Chapter 367 The way out for domestic computers? Germination is taking action!
After reading the work briefing, Zhang Shuo browsed the news online again.
Most of the most popular posts are related to Germination, and they are still in the focus and whirlpool of public opinion.
Zhang Shuo skipped directly.
He quickly noticed a piece of news related to Tenda, but it was that Tenda unexpectedly reached an out-of-court settlement agreement with Waniu. Tenda would sign a three-year agency contract with Waniu.
It is equivalent to providing a safety net for Frogniu.
Frogniu may also realize that if the lawsuit really continues to be fought, they may win, but the final outcome may not be very good. It is better to accept the goodwill from Tengda and stop the loss in time.
And from Tengda’s perspective.
Naturally, he spends money to eliminate the negative effects and once again demonstrate his money-making ability.
"A couple of times."
To be honest, Tenda did a pretty good job in crisis public relations this time and is already the best choice at the moment.
Losing the lawsuit is certainly unacceptable to Tengda.
Winning is actually not necessarily a good thing.
As Lu Jian said, it is tantamount to overdrafting Tenda's reputation in the industry.
Such a compromise can not only eliminate the adverse effects in the shortest possible time, but also prevent Tengda from being forced to step down, and basically save face.
Just a little.
Even if the two parties reconcile, there is a high probability that the Nine Yin Manual will not be able to save it.
Once the prodigal son is gone, he never looks back!
In addition to the settlement with Fangniu, there are also rumors on the Internet that Tenda intends to cut off its e-commerce business and is looking for potential partners. It is not known whether the news is true or false.
………
Even though the next day was Saturday, classes went on as usual.
night.
Zhang Shuo and Gu Mingzhang attended the award ceremony for outstanding entrepreneurs in Binhai City.
Cai Miaomiao originally wanted to join in the fun, saying she wanted to gain experience, but Zhang Shuo refused, "You have just founded Miaomiao Bicycle and haven't even started a serious business, so why go and gain experience?"
"All right!"
Cai Miaomiao also had a young mind and retreated in dismay.
Because he had already received relevant honors, Zhang Shuo declined the second award arrangement offered by Binhai City and bluntly said that he would leave the opportunity to more people.
Then--
Gu Mingzhang was named one of the top ten outstanding entrepreneurs in Binhai City.
This does not mean that I am partial.
Putting aside Zhang Shuo's halo, Gu Mingzhang, as senior vice president of Germination and president of Maili Group, is worthy of such praise based on the stunning performance of Maili x1 last year.
In fact.
Not only Gu Mingzhang under Moya, but also Du Qingqing, president of Pinxixi Group, also received similar honors in Jiangcheng. Others include Pei Weiping from Yangcheng, Cao Yanhua from Rongcheng, etc.
This year can be said to be a year of great budding harvest.
In contrast, Du Ruiwen from the Capital City and Tang Xiang from the Magic City have not been able to win any honors this year due to fierce competition between the two places, but it will be a matter of time.
Also selected from Binhai City was Wang Tao.
With the shocking listing of Wujiang Genie, Wujiang Technology has grown from an unknown start-up company to become famous all over the world, and the status of its founder Wang Tao has also risen.
By comparison.
Whether it is Linde New Energy or WALLI Intelligent Manufacturing, which are also invested by Germination, they are still on the "eve of awakening" and will take several years to shine.
Don’t be afraid of being late if you have a good meal.
Although Zhang Shuo did not win the award, he still attended the party, just like Mr. Ren and the Second Master before him, not only to give face to the official, but also to support the younger generations.
Zhang Shuo's status in the business world now seems to be catching up with President Ren and the Second Master. In a sense, it is even more dazzling. As soon as he enters the scene, he becomes the focus of the audience.
There was quite a while of pleasantries.
It wasn't until the second master came over that the others understood and said goodbye.
"Second Master!"
Zhang Shuo also took the initiative to say hello and showed enough respect.
After a brief exchange of pleasantries, the second master immediately got down to business and asked Zhang Shuo: "Are you interested in taking over Tenda's e-commerce business?"
"Um?"
Zhang Shuo was slightly surprised, and then remembered the news he saw yesterday.
Is it possible?
Does Tenda really want to cut off its e-commerce business?
"Well, it is difficult for Tengda E-commerce and Pinxixi to complement each other." Zhang Shuo declined politely.
Tell the truth.
He has no regard for Tenda's e-commerce business at all, and will not allow it to be said that Tenda sells low-quality assets such as its e-commerce business to participate in Xixi.
It's quite a beautiful thought.
