The first person to persuade Yin to come

Author: quiet thoughts

The first person to persuade Yin to come

The tape-out process cannot be completed in a day or two. From drawing import to mask production and finally to the final film, it takes several days.

Fujitsu has Masatoshi Shima and Hui Yamazaki fully following up, and Kaede Shirakawa has temporarily returned to Shirakawa Electric to handle matters.

Just this month, the Walkman market once again welcomed two new players, Aihua and NEC.

Although the financial statements for March have not yet come out, Shirakawa Kaede can already foresee it.

Compared with last month, the Walkman’s share should continue to decrease.

This will be a slow process until all new entrants are in place and until the market becomes saturated.

At that time, there will be another chaotic war, and then the cards will be reshuffled and the market will be balanced.

Business battles never happen overnight, it takes months or even years to see who is the final winner.

Just when Shirakawa Kaede was thinking about the future business of Shirakawa Electric, Assistant Komatsu suddenly knocked on the door and came in.

"Mr. President, Watanabe-san from Daiichi Quanye Bank is here and is in the conference reception room now."

Huh? Bai Chuanfeng was stunned for a moment, why did he persuade Yin Lai to do it in the first place?

"I know, I'll be there later." Although he was surprised, Bai Chuanfeng remained calm on his face.

He asked Assistant Komatsu to greet the guests first, but he picked up the phone and dialed a number.

"Moxi Moxi, Arai-san? I understand. I will have to work hard for you in the future."

After hanging up the phone, Bai Chuanfeng had a rough idea.

The first thing I did to persuade Yin to come over was just those few things.

Shirakawa Electric's headquarters, loans, cooperation with Fujitsu, or a series of actions in Akita.

After going through everything in his mind, Bai Chuanfeng stood up and walked to the conference reception room.

"Watanabe-san, why are you here?" Before the other party could get up, Bai Chuanfeng greeted him with a smile.

When Ichiro Watanabe saw Shirakawa Kaede coming in, he stood up with a smile and shook hands with him.

"Shirakawa-san is really amazing. He did such a big thing without making any noise."

"Eh?" Bai Chuanfeng pretended to be surprised, "What is Watanabe-san talking about?"

Ichiro Watanabe smiled and leaned closer, "SIC is a company under the Shirakawa Group, right?"

"Watanabe-san should know about this, right?" Bai Chuanfeng looked at him strangely. He was able to connect with Fujitsu because it was not you who introduced him.

"What Shirakawa-san said is true." Ichiro Watanabe nodded, "But I didn't expect that SIC is so powerful."

Bai Chuanfeng's expression changed, "Watanabe-san means"

"If my information is correct, the results will probably come out soon." Ichiro Watanabe gave Shirakawa Kaede a meaningful look.

It turned out that it was because of this matter that Bai Chuanfeng subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.

He has also been on the phone with Masatoshi Shima in the past two days. Most of the tape-out work has been completed, and the actual wafer work will begin soon.

However, the actual performance of the finished product still needs to be verified by going back to the SIC.

However, as Fujitsu has rich production experience, it must have been able to roughly estimate the success rate of the chip based on the drawings and current progress.

The reason why Watanabe Ichiro said this is probably because he learned the relevant information through Fujitsu.

"It's all thanks to you and Fujitsu that SIC can realize the ideas in mind."

Bai Chuanfeng couldn't figure out the other party's specific purpose of coming, so no matter what, he just offered a kind word first.

"That's a chip," Ichiro Watanabe sighed with emotion.

To be honest, when Bai Chuanfeng found him, he didn't take it seriously.

He didn't even know what kind of chips SIC was making. He just thought it was a young man's impulse or a big success.

Based on the good foundation of cooperation before, Ichiro Watanabe took the lead in this matter. He did not even come forward specifically and stopped paying attention to the follow-up.

In his opinion, if he fails once or twice, Shirakawa Kaede will honestly return to the electronic product manufacturing industry.

After all, it is understandable for young people to be upset. He had once openly said that he wanted to join politics, but in the end he did not honestly return to the banking industry.

