Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1413 New Vision

In the evening, Bloch hosted a dinner for Duan Yun and his team. Many IBM department heads and technical personnel also attended the welcome dinner.

For Duan Yun and his party's visit to the United States this time, many people in IBM are still full of curiosity and doubts, because few Chinese technology companies have visited IBM headquarters. Before that, only one Chinese technology company had visited IBM headquarters. It was Liu Chuanzhi's association.

However, unlike Lenovo, Lenovo is only an agent of IBM, but Tianyin Group has now become a technical partner of IBM, and the weight of the two companies on IBM's side is different.

In addition, the main reason why IBM chose Lenovo as an agent in mainland China is because of Liu Chuanzhi's identity. On the one hand, Liu Chuanzhi was born in the Chinese Academy of Sciences and has a good understanding of computer related technologies. On the other hand, it is because Liu Chuanzhi's father is from China. Deputy Minister of Trade Promotion Committee.

At that time, when foreigners did business with China, they had to consider the official background of the other party. If they could not deal with the official government of China, the business would not be possible. It is precisely because of this that IBM finally chose a company that was not as large and powerful as it was at that time. Not outstanding Lenovo Group.

But Tianyin Group is different. After the announcement of the NAND flash memory chip they developed before, it immediately caused quite a stir in the entire microelectronics industry in the United States. No one thought that a company from mainland China would have such strength. It also broke many people's inherent perception of Chinese technology companies.

Out of curiosity about China's new technology companies, many IBM insiders participated in the banquet, and they all wanted to learn more about the situation of Chinese technology companies through this banquet.

During this period, Duan Yun also realized many executives and technical backbones within IBM.

In addition, during the banquet, after Duan Yun learned that IBM had a research and development center in Silicon Valley, he immediately asked Bloch to visit Silicon Valley.

Without any hesitation, Bloch immediately agreed to Duan Yun's request. Because he himself could not leave the company for the time being, he handed over the matter to one of his assistants and asked him to lead Duan Yun to visit Silicon Valley.

For a long time, Duan Yun has always wanted to visit Silicon Valley. Although he had traveled abroad in his previous life, he had never been to Silicon Valley.

Duan Yun knows that Silicon Valley is the kingdom of the electronics and computer industries in the United States, and it is also the world’s high-tech research and development center. Duan Yun wants to visit Silicon Valley with his own eyes to see how it operates and develops. He can apply the experience he has learned to Shenzhen in the future Here, promote the development of the entire domestic high-tech industry.

New York is more than 2000 kilometers away from California, where Silicon Valley is located. IBM's work efficiency is still very fast. On the afternoon of the second day, Duan Yun and his party boarded a plane and headed for California on the west coast of the United States.

Silicon Valley is located in the metropolitan area of ​​northern California in the United States. The south of San Francisco Bay is another name for Santa Clara Valley, where high-tech businesses gather. Silicon Valley was the first place to research and produce silicon-based semiconductor chips, hence the name.

Silicon Valley is the kingdom of the electronics industry and the computer industry. Although the United States and other high-tech areas in the world are constantly growing, Silicon Valley is still the pioneer and center of high-tech innovation and development in the world. 1/3 of the total investment, Silicon Valley computer companies have grown to about 1500. A century ago, this place was still an orchard, but since the headquarters of high-tech companies such as Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, and Yahoo settled here, there have been many A prosperous town, in just a few decades, a large number of tech billionaires emerged from Silicon Valley.

In fact, the main reason why Silicon Valley can succeed is that it is supported by some top American universities with strong scientific research capabilities nearby, mainly including Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, as well as several other universities in the University of California system and Santa Clara. pull university.

Structurally, Silicon Valley is based on high-tech small and medium-sized companies. In later generations, it also has Google, Facebook, HP, Intel Apple, Cisco, Nvidia, Oracle, Tesla, Yahoo and other large companies, integrating production, education and research.

"We are the cornerstone of the new economy, the cradle of prosperity, the lever for all other countries to emulate, and the purest expression of capitalism." This is the evaluation of John Doerr, the head of venture capital in Silicon Valley, which aptly demonstrates Silicon Valley's strength in modern technology and pivotal position in the economic landscape.

Stanford University, founded in 1891 by the railroad magnate and politician of the western United States, Stanford University, is recognized as the heart and brain of Silicon Valley.

The school motto of "Let the wind of freedom blow" is also the core of the spirit of Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley is the abbreviation of San Francisco Bay Area. It is located in Northern California on the west coast of the United States. During this period, there are more than a dozen small cities. The largest San Jose is the center of Silicon Valley.

In fact, when Duan Yun opened Tianyin Electronics Factory in Shenzhen, he also thought about setting up an industry-university-research system in Shenzhen, relying on the local Shenzhen University as a supplement for young blood, and then integrating many domestic research institutes and units in related fields To unite and establish a technology park for the microelectronics industry, its operating principle is to refer to the Silicon Valley model.

However, due to the constraints of domestic policies, Duan Yun’s plan eventually went bankrupt. Shenzhen University got the sponsorship from Duan Yun, but it could only provide scholarships. The country does not allow universities to cooperate with private companies, which also makes Duan Yun unable Establish industry-university-research cooperation with Shenzhen.

As for creating a science and technology park, Duan Yun has no way to apply for the relevant land, and all domestic scientific research institutes and universities in related fields are state-owned, and these institutions are also restricted by national policies and cannot establish a cooperative relationship with Duan Yun.

Although Duan Yun has opened a breakthrough, the Ministry of Machinery and Electronics Industry has agreed to set up a microelectronics base in Shenzhen, and under the operation of SZ Mayor Li Hao, Shenzhen has restarted the Science and Technology Park. Tianyin Group has also cooperated with many domestic microelectronics companies. Gradually establish cooperative relations with scientific research institutions, but in general, limited by the planned economic system, China is still unable to establish a free and dynamic high-tech base like Silicon Valley, where talents and capital can freely blend and upgrade the entire world. strength of the industry.

It is precisely because of the serious constraints of domestic policies that Duan Yun is determined to set up research and development institutions overseas to overcome the problem of insufficient domestic scientific research capabilities.

Although Duan Yun had heard of Silicon Valley more than once before, after actually coming here, he discovered that Silicon Valley is very different from what he had imagined.

Under the leadership of McKess, Duan Yun came to IBM's R&D center in Silicon Valley.

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