The unparalleled talent of the country started from Harbin Institute of Technology

Chapter 192: She Wants to Improve Too Much (More Updates, Please Subscribe)
On November 15, 1981, at Bingcheng Railway Station, Zheng Baoyin and Wang Jianchao returned with large and small bags.

As soon as they walked out of the train station, Ge Laosan and his men stopped the two of them.

"Hey, Boss Zheng and Boss Wang have made a fortune! I almost didn't recognize you when you put on your suits."

Zheng Baoyin and Wang Jianchao did put on suits, looking very respectable, like nouveau riche.

But it is already mid-November, and the weather here in Ice City is very cold. Rich people all wear mink clothes, so who would be so stupid as to wear a suit?

"It's Third Master. Long time no see, Third Master. We both have things to do today, so I won't chat with you anymore. We'll treat you to dinner another day."

After saying that, Zheng Baoyin and the other person walked out with bags in their hands, smiling.

Ge Laosan did not continue to stop them. After all, Zheng Baoyin and the others were not without backers.

However, seeing that Zheng Baoyin and others had become rich, Ge Laosan became excited and wanted to know urgently how they made their fortune.

Harbin Institute of Technology, teachers' villa complex, Wang Duoyu's home.

A few days ago, Wang Duoyu picked a so-called "auspicious day" and moved into the villa.

This villa is located on the campus of Harbin Institute of Technology. In the past, it was outside the campus, but now it is on the campus. Because the campus of Harbin Institute of Technology has expanded, the teachers' villas are now all on the campus.

After moving here, Wang Duoyu has to ride a bicycle to go to the mathematics department building, otherwise it will take more than ten minutes to walk.

However, the teaching building of the Department of Mathematics will also be relocated, because the Department of Mathematics has a total of nine majors, and this year is only the first year, so there are not many new students.

But in a few years, if there are many new students, each major will only need two classes, and the current classrooms in the teaching building will definitely not be enough, so we have to relocate.

The new teaching building is already in the planning stage and construction will begin after the ground thaws in the spring and summer of next year.

When Zheng Baoyin and Wang Jianchao returned to Wang Duoyu's house, they were both amazed to see how grand and beautiful the villa was.

This is the real home.

"I want to build a beautiful little house like this in the future."

"You're wrong, this is not a cottage, this is a villa"

While the two were talking, they had already walked into the villa. They only saw Wang Duoyu, Wang Meihe, Zheng Baodong and the little guy Wang Junhong, but did not see Wang Meili.

After asking, they found out that Wang Meili was out on a date, and Zheng Baoyin and the other man immediately gave each other an ambiguous and evil smile.

Last month, Wang Duoyu asked Wu Congqin and his wife for help, and he actually found an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering named Lu Qingsong, who was tall, handsome, and unmarried.

Although Lu Qingsong only earns a level 13 assistant teacher salary of 53 yuan per month, this is still higher than Wang Meili's.

After the two met, they went on two dates. Today they went to the movies, so they didn't eat at home.

At the dinner table, Wang Duoyu listened to Zheng Baoyin and the other man talking about their business in the south over the past period of time.

In fact, they did send a telegram back, but it was not very clear.

Therefore, Zheng Baoyin and the others were still very anxious about communication. After all, telegraph communication was expensive, a bit slow, and not very timely.

"Starting next year, Harbin Institute of Technology's Huaxin Company will launch public telephones and phone cards. Then you can call back anytime from Baiyun City, Beijing, Shanghai, and other places."

Hearing Wang Duoyu's words, Zheng Baoyin and the others were overjoyed.

This is indeed good news.

If Huaxin Company really launches public telephones and phone cards, then it will be much easier to contact Wang Duoyu at that time.

For business people, it is quite uncomfortable to not have smooth and convenient means of communication, because it all involves money.

"Uncle Jiu, can we sell this kind of phone card?"

Suddenly, Wang Jianchao asked a question, but Zheng Baoyin pulled him back:
"What nonsense are you talking about? This is Huaxin's business. Do you have the nerve to do that?"

Wang Duoyu looked at the two of them with a smile on his face, as they sang the same tune. He guessed what they were thinking at once.

But they all guessed wrong. The phone card business could indeed be handed over to them, but it was hard to say whether they could do it well.

