Reborn in 2011, 985 missing from two copies

Chapter 266 Strategic Layout, Data Center!
Being passively beaten has never been Wang Yi's style.

On the contrary, hitting with one punch to avoid hundreds of punches is Wang Yi's style!

As for the strategy, it is to attack in full force and beat the old master to death with random punches!
Anyway, Xingyi Technology is not listed on the market, so it is not afraid of negative news and is not affected by stock price fluctuations.

If it were a listed company, Baidu's ban alone would evaporate a lot of Xingyi Technology's market value!
But if it doesn't go public, it doesn't matter. It only affects the current user growth rate.

At this point, Wang Yi is sure to break the game and even play against the wind!

But Baidu is different. As a listed company, any impact on revenue in any field will be quickly reflected in the stock market, causing the stock price to plummet and the market value to evaporate!
This is Wang Yi's opportunity!

After all, if you are barefoot, you are not afraid of wearing shoes!

Wang Yi also remembered the revenge of today's ban.

Xingyi Technology is still in its infancy, many businesses have not yet started, and it cannot compare with the giant BAT.

Even if it is blocked by Baidu, it is temporarily unable to counter-block it.

In this regard, Jeju still has great advantages.

But when the contract was about to be signed, something unexpected happened and I had to give up.

Wang Yi will take note of the sealed account for the time being.

I thought that in the field of servers and mobile phones, Lenovo could also copy the success of PC, become bigger and stronger, and create greater glory.

When the scale of Xingyi mobile phone increases next year and the number of users increases dramatically, Baidu products will be the first to be sacrificed!
Today Baidu blocks Xingyi Video, and in the future Xingyi Mobile will also completely block Baidu Browser, Baidu Tieba, Baidu Maps and other Baidu Family Buckets!
Wang Yi has already thought of the reason, which is to violate user privacy and security and collect user data!
This alone is much better than Baidu’s lame excuse for blocking Xingyi’s video for sensitive content!

Just like the domestic mobile phone processors in 2011, they all used Qualcomm, Nvidia, Samsung, and even the Huawei P1 used Texas Instruments processors.

Lenovo PC business + IBM server business + Motorola mobile phone business. At this point, Lenovo's business map is completely completed.

It is the rise of domestic servers that has caused international giants such as IBM to continue to lose sales.

For the same product, IBM is 50 yuan more expensive than domestic servers such as Inspur. Who would buy domestic brands such as Inspur?

Servers are for enterprises, there are only so many customers, and profits are slim.

Initially, the performance of domestically produced server chips was not up to par, and it would not work without outsourcing.

Whether it is Huawei or Inspur, the gross profit of servers is about 10%, and the net profit is only 2%!

Coupled with the price war pressure from foreign giants, domestic server manufacturers can only survive in the cracks.

Song Sining understood what Wang Yi meant: "Chairman, do you plan to build a data center in Jeju or the island city?"

Coupled with the pressure and price wars from foreign giants, it was difficult to develop a first-generation product. As a result, there were not enough orders, and it was difficult to make back the money, and it was impossible to compete!

Wang Yi nodded: "Yes, the data center project will also be added to the tripartite talks in a few days. Let's see which side is suitable and which side can strive for good policies!"

In addition, servers are not profitable, and internal senior management opinions are not unified. Later, Huawei servers were sometimes independent and operated independently, and sometimes integrated with cloud services, and the development was not satisfactory.

Without Intel's authorization, the Kunlun server team had to be disbanded.

With this funding, Huawei managed to acquire some extra cotton-padded clothes to survive the cold winter, which was not an easy task.

Huawei had no choice but to find a new buyer again, and was finally bought by Nam Ha Province, but at a discount to only about 40 billion, paid over many years.

Unexpectedly, servers are a technical task. Lenovo has IBM's industry and infrastructure, but it does not have sufficient R&D capabilities and technical reserves, so it is still difficult to achieve success.

