Rebirth of the Internet Overlord

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{Time: March 28, 2004}

{Location: Flower Planting-Special Zone}

At 14:50 on Sunday afternoon, Zhang Lihua arrived at the scheduled meeting place 10 minutes early.

Today, she is going to meet someone she has never seen before. He is a "rookie" who has become quite famous in the Internet industry recently, and he is also a young man who was called an "Internet genius" two months ago.

Speaking of which, I still got to know him over the phone.

That day was March 22. After receiving a call from my former boss, I received another call from an unknown number not long after.

Had it not been for the foreshadowing by her former boss Ren Zhengfei, Zhang Lihua might have hung up the phone the next second.

The former boss took the initiative to call and introduce a young man to her.

His name is Ning Zimo, a strange but somewhat familiar name.

Speaking of which, Zhang Lihua has been involved in the hardware industry for a long time, but after entering 2004, the name Ning Zimo spread to her ears across the Internet industry.

Even if she has never met her, she has heard a lot about him.

He said that Skype, a European Internet company he founded 18 months ago, was sold to the American e-commerce giant eBay for US$5.6 billion.

He said that just after receiving the money, he changed hands and bought Blizzard, a well-known giant in the gaming industry, for US$900 million.

He said that he became addicted to games after he got rich, and even bought Ogilvy, Haofang, and Winger all at once just for this hobby, just to have a large group of people play games with him.

Said that he does not know self-discipline at such a young age,

Said he was riding the wind and lost his direction,

Said that his great youth was ruined in one moment,

He was said to be addicted to games and self-destructive.

He said this,

What he said,

All in all, in the eyes of many people, after just selling the rising company Skype, he switched to the gaming field and was destined to become a meteor.

Originally, Zhang Lihua only heard these things once, but she never expected that she would receive a call from him to ask her to talk about the future development of the hardware ecosystem.

Zhang Lihua was once very confused and even called her former boss Ren Zhengfei after that phone call.

But in the end Ren Zhengfei only said one sentence to her:

"He is a leader with a long-term vision and a down-to-earth approach. If you are willing to go to Zimo, you may be able to make a career outside of Huawei or on your own!"

That's the former boss Ren Zhengfei!

He is the unrivaled leader in Hua Wei.

That young man whom he had never met before actually received such a high evaluation from his former boss after meeting him once?

Zhang Lihua has thought in the past few days that maybe it was because of her former boss's comments that she wanted to meet this "genius".

Otherwise, instead of working for someone, you might as well start your own company, or simply write a book!

Following the waiter upstairs, Zhang Lihua slowly lowered her steps.

In a corner indicated by the waiter, there was a semi-enclosed area.

By the window, open,

Private and quiet.

I have to say that although he looked younger than he expected from a distance, his place was a fairly suitable place for negotiation.

After confirming with the waiter again, Zhang Lihua looked at her watch.

The time was 14:55, and the young man was 20 minutes earlier than scheduled.

Just arrived 20 minutes early,

Zhang Lihua felt that this young man had a good impression on him!

Saying goodbye to the waiter's guidance, Zhang Lihua walked over gently.

When we were still a few meters away, the young man over there suddenly looked over.

Just one glance,

He suddenly stood up with a smile.

"Is this Zhang Lihua, Miss Zhang?"

Ning Zimo had seen Zhang Lihua's photo in his previous life, and when he saw Zhang Lihua in this life who was just 33 years old and still had baby fat on his face, he recognized her immediately.

Before he could wave, Zhang Lihua from the opposite side walked over and took the initiative to extend her hand.

"Hello, Mr. Ning~~My name is Zhang Lihua."

Ning Zimo smiled lightly and reached out to hold it.

When he released his hand again, he gestured to the position opposite him.

"Ms. Zhang, please sit down."

"Thanks"

A few words of greeting,

Divide into two sides.

Looking at the young face opposite, thinking that she would eventually be much older than the one opposite, Zhang Lihua took the initiative to ask after sitting down, "Mr. Ning, this is the first time we meet, I don't know why you are looking for me.

thing."

After sitting down and going straight to the main line without even asking for a cup of tea, Ning Zimo had a more intuitive feeling about this woman with an engineering background.

"Ms. Zhang, order some tea first. After all, what we are talking about today may take up time."

After all, the main request was for an interview, so he had to act like a host no matter what. After seeing Zhang Lihua agree, Ning Zimo called the waiter and ordered two cups of tea. Then, when the waiter turned around and walked away, Ning Zimo officially went straight to the meeting.

theme.

"I got to know Ms. Zhang because of some rumors about Huawei. It was nothing more than the establishment of the Huawei 3G project. Miss Zhang's persistence left a deep impression on me."

"Mr. Ning's information channels are quite extensive," Zhang Qinghua smiled softly, "Not many people in Huawei know about this matter."

"Mr. Ren feels very sorry for you, but he briefly chatted with me. I have always followed Hua Wei, so by combining the scattered news, I have gained some understanding of Miss Zhang."

Although headhunting companies are not common in this era, there are still some channels for getting to know a person.

Ning Zimo spoke in an understatement, so Zhang Lihua naturally thought that he got her information through some people.

Zhang Lihua is a person who seizes the powerful and lets the small go. She no longer cared about these things and asked directly, "Then why is Mr. Ning looking for me?"

Tea is not like coffee, the waiter brings it very quickly.

After Ning Zimo took his glass, he waited for the waiter to turn around and walk away before he said, "Through the introduction of Mr. Peng from Huawei's European office, I was in South Vietnam to negotiate the acquisition of Motorola between Huawei and Motorola.

