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Chapter 411 The history of technological development may be divided into two parts from now on!

From the perspective of God, Bo Lang's operation can be said to be Sima Zhaozhi's heart, which everyone knows.

After all, from the perspective of God, you will know how much influence Prism will have on the world in the next few years.

After all, the upper echelons in various regions of the world were only skeptical, or... maintaining a tacit understanding not to expose each other.

The incident has been made public, and it is inevitable to condemn and respond meaningfully.

This will bring many opportunities.

The fact is also the same. In June 2013, the Prism was suddenly exposed. In the protracted and intermittent exposure, the incident continued to heat up, and eventually evolved into the most "shocking" scandal in the world.

Many powerful economies in overseas regions have relevant measures.

In China, from around 2013 to 2017, the voice of localized substitution reached a rare peak.

In the information technology industry, the so-called domestic products of countless domestic manufacturers have entered all walks of life, ushering in the most fertile development opportunities.

More specifically, some relatively core products, including communication, data storage, and information security, are subdivided into three major categories.

Interestingly, among the three major categories, the first two have the leading products of Juchang.

Moisture has made breakthroughs in many industries where domestic brands had no chance at all, such as the financial industry.

The stability required by the financial industry is very high, so the core layer hardly uses domestic brand products.

For example, switches and routers for core layer communication generally use Aramco products such as Cisco and Broadcom.

Aramco products such as EMC and NetApp are generally used for core layer data storage.

In terms of information security at the core layer, Aramco products such as Juniper are generally used.

There is another interesting little thing here. The Chinese name of Broadcom is Boke, and the Chinese name of Juniper is Juniper.

During the period from 2013 to 2017, major financial industries such as banking and securities were forced to use domestic products instead.

Among them, in terms of information security, 360 has entered the list of centralized procurement, and a small number of industry branches with the ability to operate large-scale independent computer rooms, such as a provincial branch of China Construction Bank, purchased 360-related enterprise-level products.

In terms of data storage, Chrysanthemum has entered the collection list of many banks. Of course, there are many domestic OEM players in this industry, and Chrysanthemum naturally has competing products. Basically, only Hongshan has similar independent research and development capabilities as Chrysanthemum.

The initial investment in this industry is large, and the later return is not bad. A set of storage solutions starts at a minimum of a few million, and as many as hundreds of millions or billions without a cap. After all, any complete computer room networking solution lacks a lot of high-speed data storage.

It is rumored that in terms of data storage, Juchang has squeezed into the procurement list of the core layer network of the financial industry.

Communication switches and routers are naturally squeezed into the core layer networking procurement list.

But the good days of moisture are only a few years.

After the influence brought by the prism gradually diminished, domestic substitution was no longer mentioned too much, and domestic brands failed to make a difference, the securities industry in the financial industry took the lead in 'closing' the way for domestic brands to enter the core layer network.

It is rumored that no domestic brand has been completely left in the financial industry, only a relatively small number of single products have been converted from trial use, and a large number of products are still dominated by overseas brands.

I can't help it, I can't stand it.

The waves receded, and all the horses were swimming naked.

In the five years of completely favoring development, among the three categories mentioned above, including Juchang, none of the products of any company really formed a competitive advantage over the products of the example of Americana Company.

Even if it is the communication business field that Juchang is most proud of.

It is even an exaggeration to say that the products of the example company have not lowered their prices because they have been suppressed by the government in recent years and there are competing products from domestic brands.

This is very different from the perception that is closer to the mass industry.

Under normal circumstances, foreign products use dumping commercial strategies to suppress domestic brands in the early stage, depriving them of their development capabilities, and then control pricing power. If this strategy fails and domestic brands suddenly emerge, pricing power will gradually be marketized.

However, in the several fields exemplified, even if the administration is biased, this situation still cannot be achieved.

The highest price gap between domestic and non-domestic products is calculated by 10 times.

For example, if a domestic product is priced at 20 yuan, a non-domestic product is priced at 200 million yuan, and even so, the financial industry still does not choose domestic products.

