The Science Fiction World of Xueba

Although it is already early spring, the late spring cold is coming one after another.

Coming out of the gate of the Ministry of Electronics Industry, there were already snowflakes outside.

Pang Xuelin couldn't help but cover his mouth with his hands, breathing in the cold.

Ni Guangnan smiled and said, "Mr. Pang, let's have hot pot tonight. I know there is a copper pot with mutton. The taste is very good."

"Okay!"

Naturally, Pang Xuelin would not refuse.

Pang Xuelin followed Ni Guangnan into the car, and the two found a copper pot mutton restaurant near Dashilan. First, they ordered a copper pot soup base, and then ordered fresh-cut lamb, lamb leg, lamb brain, hairy belly, and shrimp slippery , cabbage, Artemisia stalks, shiitake mushrooms, soybean skin, etc., and finally ordered six more bottles of beer.

After the dishes were served, Ni Guangnan poured a glass of beer for himself and Pang Xuelin respectively, and said, "Mr. Pang, this glass is for you. I have benefited a lot from listening to your report during this period of time. I used to say to open my eyes to see the world, but We are weak. Looking at the west with our heads up and our feet on our feet, what we see is nothing but a shadow covering the sun. The industry is controlled by others, but we can't find a clear direction. You are the number one in the ICT industry I have seen. As a person who really understands technology, has vision, and understands the laws of industrial development, your report these days has made all of us feel enlightened."

Pang Xuelin smiled, and clinked glasses with Ni Guangnan: "Gong Ni, I'm so honored."

Ni Guangnan gulped it down, shook his head and said, "What I said is not an exaggeration at all. Don't look at the fact that we have been in a hurry to introduce foreign capital these years, thinking of exchanging the market for technology, but are those capitalists in the West fools? They don't know ours. Mind? As you said in the report meeting, the IC industry is capital-intensive, technology-intensive, and talent-intensive. If we can’t do these three things, then don’t try to catch up with the West in a short time. ..."

Pang Xuelin smiled, he could feel the aggrievedness in Ni Guangnan's heart.

It has been nearly a year and a half since he came to this world, and Pang Xuelin has a very clear understanding of the development of China's industries.

It is better to buy than to make, which is the political correctness of this era.

The trend of the whole society is crazy superstition of the West, belief in the market economy, and opening up the market to foreigners.

Many domestic industries have become victims of this political correctness.

Yun Shi dismounted, disbanded the R\u0026D team, destroyed the technology platform, interrupted the accumulation of technology, and lost a large number of talents, even overseas.

Abolish the Ministry of Machinery Industry,

The Bureau of Instrumentation Industry was dissolved.

Abandoning the independent manufacturing route of automobiles, experienced automobile manufacturing engineers were transferred to research and assembly technicians in joint ventures, and were completely isolated from the research and development process.

For example, in the joint venture of an automobile factory, there is a line on the drawing, and the Chinese engineers cannot change it. If it needs to be changed, it must be reported by the foreigner and decided by the foreign company.

This restrictive clause prevents Chinese engineers from modifying the original design and gradually understanding the possibility of foreign technology.

A large number of R \u0026 D personnel in the field of precision instruments and meters have entered the sea, and many experienced and high-level talents have been acquired by foreign-funded enterprises.

In the IC industry, the same is true of Ni Guangnan's technical industry trade and Liu Chuanframe's trade, industrial and technical competition.

It will not be until two thousand years later that the Chinese will understand that the latecomer market needs to be protected.

If there is no administrative and tariff protection, there is no ability to compete with international giants.

It is easy for other people's things to destroy your national industry.

So in 2004, when the Ministry of Railways launched the introduction of high-speed rail, China, which had already learned well, played the classic Three Kingdoms Killer.

At that time, the Ministry of Railways entrusted CNTIC International Tendering Company to carry out the 200km/h EMU for the sixth major speed increase of the railway. Chinese manufacturing enterprises (including Sino-foreign joint ventures) supported by foreign partners with mature 200km/h railway EMU design and manufacturing technology.

This passage is quite convoluted, and it has two meanings in layman’s terms: First, the bidders must be Chinese companies. Siemens, Bombardier, Alstom, and Japanese high-speed rail manufacturers originally wanted to directly participate in the bidding, but this condition blocked them. out the door.

