Chapter 1034: In one go

In another time and space of normal historical evolution, 1986 was a year of violent turbulence in the international semiconductor industry and a year that determined the future trend of the global semiconductor industry.
Because in this year, a bilateral agreement that was not as well-known as the "Plaza Agreement", but whose influence was by no means inferior was born-the "Womi Semiconductor Agreement."
Later, some activists and economists in the Wa country even claimed that if considered from an economic point of view, this bilateral agreement would have a far worse impact on the Wa country than the "Plaza Agreement."
Because this agreement ruthlessly cut off the future path of the industrial development of the country.
Let us first understand the background of this agreement and what it stipulates.
Still have to start with World War II.
As mentioned in the previous article, after the war, with the continuous development of the U.S. domestic industrial upgrading and manufacturing financialization, as the main spillover industry in the U.S., the U.S. has gained a lot of benefits. The high-end daily necessities gradually spread to the mid-to-high end, and this also led to the continuous escalation of trade friction between Japanese rice and rice-from the initial low value-added industries such as textiles to the processing and assembly industry, high-tech industries and even service industries.
Finally, it finally expanded to the most cutting-edge industries such as electronics, precision equipment, and semiconductors. Since the 1970s, friction between the two parties has been mainly concentrated in the industries with the highest technological content such as household appliances, automobiles, machine tools, and semiconductors.
Among these industries, the semiconductor industry that Americans value most.
Semiconductors are a field developed by the United States in the 1950s. It is a basic field that lays down the dominant position of the United States in military, space and other fields. After its development in the 1970s, the Americans began to try to build their hegemony in the semiconductor industry on a global scale. They suddenly discovered that there is a country that has considerable strength in this industry and is trying to challenge their hegemony.
This country is the Japanese country.
As mentioned in the previous article, in the 1970s, the Japanese people gathered the power of the whole country to launch a VLSI program, and successfully established a complete semiconductor supply chain relying on the country’s own scientific and technological strength and R&D and production institutions, and completed the counterattack against the United States. In terms of raw materials, production equipment, manufacturing technology and other core competitiveness, it has overtaken Americans.
This long will inevitably disappear. The previous article explained that in the semiconductor industry, the leading process technology has a huge impact on the chip. The technical surpass of the Japanese people is also immediately reported to its market performance. Only the most typical semiconductor Take chip DRAM as an example, the global market share of Japanese products once exceeded 90%!
In this case, the situation of Yomi Semiconductor has been reversed. According to the statistics of the U.S. Semiconductor Labor Union, since 1985, companies in the U.S. have become the world's largest semiconductor supplier. The top three semiconductor device sales in the world are all U.S. companies, namely NEC, Toshiba, and Hitachi.
In addition, by the mid-1980s, the value of high-tech exports in the Japanese domestic market had exceeded the value of imports; in the U.S. market, the share of Japanese electronic computers in the U.S. market increased from 1% in 1980 to 7.2% in 1984. , Electronic components rose from 3.2% to 7.2%. At the same time, industrial robots, integrated circuits, optical fiber communications, lasers, ceramic materials and other technologies are also at the world's leading level.
With such a severe situation, the U.S. Ministry of Commerce could not help proposing in its 1983 report to the National Assembly: The challenge to U.S. technology mainly comes from the Japanese nation. Although it is currently limited to a few high-tech fields, it is expected that such challenges will involve more in the future. Maintaining and protecting the scientific and technological foundation of the United States on a large scale is an important factor in the life and death of the national security policy... The entry of Japanese semiconductors into the United States will pose a threat to the country’s high-tech industry and defense industry, and there will be security guarantees. problem!
Do the students find this last sentence very familiar?
From this day on, the United States has taken preventive measures against Japan in terms of high technology. For example, in 1984, the "Intellectual Property Committee" was established to limit the outflow of technology from the country, and the "Semiconductor Chip Protection Law" was urgently enacted in the same year. Strictly investigate the responsibility of Japanese enterprises for illegally imitating American chips.
These measures finally reached a climax with the signing of the "Wami Semiconductor Agreement" between the two countries. The agreement took effect on July 31, 1986 and lasted for 5 years. The export prices of main varieties to the U.S. and third countries are to prevent dumping. At the same time, the governments of the two countries need to record and track the implementation of these prices; the domestic market share of domestic semiconductor products in the U.S. country should reach 20%; the public VLSI research plan Manufacturing technology development roadmap; complete abolition of domestic semiconductor import tariffs in Japan...
Judging from the content of this "agreement", since then, the Japanese people have lost the right to price the final products in the semiconductor industry, the autonomy of technology research and development, the right to protect domestic products, etc. It can be said that from the signing of the agreement Beginning on that day, the entire semiconductor industry in the country was completely exposed to the sight of American surveillance, naked!
If Tan Zhenhua is asked to comment on this "Agreement", then four words are enough-to lose power and humiliate the country!
So what is the result of the implementation of this "Agreement"?
Well, the effect of lever drops.
After the expiration of the first five years, the agreement was renewed for a total of ten years. After ten years, the Japanese completely lost their leading edge in the semiconductor industry and ranked among the top ten semiconductor chip companies in the world. Among them, only the Toshiba family is still on the list, and the ranking has dropped to 8th place. In this list, the Americans occupy 6 seats!
The decline of the semiconductor industry has also seriously dragged down the economy of the country. Under the environment of the appreciation of the yen and the bursting of the real estate bubble, it has lost its leading edge in the manufacturing industry. Since then, the economy of the country has fallen into an abyss. Years later, there are "Lost Ten Years", "Lost Twenty Years", "Lost Thirty Years"... Well, judging from the current situation, I don’t know how many years will be lost. His spirit has also changed from the so-called "Showa man" of "Waukuni can say no" to "Heisei abandoned house"...
Therefore, even without the involvement of the second son of Tan, these semiconductor-related companies in the country would not escape this disaster.
Of course, such a good opportunity, how can the second son who is good at making use of all the advantages let go?
Therefore, in this time and space, the negotiating record in the hands of Mitarai Toshio has added some inconspicuous content, such as slightly expanding the scope of the attack, not only limited to semiconductor chips, but also extended to chip manufacturing equipment and office What in the field of automation equipment...
Well, you must know that the Second Young Master not only has people who are talkative and weighty at both ends of the Democratic and Republican parties, and all the companies that he invests in the United States are related to the electronics and semiconductor industries, and of course the "U.S. Semiconductor Association" "Member companies have various complex interest exchange relationships with Intel, AMD, National Semiconductor, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, and many other large companies. They are struggling with each other to jointly promote what is beneficial to everyone. Don’t be too lighthearted about the National Assembly bill or something...