1991 Starting from the core

Su Yuanshan was a little lost in thought at this moment.

ACM-ICPC, the International Collegiate Programming Competition, of course he knew about it, because he and Ye Rudai were planning to participate in it - that was already 1996. Later, the two of them felt that as they got older, it was a bit incompetent to compete with a group of special admissions students who had been participating in the IOI (International Olympiad in Informatics) since high school, so they just got to know each other.

After the results came out, they were glad they didn't participate, otherwise they might have been embarrassed.

However, in the previous life, it was not until 1996 that universities in Shanghai began to hold domestic regional competitions.

It now appears that this event has entered the country two years ahead of schedule.

"The domestic regional competition will be held by our school?"

"Well, we ran out this year, and it is determined that we will hold the qualifiers next year. The rules are according to the ACM, and schools are used as a unit to form a team of three to participate. This time in China, it is a bit rushed, so it is scheduled to be the national qualifiers at the end of January. The top three Represent the country to the United States to participate in the finals." Professor Su Xinghe explained with a smile.

"Only three places?" Then Su Yuanshan came to his senses immediately.

At this time, it was only 1993, and ACM had no sponsors yet. It all relied on the organizers to use their love to generate electricity... Only in later generations did the big boss IBM become a great success.

But now, it is mainly played by the western countries, and the rules and scale are far less than those of later generations.

Regarding this event, China has won several finals championships, but they are far inferior to those in the north. As the fighting nations join the battlefield, the champions have basically never left the north.

After thinking about this, Su Yuanshan looked at his father and joked: "Dad, why don't you recommend me?"

"The list of participants has not yet been decided, and we have just formed a group. Are you sure you want to go?" Su Xinghe looked at his son with a smile: "I won't lie to you, everyone really wants you to go."

"...Forget it." Su Yuanshan shook his head decisively: "We don't have that much American time."

The mechanism adopted by ACM-ICPC is a three-person team to answer questions together. What is important is the tacit cooperation of the team, otherwise it is better to go alone.

Su Xinghe laughed again. Of course he knew that his son was extremely busy. And as the actual controller of Yuanxin, it is outrageous enough that his son has to take the final exam. If he participates in the competition again...

How could he have so much time?

Su Yuanshan thought for a while: "Where will the training be held?"

"It seems to be an electronic classroom..."

"Then I'd better take a look." Su Yuanshan stood up and picked up his coat.

His father looked at him with a look of surprise on his face: "You boy... you are really weather-proof - have you two officially started talking?"

"...It's just because it's not very formal, so I had to take a look." Su Yuanshan said with a smile, and then thought about it and said: "Actually, ACM accepts sponsorship. I asked Xinghai to sponsor the finals, and then Yuanxin also Sponsor the Asian Division."

Su Yuanshan put on his shoes and turned around to go out.

As soon as he left the house, Su Yuanshan quickly put on his coat and went straight to the audio-visual classroom.

Then he suddenly remembered...it seemed like Christmas was only two days away. Then he remembered that Christmas seemed to be just Christmas now, and Valentine's Day was Valentine's Day.

…

The electronic classroom is brightly lit.

Su Yuanshan took a look outside the window, and sure enough, Ye Rudai and two boys were sitting behind the computer, listening to a young computer teacher giving a lecture on the stage.

Su Yuanshan recalled carefully and confirmed that he did not know this young teacher.

It seems that due to the butterfly wings, Dianke has indeed changed so much that I, an old native of Dianke, can no longer recognize people.

Seeing the focused look on Ye Rudai's face, Su Yuanshan smiled slightly - just as Ye Rudai liked her focused look, so did he.

But immediately he saw a boy next to him peeking at Ye Rudai.

...!

At this moment, the teacher on the podium also noticed Su Yuanshan's head outside the window. The teacher glanced at Su Yuanshan and then drove him away with his eyes.

Su Yuanshan coughed lightly, walked to the door, and gently knocked on the classroom door.

"This classmate, it's not time to get on the computer now." The teacher came over to open the door, blocking Su Yuanshan's view, and said with a slight frown.

"Teacher...we plan to form another competition group, and Professor Li Gaoliang recommended that I come to observe and learn." Su Yuanshan asked with a look on his face.

"Oh? Really?" The teacher looked at Su Yuanshan suspiciously, but in the end he was blinded by his young appearance. In addition, Li Gaoliang's name was announced, and the teacher gave up his position.

Su Yuanshan looked around and saw Ye Rudai holding up her notebook to cover half of her face, her eyebrows were curved and her shoulders were slightly swaying.

Obviously, she didn't believe her own lies.