Second, Chinese companies cannot invest casually, and must have the support of foreign companies with mature technology. This time, domestic EMUs such as "China Star" and "Blue Arrow" were blocked from the door, because the Ministry of Railways The real goal is to introduce foreign advanced technology.

In addition, the Ministry of Railways has only designated two companies to import technology, one is Sifang Locomotive and Rolling Stock Co., Ltd. of CSR Group, and the other is Changchun Bus Co., Ltd. of CNR. These are called "strategic buyers".

The Ministry of Railways also requires that foreign manufacturers must sign comprehensive technology transfer contracts with Chinese domestic rolling stock companies before bidding, and if they fail to do so, they will be disqualified from bidding.

Even more ruthless, the Ministry of Railways has also set up an assessment process called "Technology Transfer Implementation Evaluation". The object of the investigation is Chinese bidding companies, and the referee is the EMU Joint Office established by the Ministry of Railways.

Although you won the bid, the Ministry of Railways will not pay the money first, and then foreign companies will teach domestic companies skills as teachers. If the company does not learn well, he will not pay.

To be honest, this regulation is a bit too domineering. Foreign companies not only have to teach with all their heart, but also are afraid of encountering stupid students, because even if they teach with all their heart, if they fail to learn well, their money will be wasted.

Therefore, with the help of the huge domestic market, in less than ten years, China has not only completed the work of independent and localized high-speed rail, but also surpassed the old teachers in technology and entered the overseas market , making it a dazzling business card made in China.

Even on the core device of energy conversion and transmission (high-speed rail core device) such as IGBT (insulated gate bipolar transistor chip), China has also completed localization, and it is used as a national strategic emerging industry for rail transit, Smart grid, aerospace, electric vehicles and new energy equipment and other fields.

Similar scenes also happened in the liquid crystal display industry, supercomputer industry, mobile phone industry, shield machine and other industries. It can be said that the rapid rise of China in later generations is inseparable from the rapid development of these emerging industries.

It's just that in this era, it is really difficult to rely on China's current industrial foundation to overtake Western countries in corners.

In the field of chips, whether it is talent pool or capital intensity, it is far inferior to Western companies.

The only way to develop is to go slowly and accumulate technology step by step.

When the technology has accumulated to a certain level and the scale of the Internet industry begins to grow, it will be the time for Pang Xuelin and the others to show their talents.

Pang Xuelin and Ni Guangnan chatted wildly while eating.

From the IC industry to the international political and economic situation, from domestic academic corruption to some gossip and anecdotes in the industry.

When Ni Guangnan was a little dizzy from drinking, Pang Xuelin suddenly said: "Ni Gong, are you interested in coming to Xinghuan Technology? We are going to develop video decoding chips and graphics chips, and we need an experienced technical leader. , I think you are very suitable for this position."

Ni Guangnan was slightly taken aback, and under the slight drunkenness, most of the wine woke up in an instant.

Ni Guangnan shook his head with a smile, and said, "Mr. Pang, I believe in your vision and ability, but I am staying well in Lenovo now, and we also have a CPU research and development plan in the future. I appreciate your kindness."

Pang Xuelin smiled lightly: "Ni Gong, do you think you can grab food from the Wintel alliance by developing a CPU based on the X86 instruction set?"

"Wintel Alliance?"

Ni Guangnan looked at Pang Xuelin puzzled.

Pang Xuelin smiled. Windows 95, Microsoft's revolutionary Windows operating system, will not be released until next year. Although Microsoft is already quite powerful at this time, there is no such thing as a Wintel alliance in the industry.

Pang Xuelin said lightly: "The Wintel alliance refers to Microsoft's Windows operating system and Intel/AMD's X86 chip. If nothing else, in the next two decades, the CPU dominated by the X86 instruction set will undoubtedly dominate the entire personal computer. The market, colliding with such a behemoth is not a good way."

Ni Guangnan couldn't help but hesitated, and said: "Then why don't we do anything? Just watch the opportunity disappear before our eyes. Didn't you still say at the report meeting today that the personal computer market is about to usher in a big explosion? As long as we successfully develop There will always be a certain market for X86 chips.”

Pang Xuelin looked at Ni Guangnan with a smile, and said, "Ni Gong, do you really believe this?"

In Pang Xuelin's view, Ni Guangnan is a typical scientist and engineer, an idealist, and a patriot.

He is really the kind of person who regards money as dung. This kind of quality can be a scientist, but it can only be a tragic figure if he wants to be an entrepreneur.

