1991 Starting from the core

Half a month later, Asia United Communications Corporation with a registered capital of 10 billion yuan was officially established.

Among them, Datang Telecom holds 35% of the shares, Yuanxin holds 16% of the shares, AT\u0026T holds 21% of the shares, Xinghai holds 19% of the shares, and Lucent holds 9% of the shares.

After the news came out, the communications field around the world fell silent, and everyone was thinking about the hidden meaning behind this equity allocation. Or is it simply a distribution of benefits?

On the same day, the Ministry of Information Industry officially issued a document approving Asia United Communications' application for fixed-line telephone, wired network, wireless communications and China Telecom's wireless communications business.

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"Why do I always feel that there is a sense of killing the donkey? Don't say that our Asian League is a welfare..."

As soon as Su Yuanshan returned to the provincial capital, Gao Xiaodi, who was returning to the headquarters on a business trip, immediately came to the door.

As the head and chief architect of Yuanxin's processor department, Gao Xiaodi has never liked to manage business other than the CPU, especially the various strategic layouts of Yuanxin - to focus on that, he thinks it is better to run more Code on both sides.

But this does not mean that he does not have any sense of smell, especially political sense.

"If you have to use this word to describe it, then it's not your feeling, but the fact." Su Yuanshan smiled and served Gao Xiaodi a cup of coffee.

Yuanxin joined the Asian Federation, but the 3G standard adopted CDMA2000 - this means that Yuanxin only entered the Asian Federation as a capital investor, which was undoubtedly a big mistake in the early stage.

Of course, the reason for choosing CDMA2000 is also very good, because the standard on AT\u0026T is mainly CDMA2000.

As for telecommunications, CDMA2000 is also adopted as the standard.

In other words, the Lighthouse Country has made a lot of money this time.

Gao Xiaodi frowned: "Isn't your executive board a bunch of people...how could it be?"

"So I added a premise. If you have to use the word "killing the grinder to kill the donkey" to describe it, the answer is yes." Su Yuanshan smiled and crossed his legs, looking relaxed: "But if you don't use the word Yuanxin Let’s loosen up and still put the core technology and strength in the future communications field solely on Yuexin... This is not in line with our national conditions, the pursuit of a large country with a population of 1.4 billion, and the development of technology itself.”

"Well, the main thing is that Daqin has obtained a lot of technology. The higher-ups hope to breed a new, international, composite communications giant that can complement Yuanxin in the communications field - well... you can understand it as, The Asian Federation is targeting NTT in the new country and SK Telecom in the great country, or in other words, it will use part of the domestic market to turn the Asian Federation into our country's NTT."

"..." Gao Xiaodi opened his mouth, and after a while he said angrily: "What the hell are you killing two birds with one stone?"

"You don't care." Su Yuanshan chuckled: "Let's not look at the problem from our perspective, but from the perspective of the United States - AT\u0026T has clearly proposed overseas plans. We can even understand that this is The United States and the United States have admitted their failure in the field of regional communications in Southeast Asia in disguise, and thus intervened and returned in this way."

"Wouldn't that squeeze our space?"

"It doesn't matter. Anyway, China Unicom has also entered North America to carry out business, and mobile phones are also preparing to follow suit. It's great if everyone opens their markets to each other."

"..."

"If you don't talk about this, what will you say when you come over this time? Have you thought of the name of the new architecture processor?"

"After thinking about it, I decided to end it with a dragon, called Shenlong."

"...Can I change the word? It always feels like a country bumpkin."

"What's that called? There are alternatives, Anglong."

"Well, Anglong is not bad." Su Yuanshan nodded and smiled: "Old Gao, now you know how powerful Intel is, right?"

"……knew."

——Last year, Deyuan took the lead in breaking through the 65nm process in the support field by virtue of its advantages as an advanced immersion lithography factory, achieving a surpass in the Intel process.

However, it is limited by the mass production speed of the immersion lithography machine. In addition, there are a lot of chips waiting for the new process at FarCore. Moreover, there are some problems after the tape-out of the Aolong quad-core of FarCore's 65nm process. Small problems caused its official release to be three or four months later than expected.

