Rewrite the Technological Landscape

Shortly after the Dafeng Group press conference, Shenzhou immediately followed up and launched its own products ahead of schedule. ASUS Gigabyte cut prices immediately, and Sony and Toshiba followed suit. The computer market is destined to be uneven this summer.

However, when everyone focused on the computer, when everyone thought that Dafeng Group was simply going to enter the computer industry, Meng Qian came to the United States and IBM again.

In IBM's president's office, Samuel is having a meeting with Meng Qian that will have far-reaching consequences for both companies.

"This is your system." In front of Samuel is a Fengxing F3200, but the inside of this computer is quite different. It uses IBM's computer chips and Dafeng Group's system.

"The market performance of Apple PowerBook G4 this year is very bad, especially in China, where there are almost no sales."

Samuel's expression changed after a few seconds, as if he was hesitating whether to express his emotions in front of Meng Qian.

Apple PowerBook G4, the 2004 model of Apple's flight notebook series, is also the only notebook computer equipped with IBM PowerPC processor in 2004. As for the market performance, it is naturally a mess, and almost no applications can be used. Developers under the Power architecture So few and far between that Apple doesn't even bother to bring up this history years later.

But even so, Apple at this time is still IBM's life-saving straw, because as mentioned before, the power architecture does not support Windows systems, that is to say, IBM must find cooperation with enterprises with independent systems, and those who meet the conditions at this time are obviously Only apples.

"What's Mr. Meng's idea?" Samuel took the initiative to consult Meng Qian's ideas, but did not mention more about Apple.

The performance of Apple's computers using the power architecture is so poor, and in the past, 2005 was the time when Apple abandoned IBM. Meng Qian did not believe that Samuel was not aware of Apple's attitude at this time, but he did not want to say that Meng Qian would not go Just ask more, everyone understands, "In fact, my idea is very simple, to maximize our strengths, and at the same time make up for our weaknesses as soon as possible."

"President Meng, tell me in detail."

"Our company's team realized a problem during the period of the cell processor project. In fact, the power architecture has a great advantage, that is, the convenience of integration, and our R\u0026D team of Dafeng Group has been developing a thing before. , that is, the next development direction of computer chips is integration.

When I came to the United States this time, I brought the previous R\u0026D team with me. Now they have gone to the docking, combining our research on computer chip integration with the advantages of power architecture in integration. That is our first advantage.

Second, the high-performance performance of the power architecture is incomparable to X86. The experimental data of our Dafeng Group's lithography machines in Sony and Toshiba has now released the seventh edition. From the data point of view, the immersion lithography machine can at least Pushing the craft forward three generations.

If we accelerate the development of technology at this time and concentrate on playing the performance card, this punch will definitely catch Intel by surprise. "

Samuel tapped his fingers on the table, "Mr. Meng wants to bet?"

"If Mr. Samuel is willing to face up to the strong barriers that the Microsoft Intel Alliance has established, then he should realize that it is difficult to rely on steady development if he wants to break this barrier, and he must gamble when it is time to gamble."

"Is this the reason for the success of Dafeng Group?" Samuel said inexplicably.

Meng Qian responded normally, "Under the trend of the times, those who lack courage are killed not by their opponents, but by themselves."

"How does Mr. Meng want to bet?" Samuel kept asking questions.

Meng Qian's eyes were firm, "Go directly to the production line of 90nm and 65nm processes at the same time."

"It's an investment in the billions."

"Probably more than that."

"Huh?" Samuel looked at Meng Qian suspiciously.

"If you want to build, you can't just build one production line, let alone build a production line in one place."

Samuel's expression became serious, "What's the meaning of Mr. Meng?"

"Yu Gong, this is to ensure the production in the future. Yu privately, since Dafeng Group has entered this game, my ambition is not just for lithography machines."

Samuel could guess Meng Qian's selfishness, but it was because Meng Qian expressed his selfishness so directly that Samuel felt that it was normal for Meng Qian to have such ambitions, and it was true that entrepreneurs had no ambitions. Sad, "Mr. Meng, please continue."

"Let's talk about our disadvantages. The obvious thing is the application. We need to attract developers, so I suggest to open the documents for free, set up a development community, and vigorously support the development community. At the same time, the Dafeng Group can help with the underlying development. Cooperate with our system development and quickly train our developers.

As for the architecture, when our output increases, the price will naturally come down. This is not a problem. The only problem that IBM needs to increase its efforts to overcome is the power consumption problem. In the future, power consumption may become a big problem. "

"One more thing." Seeing that Meng Qian was silent, Samuel added, "We need a computer brand with global influence that supports our alliance."