"Uncle Jiu, is that true? Can you let us sell it?"

Hearing Wang Duoyu's words, Zheng Baoyin and others were very happy.

"Don't be too excited. This business requires salespeople to promote it. However, the current telephone service market is not large. Even if you enter this market, you may not be able to make money."

"But being able to sell phone cards is a good thing for you. In short, if you're willing to take over this business, it's naturally a very good thing, but don't dream of making a fortune."

Zheng Baoyin and his friend were very content. As long as they could make money, it was a good thing.

As for how much they earn, it doesn’t matter much to them.

After chatting, Wang Duoyu brought up other topics:

"By the way, you can go to the south and ask around to see if there are any watch factories, especially those that aren't doing very well. If there are any, you can talk to them and consider acquiring one."

Watch factory?
Acquisition?

Everyone at the dinner table looked at each other in confusion. Isn't this a big jump in topic?
Zheng Baoyin and Wang Jianchao looked at each other and saw the shock in each other's eyes.

While they were still rejoicing about earning more than a thousand yuan every half a month, their ninth uncle had already set his sights on the watch factory.

Wow, this is really awesome!

Why did Wang Duoyu do this?

In fact, it was not just Liu Deben’s reaction to the last patent infringement case of Huashun Company, but also Liu Deben’s previous rejection of Wang Duoyu’s domestic layout.

In today's era of economic reform and opening-up policies, going into business is not something difficult to accept.

Although Wang Duoyu will not go into business himself, there are so many relatives in the Wang family that it is not a problem to train a few people.

Moreover, Wang Duoyu would not pin all his hopes on others. He still remembered very clearly the investment principle that one should not put all his eggs in one basket.

Therefore, he asked Zheng Baoyin and Wang Jianchao to help investigate matters concerning the watch and clock factories and make arrangements in advance. In his opinion, this was just a small matter.

"If you do well, then in the future you may be able to stand at a higher place and enjoy the scenery. Then when you look back at the present, you will definitely be very grateful for your current choice."

After hearing Wang Duoyu's words, Zheng Baoyin and the others nodded seriously.

"By the way, when you go home from now on, don't wear these suits. Suits are for when you're out doing business. When you're home, just wear whatever's comfortable for you."

"Okay, Uncle Nine!"

The meal lasted nearly two hours, and only after we finished chatting were we allowed to drink.

They stayed overnight in the villa because there were four guest rooms in the villa, which was definitely enough for the two of them.

In front of the court in California, USA, Seagate executive Cord Mack and marketing director Jim Burton represented Seagate and negotiated with Huashun Company: an out-of-court settlement!
Seagate has given in and hopes to reach an agreement before the trial, rather than going through a court ruling.

Over the past month or so, Seagate's product sales have plummeted. During such a long period of time, they have only sold a few hundred ST506 hard drives.

Before that, their monthly sales were thousands of yuan.

Based on the price of their ST506 hard drives at US$1500 per unit, and monthly sales of thousands of units, that would mean revenue of over one to two million dollars.

But now all that is gone.

If even their own ST506 suffered heavy losses, Seagate would be completely finished.

Out-of-court settlement is a good thing, and Huashun Company is naturally willing to do so, but Seagate is not very sincere. They are only willing to use the profits of ST699 as compensation, and the rest is just an apology.

Even Seagate's Jim Burton threatened:
"Even if the court rules, you won't get any compensation because Seagate has no money left and will file for bankruptcy."

In the United States, there is a bankruptcy protection law. If Seagate really files for bankruptcy protection, it is really hard to say what will happen.

Jim Burton must be one of the shareholders, otherwise he would not have said such a thing.

When the people from Jones Day heard this, their faces suddenly changed.

The capital in the United States really does everything it can.

Fortunately, Huashun Company's purpose is to make an example of someone, so it doesn't matter whether Seagate can pay compensation or goes bankrupt. In short, everyone must know that Huashun Company is not to be messed with.

Therefore, the company was declared bankrupt through out-of-court settlement and now we are waiting for the court’s ruling.

The evidence was conclusive, and Seagate's defense lawyer was no match for Jones Day, so the court made a lightning-fast verdict.

The judgment has been issued and will be executed within a certain period of time. Seagate's public bank accounts will also be frozen.

But it is of little use, because those shareholders had already received dividends half a year ago, and the funds in the account are only tens of millions of US dollars.

