The board has made its decision, but for Sundar Pichai, it's not over yet.

He has to consider the future relationship between Google and Microsoft.

Not only the relationship with Microsoft, but also the relationship with the entire alliance.

Companies such as Intel and Qualcomm.

The operating system is the most basic software and is at the top of the entire ecosystem.

Although Microsoft often makes these companies unhappy, everyone covets each other's profits from the huge intellectual property library in the patent library, but no one wants a Chinese company to barbarically break into it.

Different languages, different cultural backgrounds, and different interest orientations will inevitably make the relationship between them more difficult to get along with each other.

The decision to join the Xin Alliance is for the immediate interests of Google. Of course, it is also for the interests of Google to continue to maintain the relationship with Microsoft, and even to support Microsoft at critical moments.

So today’s conversation with fellow countryman Satya Nadella is particularly important.

Microsoft executives must be allowed to calmly accept this result and still support Google at critical times.

After thinking for a few minutes, Sundar picked up the phone, and soon his enthusiastic voice began to echo in the office: "Satya, my friend, this is really a heart-wrenching night. The resolution of the board of directors is very disappointing."

It’s a pity…”

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Of course, no one in China knows what Google’s board of directors discussed.

Of course, world-class companies also have the face of world-class companies.

It is impossible to say that after the board of directors reaches a resolution, it will inform Wang Yufei immediately.

Not to mention that the other party still uses Weibo to shout out.

This decision will probably not take effect until Ge Lingyue officially visits Google.

After all, Google will not help Changxiang Technology promote it on the Internet, and then offend Microsoft to death.

In fact, Google has done a lot to appease its allies and long-term interests, such as sharing so many years of experience in operating system development with Microsoft, not only Android, but also Google’s self-developed cross-platform operating system Fuchsia OS.

Of course, for Wang Yufei, getting a reply is optional.

And he just put forward a concept. If we really want to establish the so-called Xin Alliance, there are still a lot of specific matters to be done. For example, alliance regulations, qualification review to join the alliance, how to manage alliance members, distribution of interests within the alliance, and how to deal with disputes.

,Etc., etc.

Fortunately, Wang Yufei does not need to think about these messy things. Ge Lingyue has very rich experience in this area. After all, Apple has added a lot of groups before. After Wang Yufei has the general direction in mind, he mainly focuses on

On the research and development of quantum computers.

As long as he researches technology quickly enough, company bankruptcy will never catch up with him.

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Wang Yufei's life began to become calmer, and he began to live a four-point and one-line life again, even deliberately ignoring the undercurrents of the entire world's science and technology community.

Good news is still coming one after another.

Ge Lingyue stayed at Samsung in South Korea for three days, and then the media spread the good news that Samsung Electronics had joined the Xin Alliance, becoming the first batch of foreign manufacturers to join the Xin Alliance.

At the same time, Microsoft's software partners in the previous announcement almost simultaneously lowered the selling prices of their products in China with a tacit understanding. They also launched special discounts for old users as compensation.

Although it was not announced with much fanfare, it was quickly discovered by consumers.

The biggest price drop is for MATLAB2020. For example, the student version used to cost US$59, and products with common packages and various discounts cost about US$100, but now it has dropped to US$29.

The teacher's version used to cost around US$1,500, but it has dropped to US$300.

Academic authorization for universities and scientific research institutions, including all tool kits, costs about US$70,000 per year, which has been directly reduced to US$20,000.

The previous strongly worded statement was also changed from not allowing use of virtual machines to not recommended.

In addition, software such as photoshop, 3Dmax, AutoCAD, ADAMS, AMEsim, CANoe, etc. have also had their prices reduced to varying degrees, at least by one-third, and their trial periods have been extended accordingly.

For example, the price of genuine photoshop, which is the most widely used, has dropped from around US$1,000 to US$599.

Of course, it has no impact on people who do not rely on these software to make a living, but it is a real benefit to universities, scientific research institutions, advertising design practitioners and other related industries.

No way, individual users can still use pirated versions, but once they are used in production and business activities, most of them still have to use genuine ones.

In this way, Microsoft's threat was loud but barely rained down.

Apart from an additional warning clause in these software descriptions, there is almost no substantive action.

Even a week later, many Chinese users found that there was no need to go back and forth, no need to switch back to win10, and they could still use these software normally when installing the Xin system on a virtual machine, and they did not receive any trouble from Microsoft and these software companies. After that, everyone felt more at ease.

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Sure enough, once these companies discovered that China had alternative products, they immediately settled down.

This scene is indeed very similar to the scene in the joint venture car industry after the development of the domestic automobile industry.

