Chapter 887: The most correct decision

In 1975, the Japanese people put forward the concept of the "VLSI Research and Development Program for the Next Generation Computers" centered on the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, and established the "Very Large Scale Integrated Circuit (VLSI) Research and Development Policy Committee" jointly participated by the government and the private sector.
In March 1976, the Japanese government launched a national project of "DRAM Manufacturing Law Innovation" after many negotiations between the Ministry of International Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Finance and Economics. The government contributed 32 billion yen, and Hitachi, NEC, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, and Toshiba jointly raised 40 billion yen. A total of 72 billion yen (approximately 236 million US dollars calculated at the exchange rate at the time) was invested as the fund, led by the National Institute of Electronics Research and the Institute of Computer Science, to establish a national scientific research institution-VLSI Technology Research Institute.
This can be said to be a Japanese version of the "national system" battle.
This battle gave full play to the advantages of this "national system". The Japanese government, industry and academia are trinity, coordinated development, cooperation, and concerted efforts. For highly difficult and high-risk research projects, the VLSI Institute organized multiple laboratories Work together to mobilize the enthusiasm of all units, play a healthy competition, technology sharing and cooperation between enterprises, and jointly improve the success rate of DRAM mass production.
By 1980, the Japanese announced that they had completed the "National Project for DRAM System Innovation." During the period, the number of utility model patents and commercial patents applied for reached 1,210 and 347 respectively. The main results of the research and development include various types of electron beam exposure equipment, various types of plate making and copying equipment using ultraviolet, X-ray, and electron beams, dry etching equipment, etc., and a series of eye-catching results have been achieved, which is the first time to win The semiconductor war has laid a solid foundation for industry and scientific research.
Before this "battle", although the Japanese were able to produce DRAM memory chips, the most critical production process equipment and raw materials were mainly from the United States. In order to make up for the shortcomings, the Japanese organized more than 800 technicians to conduct key research and jointly develop high-tech High-performance domestic DRAM production equipment not only realized the commercialization of 64KDRAM and 128KDRAM, but also realized the key production process equipment for commercialization of 256KDRAM in 1983. It is currently challenging 512K and 1MDRAM chip particles.
It can be said that it was the success of this battle that allowed the Japanese country to break through the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, and successfully realized the localization of key semiconductor manufacturing equipment, which also laid the foundation for it to firmly occupy the core of the semiconductor industry chain for a long time to come. Capital of supplier status.
To be a digression, don’t look at the products of several semiconductor companies in South Korea that seem to occupy a very high market share, but more than 40% of its equipment and more than 20% of core raw materials must be imported from the country, so the last two The relationship between China and Japan deteriorated, and the Japanese people said in a hurry that I had several raw materials that I would not sell to you, so Nan Gaoli would kneel immediately?
What’s more weird is that the South Koreans actually used the method of boycotting Japanese products to ask the Japanese people to sell them goods, and cut their fingers if they didn’t agree...
What expression should I use at this time·JPG!
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The six major research laboratories Tan Zhenhua just mentioned are the core units undertaking this "national system."
The first laboratory, Hitachi, is responsible for electron beam scanning equipment and micro-projection ultraviolet exposure equipment. Director: Zhengjun You Gao.
The second laboratory, Fujitsu, is responsible for the development of variable-size rectangular electron beam scanning equipment. Director: Masa Nakamura.
The third research room, Toshiba Corporation, is responsible for EB scanning equipment and plate making and copying equipment. Director: Takeshi Kiko.
The fourth research room, the Institute of Electrical Engineering, conducts research on silicon crystal materials, head of the room: Takashi Iizuka.
The fifth research room, Mitsubishi Electric, develops process technology and projection exposure equipment, director: Aotai II.
The sixth research room, NEC company, conducts product packaging design, testing and evaluation research. Director: Chuan Luzhao.
As soon as Sawami looked at the information in his hand, his heart was ups and downs.
