The Boss of the Yan Family in Siheyuan

Chapter 362 The end of the courtyard - Part 2

After the merger with Huawei was completed, Yan Jiecheng moved all the more than 100 people in the entire communications department to Shenzhen City, and Ren Zhengfei led the expansion of the communications field to develop wireless communications technology.

From then on, Hongmeng Company focused on the network field with peace of mind. At this time, the domestic Internet field exploded, and Ni Guangnan proposed to completely develop its own computer processor and operating system.

Yan Jiecheng thought that the company was not short of money anyway, so he thought about it and nodded in agreement. Ni Guangnan would take the lead in establishing a chip design department, and Yan Jiekuang would take the lead in developing the operating system.

To this end, Yan Jiecheng also acquired several semiconductor manufacturing plants, including Wuxi Huajing, Shaoxing Huayue, and Shanghai Belling. After the merger and acquisition was completed, taking advantage of the fact that the United States has not yet begun to impose a technological blockade in the country, he quickly updated the

Batch equipment.

The U.S.'s blockade of domestic semiconductor equipment only started in the 1990s. Now there are dozens of domestic manufacturers capable of producing semiconductor devices, all of which were imported from the U.S. in the 1980s.

Nowadays, the technological gap between domestic and foreign countries is not as big as that of later generations. When these dozens of factories first introduced equipment, they were still considered mainstream in the world.

However, after entering the 1990s, these factories either closed down or switched to other products. The main reason why they became like this was that they were too scattered and unable to form scale, and they had no funds to update equipment and develop new processes.

What’s more, the semiconductor industry is upgrading too quickly. These companies invest a lot of money and fall behind as soon as they start production. This creates an endless cycle. If you want to make money, you can only find other ways out.

So Yan Jiecheng came to the door and proposed to acquire the factory, update the equipment and keep the factory in the local area.

The local government agreed without thinking. After all, keeping these factories in local hands would be a drag. Even if they wanted to switch to producing other products, they would have to invest a lot of money first.

As long as it can solve the employment problem of workers, let alone mergers and acquisitions, it will be fine even if it is given to Yan Jiecheng and the others.

Even if he could take advantage, Yan Jiecheng didn't take advantage of it. After all, some advantages are not easy to take advantage of. Now it seems that he is suffering a loss, but that is better than looking for a debt.

It's just more money. As for the company's shares, the three local governments together account for less than 3%.

After the equipment was updated, the three factories were directly merged and all the technical personnel were gathered together. As for the company name, Yan Jiecheng felt that Wuxi Huajing was good, but the place name Wuxi needed to be removed.

After all, a strong sense of place is not conducive to unity. Even if Wuxi doesn't matter, the other two cities must have opinions. It would be better to call it "Huajing" to save the back and forth.

Yan Jiecheng waved his hand and directly gave 30 million yuan as this year's research and development funds.

Within a few months, China began to prepare to build its own backbone network, and the main equipment supplier was Hongmeng.

From routers, switches to fiber optics, a complete set of equipment is provided by Hongmeng. Other companies are jealous of this, but they have nothing to do with Hongmeng. Who makes them have no technology of their own?

The country would like to find more suppliers, but there are none available.

Throughout 1989, Hongmeng Company was busy and busy. In addition to the construction of the domestic backbone network, it also received many foreign orders, especially from Xiaojiaizhi.

After all, we are now at the time when the Internet is exploding, about two or three years ahead of the original time and space.

And it will be in an explosive state in the next ten years or so. As long as we develop the equipment well, we will not worry about making money.

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July 1, 1997.

Today is a special day. Not only does the port city return, but it is also the day that Yan Jiecheng and his company develop the first domestic computer.

After more than eight years and hundreds of millions of R&D funds invested, it finally succeeded.

"Mr. Yan, please give me a name." Ni Guangnan said excitedly as he looked at the computer in front of him.

This computer was developed thanks to Yan Jiecheng. Over the years, many people felt that their computer department should be abolished.

After all, since Microsoft launched the Chinese version of Windows 95 operating system in 1995, the personal computer market has matured.

More than 90% of computers on the market are equipped with Microsoft operating systems and x86 processors.

Even if their company develops its own operating system and processor, it will not be able to shake the market positions of Microsoft and Intel.

"Well, the operating system will be called Hongmeng ox, the processor will be named Kunpeng 910, and as for this computer, let's call it Pangu A1." Yan Jiecheng thought for a while and said.

"Mr. Yan, are we going to bring this computer to the market next?" Someone below couldn't help but ask.

