God-level Trader of Rebirth

Chapter 196 The Beginning of Technology, Industry and Trade
The news that Ni Guangnan joined Infinity Company spread like wildfire, and some academic periodicals and magazines focused on this matter.

After all, he is definitely the most authoritative expert in the computer field in this era. Now that he joins a private company, how can he not cause a sensation.

Even the computer stocks in the stock market were moved by the news, and there was a long-lost daily limit wave again, leading the Shanghai Composite Index to rebound sharply.

And Lenovo has once again been the focus of the world.

Liu Chuanzhi remained silent on the matter and did not express any opinion.

Many people don't know that Lenovo was originally a state-owned enterprise under the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Computer Science.

At that time, the Institute of Computer Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences invested 20 yuan, and Liu Chuanzhi led a dozen employees of the Institute of Computer Science to establish the New Technology Development Company of the Institute of Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. (Lenovo predecessor)

This is the first batch of scientific researchers who went to sea.

The Prophet of the Spring River Plumbing Duck, the tide of going to the sea for gold is rolling in, and scientific researchers can't resist the temptation, and one after another began to step into the business world.

At that time, the director of the computer institute also decided that the company could recruit personnel from the computing institute without restriction, and could return any unsuitable person to the computing institute.

What's more, all employees of the company can retain the establishment of the calculation office, the salary will be paid by Huaxia Finance, and they will have the right to continue to be promoted in the calculation office.

This is absolutely unimaginable if it is placed decades later.

Your fucking business is still tied to the establishment.

But in that era, it happened like this.

To engage in scientific research requires a breakthrough, and to establish a company requires making money.

In the beginning, Liu Chuanzhi and others racked their brains to make money, running around like headless chickens all day long.

Seeing other people doing wholesale, I was a "bad guy" for a while.

Specialized in reselling electronic watches, roller skates, as well as big pants and refrigerators.

This is also the cheapest and fastest way to get money.

Once, when color TVs were in short supply, Liu Chuanzhi heard that there was a woman out of town who had a large number of color TVs, so he decided to make a go of it.

Liu Chuanzhi was very excited. He told the staff that they must see the color TV with their own eyes before sending money.

The enthusiastic employee excitedly told him, I saw it!I saw it!I saw color TVs in big boxes in the warehouse!

Unexpectedly, as soon as they transferred the money, the other party rubbed oil on the soles of their feet and disappeared without a trace. The boxes in the warehouse were basically empty!

Calculated the 20 given, and was cheated of 14 in an instant!
Liu Chuanzhi was like a thunderbolt, wanting to cry but not crying. In the end, they could only use the remaining funds to choose a direction to make a comeback and put all their eggs in one basket.

In the end, they approached Ni Guangnan, who worked in the computer department, because he had something that changed the market and subverted the industry - the associative Chinese character system.

At that time, there were about 11 personal computers in China, almost all of which came from IBM and could only run in an English environment.

Without a certain foundation in English, ordinary people can't use computers at all.

Ni Guangnan's Chinese character system, also known as Hanka, can convert all English into Chinese characters.

When Liu Chuanzhi saw Ni Guangnan's Chinese card, his eyes lit up, and he immediately went to him and asked for cooperation.

However, Ni Guangnan didn't like him at all.

It turned out that he had handed over the LX-80 Chinese card to several companies such as Jingcheng Xintong and South China Aviation Technology, and was ready to sell it for a price, and he would cooperate with whoever sold the most.

In terms of eloquence, Liu Chuanzhi can be said to be unrestrained, and he is all out to do business. Who is afraid of whom?
He talked endlessly, and then made a final decision, saying that his mission is to realize Ni Guangnan's dream, and promise to turn all of Ni's research results into products!

As a result, Liu and Ni hit it off, and Lenovo's technical core was born.

Later, Liu Chuanzhi still felt that the profits of the Chinese Card were not enough, so he decided to import foreign computers, plug in the Chinese Card and start selling them, eating the whole dragon's profits.

It turned out to be a big hit, with sales reaching 1750 million yuan in the first year and soaring to 7345 million yuan in the second year.

In 1987, one can imagine the concept of this number.

However, this is far from satisfying Liu Chuanzhi's ambition.

The AST brand is an American company founded by two Xiangjiang people and a Pakistani. These three people combined the first English letters of their names to form AST.

In 1982, AST made the first batch of computer motherboards, which were suitable for IBM microcomputers and various compatible computers.

In 1988, Lenovo signed a US$100 million contract with AST to purchase 3000 machines for domestic and overseas markets.

Liu Chuanzhi's ambition is to follow the path of AST, develop computer boards, step by step, and then replace them.

Later, in a narrow laboratory in Xiangjiang, Ni Guangnan finally developed Lenovo's cross-generational product - 286 prototype.

Tested with the speed measurement software, the calculation speed was 286 times that of the fastest (AST 1.7) in the Chinese market at that time, which made the Lenovo 286 motherboard a bestseller at the Hannover Technology Exhibition in Germany.

After this move, the Lenovo brand has also successfully entered the international market.

At this time, Lenovo still had technology, and was once the most popular technology company in China.

However, the overall scientific research team still relies on the researchers of the Chinese Academy of Sciences headed by Ni Guangnan.

For example, some of the key businesses are directly provided by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

At that time, Lenovo could not only use the research results of the Computing Institute for free, but also use the offices, telephones and all resources in the Institute.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences holds a 29 percent stake in Lenovo, but does not have a veto.

This also planted hidden dangers for the future, leading to the loss of control over Lenovo.

The relationship between the two is very complicated.

So sometimes, it is not difficult for people to imagine why Lenovo is always standing.

And in this time and space, there will always be some inexplicable people appearing to break the original trajectory
After joining Infinity, Ni Guangnan formed a complete chip design team through his network resources, most of which are graduate students from colleges and universities in Beijing.

The reason why it went so smoothly was not only Ni Guangnan's signature, but the salary Chen Jie offered them was also one of the important factors.

When the wages are high enough, what does the establishment count for?

All of them signed non-disclosure agreements before they had access to the company's equipment.

And when they saw those sophisticated instruments, they were as shocked as the nuclear bomb exploded and the US emperor landed on the moon.

Because there are many machines in the factory, even those who are the best in the professional field can't use them, and they don't even know how to turn them on.

This made Ni Guangnan very embarrassed.

Just a graduate student.

But when he saw those machines with his own eyes, he remained silent.

Machining centers with fully automatic tool magazines, five-axis CNC machine tools, and laser positioning interferometers do not have such advanced gadgets in China.

Never seen it before, let alone programmed a product part.

And they didn't dare to mess with it casually. I heard that a machine costs at least several million dollars, tens of millions of dollars expensive, and they can't afford to pay for it if it breaks.

Money can't buy it.

In the end, it was Ni Guangnan who came forward.

With a cheeky face, I asked Professor Kruger, the only person in the entire park, or possibly the entire China, who can drive these machines.

(End of this chapter)