Rebirth of the Internet Overlord

In the car leaving the Emperor Penguin Cambrian Industrial Park, Ren Zhengfei was silent for a long time.

As the car approached Huawei's headquarters, he suddenly said, "The world is so big. What I want is to use my iPhone to open the door to a new era, and then bring more people to see it!"

After a pause, Ren Zhengfei asked the person next to him, "Mr. Tong, do you think this young man who is only 25 years old but has his eyes always on the world? Can such a person be regarded as the backbone of us Chinese people?"

ah."

The person sitting next to Ren Zhengfei is named Tong Wen. He was hired by Huawei from Canada's Nortel Group in March last year to serve as the former director of the Nortel Global Network Technology Laboratory at Huawei's research institute in Ottawa, Canada.

Neither Ren Zhengfei nor Tong Wen knew that Tong Wen's joining Huawei was delayed by two years precisely because of Ning Zimo.

In January 2007, Ning Zimo took Xi Dan and others with him, and made an appointment with his father's company and Huawei's HR department to go to Canada's Nortel Group for the first time to poach people.

Since its establishment, Canada's Nortel Group has been Canada's "national treasure" technology company. It continuously provided military telephones, microwave radars and radio equipment to the army during World War II, and its military exploits were brilliant.

In 1995, when we were about to enter the 21st century, Nortel welcomed a strong CEO-John Roth.

Luo Shijie made a big bet on R&D when he took office, leading Nortel to develop 10g optical communication products. The product was in short supply in the market, completely surpassing its largest competitor Lucent, with a market share of 90%. Luo Shijie became famous in one battle.

In 2000, Nortel's revenue and stock price reached their peak: revenue in 2000 reached US$30.3 billion, accounting for 43% of the global fiber optic equipment market, almost three times that of second-place Lucent; at the same time, the total market value soared to US$267 billion.

It accounts for 37% of the total market capitalization of the Toronto Stock Exchange.

But all this beauty came to an end after the Internet bubble burst in 2000.

That year, the Internet bubble was rampant, technology stocks fell sharply, telecom operators went bankrupt one after another, and the number of Nortel's customers shrank from 4,000 to 400. All past orders disappeared, and the remaining customers would rather pay liquidated damages than

To pick up the goods, more than $6.5 billion of products were backlogged in Nortel's warehouses, and its performance and stock price suffered heavy losses.

At the same time, the company's most important central R&D department, BNR, was dismantled at will, and its R&D capabilities gradually fell behind. Since 2000, Nortel has never been able to launch revolutionary products.

Amid such legacy issues, the company's chief financial officer Frank Dunn took over as Nortel's CEO. Luo Shijie, who was only two years older than Ren Zhengfei, "retired" and lived a happy life with the huge sum of money cashed out of stocks.

But Nortel, a century-old company, although it still has 40,000 employees, 8,000 patents and revenue of tens of billions of dollars, has already shown signs of decline and is hopelessly sliding into the abyss.

The bursting of the Internet bubble had a great impact on Nortel. In the second quarter of 2001, the loss was as high as 19.2 billion U.S. dollars. The stock price plummeted from 120 U.S. dollars to 10 U.S. dollars, which affected the bonuses of all executives. Therefore, the board of directors required Deng Fukang to end its loss-making state before 2002.

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But this was not easy in the context of the Internet winter. Deng Fukang, who had no rice to cook, had to make a fuss in the financial field that he was good at, and relied on falsifying accounts to cause Nortel's stock price to plummet.

But in the end, fake things cannot withstand scrutiny. In 2004, Nortel's stock price plummeted after a shocking financial scandal was revealed. Deng Fukang resigned, and his next interim successor, retired US Navy Admiral Bill Owens,

Nortel was not dragged out of the quagmire, but fell deeper and deeper into it.

Originally, Nortel should have welcomed the addition of Mike Zafirovsky at this time, delaying the end of Nortel until at least 2009. However, due to the emergence of Ning Zimo, in 2004, Mike Zafirovsky

Ski has already joined Emperor Penguin's fourth quarter laboratory. He is deeply involved in the research and development of iPhone mobile phones and the creation of related sales teams.

As a result, Nortel was already in deep trouble in 2007.

This is how Nortel, in desperation, poached the first wave of talents from three companies including Ning Zimo.

Tong Wen joined Huawei at that time. It was the joining of Tong Wen and others that enabled Huawei to develop the first-generation mobile phone baseband chip in time.

At this time, Tong Wen had just led a team from Canada to Huawei for a business trip, but he happened to catch up with the launch of the SoC of the Emperor Penguin Season 4 Laboratory. Just now, he had been thinking about the SoC he saw today. After hearing Ren Zhengfei's words, he

Only then did he come back to his senses.

After thinking for a while, Tong Wen said, "I have spent a lot of time at Nortel, and I have never heard of a company in China that can develop chips for mobile phones. Until today, I actually saw the Antarctic.

Core, I just discovered that there are still many people in our country who are doing practical things down-to-earth."

Looking at Ren Zhengfei, Tong Wen smiled and said, "Working hard is the spirit of our people, but it is rare that someone so young never forgets to look up into the distance while working hard. This Director Ning,

It’s not simple.”

Ren Zhengfei also smiled, "The first time I met him was in 2004. At that time, we were still facing the acquisition of Motorola. But as soon as he saw me, he firmly said that our cooperation between Huawei and Motorola will definitely be successful."

The miscarriage ended.

Four years have passed, and not only what he said at the beginning has become a reality, but also the future he and I described has been unfolded step by step. It was not until I saw this SOC today that I really realized that he had spoken to him

The sight is clear step by step."

