"What you mean is to first package the netbook as a donation to a charity project, and use the hands of Negroponte to popularize the concept of netbooks. If the response is good, it can be officially released. If the response is not good, it will be directly carried out as a charity event. In this way, no matter whether it succeeds or fails, Intel cannot directly suppress us by suing patents, selling prices, etc., because this will be unpopular and can only let us go first." Li Xianyang is also a veteran who has been immersed in the mall for many years. After Yang Xing said the words, he grasped the key points.

Moreover, he and Li Zekai also saw that Yang Xing made a special trip to take them to visit Tai Chi CPU and netbook today, which clearly meant that he wanted to cooperate with them to promote this project. From what they had just visited, this project had great potential. Now they were both very moved and eager to try it out to listen to Yang Xing explain the specific plan.

Li Zekai and Lee Hsien-yang are not unfamiliar with Negroponte. Not long ago, a US media commented that among the most influential figures in the history of IT development, Negroponte is very famous on the list, as well as Bill Gates of Microsoft and Andy Grove of Intel. Interestingly, Negroponte has a much greater influence overseas, especially in Asia than in the United States, and is even more of the title of "Internet Enlightener" in China, and all this comes from his famous work "Digital Survival".

Negroponte himself has never made any original inventions in the history of IT development, nor has he founded any famous companies. He is just a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit) in the United States. However, he founded a "media laboratory" that is well-known in the IT industry and served as the director for a long time. He is also a columnist of the prestigious professional magazine "Wire" in the IT industry.

mit Media Lab has been known as the holy place of the IT industry for a long time, and Wired magazine's role in the rapid development of the Internet is probably similar to that of the Bible. As a person with influence in both places, Negroponte's fame naturally rose in the IT industry. He published his experiences in the mit Media Lab in "Wire", and later compiled many published works into a volume. In 1994, a book called "being digital" and translated into Chinese as "Digital Survival". The book made many exquisite descriptions and predictions about the development of the Internet.

Even Negroponte himself unexpectedly, it was translated into more than 20 languages, almost reaching the point where every IT practitioner has one. Then Negroponte was sought after by celebrities wherever he went. He was also named "the greatest prophet of the digital age."

Especially in China, Chinese Internet industry, who are still in the enlightenment period, were confused at the beginning of the use and development trend of the Internet, full of confusion and confusion. The emergence of the book "Digital Survival" undoubtedly illuminated a bright light in front of them. The book provides an in-depth and easy-to-understand explanation of the characteristics of the Internet and makes bold predictions for future development. It can be said that "Digital Survival" inspired the ideas of a generation of Chinese Internet industry.

Negroponte is not only a theorist, but also a very smart investor. He has investments in more than 40 Internet companies, including three in China (the most famous is Sohu.com). With such a halo of achievements, it is natural that Negroponte enjoys various halos in Asia, especially China. In the Internet era he described, the hero who can succeed with only one idea, a business plan, a huge financing and a listing were also confirmed in the Nasdaq fanaticism, which attracted countless online youth to be enthusiastic and imitated.

So although in the United States, the Internet bubble burst caused by the Nasdaq collapse and the halo on Negroponte's head, which has always been advocated, has not yet subsided in the domestic IT industry, and what he said is still regarded as a criterion and worshipped by many people.

Yang Xing asked Negroponte to help them promote netbooks because he was attracted by his great reputation and his good eloquence that he often trained to introduce works. Moreover, he knew that Negroponte himself had always had the idea of ​​promoting Internet technology to third world countries, and that he would come forward to promote and operate public welfare activities, and the effect would be better.

However, Negroponte is not short of money, and he is also famous, so a simple little favor cannot impress him. Yang Xing invited Er Li to come here today, and everyone discussed how to package the promotion of netbooks into a real public welfare and charity project to impress the digital star and build momentum for them to appear.

In fact, Yang Xing had a long time ago, which was to copy the olpc plan proposed by Negroponte around 2004. Olpc is actually the abbreviation of the English "one laptop per child", which means "every child should have his own laptop". Later, it was more publicized in the name of "everyone computer".

