Partnering in the development of chips is also an attempt for Intel, if there is no new chip technology, they will also cooperate with TSMC in 2009 to develop chips, and later with Qualcomm to work on the research and development of mobile chips.

Intel also has a special chip foundry department IFS, which manufactures chips for Qualcomm and MediaTek.

Different departments have their own interests, so there are joint research and development of computer chips with Xinxin, and after Xinxin has gone through this road, it is not difficult for Lenovo to follow it again.

It's just that whether consumers are willing to pay is another question, and Lenovo thinks that Xiaomi broke the circle with the help of the gimmick of domestic chips, which caused a sensation and gained a lot of sales.

In fact, because of the extreme cost performance, domestic chips are just the icing on the cake. However, it is a good thing for Xinxin, because Lenovo has come to talk to them, hoping to give the chip jointly developed by Lenovo and Intel to Xinxin for part of the chip foundry order.

In this way, they can also rub on the gimmick of domestic chips. Xiaomi computer has promoted some companies that are not bad for money to start trying to cooperate with domestic chip design companies and try to design domestic CPUs.

This is because everyone realizes that it is not necessary to develop the most advanced CPU to be called R&D, and it is also a way to research a CPU that meets the needs of current Chinese consumers.

The last big event at the end of 2002 is the annual Internet Conference.

Since the end of 1999, when China held the Internet Conference, the Internet Conference at the end of each year has been a grand event for the entire Internet community in China.

Because Zhou Xin made venture capital to a number of Chinese Internet companies through emerging capital at the first Internet Conference, the Internet Conference became a bridge between venture capital institutions and entrepreneurs.

At the annual Internet conference, a large number of venture capital investments have been reached, and the amount of investment may not be large, but the number of transactions is increasing year by year, because with the development of the Internet industry and the capital market of Americon gradually out of the Internet winter.

More importantly, this year, Huaguo opened up the electronic payment license, which is a major positive for the Internet industry, and everyone has a richer way to monetize.

The original point card model, although mature enough, but this method needs to give upstream and downstream dealers a lot of benefits, the form of electronic payment only needs to pay NewPay, the handling fee is only 3 points, and the point card model is much less.

Moreover, there are obvious restrictions on the model of point cards, and Chinese netizens will pay for point cards for games, and will never be willing to pay for content. Quora's paid Q&A and subscription magazines are in full swing, doesn't Sohu want to do it?

As the manufacturer with the largest market share in the knowledge quiz community, Sohu naturally hopes to come out of a profitable business model, and they have also done a similar model to Quora, which completes the payment by deducting the phone bill through the mobile phone operator, but there are very few users who buy it.

Soon these features were taken offline.

With electronic payment, it is different, and electronic payment can cultivate users' payment habits and behaviors.

Of course, the protagonist of this year's Internet Conference is not electronic payment, but the Chinese Internet industry going overseas.

With the smooth expansion of Tencent and Alibaba, more and more Chinese Internet companies are trying to go overseas, and they can't beat Sohu's suspicions in China, so I will go to Southeast Asia, Europe, and Maple Leaf Country to do knowledge quiz communities.

There is no market for online forums in China, and China's online forums are a red ocean, so I will go to Southeast Asia to do online forums.

At this point in time, compared with China, the countries of Southeast Asia are poorer, but the poor are also very limited, and their computer ownership is not a small number.

What's more, after the merger of Baidu and Google, Google went public on the Nasdaq and expanded rapidly around the world, touting their ad distribution system, which generates a lot of revenue for the site.

Therefore, to build an online forum in Southeast Asia, it is enough to make a profit just by picking up Baidu.

Not to mention the two giants of Huaguo Internet, Alibaba and Tencent, of which Tencent only continues to cultivate its own enterprise instant messaging software, and has launched ECO for enterprise collaborative office and Tencent BI in the past year.

ECO and Tencent BI are both separate software, but they can achieve synergy with enterprise qq, and the Internet giants in Silicon Valley who are beaten by this combination can't find the north, and the only one who can still struggle to support is Microsoft.