When Yuan Jing Dong was willing to cooperate with Tenda, it was not because of Tenda's e-commerce business, but because of Weixin, icq's traffic support, and Weixin payment.
But in this life.
What Tengda has, Bud has everything, and it's even better.
"That's it."
The second master was a little disappointed. He really wanted to invest in Xixi.
did not expect.
Before he could speak, Zhang Shuo rejected him.
I feel a little uncomfortable in my heart.
"So, does Mr. Zhang have any suggestions for the development of Tengda?" Er Ye continued to ask.
"Um?"
Zhang Shuo, however, suspected that he had heard wrongly.
"It's a bit abrupt, but I really want to hear your advice. After all, you are a legend." Recently, the internal friction between Lu Jian and Renyu has given the second master a headache.
By some strange combination of circumstances, Zhang Shuo, his opponent, was approached to ask for advice.
As expected of the second master.
"Well, to be honest, I can't give any advice. If I really want to say it, then I can only say that maybe overseas will be a good growth point in the future." Zhang Shuo suppressed the weirdness in his heart.
"Expanding overseas markets, what's the reason?" Er Ye was noncommittal.
"Because there is only endless involution in the country."
Second Master: "..."
For a moment, I couldn't figure out whether Zhang Shuo meant what he said or whether he was joking.
When Zhang Shuo saw this, he just smiled, then turned and left.
What he said was actually the truth.
In terms of the degree of involution, no one in China’s Internet industry can surpass it.
Ahli, Tengda, and Qiandu are all the masters that everyone wants.
Even if they are rising stars, such as Mildew, Character Jump, and Winter Fright, their methods of eating, phase, and action are not fundamentally different from those of their predecessors, the Big Three.
Moutuan develops taxi business and even e-commerce.
The character jump is even more severe. After obtaining massive traffic through short video business, there is no business that cannot be done in live broadcast, e-commerce, games, online literature, tourism, etc.
It's as if they want to squeeze out the last remaining value of the traffic.
Another great achievement.
The difference is that Tenda is based on icq traffic, and character jumping is based on short videos.
The essence is the same.
Even Jingdong, which has always been known for its "professionalism and focus", later reported that it was interested in entering the takeout market and developing takeout business, but the involution was also tight.
No wonder some people say.
The end of China's Internet companies are Internet finance and food delivery.
Especially in the field of Internet finance, none of the giants mentioned above is not involved in the business. Even Pingguo is said to have ended up in lending.
That’s enough!
After that, Zhang Shuo found another opportunity to chat with Mr. Ren.
Under the personal promotion of the two of them, Warwick and Buya have cooperated for the first time, but it remains to be seen how to make the cooperation bear fruit and how to avoid internal friction.
Tell the truth.
It is not something that Zhang Shuo and President Ren can completely decide.
………
Monday, January 7th.
In the morning, Gu Mingzhang formally reported the local computer market research situation to Zhang Shuo.
Zhang Shuo specially asked Lu Qi to listen together.
"The Chinese computer market, regardless of the thoughts of assembly manufacturers, and just analyzing the computer accessories market, the overall situation is - comprehensive but not big, big but not strong."
"Comprehensive but not large" means that China's entire computer industry chain is still complete, from peripheral monitors, power supplies, chassis, radiators, speakers, keyboards, mice and other accessories to core memory, hard drives, CPUs, motherboards, and graphics cards
For accessories and even operating systems, there are corresponding companies."
"But they are basically at the second or third level, and few are in the first level."
"How are the first, second and third gears divided?" Zhang Shuo asked.
In my impression, by around 2022, domestic computer accessories should have started to gain prominence. Except for a few core accessories such as CPUs and motherboards, everything else has already caught up.
It is not as unbearable as the outside world understands.
Of course, all these achievements have nothing to do with any idea.
It's also ironic.
"The first, second and third grades are not professional divisions, but are divided from the perspective of consumers."
Gu Mingzhang explained.
"The first level is consumer grade, which means it has fully entered the civilian market. It will be considered by some DIY players and users and can be easily purchased."
"The second level is office grade, which is characterized by security, no backdoors, and can meet basic office needs. It can handle text and chart work, but its performance is average and ordinary users will not consider it."
"The third level is professional grade, mainly used in servers, supercomputers, embedded devices and other fields."
"What about the development prospects?" Zhang Shuo asked.
"The outlook is still very optimistic."
The survey report that Gu Mingzhang produced obviously has something to it, "Accessories such as monitors, power supplies, chassis, radiators, speakers, keyboards, mice, etc. are expected to enter the first tier in the next five to ten years."