This amount of money was barely enough to pay the commission from Jones Day.

In the leadership meeting room of Harbin Institute of Technology, Wang Duoyu also attended this meeting.

When Wang Duoyu learned about the North American court's judgment and the situation of Seagate, he couldn't help but frown.

These American capitalists are really good at escaping.

The executives of Seagate are also idiots. They actually allowed these shareholders to manipulate the company at will and treat them as pawns.

Ugh!
The matter is done and there is no better outcome for this matter. At the very least, the whole United States knows about Huashun Company.

"Secretary, Principal, I suggest we launch new memory products immediately to strike while the iron is hot."

Now that Seagate has gone bankrupt, the matter ends here.

But we can't really stop here. Huashun Company should take advantage of this opportunity to launch new products. With the current favorable conditions, it should be able to achieve good results.

I should be able to make a lot of money before the Spring Festival, right?

"New product?"

Liu Deben and others looked at each other in confusion and started talking.

At the beginning of last month, during the National Day holiday, the memory project developed the first memory hard drive.

This is a 125-inch standard hard drive with a design capacity of 3MB and a transfer speed of MB/s, but its biggest highlight is its volume and size, which have been greatly reduced, making this hard drive very suitable for laptops and compact desktops.

However, this product only came out of the laboratory at the end of October. The production line is still being optimized and the workers are still being trained. Isn’t it a bit too hasty to launch this product at this time?

Everyone discussed it and expressed their concerns, but Wang Duoyu insisted on his opinion:

"Hua Shun Company should press on with their victory. Otherwise, all our efforts will be in vain. Is it just for fame? We can't even make back a single dollar. This is simply unacceptable."

"This HS213 hard drive is a market favorite. It's the perfect way to grab market share from the IBM 3380."

After Wang Duoyu finished speaking, everyone seemed to be interested, but they were still a little worried about the production quality.

However, since the production line is already being optimized and the workers have been trained for a period of time, it is time to start the machines and begin production.

Practice is the only criterion for testing truth!
Whether it works or not, whether there will be any problems, we can only know the result after the experiment, there is no need to worry so much in advance.

Those who are afraid of wolves in front and tigers behind will never accomplish anything.

Therefore, after the meeting vote, the HS213 hard drive product was officially approved and the marketing plan was officially launched.

By the time Wang Duoyu walked out of the meeting room, it was snowing heavily outside.

The entire campus is covered in white. If you walk on the road at this time, the snow will definitely be above your calves.

In late November, heavy snow has arrived in the ice city.

Seeing the heavy snow, Wu Congxin, who was following Wang Duoyu, smiled and said:
"Duoyu, you have the foresight to do this. If you hadn't insisted on building this warm corridor last year, I'm afraid we would all be in the cold now."

Zuo Yuhe, Xi Guangan, Cai Jiahang and others also smiled and echoed their agreement.

The construction of warm corridors seems unnecessary and a waste of money. Now everyone is still very poor. It is a waste to spend money on these places instead of spending it on the right things.

This is how I got through the years. I just shivered through the winter and it would pass by just by enduring.

But now it seems that this warm corridor is really great.

Wang Duoyu just smiled and did not expose their inaction during the meeting, as if it was the same meeting that had just passed.

The HS213 hard drive is obviously very good, and the production line and worker training are almost completed, so it is appropriate to launch it on the market now.

But they were all afraid of taking responsibility and were hesitant.

Forget it, there's nothing much to say. The meeting resolution has been passed anyway, so there's no point in talking about it anymore.

Back in his office in the mathematics department building, Wang Duoyu continued to prove the strong solution of the Navier-Stokes equation. As for the honeycomb conjecture, he had put it aside.

The paper has already been written, but he has no intention of publishing it.

The key theory to prove the honeycomb conjecture is the "isoperimetric" estimation of perimeter and area. Wang Duoyu verified this conjecture based on the mathematical tool of finite cluster reduction.

After deriving the reduction of this finite cluster, the rest becomes much simpler.

It took him a whole month to verify this conjecture, which is considered a relatively difficult math problem.

When he founded the computational fluid dynamics simulation software project, he had already thought about the topic of the honeycomb conjecture, because it was all related to polyhedral meshes.