As for many domestic servers, they all use chips from Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA. There is nothing we can do about it.

For example, Inspur, after years of development, subsequently became number one in the country and number two in the world.

Subsequent breakthroughs were made in domestic server chips. Domestic server manufacturers such as Inspur also adopted domestic server chips such as Kunpeng, Feiteng, and Haiguang.

But just as the highlight moment began, it suffered a critical blow in 2016.

Such as IDC data center!

As for continuing to lower prices? Cost not allowed.

Coupled with subsequent force majeure factors, the server business had to be packaged and sold to the Suzhou State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission in 2020 for a price of 600 billion yuan.

IBM has a habit of cutting off and selling any business that has a profit of less than 40%!
Finally, in 2014, Lenovo spent US$25 billion to acquire IBM's server business, causing a global sensation.

In the previous life, Jeju was also in the first echelon in terms of big data and had a supercomputing center.

But what the future holds is hard to say.

At present, the entire server market is dominated by foreign giants such as HP, IBM, and Dell.

In 2013, IBM's revenue fell by 30% and it began to sell its server business for US$60 billion.

However, under this situation, domestic server brands did not give up and still survived tenaciously.

In this process, many brands collapsed due to various reasons such as imperial ban and suppression.

Plus one of the server giants, Inspur, is located in Jeju, next door to the Meiyu Technology Park.

That year, Lenovo acquired Motorola's mobile phone business.

The so-called gentleman's revenge is night and day!
At the moment, we will collect a few waves of interest, and then we will block Baidu after it grows bigger!

There is no way, the current servers do not use Inspur, you can only choose European and American brands such as HP, IBM, Dell, Cisco, etc. This is a good investment!
As for Huawei servers, the project was only launched in 2010, and it would take several years for production to begin.

There are also many brands that have overtaken the curve and defeated international giants.

For this reason, many businesses planned for the next year must be accelerated across the board.

As for IBM's R&D team and technology...most of them are in the hands of the Imperial people and are not so easy to use.

More importantly, Europe and the United States have strong R&D capabilities because they started early. They started decades earlier than us, so they are naturally more advanced.

But once we catch up and strive for subsequent development, Europe and the United States will be useless, and they really can’t compete with domestic products!

For example, Huawei completed the 5G baseband in 2018, ranking first in the world and far ahead.

But what about Apple?

It acquired Intel’s baseband business, gathered global elites, and invested heavily in research and development. As a result, Apple’s 5G baseband failed every year and was nowhere in sight...

By the time Huawei's 6G baseband is developed, Apple's 5G baseband will probably be almost there!
Lenovo's own servers are not powerful, and IBM's server research and development capabilities cannot keep up with the trend, resulting in losses every year...

However, the acquisition of the former international server giant IBM also marked a major change in the server industry: the era of dominance by European and American server giants has completely ended, and the era of the rise of domestic servers is coming!
But this time, Wang Yi plans to make this time point come faster and earlier!
Compared with mobile phone chips, servers are equally important, or even more important.

Mobile phone chips are mostly for civilian use and are only one or two generations apart, so there is not much of a problem.

The server is related to AI, cloud computing, and big data!

These are all top priorities.

The future is a competition of AI and computing power!

Powerful servers and server chips are the foundation!

Wang Yi plans to make arrangements in advance so that domestic servers, cloud computing, and AI can all rise in advance!

The breakthrough point is the wave!

Faced with the price war and crazy suppression by European and American giants, other domestic server giants currently either have no way out or their future is uncertain.

Even though Inspur wanted money but had no one, it still vigorously researched and developed and found a special path!

Inspur knows that no matter how hard it is to fight for brand, fight for cost, or engage in a price war, domestic servers cannot compete with European and American giants.

That is to strive for R&D and service at the same time!

Inspur found that different large customers have different server requirements.

However, standard servers are the same and increasingly unable to meet the needs of large customers. Customization is the way out.

However, the European and American server giants are superior and provide mediocre services, let alone large customers who want customization. This is simply unrealistic.