"Especially for accessories such as mice and keyboards, there are already many well-known brands."
This is no lie.
The monitors of the Original Time and Space Whale Oriental are the best in the world.
"Compared with CPUs, the technical threshold for memory and hard drives is slightly lower. There is also a lot of room for future development. It is expected to catch up with, or even surpass, overseas manufacturers."
This reminded Zhang Shuo of the ZhiTi launched by Changchang Storage, which is already a world-leading product.
In this life, it will only come out sooner.
Sure enough, Gu Mingzhang quickly named Daosui Group, "If Daosui Group succeeds in acquiring Jili Storage and taking control of Jiangxia Xinxin, it is expected to achieve major breakthroughs in the fields of hard drives and memory chips."
"As for graphics cards, although the technical difficulty is similar to that of memory, because high-end graphics cards require the cooperation of game manufacturers, overseas companies have an absolute advantage in this area."
Speaking of this, Gu Mingzhang paused because he thought of Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment, a subsidiary of Moya.
There are various signs.
Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment is no longer satisfied with the field of mobile games. It has also begun to make frequent efforts in the field of client games and stand-alone games. In the future, it may be able to cooperate with the research and development of graphics cards.
Zhang Shuo obviously thought of this and said with a smile: "Daosui Group can consider entering the field of graphics cards. In this area, Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment can provide cooperation."
In terms of game development, Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment is not inferior to any game company in the world.
"good."
Gu Mingzhang also smiled and wrote it down.
"So, where is the CPU?"
Zhang Shuo finally asked the most critical question.
"The CPU can be regarded as the core accessory of the computer, with the highest technical content. It is also an area with the highest overseas technology patent wall, so it is also the most difficult to break through."
As for the motherboard, since it is developed and designed together with the CPU, it can be classified into the same category.
"Specifically, domestic CPU manufacturers can be divided into three major categories."
"The first is to obtain authorization from Youtel and adopt its unique x86 architecture. They are recruiters from the Magic City and Haiguang from Haijin City. The way to obtain authorization is basically investment."
"X86 architecture will not be considered." Zhang Shuo directly rejected it.
"I think so too."
Gu Mingzhang took advantage of the situation and said: "Because of its absolute dominance in the computer CPU field, in recent years, Yutel has begun to fail more and more, moving from being closed to being even more closed."
"There are only two or three companies in the world that have truly acquired the x86 architecture, not to mention that."
"The most speechless thing is——"
"Once a company that has licensed Citrix's technology becomes bigger, such as AMD, it will fall into endless patent litigation with Citrix, which is miserable."
The original space-time system suffered a bitter taste because of this closure, allowing the more open arm architecture to stand out in one fell swoop, replacing the x86 architecture and becoming the most popular chip architecture in the world.
For example, Warwick Hays uses the arm architecture.
Although Warwick focuses on server chips, it later launched a youth version for office computers, and its performance was pretty good, basically reaching the second-tier level.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "In addition to the x86 architecture and arm architecture, there is another domestic company that is unique, and that is Longxin, which completely bypasses the x86 architecture and arm architecture, and will always be completely
Independent intellectual property rights. However, this is a development path destined to be very difficult, and there is currently no big development prospect.”
Obviously Gu Mingzhang is not very optimistic about Long Xin.
"It all depends on people!"
Zhang Shuo doesn't think so. "Independent research and development seems to be the most difficult road to take, but once you get through it, it will be a real broad road and you will no longer be controlled by others."
In my impression, Longxin was developing better and better in the original time and space, and later launched the Longxin architecture.
Definitely worth looking forward to.
Gu Mingzhang nodded silently. After working with the big boss for so long, he had long realized that the big boss had a strong paranoia about getting rid of dependence on foreign countries.
This can be seen from the independent research and development of chips and operating systems by Maili mobile phones.
"Then it's settled."
Through Gu Mingzhang's report, Zhang Shuo's thinking has become clearer, "Buya wants to enter the computer market, serving as both a technology integrator and a technology researcher."
"To be specific -"
"Leave monitors, power supplies, chassis, radiators, speakers, keyboards, mice and other peripheral accessories to partners and suppliers for research and development. Sprout will not personally participate."
"Graphics cards, memory and hard drives will be the main areas of development for Germination."
"As for the CPU, in addition to relying on Zhulong Technology, the most important thing is to find a way to reach a strategic cooperation with Longxin and provide Longxin with sufficient research and development funds in order to break out of the cocoon and be reborn."