Because of the lack of stability.

The stable operation capability is not up to standard, and the minimum requirement for core layer data storage products is the stability of 5 nines, that is, the total downtime allowed per year cannot exceed 9 minutes and 5 seconds.

As for why America's products have such great advantages, it involves experience, first-mover advantage, massive accumulation, and so on.

Five years is too short a time.

It is so short that no company in China has the ability to match the experience accumulated by the West in the early stage of first-mover advantages in terms of large-scale solutions.

On the other hand... I have to mention a certain 'inferiority' that domestic brands in any region have: insufficient research and development motivation under administrative protection.

The three categories mentioned are far away from the public, and there is also an example that is closest to the public - China Cool Union in the mobile phone industry.

In the few years when there were centralized procurement by operators, China Cool Union did not have to worry about sales at all, and the centralized procurement of tens of millions of units at every turn was so cool.

Each of the four major brands has an annual sales volume of 2000 million smartphones, which does not include feature phones!
After the operator's centralized procurement was cut off, only one company really came out: Hua.

Several other companies have been reduced to 'other' (other) in the sales summary statistics list.

On the contrary, several MOV companies that have developed vigorously after the rise of the smartphone era have fluctuated in the top five in turn.

I have to say that in the first half of 2013, the life of China Cool Union is very difficult.

Zhonglian disappeared in the domestic market and was forced to go overseas to clear inventory, and the handling of internal problems was lengthy to the point of despair.

Coolpad is in the final struggle, and the rumor that Bolang knows is that it is seeking to sell the brand.

As for the chrysanthemum factory, Yu Dadong, who is at the helm, actually has a vague desire to thank Bo Lang in his heart. Because of Bo Lang, the internal pressure he faced has basically disappeared, and now he knows that there is only one way to go.

ZTE took Bolang's car, and the C1 and V1, two mobile phone models that have in-depth cooperation with Bolang terminals, entered the operator's contract procurement list, which is very different from customized phones.

But other areas are also in the throes of transformation.

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Closer to home.

From the perspective of God, Bolang is so active, at least in order to eliminate the "domestic" bias as soon as possible, shoulder the burden of developing domestic alternatives, and vigorously expand the scale of the enterprise.

But at the moment when the incident was happening, Bolang was so active, but in the eyes of netizens, it was not the case.

"Bolang wants to laugh at me to death. The Stars forum is just a discussion forum of the Stars system under the Bolang terminal under the Bolang Group. Using this grandchildren's vest to speak out is really disgusting to Ami."

"I'm really convinced by Bolang, I don't feel comfortable if I don't tease America for a day, hahahaha."

"It's not that the voice on the Stars forum was spread. I didn't even know that this happened. I'm still paying attention to this year's college entrance examination composition."

"America is really a bad person, actually monitoring the whole country... But, I was wondering, could it be monitoring the whole world?"

"That's terrible! 95% of the world's computers use Microsoft Windows, and the mobile phone industry is also... Hey, I discovered Huadian, and now Xinghai series products should be the most secure in the world. Anyway, I also I don’t use computers very much, hahahaha, although my information is useless, it’s good not to worry about being collected!”

"Suddenly I feel fortunate that we finally have our own system, and the core of the star system has been donated to military science and other units a long time ago, and the laboratory trial operation has been made public before. It is estimated that even the less core military system has been replaced. After all, Xingchen has a supporting development environment, and it is highly commercial and more convenient."

"So... Bolang's voice this time is still a little subtle. Let's wait and see in the follow-up. Since the press conference, things surrounding Bolang have continued. It is estimated that there will be a relatively final conclusion."

"..."

Overseas, especially on the America Network, netizens' discussions are another more direct situation.

"@Apple All the information security and personal privacy promises you made in the past, I can no longer believe it!!! I want to switch to Xinghai products!! This is the most secure electronic product in the world!"

"It's hard to imagine that our call records, emails, communications, videos, audios, photos will be directly collected and used, and there are so many companies involved!"