After pausing to look out the car window for a while, Ren Zhengfei said, "God knows how he saw this day when he was young."

"The most important thing is that he not only has a broad vision, but also has a very well-organized approach to his work. The opening of the iPhone SOC platform technology this time means that Huawei has also caught up with the smartphone express train," Tong Wen nodded, "Go back

Later, I will ask the team to accelerate the research and development of 4G technology and speed up our technical reserves."

"Yes, this is also an important reason for him to open up the technology." Ren Zhengfei nodded, "Domestic 3G has not yet been opened. Originally, we were still frowning, but every step taken by the Emperor Penguin Pioneer will definitely promote the development of domestic 3G photography.

Distribute work."

After a pause, Ren Zhengfei affirmed, "Speed ​​up, don't let this young man hold the lead all the time. Only if we friendly forces follow, can we step into the door he opened earlier!"

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While Ren Zhengfei was chatting with Tong Wen and others about how to keep up, Ning Zimo, who had returned to the office, was chatting with Li Ying on the other side of the ocean.

Listening to Li Ying's lazy and soft voice through the phone, Ning Zimo's usual capable and homely image suddenly appeared in Ning Zimo's mind.

Ning Zimo smiled and said, "The Nanjixing SOC platform has been tested by Zhang Lihua and others for three months, and the results were not revealed until the confirmation results. In the remaining time today, they will confirm all production links again and confirm

After that, I will announce the rescheduled iPhone release plan on Weibo and Twitter."

"Well, just make sure." Li Ying's soft voice touched Ning Zimo's ears, "With the emergence of the iPhone as a pioneer in the Android system, there will definitely be many new models next year."

"It's fun this way. It's usually boring if you have one company alone," Ning Zimo laughed. "After all, the iPhone is the benchmark for the Android system. I just want to let them see that the Android operating system has great potential, so that more people will follow suit.

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The qnx-based Android system and the qnx-based Wandoujia system come from the same ancestor, but they don’t have the big problems of lag in the previous Android. This generation of Android and Wandoujia are bound to drag iOS into the quagmire from the beginning.

"Well, this year our handheld device alliance has continued to join many manufacturers, and next year we will definitely see a big explosion in the Android ecosystem."

After taking a long breath, Ning Zimo said again, "After eight years of preparation, I'm finally going to make my debut. Don't tell me, I'm really a little excited at this time."

"Are you excited? Haha~~"

#_#!!!

Hearing a chuckle from the phone, Ning Zimo felt like he was "haha" and lost his strength. Although 8 years had passed since his rebirth, he was still deeply impressed by the jokes in his previous life.

Although he knew that Li Ying didn't mean "hehe", he paused and had no choice but to turn a blind eye, "Then I'll give you a good news, and you can sleep peacefully for a while."

"I'm not going to sleep anymore. It's time to get up at 6:30."

"Emmmm, doesn't it mean that women should get more beauty sleep?"

"Hmm? Have you ever regarded me as a woman? Among us women wandering outside, which one is not the target of your exploitation?"

Unable to answer this, Ning Zimo hurriedly said a few more words before saying goodbye and hanging up the phone.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the phone was hung up, Wang Zijun knocked on the door and walked in.

The success of the Antarctic Core made Ning Zimo feel very good, but looking at Wang Zijun's serious expression, Ning Zimo's heart suddenly thumped.

"What's wrong?"

"Dean, there is something wrong with the batch of tactical rations you specially ordered?"

"Huh? What's going on?" Ning Zimo frowned when he heard the news.

The tactical rations that Wang Zijun mentioned were what Ning Zimo had told him early on. In order to cope with the upcoming 5.12 earthquake, Ning Zimo used the excuse of promoting new categories for Dibao Mall to forcefully implement a batch of tactics to Europe.

rations, and at the same time there was also a batch of wilderness survival kits containing gauze, masks and Yunnan Baiyao.

The tactical rations contained in these items are extremely simple to eat and can have a good taste without heating or adding water. This kind of food is more suitable for post-disaster relief than popular foods such as instant noodles.

According to the original plan, this batch of products was scheduled to arrive at the warehouse on April 17, and then scheduled to be shipped from Yantian Port on May 20, which was just in time to catch up with the 5.12 earthquake.

He also specifically warned that the pilot product must be followed closely to avoid any mistakes. But he never expected that there would be problems with this batch of goods?

Ning Zimo's frown made Wang Zijun, who had worked with him for a long time, feel nervous. She rarely saw such an expression on her dean's face.

Now that he shows this expression, it means a very serious problem!

Wang Zijun hurriedly arrived, "Because this batch of goods is a pilot product and after your instructions, Mr. Lu specially led the qc team to do the acceptance inspection. However, during the random inspection of the first batch of goods, Mr. Lu had already found out that they were unqualified.

Later, after Mr. Lu expanded the 1% proportion of random inspections to 5%, such problems were discovered on a large scale."

"Who is the supplier?"

"Spreadtrum Technology Co., Ltd."

"Zhanxun?" Ning Zimo frowned even more tightly.

Ning Zimo was deeply impressed by the name Spreadtrum Technology. Because this company has always been plagiarizing in the ERP industry, and the main target of plagiarism is Luban ERP of Luban Technology, a subsidiary of Emperor Penguin. However, Spreadtrum's plagiarism will always become bigger.

changes, and the market involved is the domestic small and medium-sized enterprise market, so Luban Technology has never taken Spreadtrum Technology seriously.

But Spreadtrum Technology actually has foreign trade business. This is the first time I heard about it!

Putting these questions together, Ning Zimo stood up and said, "Let's go. This batch of products is a pilot product after all. We must order tight before going online."