Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1901 Ni Guangnan

In the Tianyin Group's laboratory, Duan Yun saw the first batch of 12 486 computers made with Tianyin Group's new-generation flash memory chips, and according to Duan Yun's instructions, the technicians had already installed the system into the host computer in advance. It is still in a debugging stage.

These 12 mainframes are actually used to demonstrate the newly developed domestic system to BJ's experts. All of them are the most advanced self-produced computers of Tianyin Group. Only such powerful computers can fully and smoothly Run the latest version of the domestic system.

According to the technicians, they will work overtime tonight, and strive to complete the debugging of all the demonstration machines pre-installed with the domestic system by tomorrow morning, so as to ensure that they can pass the evaluation of BJ experts.

Seeing this, Duan Yun breathed a sigh of relief. No matter how much manpower, material and financial resources and time they have put in before, if they cannot pass the evaluation of BJ experts, then all efforts will be in vain. But judging from the current situation, at least There should be about [-]% certainty.

And just as Duan Yun was checking the technicians debugging the system, his assistant Guo Kai suddenly walked up to his side, yes, he whispered something in his ear.

"Who did you say is here?" After hearing the words, Duan Yun had an unbelievable look on his face, and couldn't help turning his head and asking again.

"It's Ni Guangnan, the chief engineer of Lenovo Group, and Liang Kun, the deputy chief engineer of our BJ branch," Guo Kai said.

"Hurry up and invite them to my office!" Duan Yun said repeatedly with excitement flashing across his face.

For Ni Guangnan, Duan Yun naturally knew this character very well, and over the years, in order to be able to recruit Professor Ni Guangnan to his company, Duan Yun also spent a lot of thought.

In fact, as early as a few years ago, after the negotiations between Duan Yun and Liu Chuanzhi broke down, the two companies have actually torn their skins and started all-round competition, both wanting to become China's leading technology company.

In Lenovo Group, Ni Guangnan is the computer expert with the strongest technical strength and the most influence. He can be said to be the technical core of the entire Lenovo Group. Without him, Lenovo would not have been able to develop cost-effective Single-chip microcomputer, and achieved great market success in Hong Kong.

In addition, Lenovo's scientific research projects over the years are all organized by him. Looking at the current mainland China, there is no computer expert who can compare with him.

Before that, Duan Yun had been lobbying Ni Guangnan through Li Yunpeng, a boy from BJ’s big courtyard, and the old employees of the former Institute of Computer Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. However, at that time, Ni Guangnan was already the chief engineer of Lenovo Group, and Lenovo Group itself was a subsidiary of the Institute of Computer Science. , In line with his loyalty to the country and the company, Ni Guangnan had no intention of changing jobs in the face of the huge salary and various benefits offered by Duan Yun. Duan Yun was somewhat disappointed.

However, this year, things suddenly turned around.

Last year, Lenovo's financial report was released. At the age of 10, Lenovo's sales have surpassed competitors such as Great Wall, Peking University Founder, Inspur, and Stone, and become China's largest computer company.

However, just as the company was immersed in an atmosphere of excitement and pride, the company founder Liu Chuanzhi and several company executives were worried.

Beginning in 1991, a "black storm" in the computer industry swept across Europe and America, and hundreds of computer manufacturers either went bankrupt or lost money.Even IBM, the industry leader that Lenovo has always looked up to, was not immune. In the end, it cut 4 people to barely maintain a profit margin of less than 1%, and the president of Compaq was forced to resign because the stock price fell by 70%.At the same time, the Chinese government is drasticly dismantling the trade barriers in the computer industry. After the door was opened, Chinese and foreign computer manufacturers began to fight each other. Soon, domestic computer companies including Lenovo discovered that they had been involved in a crisis of their own. A brand-new competitive landscape that is neither familiar nor graspable.

In the face of the long-term drive of international giants, although Lenovo's sales ranked first among domestic companies for the first time in 93, it was the first time in 10 years that it failed to meet its own computer sales targets.

At this moment, an unexpected storm broke out in Lenovo.

Even after many years, there are still too many debates and topics surrounding it, and it has become a public case in the history of Chinese companies.

The joining of Ni Guangnan completely changed the course of the company, and Lenovo finally had its own "technical business card". Out of respect and consideration of the company's image, Liu Chuanzhi immediately launched a movement to create gods.In order to maintain the prestige of the "God", Liu Chuanzhi even did not hesitate to damage his own authority.

Lenovo's president and chief engineer, this pair of intimate "Gemini" became a role model for many companies at that time.

However, in 93, in the international market, Microsoft, the future overlord in the IT field, launched a subversive change, which also greatly affected the sales of Lenovo Hanka.

Around 93, Ni Guangnan traveled to Shanghai, Hong Kong and other places to recruit talents and established the "Lianhai Microelectronics Design Center". He devoted great enthusiasm to this project called "China Chip".However, Li Qin, the company's executive vice president, made Ni Guangnan, who was full of enthusiasm, hit a snag.Ni Guangnan, who was used to hearing "yes", was naturally unwilling to give up, so he went directly to Liu Chuanzhi.What he never expected was that this time, although Liu Chuanzhi's answer was tactful, it turned out to be "no".

After this incident, the relationship between the two deteriorated rapidly. Every work meeting of Lenovo became a quarrel between the two. Liu Chuanzhi thought that Ni Guangnan was "messing around", while Ni Guangnan said, "I will never end with you."

He began to accuse Liu Chuanzhi of domineering style to his superiors, and then accused him of serious financial problems.The once intimate "Gemini" came to the edge of the cliff of life and death.

The essence of the Ni-Liu dispute, in the final analysis, is a dispute between the two concepts of entrepreneurs and capitalists, and the dispute between the two lines.

Academician Ni Guangnan advocated that the company's capital should be used mainly in scientific research and development, considering that the company will develop in the direction of high-tech, and will become China's leading sunrise industry in the future-chip research and development.

And Liu Chuanzhi does not want to invest in technology research and development, but only wants immediate benefits, and develops "financial investment" companies (comparable to usury loans), with quick returns and more profits. (short-sighted), so in the end Liu kicked Ni out of Lenovo Group.

If Academician Ni had not been kicked out 30 years ago, according to Ni's focus on high-tech research and development, today's Lenovo is no longer a mediocre assembly company, but a real national enterprise—a great "China Chip" company. There is no doubt about this.

In Duan Yun's view, the main reason for Ni Guangnan's arrival this time is that a major conflict occurred within the Lenovo Group...

(End of this chapter)