Chapter 195 A man is thirty years old
Chapter 195 A man is thirty years old
Just as Chief Lu and General Manager Ren were talking on the phone, Kang Chi also received a call from Minister Yang of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
In the call, Minister Yang first highly praised Kang Chi’s contribution to the development of China’s semiconductor industry, but he lightly let go of the slightly rash supercomputing plan, only saying that it was a bit inappropriate, and then immediately shifted the topic to the Xuanyuan system.
“Old Lu just told me that you agree to sell the Xuanyuan system?”
”Well, in fact, a big reason why I proposed this plan is to build the Xuanyuan ecosystem. Since you are interested and willing to build this ecosystem, then I naturally have no objection.”
Minister Yang nodded and said, “Our current idea is to buy your system and the server in Pengcheng and use it as a laboratory for the redevelopment of the Xuanyuan system and the initial ecological construction. Is that okay?”
Kang Chi hesitated for a moment and said with some embarrassment: “But that server is used by us to provide Fuxi software services to Huawei and other domestic chip design companies…”
” Don’t worry about this. After we buy it, this system will be offline immediately. After it is offline, we will complete the development of the commercial version within two months, and then re-launch it on the Pengcheng server. At that time, we can continue to provide you with this software service. Anyway, it doesn’t take much computing power, and it can also help us test the stability of the commercial version of the system. ”
”But Huawei…”
”We will be responsible for negotiating compensation.”
”Then I have no problem.”
”Well, in terms of price, what is your approximate intention?”
Kang Chi silently calculated the account in his mind. Pengcheng server has invested nearly 200 million yuan.
As for the system, the value can be high or low.
For Kang Chi, most of its cost is the time to type the code himself and a few points of proficiency in parsing.
So this price is really not easy to calculate.
Thinking of this, Kang Chi was ready to kick the ball back to test it, so he said: “This happened too suddenly. To be honest, I really haven’t thought about buying Xuanyuan and how much it is worth… Can you tell me what your budget is?”
”About 8 billion…”
Kang Chi was immediately delighted after hearing this.
Writing code for a few days and making 8 billion directly?
In fact, Minister Yang is now representing Xuanyuan Technology, which is about to be established, to negotiate the price. To put it bluntly, the two sides are just normal business transactions. Kang Chi naturally wants to get as much as possible.
Therefore, Kang Chi did not agree to it directly, but pondered for a moment before speaking: “When David Cutler developed Windows NT, it cost about 150 million US dollars. If inflation is taken into account, it is estimated to be equivalent to 1.5 billion US dollars now, which is about 10.5 billion RMB.”
”But this is just their cost. If it is sold as a product, there should be a basic profit, right? Although the driver and ecology of our system are much worse than Windows NT, the kernel is much more perfect than theirs, so I think it is no problem to sell it for 20 billion.”
”20 billion!?”
Minister Yang’s eyebrows jumped after hearing this.
In fact, before the price negotiation, the military had already given 10 billion to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the shortfall would be made up by them.
But of course, it is better to spend the budget sparingly, so he opened the budget of 8 billion, and actually reserved 2 billion to give Kang Chi room for bargaining.
The purpose, of course, is to get free money from the military, and they can’t pay a penny.
Who knew that after Kang Chi’s analysis, he would directly ask for 20 billion.
Minister Yang couldn’t help but secretly call him an expert.
So the two sides had another round of price wrangling, and finally the price was negotiated to 18 billion, with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology providing 8 billion in advance.
”If there is no problem, we will hurry up and take down the Pengcheng server today, and then hand over the source code to the military.” Kang Chi nodded with a smile: “Yes, no problem!”
Although it took a lot of words, but these words are really worth a thousand gold.
Directly 10 billion more!
Kang Chi finally saw what it means to be rich and powerful.
But think about it, the military + the industrial information department, who has money if they don’t have money? I just don’t know, will they share the 18 billion equally or what…
Speaking of which, this seems to verify againThe words Kang Chi said to Cai Yaobin before.
Civilian technology and military technology have never been two completely unrelated fields. They may switch roles at any time in unexpected circumstances.
After the call ended, Kang Chi quickly explained the matter and returned home.
Last month, his parents were homesick and disappointed with their grandchildren, so they ran back to their hometown.
Kang Chi sat alone in the courtyard, staring at the swaying tree shadows in the wind.
To be honest, this incident has changed his concept a lot.
He used to think that competing with local Chinese companies would hit them and cause people to lose their jobs.
But this incident suddenly made him realize that he was actually a little bit worried.
For the country, they are not afraid of commercial struggles at all. The more intense the competition, the more they are happy to see it, so as to activate the commercial potential and R&D and manufacturing capabilities of each company.
What Kang Chi has been doing are relatively blank areas in China, because he always subconsciously avoids areas that have already been involved in domestic enterprises, thinking that it is protection for Chinese enterprises.
This has caused that the enterprises under Kang Chi have more or less monopoly characteristics.
Camera lenses, silicon wafer manufacturing equipment, photolithography machines, CMOS chips, oil extractors, and Dragon City Flying Generals…
Everything here, except for him, basically cannot be made by another company in China.
Although they are not global monopolies, at least in China, they have certain monopoly attributes.
But now, he realizes that even if there are already domestic companies doing things, he can still do it, even if it will cause some companies to go bankrupt, but from the perspective of improving the country’s comprehensive strength, it is a good thing.
After understanding this, Kang Chi suddenly felt much more relaxed.
Since competition is encouraged, there are more things he can do and want to do.
And he also figured it out. If this company went bankrupt, it must have been defeated by another company. Since he could defeat his opponent, he must be stronger than the opponent in general. If every industry is constantly updating and eliminating, and constantly getting stronger, wouldn’t the overall strength go up?
As long as the total economic volume is growing, society is creating new jobs, and he doesn’t have to worry about the unemployment rate at all.
Even if all the people in the factory are eliminated by machines in the future, new jobs will inevitably appear in society to give people something to do. Otherwise, who will use so much value and products created by machines?
It must be people.
In this case, let’s do it!
(End of this chapter)