"I'm sure that the reason why Youtube is slow to launch the Stars version is because it is afraid of being discovered by Stars Apps as a security and privacy violation, and the reason why Twitter is online so quickly is because there is nothing to be afraid of."

"Appalling! We live in a place without any guarantee of privacy, we... need an explanation, an apology, and compensation!!!"

"I won't use any internet product from any company in my country anymore, starting today!!!"

"..."

Compared with those in China, it is obviously more difficult for American netizens to calm down.

Because the currently exposed information shows that their every move is monitored, and there is no privacy at all.

Their terror cannot be described in words.

Their traditional skills are the most free again, no one knows what will happen next!
Because of Bolang's one-handed operation, there has been more attention and discussion on Prism on the domestic Internet.

Coupled with Bolang's promotion on the global network, the incident is developing faster and faster.

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In a main meeting room of Bolang, Wen Liang initiated an important meeting of senior executives.

The layout of this meeting room is very particular. It is not the kind with a conference table, but a two-by-two single sofa layout that is often seen in high-level meetings.

The participants included 15 people including Wang Wanyu, Yang Yun, Xin Dai, Tang Pu, Chen Jiaxin, Li Ze, Zhong Zhengye, Zhou Hongming, Lin Hong, Li Bowen and Li Xia.

They are all important responsible persons in charge of various businesses.

It was almost the first time for some of them to be in the same conference room as Wen Liang.

Undoubtedly, this shows that Wen Liang attaches great importance to this meeting.

Wen Liang glanced at the venue, and seeing that everyone was present, he said straight to the point: "Prism is the biggest opportunity we have encountered since the establishment of Bolang, not one of them!"

"It will allow Bolang's independent research and development capabilities to obtain unprecedented supporting support!"

"There is no doubt that if we can respond correctly, it is very possible to complete the replacement of the civil technology center between the East and the West!"

"We will definitely have a period of optimal domestic development, and all walks of life will be vigorously opened to domestic brands, and this will give us incalculable opportunities for trial and error, and it is also the key to whether we can take this opportunity to lead the development of civilian technology!"

The summary opening remarks made the executives including Li Ze a little puzzled.

Li Ze was also the first to raise the confusion he shared with everyone: "The scope of influence of Prism does not seem to be large. If it is not for our guidance, there is not even a discussion voice on the domestic Internet. How can it be the biggest opportunity? I think this kind of thing is common in all regions. There is a certain tacit understanding, for example, subsidiaries such as Bolang Xiaocheng have relevant units stationed there.”

Wen Liang said bluntly: "First of all, it must be a global project, and secondly, tacit understanding does not mean that it can continue to be maintained after exposure."

"Even if it's just a superficial effort, based on domestic public expectations, public opinion atmosphere, and cultural environment, it will definitely last for a while. I think this time will be about five years."

Speaking of this, Wen Liang looked at everyone again: "In short, there is no need to doubt the opportunity, what you should talk about is how to use it!"

Li Ze nodded clearly: "Understood, many rules can only exist under the surface, and now someone has lifted the tacit understanding on the surface..."

Not to mention that everyone understands the rest, Li Ze did not pause, and directly threw out his point of view: "Then for Bolang, this opportunity is not in consumer end products, but in enterprise end!"

Zhong Zhengye took over the conversation: "Yes, the development of the Xinghai series of consumer terminal products does not require too much opportunity. It also has the opportunity to win the global market share and the first profit share."

Another person said: "However, the consumer business can also take advantage of this opportunity to expand vigorously, such as the planned end products: personal computers, game platform products, smart wearable devices, etc., and can further expand the international market share."

The meeting room quickly became lively.

From time to time someone expresses their attitude.

"It should also be distinguished from the currently aggregated consumer end products that can be oriented to the enterprise end."

"Yes, such as the star cloud system, and the enterprise desktop system and server system that can be developed from the star core!"

"You should also pay attention to the classification of civilian technology support systems."

"Yes, there are communication systems, storage systems, and information security systems covered by cloud services."

