When I am reborn, I just want to be a top student

Chapter 322: The conflict between academia and business, a long-term foreshadowing

after an hour.

Under the guidance of Yao Qizhi, Wang Donglai took a good look at the research center.

As the dean of the China Europe International Studies University Institute of Cross-Disciplinary Information Sciences, he still has quite a bit of real power in this small piece of land.

After the visit, Wang Donglai prepared to leave.

However, just as I walked out of the research center, I heard a voice.

"Professor Wang, please wait a moment!"

Wang Donglai looked in the direction of the sound and saw an elegant old man with gray hair.

When he saw this person, Wang Donglai's information also emerged in his mind.

Academician Ni Guangnan.

Born in 1939, he was assigned to work at the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences after graduating from South China University of Technology in 1961. He participated in the development of my country's first self-designed electronic tube computer. He later carried out research on Chinese character processing and character recognition, and pioneered the application of association function in Chinese character input.

He won the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award twice, in 1988 and 1992 respectively, and was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1994.

The most famous story is the story of this academician and the capitalist named Liu.

With these thoughts in mind, Wang Donglai smiled and said, "Academician Ni, do you have something to ask me?"

Academician Ni perked up and said, "Professor Wang, would it be convenient for you to chat with me for a while? It won't take you too long."

Wang Donglai was moved by Academician Ni's invitation, and said politely, "You are too polite, Academician Ni. I am very happy to communicate with a senior like you."

Soon, the two came to Academician Ni’s office and sat down.

After sitting down, Wang Donglai took the initiative to ask, "I wonder what Academician Ni wants to talk to me about?"

When Academician Ni heard Wang Donglai's question, he quickly said, "I heard that Professor Wang applied for a semiconductor localization project?"

Wang Donglai was not surprised that Academician Ni knew this news. The fact that he had applied for the Young Elite Scientist Program might be difficult for ordinary people to know, but for an academic giant like Academician Ni, it was no secret.

Perhaps even the news that he had received 50 million in research funding had spread.

Where there are people, there will be rivers and lakes, so it is normal for these news to spread.

"Yes!" Wang Donglai nodded and admitted it.

"May I ask why Professor Wang wanted to apply for this project? You know, localization of the semiconductor industry is not a simple project."

A hint of curiosity appeared in Academician Ni's eyes, and he stared at Wang Donglai, wanting to see how he would react when he heard his question.

At this time, Wang Donglai heard Academician Ni ask this question again. He hesitated for a moment and said, "Academician Ni, I don't know if you know that many projects of the Galaxy Technology Company I founded need the support of the semiconductor industry. Advanced chips and CPUs can greatly improve the performance of my company's products."

"However, foreign companies have an advantage in these things, and some advanced products even set limits for us. As a boss, after conquering these things, we can not only increase profits by a large amount, but also remove technical restrictions and improve product performance. It is definitely a good thing with no disadvantages."

Academician Ni nodded and said, "Indeed, you have won an award for developing an artificial intelligence medical auxiliary diagnosis system. In addition, I heard that your company's drones are also excellent. These all require advanced chips. It is normal for you to have such an idea."

When he said this, a complicated expression appeared on Academician Ni's face, and then he cautiously asked: "Professor Wang, I wonder if you are interested in listening to some stories from an old man like me."

Seeing that such an academician was acting like this, Wang Donglai nodded and said, "Academician Ni, please go ahead. I'm listening here!"

Wang Donglai's attitude seemed to give Academician Ni some confidence. Academician Ni's expression gradually became more cheerful and he said, "Professor Wang, I guess you don't know much about an old man like me, so I'll just briefly explain it."

"In the 84s, I learned about microprocessors and C language technology abroad, so I wanted to turn the results of associative Chinese character processing into a practical Chinese character microcomputer. In 80, my team and I developed the 'LX-80 associative Chinese character graphic microcomputer'. However, I felt that PC was the mainstream computer, so I planned to condense the LX- Chinese character graphic microcomputer technology into a Chinese card on the PC."

"It was officially launched in 85 and has gone through eight models. By 8, the output value of the Lenovo Chinese Card had approached 87 million yuan, which can be said to be a remarkable achievement."

