Liu Chuanzhi did not keep everyone waiting for too long.

Just two minutes after Ni Guangnan sat down, he strode into the conference room. Behind him, Yang Yuanqing, general manager of Lenovo's PC Division, held a teacup for him and followed closely behind.

Seeing Ni Guangnan's furious and angry expression, Liu Chuanzhi rarely glanced at him, without any intention of talking to him, let alone trying to coax him.

Although it sounds a bit incredible, Liu Chuanzhi, as the company's chairman and president, would have such an attitude towards the company's chief engineer, and even need to use the word "coax" to describe it.

But at Lenovo, Liu Chuanzhi's attitude towards Ni Guangnan has always been this way.

On the contrary, like today, there is no intention to coax Ni Guangnan. This is called a surprise. The sun comes out in the west.

They had no choice but to tell them that Chief Engineer Ni was not only a scientist, but also one of the first academicians of the Academy of Engineering in China. Naturally, he was a great scientist. Not only could he not tolerate criticism in his eyes, he was also very straight-forward and would say whatever he said.

Sometimes when encountering issues of principle, not to mention other people, even Liu Chuanzhi has to give in and can only apologize humblely.

A few years ago, Li Qin, the general manager of the Yanjing branch, and Mr. Ni had a conflict over whether they should do the laser printer project, and the two almost became irreconcilable.

It was Liu Chuanzhi who forcibly transferred Li Qin and announced at the unit meeting: "If anyone conflicts with Mr. Ni again, it will be your fault no matter what the situation."

Not to mention, every time the company held a meeting, Liu Chuanzhi almost praised Mr. Ni very highly, saying that without Mr. Ni, there would be no Lenovo.

Of course, this is also a fact. All Lenovo's technical projects and technical achievements can be said to be developed and promoted by Mr. Ni.

Even the name "Lenovo" comes from Mr. Ni's Lenovo board.

Furthermore, Mr. Ni’s character is indeed admirable and worthy of such respect.

When Mr. Ni was a visiting scholar in Canada, his monthly salary was 20,000 to 30,000 yuan. One year's salary was as much as his lifetime salary in China.

But even so, when the time for the visit came, Mr. Ni ignored the Canadian side's efforts to stay, ignored the various conditions proposed by the Canadian side, including professorial titles, increased salary and income benefits, direct allocation of houses and cars, etc., and resolutely

Returned to the country.

And almost all of the 300,000 yuan earned a year is spent on purchasing scientific research equipment that is lacking in the country.

When other people become visiting scholars, they all hope to stay outside. Even if they can't stay outside, they can still take home a hundred and eighty thousand yuan at the worst. It's really rare for someone like Mr. Ni to come back almost penniless.

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Moreover, everyone believes that Mr. Ni has extraordinary abilities in the technical field, is particularly sensitive in judging specific business directions, is never conservative towards young and outstanding technical personnel, and is extremely hardworking and persistent in the work he carries out.

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It can be said that he is impeccable both in life and in work.

Therefore, it is strange that Liu Chuanzhi didn't ask a word when he saw Chief Engineer Ni angry like he is now.

However, in the past year, especially in recent months, they have found that the trend seems to have changed.

No matter what project Mr. Ni wants to apply for funds for, the head office will almost never approve it.

For this reason, Chief Engineer Ni frequently quarreled with the CEO Office and Liu Chuanzhi, and even shamelessly trained Yang Yuanqing to be his third grandson.

But even so, Liu Chuanzhi remained unmoved and insisted on not granting scientific research funding to Chief Engineer Ni. Even some scientific research projects that had been launched and produced results had become very strapped for funding.

This is something that some old employees who have been in the company for ten years have never seen before.

In fact, they seemed to have a premonition at this time that a war involving Mars hitting the Earth was about to break out.

Sure enough, just as Liu Chuanzhi made his opening remarks, Ni Guangnan, who was sitting first on his right, raised his hand to express that he had something to say.

Everyone's hearts couldn't help but feel that the real storm was about to come.

However, no one expected that Liu Chuanzhi's expression suddenly changed drastically, and he stared blankly at Ni Guangnan.

After a few breaths, his eyes turned red, and he even said with a hint of pleading: "Mr. Ni, if you have anything to say, can we talk about it later."

For a moment, Ni Guangnan's heart softened and he felt compassion.

This was the first time he saw Liu Chuanchi's face.

At this moment, he suddenly had self-doubt in his heart, whether it was correct to say what he wanted to say in this situation.

He deeply knew what kind of harm he would cause to Liu Chuanzhi, Lenovo and Lenovo after he said these words today.

But when he thought about all his scientific research projects that could almost be said to have been stranded, his heart hardened instantly, and the look he looked at Liu Chuanzhi was full of perseverance.

As he said before, he can't wait, and Huaxia Chip can't wait.

If Liu Chuanzhi is unwilling to give him an explanation and a satisfactory result, then he can only find a way to put Liu Chuanzhi on the right track!

If Liu Chuanzhi insisted not to do so, he would have no choice but to overthrow Liu Chuanzhi.

This has nothing to do with friendship or reason, it is only about the interests of China!

Looking at Ni Guangnan's appearance, as an old partner of Ni Guangnan for ten years, how could Liu Chuanzhi not know that Ni Guangnan had really made up his mind to completely break up with him.

"Since, Mr. Ni, you insist on saying something, then just say it."

It seemed that this sentence had consumed a lot of Liu Chuanzhi's energy. He sat down on the chair, his eyes were dull, and he looked at the ceiling in despair.

Just the rhythmic dancing of his fingers on his knees and the sharp light flashing in his eyes from time to time proved that his current state was not as simple as it seemed on the surface.

