Partnering to develop chips is also an attempt for Intel. If there were no New Core Technology, they would have cooperated with TSMC in 2009 to develop chips, and later they also collaborated with Qualcomm on the development of mobile chips.
Intel also has a dedicated chip foundry department, IFS, which manufactures chips for Qualcomm and MediaTek. Intel does a lot of complicated work. After so many years of development, it has grown to the size it is today, and it is also a mountainous place.
Different departments have their own interests and demands, so some jointly develop computer chips with New Core. After New Core has taken this path, it is not difficult for Lenovo to follow suit and follow it again.
But whether consumers are willing to pay is another question. Lenovo believes that Xiaomi broke through the market with the gimmick of domestic chips, causing a sensation and gaining a large number of sales.
In fact, it is because of the ultimate cost-effectiveness that domestic chips are just the icing on the cake. But it's a good thing for Xinxin, because Lenovo has come to talk to them, hoping to give some of the chip OEM orders to Xinxin for the chip jointly developed by Lenovo and Intel.
In this way, they can also take advantage of the gimmick of domestic chips. Xiaomi Computer has encouraged some companies that are not short of money to try to cooperate with domestic chip design companies and try to design nationally produced CPUs.
This is because everyone realizes that it is not necessary to develop the most advanced CPU to call it research and development. Researching CPUs that suit the current needs of Chinese consumers is also a way.
There is one last major event at the end of 2002, which is the annual Internet Conference.
Since the Internet Conference was held in China at the end of 1999, the Internet Conference at the end of every year has been a grand event for the entire Chinese Internet community.
Because Zhou Xin made venture capital for a group of Chinese Internet companies through emerging capital at the first Internet Conference, the Internet Conference became a bridge between venture capital institutions and entrepreneurs.
A large number of venture capital investments are made at annual Internet conferences. The amount of investment may not be large, but the number of investments is increasing year by year. This is because with the development of the Internet industry and Americen's capital market, it has gradually emerged from the Internet winter.
What's more important is that this year China opened up electronic payment licenses, which is a major benefit to the Internet industry. Everyone has more ways to monetize.
Although the original point card model is mature enough, this method requires a lot of profits to be shared with upstream and downstream dealers. In the form of electronic payment, you only need to pay NewPay, and the handling fee is only 3 points, unlike the point card model. Much less than that.
Moreover, the point-card model has obvious limitations. Chinese netizens will pay with point-cards for games and will never be willing to pay for content. Quora’s paid Q&A and magazine subscriptions are in full swing, doesn’t Sohu want to do it?
As the manufacturer with the largest market share in the knowledge question and answer community, Sohu naturally hopes to develop a profitable business model. They have also done a model similar to Quora, where payment is completed by deducting phone bills from mobile phone operators, but few users buy it. And little.
Soon these features were taken offline.
It's different with electronic payment. Electronic payment can cultivate users' payment habits and behavior.
Of course, the protagonist of this year's Internet Conference is not electronic payment, but the overseas expansion of China's Internet industry.
With Tencent and Alibaba successfully going overseas, more and more Chinese Internet companies are trying to go overseas. If they can't overcome Sohu's suspicion at home, then I will go to Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Maple Leaf Country to build knowledge question and answer communities.
There is no market for online forums in China. Online forums in China are a red sea. Then I will go to Southeast Asia to build online forums.
At this point in time, compared with China, countries in Southeast Asia are poorer, but the poor are also very limited, and their computer ownership is not a small number.
More importantly, after the merger of Baidu and Google, Google was listed on Nasdaq. After its listing, it expanded rapidly around the world and vigorously promoted their advertising distribution system, which can bring a lot of revenue to websites.
Therefore, if you go to Southeast Asia to build an online forum, just using Baidu is enough to make a profit.
Not to mention China’s two Internet giants going overseas, Alibaba and Tencent. Among them, Tencent only continues to develop its own enterprise instant messaging software. In the past year, it launched ECO for enterprise collaborative office and business intelligence system Tencent BI.
ECO and Tencent BI are both separate software, but they can be coordinated with enterprise QQ. This combination has defeated the major Internet companies in Silicon Valley, and the only one that can still struggle to support is Microsoft.