"Now that it has been developed, it must be put on the market?" Yan Jiecheng said without even thinking about it.

"But our computer has no competitiveness in the market."

"Then first replace all the computers in our company, as well as Huawei and Huajing, and inform them that our company has developed its own computers, and our products will be used in the company from now on."

Yan Jiecheng doesn't have any good ideas. After all, as a rising star, it would be great if he can develop it. As for surpassing it, it will probably take a lot of time.

"This...even if all three of our companies purchase, there won't be much sales. Not to mention recovering the research and development expenses, we will probably lose money for every unit produced." The man just said speechlessly. He had previously opposed the company's entry.

Computer field.

After all, computer accessories are now mature, and all domestic computer companies, strictly speaking, are working for Microsoft and Intel.

Just like Lenovo, to put it bluntly, it is just an assembly factory with no technical content at all. Anyone who knows computers can assemble it.

Yan Jiecheng also knows that it will be difficult for the computers produced by his company to enter the civilian market for a while. Even if he gets all the orders from public units, it will be difficult to recover the research and development funds he invested.

Besides, with Lenovo here, it’s impossible to give all the official orders to myself.

After all, China is a human society, and no one has a relationship, especially Lenovo, as the leading company in the domestic computer market.

Especially since the outbreak of the Internet, the tide has lifted all boats. Last year's revenue reached more than 20 billion yuan.

Among all private companies in the country, it is second only to Hongmeng and Huawei. Hongmeng’s revenue last year was 21.5 billion US dollars and Huawei’s was 36 billion yuan.

The reason why Huawei's receivables are so small is mainly because it was a little late in launching its efforts. Although the domestic deployment of second-generation communication equipment was several years earlier than the original time and space.

But it only started to be deployed in 1995. It has only been more than two years since the deployment, and it has only connected some major cities.

As for Huajing, it is still inconspicuous now. Although Yan Jiecheng has made continuous investments in recent years, the production technology is still a generation behind foreign countries.

It is two full generations behind TSMC, the world's top company.

Mainly since 1996, developed countries led by the United States began to block Chinese semiconductors.

TSMC, the world's top company, can produce 130-nanometer chips, but Jinghua can only produce 167-nanometer chips.

In order not to fall behind others, Yan Jiecheng had no choice but to start investing in the field of semiconductor equipment manufacturing in advance.

Since 1995, he has invested in several factories intermittently and invested hundreds of millions in research and development funds. It is not that Yan Jiecheng does not want to invest more, but mainly because there is a lack of talents in the semiconductor field in China, especially in the equipment manufacturing field.

No matter how much money Yan Jiecheng invested, he would not be able to produce the equipment for a while.

So Yan Jiecheng had no choice but to spend money to support him. Anyway, the company is not short of money now, so it doesn't matter even if it loses billions every year.

As long as we can catch up later, it doesn't matter even if we can't reach the world's top level and are one or two generations behind. After all, not all devices require the most advanced chip technology.

In addition to mobile terminal equipment, there are extremely strict requirements for power consumption, such as electrical appliances, phones, communication base stations, automobiles... These fields do not require top-notch chips.

Besides, foreign chips did not develop to 45 nanometers until 2010. As long as they are willing to invest money, they can still catch up.

Needless to say, as long as domestic 28-nanometer lithography machines can be developed a few years in advance, the domestic situation will be much better by then, and foreign forces led by the United States will not dare to strangle Huawei unscrupulously.

After all, a 28-nanometer photolithography machine is theoretically enough to produce 14-nanometer chips, and in extreme cases can also produce 10-nanometer chips.

You know, it was not until 2017 that TSMC developed a ten-nanometer chip process.

"Mr. Yan, Mr. Yan." Everyone saw that Yan Jiecheng was in a daze and shouted.

"Oh, oh, where did we talk just now?" Yan Jiecheng came back to his senses and asked everyone.

"How to sell the computers produced."

After hearing this, Yan Jiecheng lowered his head and thought for a while. Since it couldn't be sold on the market, he would produce and sell it himself.

Establish an Internet cafe alliance to purchase computers produced by your own company. Even if you don't make money, you still want to occupy the market.

Isn't it just about losing money? I've already lost so much anyway, so I don't care about it.

Thinking of this, Yan Jiecheng called Yu Li and asked her to notify the local agents of fried chicken restaurants to come to the capital for a meeting.

Starting in 1982, in more than ten years now, the franchisees of fried chicken restaurants have grown from more than a thousand at the beginning to 5,000 restaurants across the country.

