Chapter 885: Unfair competition

Tan Zhenhua smiled and shook his head and said: "Mr. President, you may have forgotten that the purpose of my inviting you is to establish an alliance with you. As a future ally, do you think I will threaten you?"
If it were not because I received a threatening package, how could I come to Xiangjiang to meet a young Chinese man like you? Sawami thought with disdain, but said in his mouth: "Then it should be a kind reminder, Mr. Eric, but can you please explain it more clearly?"
"Of course, Mr. President, but before that, I think maybe I should briefly introduce myself. You should already know. I am currently studying in the second year of the electronic engineering department of Stanford University in the United States, and it can barely be regarded as an electronics. People in the industry."
Masaru Sawa nodded, saying that he already knew this. As the president of Toshiba, his sources of information were quite abundant, so after listening to Kumagaigawa’s report, he began to explore the name Tan Zhenhua. Xin, Toshiba’s intelligence department is as efficient as ever. It quickly mobilized all kinds of public information to produce a briefing for him. It is precisely because of reading this briefing that he finally decided this time. The determination of the trip.
This is a comet-like rise, with impressive wealth, and the investment industry is a wide range of Chinese young people, which is really curious.
"From what I have seen and heard in the past two years in the United States, Mr. President, I have come to the conclusion that the United States has regarded the semiconductor industry as the country’s most advantageous and one of the most important industries for development. In other words, although You have indeed gained a little advantage now, but then it is very likely that the United States will mobilize the entire country to counterattack. This time the counterattack will come from multiple dimensions. According to my analysis and opinion, this time, I am very optimistic. The Japanese Kingdom."
Saba's face became very serious.
For Toshiba, the current most important industrial layout is the two major directions-precision machinery and electronics, and the most important layout in the electronics industry is semiconductors.
Toshiba is also the largest semiconductor company in the country.
This is the core competitiveness of the company. There must be no mistakes, and all possible risks must be prevented.
"Mr Zhenhua, I would like to hear the details."
Unconsciously, his name for Tan Zhenhua has changed.
"Actually, the U.S. counterattack has already begun. If you look closely at the layout of the U.S. semiconductor industry, you will know that after discovering that local companies have been unable to compete with the U.S. on DRAM products, they have done two things. It seems that all will affect the entire industry's competitive landscape to undergo major changes.
"Which two things?"
"First, gradually withdraw from the DRAM industry, transfer technology to countries and companies with more competitive costs, and maintain control over these companies by holding equity in these companies."
"Mr Zhenhua, you are talking about Nam Korea?"
"Mr. President, it seems that you are also aware of this problem. Just like the method adopted by the Japanese country at the beginning, South Korea also joined the competition in the semiconductor industry by adopting a trinity approach of "production, study and research". In 1974, he worked for Motorola. Jiang Jidong, a semiconductor engineer of South Korea origin from South Korea, returned to South Korea and established a joint venture with General Electric to establish Hankook Semiconductor, the first semiconductor company in South Korea. Three months later, Samsung acquired 50% of Jiang Jidong’s shares. In 1978, Through a joint venture with a company in Silicon Valley, South Korea Electronics Technology Institute built the first 3-inch wafer production line in South Korea and produced 16KDRAM in 1979. This is the first time that South Korea people have mastered VLSI technology for very large scale integrated circuits.
Beginning in 1980, with the support of the Americans, the South Koreans quickly obtained and mastered the development of key technologies such as 16K, 64K, 128KDRAM. As of this year, according to the incomplete data I have obtained, the Americans have provided assistance to South Korea in the semiconductor industry. Funds have exceeded 2 billion US dollars.
At the beginning of this year, Micron Technology transferred 256KDRAM mass production technology to Samsung Electronics, and at the same time, CITRIX of the United States transferred its design technology for high-speed processing of metal oxide MOS.
Also this year, the Americans transferred 16K and 64KSRAM technology to Hyundai Electronics. I also heard that Texas Instruments in the United States is negotiating on the transfer of 64KDRAM production process to Hyundai.
Mr. President, what do you think Americans do for this? "
"Obviously, they are cultivating an opponent that can compete with our country." When Masaichi Zuo replied, he gritted his teeth. Obviously, he knew all these things.
"Yes, to cultivate competitors in the Wa country’s semiconductor industry, I have to say that the American people’s vision is still quite accurate. They know that they can no longer compete with the Wa country in terms of production costs, so they have found a cheaper alternative, but , This is just one, the other thing they are doing is even more deadly."
"Mr Zhenhua, what is the second thing you are talking about?"
"The U.S. people, or the major semiconductor companies in the U.S., Motorola, Intel, and Texas Instruments are all turning to a more lucrative chip, and they are trying to build a protective wall with patents as a barrier, and once they succeed, The advantage that the Japanese had gained in the semiconductor industry in the early stage will soon be wiped out."
"...You said, is it the central processing unit?"
"Mr. President, your response was a little bit beyond my expectations, but this also shows that you actually agree with the viewpoint I just said, right?"
Masazu Sahama nodded slightly, and then he lowered his head and meditated for a moment before he said, "Zhenhua-san, I have some feelings about what you said, but at least for now, our technology is still leading, and we have more than half of the total. In the semiconductor chip market, DRAM products have absolute market dominance. I don’t think that the United States or South Korea may gain a competitive advantage over us in the near future..."
"Hehehehe", as soon as he said this, he was interrupted unceremoniously by Tan Zhenhua. He sneered a few times before saying: "Mr. President, if it is a completely open and fair market competition, of course I have to Acknowledge that at least in the DRAM product line, there is no possibility that other competitors will catch up or surpass yours in the short term, but if this kind of competition is not based on this criterion? Your opponent is American, I think Mr. President, you would not naively think that the United States would give you this kind of fair competition opportunity, would you?"
Masazu Sawa was taken aback for a moment, and then suddenly changed his color: "Mr Zhenhua, have you heard any special news?!"