Microsoft can still maintain its second position in commercial office software with the help of Office, but the gap between it and Tencent has gradually widened.
In view of Tencent's good performance, many Wall Street institutions want to invest in Tencent, hoping to get a piece of the pie before Tencent is listed.
Alibaba is far more exaggerated than Tencent. The past year was the first full year in the true sense after China joined the WTO. In this year, Alibaba's overseas strategy was far more targeted than in the original time and space.
In the original time and space, after receiving investment from Goldman Sachs, Alibaba opened offices in Silicon Valley, Xiangjiang and other places, and spent heavily to hire an elite team from Silicon Valley. However, it soon ushered in the bursting of the Nasdaq bubble and the ensuing Internet winter. .
It’s different now. The Internet winter came first before going overseas. Alibaba first thought about what it wanted to do overseas, and then went to Silicon Valley. Taking advantage of the major benefits of China's accession to the WTO, Alibaba has facilitated orders of more than US$1 billion in the past year, and the actual transaction volume has exceeded US$800 million.
This number is still growing rapidly, and Alibaba has successfully led to the vigorous development of physical factories in the Yangtze River Delta region.
With Tencent and Alibaba in the lead, and a large number of other companies behind, the theme of this year's China Internet Conference is going overseas, and I hope Internet entrepreneurs who have achieved success in going overseas will share it.
Zhou Xin, as the finale guest and the most famous guest that the China Internet Conference can invite, did not attend this year and only attended the Internet conference through remote video.
"It is a pity that I did not have the opportunity to attend this Internet Conference held in Yanjing."
This also led to the biggest guest at this year's China Internet Conference being Robin. As the chairman of Baidu, Baidu's influence is currently the greatest.
The Baidu here is the Baidu after the merger of Baidu and Google, the Baidu that made waves in Silicon Valley.
Robin is definitely a master of trouble. In the past year, it has put great pressure on Yahoo in the search engine market. Originally, users started their Internet journey from the portal website, but now more and more people choose Baidu as their first stop.
Such a change is the result of Baidu's operation through various channels. It is also the reason why the second-generation search technology has a much better experience than Yahoo's first-generation search technology as the Internet content becomes richer.
"I came to this Internet conference instead of Newman. Before I came, he told me: Robin, you go to the Internet conference and do well, don't embarrass me. That's why I came to the Internet conference this time dressed so formally. "
During the interview with reporters, both Zhou Xin and other Internet entrepreneurs were dressed casually. In such a cold winter in Yanjing, everyone usually wore a thin sweater when there was heating indoors. Only Robin wore a suit. Wearing leather shoes, like a leader who spoke at the opening ceremony of an Internet conference, reporters asked him why he was dressed so formally.
At this time, Zhou Xin was on vacation in Hawaii. He wanted to find a warmer place to stay and put aside the work at hand. As a result, he couldn't escape work while on vacation in Hawaii. Phoenix TV from Hong Kong sent a team to Hawaii to interview him.
I wanted to postpone this interview, but I couldn’t, because it came to me through Li Jingyi’s relationship. Li Jingyi said it would take up to two hours.
Zhou Xin thought that he didn’t have many friends in Hawaii, so it was like looking for someone to chat with for two hours.
"Mr. Zhou, I am very happy to interview you. I have always been a loyal fan of yours. From the earliest Quora to the current Mphone, I have been a loyal user of this series of products you designed."
Zhou Xin did not let their camera crew in, so they could only record in a casual manner. Unexpectedly, the male host who came to interview was still dressed in formal clothes, which was in sharp contrast to Zhou Xin who was lying on the beach chair. .
Zhou Xin said: "Hello."
The male host asked: "This year's World Internet Conference in China is your first absence from the Internet conference. There are rumors that it is because of the Hanxin incident that there is a gap between you and Yanjing. What do you think of this statement?"
Zhou Xin knew that the Xiangjiang media likes to stir up trouble, but he didn’t expect that their first question would be to stir up trouble: “There is no such thing. My cooperation with Yanjing has always been very pleasant. I don’t want to participate because I have participated in too many conferences.” , I want to give myself a holiday."