More than 20 years ago, when there were only joint venture car brands on the market, for ordinary people to buy a car, it was not only expensive but also impossible to buy at the original price, and they had to pay more or less.

However, since the development of domestically produced private-brand cars, the pricing of almost all joint venture cars has dropped significantly. Except for a few models, almost no one has dared to increase prices, and there are even many joint venture brands that have lowered prices when they are launched.

There is no way, even though domestically produced cars may have various minor problems, domestic manufacturers dare to achieve the ultimate price/performance ratio.

With almost the same configuration, a joint venture car costs 200,000 yuan, but a domestic car dares to sell for only 100,000 yuan. Who can explain this?

The software industry seems to have fallen into the same vicious circle. The only difference is probably that these software vendors did not get much benefit from the Chinese market twenty years ago. After all, at that time, many Chinese people had no awareness of genuineness, and everyone

Using piracy, after all these years, the awareness of genuineness finally became popular in China, everyone's performance began to flourish, and dark clouds came over...

It makes no sense!

After leaving Korea, Ge Lingyue went directly to Europe.

With the support of companies such as Huawei, Dami, and Samsung, Ge Lingyue's trip to Europe obviously went smoothly, and it probably became a group trip.

For example, in the first week in Europe, there was news that Changxiang Technology is expected to join the European Telecommunications Standardization Association, followed by the European Computer Manufacturers Association. According to media reports, macro language is expected to join the official recommended languages ​​after the introduction of language specifications.

It is said that Changxiang Technology has also successfully registered the Xin system in Europe.

There are also the Anti-Computer Virus Association, the Association for the Promotion of Relations with China, and the 5G Technology Promotion Organization...

Almost every few days, news about Changxiang Technology joining the group came back to China from various media, which also made countless people look at it in a daze.

Of course, there are technology companies in China that go overseas and join groups, but the news has never been so dense, even for Huawei.

This also directly led to the continuous extension of Ge Lingyue's trip in Europe. The originally expected one-week trip was extended to nearly ten days. This is probably because Microsoft's reputation in Europe is not very good.

Regardless, Ge Lingyue brought back a lot of good news in Europe.

There is also good news for Changxiang Technology in China.

For example, five banks have approved a total of RMB 80 billion in loans.

Among them, 30 billion are interest-free loans and the other 50 billion are low-interest loans.

This does not use the patent of the brain-computer chip as collateral, but the ownership of the company's software products as collateral.

That's right, it's a series of industrial software products, minimalist programming, and entertainment translators. Obviously banks are also optimistic about the future market prospects of these software.

80 billion yuan, of which 30 billion is an interest-free loan. Changxiang Technology can use it for free for three years. The interest for these three years is subsidized by the state. The specific method is that Changxiang Technology first pays interest to the bank and then uses the money from taxes.

Return to the company.

If you want to renew the loan after three years, it will be converted into a normal low-interest loan.

The other 50 billion loans are ten-year low-interest loans. Among them, 10 billion are high-tech special loans with interest rates as low as 3.9%. The remaining 40 billion are also lower than the loan interest rates stipulated by the central bank.

About 20 percent.

This also made Wang Yufei realize that suddenly, the company was no longer short of money.

This 80 billion loan plus the company's working capital is enough to support the construction of the company's data center within three years. When the data center is completed, the company will not only have brain-computer chip licensing revenue, Xin system internal revenue, macro language revenue, but also cloud computing revenue

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According to financial calculations and the company's future financial situation, the entire loan can be paid off in up to three years after the data center is fully completed.

Obviously, this amount and the interest rate also made Ge Lingyue, who was far away in Europe, very happy.

No longer talking about attracting investment, this woman became much more unrestrained during negotiations.

It’s easier to do things if you have money.

Several construction teams have simultaneously settled in the Changxiang Technology Headquarters Building and began to renovate it according to Wang Yufei's design plan.

Mr. Wu is indeed an expert in this regard and can always find a cheap and professional construction team.

Most of the construction teams are led by masters who have taken over the national quantum engineering experimental center.

You can rest assured of the quality in all aspects.

Although Yu Xingwei is running data centers all over the country, he is obviously also a good hand in the business. The equipment on Wang Yufei's previous list has also been arranged, including a few brands that are currently unavailable.

After discussion, an alternative product was selected.

By the end of May, underground reinforcement, pipeline and other renovations had been successfully completed.

Before leaving Europe, Ge Lingyue also reported a piece of good news when reporting her itinerary to Wang Yufei. During her visit to Europe, Ge Lingyue was not only busy joining groups, but also met with two Chinese people who were developing in Europe.

Technology has found two more generals.
To be continued...