So Inspur seized the opportunity and directly cooperated deeply with major customers such as Alibaba and Baidu to launch customized server business!
Whatever products customers need, I will develop and precisely customize them.

Serving a large customer requires 21-22 positions, and each position may require several people.

To this end, Inspur directly established a CMT (key customer service) department with hundreds of people.

From the production chain to customer service, we make full efforts, adopt the platform + module approach, and iterate like crazy.

What kind of server does a big customer need? It can be done in 9 months!

It is the unique Inspur model + strong R&D capabilities that has enabled Inspur to win many major customers around the world. Not only has it surpassed the combination of Lenovo + IBM, it has also become No. 1 in the country and No. 2 in the world!
Wang Yi is still very optimistic about this kind of company that knows how to adapt, has terrifying R&D capabilities, and doesn't mess around.

Subsequent strategic cooperation, or even investing in shares and becoming a major shareholder of Inspur, is not a problem.

Like BYD, this kind of company that is willing to invest in research and development and is capable and promising is worthy of Wang Yi's long-term investment!
Once he becomes a major shareholder of Inspur, Wang Yi can promote the integration of resources from both parties.

In the past few years, Xingyi Technology purchased a large number of Inspur servers and even developed servers together.

A few years later, Xingyi Semiconductor was completed and launched server chips. Inspur could also purchase Xingyi Semiconductor's server chips.

The process requirements for server chips lag behind those of mobile phones.

Even in 2020, the most advanced process for server chips is 14nm!

In 2011, server chip manufacturing processes were mainly based on 55nm and 40nm.

In a few years, Xingyi Semiconductor may not have no hope of making it!
Xingyi Semiconductor's server chip + Inspur server architecture and system can be regarded as a powerful combination!
After some thought, Wang Yi came up with a plan: "Sining, according to the industrial layout and allocation, if nothing else, the Xingyi Data Center will also be located in Jeju."

"Yes, after all, there is a wave, and Jeju has great advantages in this aspect." Song Sining agreed very much: "There is only one smart TV factory in the island city. Isn't it a bit too favorable to one?"

Wang Yi smiled: "There is a high probability that the smart furniture factory and the smart TV factory will be located in Daocheng. The smart tablet factory and big data center, as well as the mobile phone factory that was negotiated before, will all be located in Jeju. In this way, the two sides will be almost the same. Once it’s balanced, there won’t be any more problems.”

Song Sining's eyes lit up: "Yes, this is better. The island city has Haier, Hisense and other white goods industry belts. It is more convenient for us to build smart homes there."

Wang Yi changed the topic: "The data center issue is a big deal. Please mention it and see if you can get more policy support."

The cost of building a data center is not small, and the cost of subsequent use is even more of a problem.

There is a big gap between whether there is policy support.

Even though big data in 2011 is far less terrifying than ten years later, it is still quite large.

For example, Facebook currently has more than 9 million users worldwide and nearly 15 servers.

Intel also has 7.5 servers.

Currently, Baidu, the largest BAT company, has 10 servers.

One hundred thousand servers are enough for Baidu today, but a few years later with the explosion of the mobile Internet, a surge in netizens, and the launch of various cloud services, one hundred thousand servers were completely insufficient, and new data centers had to be built.

Wang Yi remembers that in the previous life, Tencent’s servers exceeded 2019 million in 100.

Baidu's number of servers also exceeded one million in 2020.

Baidu’s goal in 2030 is to exceed million units!
For Tencent, it will only be more, maybe four to five million units!
Similarly, Xingyi Technology has many more data centers than Baidu.

Even the first data center has to be built for the capacity of 100,000 servers, and the second and third data centers will have to be built in the future!
A data center with 10 servers consumes approximately 2.5 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually based on PUE (data center energy efficiency) 6.57.

Even if the PUE is reduced to an excellent level of 1.36, the annual power consumption will be 3.57 million kWh!

