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Chapter 412 Rich and Willful! (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

By the time sizable warehouse supermarkets began to appear in the chaotic towns of Eastern Europe, it was almost the middle of the year.

Wu Feng's attention was now focused on the computer software development company and hardware factory jointly established in Shenzhen Special Economic Zone and Hong Kong Island.

It's quite a sad story!
Wang Laboratories, which has dominated the United States for decades, is on the verge of collapse.

Whether there are other factors involved or not, there's no need to elaborate.

The drain on national strength caused by the Cold War is no joke.

The Ansar Group is on the verge of collapse and has had to open the door for a certain capital group to intervene in Hollywood and the media.

To put it simply, there were fundamental reasons why Hollywood entered its golden age in the 1990s.

The top people in the country have paid a huge price. As one of the most dazzling technology companies in the United States in recent decades, how could Wang Laboratories escape the fate of being harvested?
At that time, Microsoft, under the umbrella of Wang Laboratories, could only be considered a junior player compared to them.

Even if it has IBM's backing, doesn't Wang Laboratories have a solid backer after operating in the United States for so many years?
Its relationship with the US military is no joke.

Even if there were operational problems, the time from its peak to the current state of panic and impending bankruptcy is far too short. It's only been about five years.

In contrast, Fairchild Semiconductor, a more legendary company, struggled to survive until the 21st century before finally collapsing.

It's said, but it's just said.

In his previous life, Wu Feng read a business novel about rebirth in Hong Kong. It described how, when Wang An Company went bankrupt, its stock price remained above the issue price, at a very high and stable level.

Many of the company's board members were representatives of prominent American conglomerates. Yet, during Wang Laboratories' fall from its peak, these board members showed no sign of offering any assistance to help the company.

That doesn't really get to the point.

Nvidia, which was founded before it was even established, was also founded by Chinese people, but the two companies are not comparable.

Wang Laboratories has always been firmly controlled by Dr. An Wang.

Even if he is too ill to manage the company, he will hand it over to his son to manage, which is a typical family business model.

Regardless of the drawbacks of family businesses, at least they have control of the company.

Clearly, this does not align with the thinking of the American elite.

In particular, Wang Laboratories has the largest number of Chinese scientists and computer engineers in the United States.

To put it simply, at the height of his career, Wang An was a true leader in the American Chinese tech circle.

If he has political ambitions, he could easily run for a seat in the House of Representatives through the Chinese-American scientist community and the American Chinese-American elite community.

With Wang Laboratories at his disposal, and the strong support of numerous Chinese scientists, engineers, and elites, his power was probably greater than that of the family of the most famous female minister surnamed Zhao.

The key point is that his presence can even unite the hearts of Chinese Americans.

His title as the richest Chinese American for decades is no joke.

How could the ruling class and social structure of the United States allow such a system to continue indefinitely?
To put it bluntly, even if Wang An himself didn't have a serious illness, he probably wouldn't fare well once the Cold War was decided. Unless, of course, Wang An was willing to relinquish control of the company.

Like the later founders of Nvidia, they could simply be wealthy and still maintain a facade of wealth.

Wu Feng had anticipated this; when Wang Laboratories began to decline, headhunting firms came to poach Chinese scientists and engineers from the company.

They are not only familiar with computer hardware, but also have more experience in software development.

If you don't want to work in Hong Kong, then use the name of the American company to develop the various computer software that Wu Feng requires.

Also, there are devices related to research and development and computer software.

For example, commercially available laser printers.

These things are quite easy to study in the United States.

Patent licensing, independent research and development, and other aspects—senior scientists and computer engineers from Wang Laboratories have been able to gradually develop these technologies; they certainly have the capability.

If they are willing to work on Hong Kong Island, then they should set up a dedicated research company to develop new desktop computers based on Wang Laboratories' computers.

The computers developed by the research and development company are manufactured and assembled in specialized factories in mainland China, striving to achieve self-sufficiency in the production of various components for desktop computers.

Wang Laboratories already possessed the relevant technology and patents.

At this point, the company was clearly in decline, and it was not difficult for Wu Feng to purchase it under the name of the American company.

Similarly, with the help of Wang Laboratories' technology and researchers, Wu Feng easily established a corresponding research company and production plant.

Although most computer components need to be purchased from computer-related technology companies in the United States, it is not difficult to produce some patented components by ourselves.

Wang Laboratories' strength lies in its file processing systems, which were also fully inherited by the research company established by Wu Feng.

Developing a Chinese character document processing system in conjunction with the burgeoning Chinese character card market is not a particularly difficult task.

The now-famous Microsoft document processing system was modeled after Wang Laboratories' flagship product.

The thing that gained the approval of the American military and even received a large order for was far superior to the WPS document system that Kingsoft was developing at the time. It's just that this information is not obvious in later generations.

Wu Feng is rich and willful!
While manufacturing computers, he also used his network of contacts accumulated over the years to make appropriate adjustments to the newly localized document processing system according to the needs of various government agencies in mainland China, and then marketed it.

It's all about exploiting a time difference!

At this time, almost all European and American companies had withdrawn from the mainland, creating a window of opportunity for various technological products in the mainland, which he naturally wanted to seize.

He was curious to know what kind of expression Gai would have when Microsoft planned to enter the mainland market, given that Gai had already completely dominated the majority of the document system market in the mainland.
In fact, at this time no one took Wu Feng's computer factory seriously; they just thought it was Wu Feng's flashy way of following trends.

He naturally wouldn't make a fuss about it everywhere. Instead, he quietly established internal LANs within his many companies and enterprises, including factory groups in mainland China, to form a certain degree of networked operation and management.

Fortunately, the mainland has some technology in fiber optics, and Wu Feng was not afraid of spending money. He directly contacted relevant research institutions and manufacturing companies in the mainland to lay expensive optical cables in his own company.

(End of this chapter)