As we all know, the essence of numerical simulation is to solve equations, that is, to use numerical methods to solve the control equations of the fluid in the time dimension and space dimension.

The main idea is to divide the continuous calculation area into sufficiently small calculation units, apply the fluid control equation to each unit, and then obtain the distribution of physical quantities in the entire calculation area.

The essence of this division is discretization, its carrier is the grid, and the process is grid division.

Discreteness includes two dimensions: one is time discretization: time-varying partial differential equations and steady partial differential equations; the other is spatial discretization: finite difference method, finite volume method, etc.

Whether it is a structured grid or an unstructured grid, these are all related to triangular or tetrahedral, polygonal or polyhedral grids, and the honeycomb conjecture involves these.

Therefore, after Wang Duoyu verified the honeycomb conjecture, this honeycomb theorem and its generalization have direct applications in optimizing space, physical structure and material waste, such as in architecture.

After proving the honeycomb conjecture, Wang Duoyu came up with many more ideas in the process of deriving the strong solution to the Navier-Stokes equations. However, these ideas still required a lot of calculations and verification after the derivation was completed.

Especially experimental verification is not such a simple task for Wang Duoyu.

As a result, in addition to asking Lin Dehong to obtain relevant experimental data for verification and deduction, he has also started the design work of the aircraft.

why?
Because he wanted to derive a strong solution to the Navier-Stokes equations, he had to have a large amount of experimental data to verify the derivation, and he also needed powerful computer technology to complete some simulation or calculation work.

This powerful computer technology includes both hardware and software levels, which means that he either has to wait and see or do it himself.

He had two ways of doing things himself. One was to personally promote the technological development of computer software and hardware, and the other was to rely on his own brain to calculate and deduce.

However, the amount of calculation required for this thing is very huge. Even if Wang Duoyu wants to deduce it completely, it will take a lot of time and energy. So his plan is to advance in all directions!
Computer technology needs to be developed, aircraft need to be designed, and money needs to be made.

Moreover, making money is not just about promoting the profitability of companies like Huashun Company, but also about making money for himself. He wants to expand his voice as much as possible.

In fact, Wang Duoyu really dislikes meetings like today's.

It's not just a waste of time, it's a waste of his life.

Wang Duoyu knew very well that Liu Deben and his colleagues were leaders and their thoughts were all about seeking stability.

But Wang Duoyu didn't think about it. He just needed to show his determination to fight to the death. With our current financial situation, what is there to be afraid of?
Before the Korean War broke out, we were not afraid and we were still all in, right?
Now you are restricted?
It makes absolutely no sense!

However, Wang Duoyu no longer has so many ideas now. If those meetings can be avoided, he will try not to attend them.

Let Wu Congxin attend more of these meetings, and then summarize and condense the content of the meetings.

As for the opinions of Liu Deben and other school leaders, Wang Duoyu didn't care much.

We are all here to build a good Harbin Institute of Technology. This starting point is not wrong, and we just need to work together.

By the end of November, 213 HS hard drives had been produced, of which were directly requisitioned.

Wang Duoyu wants it!
No one dared to say anything because Wang Duoyu was going to take it away. Even if others had objections, they would only mutter a few words behind his back, but would never dare to say it in front of Wang Duoyu.

Although the memory hard disk technology was developed by project team members such as Zuo Yuhe, Xi Guangan, and Cai Jiahang, the investment, project planning, and technical guidance of the entire project were established with the support of Wang Duoyu.

So he wants a thousand hard drives, who dares to say anything?
After these one thousand hard drives were taken away, they were all used in Wang Duoyu's office to directly transform the computer in his office.

"125MB is a bit less, but it's okay."

After completing the assembly, Wang Duoyu tried to run the new computer program and curled his lips. Although he was not very satisfied, there was nothing he could do.

There are no extra talents at the moment, otherwise Wang Duoyu would continue to set up relevant scientific research projects to develop computers.

It’s almost December, and I don’t know if the lithography machine can make any progress. Oh, it’s really worrying!
At this moment, Wang Duoyu really wished he could do it himself.

"Professor Wang, these are the papers that have recently been reviewed by our Harbin Institute of Technology Mathematics Journal. There are six of them in total. Please help review them when you have time."

Just at this moment, someone came to the door. It was Yang Xiuhua, a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics.