"I personally feel that these aspects are a little far away from the company, because our current main development investment is in the semiconductor industry chain. I think that for the enterprise side, we need to pay attention to industrial software and other aspects."

Li Ze once again stated: "I think our thinking should not be limited to completely independent development of the company. Every segment has domestic manufacturers developing. We can develop through cooperation, strategic investment, mergers and acquisitions, etc. No company has the ability to develop everything on its own, and capital means is an inevitable way.”

Zhong Zhengye answered: "Then there is more to talk about..."

There is nothing wrong with Li Ze's point of view.

In the huge and long industrial chain of the semiconductor industry, America has several super hills that cannot be bypassed.

Such as CAD (Computer Aided Design) or the new term PLM (Product Lifecycle Management): Dassault, CATIA, Autodesk, Siemens, and Synopsys and Cadence, which cannot be bypassed for EDA in industrial software.

The vast majority are in America, and even more in Silicon Valley, because silicon is fine.

These giant companies have now developed into the sky, and it seems that there is no way to get around it. At first glance, they are all too strong, but if you look at the development history of these companies, you will find a common feature: mergers and acquisitions.

Almost every giant company has experienced dozens of mergers and acquisitions.

The know-how (professional knowledge) contributed by the employees of countless companies finally became an unavoidable mountain.

and so……

Wen Liang once mentioned to Su Jian that his expectation for the first stage of Bolang is to beat Silicon Valley.

Because, in the eyes of Wen Liang who has experienced a period of life, after understanding the common characteristics of international giants under countless factors in later generations, his point of view is that Silicon Valley is not as strong as it seems.

It is not that complicated to integrate the technologies contributed by countless people from countless companies to form competitiveness, and Bolang can do it.

His plan for Bolang's first stage expectation is: export.

From the current point of view, this kind of planning already has good soil.

It is specifically manifested in the Xinghai series of products.

The technology required for each component in a large number of supply chain companies has been well utilized, and finally formed a product like Xinghai 1 that is amazing enough once it is born.

So far, Bolang has only controlled and established a small number of component manufacturers.

More is to provide strategic financial support, and in-depth strategic cooperation similar to China Star Optoelectronics, and let these companies grow by themselves.

Companies that are already giants, including China Star Optoelectronics, are under pressure and motivation under the dominance of Bolang's terminal demand.

For example, Huaxing Optoelectronics has issued a military order. Even if it is tried at an interval of 8 percentage points before August, it will be able to get the screen panel that meets the requirements of Bolang terminal.

The pressure and motivation of other supply chain enterprises with lower importance are even greater.

Originally in a half-dead state, it was Bolang who supported them to stand up and entered the excellent supply chain system dominated by Bolang's terminals. They were not willing to give up their hard-won benefits.

Over the past 13 years, more than 7% of these supply chain companies have initiated mergers and acquisitions!

As time goes by, there will always be companies that will emerge to become international giants in a certain segment, and become a mountain that consumer electronics cannot bypass.

Bolang, who is in charge of the export, has done quite well, and the Xinghai series products have won the unimaginable popularity of consumers.

So in the downstream consumer electronics-smartphone branch, Bolang is doing well.

Although I dare not say that it is much better than Apple's iPhone series, apart from the iPhone series, other players including Samsung's profit share have gradually lost sight of Bolang.

And... the success of this plan was created by Li Ze.

At this time last year, Mr. Ze visited all capable supply chain manufacturers in China, and reached the result of consultations one by one.

Therefore, Mr. Ze has a great say on this.

And Mr. Ze did not waste the experience he brought from this experience. He used the same method in the upper and midstream semiconductor industry that Bolang is developing.

However, due to the high threshold of the semiconductor upstream and midstream industries, Bolang currently focuses on strategic cooperation and strategic investment in the open market, and has no plans to overlap and develop again in the future.

For example, Sevenstar Electronics, North Microelectronics, and Tuojing Technology, which are doing well in semiconductor branch materials, and Huada Jiutian, which is almost the only EDA software manufacturer in China, all have strategic investments from Bolang.

