Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1373 Alternatives

"Mr. Wang, this is really a good project..." Duan Yun was still trying to convince Wang Zhi.

"I don't know much about technology, and I really want to develop new products with your group, but the current situation is that the company's funds are seriously insufficient, so I can't do anything..." Wang Zhi spread his hands and said.

Obviously, Wang Zhi's so-called technology development cooperation is based on words, and it is absolutely impossible for him to pay.

However, Wang Zhi's stinginess cannot be blamed, because 200 million yuan is not worth mentioning to Tianyin Group, but to Great Wall Computer, it is a lot of money.

And for a long time, state-owned enterprises have always held a relatively indifferent attitude towards product research and development. Although many state-owned enterprises also encourage technicians to innovate and invent product technologies, this is based on the fact that they do not require huge investment from the company. To put it bluntly , Those small technological innovations are just small troubles, and there are no major technological innovation breakthroughs.

"Okay then." Duan Yun understood that it would be useless for him to continue talking. It is impossible for Great Wall Computer to get 200 million research and development expenses.

In fact, if you think about it differently, Duan Yun can’t fully understand it. The current Great Wall Computer relies on policy protection to live a very comfortable and comfortable life. There is no pressure from market competition, and the products are not worried about selling. They don’t have the sense of crisis that private companies have at all. , so it is very difficult for them to get out of this "comfort zone" and spend a lot of money on research and development.

If you are the boss of a private company, you may have to spend a lot of money to fight for it. But the director of a state-owned company, as long as they can ensure that the company's profits are good, they are already doing their duty. As for how much money the company can make, the money can't go to them In your pocket, there is no need to take risks in product technology research and development.

"Manager Duan, although I don't understand product technology research and development, but if your factory's chips are really good, I can place an order for you, provided that your factory's chips pass our technical inspection." Wang Zhi said with a smile .

Compared with cooperation, Wang Zhi actually values ​​Duan Yun's network more. Leaders of state-owned enterprises like them in the capital company have a good relationship with each other in private. Private companies rarely get involved in their "circle of friends". Duan Yun is different. He is the most powerful private enterprise owner in the country. He is well-known and has great social influence. Anyone wants to know such a friend.

It is precisely because of this that Wang Zhi established business relations with Tianyin Group.

"Thank you, Manager Wang." Duan Yun said gratefully.

Although it did not lead to the cooperation between the two parties to jointly develop new products, at least the two companies have business contacts, and this trip is not in vain.

Afterwards, the two chatted for a while, Duan Yun got up to leave, and Wang Zhi kept sending him out of the company.

Walking on the streets of the capital, Duan Yun lit a cigarette and thought while smoking.

Duan Yun originally wanted to rely on new technology research and development to support the brand of Great Wall Computer, but now it seems that he is completely thinking too much. Wang Zhi is not a person with great vision, and he never thought of using his Great Wall The computer becomes bigger and stronger, becoming a national brand with international market competitiveness.

This has exposed a style of state-owned enterprises that do not want to make progress. To a large extent, state-owned enterprises are relying on the system. They rely on national policies and monopoly to allow everyone in the unit to eat and ensure the normal operation of the enterprise. That's fine, as the leader of a state-owned enterprise, he is more concerned about his own future, and the company's future development is a secondary matter, and even if they want to do something big, they still need the approval of their superiors. Major decision-making power is not in their hands.

Judging from these points, if Duan Yun wants to support a national computer brand, he must either find a private company to cooperate with, or go it alone.

Establishing a brand-new computer brand requires professional technical personnel and sales personnel, and at the same time requires a large amount of capital investment. Duan Yun does not want to blindly expand the scale of the company, which does not conform to his plan to take the upstream route of the industry, so it is immature in reality. Under the circumstances, he can not create his own brand.

Since Great Wall Computer is greedy for comfort and has no ambitions for development and expansion, it can only set its sights on another domestic brand, and that is Lenovo.

In 1984, Liu Chuanzhi led 10 Chinese computer science and technology personnel to realize that PC will definitely change people's work and life.With RMB 20 invested by the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he came to a rented communication room in BJ to start a business and named the company "Lenovo".

When it comes to Lenovo, besides Liu Chuanzhi, there is another person that must be mentioned, and that is Ni Guangnan.

At this time, Ni Guangnan was invited to serve as the chief engineer of Lenovo. Ni Guangnan has been engaged in the research and development of computers and their applications. He participated in the development of the first electronic tube computer (119 machine) designed by China. It was developed in the 20s and 70s. Chinese character processing and character recognition research, the first application of association function in Chinese character input.

In China in the 80s, the personal computer market was growing. At that time, computers imported from abroad were expensive and could not recognize Chinese characters and Chinese operating systems. Under such a background, Ni Guangnan invented the "Association Function": using the Based on the characteristics of homophones, he established his own Chinese character recognition system. He named his cross-age technical research "associative Chinese character system" (referred to as Lenovo Hanka).This achievement won the first prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award in 1988.

The earliest Lenovo Hanka includes a circuit board composed of three integrated circuit chips and a software system.The three circuit boards are connected by flat cables. All standard Chinese characters are stored in the font library, and the display of Chinese characters is completely realized by hardware.

Associative Chinese cards use this method of combining hardware and software to make the processing of Chinese characters on PCs as efficient as processing Western characters: whether it is Chinese or Western characters, the display speed remains the same, the display format remains the same, and the memory resources are not changed. If it is occupied, the "direct screen writing" protocol remains unchanged, and the western language software can basically be used without "Sinicization".

At this time, Ni Guangnan still has boundless passion and dreams. He hopes to develop Lenovo into an enterprise comparable to foreign high-tech companies.

Lenovo Hanka achieved great success at that time. In the first three years, Lenovo Hanka created a profit of more than 1200 million for the company, successfully launching the Lenovo brand.

However, the Z80 chip used by Hanka still comes from an American company.Since then, Ni Guangnan has insisted that in terms of technology, we must take the road of independent research and development.

In fact, the Tianyin learning machine currently produced is the imitation of the Z80 chip. The learning machine chip produced by their factory can be used in the Lenovo Han Card.

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