Chapter Five Hundred and Seventy-Eight: Re-Acquainted, I Am Chen Yu

"Mr. Chen, let's go."

Zhongguancun VIA Electronics Office Building, two middle-aged men are standing there.

These two, one is Chen Wenqi, CEO of VIA Electronics, and the other is his good helper, Lin Zimo, deputy general manager of VIA Electronics. It's just that the two did not have the high spirits they had when they came to Zhongguancun. They came to Zhongguancun in Beishi from Taiwan and built an office building in Zhongguancun. They hoped to take advantage of the opportunity in the mainland market to compete with Intel.

Unfortunately, it backfired.

In recent years, their chip business has been losing streak.

At that time, Chen Wenqi once believed that this was because Intel was engaged in monopoly, and they were suppressing VIA Electronics.

But then Chen Wenqi figured it out clearly, this is not Intel's monopoly, but that they had a lot of technology in Intel's hands before.

For example, in their chipset business, Intel itself integrated the Northbridge chip into the CPU, and VIA's business was directly ruined. And having said that, VIA Electronics actually caught the mistakes of Intel, which created the situation of VIA Electronics.

Now that Intel sees you growing up, it is normal to suppress you.

However, despite this, Chen Wenqi is not a person who gives up lightly.

The chipset business was crushed by Intel, and they also had the CPU business.

Although not comparable to Intel in overall performance, VIA is more powerful than Intel in power consumption.

To this end, they will target the market for the laptop market.

And, for the notebook computer market, VIA Electronics also launched a cpu called "C3".

But VIA Electronics is strong, and Intel is even stronger.

When VIA Electronics launched the C3 processor, Intel launched an epoch-making technology last year, Centrino technology.

Centrino technology is not a processor, it is the brand name of a mobile computer technology launched by Intel.

The technology consists of three main components, a PentiumM processor with a 90nm process Dothan core (2MBL2 cache, 533MHzFSB), a new Aviso chipset, and a new wireless module (Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG or 2200BG wireless LAN components).

Once the technology was launched, it quickly became a benchmark in the notebook industry, and VIA's C3 processor was directly killed.

So far, VIA Electronics and Intel's PK dream is broken.

VIA Electronics no longer has the strength to challenge Intel.

At the same time, the VIA Electronics branch that opened in Zhongguancun was closed.

"Zimo, what do you think we will do with VIA in the future?"

Looking at the words VIA Electronics, which will be delisted in the future, Chen Wenqi sighed.

Thinking of the ambition to compete with Intel in the past, it has become a joke today.

This kind of gap is really incomprehensible to ordinary people.

"Mr. Chen, we..."

Lin Zimo opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.

Although Intel's crackdown is unlikely to bring VIA out of business, VIA has become irrelevant.

At most, they will choose some less important chipset business to do, but if they want to change the pattern, affect the entire industry, or even have a Pk with Intel, that is a fool's dream.

"Mr. Chen, victory or defeat is a matter of fact in the military. Let's go back to Taiwan and think about it, and we will always find a way."

This is of course comfort.

Lin Zimo, who is a technical background, knows that the brand VIA Electronics will become less and less known in the future.

Or in the next ten or twenty years, perhaps no one has even heard of the name VIA Electronics.

"Zimo, don't comfort me, you know better than me about the current situation of our VIA Electronics."

Chen Wenqi smiled bitterly, and then said, "Zimo, how old are you now?"

"45, President Chen, what's wrong?"

"I'm 3 years older than you, 48, and 50 in two years. Should we retire?"

"Mr. Chen,

Where did you go. "

"Okay, okay, just kidding, if I retire at 50, I won't die alone."

Although the market has been beaten by Intel, VIA has also been brilliant.

And now VIA Electronics is not dead?

"By the way, will the person who wants to rent our building come soon?"

"He said it."

"Okay, just wait for him."

The branch on the Zhongguancun side is going to be closed, so naturally we have to find another one for subletting.

If it was normal, Chen Wenqi wouldn't have time to deal with this matter, just leave it to the company's people to deal with it.

However, I heard that the person who sublet their office building seems to also do IT, and he is still a young man in his 20s.

This made Chen Wenqi curious about this young man.

Is it necessary to build such a big office building in your 20s?

After waiting for ten minutes, the person Chen Wenqi wanted to see came.

"I'm sorry, you two, for making you wait for a long time."

"Are you the one who wants to rent our office building?"

"Yes, my surname is Chen, President Chen, we are the main family."

It was none other than Chen Yu.

When he knew that Chen Wenqi was in Beishi, Chen Yu went to Zhongguancun.

Before, he thought he had to go to Taiwan to find Chen Wenqi.

It seems that luck is good this time, and I can meet him in the mainland.

"It seems to be fate."

Chen Wenqi shook hands with Chen Yu.

"Mr. Chen, I don't know what you are renting this office building for?"

"laptop."

"Are you representing a certain computer brand?"

"No, we're going to launch a brand new laptop, which I'll call a netbook."

"Netbook, what does this mean?"

"It's a notebook that is positioned for ordinary users to chat online."

Chen Yu explained the concept of surfing this website.

Both of them are experts in this field, but upon hearing it, Chen Wenqi and Lin Zimo were both suddenly moved.

Chen Wenqi glanced at Lin Zimo, and Lin Zimo said knowingly, "The idea of ​​this netbook is very creative. Can you talk about it in detail?"

"certainly."

Chen Yu nodded and continued: "It looks like our netbook is a kind of notebook, but in fact it is completely different from a traditional notebook. We don't plan to install Microsoft's Windows operating system, because I think it is too expensive and too bulky. , we plan to install a more streamlined and smoother linux system. In addition, for the cpu, we also hope to find a smaller and lower power consumption cpu. For example..."

Having said that, Chen Yu looked at Chen Wenqi: "For example, your company's C3 processor."

That's right.

What about subletting the office building of VIA Electronics, Chen Yu is waiting for Chen Wenqi today.

"Excuse me?"

Look at Chen Yu.

Chen Wenqi and Lin Zimo were turbulent in their hearts.

They didn't expect that when they were all in fear, a miracle suddenly appeared.

A young man in his 20s made them feel empowered and understood everything at once.

It's just that when they looked at Chen Yu again, they knew.

The 20-year-old guy in front of him is definitely not an ordinary tenant who sublet their office building.

"Get to know each other again."

Chen Yu stretched out his hand again: "Huanyu Technology CEO, Chen Yu."

Having said that, Chen Yu introduced himself once.