Among them, Bolang has a team that is helping to accelerate the merger and reorganization process between Seven Star Electronics and North Microelectronics. Bolang hopes that this reorganization and merger can be concluded as soon as possible.

Without Bolang's intervention, according to the plans of the two companies, the reorganization work from the end of last year would take about four years!
Of course, Bolang also has a super-large-scale strategic cooperation with SMIC, the equipment manufacturing company for the main assembly lithography machine.

Finally, limited by the existing domestic environment, Bolang had to invest up to 700 billion in the first batch of funds to cooperate with universities to research semiconductor upstream materials and equipment.

Anyway, Bolang has been accelerating the formation of one or more giant companies in various subdivisions of the super-large semiconductor industry.

Of course, because of Bolang's own rare investment, Bolang will inevitably become one or more of the giant companies.

In summary, there are many details to discuss.

Including how to replicate the vertical application ecology in the mobile phone field as much as possible in the field of personal computers.

As the God of Wealth, Wang Wanyu hardly uttered a word during this meeting. She just took a pen to write and draw from time to time, slowly began to frown, and finally frown.

She didn't hate this opportunity coming her way.

She doesn't hate Wenliang either.

She just dislikes Wen Liang's 'do not change after repeated admonition' style.

Bolang really...developed too fast.

Like a wild horse.

There is no problem with going big and fast. The problem is where the money comes from.

No matter how Wen Liang can find funds, with this scale, really, as long as there is a little leakage, it will be an astronomical figure.

Don't say that the company is short of money and the boss solves it.

That's small company.

Not a large enterprise like Bolang.

As a CFO, if you encounter some problems, you will only go to your boss, so what can a CFO do~ right?

Anyway, after all the calculations, Wang Wanyu found that her ability to resist pressure is really good now, and her financial operation ability is also amazing.

Because no matter how big the funding gap is or how difficult it is to solve it, Bolang's development has never slowed down.

It is indeed awesome.

Finally, under everyone's concerted discussion, a draft of a large-scale development plan was formed, and Wang Wanyu finally said a few words: "According to the draft plan, by the end of this year, an additional budget of 2000... [-] billion will be invested. "

The actual rough estimate is more than 1600 billion.

This is extra budget.

The budget not included in the existing development plan is about... more than 2500 billion yuan.

The existing development plan is quite large. It is necessary to develop various terminal products, continue to invest funds to complete the construction of the top ten factories, and run the experimental factory of Star Semiconductor. Even the factory that cooperates with Huahong Hualiwei has to Enter the equipment.

Also... to develop the automobile industry.

Either way is an initial investment of tens of billions.

Wen Liang pondered for a while, and asked, "Mr. Wang, without external funds, how big is the gap in the original budget?"

Wang Wanyu replied without thinking: "According to the analysis of the company's revenue situation and considering the financing situation of Bolang Xiaocheng, there is basically no gap in the original budget."

The current one or two months is the trough of Bolang's revenue, but Xinghai series products can still contribute roughly [-] billion in revenue every month.

The revenue contributed by the application of the Internet ecology also has a scale of 40 billion, excluding overseas revenue.

Taking into account the ongoing supply chain cooperation with ZTE and Xiaosaoliang, as well as the chip vest company, the related revenue in this area is expected to be several billion yuan a month.

When Xinghai's next-generation mobile phone products are released, the revenue in the fourth quarter will increase rapidly, starting at least 1500 billion.

Taking into account the scale of financing, existing cash flow, etc., there is of course no gap in the 2500 billion budget.

Boss Wang has figured it out.

Wen Liang glanced at Wang Wanyu, feeling a little amused in his heart, so he could only say, "I will settle all the extra 2000 billion budget as soon as possible."

Then, Wen Liang stood up and looked at everyone: "Anyway, everyone, please remember that the opportunity we are facing may allow historians to divide the development of civil technology in the world into two parts!!"

"I hope you will not let me and the people of the country down!"

Everyone responded: "Understood!"
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