Chapter 1290: Do your best

What does it mean to be rich?
This means that in the current economic situation, as long as Tan Zhenhua waved his checkbook, there will be a few potential suppliers of basic technology in the world who will take risks in order to realize the resources in their hands.
It means that the "Matrix Lab" has enough funds to maintain a high level of investment and support the intensified technological advancement war in the DRAM field.
The first one will help Tan Zhenhua overcome patent barriers, and the latter one will help him gradually gain an advantage in future market competition.
Because in the semiconductor field, technology and process leadership is also synonymous with cost leadership.
If it is said that Toshiba has obtained a premium space in negotiations with Tan Zhenhua because of its large number of basic patents in its hands, then the latter is just the opposite. The weight is obviously on Tan Zhenhua's side.
Is Toshiba out of money?
On the contrary, compared with Tan Zhenhua's previous life, Toshiba's financial situation is much better because the export of high-performance machine tools to Russia has not been revealed.
But this does not mean that Toshiba is willing to make a larger investment in the semiconductor industry.
What is going on here?
Well, it's actually simple, one word can explain it-greed.
As we all know, in 1985, after the signing of a blockbuster agreement between the Yami and the "Plaza Agreement", the yen began to appreciate substantially. Under the influence of this factor, countless international hot money entered under various names. In the Japanese financial market, they did futures, stock speculation, and pushed up property prices, all assets denominated in yen were speculated to the sky!
Under the influence of this situation of "every family speculating in stocks and everyone speculating in real estate", almost all the large companies in the U.S. have adopted a measure-setting up their own financial investment department, and Toshiba is no exception.
After all, through simple bills and securities trading, huge profits can be obtained. This temptation is hardly resisted.
One consequence of this is that the financial sector of large companies occupies most of the company's operating funds, and accordingly, investment in basic technology research and development will inevitably decrease.
There is a set of data that can objectively reflect this trend: according to the statistics of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, in 1985, the effective research and development investment of the whole society of the country was 478 billion yen, but in 1986, this figure plummeted to 265 billion days. Yuan (historical data), almost cut in half!
The reduction in investment will inevitably lead to the slowness of new technology research and development. This is probably the most profound experience of Takeshi Kiko. He, who is in charge of Toshiba's Large-scale Integrated Circuit Research Institute, has repeatedly raised this question to Sahama. When it was fierce, it even pointed out that if this trend continues, the leading advantage of Wa Kuk over Nan Korean enterprises in DRAM technology will soon cease to exist!
This is by no means alarmist, but a real sense of the adversary’s approaching pace. With the aid of the U.S., the South Koreans have greatly shortened the technological gap with the U.S.-Samsung’s first 64KDRAM was put on the market in 1984. The Japanese were 40 months late; the first 256KDRAM was put on the market in early 1986, 24 months later than the Japanese; and in the same year, they successfully developed 1MDRAM and launched it to the market at the fastest speed. , This time is only 12 months behind the Japanese people!
Now, both parties are launching an impact on 4MDRAM, and Wu Shixixing believes that the South Koreans are likely to tie their own countries in the release time of this chip!
The South Korea people can achieve such results, of course, thanks to the unrelenting support of the United States, but we must also see that this nation does have a spirit of perseverance supporting them, even if they were faltered by the Japanese fire in the last year. At that time, they did not give up their investment in new technologies, and invented a new word-countercyclical investment. It can be said that it is this kind of desperate and desperate gambling investment behavior that allows them to now have the ability to compete with The capital of Japanese wrestling!
Take Samsung as an example. In 1980, its effective R&D investment in the semiconductor field was only 8.5 million U.S. dollars. By this year, the investment has been in units of 100 million yuan, and the trend of annual growth is very obvious. But what about Toshiba?
Of course, Masaichi Sawa knew what Takeshi Yoshiyuki was talking about. As the president of Toshiba, he was able to recognize the problem very clearly-however, there were some things that even he was powerless as the president.
To put it bluntly, the enterprises of the Japanese nation are dominated by chaebol capital. For this kind of matters involving the annual financial budget, the rights of the president are also extremely limited. The resources are in the hands of the chaebol families who control the company. This makes Sahama Masaichi Even if it deliberately invests more in research and development, it is difficult to carry out actual operations. Moreover, Toshiba is involved in too many industries. After the total annual research and development budget is released, I don't know how many pairs of eyes are staring red.
However, Yoshiyuki Takeshi’s words just made Sahama realize that Tan Zhenhua’s intervention will bring a completely new idea-Toshiba can invest limited R&D funds, but Huaxin Microelectronics has a natural advantage in this regard. And, as far as he knows, Tan Zhenhua is quite willing to spend money on research and development!
Otherwise, there would be no endless scientific research results in the "Matrix Lab"!
The expression change on his face was seen by Wu Shixixing. One of the "Six Bi"s of Waguo Semiconductor knew that his task today is expected to be achieved.
"Mr. President, we might as well talk to Mr. Zhenhua like this and ask him to promise two conditions after receiving our technical support. First, the two parties will undertake the technical research and development investment in DRAM in the future and share the research and development results at the same time; Second, in addition to helping Toshiba develop the DRAM market in China Mainland, we can also ask him to supply us with DRAM chips at an optimal price. This is equivalent to Toshiba's acquisition of a large-scale DRAM pellet production at no cost. Even if we cannot use it as a weapon to compete with South Koreans in the American market, we can at least increase our profitability. In the unrestricted European market, we can Spread your muscles-after all, although the market environment there is complicated, the demand is quite large. This is also an effort to snipe the South Korean people to gain a larger market share from one side."
"This idea is good, but can Zhenhua-kun agree? Is such a condition too favorable for Toshiba?" Sawa hesitated.
"You have to talk about it before you know it." Wu Shixixing said: "If Zhenhua Jun's vision is long enough, I think he will agree."
As he said this, he thought to himself: "Fujio-kun, Zhenhua-kun, I have done my best for what I promised you, and you must keep your promise!"