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After leaving BJ, Duan Yun went to Shenyang again.

During his visit to Shenyang this time, in addition to inspecting the work of the Shenyang Automobile Base, Duan Yun also had to meet with IBM's technical team.

A few months ago, Duan Yun and IBM's President Gerstner confirmed their intention to cooperate in the field of automobiles and machines in the United States, and this plan was quickly implemented. Since last month, IBM has sent experts The team went to Tianyin Group's automobile R&D center in Shenyang for inspection.

For the cooperation with IBM, Duan Yun can be said to be familiar with the road. Before that, he spent a lot of money to introduce IBM's management consulting team. After a few years, the company's management has taken on a new look, and many aspects can be fully in line with international standards. The rapid development has laid a very solid foundation.

And this car-machine cooperation is also very important for Tianyin Group and IBM. On the one hand, Duan Yun needs IBM's technical support to complete the research and development of their modern car-machine. The products are pushed to the US market, thereby expanding the overseas market of domestically produced cars.

Although Tianyin Group can be regarded as the only domestic technology company, it still lacks a certain level of technical background compared with the top established international companies, and even has a big gap in some aspects.

As the trend of globalization technology becomes more and more powerful, if any top company wants to remain invincible in the competition, it must seek technical cooperation with strong companies. It is the top multinational giant, and it will also have problems in technology research and development. The reason for this is that modern technology products are becoming more and more complex, and the threshold is getting higher and higher. Any company that wants its own products, all It is almost impossible for the components to be self-developed and self-produced.

Just like a computer, there are tens of thousands of electronic components and parts in it. No company can develop and produce all its own parts. The scale of the industry required is very large, which is beyond people's imagination. .

Even if it can be done, the cost will be astronomical. Only through the global division of labor, can one's own products be manufactured at the lowest cost, thereby establishing a strong market competitive advantage.

It is precisely because of this that when Duan Yun proposed to IBM President Gerstner to cooperate in the development and production of car machines, he quickly agreed, because through the previous cooperation between the two parties, IBM President Gerstner knew Tianyin Group very well. Therefore, it is believed that the cooperation between the two parties must be profitable. Even if the US market cannot be opened, it must be a profitable project by virtue of Tianyin Group's influence in China.

Although IBM has begun to revive these years, it still cannot meet Gerstner's expectations for this company, and developing the Chinese market has become an important option for the company's future prosperity.

Therefore, in dealing with this matter, IBM President Gerstner still pays more attention to it. He sent an engineering team headed by IBM senior engineer Anderson. Previously, this project team was responsible for the research on the miniaturization of electronic components. IBM's first The notebook computer was developed by this team.

For the research and development of the new generation of cars, IBM actually does not have much experience, but some of their technologies are very important to this project.

On the one hand, IBM has a lot of unique technologies in the miniaturization of electronic components. Their notebook computers are a good proof of this problem. Compared with notebooks, there is still a certain gap. Among notebook products with similar performance, IBM's notebooks are lighter, consume less power, and have better stability. Based on this alone, Telling Group's The technical team can only look up for now.

However, Tianyin Group also has its own unique technology. For example, in terms of software, it has independently developed domestic systems, and also developed MP3 audio software and various Internet software. It is a first-class team, and IBM has been lackluster in terms of software in recent years. There are basically not many software products that can be produced. This is a certain gap with Tianyin Group.

Finally, in the automotive industry, IBM has no involvement at all. They have never entered the industry before, nor have they cooperated with any automotive industry. Therefore, if they want to make a car with excellent performance, they must rely on Tianyin Group experience and technology.

Moreover, multimedia audio-visual products will also be a very important part of future car and machine products, and Telling Group has its own technology and patents in this regard.

In the previous life, the first generation of car technology can be understood as the most basic product with multimedia functions. They used a CD card and a radio, just to achieve the pure music playback function.

By the time of the second generation of products, DVD, and MP3 have become the most mainstream car multimedia entertainment products, and also include the most important navigation products, including GPS navigation and Beidou system navigation that Duan Yun wants to join. Duan Yun currently wants to develop the main configuration of this new generation of cars.

However, unlike ordinary multimedia products, as an excellent car machine, stability is always the first priority. It is very important to ensure that new media playback and navigation are smooth and not stuck in various harsh environments. The other thing that is difficult to achieve is the miniaturization of DVD MP1 and car-machine systems. This is also a very difficult technical threshold. Compared with ordinary home appliances, a lot of technical improvements are required.

On the first day in Shenyang, Duan Yun and Zhao Li met with the leaders of the SY Municipal Government. Then that night, Duan Yun had dinner with the IBM technical team headed by Anderson in the guest house of the Shenyang R&D Center.

After some communication, Anderson was surprised by Duan Yun's English proficiency, and what surprised him even more was that Duan Yun seemed to be very clear about electronic technology. When the two talked about technology, there was almost no obstacle. We found some consensus on the direction of research and development.

"Mr. Anderson, this is the first time we have cooperated, so I don't think the technical indicators of this project should be designed too high. I understand that you want to design a very perfect product, but your design ideas will be greatly affected. Raising R&D costs and product prices is seriously out of line with our current national conditions, because we are still a developing country, and very few people can afford high-end cars, I hope you can understand this." Duan Yun said.