With the help of Office, Microsoft can still maintain its position as the second largest commercial office software, but the gap between Microsoft and Tencent has gradually widened.

In view of Tencent's good performance, many institutions on Wall Street want to invest in Tencent, hoping to get a piece of the pie before Tencent goes public.

Alibaba, on the other hand, is far more exaggerated than Tencent, and the past year was the first full year in the true sense since China's accession to the WTO.

In the original time and space, after getting the investment from Goldman Sachs, Alibaba opened offices in Silicon Valley, Xiangjiang and other places, and hired an elite team from Silicon Valley, but soon ushered in the bursting of the Nasdaq bubble and the ensuing Internet winter.

Now it's different, there is an Internet winter before going to sea, Alibaba first thinks about what to do at sea, and then goes to Silicon Valley. With the help of China's accession to the WTO, Alibaba has facilitated more than $1 billion in orders in the past year, and the actual turnover has exceeded $800 million.

This number is growing rapidly, and Alibaba has successfully led to the development of a physical factory in the Yangtze River Delta region.

With Tencent and Alibaba in front and a large number of other companies behind, the theme of this year's Huaguo Internet Conference is to go overseas, and Internet entrepreneurs who hope to go overseas will share their achievements.

Zhou Xin, as the finale guest, is also the biggest guest that can be invited to the Huaguo Internet Conference, did not attend this year, and only attended the Internet Conference through remote video.

"I regret that I did not have the opportunity to participate in this Internet conference held in Yanjing."

This also leads to the biggest guest at this year's Huaguo Internet Conference is Robin, as the chairman of Baidu, Baidu's influence is currently the largest.

The Baidu here is the Baidu after the merger of Baidu and Google, and the Baidu that has made waves in Silicon Valley.

Robin is definitely a good player, and the past year has put a lot of pressure on Yahoo in the search engine market, and users started their Internet journey with the portal, and now more and more people are choosing Baidu as their first stop.

This shift is the result of Baidu's operation through various channels, and the fact that with the abundance of Internet content, the second-generation search technology is much better than Yahoo's first-generation search technology.

"I'm coming to this Internet conference instead of Newman, and before I came, he said to me: Robin, you go to the Internet conference and behave well, don't embarrass me. That's why I'm dressed so formally for the Internet conference this time. ”

In the reporter's interview session, because whether it is Zhou Xin or other Internet entrepreneurs, they wear very casually, in the cold winter of Yanjing, everyone generally wears a thin sweater when there is heating indoors, only Robin wears a suit and leather shoes, like a leader who spoke at the opening ceremony of the Internet conference, and the reporter asked him why he was wearing such a formal dress.

At this time, Zhou Xin was on vacation in Hawaii, and he wanted to find a warmer place to stay and put aside the work at hand. As a result, he couldn't escape his job while vacationing in Hawaii, so Phoenix Satellite TV on the other side of the Xiangjiang sent a team to Hawaii to interview him.

I can't push off this interview if I want to, because I came to the door through Li Jingyi's relationship, and Li Jingyi said that it would take two hours at most.

Zhou Xin thought that he didn't have any friends in Hawaii, just like looking for someone to chat for two hours.

"Mr. Zhou, it's a pleasure to interview you, I've always been a big fan of yours, from the earliest Quora to the current Mphone, I'm a loyal user of this series of products you designed."

Zhou Xin didn't let their camera crew in, and could only use it in the form of a recording, which meant to be casual, but he didn't expect the male host who came to the interview to still dress very formally, which was in stark contrast to Zhou Xin lying on the beach chair.

Zhou Xin said: "Hello. ”

The male host asked: "This year's World Internet Conference held in China is the first time you have been absent from the Internet Conference, and there are rumors that the Hanxin incident has caused a gap between you and Yanjing, what do you think of this statement?" ”

Zhou Xin knew that the Xiangjiang media liked to make trouble, but he didn't expect them to want to make things so much in the first question: "There is no such thing, my cooperation with Yanjing has always been very pleasant, I don't want to participate because I have participated in too many sessions, and I want to give myself a vacation." ”

"Indeed, in the past two or three years, Mr. Zhou, you have gradually transformed from an iconic Internet entrepreneur in Silicon Valley to an entrepreneur in electronic products.