After the departments were split, Yang Xiuhua stayed in the Department of Mathematics and was also responsible for the related work of the "HIT Mathematical Journal".

The work for this journal is actually not that difficult, as there are not many papers submitted at the moment.

Even though Wang Duoyu was in charge personally, not many people came to submit their works.

The main reason is that the difficulty level of this journal is too high. Many people are aware of the difficulty and naturally dare not submit articles.

People like Zhu Hanting, Rong Guangxia, and Xue Xiaoling do submit papers, but they have had their papers rejected several times and failed at the final review stage, so they have no choice but to keep working hard.

As for those papers that have been rejected, they can only be resubmitted to other journals such as "Science China Mathematics".

"Okay, put it over there."

Wang Duoyu nodded. Seeing that he was busy and had no intention of coming out to receive her, Yang Xiuhua took the initiative to say goodbye first.

Half an hour later, Wang Duoyu finally finished his work and came to the reception area to pick up the five papers.

The third and fourth issues both contained his own papers, making the "HIT Mathematical Journal" seem like his own personal performance show.

It's really boring.

After sitting down and flipping through the pages for a while, Wang Duoyu suddenly smiled.

It turned out that among the papers submitted this time, William Thurston and Andrew Wiles each submitted a paper of very strong quality.

These two veterans spent more than half a year in the Harbin Institute of Technology seminar and finally achieved some results.

Continuing to flip through the pages, Wang Duoyu found that Gerd Faltings had also written a paper, which made him even happier.

There are three articles left, two of which are written by Rong Guangxia and Zhu Hanting, and the last one is written by Jian Xianglan.

When Wang Duoyu saw the name Jian Xianglan, he was still surprised.

He had almost forgotten about this old classmate, but wasn't she staying at Princeton University? When did she return home?

To be honest, Wang Duoyu had never really paid much attention to Jian Xianglan, because she had been very arrogant since she entered school in 1977 or 1978.

But Wang Duoyu has always been outside the circle of classmates. At most, he has more contact with dormitory 303, but he has very little contact with other classmates such as Jian Xianglan, Xue Xiaoling, and Dai Yian.

Of course, Xue Xiaoling woke up later. She wanted to improve so much that Wang Duoyu had more contact with her.

After reading these six papers, Wang Duoyu unexpectedly discovered that the quality of these six papers was very high.

Although it is not as good as his previous paper on Mathieu's moonlight conjecture, it is not far behind.

"Forget it, since that's the case, let's just send them all at once."

After making the decision, Wang Duoyu wrote down his opinion, then picked up the phone and notified Yang Xiuhua to come and pick up the manuscript.

A few minutes later, Yang Xiuhua came over.

"Professor Wang, I'm here to pick up my paper."

"Well, all six papers have been approved and can be published. Let's just publish these six papers in the fifth issue. By the way, is Jian Xianglan at Harbin Institute of Technology?"

Hearing Wang Duoyu's question, Yang Xiuhua was stunned and shocked. First, all six papers were approved? Second, Wang Duoyu actually asked about Jian Xianglan?
As far as I can remember, Jian Xianglan was a student in Mathematics Class 1 and was a classmate of Wang Duoyu.

I entered school in 1977 or 1978, and this year I am already a senior. I will officially graduate from university in June or July next year.

In October, Jian Xianglan returned to Harbin Institute of Technology and did not stay in the United States.

"Yes, Professor Wang, Jian Xianglan attended your lecture in October and has stayed at Harbin Institute of Technology since then. She is currently in Mathematics Class 1."

"Okay, I understand, go ahead and do your work."

Wang Duoyu nodded and then ignored the matter.

It's a good thing that those outstanding students who ran away were able to "repent and turn back" and now come back to Harbin Institute of Technology.

Although Jian Xianglan is far behind Xue Xiaoling, she still has a good talent for mathematics. Not long after returning, she was able to submit such a high-quality paper, which shows that she is also very hardworking and serious in the United States.

The Harbin Institute of Technology today is no longer the Harbin Institute of Technology of a few years ago.

Today, the Department of Mathematics at Harbin Institute of Technology has been established, and there is a foreign visiting scholar exchange group of nearly 200 people, and the seminars are still in place.

Wang Duoyu even believes that after the publication of this issue of "HIT Mathematical Journal", it may cause a sensation in the global mathematics community.

