Chapter 1782: Big Fanfare
The rapid development of Eagle Sauce in the decades after World War II is not bragging, and the technical system established in decades is also extremely terrifying. For latecomers with a low starting point, it is impossible to surpass this system. They can only integrate into it from the low end and slowly climb up.
We often joke about "crossing the river by feeling the eagle sauce", but how many people know the helplessness behind this joke? Being sprayed at every turn will only be copycats without innovation. This kind of psychological pressure and decline has created a large number of well-known big Vs.
What a big cow IBM is in the industry! No matter how many people want to hug it, they can't hug its thighs. People look down on low-profit projects, and sell the business of PCs and low-end servers in packages, and only do high-end ones.
A high-end large-scale mobile is worth tens of millions of soft sister coins, and even a minicomputer is hundreds of thousands. Just selling one is worth hundreds or thousands of PCs. Why not IBM?
It is said that if an ordinary company wants to leverage the server market, it must be suppressed by IBM in terms of technology and standards. It can only start from the low end, and develop slowly by eating leftovers that others don't want. It may take a decade or two to climb to the middle level.
But this matter is different for Uncle Zhou - I don't have any restrictions on the delivery of goods, because Mao wants to deliver cheap low-end products, I naturally choose expensive ones. The server extends upwards, and the best ones are IBM's various minicomputers and mainframes.
IBM's products have won praise from the industry for their extraordinary stability, security and reliability. It is used in finance, scientific research, communication, medical treatment, military, manufacturing, public safety, and government agencies. Moreover, users still trust this brand and are unwilling to switch to other products.
China also wants to make high-end products, but the performance is poor, which will hurt if there is a comparison. Domestic banks have regulations that if the server crashes for half an hour, the leaders of the relevant banks have to go to the China Banking Regulatory Commission to explain what happened? If the computer freezes for more than an hour, someone has to lose his job.
If you were a bank leader, you wouldn't joke about your official position as a guinea pig. So it was not easy for Xiao Yi to sell machines in China, so she simply used foreigners as targets to build her own reputation.
Xiao Yi negotiated with IBM through government channels and asked for patent authorization for related chips and software architectures—you either cooperate with us or wait to be cleared from the market.
The administrative order is so overbearing that IBM disagreed at first, and even threatened to withdraw from the rabbit market. Rabbit is very happy about this - it's better if you quit, I don't have to pay for patents, and I can force domestic units to use "picked up" servers.
During the secret negotiation process, 'Radiation Electronics' showed its own 'designed' and 'improved' chips, equipment and software. The whole package is there, without ambiguity at all.
This situation stunned IBM's negotiators for a moment—Nimma,
You secretly used our software and hardware architecture, but the performance is actually better than ours?
Xiao Yi, who was in charge of the negotiation, could only whistle in her heart - that's right, my man thought that IBM's brand is big and its products have good performance, so he specially picked your high-end Z series machines to sell. This is your next-generation product, and our LOGO is just changed.
When encountering such a thing, IBM is also very helpless!
In fact, countries all over the world use similar methods to develop their own economies and enterprises. Even when rabbits go to other countries to sell products, they are also required to build factories locally, hire workers, and share technology.
In fact, Rabbit used the same method to deal with Qualcomm, the leader of the mobile phone chip industry - either fine you billions of dollars for monopoly, or obediently hand over the technology to cooperate with our domestic enterprises. Qualcomm chose to be obedient and cooperate.
Now IBM can only pinch its nose to recognize it—the global server market is shrinking, but the rabbit family is expanding. It is absolutely unacceptable to lose this market. It is better to sell the patent usage rights for some money.
The result is that without the industry's knowledge, Radiant Electronics announced that it has obtained a "strategic" partnership with IBM, and will launch high-end servers and mainframes based on three-nanometer process chips—we are compatible with IBM's best Z series Oh!
Port compatible, protocol compatible, software compatible. It is strange that it is not compatible. This is originally an IBM product, but the shell and trademark have been changed.
Waiting for the announcement of the agreement, a group of executives in the IBM rabbit area realized that they had been cheated by the people at the headquarters—you really put the wolf into the sheepfold! Believe it or not, they will eat up the entire market in a few years, and they will no longer have our share.
Others want to improve, they all eat from the low end. Uncle Zhou is destructive and directly throws bombs, suppressing from high-end volleys, forcing others to have nowhere to go.
After hearing a series of explosive news, the executives in IBM's rabbit area who were with Fidel couldn't sit still. He didn't want to be the 'giant's shoulder' under the feet of 'Radiating Electron', he had to fight back. And how to fight back?
"You're going to have a public tender, right?" the IBM executive asked the Citigroup vice president.
"Yes." The vice president of Citigroup in Modu shrugged and expressed helplessness, "We are also under pressure from the Rabbit government, but I believe that even if this 'Radiation Electronics' obtains technical authorization from your headquarters, it will not be possible in a short time Really surpassed you."
These words really boosted morale, and IBM's executives also thought to themselves: You said that if you are ahead of us by one generation, you will be ahead? How can our decades of technological accumulation be easily surpassed by you? Do you know how complicated our entire architecture is, you must be bragging!
"We must participate in this public bidding, and we must create a great momentum to attract media reports. We will take out our best equipment to bid, and use the actual situation to prove that we are the best."
The executive of IBM's rabbit area became more and more right, he slapped his hands and shouted viciously: "I have to admit that the trick of radiating electrons is quite clever, they must have a very strong government background.
However, the government has no way to influence the technical field. They may have created chips with good performance, but our IBM system optimized for various businesses is not so easy to beat. "
I don't know whether IBM's executives are stubborn or full of confidence. In short, he strongly requested to compete with Radiation Electronics' "Radiation 1" series servers. Even though Citibank's purchases are not large this time, it has become a venue for rookies and big shots in the industry to compete for hegemony.
For Citibank, this is also a good opportunity to promote itself, there is no reason to disagree. As a result, an open bidding gradually turned into a competition for hegemony in the arena. The media was very happy to see this kind of tit-for-tat news, and they reported it with great enthusiasm.
Rabbit, a company, actually wants to openly challenge IBM's hegemony in the market? This matter has even attracted widespread attention around the world, and countless people want to know the inside story. For Chinese people, this matter is even more likely to cause a sensation. If this is successful, it will be more gratifying than how many Olympic gold medals.
But before the battle for high-end server supremacy began, Radiation Electronics suddenly announced that it would enter the market of civilian PC main chips, challenging Intel's dominance.
Now Intel, who was originally watching the movie, also jumped up and scolded-radiating electrons, what the hell is wrong with you? If you beat IBM, I'll just applaud you. Why are you running to me all of a sudden? I didn't bother you again!
Zhou Qingfeng's explanation for this is - anyway, doing one is doing it, and doing two is also doing it. Anyway, sooner or later there will be conflicts, so let's save some trouble and get together.