They should be regarded as the first group of people in the country to become wealthy. Each of these more than 5,000 people opens an Internet cafe with 100 computers, which means the sales volume is hundreds of thousands of units.

Moreover, ordinary people in China cannot afford computers now, and the only way to access the Internet is through Internet cafes.

Isn't there a saying in later generations that in the Internet field, those with diaosi will conquer the world. These people can not only open Internet cafes, but also sell computers as agents.

But to open an Internet cafe, the only thing that is indispensable is games, so Yan Jiecheng planned to acquire several game development companies to develop games specifically for his own computers.

As long as there are enough users, Yan Jiecheng doesn't believe that those software development companies that don't come in will eventually form a closed loop like Microsoft.

When acquiring a software company, the first thing Yan Jiecheng thought of was Kingsoft. Kingsoft Office Software occupies 80% of the domestic market share.

Moreover, Jinshan also has its own game company - Xishan Jushi. If it can acquire Jinshan, it will kill two birds with one stone.

So Yan Jiecheng went to Zhongguancun after the meeting. The person in charge of Jinshan was none other than Lei Jun, who later became known as the Chinese Rebus.

When Lei Jun heard that Hongmeng was planning to acquire Kingsoft, he was stunned for a moment and then refused outright.

Rebus didn’t know why Hongmeng wanted to acquire Kingsoft, even though Hongmeng ranked first among domestic private companies.

But it is a network equipment supplier and does not have much influence on the computer software field.

And now that Kingsoft has received a stake from Lenovo, although it was very polite to Yan Jiecheng's arrival, Rebus still refused the acquisition.

After all, he still wants to take the company public, so how could it be acquired by others?

Seeing that the acquisition failed, Yan Jiecheng didn't stay long and went to Founder.

He found the red-clothed leader Zhou Hongwei and offered to help him set up a software company to develop software for his own computers.

Although Zhou Hongyi is now the business unit manager of Founder Group, he was still impressed by the idea of ​​setting up a company under his own leadership.

Especially since the person who invited me was a famous domestic entrepreneur, I agreed without thinking.

Within a few days, a company called "360 Network Security Software" was established.

When it was established, Yan Jiecheng invested 100 million US dollars and asked Zhou Hongyi to recruit people. The company's first priority was to develop office software, security software, and games.

And Yan Jiecheng said that if you don’t have enough money, you can still invest, and if you have a company you like, you can also choose to acquire it.

After hearing Yan Jiecheng's words, Zhou Hongyi was greatly moved and asked Yan Jiecheng to see his next performance.

So in the next few months, Zhou Hongyi made various attacks, acquiring a company in less than three days on average. When the money was not enough, he would ask Yan Jiecheng for help.

In just six months, Zhou Hongyi had taken over more than 60 companies, with more than a thousand employees.

It even alarmed all domestic Internet companies and cried wolf.

Because Zhou Hongyi likes to wear red shirts, people in the circle gave him a resounding name - the Great Master in Red.

Yan Jiecheng didn't care about Zhou Hongyi's high-profile appearance. No matter how much money he spent, as long as he could get things done well, the cost of time was more important to Yan Jiecheng than the money itself.

When the software company was booming, Yan Jiecheng was not idle either.

He first found BYD and asked Wang Chuanfu to manufacture his own computers, and then proposed a merger and acquisition.

Yan Jiecheng, who is both a Shenzhen-listed enterprise and is familiar with Hongmeng and Huawei, said that after the merger, BYD would still leave it to him to manage.

Others in the company did not interfere with BYD's operations, so Wang Chuanfu agreed.

After all, people are like trees. Besides, with Huawei at the front, he has nothing to be afraid of. Yan Jiecheng's credibility can still be trusted.

The reason for the acquisition of BYD is that it is not only a battery manufacturer, but also OEM electronic products, and will also enter the automotive field in the future.

With his joining, Yan Jiecheng believes that BYD's development will definitely be faster than in the previous life.

At this point, Yan Jiecheng's layout is almost completed, and then he begins to integrate resources.

First, it acquired a car factory and handed it over to BYD, and then handed over Hongmeng's computers and Huawei's mobile phone business to BYD for OEM.

All of BYD's chips are handed over to Jinghua OEM, and BYD's battery business was also spun off from BYD to establish a company specializing in battery research and development.

Finally, the chip design departments of Hongmeng, Huawei, and BYD were merged to form HiSilicon Semiconductor Chip Design Company.

(End of chapter)