I met Mr. Ren once before."

Ning Zimo paused deliberately. Seeing that Zhang Lihua could keep her composure, she smiled softly and continued, "Mr. Ren and I talked a lot, but the most important thing is the relationship between Mr. Ren and I."

Agreement. This agreement is also very simple, that is, after Motorola fails to complete the acquisition of Huawei, I want to obtain the technical license for all 3G terminal equipment from Huawei."

"Mr. Ren agreed?" Zhang Lihua's eyebrows moved slightly, then she asked again, "Mr. Ning, are you going to get involved in the 3G mobile phone field?"

Bring Zhang Lihua's attention to 3g, and then we'll officially get to the point.

Ning Zimo directly opened the topic and said, "To say that I want to get involved in the 3G mobile phone field is 30% correct, because if I want to get involved in a field, it will never be just a one-sided thing. I tend to focus on the entire field.

The ecology of the article is used to make the layout.”

Although the Ms. Zhang Lihua in front of me was not well-known in her previous life, she was able to see the 3G mobile phone market in 2002 and provided sufficient evidence to prove the booming development of the 3G mobile phone market. She even used data to convince the tyrant Ren Zhengfei.

, and also asked him to do some reflection after the cold winter.

I have to say that this top student with an engineering background is a very powerful person.

If she can stay in her team, combined with Ning Zimo's extremely correct direction and positioning, she will definitely become a powerful person in the future.

Now that he has made this determination, Ning Zimo has to come up with something real.

As always, let’s talk about ecology.

"I wonder how much Miss Zhang knows about the Winter Alliance?"

"Winter Alliance?"

Zhang Lihua felt that Ning Zimo had deviated from the topic all of a sudden, but thinking of what her former boss had said, she tried her best to adjust her thoughts and try her best to keep up with the young Mr. Ning.

Her mind was spinning rapidly, and Zhang Lihua quickly spoke, "The Winter Alliance is the so-called Wintel Alliance formed by Ju Hardware and Intel in the 1980s to promote the development of the PC industry.

Work closely within the PC industry to promote the Windows operating system to run on PCs based on Intel CPUs."

"Yes, that's right. The main reason why I mentioned the Wintel Alliance is that Wintel has formed the first ecosystem close to the Internet. I call it the PC ecosystem. This PC ecosystem constitutes a huge monopoly circle.

Basically, without Intel chips, there would be no mature PC computers and Windows operating systems. This is a monopoly in the technology field. This is also the reason why many domestic companies have difficulty in developing personal computer processors and operating systems, because there are really suitable application scenarios.

, even if someone develops and manufactures it, people are unwilling to use it because of the shortage of applications.

This is what I call an ecology, a closed circle corresponding to a field. Outsiders cannot break in, but people inside can do whatever they want."

In the past life of the personal computer era, Juhard formed an alliance with Intel and became the most profitable software and even Internet company in the world. In the same way, Intel also became the most profitable chip company.

because,

In that era,

They are in a monopoly business.

However, with the continuous development of the mobile Internet in the previous life, the Winter Alliance had shown signs of collapse before Ning Zimo was reborn.

In the previous life, almost all Windows laptops and tablet devices could not access high-speed mobile networks. That was because Intel's processors had not made major performance improvements in supporting mobile networks. At that time, Qualcomm processors based on the ARM structure

, you can access high-speed 4g or even 5g networks.

So in 2017, in the previous life, I couldn't bear the rapid development of mobile devices, and finally no longer stuck to the basic x86 architecture processor, but instead cooperated with Qualcomm to launch notebooks and tablets based on the ARM architecture.

In the server field, Juhard, which regards cloud services as the focus of its future development, has to develop servers using ARM architecture when facing its strong enemy Amazon's AWS. Due to the low overall power consumption of the ARM architecture, the heat dissipation is also greatly reduced.

At the same time, it can also reduce the size of the server, which is equivalent to helping Juhard reduce operating costs.

"The x86 architecture and Windows are bundled into one. As long as no one breaks this vicious circle, the two giants of the winter alliance, Juhard and Intel, will continue to do monopoly business, preventing others from getting involved in the PC field. And in the PC field

Other manufacturers, due to structural problems, can only follow the winter alliance and chew on their remaining bones."

After all, Zhang Lihua is a top student with an engineering background and has the ability to analyze the market.

As Ning Zimo analyzed the wintel alliance in detail, the light shining in Zhang Lihua's eyes made Ning Zimo understand.

Her current understanding of the Wintel Alliance is getting closer to Zhenxiang.

Ning Zimo saw her understanding look and continued to strike while the iron was hot, "In the era of personal computers, the high power consumption of x86 chipsets that bring strong performance can only be limited to notebook computers. But maybe no one has thought about it in this era.

, there will be a new era of mobile devices that will gradually develop from mobile phones to more portable smart devices.

And I think that era will come soon. By that time, people will be holding mobile phones based on Moore's Law. If that mobile phone continues to develop, it will have a processing power that is no less than that of PC devices. Perhaps, it will also

It can be developed to be more portable than a notebook.

Soon, people will be able to rely on mobile networks that are faster than 3G and a highly integrated device to solve problems that originally required bulky but efficient PCs."

The corners of Ning Zimo's mouth curled up, and Zhang Lihua, who raised her eyes and widened her eyes, smiled.

"I think the hammer that broke the Wintel alliance must come from a certain hand in the mobile Internet era!"