"Until 1996, the Lenovo Chinese Card basically stopped selling, and the company successfully completed the seamless connection of core products with the help of branded microcomputers, surpassing many of its peers and becoming the number one brand of microcomputers in China at that time."

When he said this, Academician Ni paused and sighed slightly.

Then he continued, "The company has grown, but there have been disputes about the company's direction. I insisted on combining technology, industry and trade, increasing investment in research and development, and launching advanced products, but others opposed it. They believed that we should follow the trade, industry and technology route and did not agree with my route."

“This is my first failure!”

"The second time, Li Lei from Ark approached me and said he wanted to work with me to design a domestic chip. As a result, the first domestic embedded chip, 'Ark No. 1', was released. Later, the Ark CPU, Yongzhong Office, NC slim client and Linux operating system were combined to form a purely domestic computer system."

"However, the lack of a software and hardware ecosystem and serious compatibility issues make this system difficult to apply."

“This is the second failure!”

In fact, Wang Donglai had already reacted when Academician Ni was halfway through his speech.

The dispute between Ni and Liu!

Ark incident!

These two things are often brought up on the Internet in later generations, especially the first one.

It even caused a huge amount of discussion at a certain stage.

Although he successfully took away Lenovo's Liu capitalist, he was also called Liu comprador by netizens.

Wang Donglai even cursed them online. After all, this Liu family really hasn't done many good things.

Computers sold abroad are better and cheaper, and the service attitude is also better.

Loss of state-owned assets.

Foreigners make up the majority of senior executives, which involves information security.

The company's executives took away 30% of the company's profits as dividends, what a greedy face.

The proportion of R&D is low, but they still want to reap profits by listing on the Science and Technology Innovation Board.

Even the company's headquarters was moved to Bald Eagle, but it still plays the role of a conscientious product in the country and is purchased in large quantities.

In addition, at the 5G coding meeting, they voted against Huawei specifically, ignoring the joint position of major domestic manufacturers.

Combining the information he knew, Wang Donglai guessed why Academician Ni said such words to him.

"Professor Wang, I'm not saying this to brag or show off my status and achievements. I just heard that you were going to research semiconductors and make them localized, so I wanted to talk to you and remind you of my failure experience."

“Sometimes, academia is academia and business is business. The two may run in parallel at a certain stage, but they will inevitably go their separate ways in the end. You should learn from my experience!”

Academician Ni gave Wang Donglai a sincere and earnest admonition.

After experiencing two failures, Academician Ni actually no longer wants to think too much. He just wants to see more companies that insist on independent research and development emerge in China during his lifetime.

That's why, after seeing Wang Dong coming, he immediately waited at the entrance of the research center and said this to Wang Dong. "Academician Ni, everyone has seen what you did. As for whether it is right or wrong, time will give the answer."

"I personally admire you very much. Our country is a populous country and a strong country. The advent of intelligence is the trend of the future. We naturally cannot be constrained by foreign technology, so localization is something we must do."

"You were able to think of doing this many years ago. You have a far-sighted vision that those fools cannot understand. Although there are still many people who disagree with your ideas and propositions, I agree with them very much!"

“Localization is imperative!”

Facing this "stubborn old man", Wang Donglai admired him from the bottom of his heart.

To be honest, if Academician Ni had not been so stubborn back then, he would at least be a billionaire now.

When Academician Ni heard Wang Donglai's words, his expression changed slightly.

It seems that he is somewhat moved and also somewhat relieved.

"Professor Wang, I have said so much, but I don't have any other meaning. I just hope that you can go more smoothly and really produce some results."

"Looking back now, even if I had persisted, I might not have succeeded."

"Big companies like Microsoft and Intel have long dominated the computer field. We simply cannot get around them. The level of domestic computers has not yet reached this level. Failure is not surprising."

When Academician Ni said this, his expression was calm and his tone was calm.

Obviously after so many years, I have already figured these things out.

Wang Donglai also nodded, agreeing with Academician Ni's statement.

Because this is the truth.

The fact that Microsoft's operating system is pirated is a huge conspiracy.

As long as piracy exists, other PC operating systems will never be able to develop.