The publication of six high-quality papers, three by foreigners and three by Chinese, seemed evenly matched, but in fact, it was not the case. Harbin Institute of Technology won all the awards.

Rong Guangxia is a student who has never studied abroad. Although Zhu Hanting also has study abroad experience at Princeton University, it has been more than a year since he returned to Harbin Institute of Technology.

So to be precise, Zhu Hanting may have learned some knowledge during his time at Princeton University, but not much.

Since returning to China in July last year, I have published more than five papers, but none of them meet the standards of world-class journals. Now I finally have a paper that can be published in the "Harbin Institute of Technology Mathematical Journal".

It can be considered a blessing after all the hardships.

Then this must be the teaching result of Harbin Institute of Technology, not the result of Princeton University.

Jian Xianglan's contribution was half to Princeton University and half to Harbin Institute of Technology. Of course, you have to ask her to decide who made the greater contribution.

Regardless, Harbin Institute of Technology now has six scholars who can publish papers in world-class journals, which is still very impressive.

The only unpleasant thing is that top scholars from other places are still reluctant to submit their papers to the Harbin Institute of Technology Mathematical Journal.

However, Wang Duoyu is also very satisfied. After all, there are two hundred members of foreign visiting scholar exchange groups staying at Harbin Institute of Technology.

As long as Wang Duoyu does not leave Harbin Institute of Technology, it will definitely continue to attract more people to stay in Harbin Institute of Technology in the future.

Then it is just a matter of time before Harbin Institute of Technology becomes a domestic mathematics center, or even a new world mathematics center.

Logically speaking, Wang Duoyu should strike while the iron is hot and take the opportunity to publish the paper proving the honeycomb conjecture. This will definitely attract more people to Harbin Institute of Technology.

But he didn't do that.

For many things, too much is as bad as too little!
He also didn't want to provoke the nerves of the US National Security Agency, and even more so, he didn't want to see the Polar Bear Empire send KGB agents to Harbin Institute of Technology to cause trouble.

It's good to maintain the current peaceful situation.

In Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, California, USA, an HS213 hard drive quietly appeared on the market.

IBM's marketing director, Lawrence Hawkins, soon got wind of the situation and immediately bought five HS213 hard drives and brought them back to the company's headquarters in Armonk, New York.

"Sebastian, please help me take it apart and take a look at it. Test this product. This is the latest product from Huashun Company."

Sebastian Taylor is the head of technology at IBM. When he heard the news, his expression instantly became serious.

Huashun Company is IBM's number one enemy, and the company's storage products are indeed very powerful.

When Seagate was involved in a patent infringement incident, IBM applauded because IBM easily benefited from the conflict between the two companies.

As a result, Seagate was unexpectedly vulnerable and was quickly defeated by Huashun Company. Now it is completely bankrupt.

However, Huashun Company is now becoming more and more powerful, and has even taken the opportunity to launch new products.

Invincible!

While Sebastian was still conducting the test, Lawrence Hawkins had already requested an executive meeting, and Robert Herman, Brent Preston, Klaus Carlton and other executives had already arrived at the meeting room.

"Everyone, this is the latest product from Huashun Company. According to their product promotion, this HS213 hard drive has a storage capacity of 125MB and a transfer speed of 3MB/s."

"And this product is priced at $4999, which is very cheap... As soon as it was released, the market was crazy about it. I paid % more from other agents to successfully purchase it."

"According to the information I have found, hundreds of companies have already ordered this product because it is so cheap."

When everyone in the conference room heard this, they were so surprised that they couldn't close their mouths.

so horrible!

The price of $4999 for an HS213 hard drive is a dimensionality reduction blow to IBM.

Because their IBM 3380 cost US dollars, when Huashun Company launched the optical disk storage, they were still able to stand firm and continue to insist on this price.

But now Huashun Company has launched the same hard disk product, and the storage capacity is as high as 125MB. The most important thing is that the transmission speed can reach 3MB/s. These two data are enough to prove the excellent quality of the product.

Coupled with the price of $4999, it is really a great deal for many consumers!
After all, the price of purchasing ten HS213 hard drives is only US$49999, but the memory capacity can reach 1250MB.

Of course, it cannot be calculated so simply.