"That requires a lot of patience."
Gu Mingzhang reminded, "Based on the research report, my opinion is to proceed in three steps."
"Oh? Tell me about it."
Zhang Shuo immediately became interested.
"The first step is to develop a tablet that has a lot in common with the MaiLi phone and has relatively low technical barriers, namely the MaiLi tablet." Gu Mingzhang was obviously prepared.
"The second step is to develop a MaiLi laptop based on the MaiLi tablet."
"The third step is the most technically difficult desktop computer."
Obviously Gu Mingzhang also knows very well that whether it is graphics cards, memory, hard drives, or the more core CPU, it will not be possible to catch up with the world's first-class standards in three or two years.
There is no need to do it in one step.
There is actually no necessary connection between making products and doing research and development.
Like grains of wheat x1.
This does not prevent us from using second-rate technology to make first-rate products.
The same is true in the computer field. In the early stage, you can use overseas core spare parts to develop amazing wheat tablets and wheat laptops.
Make money first, then use the earned money to invest in research and development, and then achieve self-sufficiency.
"very good!"
Of course Zhang Shuo is also very satisfied, "There is no hot-headedness."
"It's just that there are still two thorny issues in realizing this plan." Since it was a discussion, it was impossible for Gu Mingzhang to say that he would only report good news and not worry.
"What two questions?" Zhang Shuo vaguely guessed.
"The first question, whether it is a MaiLi tablet, a MaiLi laptop, or even a subsequent MaiLi desktop computer, there is a major premise, which is to use the Xinni system."
"It can be said that the success or failure of the Xirang system is related to the success or failure of the entire product line."
If the tablets and laptops launched by Maili Group still use foreign operating systems, they are essentially no different from those of certain companies.
Consumers may not necessarily buy it.
If it is just to serve as a second thought, it is meaningless at all.
"The problem now is that the research and development of the information soil system has just started. It is still a joint research and development between us and Warwick. If there is an error in any link in the middle, the success may fall short."
obviously.
Until now, Gu Mingzhang is still full of concerns about cooperating with Warwick.
Because the competition between them is so overlapping.
"Do you want to gain control of Xirang Technology?" Zhang Shuo pointed out Gu Mingzhang's little idea.
"Yes."
Gu Mingzhang did not shy away from it, "We cannot leave critical half of our lives to our partners."
"I do not think so."
Zhang Shuo shook his head, "In fact, without the participation of Warwick, it would be difficult for the Xiyang project to succeed. To be precise, we are begging Warwick for cooperation, not Warwick begging us."
"This is one of them."
"Secondly, whether it is a domestically produced operating system or a computer, if we want to overtake in a corner, the time window is the next ten years or so. There are no more opportunities left for us."
The implication.
Even if Germination wants to start a new business, it will not work.
"Yes, you are right, but, Chairman, you cannot deny that my worries are totally unreasonable." Gu Mingzhang was obviously not persuaded by Zhang Shuo.
"Then why not just let Xiyang become more open?" Zhang Shuo laughed.
"Um?"
Gu Mingzhang was stunned and did not turn around for a while.
"You said that you are worried that Warwick will not be dedicated or cooperative, so you instinctively want to gain control of the project. This is human nature and cannot be wrong."
Zhang Shuo did not mean to blame Gu Mingzhang.
"But why can't we take a step back? Turn Xirang Technology into an ecological chain that is jointly researched, shared and shared by China, and given free to the entire industry for use and participation."
"Ah, this..."
Gu Mingzhang was stunned by Zhang Shuo's idea.
"The second question you asked before is, are you worried about the ecosystem of the soil system?" Zhang Shuo asked.
"Yes."
Gu Mingzhang came back to his senses and explained: "Be it a laptop or a desktop computer, they are different from smartphones and tablets. Their main uses are for office work and gaming."
"This involves office software, CAD software, drawing software, video editing software, and even chip design, industrial design and a series of other software."
"These software are basically dependent on the Weiruan ecosystem or the Linux ecosystem."
"If the Xirang system is to be successfully applied to the computer side, in addition to technical success, more importantly, it must rebuild a software ecosystem. This is the most difficult thing to do."
Not even Ping Guo can really solve this problem.
Many Mac users will choose to reinstall the Windows system or engage in dual systems, so it has not become the first choice for ordinary consumers.
A big reason for Pingguo Computer's success is that it chose to take a different approach and made breakthroughs in the fields of video editing, decoders, etc., and then won the favor of some professionals.
That's all.
"The problem you mentioned is actually intertwined with the first one and can be solved together."