Chapter 1288: Beacon

"Kun Wu Shi, what do you think of Eric's statement?"
Saba Masaichi's face was very ugly, but when he asked the opposite scholar who was in his early 50s and had an elegant temperament, he tried to maintain his usual respect and courtesy.
This scholar is indeed worthy of President Saha's attitude, because his name is Takeshi Kiyuki.
Takeshi Yoshiyuki, one of the top semiconductor experts in the country, together with Masatoshi Utaka, Masatoshi Nakamura, Takashi Iizuka, Aotaiji, and Akira Kawachi, is collectively called the "Six Bi" of the semiconductor industry in the country; the first DRAM in Yomi During the war, he served as the head of the third research office of the "DRAM System Innovation National Project" organized by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry of Japan. He was one of the actual organizers and leaders of the battle, and he had a great contribution.
He is also the current director of Toshiba VLSI Research Institute.
He was also the immediate boss and direct leader of Fujio Masuoka.
Just now, Takeshi Kiyuki accompanied Saha Masaichi to a round of extremely secret talks with Tan Zhenhua, Zhang Zhongmou, and Fujio Masuoka.
Because the topics discussed were too sensitive, only these five people participated in this round of talks, and Toshiba also initiated the highest-level security measures for this purpose and was reviewed and confirmed by a professional team specially transferred by Tan Zhenhua.
The reason why the two sides attaches so much importance to this meeting is because what they are discussing is likely to be related to the success or failure of a war that has spread to the world.
Known as the "Second DRAM War" in history, at this moment, the flames are continuing, and the fight is in full swing.
As we all know, the semiconductor industry is the only original high-tech industry in the United States, and it is also one of the cornerstones that laid the country’s technological hegemony. However, in the "first DRAM war" that fought from the late 70s to the early 80s, the US semiconductor hegemony , But was defeated by challengers from the Japanese nation by virtue of the national system. Starting from the Japanese first launch of the 64K capacity DRAM with an integration of 155,000 transistors, the defeat of the Americans on the frontal battlefield has been irreversible, and the Japanese first developed it. Until the 256KDRAM chip was successfully introduced to the market, the semiconductor alliance formed by 50 companies in the United States was completely defeated. The landmark event was that in 1985, the former DRAM overlord, with a global market share of 82.9%, Intel completely withdrew. DRAM industry.
However, losing the frontal battlefield does not mean that the Americans lost the entire battle. They immediately used other hegemonies in their hands to open up a brand new battlefield-through the "Plaza Accord" to force the yen to appreciate significantly, and greatly reduce the passage of the Japanese. The product price advantage obtained by leading technology; through the "Womi Semiconductor Agreement", the Japanese country was forced to open its own semiconductor market and confiscated the pricing power of the country's semiconductor products in the US market.
However, what made the Japanese people think the most unbearable was not the above two items, but the Americans actually supported another rival in East Asia-South Korea.
The rise of South Korea is probably the most hated and intolerable thing for all practitioners in the entire Waguo semiconductor industry. In their eyes, it is a thief, a liar, or a robber, who has no qualifications to act as a competitor!
Why do Japanese people hate Nan Goryeo so much?
Because of treachery.
Speaking of it, the first to invest in and support South Korea in the semiconductor industry was not the Americans, but the Japanese themselves.
In 1969, it was Toshiba that helped South Koreans build the first wafer fab in the country’s history. In the same year, Samsung entered semiconductor electronics for the first time by manufacturing 12-inch black-and-white TV sets, washing machines, refrigerators and other products for Sanyo. Industry, and in 1975 obtained technology transfer from Sanyo.
As soon as the technology was in hand, the South Korean people's sorrow operation came-without any warning, the South Korean government suddenly revised the terms of foreign investment regulations and closed the domestic market for foreign and joint venture brands!
Whether Toshiba or Sanyo was willing to transfer technology at the beginning, it was because everyone had talked about using the market for technology. Now I give the technology. What about the market? You just want to shut it down? How is this business done? Is there another king?
However, Smecta’s consistent practice is: "Mine is mine, and yours is mine." They chanted the slogan of "Boundlessness" and drove out the Japanese people who had been kindly invited. In desperation, Toshiba and Sanyo had to completely withdraw from Nan Gaoli. The huge investment in the early stage was completely wiped out, and the two companies suffered heavy losses as a result.
So, if you want to say who is the most cold in South Korea, Toshiba and Sanyo are definitely not the two, and even the entire semiconductor and electronics industry in the country is bitter towards Nan Korea.
Therefore, when the "Second DRAM War" kicked off, the Americans changed their style of play and hired Nan Goryeo to act as the cannon fodder for the charge. The Japanese immediately attacked Nan Goryeo and planned to take the opportunity to kill Nan Goryeo. The semiconductor industry was completely stifled-they used their technology and cost advantages to launch a "blitzkrieg", suddenly cut the price of the mainstream 256K chips in the market at that time by 20%, and sold them on a large scale at a price lower than the cost line of the South Korea industry.
This tactic almost led to the destruction of South Korea’s semiconductor industry. In the first year of the war, in 1986, Samsung alone suffered a loss of US$300 million in the DRAM product line, and the entire company was affected. It almost went bankrupt!
As the saying goes, of course the South Korean people who were beaten up small, come out old, and were beaten to death will of course cry for their father...
At this time, we can see that the old hotness of the Americans is coming. The financiers of Wall Street and the technology giants of Silicon Valley have joined forces to perform breathtaking scenes after another!
First of all, taking advantage of the chance that Samsung was hit hard, Wall Street Capital invaded and obtained a large share of Samsung at a very cheap price, turning the company into a "Wall Street company headquartered in South Korea."
This scene can be called "taking advantage of the emptiness".
Since it is already "owner", everything is good to say. Now that Intel has decided to withdraw from the DRAM industry, all the intellectual property rights in this field are no longer valuable to the company—all sold to Samsung. At this point, Samsung finally has a complete basic intellectual property rights for the DRAM industry.
Basic technology alone cannot solve the problem of corporate losses, but Americans have a way. They unconditionally open the US market with the world's largest semiconductor demand to Samsung, and large DRAM purchasers led by IBM have dumped huge orders one after another. To South Korea; while taking up a legal weapon-the "Womi Semiconductor Agreement" on the pricing power of the US market was sacrificed, and the most destructive trick of the Japanese people-the price advantage, was immediately abolished.
This scene can be called "pull the frame."
So in the second year of the war, this year, in 1987, South Korea Hyundai Semiconductor (the students are more familiar with its current name-Hynix) and Samsung Electronics successfully occupied 30% of the US market. The price has also returned to the cost line of the South Korea enterprise, and the two companies have made a turnaround and passed the most difficult and dangerous moment.
The "Second DRAM War", under the unscrupulous intervention of the Americans, the scale of victory and defeat is gradually tilting in the direction that is not conducive to the Japanese Semiconductor Alliance.
Regardless of whether it is Takeshi Yoshiyuki or Sawa Masaichi, it is clear that Toshiba Corporation, but the absolute main force in the Waguk Semiconductor Alliance, in 1987, its semiconductor industry scale is second only to NEC, ranking second in the world. .
"Do you think Eric is alarmist?" Masaichi Sawami continued his question.