The storage capacity of IBM3380 is 1GB, but not all of it can actually be used.

However, the HS213 hard drive can store more than 124MB of data, and for many consumers, the price of 4999 is the most suitable choice.

After all, many people don't need such a large storage capacity at this time.

For consumers, having more choices is a great thing, because not everyone can afford $40,000.

Although IBM also has other products, such as the IBM 3340 hard drive, also known as the Winchester hard drive, which has two 30MB storage units.

There is also the IBM3370, which uses thin-film head technology, which can not only significantly reduce the distance between the head and the disk, further reducing the size of the hard disk, but also increase the storage density and improve the hard disk capacity, and can store up to 571MB of data.

But these are either products from many years ago or very expensive.

For example, the price of the 3370 model reached 506 US dollars. Even under the impact of Huashun's optical disk storage and Seagate's ST3370 products, the price of did not drop.

But now, IBM has no choice.

"It seems that we need to adjust our development strategy in the memory business segment, and the most important thing is our pricing."

Vice President Brent Preston said solemnly, and his words were agreed by everyone present.

An hour and a half later, after an intense discussion, IBM executives came up with a fresh strategy for adjusting the storage business segment.

First, the IBM 3340 was the first to be reduced in price, from the original US$5000 to the current US$1600. The second was the 3370 product, which dropped from US$3380 to US$. The product was also reduced to US$.

By the time IBM's price reduction strategy came out, it was already December, and the New York Stock Exchange had already responded in advance.

IBM's stock price plummeted three percentage points.

At the same time, the memory market also responded. No one felt that 3340 or 3370 was that attractive because Huashun Company's price cuts were faster and more drastic.

When IBM announced the price adjustment, Huashun immediately responded by reducing the price of its optical disk storage from US$9999 to US$6999 and the price of its HS213 hard disk from US$4999 to US$1999.

It directly targeted IBM's weak spot and delivered the most severe blow.

Although Huashun Company does not have a product equivalent to 1 in the 3380GB high storage capacity product segment, it will not take too long.

But in the 3340 and 3370 product lines, Huashun Company is absolutely invincible.

The CD-ROM storage has a storage capacity of 650MB, which far exceeds the 3370MB of 571. The former is priced at US$6999, while the latter is priced at US$. How can it beat them?
The storage capacity of the HS213 hard drive is 125MB, which is much better than the 3340MB of the 60. The former is priced at US$1999, while the latter is priced at US$1600. How does it compare?
"Fuck, are they crazy?"

In the president's office at IBM headquarters in Armonk, New York, Robert Herman was instantly furious when he learned that Huashun Company had adjusted their prices in less than half a day.

It’s true that the business world is like a battlefield, but it didn’t say the reaction would be so intense, right?
This is totally giving IBM no way out.

Memory is one of IBM's most profitable business segments, so IBM pays close attention to this department from top to bottom.

How could this company from a big Eastern country be so reckless?
By going against IBM, they are courting death!
However, the entire market is now promoting the slogan of free trade, and IBM will not resort to shady means to deal with Huashun Company.

After all, it is difficult to turn a big ship around, not to mention that IBM is a listed company. Once there is any negative news and the stock price plummets, the shareholders will definitely eat people like Robert Herman alive.

The bewildered IBM executives held an emergency meeting overnight, and the situation in North America was also reported back to China. For a time, the domestic media was in an uproar.

It was as if Huashun Company had won this victory themselves, and everyone was extremely excited.

Anyway, in big cities like Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, all the wine in the supply and marketing cooperatives has been consumed in the past two days, and all of it has been bought up by excited "angry young people" to celebrate.

The ice city in the north is already covered with ice and snow, and the temperature outside is already as cold as minus 20 to 30 degrees Celsius.

However, the room was as warm as spring. Liu Deben, Lu Gongliang, Zuo Yuhe and others were all laughing. As they drank and chatted, everyone felt sincerely happy.

Wang Duoyu was there too. He was equally happy, but he wasn't as unrestrained as the others.

This counterattack by Huashun Company is indeed very beautiful. Although it may face continuous counterattacks from IBM in the future, so what?
The strategy has been decided, but it is still unknown who will be the winner.

In short, Huashun may not make that much profit, but if IBM does not save itself, it will have to give up the memory market.

So how will IBM respond?
(End of this chapter)