Rebirth: Starting from selling water to become the world’s richest man

The discussion from the outside world about the Li family being the richest man in Shanbei Province is becoming more and more heated.

However, at this time, Li Shanshan's mind is not on this, after nearly a year of wealth accumulation, he can now be said to be rich.

With strong financial support, he decided to recruit talents in advance, lay out high-tech industries, and develop his own chips.

The chip belongs to the semiconductor industry, is the carrier of integrated circuits, the designed integrated circuit, embedded in the silicon chip of semiconductor materials, with the characteristics of small size, all electronic products are inseparable from it.

Chips can be said to be the cornerstone of the electronic information industry.

The main reason why Li Shanshan wants to enter this industry in advance is because he knows that although the future Chinese economy rises strongly in the world, it is subject to people everywhere in the chip industry.

In particular, the unreasonable sanctions imposed by the Americans, who require that all enterprises that use American technology and equipment to produce chips cannot sell chips to Chinese enterprises.

As soon as this sanction came out, the impact on Huaxia enterprises was huge, especially Huawei's customers in more than 170 countries around the world, hundreds of billions of dollars of network expansion and maintenance, and affected the information and communications of more than 3 billion people.

Many people can't understand why the Chinese people ate chaff, lived in grass huts, and slept in mud houses to create atomic bombs, but now they can't make good chips?

In fact, Huaxia once followed the United States in chip manufacturing, and has the possibility of advancing in tandem with Western developed countries.

The core of chip manufacturing is the cutting-edge lithography machine, speaking of lithography machine, the most advanced lithography machine is none other than ASML in the Netherlands.

At present, more than 70% of the global market share of high-end lithography machines below 45nm is monopolized by the company, of which ASML's most advanced EUV lithography machines are sold for 120 million meters each, equivalent to the price of a Boeing 737 aircraft.

In the mid-90s, Huaxia developed a BG-102 step-by-step projection lithography machine, and after the identification of relevant departments, its performance was about 5 years behind the most advanced foreign lithography machine at that time.

However, due to the industrial environment and related policies at that time, "making is better than buying" became the mainstream of that year, and since then domestic enterprises have no longer independent research and development.

Later, some people calculated that the total R&D investment of Huaxia in those 10 years could not catch up with the investment of the United States in one year, when the annual investment of the United States was about 20 billion meters.

Since then, Huaxia's research and development in the field of integrated circuit manufacturing equipment such as lithography machines has stagnated and stranded.

When I wanted to invest money in research and development later, I found that the gap between myself and foreign countries had widened to as much as 20 years.

In order not to let this tragedy repeat itself, Li Shanshan felt that he had the responsibility and obligation to lay out in advance and save the Chinese chip industry.

Of course, the most important thing is that the chip industry does make money, with the development of China's economy, you must know that it costs more than 200 billion yuan to import chips every year.

If Li Shanshan can do Huaxia core and Huaxia manufacturing, then not only has he fulfilled his social responsibility, but he will also make a lot of money.

And to develop Huaxia's chip industry, he knew that he could not do it alone, so he decided to go to the imperial capital to find help.

This time he came to the imperial capital, he was the first to find Ni Guangnan, who had been dismissed by Lenovo.

The reason why I found him was first of all because this is a person who has a strong pursuit of developing domestic chips and has the same idea as Li Shanshan .

The second reason is that Lenovo is caught in the infighting of the "Liu Ni dispute", Ni Guangnan and Lenovo's other founder Liu Dezhi had serious differences, and was eventually swept out.

Speaking of Ni Guangnan, he is also a legend.

He entered the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1961 to engage in computational technology research.

In 1984, he became the chief engineer of the New Technology Development Company of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and under his efforts, he developed the Lenovo Hanka, which made great contributions to the early development of Lenovo, and Lenovo got its name.

In 1989, the company officially changed its name to Lenovo Group Company, and Ni Guangnan served as the company's director and chief engineer, and developed Lenovo microcomputer and Lenovo brand computer under his auspices.

It can be said that Ni Guangnan's joining changed the trend of Lenovo, he is Lenovo's biggest hero, without him there would be no Lenovo's later development.

But Liu Dezhi is the founder of Lenovo after all, and Ni Guangnan's appearance challenges his authority, which also lays hidden dangers for the contradiction between the two.

Especially later, when Liu Dezhi saw that Ni Guangnan, as the core of technology, led Lenovo to comprehensively layout the chip and communication industries and made significant progress, Liu Dezhi couldn't sit still.

Around 1994, Ni Guangnan traveled to Xiangjiang, Modu and other places, recruited talents and established the "Lenovo Microelectronics Design Center".

However, this plan, known as "Huaxia Xin", was stopped by Liu Dezhi, who feared that this plan would invest a lot of money and manpower and would make him lose power.

The sudden termination was equivalent to pouring cold water on Ni Guangnan, and for this technician, he could not understand why this project for the benefit of the country and the people was suspended.

If according to his plan, then in the future, Lenovo Hanka, microcomputer, motherboard, laser printer and other products can use independent chips.

After this incident, the relationship between the two people also deteriorated rapidly, and every time Lenovo's work meeting, Ni Guangnan would argue with reason, but in Liu Dezhi's view, I will suppress you to establish your authority.

The quarrel continued until 1996.

During this period, Ni Guangnan, with the persistence and persistence of a technical expert, sent one letter of complaint after another, wanting the state department to intervene in this matter.

But as a successful businessman, Liu Dezhi won the support of most high-level officials within Lenovo during this period with a beautiful "hospital bed diplomacy".

In the end, it was Liu Dezhi who won the battle.

Since then, Lenovo has basically bid farewell to independent research and development, and has completely become a computer assembly company dressed in high-tech.

In Li Shanshan's view, this infighting not only made Lenovo miss the opportunity to become a first-class chip and communications company, but also let Huaxia miss the golden opportunity to develop core CPUs and free operating systems.

In particular, Lenovo's communication switch business started even earlier than Huawei, and if Ni Guangnan is not driven away, Lenovo is likely to be comparable to Intel and Huawei.