This kind of magic is not only in the writing of the British writer George Orwell. In the 1984, George Orwell built an absurd and ridiculous world, people suppressed, empty, collective unconscious, all People are indifferent to the outside world, and the value of the individual is infinitely denied. This is a world without vitality and hopelessness.
However, in reality, in 1984, it was much more exciting and more vital: Apple introduced an epoch-making Macintosh computer, and this computer with a graphical user interface inspired Microsoft to start developing Windows systems; the Challenger carried The two astronauts completed the first non-roping space walk in space in history, and human beings were more free on the scale of space; in China, Deng Xiaoping sat down the train to test the results of the special economic zone that had been built for four years.
The spring breeze of reform and opening up has evoked people’s hearts. In the future, those who are known as the “flip-flops” of the times are now eager to move. They are not willing to be mediocre and indecent, and are determined to engrave their names in the history of Chinese business.
In Zhongguancun, Beijing, Liu Chuanzhi, 40, also plans to join the market economy. For Liu Chuanzhi, the reason for the change from doing research to doing business is very simple. First of all, he realized that he is really not suitable for scientific research. He has already done 13 years of magnetic recording circuit research in the Chinese Academy of Sciences, although he has made some Small results, but still unknown. Second, he has a more realistic goal of “improving life.”
In November 1984, a company called “New Technology Development Company of the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences” was established, which is the predecessor of Lenovo Group. Since the company’s main business is to undertake the technical transformation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the founder Liu Chuanzhi soon realized that they needed a technical cow to lead the team.
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In terms of the density of talents, the Chinese Academy of Sciences can be said to be the most concentrated unit of top domestic technical talents, but Liu Chuanzhi’s people are not only technically competent, but more importantly, they are good atThe commercialization of technology has come to the fore, where do people go to find it?
Liu Chuanzhi will target Ni Guangnan, who just returned from the Canadian National Research Institute as a visiting researcher. In the Chinese Academy of Sciences where Niu Ren gathered, Ni Guangnan was a technical star at that time. He led the team to develop the “Chinese character processing technology” to make Chinese characters appear on the computer screen for the first time, which made other advanced countries at that time look at Chinese computer researchers.
In addition to technical considerations, another reason why Liu Chuanzhi chose Ni Guangnan was that the two people themselves were old friends. When they were studying at the May 7th School, they were roommates and admired each other.
In December 1984, Liu Chuanzhi invited Ni Guangnan to join the chief engineer with the determination of “three Gu Mao”. I did not expect the latter to accept the invitation without hesitation, and let Liu Chuanzhi not believe it.
The facts also prove that in the first ten years of cooperation between the two, Ni Guangnan’s technology met Liu Chuanzhi’s marketing mind, and the combination of Zhulian’s combination made Lenovo quickly open the road to take off. The “Lenovo-style Hanka” developed by Ni Guangnan quickly occupied the market. The so-called Hanka was developed due to the lack of early computer performance, in order to improve the efficiency of the computer and reduce the frequent access to the memory during the Chinese character input process. device.
At that time, Lenovo Hanka’s profits were very rich, each selling for as much as 4,000 yuan, and the profit margin was over 50%. The emergence of Hanka has had a huge impact on the company. In 1985, the company’s sales revenue exceeded 3 million, and in the following years, the annual revenue reached tens of millions of yuan. This is also the origin of Lenovo, a new technology development company of the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Everything seems to be booming until 1991.
In 1991, it was a painful year for the global IT industry. In order to compete for the CPU market, Intel and AMD began to kill each other. The original 386 processor with a price of $195 fell to more than 50 dollars in a month or two. This is undoubtedly a disaster for computer manufacturers who have already accumulated large amounts of inventory in advance. Liu Chuanzhi later recalled that most of the computer manufacturers at the time lost money. IBM laid off more than 40,000 people, Compaq’s stock fell 70%, and Lenovo was also affected. In just three or four months, Lenovo’s branch in Hong Kong lost 17 million Hong Kong dollars.
In order to save Lenovo, in September 1991, Liu Chuanzhi led Lenovo’s high-level meeting to Thailand. According to the description of the late Universe “Lenovo Bureau”, Liu Chuanzhi, who has always been superstitious, also went to worship the famous “four-faced Buddha” and made a wish. crisis.
When Liu Chuanzhi prayed for the Lenovo crisis, this year