"Boss Chen, let's go."
Two middle-aged men stood in the Zhongguancun VIA Electronics office building.
One of them was the CEO of VIA Electronics, Chen Wenqi, and the other was his good helper, the deputy general manager of VIA Electronics, Lin Zimo. However, the two of them were not as spirited as they were when they first came to Zhongguancun. Back then, they came from Taiwan to Zhongguancun and built an office building there. They hoped to take advantage of the opportunity in the Chinese market to compete with Intel.
Unfortunately, things did not go as they wished.
In the past few years, their chip business had been losing ground.
At that time, Chen Wenqi thought that it was because Intel monopolized and they were suppressing VIA Electronics.
But later, Chen Wenqi thought it through. It was not because Intel monopolized, but because many of their technologies were in the hands of Intel.
For example, their chipset business. Intel integrated the North Bridge chip into the CPU, and the VIA Electronics business went down the drain. And then again, VIA Electronics actually took advantage of Intel's mistakes to create VIA Electronics.
Now that Intel saw their growth, it was normal for them to suppress them.
However, even so, Chen Wenqi was not someone who would admit defeat easily.
The chipset business was suppressed by Intel, but they still had the CPU business.
Although the overall performance was not as good as Intel, VIA Electronics was more powerful than Intel in terms of energy consumption.
For this reason, they set their target market as the laptop market.
Also, for the laptop market, VIA Electronics introduced a CPU called "C3".
But while VIA Electronics was strong, Intel was stronger.
When VIA Electronics introduced the C3, Intel introduced an epoch-making technology last year, the Galvanic technology.
The Galvanic technology was not a processor, it was the brand name of a mobile computing technology introduced by Intel.
The technology included the 90nm Dothan core (2MB)
L2 cache, 533MHz
FSB) Pentium M processor, a new Aviso chipset, and a new wireless module Calexico2 (Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG or 2200BG WLAN module).
Once this technology was launched, it quickly became the benchmark of the notebook industry. VIA Electronics' C3 processor, it was directly overtaken.
Thus, VIA Electronics and Intel's PK dream was shattered.
VIA Electronics no longer had the strength to challenge Intel.
At the same time, the VIA Electronics branch in Zhongguancun also closed down.
"Zimo, what do you think we should do VIA in the future?"
Chen Wenqi looked at the words "VIA Electronics" that would be delisted in the future and sighed.
He recalled his ambition to compete with Intel in the past, but today, it had become a joke.
Normal people would not be able to understand this kind of disparity.
"Boss Chen, we …"
Lin Zimo opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.
Although Intel's suppression would not cause VIA Electronics to close down, VIA Electronics had become insignificant.
At most, they would pick some less important chipset business to do. However, if they wanted to change the landscape, influence the entire industry, or even compete with Intel, it would be a pipe dream.
"Boss Chen, victory and defeat are common. Let's go back and think about it, we will find a way."
This was obviously to comfort him.
Lin Zimo, who had a technical background, knew that in the future, fewer and fewer people would know about VIA Electronics.
Or in the next ten or twenty years, maybe no one would even hear of the name VIA Electronics.
"Zimo, don't comfort me, you know better than me about our current situation VIA Electronics."
Chen Wenqi smiled bitterly and said, "Zimo, how old are you now?"
"45, Boss Chen, what's wrong?"
"I'm three years older than you, 48 years old. I'll be 50 in two years. Should we retire?"
"Boss Chen, what are you thinking?"
"Okay, okay, I'm just kidding. If I retire at 50, I will die of loneliness."
Although the market was being beaten by Intel, VIA Electronics had its glory days.
And VIA Electronics was not dead yet.
"Oh yeah, is the person who wants to rent our building coming?"
"He said he will."
"Okay, let's wait for him."
Since the branch in Zhongguancun was going to be closed, they had to find another company to rent.
Normally, Chen Wenqi would not have the time to deal with this. He would leave it to the company.
However, he heard that the person who rented their office was also in the IT industry, and it was a young man in his twenties.
This made Chen Wenqi very curious about this young man.
Was it necessary to rent such a big office in his twenties?
After waiting for about ten minutes, the person Chen Wenqi wanted to meet arrived.
"I'm sorry to have kept you waiting for so long."
"Are you the person who wants to rent our office?"
"Yes, my surname is Chen, Boss Chen. We are from the same family."
The person who came was none other than Chen Yu.
When Chen Yu found out that Chen Wenqi was in Beibei, he rushed to Zhongguancun.
He thought that he would have to go to Taiwan to find Chen Wenqi.
It seemed that he was lucky to meet him in China.
"It seems that we are fated to meet."
Chen Wenqi shook hands with Chen Yu.
"Boss Chen, what are you going to do with this office building?"
"Laptop."
"Are you acting as an agent for a computer brand?"
"No, we are going to launch a new laptop. I call it a netbook."
"Netbook, what does that mean?"
"It's a laptop for ordinary users to chat online."
Chen Yu explained the concept of a netbook.
Both of them were experts in this field. When they heard this, Chen Wenqi and Lin Zimo were suddenly interested.
Chen Wenqi looked at Lin Zimo. Lin Zimo understood and said, "This netbook idea is very creative. Can you tell us more about it?"
"Of course."
Chen Yu nodded and continued, "It seems that our netbook is a notebook, but it is completely different from traditional notebooks. We are not going to install Microsoft's Windows operating system, because I think it is too expensive and too cumbersome. We are going to install a more streamlined and smoother Linux system. In addition, for the CPU, we also hope to find a smaller CPU with lower energy consumption. For example … "
Speaking of this, Chen Yu looked at Chen Wenqi and said, "For example, your company's C3 processor."
That's right.
What subleasing the office building VIA Electronics? Chen Yu was waiting for Chen Wenqi today.
"May I ask who you are?"
They looked at Chen Yu.
Chen Wenqi and Lin Zimo's hearts were turbulent.
They didn't expect that when they were in despair, a miracle suddenly appeared.
A young man in his twenties, however, had enlightened them and made them understand everything in an instant.
But when they looked at Chen Yu again, they knew.
The young man in his twenties in front of them was definitely not an ordinary tenant who subleased their office building.
"Let's get to know each other again."
Chen Yu stretched out his hand again. "CEO of Huanyu Technologies, Chen Yu."
With that, Chen Yu introduced himself again.
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