But he didn't expect that Bai Chuanfeng was not messing around, but spent a lot of real money on it.

And judging from the feedback from Fujitsu, the prospects are likely to be very good.

"Shirakawa-san, although I don't understand technology, I also know that the chip industry requires long-term and huge investment.

Both Fujitsu and Daiichi Bank can provide technical and financial support to SIC."

After hearing Ichiro Watanabe's words, Shirakawa Kaede finally knew the purpose of his visit today.

Are you seeing the potential of SIC and are you ready to bet first?

As expected, these giant consortiums all have a keen sense of smell, almost like a dog's nose.

Alas, it’s really difficult to do something alone in Neon.

No wonder it can control more than 60% of Japan's total output value. This sense of smell alone is worthy of its growing strength.

Bai Chuanfeng even thought that First Persuasion Silver was being polite to him.

After all, Bai Chuanfeng has some strength of his own now. If it were another small club, he would probably have a peaceful life.

"Watanabe-san, SIC has no financial needs for the time being. However, we can cooperate with Fujitsu in some areas."

Faced with the first temptation, Bai Chuanfeng gave his own answer.

"Oh~" Ichiro Watanabe nodded calmly, "Shirakawa-san might as well explain it in detail."

Bai Chuanfeng said regardless of what Ichiro Tobebe was thinking at this moment.

"Presumably Watanabe-san also knows that SIC is a chip design company and does not invest much in design costs, so there is no large capital demand."

In fact, Shirakawa Kaede secretly changed a concept here. The design does not require a big cost, but it does require the realization of the designed things.

However, the design company only talks about the design cost, so there is nothing wrong with that.

"As for cooperation with Fujitsu, we can customize chips for each other and even jointly develop them.

Watanabe-san should be very familiar with Fujitsu's business. A large number of consumer electronics products require chips.

By abandoning the direct purchase of foreign chips and switching to chips jointly developed with SIC, we will surely be able to save a lot of money in terms of costs."

This makes sense, Ichiro Watanabe nodded.

Fujitsu is a very important company within the Daiichi Banking Group, and Ichiro Watanabe also knows him quite well.

In addition to semiconductor manufacturing, Fujitsu also has a consumer electronics business.

Such as personal computers, printers, scanners, air conditioners, wired phones, monitors, etc.

Most of these electronic products are inseparable from microprocessor chips.

In the past, Fujitsu chips basically purchased American products directly.

For example, the latest personal computer FM-8, which it plans to release in May this year, is equipped with an 8-bit chip MC6809 from Motorola in the United States.

The other auxiliary chip is the Z80 from Zilog, which is also an 8-bit chip.

Not a single processor chip on the entire computer comes from Neon.

Now Shirakawa Kaede proposes that SIC and Fujitsu jointly develop processor chips. Once successful, it will indeed be a huge benefit to Fujitsu.

Not to mention anything else, the cost of use alone will be greatly reduced.

You must know that early chip prices and production costs were in a multiple relationship.

Otherwise, Intel wouldn't sell an 8086 for $360.

We participate in the design and manufacture ourselves. There is no doubt that the cost will plummet.

If this is the case, Fujitsu can explain it.

Yes, today Ichiro Watanabe came to visit Shirakawa Electric partly because of the commission from Fujitsu.

It is also engaged in the semiconductor industry, and of course it knows the future potential of SIC if the tape-out is successful.

SIC was introduced by Daiichi Bank, so Fujitsu hopes to complete its investment in SIC through Daiichi Bank.

Seeing that Fujitsu was so optimistic about SIC, Ichiro Watanabe just expressed his opinion directly that First Bank could provide financing.

This is completely a temporary decision. It's just a matter of hunting down rabbits and just taking a chance.

Unsurprisingly, Shirakawa Kaede rejected the First Bank's financing proposal, but relented on technical cooperation.

This is also Fujitsu's minimum expectation for SIC. If the investment fails, it can at least maintain technical cooperation.

As Shirakawa Kaede said just now, chips with self-property rights are also a great thing for Fujitsu.

Whether it's cost or getting rid of dependence on outsiders.
To be continued...