Siheyuan starts from the stationmaster

Bai Zirui pointed to a computer on a seat in an office, and said, "This computer is more powerful than an ordinary personal computer. It uses Motorola's latest 6MHz mc68000 processor! This computer It is also equipped with CAD development software designed by the company itself to assist engineers in circuit design and other work!"

In fact, this workstation computer developed by Dingtian Company is still immature in design, with unsatisfactory computing performance and high cost, and the Unix operating system developed to support it does not run smoothly, and it is far from reaching the standard that can be introduced to the market.

Bai Zirui is not discouraged by this. At least Dingtian Company has taken the first step of independent research and development. With the continuous investment in research and development funds, it has overcome technical difficulties one by one, and new products will always have a mature technology one day.

The entire visit process of the delegation went very smoothly. Since everyone learned that Dingtian Company is a company with monthly sales exceeding [-] million yuan, the whole delegation's view of Dingtian Company suddenly changed.Everyone used to think that game consoles were just toys for children, not a big industry, but the ability of the games developed by Dingtian Company to attract money made no one dare to have any contempt.

How many electronic companies in China can be compared with Dingtian Company in terms of output value?What's more, they are earning a lot of real money from Western countries.

When the delegation was about to leave, Minister Wang said to Bai Zirui: "Comrade Bai, I am very moved after visiting your company. I think we have a good foundation for cooperation and exchanges. After I go back, I will report Report the situation, and if the higher authorities allow, we will also cooperate in the model of the three universities in Xiangjiang."

Bai Zirui was waiting for his words, and said with a smile: "Minister Wang, don't worry! If your superiors agree, our company is very happy to cooperate."

Sending off the mainland university delegation, Bai Zirui called Dingtian company's management executives to hold a closed-door meeting to discuss cooperation with mainland universities and scientific research institutions.

Bai Zirui distributed the relevant data collected to the executives who participated in the meeting, saying: "Although the electronic technology industry level in mainland China is relatively backward as a whole, it has hundreds of universities, hundreds of scientific research and design units. , more than [-] professional engineering and technical personnel.

If these technicians can be used by our company, it will undoubtedly greatly enhance the company's scientific research competitiveness. "

John Chambers said: "Boss, what you said is just data on paper. Except for you and Mr. Xu, our company doesn't know the actual situation in mainland China. It is very risky to invest rashly. It may be nothing. And even if we want to cooperate, we shouldn’t cooperate on such a large scale.”

John Chambers first expressed his opposition. In his view, although the mainland has a large population base and more relevant talents, they have been out of touch with the world for a long time.

He feels that Dingtian's current R&D investment is a bit too aggressive.In his opinion, the foundation of Dingtian Company is the arcade machine industry, but there are five or six projects under development by various subsidiaries of the group.

Among them, the Walkman of Dingtian Electric Company, which has been developing rapidly, has been put into the market, and has brought huge income with amazing sales volume, and has achieved profitability for the company.

Dingtian Software Company has just launched an office software to the market, and the sales have just started.Gold-absorbing behemoth game company, the only game that will be launched on the market within this year is "Mario Brothers".It is far from comparable to the speed at which competitors launch dozens of new games a year.

Great Wall Cube and "Tank War" can be successful, but it doesn't mean that the next "Mario" will continue to reap brilliance.

No matter how rich the company is, it can't spend it like this. Although Dingtian Company has strong profitability and abundant cash flow.But if the next new game "Mario" does not turn out to be as popular as expected, and the two old games "Great Wall Cubes" and "Tank War" have passed their peak sales, the company's cash flow will dry up immediately.

In the view of John Chambers, Dingtian Company is now like a raging fire. Although it looks like a blooming flower, it is already in crisis.If projects such as home video game consoles can still be regarded as expanding the foundation of the industry, investing in electronic laboratories and semiconductor laboratories is completely blind expansion.

Now Dingtian Company wants to develop more cutting-edge projects such as semiconductors and computer software development. The mainland is definitely unable to meet Dingtian Company's requirements, and even if it wants to cooperate, it can only be a selective cooperation.

Bai Zirui understood the meaning hidden in John Chambers' words. Due to some special reasons, there was a gap in scientific research and talents in the Mainland, and because the incident was so big, it also created some bad impressions on foreigners.

However, the scientific research capabilities in the mainland are not as bad as others imagined. On the contrary, the older generation of scientific researchers are still the backbone. Don't underestimate the ability of these people. They just lack the understanding of the latest technology.

Executive Vice President Xu Zhihao said: "Bai Sheng, President John is right! The political system in the mainland is completely different from Xiangjiang, and there is no sound law to rely on, especially in the mainland. The cooperation between universities or scientific research institutions in the mainland to obtain scientific research results may also be infringed, and the company cannot obtain benefits."

The first "Patent Law" in China was due to the fact that when it negotiated with the Prussian Volkswagen Group to establish a joint venture Shanghai Volkswagen Automobile Company, the Prussian side strongly urged the mainland government to protect its own intellectual property rights, so it accelerated the revision process in time for 3. Promulgated in March [-].

Bai Zirui said: "It doesn't matter even if it is infringed by a mainland company. For a long time to come, our Dingtian company's main markets will be Europe, America and Japan. As long as we can acquire the international patents of relevant scientific research achievements, even if we lose the mainland The market is also perfectly acceptable."

Bai Zirui never thought about how much patent fees he could receive in China in the 80s.So what if the Patent Law is promulgated!For quite a long period of time, domestic companies still infringe on what should be infringed, and some companies even kidnap you morally and let you license your patents for free!
Xu Jingli asked: "Zi Rui, how do you plan to cooperate with universities and scientific research institutions in the Mainland?"

Bai Zirui replied: "We mainly cooperate in two aspects, talent exchange and project entrustment. The first point is talent exchange. What I hope to do is a long-term investment.

Relying on the semiconductor laboratory and electronic laboratory, we give a certain number of quotas to relevant cooperation universities and research institutes in the mainland every year, and invite them to send some outstanding young and middle-aged scholars and professors to Xiangjiang for one to three years of academic exchange .

In this way, we can not only slowly build up the company's popularity in the mainland, but also provide a steady stream of excellent scientific research blood for the two laboratories. "