“Indeed, in the past two or three years, Mr. Zhou, you have gradually transformed from an iconic Internet entrepreneur in Silicon Valley to an electronic product entrepreneur.
When you first started out in Silicon Valley, the products you launched were novel Internet applications such as Riot Games Community, Riot Games Store, and Quora. In the past two years, you have focused more on electronic products and hardware. The launched Mphone has successfully exceeded 10 million units in global sales in the past two years.
Mobile phones have been redefined. At the same time, the Xiaomi computer launched in China at the end of last month was also very popular, making Chinese personal computer companies full of a sense of crisis. And it’s not like you haven’t launched Internet applications in the past two years, such as Weibo and Weibo.
I'm curious, what gave you the idea to try making electronic products? And after doing this, what do you think are the differences between the two entrepreneurial processes? "
The host did not keep asking about the Hanxin incident, because it was a rare opportunity for them to come to interview. Zhou Xin rarely appeared in public, and there were few opportunities to directly understand the other party's thoughts.
A more straightforward statement is that Phoenix TV did not want to offend Zhou Xin. It tested the other party's acceptance range from the first question, and then adjusted the interview strategy in time.
Zhou Xin said: “Compared with software, hardware is more interesting and has more room for development.
For example, Mphone has changed the habits of almost all users. Mphone users say that Mphone is not a mobile phone. When they use Mphone, making phone calls may only account for 5% of their usage time.
The difference is that for software I only need to manage the software development engineers, while for hardware I need to involve hundreds of upstream and downstream companies. It is more interesting but much more difficult. If you want to achieve the desired effect, It takes a lot of effort.
I want to add a new feature to Quora. I just need to communicate with the developers about what technology we will use and how to implement it. After we make it, we will test it internally and make adjustments until everyone thinks there is no problem before releasing it to Available online for everyone to use.
If there are problems or bugs, we can make adjustments at any time based on user feedback. But the hardware device is not good. There is no room for modification after it is launched.
At the same time, I can’t just do whatever I want. I need to consider whether the technology can achieve it. Everyone knows that the Mphone's typing effect is unique. The rebound and feedback it gives users are unmatched by any other mobile phone. This is because we have adopted specialized linear motor technology, and we have spent a lot of effort on the research and development of this technology.
Just to find a supplier that could achieve this effect, it took us half a year to find a machinery company in Neon that could make a linear motor with similar effects, and then communicated with them about how to put it into a mobile phone.
There are countless difficulties to overcome. But the final result still makes us very happy. The sales volume of 10 million units has far exceeded my expectations. "
The reason why the second generation Mphone has not been released is that there is indeed a lot of innovation and it takes a long time, and the other is that although Americen has already had 3G technology for a long time, the 3G network has not yet started construction.
Matrix has been communicating with Amerikan's telecom operators, hoping that they will at least build 3G networks in the Greater Bay Area first.
A&AT's 3G network construction has now begun, and it is expected that some places will start using it in the first quarter of next year.
The fastest ones are definitely San Francisco and Los Angeles, the two big cities in the Bay Area.
The host nodded frequently: "The Xiaomi computer you recently launched is also a classic product. We in Xiangjiang also hope to see Xiaomi computers enter the Xiangjiang market as soon as possible. Some of our colleagues even went to the Xiaomi offline store in Pengcheng to queue up to grab Xiaomi. computer.
This shows the great charm of Xiaomi. After the launch of Xiaomi, domestic chips have triggered heated discussions in domestic public opinion. Regarding the joint development of personal computer CPUs by Lenovo and Intel, and the joint development of personal computer CPUs by TCL and AMD, what do you think of this matter?
Will personal computer manufacturers enter the field of chip design? "
When Zhou Xin saw the joint research and development between Lenovo and Intel, he thought that Lenovo had changed its gender. You, a thick-eyed person like you, had started to engage in research and development?
Later, when he went to Xinxin Technology's R&D center in Silicon Valley, some R&D personnel who had switched jobs from Intel to Xinxin said that Lenovo was just a name.
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