In this not too thick material, it describes in detail the history of the development of the entire semiconductor large-scale integrated circuit in the country, the roles played by major companies, leaders, main directions and products, etc., if this report Tan Zhenhua didn't hand it to him, he thought it was a report from the Ministry of International Trade and Industry.
This is definitely not the information that one person can collect in a short time. It must come from a team that cooperates with tacit understanding and came after a long period of investigation!
In other words, the young Chinese man in front of him has been preparing for this meeting today for a long time!
Reminiscing about what Kumagaigawa told him and what the company's intelligence department urgently collected, about the legendary deeds of this young man, he felt that perhaps the strategic alliance could really be tried.
Of course, as the president of Toshiba, he feels that if a strategic alliance is to be formed, Toshiba has more businesses to cooperate with.
Moreover, this kind of cooperation should not be unilateral. Toshiba will only export technology, it should be bilateral!
"Mr. Zhenhua, if I am not mistaken, you still have some technologies that we are interested in Toshiba, such as high-performance rechargeable batteries, such as the patent of "iron-based permanent magnet materials", and these technologies are important to us. For Toshiba, whether it is the manufacture of home appliances or micro-to-heavy motors, there are broad application prospects, or can we also talk about cooperation in this area?"
"Why not?" Tan Zhenhua's face burst into a charming smile: "Look, we will soon find complementary industries, so I think our small league will definitely achieve good results. Right? Mr. President?"
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Kumagaigawa felt that this must be the longest day in his life.
Mr. President had a secret conversation with the young Chinese man for more than 6 hours. During this period, he didn’t even eat lunch. He just ordered some small cakes from the hotel to satisfy his hunger. However, when he saw Mr. President again, It was discovered that after such a long period of negotiation, the old man, who was over 60 years old, was still excited and red.
There must be some remarkable progress, he thought.
His conjecture was quickly confirmed. On the flight back to Tokyo, Kumagaigawa learned of his latest appointment-he will serve as the chief representative of the upcoming Toshiba Corporation in the Hong Kong branch, and will be fully responsible for working with Tan Zhenhua’s companies. Business cooperation matters, and these cooperation projects include:
A brand new, 6-inch wafer fab requires all the equipment supply, all the production process of 128KDRAM chips and the supply chain procurement and delivery of all the raw materials required for production;
Joint venture to build a new color picture tube production line in Wenzhou, China;
To sell color TVs, refrigerators, washing machines, air conditioners and production lines including main components such as motors and compressors to the home appliance factory invested by Tan Zhenhua in Wenzhou. At the same time, Toshiba will order the factory to produce the above four types of products exclusively for the Chinese market ；
The above production lines include all the necessary patent authorizations required for production. At the same time, Tan Zhenhua will also open Toshiba's patent authorizations for high-performance rechargeable nickel-cadmium batteries and neodymium iron boron permanent magnet materials;
This is a fairly extensive cooperation agreement, involving a transaction amount of more than 500 million U.S. dollars. Toshiba is able to derive substantial commercial benefits from this agreement-so, Sawa who personally settled this agreement President Zhengyi should have a sense of accomplishment.
In addition to the text, the two sides also reached a tacit agreement-if the South Koreans launch an attack on the DRAM industry in the country, the country and China, or Tan Zhenhua, will become natural allies.
However, both Sawa Masaichi and Kumagaikawa knew that, behind this agreement, Huaxia, or Tan Zhenhua, had obtained some technologies that they might not be able to get no matter how much money they spent from other channels.
Will these technologies have an impact on Toshiba, or the entire Japanese semiconductor and household appliances industries in the future?
Now, no one knows, no one can pack tickets.
This may be a big adventure, but Saba thinks it is worth it.
Although neither he nor Tan Zhenhua were very clever to mention that sensitive topic in the conversation, everyone knew in their hearts that that was the most important bargaining chip in this negotiation
In exchange for a bad result that may happen in the future but is not necessarily sure to happen, to avoid the bad result that will happen immediately, and it also comes with a lot of huge benefits that can be realized immediately in reality. Sawa thinks that he can do it now. The most correct decision.