Chapter 1312 The past and present of South China Guang
In the early 1990s, Hua Nan Guang went to Hong Kong Island to set up a research and development department, and the results were achieved the next year. At that time, Fantasy Group achieved annual revenue of tens of millions of yuan relying on the products developed by the Hua Nan Guang team.
Two years ago, in 1992, Hua Nanguang led a team to independently develop printer chips. Surprisingly, the chips they developed were actually better than those developed by HP, the printer giant at the time. So, Fantasy
The momentum is very good.
However, the seeds of disaster have already been planted on the road to imagined glory, and that is money.
The research and development of technology requires huge financial support. For example, SMIC invests nearly 100 million yuan every year in the research and development of lithography machines. This is the money that the country has tightened its belt, and on the other side of the Taiwan Strait, Taiwan
Later, the all-powerful TSMC invested as much as 45 million US dollars per year. Of course, there was an official shadow behind TSMC, and the future of the industry was placed on TSMC, so the investment was so large.
At that time, Fantasy Group's revenue was only 10 million yuan, it had never produced chips, and it didn't even have the money to buy the tools and software used for design.
Although Hua Nanguang led the technical team to make rapid progress, the pressure on the finances was huge. At this critical moment, Yang Zhichuan also discovered that competing for the market does not necessarily rely on technology, the most important thing is customer satisfaction.
Of course, the technical team led by Hua Nanguang has also had failed products: Type IV Hanka, single-board computers... They have spent great efforts in research and development, but have been rejected by the market. On the contrary, some simple and lightweight ideas, such as one-click repair and other operations, have achieved success.
A huge success.
Then this year, that is, 1994, the Fantasy Group reached a fork in its destiny. More than a hundred middle- and high-level cadres of the Fantasy Group were sitting huddled in the headquarters conference room. There was only one table on the rostrum.
Two chairs.
The company's largest superior, the National Academy of Sciences, sent a representative to read out the "Notice on Disagreement in the Leadership Team of Fantasy Group". The result of the notice was that Yang Zhichuan was promoted to the top, and Hua Nanguang was "demoted" to his home, and he was dismissed as president.
The positions of engineer and director have nothing to do with each other except giving you a salary.
The above is the experience of the Fantasy Group in its previous life, and it is very different in this life. Hua Nan Guang was also demoted for his ideals, and the Fantasy Group has returned to the "old road".
In fact, this is also a normal choice. Even if there is a powerful company like SMIC as the backing in this life, SMIC is only strong in manufacturing and is much worse in other aspects. Who can design? No one can, packaging and testing.
?No one knows how to do it. If you don’t have hundreds of millions to do these two things, don’t even think about it.
Does the Capital Academy of Sciences have hundreds of millions of easy money? Unless it sells iron.
With an astronomical amount of money spent on research and development, it will take at least several years before a product can be produced. Whether a company can survive is another question. The original dream of a company is to survive. Only by surviving can there be further development.
So to put it bluntly, the dispute between Yang Zhichuan and Hua Nanguang is a battle between survival and ideals. Knowing this, you can understand the choice of the Capital Academy of Sciences: It’s not that I don’t want to do it, but it’s really that I have more than enough ambition and insufficient strength.
Later, at the end of the 1990s, the world's Internet bubble collapsed, and almost all technology companies were affected. China's Internet companies could not escape the bad luck. Huayi.com's stock price fell from the issue price of 15 US dollars to 47 cents, and was quoted by Nasdaq.
Dak was delisted; China.com's share price shrank to 1/200 of its market value and was acquired out of business.
Yang Zhichuan witnessed the sudden death of countless technology companies. He decided to shift the business focus of Fantasy Group. From that year on, Fantasy Holdings was established and entered various industries with high profile, such as China Car Rental, dental medicine, real estate company Raycom, and Internet financial companies.
, fruit companies, private equity and wind companies, etc. In short, I want to make efforts everywhere except my old business.
Yang Zhichuan was very prosperous at that time, and in the second millennium, he dreamed of being officially included in the Hang Seng Index of the Hong Kong stock market.
Compared with Yang Zhichuan's infinite glory, Hua Nanguang has hit a wall at every turn since he was demoted to his home. No one or company pays for his products. Indeed, his investment in products is in the tens of millions, and there are no results in the short term.
What kind of "taken advantage of" would give him so much money?
It was not until the year 2000 that Hua Nanguang was sixty years old and reached retirement age, but he still did not give up. At this time, the country also realized the importance of chips.
That year, another expert Li De established a company called SMIC and found Hua Nan Guang. The two had known each other since they were studying in Canada. Although they did not have much intersection, the technology of SMIC's predecessor was
The team once undertook Motorola’s outsourcing business and also worked on Hitachi’s chip business.
From this team with technical genes, Hunan Guang seems to have suddenly seen the hope of "Chinese Core".
He didn't want a penny or a share of the stock, but used everything he had to find people, money, and resources for Li De, and he also attracted projects from the Ministry of Science and Technology.
In 2001, the first self-designed embedded chip "Ark-1" was born, and the country finally had its own chip.
Then, "Ark II" was developed, and the country began to invest financial support and fully cooperate with the promotion of Ark chips.
The capital government has directly ordered tens of thousands of units, and many other departments and other industries have also been called together to support domestic chips.
At the same time, Hua Nanguang also used its own connections to attract many corporate customers, but Li De refused to supply them. From the beginning, he only planned to sell these goods to government customers.
But this era has changed. Domestic computers have long been monopolized by the Tel alliance. They do not support the technology developed by Ark, and various software is not compatible. Under the powerful technology monopoly of the two giants Microsoft and Intel, the market
People won't pay the bill.
Because of the incompatibility, government departments also complained that the purchased machines even became scrap metal that was sealed up. At the same time, Li De also gave up the research and development of "Ark-3".
Huanan Guang gambled on his reputation to attract customers, but was unable to supply them; he was unable to continue the research and development of Ark-3, so he had no choice but to leave Ark, and once again disappeared from the market.
Let’s look at the Fantasy Group again. In 2004, they acquired IB’s C business. The Chinese people were shocked: only foreign capital has annexed Chinese capital, but Chinese capital actually acquired foreign capital?
For a time, Fantasy Group was regarded as the pride of the national brand, and Yang Zhichuan was regarded as the pride of Chinese entrepreneurs.
In 2005, the National Portal released such a report - "The Fantasy of the Third Generation of CEOs".
In the article, the rise of fantasy is regarded as a typical example of national enterprises and a reflection of the national economy.
But the irony is that just one year after acquiring ib, Fantasy Group announced that it would move its global headquarters from the capital to New York...
This is the past and present life of Fantasy Group and Hua Nanguang. Judging from the results, Fantasy Group is successful. They have become the largest computer company in the world. Of course, this computer company is an assembly company, and all chips and systems are completely foreign goods.