Su Yuanshan glanced around, found two plastic bags in the shoe cabinet and put them on his feet, then swaggered over to Ye Rudai and sat down.

He saw that the boy next to Ye Rudai immediately became a little wary of him.

On the stage, the teacher raised his wrist: "You guys think about this algorithm idea carefully. I will be back in half an hour - Xiaoye, please communicate more with your classmates."

"Okay, Teacher Gao." Ye Rudai nodded obediently.

After watching the teacher leave and close the door, Su Yuanshan pushed away the keyboard. He supported his face with his left hand and tilted his head to look at Ye Rudai.

Ye Rudai also followed his example, holding her face with her right hand, and then looked at him.

However, Ye Rudai's eyes were full of "You're such a bad guy...".

"Haha, actually I just came to see you." Su Yuanshan regarded the two boys as nothing, and said with a smile: "Actually, if you really want to train, just look for Senior Brother Xi."

"Professor Xi is busy, and Teacher Gao returned to China this year. He has been exposed to ICPC in the west before and has experience."

"Oh, no wonder!" Su Yuanshan nodded with a smile, looked at the blackboard again, and found that it was a simple algorithm question: "Isn't it difficult for you?"

"..." Ye Rudai glanced at him with some resentment.

Su Yuanshan scratched his head: "Uh... I won't discuss it anymore."

"Pfft..." Ye Rudai was amused by Su Yuanshan's appearance. She knew that in the field of programming, Su Yuanshan was the kind of genius that even Professor Xi was full of praise for. In his eyes, there is probably no difficult problem, right?

In fact, when she was invited by the teacher, Ye Rudai had "fantasy" that if Su Yuanshan also participated, then the championship would definitely not be possible, but she immediately realized that this was unrealistic.

After all, Su Yuanshan is so busy.

"Classmate Ye, I have an idea here, can you help me take a look?" At this time, the boy next to Ye Rudai suddenly touched Ye Rudai and pointed at the monitor in front of him.

Ye Rudai immediately turned sideways and looked at it seriously. The boy was sitting there without giving up his position or even turning his head. People could not help but misunderstand that he and Ye Rudai were very close.

The innate male instinct made Su Yuanshan realize that this little brat was trying to get Ye Rudai's idea.

He thought for a moment and opened the computer in front of him.

During the soft discussion between Ye Rudai and the boy, Su Yuanshan opened C++ and quickly implemented the algorithm.

As an intelligence competition focusing on creativity, ICPC mainly tests the algorithm and programming abilities of the contestants.

Since it is still in its early stages and a large number of question banks have not been formed for future generations, it places more emphasis on the comprehensive ability of the players.

"Diel, help me take a look."

In boredom, Su Yuanshan saw that Ye Rudai had finally finished the discussion, and smiled at Ye Rudai: "I also have some ideas."

"..." Ye Rudai didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Brother Xiaoshan, don't make trouble."

But having said that, she still turned sideways.

Su Yuanshan stood up: "Sit down."

"Yes." Ye Rudai sat down and was quickly attracted by Su Yuanshan's code.

So, when she noticed Su Yuanshan put his hand on her shoulder, it took her two seconds to come back to her senses.

Her body stiffened slightly.

After a while, Su Yuanshan's voice sounded softly in the left ear.

"Diel, swear your sovereignty and nod if you agree."

Ye Rudai bit her lip, her heartbeat speeding up like ten thousand deer jumping around.

"Nod quickly..."

"..." Ye Rudai gritted her teeth, nodded quickly, and then immediately turned to look at Su Yuanshan.

Su Yuanshan let go of his hand, pulled a stool and sat next to her, and said apologetically: "Actually, I also want to find a good day, and then prepare well... But it is better to choose a day than to hit it. Today is not bad, but I didn't prepare a gift. .”

"...It seems that Professor Xi is right. He said you like to fool around." Ye Rudai blushed so hard that she clasped her hands together and stared at Su Yuanshan gently.

"He's just messing around." Su Yuanshan saw Ye Rudai's clenched hand, and he resisted the idea of ​​pulling it over and holding it in his hand: "You know I'm a little busy..."

Ye Rudai looked at Su Yuanshan's thin face and thought of how he told her that every time he liked to share with her what he was doing - for example, he was designing the CPU, or he talked about the fab, or the progress of his experiments. To what extent...

Thanks to me, if it were another girl, how could she have the heart to listen?

As soon as she thought of this, Ye Rudai smiled and nodded slightly: "I know, so I didn't bother you."

"No, you have to interrupt. I..." Su Yuanshan looked over her shoulders and landed on the two boys who were deaf. He sighed and decided to respect the two little boys.

He grabbed Ye Rudai's notebook and started writing.