If there are no preferential policies in the local area and the tiered electricity price is charged, one kilowatt hour of electricity will cost about one yuan, and the annual photovoltaic fee will be 3.57 million yuan!

But if the local government provides preferential policies, such as a discount of 1.7 cents for data center electricity, more than million can be saved.

If the discount is as low as 30 cents per kilowatt-hour, you can save more than 200 million!
Saving 20 million in electricity bills a year will be billion in ten years.

It's really not a small fortune. Song Sining understood what Wang Yi meant: "Don't worry, Chairman, I will raise this matter on the 15th. But regarding the data center matter, do you want to give Director Hong a break first? This way, the management committee will receive the news as soon as possible. Make preparations so that they can prepare preferential policies early!”

Wang Yi's eyes lit up: "Sining, your idea is very good. If you propose it on the same day, you won't have time to prepare the policy. It will be convenient if you can get some advice in advance. In two or three days, as long as the city is really serious, the policy will be ready. almost there."

The official efficiency is said to be fast, very fast, and said to be slow, very slow.

It all depends on whether the project is good or not, whether the officials care about it or not.

For example, the Tesla Gigafactory in Shanghai in its previous life was started, put into production, and delivered in the same year in 2019!
Without the strong support of the Magic City behind this, it would be unrealistic.

"Okay, Chairman, I'll just mention it casually." Song Sining smiled and said, "By the way, if Director Hong asks about the scale, what should I say?"

Wang Yi smiled: "The larger the scale, the more excited Jeju will be, and the better policies it will have! Just tell Director Hong that Xingyi Technology's first data center is not large in scale, with only 100,000 servers."

Song Sining fell silent: "..."

That’s 100,000 servers!

Baidu, which currently has the most servers in the country, only has 100,000 servers!

But she would say whatever Wang Yi asked her to say.

"Okay, I'll just say it casually!"

After the call ended, Song Sining decisively went to the management committee and met with Director Hong.

"President Song, sit down quickly. Are you here for the three-party talks on the 15th?" Director Hong said with a smile.

Song Sining nodded: "Yes, Director Hong, are you going to decide the result directly this time?"

"Yes, the province has scolded the representatives of our two cities and asked us to make a decision as soon as possible and fully support Xingyi Technology. We cannot delay the construction and development of Xingyi Technology Factory because of fighting!"

Director Hong smiled bitterly: "As for the distribution strategy, it will be based on the industrial distribution of the two cities. Now that the Xingyi mobile phone factory has been located in Jeju, the tablet factory is too similar to the mobile phone, so it has also been located in Jeju. There is Hisense in the island city. , if there is a TV industry belt, the smart TV factory will be located in Daocheng. However, the final smart home factory is still unresolved, and both sides are competing.”

Song Sining understood in her heart and couldn't help but said: "Oh, it's troublesome to have too many factories. Director Wang also wants to build a cloud data center, but he doesn't know where to put it."

"Cloud data center?"

He does not mean that.

Director Hong's eyes widened: "President Song, is this true?"

Song Sining said noncommittally: "Nowadays, Xingyi Technology has more and more businesses, many of which require servers. Rather than leasing them, which is also unsafe, it is better to build our own data center."

"Yes, that makes sense. Xingyi Technology's data center must be built!"

Director Hong smiled. Compared with smart home factories, data centers are obviously more fragrant.

As long as the data center can be retained, so what if the smart home factory is given to Daocheng?

The data center is the most powerful thing!

"President Song, the Xingyi Data Center must be built in Jeju. We have Inspur servers in Jeju that can provide all-round support. We also have a supercomputing center that is under construction. In the future, it will be the first echelon in the country in terms of big data. Jeju will never It will disappoint Mr. Wang!”

Listening to Director Hong's sincere words, Song Sining smiled slightly: "I will convey Director Hong's wishes. But the final decision must be made by Director Wang. Of course, Director Wang also gave priority to Jeju."