Logically speaking, based on Deyuan's leadership in the 65nm wet etching process, it will take Intel at least a year to fully understand the performance and process of the immersion lithography machine.

In other words, even if Yuanxin's Aolong processor is released three or four months later than expected, it will still be the most advanced in terms of manufacturing process for at least half a year.

And with its leading manufacturing process, Aolong can fully utilize the dividends of the past six months and complete its turnaround.

In fact, this is also true. As soon as the quad-core Aolong was released, it was immediately crowned the king of performance. Large orders came in one after another, and Gao Xiaodi had to squat overnight in Deyuan, which was separated by a wall to increase production capacity.

But such good days only lasted for a month and a half. Just when everything was moving in a good direction, Intel directly launched a high-end multi-core processor based on the 65nm process design at the technology conference.

core.

According to various parameters announced at the press conference, the Core processor seems to be once again the king of performance.

——Although afterwards, people confirmed that Intel’s original press conference relied on a PPT to talk about things. But it is undeniable that the conference still affected the sales and orders of aolong processors.

And just in November last year, four months after Intel's PPT conference, the Core series of processors were officially launched - as shown in the PPT, Core indeed has a lead over the similarly priced Aragon processors. performance and power consumption advantages.

Subsequently, AMD and Cyirx were not to be outdone, and launched their own 64-bit multi-core processors before the end of the year, and Microsoft also officially released 64-bit versions of all Windows XP products, officially announcing the 64-bit era. 's arrival

The "failure" of Yuanxin processor to hit the market this time is a bit regretful, but it is also within the acceptable range of Su Yuanshan - a company that has only been established for more than ten years, if it really kills Intel in one battle, That's really God's fault.

What's more, Yuanxin has also achieved its lowest strategic goal this time - successfully transformed from the last player and other in the global desktop processor market to a "big" player with the same status as AMD and Cyrix.

More importantly, Yuanxin's server U has gained market recognition and has become the only one among ACY that dares to face Intel.

"This time we are actually very close in terms of technology." Gao Xiaodi smacked his lips and said with some regret: "We still underestimate Intel's appeal to the market - damn, someone is actually willing to wait. Intel will wait for half a year. Are you irritating or not?"

"What's so annoying about this? Some people are willing to wait for a year for our new mobile phone."

"Well... if you put it that way, that's okay. But after we reviewed it afterwards, we found that in fact, in terms of architecture, Aolong is not inferior to Core. Our losses mainly come from other technical details."

"You really didn't say that just to shirk the blame?" Su Yuanshan glanced at Gao Xiaodi, half-smiling.

Gao Xiao was anxious the first time: "Of course not!"

"Well, actually I think so too." Su Yuanshan smiled and nodded: "Intel, or the three processor companies in Silicon Valley, which one of them is not a seasoned master? And they are all in Silicon Valley - you are You know, the flow of talents in the chip field, especially top talents, is very frequent and common."

"In comparison, we are far away in the mainland, and it seems that we can enjoy the talent benefits of Asia, but you and I both know... In fact, we still cannot compete with Silicon Valley. After all, the three companies are in Silicon Valley, which objectively creates a cluster effect."

"So, everything still has to rely on talents from the mainland to grow, right?" Gao Xiaodi nodded and sighed: "Then we have to wait at least ten more years, and we will become old guys."

"Yeah, you still have to rely on yourself." Su Yuanshan chuckled: "By the way, I heard that the SJTU is also going to establish a semiconductor college. Have you been invited?"

"Yes...but I don't have time. I'm just a guest. What about you?"

"Me? I have another teaching position. Just let Senior Brother Weimin go to Semiconductor. Anyway, he obeys my father's words." Su Yuanshan thought that his father could not "squeeze" him, so he turned around and went to Qin Weimin, and Qin Weimin said nothing. Then he agreed.

This can be considered a typical story of "bullying honest people".

"Oh, I almost forgot, you are still a physicist." Gao Xiao patted his forehead for the first time, and immediately raised his eyebrows: "By the way, is there any hope for this year's Nobel Prize?"