Meng Qian's heart moved, and Samuel's initiative to bring up this topic made Meng Qian look forward to it. Why Meng Qian made a computer, needless to say for the sake of users, and another point is the alliance with IBM.

At that time, the two companies will be in full swing, and they will come up with computer chips and systems. As a result, there will be no computer brand cooperation, so it's not a joke. After all, the Microsoft Intel Alliance has actually done a good job in the ecology for so many years, so to break this ecology, you have to do everything from the bottom to the terminal.

But which computer brand can take on this big task? IBM seems to be a good choice, but Meng Qian definitely hopes that Huaxia companies will do this. It just so happens that IBM has already planned to sell its computer division in the past two years. Say it is a business.

But after taking a look at the Huaxia brand, it seems that if there is a chance to develop globally, Lenovo, um, Lenovo, let's forget it.

Of course, giving up to Sony and Toshiba is also an option, but not to mention that Sony and Toshiba have been going downhill in the future, I’m afraid it’s not a good option, not to mention that IBM Meng Qian doesn’t want to let them both, so This matter can only be done by Dafeng Group itself.

This is also the reason why Meng Qian came to Samuel after his own computer came out.

The key now is whether IBM can sell its computer division to Dafeng Group.

Meng Qian couldn't help being a little nervous at this time, constantly weighing what to say next, "Mr. Samuel is right, so I think Dafeng Group and IBM may also promote cooperation on this matter."

Samuel was actually weighing things up, but in the end he decided not to tell Meng Qian that IBM wanted to sell the computer division on this occasion. He needed to listen to the opinions of the people in the computer division on this issue, and then changed the topic. , "If we do what Mr. Meng said, do we still need allies?"

There are two interpretations of Samuel's words. It can be understood as whether to find new allies, or it can be understood as whether or not Sony and Toshiba are needed. He said this deliberately to test Meng Qian's attitude .

Meng Qian responded without hesitation, "I think Sony and Toshiba are very good allies, and together we can do this well."

Meng Qian thinks very clearly about this issue. There is absolutely no need to kick out Sony and Toshiba now. They are opponents anyway. After being kicked out, it may be more uncomfortable to single out IBM as an ally. Let nature take its course, it's good to keep some restrictions, anyway, no one will obey anyone.

What's more, the technical reserves of Sony and Toshiba can still help a lot.

Meng Qian stayed in the United States for a whole week, and IBM experienced round after round of meetings. After all, not every shareholder is happy to have such an in-depth cooperation with a Chinese company. There are obvious differences within IBM. More Some people definitely hope to find a US company to cooperate with.

In fact, Meng Qian didn't have this mentality, but there was nothing he could do.

The current situation of IBM is also the same. There is no way. Apple has indeed proposed to cancel the cooperation. Once Apple withdraws, how will IBM's ecology develop, and keep the computer to make its own system?

To make a system, you need to make an application, and to make an application, you need to make a developer community.

But Dafeng Group has basically done all these things. From the initial application layout to the open source alliance layout, Meng Qian has been laying the foundation.

A week later, IBM, still unable to come up with a conclusion, invited Idei and Atsutoshi Nishida to the United States, and the four parties held another meeting together.

There was a stalemate within IBM, so someone thought of pulling Sony and Toshiba to see if they could find any breakthroughs.

And for Sony and Toshiba, the future of the project suddenly made more sense, and they clearly had their backs.

In addition, IBM's own needs are placed here, and after another week of four-party talks, everyone finally came up with a plan after "bargaining".

The four companies will establish three new companies around the cell processor project, namely Precision Semiconductor, Future Software, and Riheng Electronics.

Precision Semiconductor IBM holds 60% of the shares, Future Software Dafeng Group holds 60% of the shares, Riheng Electronics Sony holds 60% of the shares, and the remaining shares are divided among other companies.

Mutual binding and restriction are carried out through share crossing, technology crossing, market crossing and other modes.

IBM has mastered the architecture, Dafeng Group has mastered the system, and Sony and Toshiba have mastered the technology. For IBM, Dafeng Group can't limit itself anyway.

In the eyes of Sony and Toshiba, this is their chance to stand up.

For Dafeng Group, the launch of the system has the best platform, and the time to go to the table is getting closer, but the whole world does not know that Meng Qian still has a hole card in his hand.

A deal was finally finalized this summer.

After the final plan is finalized, 90nm and 65nm production lines will be built in a low-key manner in America, Neon and China. At the same time, Dafeng Group will be ready to conduct market tests of computer systems within this year.

A tough war is not far away.

But this battle is inevitable.