Rewrite the Technological Landscape

After chatting with the leader, Meng Qian saw Ren Zhengfei waiting for him as soon as he went out, and the two changed rooms to continue chatting.

"I heard that the headquarters building of Nortel Huaxia District will be completed soon? Has Mike come to China?" After a few simple greetings, Meng Qian took the initiative to talk about the business.

In fact, Nortel Networks originally invested a lot in China, and now with the addition of Mike Zafirovski, the CEO who is particularly optimistic about China, if the company hadn’t closed down in a few years, Nortel Networks would have invested heavily in China. There will definitely be a lot of places where we can cooperate with Huaxia.

"Well, probably by the end of this year."

"Then Mike came at this time, he definitely didn't come to the headquarters building." Meng Qian gave Ren Zhengfei a look that you understand.

Ren Zhengfei smiled and didn't hide anything, "Mike did come to me, and I can see that he was worried about the result of the acquisition in 2003. He came this time because he wanted to be the CEO of Nortel Networks. Talk about an acquisition of Huawei."

"Then what do you think?"

"Impossible." Ren Zhengfei first gave a definite answer, "In fact, there is one thing that few people know. The reason why it took more than a year to decide whether to sell the company to Motorola was because the company There are huge divisions within.

So at that time, there was an obvious phenomenon within us. The older generation was almost in favor of selling the company to Motorola, but the younger generation was against selling the company to Motorola. "

"Young people are more diligent and distrustful of fate. The older generation seeks stability and is more willing to accept reality. However, the senior management of the company must be dominated by the older generation, so in the end it was decided to sell the company to Motorola." Meng Meng Qian smiled and told the reality with a teasing attitude.

Ren Zhengfei didn't mind either, and nodded to show that Meng Qian was right, "But after the acquisition failed due to Motorola's internal reasons, I told the older generation that the company has listened to you once, and then we will listen to the younger generation. human.

And what I am most grateful for in the past two years is that the young people of Huawei have shown me courage and vitality. "

"So we must not allow people to destroy the self-confidence of young people in China. If the young generation loses self-confidence, the country will be over." Meng Qian couldn't help sighing, and he and Ren Zhengfei were silent for a few seconds before returning to the topic, "Then What is the current situation between Huawei and Nortel Networks?"

"Mike also felt our determination. He was still telling me two days ago that in just three years, China seems to have turned upside down, so he should not be obsessed with the acquisition, and has already expressed his willingness to cooperate. This matter We are still discussing internally."

"Cooperation." Meng Qian pretended to be deep in thought, "I heard that Mike is betting on 3G on CDMA2000 and plans to sell the UMTS department. Is it true or not?"

"I've heard of it too, but I don't know if it's true or not."

"Didn't you ask?"

"It's true that I didn't ask in detail. Some things are inconvenient to ask. It is said that the UMTS department is going to be sold to Alcatel."

Meng Qian touched his chin, "Huawei's current key development technology should still be WCDMA?"

"Yes, we have to thank President Meng for promoting the development of 3G in China, otherwise we can only rely on overseas development, but last year our overseas revenue exceeded 5 billion yuan, and our market share has increased significantly. "

"In that case, why didn't Huawei acquire the UMTS division of Nortel Networks? This is in line with your development direction."

"This" Ren Zhengfei smiled helplessly, "It's not that I don't want to, but"

"It's that I feel that I can't compete with Alcatel." Meng Qian helped Ren Zhengfei to speak out.

The real explosion of Huawei is just a matter of the past few years. In the early years, Huawei was a younger brother in the global communication market. It relied on cooperation, funds and the market for some technology and talents for a long time. Small companies acquired large companies, and small companies competed with giants for acquisitions. This is not within the normal thinking.

There is another reason, which is also what Ren Zhengfei said next, "The United States will not agree."

As mentioned before, when Nortel Networks closed down, Huawei didn’t receive anything. Nortel’s WCDMA equipment is basically in the United States, and the United States simply cannot accept that Huawei will update and maintain equipment for them in the future.

But this matter, there may still be some very subtle room for manipulation, Meng Qian changed the subject, "What does Mr. Ren think of Canada as a country?"