In fact, this is also the fundamental reason why Ni Guangnan was finally excluded from Lenovo.

In later generations, some people criticized Ni Guangnan, saying that he should not put all his eggs in one basket to develop personal computer CPUs, and satirized him with the Ark CPU and NC2000 machine he pushed later.

But Ni Guangnan's real contribution is exactly what has been looked down upon and satirized all the time. He is running around for domestic chips.

But, compared to Ni Guangnan, what did Liu Chuanzhen and the others do?

In the 1990s, Ni Guangnan not only proposed research on core projects such as CPUs and operating systems, but also proposed displays, ASIC-related chips, large-scale system software, and printing technologies.

However, Liu Chuanzhen and the others did not strictly select suitable projects from Ni Guangnan's projects that were in line with Lenovo's reality, and continued to cultivate in these fields, allowing Ni Guangnan's scientific research team to gradually grow and become the backbone of the company.

Instead, it is directly squeezed away, thus embarking on the road of no return in marketing, trade, and capital operations.

A technology company that does not focus on research and development will lose its soul!

If other companies give priority to trade because of their initial survival, that would be justified.

However, Lenovo is the most technology-centric enterprise.

Because you were backed by the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, you were backed by the most advanced technology and the best scientific research resources in the country at that time.

Pang Xuelin pondered for a moment, then asked again: "Also, Mr. Ni, do you really think Mr. Liu and the others will agree to invest a large amount of Lenovo's resources in CPU research and development?"

Ni Guangnan's face turned pale.

In fact, a few days ago, he proposed to invest in research and development in areas such as operating systems, CPUs, and ASIC chips on Lenovo's internal board of directors, but the response he received was not optimistic.

Although Lenovo has developed rapidly in the past few years, various struggles within the company have also become increasingly fierce. Disputes about the routes of technology, industry and trade and trade, industry and technology will break out every once in a while. Although Ni Guangnan doesn't think he will lose, but in this way Thinking about it, Ni Guangnan can't guarantee whether Lenovo can really provide him with a stable research environment.

"Mr. Pang, do you have any plans for chip development?"

Ni Guangnan asked.

Pang Xuelin laughed and said, "President Ni, you should have seen the popularity of our Xinghuan CVD, right?"

Ni Guangnan nodded.

Pang Xuelin said: "Last year, our company's revenue exceeded 500 million (excluding stock market revenue). This year, I am sure that the company's total revenue will not be less than 3 billion. If you are willing to come over, Transwarp Technology will invest no less than Fifteen percent of the total revenue is used for product research and development. Of course, the short-term goal is the video decoding chip. After all, this chip can be directly used in the company's products and can be cashed at any time. The medium-term goal is motherboards, graphics cards, DSP chips, FPGA chips, IGBT chips, and some RISC chips used in the industrial field, and the long-term goal is personal computer chips and server chips..."

Ni Guangnan's eyes could not help but brighten up.

Compared with Lenovo's Koukou Suosuo, Pang Xuelin's scientific research funding is really generous.

Pang Xuelin paused, and continued: "And I will also cooperate with Lanzhou University, Chang'an Jiaotong University, Huake, Electronic Science and Technology University, Xidian, Beiyou and other schools to strengthen the training of computer hardware engineers. Poaching, as long as someone is willing to come, the salary will be doubled, and the company will also recruit returnees from top foreign universities to enrich our talent pool as much as possible!"

Ni Guangnan was obviously moved by Pang Xuelin, pondered for a moment, and said, "Mr. Pang, I have to think about what you said. You also know that my position in Lenovo is not low. Even if I want to leave, it will not be so easy."

Pang Xuelin laughed, raised his glass and said, "Ni Gong, there's no rush, come over when it's convenient for you, I'll be waiting for you anytime!"

Ni Guangnan breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That's good, Mr. Pang, cheers!"

"cheers!"

...

That night, the two chatted until after nine o'clock before the dinner was considered over.

Pang Xuelin went straight back to the hotel. Just as he got back to the room, Pang Xuelin's eldest brother started to poop.

Pang Xuelin quickly picked up the phone, and Sun Yansheng's voice rang from the other end of the phone: "Mr. Pang, are you still in Beijing?"

"Yes, what's the matter?"

"I'm going to Beijing tomorrow morning, let's talk then!"

"no problem."

After hanging up the phone, the smile on Pang Xuelin's face increased a bit.

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