But if Microsoft cracks down on piracy now, domestic Internet companies will immediately mobilize their manpower and work hard. Within a few days at the shortest, or one or two months at the latest, a large number of operating systems will appear on the market.

"Academician Ni, thank you for your concern. I understand what you mean!"

Wang Donglai nodded sincerely and expressed his gratitude to Academician Ni.

"Professor Wang, I have another question. What do you think about the feasibility of autonomous and controllable operating systems in the era of mobile Internet?" Academician Ni looked at Wang Donglai seriously and asked.

When Wang Donglai heard Academician Ni ask this, he was stunned at first, then he reacted.

Autonomous and controllable operating system!

Until Wang Donglai traveled through time, there was only Huawei's Hongmeng.

As for the deeper information about Hongmeng, Wang Donglai was not an industry insider at the time, so he did not care.

Now, even if you want to know the specific information of Hongmeng, you have no idea where to start.

We only roughly know that Hongmeng is a research and development system based on a microkernel, and everything is connected.

After a moment of silence, Wang Donglai said, "From PC to mobile, there will inevitably be new changes. Microsoft will no longer be the leader in operating systems. There is no doubt about that."

"In my opinion, in the era of mobile Internet, Android and IOS systems are the mainstream. The likes of Saibai have long been outdated and will inevitably be eliminated."

"As for the domestically produced, independently controllable operating system, it will definitely appear!"

"However, the technical difficulty of developing a domestically-made, independently controllable operating system is not great. The main difficulty lies in other aspects. Academician Ni should be able to figure this out."

After Wang Dong finished speaking, Academician Ni also nodded and said, "Yes!"

“If there is no software and hardware ecological environment, even if we develop it, what’s the point? We will still be eliminated!”

Having experienced such a failure, Academician Ni is very clear that sometimes it is not that Chinese people are unable to make things, but that when facing the entire ecosystem and the entire industry, one person alone is simply unable to compete.

Seeing Academician Ni looking somewhat disappointed, Wang Donglai suddenly felt a little reluctant.

Others didn't know, but he knew.

In the original time and space, Warwick's Hongmeng operating system will be launched in the future, which will fulfill Academician Ni's dream.

In this world, when Wang Donglai pushed Galaxy Technology to make smart home appliances, he was preparing for the development of domestic operating systems.

Everything is connected!

What is the biggest problem facing domestic operating systems?
The worry is that there is no application software and no market.

However, when Galaxy Technology's smart home appliances became popular, this problem was easily solved.

The huge number of smart home appliances, numbering in the hundreds of millions, will become the fulcrum and foothold of domestic operating systems.

No one would have thought that the domestic operating system would not end up in major mobile phone manufacturers, but would appear directly around everyone.

Smart toilets, smart refrigerators, smart TVs, smart air conditioners, smart lighting, smart door locks, smart speakers, and so on.

As soon as the time comes, you can immediately operate Galaxy Technology's many smart products for OTA upgrades.

Domestic systems naturally enter into people's lives.

At that time, mobile phone manufacturers will have to change even if they don’t want to, because the dominant power is no longer in their hands.

Wang Donglai did not tell anyone else about this plan. Maybe Chen Lingyue saw something of it, but he might not have thought that Wang Donglai's ultimate goal was to develop a domestic operating system.

"Academician Ni, believe me, you will see the emergence of domestic operating systems!"

When saying this, Wang Donglai was suddenly stunned.

Because he suddenly realized that he seemed to have said this many times.

I have said it to Han Hua, to Zheng Hua, to Xu Songyao, to the leaders, to Academician Yao, and now I have said it again to Academician Ni.

If you think about it more carefully, you will find that you have already made guarantees in many areas.

This sudden thought caused Wang Donglai to change his mind a little.

Academician Ni did not take Wang Donglai's words seriously, both because he was old and because he really believed that it was too early for domestic operating systems to appear.

With a gentle smile on his face, Academician Ni shook his head gently and said, "I hope what Professor Wang said is true. If that day really comes, I can close my eyes with peace of mind."

Hearing Academician Ni say this, Wang Donglai was shocked. Looking at Academician Ni's old but determined face, he became more determined and said:
(End of this chapter)