Director Hong understood what Song Sining meant and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Director Wang trusts his hometown, and his hometown will definitely not let him down. I will report this matter immediately and strive for the best policy. By the way, how big are you? ?”

"It's not big."

Song Sining said lightly. Director Hong was a little disappointed, but then she heard Song Sining say:
"Director Wang said, it's just the first data center, just 100,000 servers!"

"What? One hundred thousand servers!"

"Is this a small scale?"

Director Hong wanted to scold her.

Really a big deal.

This scale ranks first in the country and ranks among the top ten or even top five in the world!

You said the scale is not large?

funny!

But then, Director Hong became excited.

If it were really on such a large scale, it would be awesome, and we would definitely strive for the best policy!

Song Sining continued: "Dr. Wang said that the future is the era of cloud services and big data. In the future, all resources and information will be stored on cloud services. With the popularity of smart phones, the mobile Internet is destined to explode. One hundred thousand servers It is enough for now, but 20 units will not be enough in three years. In five years, 30 units will be needed. As for ten years later, it is estimated that one million units will be needed!”

"This..." Director Hong was startled: "Will cloud services develop so fast in the future?"

"Yes!" Song Sining said this: "Director, please be busy first, we will discuss it in detail on the 15th."

"Okay, President Song, walk slowly!" Director Hong stood up and walked out.

"Director Hong, stay."

Until Song Sining left, Director Hong was still in shock. He didn't recover for a long time and murmured in his heart:
"If big data is going to develop so fast in the future, growing tenfold in ten years, then Jeju cannot miss this wave of opportunities!"

"But don't be reckless. It's better to ask professionals first."

Director Hong immediately made a call: "Mr. Chen, how are you doing lately?"

"Very good, your chief director has so many things to do all day long, why do you have time to think about me, old man?"

"Haha, it's been a while since I listened to your teachings, and I feel uncomfortable all over!"

"Just pull it down! If you have something to say, just tell me!"

"Don't tell me, I really have a question to ask you." Director Hong laughed:
"Mr. Chen, big data is developing rapidly. Baidu currently has 100,000 servers. How many do you think will there be in five years with the current momentum? How many will there be in ten years?"

"This question..." Mr. Chen thought for a moment: "That's a good question!"

Director Hong: "..."

"In five years, if Baidu is still number one in BAT, it will cost at least 300,000 units. In ten years, it will probably cost 900,000 to 1 million! But if Baidu has a big problem, that's another story."

"I understand, thank you Mr. Chen. I'll treat you to a drink another day!"

"Another day? When?" Mr. Chen became interested.

"Wait until I finish!"

Mr. Chen: "..."

After hanging up the phone, Director Hong sighed: "Mr. Chen, it's not that I can't bear to drink, it's that your body can't bear it. If something happens to you while drinking, I'll be guilty of a big sin!"

Afterwards, Director Hong picked up the bag, called the driver, and went straight to the compound.

Since Mr. Chen and Mr. Wang both said that big data will grow tenfold in the next ten years, then 80% of it will be true.

Jeju cannot miss this wave of big data opportunities and must take advantage of them!

In addition, the 15th will be a tripartite consultation to finalize the results, and the policy must be implemented as soon as possible.

In this way, Xingyi Technology’s data center can be kept in Jeju!
After all, it is a large cloud data center comparable to the first brother of BAT!
That’s right, in 2011 when the mobile Internet was just emerging, the PC side was still the main one, and Baidu was the big brother.

But when the mobile Internet rises, Goosechang and Alibaba will be the kings!
By then, Baidu will completely fall behind and be replaced by ByteDance, the emerging overlord!
In the afternoon, Jian Ziyan approached Wang Yi: "Chairman, we are all ready. Do you want to fight back now?"

Wang Yi waved his hand: "Don't worry, let the bullet fly for a while."

Jian Ziyan understood what Wang Yi meant: "Chairman, you want to let the situation continue to ferment until it reaches a certain level, then take strong action!"