When you started in Silicon Valley, you launched new Internet applications like Riot Games, Riot Games Store, Quora, and in the last two years, you've focused more on electronics and more on hardware, and you've launched Mphone that has sold more than 10 million units worldwide in the last two years.

Mobile phones have been redefined, and the Xiaomi computer launched in Huaguo at the end of last month has also been very popular, leaving Huaguo's personal computer companies full of a sense of crisis. And you haven't launched Internet apps in the past two years, like Weibo, and accessories.

I'm curious, what made you want to try making electronics? And after doing that, what do you think are the differences between the two in the entrepreneurial process? ”

The host didn't keep asking after the Hanxin incident, because it was a rare opportunity for them to come to the interview, Zhou Xin rarely appeared in public, and it was rare for him to have this opportunity to directly understand the other party's thoughts.

To put it more bluntly, Phoenix Satellite TV didn't want to offend Zhou Xin, so it tested the other party's acceptance from the first question, and then adjusted the interview strategy in time.

Zhou Xin said: "Because compared with software, hardware is more interesting, and it has more room to play.

For example, Mphone, Mphone has changed the habits of almost all users, Mphone users say that Mphone is not a mobile phone, and in the process of using Mphone, phone calls may only account for 5% of their time of use.

The difference is that I only need to manage the software development engineers for the software, while the hardware needs to involve hundreds of upstream and downstream enterprises, which is more interesting but much more difficult, and it takes a lot of effort to achieve the desired effect.

I want to add a new feature to Quora, I just need to communicate with the developers, what technology we use, how to implement it, and then we test it internally, and then adjust it until everyone thinks there is no problem before posting it online for everyone to use.

If there are problems, bugs, we can adjust them at any time based on user feedback. But the hardware device doesn't, and there is no room for modification after it is introduced.

At the same time, it is not something that I can do what I want, but whether the technology can be realized. Everyone knows that Mphone's typing effect is unique, and it gives users a rebound and feedback that is unmatched by any other mobile phone, and this is because we have adopted a special linear motor technology, which has taken a lot of effort to develop.

Just to find a supplier that can do this, it took us half a year to find a machinery company in Neon that can make a linear motor with a similar effect, and then communicate with them to do it in the mobile phone.

There are countless difficulties to overcome. But we are still very happy with the end result, and the sales of 10 million units have far exceeded my expectations. ”

The reason why the second-generation Mphone has not been released for a long time is that there is indeed a lot of innovation, which takes a long time, and the other is that although the 3G technology has been available for a long time at Ameriken, the 3G network has not yet begun to be built.

Matrix has been in communication with Americacan's telecom operators to build a 3G network in at least the Greater Bay Area first.

Now A&AT's 3G network construction has begun to break ground, and it is expected that some places will be able to start using it in the first quarter of next year.

The fastest are definitely San Francisco and Los Angeles, the two big cities in the Bay Area.

The host nodded frequently when he listened: "The Xiaomi computer you launched recently is also a classic product, and we in Xiangjiang also hope to see Xiaomi computers enter the Xiangjiang market as soon as possible, and we even have colleagues go to the Xiaomi offline store in Pengcheng to queue up to grab the Xiaomi computer."

It can be seen that the charm of Xiaomi is great. After the launch of Xiaomi, domestic chips have sparked heated discussions in domestic public opinion, what do you think about Lenovo and Intel jointly developing personal computer CPUs, TCL and AMD jointly developing personal computer CPUs.

PC manufacturers entering the field of chip design? ”

When Zhou Xin saw the joint research and development of Lenovo and Intel, he thought that Lenovo had changed sex, and you with thick eyebrows and big eyes had begun to engage in research and development?

Later, when he went to the R&D center of Xinxin Technology in Silicon Valley, a R&D staff who jumped from Intel to Xinxin said that Lenovo was just a name.

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