The richest man starts with a blind box

Chapter 155 Boss Huang's steps are a bit big [plus]

"Chairman, aren't you crazy!" Although Chen Shoufu wanted to ask this question, he still held the words in his throat.

A blind box seller and a software developer suddenly announced that he was going to build a server. The reason was that he couldn’t buy a server. With such a decision to jump wires, Chen Shoufu didn’t know how to complain, except for madmen. , and there seems to be no other argument.

But Chen Shoufu thought about it carefully. Looking at the history of our boss Huang’s fortune, it seems that he jumped from selling leather goods to selling blind boxes, and then from selling blind boxes to software. Every time he made a crazy decision. , but every time I step on the waves of the times, I still spread my wings vigorously and soar into the sky.

So it doesn't seem unthinkable that Boss Huang wants to build a server. After thinking about it again, it doesn't seem impossible at all.

"Chairman, what are you going to do? Do you have any ideas?" Chen Shoufu asked curiously.

"Well, I don't have any idea either!" Huang He shook his head, "My idea just came up when I was chatting with you, how can I have any idea?"

"Eh..." Chen Shoufu closed his mouth, he decided not to speak, otherwise Huang He would ask him what he thought.

"But it can't be said that I have no ideas at all. At least I know one thing clearly, that is, professional things should be left to professional people. Teacher Chen, I remember that you graduated from the computer department at university, and you have a good understanding of servers. He must be better than me, do you have any ideas?" Huang He laughed.

"Sure enough, even if I don't open my mouth, this matter has fallen on my head!" Chen Shoufu sighed inwardly, and then said, "Chairman, although he is indeed a computer student, he doesn't know much about servers, so he can't say he is a major. , you should find other more professional people!"

"Oh!" Huang He glanced at Chen Shoufu, then nodded and said, "Alright, then tell me, which one should I find who is more professional?"

"I can contact you with my teacher. He is the leader of the Computer Department of our University of Posts and Telecommunications. He has a lot of research on servers and chips. He is an absolute leader in the industry. He should be helpful to you!" Chen Shoufu immediately Pushed his teacher out to take the blame.

"Okay, let's find your teacher!" Huang He patted his thigh, but Chen Shoufu didn't pack anything, and was directly taken by Huang He to take the plane that night, and flew to BJ together with Leng Zhiwen who had just finished school.

Chen Shoufu's teacher was very enthusiastic. As soon as he received a call from Chen Shoufu, he heard that someone wanted to get involved in the server industry, so he very readily made an appointment the next day.

"If you want to build a server, it's easy and easy to say, but it's extremely difficult to say!" The first sentence of the meeting, the industry leader said very simply.

"I would like to hear the details!" Huang He lowered his head and said sincerely.

"It's easy to say, because the server only needs to get the design done, and the rest of the equipment can be bought in the market. If you want, you can directly assemble a server now.!"

"From a technical point of view, the server is achievable. I can even give you a set of design drawings for the server right now!" said the expert.

"Then what's the difficulty?" Huang He asked sincerely.

"The difficulty lies in the chip!" Dana sighed and said, "The server, to put it bluntly, is a platform for a large number of calculations and data interaction. There are not many requirements for software, but extremely high requirements for hardware, especially for computing chips. That is the requirements for the CPU. There is also the storage module, that is, the requirements for the hard disk, which are very high!"

"As we all know, our domestic chip industry is very weak, or it doesn't exist at all. All chips and storage devices need to be imported from foreign countries. If you want to make a server, it is the same as Shandong's Inspur. The domestic design structure, and then Import chips and storage units from abroad, and put them together in this way, and service companies will come out.”

"This process is very simple, you don't even need to look for me, I can just find a few students for you, and they can help you out!"

"If that's the case, then why is the quality of domestic servers so bad that they are so prone to problems?" Huang He asked curiously.

"First of all, it's because of the mismatch problem. Their chips were bought, and they don't know enough about the chips. It's as if we made a Chinese body and replaced it with a foreigner's heart. I can make do with it, but it is unrealistic to want to exercise vigorously, and the life span will not be very long."