"I just want to ask you, Mr. Liu, one question now: Do you approve Lenovo's CPU chip research project?" Ni Guangnan asked coldly.

"In other words, I want to ask, why are you unwilling to approve such a good project that benefits the country and the people and does not require too much money?"

The grievances and anxiety of the past six months seemed to flood into his heart in an instant, and Ni Guangnan couldn't help shouting at the top of his lungs.

Since last year, he has been preparing to establish a chip design department: Lianhai Microelectronics Design Center, with the goal of entering into CPU chips.

Of course, he also knew that although Lenovo's revenue reached a new high again last year, with a total of 1.3 billion Chinese coins, it was still not enough for the research of CPU chips and was beyond its capabilities.

So he joined forces with Yangtze River Computer Company and Fudan University to form a three-party joint venture to establish this chip design department. Fudan University has just invested US$1.8 million to purchase a complete set of equipment and set up a microelectronics laboratory as a shareholder.

Then Lenovo invested US$10 million and an experienced team to acquire 70% of the shares. As for Yangtze Computer Company as a sales company and invested US$6 million, it could obtain about 20% of the shares.

The Ministry of Science and Technology also allocated a financial subsidy.

It is said that such conditions are considered good. As long as Liu Chuanzhi nods and agrees, Lenovo's CPU chips can be launched and a large amount of revenue can be obtained.

And he believes that although ten million US dollars is a lot, it can still be obtained by Lenovo, but the amount of investment is relatively large.

And Lenovo only needs to spend 10 million US dollars and the board project team to occupy 70% of the shares. Logically speaking, this should be Lenovo's advantage.

After all, Yangtze Computer Company only provided 6 million US dollars in capital and sales channels to hold 20% of the shares.

But Liu Chuanzhi disagreed and even wanted to cut off his other projects.

After a moment of silence, Liu Chuanzhi said in a hoarse voice: "General Manager Ni, the CPU chip project really cannot be approved. If we make CPU chips, the entire Lenovo will be brought down."

"I have done so many successful projects before, why do you think that the CPU chip project cannot be successful?" Ni Guangnan asked.

After hearing this, everyone's expressions changed slightly, and they couldn't help but look at Liu Chuanzhi.

Indeed, Mr. Ni has presided over so many scientific research projects, all of which have been successful. Why can’t the CPU chip succeed?

Ten years ago, Lenovo was called the "New Technology Development Company of the Institute of Computing Technology of the Academy of Sciences". It looked around at a loss and didn't know what to do. Even Liu Chuanzhi planned to be a bad guy. When it failed, it was Mr. Ni who became the chief engineer and became the chief engineer.

Transfer his previous scientific research projects to the Computing Institute Company to continue research and development.

By 1985, Mr. Ni's "Lenovo-style Hanka" product was perfectly integrated with IBM compatible computers and achieved great commercial success. It became Lenovo's first cash cow product, which later led to the "Computing Academy of the Academy of Sciences".

"Technology Research Institute New Technology Development Corporation" was renamed to the current Lenovo.

Subsequently, in 1988, Mr. Ni went to Xiangjiang to set up a motherboard and expansion card R&D department. This department developed independently designed chips to replace the Z80 chips imported from the United States.

This is why since 1990, Lenovo’s Hanka products have all used independent chips.

And when we were making personal computer motherboards, personal computer motherboards were in their early stages of taking shape and had not yet been standardized. The integrated bus control chip was still relatively simple. There were a large number of rough and even traces that were not integrated into the chip but were laid out on the board.

The era of Hongmeng.

However, it was Mr. Ni who led the board team to design the entire motherboard and the chips on the motherboard, making Lenovo the fifth company in the world to independently design and produce the entire motherboard after several major board companies such as MSI, Gigabyte, Biostar, and ASUS.

Company that makes computer motherboards and chips on motherboards.

In 1991, General Engineer Ni initiated a laser printer project, and the first thing he produced was a chip for the printer.

This printer chip developed by Mr. Ni could not only be installed on HP printers, which had the largest market share in the country at the time, but it also worked better than HP's original chips.

It was only later that HP's new printers no longer reserved interfaces for external chips, so Lenovo developed its own complete printer, and once surpassed HP to become the largest domestic printer market share.

Since the core components are in its own hands, the profit margin of this printer is also very high, and it is now Lenovo's main product.

The year before last, General Engineer Ni established a program-controlled switch division to make a million-door switch like the 04 machine.

At the end of last year, it was successful. Since then, Lenovo has become the fourth company in China with its own 10,000-gate switch technology, ranking only after Qingtian Communications, Julong Group, and ZTE, and before Huawei.

And the day after we obtained the network access license from the Telecommunications Bureau, the Postal and Telecommunications Bureau came to our door and requested to order Lenovo's Wanmen switches.

In addition, when working on Wanmen switches last year, Mr. Ni took the time to take on a national-level scientific research project, initiated the project and led the development of financial platform software, which also resulted in good business benefits.

Someone has calculated that as of the end of last year, under the leadership of Mr. Ni, Lenovo’s main R&D achievements were Hanka, program-controlled switches, financial platform software, printers, and complete microcomputers.

There are five types of independently developed chips: two Hanka chips, two motherboard chips, and one printer chip.

Although these chips are much simpler than CPU chips, for China at this time, as long as they are chips, they must be cutting-edge high-tech.

Furthermore, these five chips of Lenovo have all entered the first-tier camp of similar products in the world at this time, and have been successfully used in large-scale commercial applications.

Therefore, under the leadership of Mr. Ni, although Lenovo can only be regarded as a small business in terms of revenue scale in the world, in terms of core technology, Lenovo can boast that it is a benchmark among Chinese high-tech enterprises.

, is an absolute high-tech enterprise.
To be continued...