No regrets ninety-two

Chapter 839 Merging and Dividing

During this period of time, Ni Guangnan's mood can be described as mixed.

The reason why he joined Lenovo at the beginning was that he was moved by Liu Chuanzhi's sincerity, and he was ready to play a technical card for Lenovo.

After that, for quite a long time, Liu Chuanzhi regarded him as Lenovo's "technical business card" and completely followed his thinking in the field of technology research and development.

At the beginning, the direction of the two parties in the technical field was the same.

With his efforts, Lenovo designed its own PC motherboard and expanded its business on this basis, thus launching a computer that truly belonged to its own brand, and achieved a leading edge in technology in China.

It is precisely because of this that Lenovo has also made great breakthroughs in sales. Among the four major state-owned computer brands, Lenovo has surpassed Donghai and Inspur successively from the bottom of the list.

During this period of time, because of the same philosophy and direction, the relationship between him and Liu Chuanzhi was intimate.

It stands to reason that when Lenovo has achieved great success in business, the two parties should cherish this rare cooperative relationship even more, and continue to make efforts to expand Lenovo's technological leadership, so as to bring Lenovo to a higher level.

But differences arose at this time.

Ni Guangnan feels that although Lenovo now has a certain technical foundation and has a leading advantage in technology in China, it is still far from enough.

The reason is that although Lenovo Computer is its own brand, its CPU is from Intel, its operating system is from Microsoft, and most of its core chips are from abroad.

Under such circumstances, it is easy to be stuck by foreign manufacturers in the long-term development, especially after it becomes bigger.

Therefore, Ni Guangnan believes that Lenovo should develop its own core chips and even design its own operating system.

And he also feels that Lenovo, which has already made substantial profits, has the ability to further increase investment in research and development.

But his idea was opposed by Liu Chuanzhi.

Liu Chuanzhi believes that the most important thing for Lenovo now is to expand the scale of the enterprise and continue to expand its market share.

Since CPUs are readily available abroad, and all core chips can also be bought with money, why invest limited technical strength and resources in chip research and operating system research that are difficult to produce results?

Once such differences arise, they are irreconcilable.

At the beginning, the two sides were relatively restrained and only disputed in a theoretical way.

Slowly, the taste has changed.

Ni Guangnan already clearly felt Liu Chuanzhi's dissatisfaction and neglect towards him.

Different road non-phase plan.

Because the dispute is getting more and more intense, the relationship between the two has now cracked, and it has almost reached the point where it is impossible to reconcile.

This made Ni Guangnan very disheartened.

After careful consideration, Ni Guangnan can only feel that Liu Chuanzhi is more and more like a businessman in essence, and has been blinded by short-term interests.

Now, although Wu Xiaozheng extended an olive branch to him, Ni Guangnan was more cautious.

Since even Liu Chuanzhi with a technical background is becoming more and more a businessman, what about Wu Xiaozheng who is a businessman himself?

Ni Guangnan had to be cautious.

"I have to talk to you about my ideas. If the two sides can reach an agreement on the concept, we will discuss the follow-up actions."

"Yes, if we agree, we will hold hands, and if we don't agree, we will separate. This is the basic rule of the game."

This is exactly what Wu Xiaozheng hoped for.

Investment is like a marriage. Temporary impulses may not last long. On the basis of in-depth understanding, compromise and tolerance, certain rules of the game can be followed for a long time.

The change from hot to cold between Ni Guangnan and Liu Chuanzhi also reminded him that it is necessary to unify the development direction in advance and reach an agreement in order to stabilize the cooperative relationship between the two parties.

"According to my idea, after the establishment of the R&D center, the main focus will be on chip research and development. If feasible, it is best to take into account the development of the operating system."

"Yes, but it must be prioritized, and there must be a clear and feasible research and development direction. In addition, there is also a very important item, that is, the integration of computer and communication."

"As for the focus of research and development, it mainly focuses on the two projects of chip and computer and communication integration. The research and development of the operating system is best to hold the mentality of learning and imitating first, and don't expect it to produce results immediately."

To be honest, Wu Xiaozheng is really not interested in the research and development of the operating system.

The reason is that he knows very well that for a long time to come, Microsoft will dominate the world in this area, and no one can break its monopoly position.

One step ahead, one step ahead.

This is the trend in operating systems.

But he has no intention of giving up completely.

Because after a few years, when the smartphone comes out, another operating system will appear, that is, the operating system of the mobile phone.

At that time, Apple's operating system and Google's Android system will be leading in this field, and even Microsoft will be far behind. In China, there are also some operating systems with a small market share that are struggling.

The reason why Wu Xiaozheng has not put the development of the operating system in the cold palace is that he is accumulating technology and talents, and is preparing to make efforts in advance when the smartphone comes out, so as to seize the opportunity of the mobile operating system.

This is another deeply buried pawn.

For his answer, Ni Guangnan was surprised again.

He was amazed at how well prepared Wu Xiaozheng was.

He did not expect that Wu Xiaozheng not only did not object to the chip and operating system, but also added the integration of computer and communication.

And this item was not valued by Liu Chuanzhi in Lenovo.

This is a good thing.

The more prepared Wu Xiaozheng was, the more assured he would be.

If he is not prepared at all and listens to him, he will be very worried.

In this regard, he has already learned from experience.

When he approached Liu Chuanzhi back then, Liu Chuanzhi said very modestly that he listened to him in everything technically, and it turned out...

"Are you interested in the fusion of computer and communication?"

"I can clearly tell you my opinion. Among the three main research directions, the one that is most likely to produce results and generate benefits is the fusion of computer and communication."

"As for chip research and development, it may be difficult to produce results and generate benefits for a long time, but it has to invest heavily, because even if this area fails 99 times, it only succeeds once. Once the success this time produces benefits, it is far from The benefits generated by assembling a PC are comparable."

"As for the operating system, Microsoft exists. I don't expect it to turn into benefits in the short term. What I want is the accumulation of technology and talents to gain additional development opportunities."

Wu Xiaozheng expressed his opinion very bluntly.

This view surprised Ni Guangnan very much.

Is it easy to benefit from the integration of computer and communication?

He thought so too, but wasn't quite sure.

But he admitted that Wu Xiaozheng's views in the field of chip research and development are very accurate.

In a hundred attempts, it is likely that only one will succeed, but once it succeeds, the future is boundless.

What made him even more gratified was that Wu Xiaozheng was mentally prepared to fail 99 times, which showed that he had enough patience in investment and was not overheated.

That being the case, it’s time to dive into the details!

Speaking of this, Ni Guangnan was already a little moved.

(End of this chapter)