elder to come to a mature team, and then there was a huge amount of financial and technical support from the two companies.
to make progress so fast. But even so, it is still one step behind Ericsson and Nokia.
Since Ericsson announced its cooperation with Guangdong East Telecom in April, it has begun to lay GSM networks on the land of East Guangdong.
Although it has only been two months, the GSM network can already be used in some cities in eastern Guangdong.
Subsequently, foreign GSM mobile phones also began to be sold in the mainland.
"Next month, FJ Telecom will put a tender for the GSM system. I think we can strike first. After inspecting the laboratory, Chu Qing and Lao Ren walked in the backgammon park and chatted about the situation of GSM.
"Won't you be in too much of a hurry to bid next month?" Lao Ren didn't expect Chu Qing to be so eager. Although the experimental system has been completed, the commercial solution has not yet been developed.
"Yuedong has been taken by Ericsson, and judging from the current situation, Fujian is likely to be won over by Nokia. If the two companies succeed one after another, the remaining other provinces will be more inclined to foreign companies when choosing. This will be a great obstacle for us to enter the market in the future. "It's not that Chu Qing is in a hurry, but there is an opportunity to knock down the opponent in front of him, and he really doesn't want to miss it.
Nokia, which started as a lumber mill, has been established for more than 100 years, but in 1991 it suffered a bankruptcy crisis.
If it weren't for Yoma Ollila, who decisively abandoned other businesses and chose GSM in a desperate bet, this Finnish communications giant would have ceased to exist long ago.
The reason why Nokia has succeeded in GSM is not only the success of their mobile phone business, but also the profits earned from the construction of GSM's basic network, which gives them the opportunity to adjust slowly.
Nokia, which made an all-or-nothing move into the GSM space, didn't start well. The European market, because of the massive popularity of fixed telephones and BB phones.
When GSM was first commercialized, not many people used it. Whether it is Nokia, Siemens, Ericsson and other European companies, the investment in GSM at that time was basically out of a loss-making state.
There is an urgent need for a huge market to support the commercial process of GSM. And the mainland market, which happened to have no advantages at that time, became the best choice.
The territory is vast, the population is large, and there is no technical standard of its own. Unlike Ericsson, who was able to get orders from eastern Guangdong Province as soon as he came to China, Nokia also ran into walls everywhere at the beginning.
Nokia, which has sought cooperation from many parties to no avail, happened to encounter the Fujian GSM tender. Nokia, which has come to the verge of bankruptcy, put down all its burdens and grabbed the Fujian market in the competition with Ericsson.
It was this success that allowed Nokia's GSM to open up the market and allow their mobile phones to enter the mainland.
Relying on the huge market in the mainland, Nokia has reversed the decline and recovered from the brink of bankruptcy.
It is precisely knowing this that Chu Qing wants to enter the bidding of Fujian GSM in advance before the commercial plan comes out.
This is an important opportunity to snipe out Nokia before it becomes strong. He really didn't want to miss it.