[I have something to do tomorrow, so I'll make up for it tomorrow.]
"Kid, are you really willing to spend 20 million US dollars to build a joint electronics laboratory?" Ni Guangnan looked at Jia Yapeng with bright eyes. The decadence and talent from every generation were all gone.
"To be precise …" Jia Yapeng smiled, "It's an initial investment of 20 million US dollars. In the next ten years, I plan to invest more than 2 billion US dollars in total to shorten the gap between Hua Xia's chip industry and that of foreign countries by only one generation. The plan is to catch up with foreign advanced standards in 15 years and surpass them in 20 years. We'll be one generation ahead of foreign countries and completely occupy the core computer technology! "
"You little lunatic, you dare to brag more than I do!" Ni Guangnan stared at Jia Yapeng and swallowed his saliva, "Are you really willing to invest 2 billion US dollars to research chips? Aren't you afraid that all your money will go to waste? "
"Money won't go to waste. If 2 billion US dollars isn't enough, then I'll invest 5 billion, 10 billion. I believe that as long as I spend enough money, I can catch up!" Jia Yapeng's eyes were full of determination.
"You can't be lying to an old man like me …" Ni Guangnan didn't believe it. He hesitated for a while and said, "You can't just be coaxing the teacher to be your signboard, right?"
"Hmph, I know you're also making computers. The computer your company produces is called Little Brainiac, right? I've seen it. It's just a pile of outdated junk. At most, it's an electronic toy. You actually call this thing a computer!" Ni Guangnan shook his head.
"Tell me honestly, are you trying to trick me to be your signboard so that your Little Brainiac can continue to sell? Even help you enter the government? "
At this point, Ni Guangnan's gaze turned solemn.
In fact, Ni Guangnan couldn't be blamed for saying that. After all, in this era, people like Liu Chuanzhi, who used to be in Ni Guangnan's eyes, were capable, skilled, and had dreams, had become people who only cared about chasing after benefits.
Now, a Jia Yapeng suddenly jumped out and said that he wanted to invest 20 million US dollars, or even several billion US dollars. If Ni Guangnan didn't know that Jia Yapeng had a company worth more than a billion US dollars behind him, Ni Guangnan would have already kicked him out as a lunatic.
How could there be a fool in the world who would be willing to invest money into such a bottomless pit?
In Ni Guangnan's eyes, Jia Yapeng probably wanted to use Ni Guangnan's reputation and his connections in the government to promote his simple learning machine.
In history, around 2003, there was indeed such a person. He claimed that he would invest a lot of money in Ni Guangnan's chip research and invited Ni Guangnan to join his company. He started to use his connections in the government to help his company develop. Simply put, he was selling computers to the ZF.
But in the end, Ni Guangnan found out that this was just an unscrupulous businessman who wanted to take the opportunity to enter the government market. After he gave a few million in research funds, he didn't invest a single cent in research. Ni Guangnan was once again fooled.
Since then, Ni Guangnan didn't trust anyone and disappeared from the news and cameras forever.
"Teacher, I know you don't believe me. Let's not talk about anything else. As long as you come to my place, I'll give you the 20 million US dollars check on the spot. You can make all the decisions. You can buy whatever experiment equipment you want!" Jia Yapeng said.
"Really?" Ni Guangnan still didn't believe it.
"Teacher, this is a 20 million US Swiss bank check. I'll give it to you now. You should believe me now!" Boss Jia placed the 20 million US dollars check in front of Ni Guangnan.
Ni Guangnan wasn't someone who hadn't seen the world. He had stayed abroad for more than ten years, so he knew a little about Swiss bank checks. He just glanced at it and knew that this check was definitely not fake. There was really 20 million US dollars in it that could be withdrawn.
"Child!" Ni Guangnan changed the way he addressed Jia Yapeng. "Can you tell me why you're willing to do such a thankless thing?"
Ni Guangnan stared at Jia Yapeng. He wanted to see through all the changes in his expression and figure out what his true intentions were.
