Section 189 Supercomputer
The next day, all the employees of the group knew the benefits that the president personally gave them. Generally speaking, only teachers in some universities can distribute laptops, or high-level government officials. I have never heard of a company like ours distributing laptops. They also issued computers, which amounted to hundreds of thousands, with a total amount of several billion yuan. The news spread that major computer manufacturers at home and abroad have sent their capable sales representatives to the headquarters of the energy group.
The top five factories in the world have annual sales of millions to tens of millions of units, but whoever wins this order can put on a gesture, that is, to cooperate with the energy group, and even a fool knows that the energy group is listed It will be a matter of time before the top of the world's largest company.
According to the latest data from Forbes, China National Petroleum Corporation, the largest company in the world, currently has a market value of more than 340 billion U.S. dollars, and the current conservative estimate of the energy group has reached 300 billion U.S. dollars. That's for sure, so to be able to cooperate with energy groups, all you need is a reputation.
Each major group has its own unique strategy, but Lenovo Group has already won the championship before the start of the competition. The chairman of the board of directors of the Energy Group had to meet with Lenovo Group President Liu Chuanzhi before the bidding began, which made Lenovo Group's business representatives feel very worried. With low, some other small groups basically gave up as soon as they heard this.
Before Li Cong could meet Liu Chuanzhi, the anti-unfair trade investigation team of the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China had already arrived at the energy group. It turned out that Li Cong's remarks had touched certain provisions of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law. Before the public bidding, Li Cong was Those who could not see Liu Chuanzhi, several major groups complained to the Ministry of Commerce together. These are all international IT giants. The country had to make a gesture, but it didn't take it too seriously, otherwise it would not just find a department-level cadre Come to be the leader of the investigation team.
"President, the plenipotentiary representative of the American Dell Group and the representative of Taiwan Acer have been waiting outside for a long time. They asked you when you can meet them." Li Cong's secretary to the president must be the sixth, and it seems a bit strange to come here. Immediately the ability was appointed to do other things, so the speed of changing every two months was basically maintained.
"Let them continue to wait for me, and report me if they have nothing to do, and the central government will come down to investigate the team. Damn, when have we been investigated by the government? Tell them to wait, just say that I am in a meeting, and when the meeting is over, they will come See them." Li Cong was really angry this time, although the central government explained to him that it was just a show, but it was still annoying, and the reputation was not good.
"Okay, President, is there anything else?" This secretary is different from the previous ones in that he does things concisely and never says a word to Li Cong. That's all.
"Bring me the report on this procurement, and I'll have a look at it. When I'm about to get off work, take the two representatives to Director Li. If you have nothing to do, you can go out first." This is clearly a trick, Dell and Acer is one of the top three computer manufacturers in the world, but the gap between industries is too large, and the difference between IT and energy is too far.
The country also has to worry about the international face. This time several major companies complain together and have to give Li Cong some color. Li Cong canceled the meeting with Liu Chuanzhi, but in this information age, it is no problem to rely on video. No, the technical department has already contacted the meeting, and the top management of Lenovo Group is waiting for Li Cong to hold a procurement meeting.
After some introductions, the meeting began.
"Mr. Li, first of all, on behalf of the 20,000 employees of Lenovo Group, please allow me to extend my best regards to you. Thank you very much for your support of our own brand in China. We Lenovo Group will definitely go all out to meet your company's requirements." Liu Chuanzhi The performance is very excited. This is a breakthrough for Lenovo Group to expand. Over the years, the international IT industry has been reshuffled. It is difficult for several groups with similar strengths to stand out. Today, either you are the first or I am the first. It's time to win the first place,
Even though Lenovo's global ranking is fifth, the difference between the top five is basically not very big, and anyone has the ability to aspire to the championship.
The orders of energy groups are mostly one aspect, and the other aspect is reputation, which is also the focus of competition among major groups.
"Thank you very much, President Liu. I know that your Lenovo Group is the best domestically produced computer, so I support you. Our company has also cooperated with you very happily in the past. Let's not talk about the previous billions of purchases. I want to talk to you alone this time, can you ask your other members to avoid it for a while." If Li Cong didn't bother to talk to Lenovo because of those personal computers, it was mainly because of that supercomputer. Li Cong checked the information in 2002 At that time, Lenovo will be able to produce computers with a trillion calculations, and now it has reached ten trillion calculations. The point is this.
Liu Chuanzhi knew that Li Cong had something important to say, so he hurriedly asked his subordinates to go out, but don't offend the God of Wealth, these hundreds of thousands of computers are made with hundreds of millions of profits, no one wants to be troubled by money .
"Mr. Li, there are only two of us, what do you need?" Liu Chuanzhi asked after the last person went out and closed the door.
"Mr. Liu, I need a supercomputer. What kind of supercomputer can you Lenovo provide me with the best technology?" Li Cong cut to the chase, mainly to see if it meets his own standards. You have to find a foreign company. After all, if you can’t satisfy the domestic needs, it’s not a patriotic thing to buy domestic products.
"Data terminal? Our Lenovo Group is only a little bit behind the world's leading technology. We can manufacture electronic computers with a calculation rate of 14 trillion operations per second, and the technology can reach one trillion operations, but our test only It has reached ten trillion times, I think your company's electronic terminal does not need such a high number of calculations." If it is just a company, of course it doesn't need it, but now it has to command the satellites in the sky, which seems a bit stretched , but Tektronix said that the calculation of hundreds of millions of times is fine, and he will definitely modify it, so we don't worry about it.
"Okay, that's all. I need a machine like this, can I?" This can be the core of the Lenovo Group. No one has ever bought this thing, because no one in general needs this. Liu Chuanzhi also wondered why the Energy Group What is it for, what do you want such a large "waste" for?
The two chattered about each other for more than half an hour, and finally reached an agreement. Lenovo Group will assemble such a giant computer for the Energy Group, but in the future, the Energy Group will purchase all IT purchases from Lenovo, and take out Five billion yuan has been invested in Lenovo Group, accounting for 6% of the shares. I don’t know if the economic crisis has made these companies short of money, and they always attract people to buy shares. Li Cong has always disliked such an IT industry. , It looks glamorous, but it doesn't make much money.
It takes Lenovo Group a month to produce this supercomputer, and the price is as high as one billion yuan, and it has to sign a non-disclosure agreement. If there is a leak, the energy group will have to pay tens of billions in compensation. In fact, Tektronix is better than this Well, the reason why I bought such a thing is to have a modified platform.