This is a public welfare project that popularizes computer operating machine Internet access skills to many children in the Third World who have no access to new technologies such as computers and Internet. The invasion of this plan was derived from Negroponte's thoughts in his early book "Digital Survival". "If you want to develop digitalization, one of my suggestions should start with children, pay attention to primary school education, and study at university. This process will be too late. Another suggestion is to make low-priced computers, and hope that our laboratory can launch computers with a cost of as low as one hundred dollars in the future."

Yang Xing and Er Li discussed that they donated a sum of money to establish a non-profit organization and purchase a batch of cost-priced netbooks. Then Negroponte came forward to communicate with the governments of developing countries interested in this plan, providing a batch of netbooks to local schools for free, in the name of reducing the world's digital divide and improving the computer level of students in third world countries. The most important thing about this plan is to produce notebooks that are suitable for primary and secondary school students, with no high performance requirements, durability, and easy to operate. Of course, the most important thing is that the price must be cheap.

Er Li has now roughly understood Yang Xing's idea of ​​selling netbooks. He did not fight head-on with the CPU boss Intel, highlighting the surprise occupying the market of third-world countries that has never been paid attention to by international computer manufacturers. First, use the olpc project to establish the concept of netbooks, gain a certain reputation and improve the product based on the feedback opinions, and then launch the netbook with extremely attractive prices on the market. There are examples and low prices, which will inevitably cause a violent cleansing of the entire laptop industry. If you are quick enough, Tai Chi CPU and netbooks will gain a foothold in front of Intel and Amd, and it can be said that they have gained a foothold in Tai Chi CPU and netbooks, which can be said to have been mostly successful.

So they understood that the money they donated to the OLPC is equivalent to promoting disguised advertising of netbooks. It not only promotes products, but also wins praise from the society. So they did not make much of their donations, and quickly reached an agreement to cooperate on netbook projects. After the incident, Li Zekai suddenly thought, "It is not difficult to ask Negroponte to come out to support us, but he will not have his own requirements, right?"

Yang Xing nodded bitterly and said, "This old man has a weird temper. He thinks that olpc is a charity project and cannot be petty. He set a price of 100 US dollars for the purchase price of netbooks. This is simply an impossible task. Fortunately, I persuaded him and advised him to do charity and cannot do a one-time transaction. No computer merchant dared to sell it at this price. I promoted netbooks to him, and said that it was borrowing olpc projects to promote it. However, as long as the netbooks are sold well, the output will naturally reduce the cost, but they must not be less than 500 US dollars. At most, a portion of the sales of netbooks will be taken out to do charity in the future."

Er Li was also frightened to hear that. He had long heard that Negroponte liked to speak in a shocking way. At this time, the cheapest laptop would be sold for at least $1,000. It would be a very amazing achievement for Yang Xing to be halfway through, and Negroponte's goal was to shrink by one tenth! If Negroponte maintained this tone at the press conference a few days later, it would be a sure thing that the reporters below would be crazy.

Time turned back to the press conference after Xingfu Department Store. When the reporter noticed that Yang Xing, Li Zekai, Li Xianyang and Negroponte walked into the venue, the sharp-eyed reporter immediately began to stir up. Although the reason for the emergence of their group was unknown, if they could see Negroponte, they knew that today would be worth the trip.

"Hello, friends from the press, I know everyone is busy, so today our company has released two important news pieces in one to save everyone's time. To put it short, I am not the protagonist today. I would like to ask Professor Negroponte, who is familiar to everyone, to give a speech!"

Yang Xing pushed Negroponte to the front desk in a few words. Today is the day when the netbook and Tai Chi CPU are unveiled. In order to attract the attention of the industry without arousing the strong attention of Intel, they have tried their best to do any preliminary publicity and even share a press conference with Xingfu Department Store, just to grasp the standards, which is both mysterious and not too ostentatious.

Negroponte quickly got into the state and started to pick it up. To be fair, he was indeed a good salesman. Although Yang Xing made it clear that they were using Olpc to promote netbooks, no matter what the motivation was, Olpc was indeed very in line with his wishes. So he did not hide his praise for netbooks and demonstrated many characteristics of netbooks on the spot, which made the reporters on the spot impressed by this cute and cost-effective new computer and expressed strong interest. Lee Hsien-yang also struck while the iron was hot and announced that a series of promotional activities would be launched in Hong Kong. Interested users can visit and use netbooks on the spot. If the olpc responds well, formal sales are also being considered.
Chapter completed!