"You can teach me!" Wang Yi touched Jian Ziyan's head, feeling very pleased.

Jian Ziyan's cheeks were slightly red, and she looked at Wang Yi with evasive eyes: "What does this sudden action mean? Is it ambiguous?"

"But what does that old father's look of relief mean?"

Jian Ziyan was numb.

Wang Yi took his hand back without thinking at all.

Baidu has only blocked it for a long time, and the anger of the majority of users has just begun.

Many people are still working and don’t know it.

It would be good to wait until tonight, or even tomorrow, when more and more users are affected and everyone knows about it!

If we counterattack now, the effect will be average and the anger value will not be enough.

Sure enough, at night, more and more netizens discovered that they couldn’t find Xingyi Video when searching on Baidu!

I copied the link to Xingyi Video and tried to open it, but it was prompted that there were suspected sensitive resources and access was prohibited!

This left everyone scratching their heads. After some research, they learned that Baidu had blocked Xingyi Video for the sake of vicious competition with iQiyi!
Immediately, many people were furious, condemning Baidu online, criticizing Baidu, and even boycotting Baidu.

Similar posts continue to appear, not only on Meiyou Social Square, but also on Weibo.

Even Baidu Tieba, which is currently popular, has many similar posts.

This situation was quickly reported to Li Yan.

Li Yan smiled slightly, but didn't care: "Baidu Tieba is the most popular Tieba at the moment. Just block related keywords and delete all posts!"

"Yes!"

The subordinates acted quickly. In just a few minutes, there were no more posts criticizing Baidu in the entire Baidu Tieba. Even the posts discussing the matter were deleted.

Li Yan smiled slightly: "Xingyi Technology just concentrates on making mobile phones. It also wants to make a video platform, and it does it so well. It has a great impact on iQiyi. How can this be done?"

"Of course we have to block Xingyi Video, kill it, and then buy Xingyi Video business at a low price!"

BAT has more than a dozen new projects every year, but most of them fail!
Failed businesses, if they have value, will be sold and acquired.

After all, money has been spent, and it would be better to get some money back than down the drain.

For example, in the search field, in order to compete with Baidu search, Alibaba acquired the domestic Yahoo in 2005, but it did not develop well and was about to close. Related businesses will most likely be sold to the Yahoo Empire.

There is also Alibaba e-commerce Tao Nihong, which was only established last year. It has become less popular this year and is expected to be abandoned next year.

The same is true for Tencent WeChat, QQ Group, and Souba.

Let’s talk about Baidu’s social software. It was established last year but has gone out of business this year.

Baidu Space, Baidu Hi, as well as Baidu Youah and Lekutian, the two major e-commerce companies, are also failed products!
It can only be said that BAT has strong funds, dares to try, and dares to fail.

It is normal to start ten new businesses a year and fail seven.

In the end, the valuable ones were acquired, and the worthless ones were lost.

Similarly, in Li Yan's view, in the face of Baidu's ban, Xingyi Video will also be a failed product of Xingyi Technology.

However, the film and television copyrights purchased by Xingyi Video have a long term, many of which are permanent exclusive broadcast rights, and H.265 technology is also very advanced!
All are worth acquiring.

"Originally, I wanted iQiyi to acquire PPS, but now it seems that it is obviously more appropriate to acquire Xingyi Video!"

"Let's see how long Xingyi Video can hold on. Once it can't hold on any longer, we'll initiate acquisition negotiations!"

Li Yan smiled slightly, his ambition burning like fire.

Cripple and swallow competitors, this is how BAT develops!
Public opinion on the Internet continued to ferment, but Wang Yi never took any action. Instead, he was sleeping soundly in his arms holding Lin Shu.

Li Yan frowned slightly: "There has been no counterattack all day long. Is Xingyi Technology unable to counterattack? Or is it preparing for a big move? Director Wang is not the type to sit back and wait for death!"

(End of this chapter)