"...I didn't win the Nobel Prize, how would I know!"

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Time passed leisurely.

During the summer vacation, ivideo launched a new VIP certification and contracting model for video authors. Its goal is very obvious, that is, during the holidays of various colleges and universities, those college students have a lot of time to browse and produce content.

After all, as the "grandchild" company of Yuanxin, and now the number one video sharing website on the Internet after Su Yuanshan's personal "instruction", ivideo first targets the field of technology, or popular science.

At the same time, Yuanxin also cooperated with the National Science and Technology Commission to organize a "Science Popularization of the Earth" activity. One million US dollars was allocated to reward domestic science popularizers, especially those in the video field.

For a time, countless popular science videos of varying quality were launched on ivideo. After selection, some excellent popular science videos were translated into various languages ​​and promoted throughout the site.

In addition, ivideo has also begun to try to share embedded advertising, hoping to share the dividends brought by traffic with video authors.

The wave of self-created videos started by Ivideo soon spread to other fields.

In other words, it has aroused the jealousy of other Internet tycoons...

All of a sudden, various video websites emerged one after another, and venture capitalists also took notice and looked for opportunities.

But Eso, the largest Internet company, remains unchanged.

In addition to Ye Rudai's early addition of the function of spreading videos on ebook, ebook itself is mainly focused on social networking, and it started from the viral spread of "social acquaintances". It is unlikely that she will transform ebook into a simple Video website. Similarly, she is unlikely to invest capital to build a new video website - such as newbook and EM. These two companies have actually launched their own video websites for a long time.

Ye Rudai's idea is very simple. She wants to buy ivideo.

…

"No, tell me, why do you want to buy ivideo?"

When Su Yuanshan faced his wife's request, he couldn't laugh or cry.

And besides being dumbfounded, he felt a little weird.

——eso is actually Google in its previous life. And ivideo is YouTube.

As we all know, YouTube was acquired by Google.

And... judging from the influence of YouTube when it was acquired and the scale of video websites in the entire market, the timing of Ye Rudai's acquisition of ivideo is exactly the same as it was then.

"Because there are only three ways for humans to obtain information from the Internet, video and sound, pictures, and text." Ye Rudai hugged her son and winked at her husband with a smile.

"..." Su Yuanshan was speechless: "This is what I said!"

"You're right!" Ye Rudai still nodded with a smile: "You are always right."

"Okay, you mean, you want to build eso into a large service Internet giant that can provide all information?"

"It's not just the Internet." Ye Rudai shook her head, but put away her smiling expression, and then said with some seriousness: "Videos are the easiest thing to occupy the mobile phone screen - Yao'er Mo Dong."

"..."

Seeing Ye Rudai reluctantly handing his son to his mother and closing the door when he came back, Su Yuanshan knew that his wife was planning to have a serious chat with him.

So he was really depressed.

——The couple haven't seen each other for almost three months. Shouldn't they have a fight in bed first and then talk about anything else?

It was good for her to talk to herself about business as soon as she got home.

"In the future, with the popularization of WiFi and 3G moving towards 4G, we can imagine that mobile phones will definitely become the mainstream Internet access tool in the future, as well as a tool for leisure, entertainment and social interaction. Then, the transfer of video websites to mobile phones will also It’s a perfectly normal evolution.”

Ye Rudai looked at her husband seriously and raised her eyebrows: "These are all what you said."

"Pfft..." Su Yuanshan was really happy.

"Do you believe everything I said?"

"Of course." Ye Rudai said matter-of-factly and confidently.

In Su Yuanshan's eyes, between her eyebrows and eyes, the appearance of the girl who had some baby fat appeared vaguely.

"Okay, I admit that you are right to believe me. iVideo is indeed a very valuable website." Su Yuanshan paused: "Including Netflix. Don't look at Netflix, which is inconspicuous. It is regarded as the most valuable website on the Internet. There are only a few websites that have not lost much money. And now the copyright library is still increasing, which continues to bring positive benefits."

"But I know the value of ivideo, so..." Su Yuanshan shrugged: "eso is not yours alone..."

"..."