"What does Mr. Meng mean?"

"The relationship with the United States, and the attitude towards technology companies."

Ren Zhengfei couldn't help laughing, "I've heard a saying from Americans that there is one country in the world that will never betray the United States, and that is Canada.

To be honest, Canada’s attitude towards the United States sometimes makes people feel incomprehensible. Whether it is a country that is not as powerful as the United States and needs to be dependent on the United States, or a country that has the United States military stationed in this world, there are many countries in this world, but Canada is just right. America is very friendly. "

"It is true, and what I am more concerned about is Canada's attitude towards domestic companies.

Do you know that Nortel Networks, as a national treasure of Canadian technology companies, sought help from the government when it was in crisis in 2001 but was rejected? "

"I know about it."

"Mr. Ren must have known about AMD's acquisition of ATI, which has been hyped up recently."

"Naturally, this is a very important piece of news in the technology world recently, but I heard that the Dafeng Group is considering joining forces with IBM to grab ATI?"

Meng Qian smiled noncommittally, "Let's not talk about this matter first, let's look at the performance of the Canadian government behind these two matters, isn't it interesting?"

Ren Zhengfei tried to understand Meng Qian's meaning and responded, "Other countries are trying their best to keep their own giant companies, but Canada seems to seldom protect its own giant companies, especially when the acquirer is a US company. when."

Meng Qian nodded and said that was what he wanted to say. In fact, what happened in later generations was even more ridiculous. When Nortel Networks was facing a collapse at the end of 2008, Mike Zavirovsky asked the Canadian government for 1 billion yuan, but was rejected.

But the irony is that in 2009, the Canadian government did not hesitate to spend 13.7 billion yuan to buy the stocks of General Motors and Chrysler Motors of the United States to help these two American companies tide over the difficulties.

Finally, on January 14, 2009, Nortel Networks had to apply for bankruptcy to the court because it could not repay a debt interest of 107 million yuan. A century-old technology company and a pillar company in Canada collapsed because of 100 million yuan. , I don’t know how many people sigh.

A Canadian leader in later generations also specifically discussed this issue, saying that he could not understand that Canada allowed Nortel assets to fall into foreign hands in this way. When they saved GM and Chrysler, they didn't think about whether we could restructure Nortel to preserve Canadian intellectual property and R\u0026D capabilities.

Nortel Networks and ATI are not the only companies in Canada that are unwilling to help, as well as Bombardier, an international transportation equipment manufacturer, Solido Design, a Canadian EDA software provider, Celestica, the world's top ten electronic equipment manufacturer, and Ottawa Semiconductor Corporation. Solantro Semiconductor and others.

Among them, Solantro Semiconductor was acquired by Huaxia Enterprise and Huada Semiconductor.

"The Gale Group has actually spent a lot of energy in researching the fantastic country of Canada, and this kind of indifferent attitude towards its own giant company is simply rare in the world.

So in the past two years, I have actually cared about Canada as a country. The relationship between Canadian companies and the government may be a small space that we can take advantage of. "

Ren Zhengfei somewhat understood Meng Qian's meaning, "Mr. Meng means that when a company is still in charge, it doesn't have to consider the will of the Canadian government?"

"In my opinion, if Nortel Networks goes bankrupt today, we will get absolutely nothing, because the closed Nortel Networks will be completely in the hands of the Canadian government.

But Nortel Networks, which has not yet closed down, has autonomy. We can at least give it a try, and we don’t have to buy anything now. We can also take the route of cooperation and stabilize some things first. "

Just when Ren Zhengfei was seriously thinking about Meng Qian's suggestion, Meng Qian added, "There is one more thing. Nortel Networks is actually holding on now, right? Nortel Networks, which cannot get rescue from the Canadian government, if Dafeng Group Are they willing to accept the rescue?"

Ren Zhengfei's expression changed a lot, and Meng Qian really wanted to give it a try. There are some things that you can only know the result by trying. Only by trying can you find the possibility.

Knowing what Meng Qian was thinking, Ren Zhengfei smiled and said, "If Mr. Meng has time, why don't you go to Yanjing together?"

Meng Qian returned a smile, "Okay."