"Teacher, if I say it's for the sake of the country and the future of the nation, you might not believe me. To be honest, I don't really believe it either!" Jia Yapeng laughed heartily. "Then I'll be honest with you. It's because I think that no matter how much money you invest, even if it costs a few hundred billion US dollars in the end, it doesn't matter because it'll be earned back sooner or later!"
"What you said to me the other day was right. Computers are the fourth industrial revolution, and the climax of the fourth industrial revolution is mobile phones, artificial intelligence, and big data networks. These are three industries that can bring in trillions of US dollars. As long as you can help me develop the things I want, I'll be able to earn back the money from you sooner or later!"
"And when that time comes, I won't just be earning money. I'll be the uncrowned king of the world!" When Jia Yapeng said the words' uncrowned king ', his eyes sparkled with ambition and brilliance, which made Ni Guangnan feel a bit blinded.
At this moment, Ni Guangnan realized that he had underestimated this cheap student of his. This cheap student of his wasn't just thinking about Liu Zhang and Zhang Lu, he was thinking about conquering the world, Qin Huang and Han Wu!
Wait, what does big data mean? What's with mobile phones? I've never heard of it!
"If I agree to help you, what do you plan to do? What research do you want to do first? What research do you want to do? "Ni Guangnan suddenly asked.
"How you want to do the research is up to you. I won't interfere. I'll only be responsible for the money!" Jia Yapeng laughed.
"Don't make it sound so nice. Otherwise, I'll really do what you said today. If I don't develop the world's leading chip, I'll just spend money and not give you any results. Don't hate me then!" Ni Guangnan laughed.
"Alright. Actually, there are still some things that I hope teacher can help me solve as soon as possible!" Jia Yapeng laughed. Then, he took out a mobile phone from his backpack and placed it on the table.
"Are you showing off in front of me with this thing?" Ni Guangnan glared at Jia Yapeng.
"No, I just want teacher to think about how to shrink this mobile phone to only … only …" Jia Yapeng searched Ni Guangnan's house for a long time. Finally, he picked up a long potato from the kitchen. He held it in his hands and said, "About this big."
After Jia Yapeng finished speaking, he looked at Ni Guangnan expectantly.
Jia Yapeng had asked Zhong Yu and the others to think about the same problem. In the end, they said that they couldn't figure out such a thing in their lifetime. Therefore, Jia Yapeng felt that if it was Ni Guangnan, it might take four to five years, or even two to three years to shrink the mobile phone to the size of a mobile phone.
However, Jia Yapeng felt that it was enough. After all, mobile phones only started to appear in the Hua Xia market in 1997. If they couldn't produce mobile phones before 1997, Boss Jia would have the ability to compete with other foreign mobile phone brands that entered the Hua Xia market. It wouldn't be dominated by Nokia in the future.
"Oh!" Ni Guangnan nodded. He pondered for a while and then said, "Do you plan to use imported parts for manufacturing, or do you plan to make most of the parts domestically?"
"What if all the parts are imported?" Jia Yapeng asked softly.
"Then I'll give you a prototype in three months' time! If it's mass production, it'll take about a year. That thing actually doesn't have much advanced technology. It's not difficult to miniaturize it. It's just that the cost is too high, and no one can afford it. "Ni Guangnan said calmly. Boss Jia was so shocked that he almost fell to the ground.
"What if it's made in the whole country?" Boss Jia asked again.
"That depends on how much money you're willing to spend. If you're willing to give me 100 million USD to buy various kinds of experimental equipment, and then spend 200 to 300 million USD to build a production line, then I think we can achieve the goal of making 90% of the parts domestically in two years at the earliest!" Ni Guangnan nodded and said, "That's about it. Actually, Huawei has a lot of good technologies. If you can persuade Huawei to share some of their technologies or patents with you, then the time frame can be shortened!"
"Oh right, you have to hurry up and register some of the domestic patents. According to me, the guys from Motorola and Nokia haven't registered their patents in China yet. You have to hurry up, or you'll have to pay a lot of patent fees to those bastards in the future."
Hearing Ni Guangnan's words, Boss Jia knelt down on the spot. It seemed that he was right to be Academician Ni's lackey!
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