"Then why can't we make the body more suitable?" Huang He asked puzzled.

"If you want to match a foreigner's heart, you must build a foreigner's body, that is to say, you must import a large number of foreign components so that it can perfectly match the chip."

"But if all these components are imported, the production cost will be higher than the import price of foreign products. Who will buy domestic servers? Therefore, all components that can be localized must be localized, but domestic technology varies If it is not aligned, the body will naturally be weak."

"In addition, domestic production management and requirements for quality really make me very ashamed. I can often find melted tin spots in some domestic servers, and sometimes even a few screws fall inside. .”

"This time our school bought a domestic server, and it burned as soon as it was turned on. It was later discovered that a screw was pressed on the back of the motherboard during assembly. As a result, the screw just connected two solder joints. It directly caused the entire motherboard to be short-circuited and burned."

"So that's how it is!" Huang He nodded with a wry smile. This master really wasn't the one who built it, he already understood the problem.

"Chairman Huang, I'm very happy that you have the ambition to be a server, because there are very few private entrepreneurs like you in our country who dare to challenge high-tech industries. I admire you!"

"But in the same way, I don't recommend you to get involved in this industry, because if you enter, you will either create another wave, or you will lose all your money. Such an ending is not a good ending no matter how you look at it!" Da Da Sighed.

"Professor, your words have benefited me a lot, but why do you think that what I finally took out will be the same as Inspur? Why can't I produce a server with qualified quality and a price more suitable for the Chinese market?" ?” Huang He said.

"It's very simple, it's on top of the two points I said!" Dana shook his head, "The core of the server, to put it bluntly, is on the chip. Unless you can design a chip yourself, and then build the entire server around this chip Platform, and at the same time strictly control the entire production process, otherwise you will still be a wave!"

"Also, even if it can be designed, manufacturing requires a lithography machine and packaging technology, which we don't have. We can only entrust other companies to manufacture it, which requires a lot of money!"

"A chip?" Huang He licked his lips. In fact, he didn't need to speak too much. He knew how incredible the chip industry is for China today.After all, in 2021, China will still be plagued by chips, and Huawei will also be stuck in the throat by chips. It is an insurmountable fact that the domestic chip industry is 20 years behind the international ones.

All this tells Huang He that now Huang He is going to make chips, and he is going to die.

Not to mention that Huang He's reason for making chips is so ridiculous, just to build servers for his company.

It is more realistic to buy foreign servers honestly.

"But Chairman Huang, if you really want to build a server, you can actually wait a little longer, maybe there will be changes next year!" Dana probably felt that Huang He was a little frustrated, so he added.

"Oh, what will change next year?" Huang He asked.

"It's actually like this. Don't we have the 863 plan in China? One of them is a special plan for chip scientific research, which is sponsored by the Ministry of Information Industry. It is said that it has entered the final stage of tackling key problems. Their person in charge said, Maybe next year we will be able to see their first-generation products coming out, although they can’t reach the top international level, they can reach the upper-middle level, at least it should be enough to make servers!” Dana said.

"There is such a thing!" Huang He suddenly showed a surprised expression on his face. It seems that what he saw on the Internet in his previous life was all fake. China has not completely given up chip research before 2020.

"Professor, who is the person in charge, and where are they doing research? I wonder if I can arrange them and learn more about the specific situation!" Huang He said impatiently.

"Oh, this is a very young talent named Chen Jin. He came back from the United States last year. He used to be an expert in IBM and Motorola. He joined Shanghai Jiaotong University this year and opened a special laboratory for large-scale chip DSP research. , if you are interested, you can go to Shanghai to find him, but I can at most give you a call to introduce him. Whether he is willing to meet you or not is his business. "Dana said, Huang He hurriedly thanked him, and wanted to leave some things before leaving, but they returned everything they didn't want.

"Chairman, don't you want to go right now..." Coming out of his teacher's house, seeing Huang He's eager expression, Chen Shoufu suddenly asked in panic.

"Old Chen, work hard, let's fly to Shanghai today, and we can meet this Professor Chen tomorrow!" Huang He said happily.

(End of this chapter)