//"I don't want the person I like to be lost when I'm done."

Ye Rudai felt warm in her heart. She blinked her eyelashes and picked up a pen to write below.

//"Silly, no way."

//"I remember what you said."

//"Um!"

…

Su Yuanshan did not stay after all.

After all, we still have to take care of the feelings of the two small light bulbs.

During the past few days of the exam, Su Yuanshan fell in love with Ye Rudai seriously. But when faced with his suggestion to take her home, Ye Rudai refused to obey.

She even told Su Yuanshan not to tell Professor Su - otherwise she would not be able to say hello to Professor Su Xinghe when she saw him in the future.

At that time, Su Yuanshan laughed and told her that Professor Su already knew and was very satisfied with her.

And he also told her that, let alone his parents, the King of Heaven doesn't care who he likes.

Amidst the first snow, the calendar turned over to December.

1994 finally arrived.

On New Year's Day, Su Yuanshan accompanied Ye Rudai to watch a movie, and then they each went about their own business.

On January 10, the first day of the CES International Consumer Electronics Exhibition, Su Yuanshan received a call from Wang Rui.

On the phone, Wang Rui told him that both Siemens and Motorola exhibited multi-language mobile phones - including Chinese.

At the same time, Motorola (Mainland) also officially announced that it will establish a production plant specifically for mobile phone production in TJ.

…

Yuanxin conference room.

Su Yuanshan, Chen Jing, brother-in-law Zhang Ke, Yuanxin marketing director Wan Yongliang, and mobile communication equipment division marketing manager Gao Mingcheng gathered together.

On behalf of FarCore, Wang Rui went to Las Vegas to participate in the CES International Consumer Electronics Exhibition, mainly to continue to exhibit and promote FarCore's mobile phones and base station systems to the Western market.

"I could guess that MOTO would launch a Chinese phone. After all, they suffered a big loss with pagers. But Siemens also followed suit, which I didn't expect."

Zhang Ke said with a smile: "The main reason is that the New Year is coming soon... If they do this, we won't be able to celebrate the New Year."

"Yeah..." Su Yuanshan rubbed his eyebrows.

Of course he is not afraid of fighting Siemens and MOTO with real swords and guns.

But the development of anything must take into account the historical process.

In less than three years, Yuanxin has risen rapidly. To put it bluntly, it has taken advantage of the process of history - every technology of Yuanxin has been stuck on the road of progress with incomparable precision.

But now, the wheels of history are finally rolling.

There was no Yuanxin in the previous life, so all foreign companies didn't care whether the Chinese people knew the words or not. The mobile phones were all in English - buy if you like, buy if you don't.

Therefore, it was almost the turn of the millennium before the first all-Chinese mobile phone appeared.

Frankly speaking, this is really a sign of extreme disrespect for the users in the target market - the comparison is Ni Country. In Ni Country, if you want to get in, if you don't have the Japanese version, then just wait for it!

So Su Yuanshan ignored this point. He subconsciously believed that these international giants would still be as arrogant as ever.

Now the giants have taught him a lesson.

This means that the advantage of the "Chinese system", which is the biggest reliance of Yuanxin mobile phones, will disappear.

Then, facing the giant Yuanxin, you will realize the power of the historical process.

——Compared to the past, although Yuanxin has achieved certain results in some fields. But it still cannot change the current mainstream perception, that is: imported goods are good.

With the reform and opening up, as countless people opened their eyes to see the world, countless people also realized the gap between China and the world.

This gap is quite disappointing.

It’s also quite knee-jerk.

Frankly speaking, Su Yuanshan also knelt in his previous life - it was normal to kneel when facing the only superpower that was leading in all fields at that time.

Of course, when we got to the back, some people stood up, while others couldn't kneel down.

Now, the problem facing Yuan Xin is how to wake up those who are kneeling.

——To put it bluntly, it is “domestic” recognition.

Chen Jing flipped through the document in her hand and stopped at one of the pages. She glanced at Su Yuanshan and said solemnly: "According to the brand recognition report last September, overall, the recognition rate of foreign brands exceeds 90%. .”

"It is slightly better in the fields that Yuanxin is involved in. As far as the BP machine market is concerned, the recognition of Zhongxin BP machine is only 18% lower than that of Motorola. As for the VCD market... Since we are in a monopoly position, there is no reference. However, Judging from the fact that the price of smuggled Sony VCDs has caught up with our products, Sony’s brand recognition is overwhelming for us.”

"In addition to brand recognition, our production capacity is not enough. Even if we want to start a price war, we can't do it." Gao Mingchengdao, who just came from the SAR today.

"We can't have a price war." Su Yuanshan immediately shook his head.