Author: quiet thoughts

Why did Hongkawa Kaede choose that time to talk to Toshiba and the others? Was it because the proposal from the Ministry of International Trade and Industry had just been shelved.

After several congressmen tried their best to refute their mistakes, they must also know that the SIC is not powerless to resist.

Since there won't be any changes in the next few months, why don't we all go east and talk about it.

"Ce Bo Sang, nice to meet you."

"Hongchuan Mulberry, I have long admired your name."

Because Hongkawa Kaede personally came forward, Toshiba also sent the group's ninth-generation president Masaichi Saha.

After the two parties left east, there was no need to exchange pleasantries.

Everyone is a prominent figure. Even though they have had several confrontations with each other not long ago, they all behave very humbly towards each other.

In addition to Hongkawa Kaede, SIC's Heitaro Nakajima and Masato Shima also attended the meeting.

Toshiba has Yoshiyuki Takeishi, director of the ULSI Research Institute (Ultra Large Scale Integrated Circuit) outside the group, also serving as a technical advisor to Masaichi Saha.

How can matters involving chips be possible without professional technical personnel present?

After the pleasantries, Hongchuan Kaede went straight to the point, "President Ciha, regarding the cooperation of SIC processor chips, why don't they think about it from a different angle?"

"Do you mean Benikawa-san...?" A strange look flashed through Zuo Haozheng's eyes, and he was surprised by Hongchuan Kaede's directness.

Sure enough, as rumored, the founder of the "new chaebol" was as vigorous and resolute as ever.

Hong Chuanfeng didn't know what the wrong party was thinking, but even if he knew, he wouldn't care.

With his status as Ru Ming, this is not rash. It is not only his personal style, but also the display of his personal charm.

Just like the things used by literati are called cultural relics, all extraordinary things come from the difference in status.

“SIC does not exclude cooperation with other friends in the field of research and development.

And in terms of the degree of openness, regardless of whether it is Hongchuan Electric or SIC, it is second to none among neon companies."

Does Zuobo agree with that point? Hongchuan Sangqidong's company has the same distinctive characteristics as his people, so it should be open and inclusive.

In a survey on the company's working environment conducted by NHK TV station, Hongchuan Electric's employees ranked first in Neon.

The 100 current or former employees interviewed all praised Hongchuan Electric for its free working atmosphere.

Of course, it’s not good to be too free. HAL’s Tanimura is a good example.

Now Hongchuan Holdings is making adjustments, but compared to other traditional clubs, Hongchuan Electric's style is still unique.

So now Hongkawa Kaede says that SIC is open to research and development, does Saha believe it?

"SIC is willing and active to cooperate with other societies. Of course, this must be based on mutual respect and reciprocity."

There is no problem with being inclusive and open, but it is not a prerequisite for interests to be equal.

Reciprocity? Saha Masa grasped the key point in an instant, "If Benikawa-san has any suggestions, you might as well say so."

"Mutual authorization!" Hongchuan Feng said his proposal directly without any hesitation.

"Does Hongchuan-san mean that chips are mutually licensed? Is SIC also preparing to enter the field of DRAM chips?"

Shoichi Saha naturally thought of the DRAM chip business, which is currently the most profitable business of Toshiba's semiconductor division.

Also, in that field, Toshiba only has its own chip technology patents, otherwise how can they authorize each other?

If this is not the case, then the ambition of the other party is not ordinary.

The competition in the DRAM business is so fierce now, and SIC dares to enter the market, so does it mean that it has full confidence in its own strength?

Unexpectedly, Hong Chuanfeng shook his head after hearing his question, "SIC hopes to mutually authorize the flash memory business with Toshiba."

"Flash memory?" Masaichi Saha looked confused. Does Toshiba have that kind of business?

Unlike how he left, Takeishi Kiyuki's face suddenly changed.

"I would like to ask, is the flash memory Hongchuan-san mentioned a NOR-type flash memory with EPRTOM as the logical mode?"

"True or not?" Hong Chuanfeng nodded, confirming his guess, "Since flash memory is still in the theoretical stage, SIC can make certain preferential commitments in terms of chip architecture licensing."

Saha Masaichi's first reaction when he heard Hongkawa Kaede's conditions was that he couldn't help but consider whether the conditions were suitable.

Then he turned around and asked Takeishi Kiyuki if what happened to his flash memory was the problem.

The latter quietly leaned his head and began to answer in a low voice about the flash memory.

As Hongkawa Kaede said, this technology is currently in the theoretical stage. It was proposed and verified by an employee named Fujio Sugaoka outside the institute.

NOR flash memory is different from DRAM memory. Flash memory is a semiconductor non-volatile memory that stores data and does not disappear even after the power is turned off.

That's somewhat similar to Intel's EEPRTOM (erasable programmable memory), but the latter has some obvious shortcomings.

For example, the read and write performance is poor, and it is difficult to improve the integration level. Also because of those shortcomings, EEPRTOM cannot become a large-capacity memory.

Fujio Toshioka put forward another idea, that is, "deliberately lowering the credibility".

In the original memory, erasing and writing data was performed in bytes.

Then flash memory packages the bytes into "small groups", that is, erases and writes in blocks.

To put it simply, flash memory sacrifices refined operations and switches to modular operations.

Although the performance seems to be low, the working mode is simpler and the storage capacity is also increased.

What's embarrassing is that although Fujio Fujioka's ideas are good, Toshiba doesn't pay much attention to them externally.

Even after the semiconductor department evaluated it, it never thought of investing in flash memory.

Because of the general neglect of the leadership, the president of Masaichi Saha was not aware of the existence of flash memory in the past.

In fact, the reason why Toshiba pays so little attention to flash memory has something to do with the background of the times.

Now, in the mid-1980s, what was the most profitable business of Toshiba's semiconductor division? DRAM chips!

At present, the 64K memory chip Neon has occupied 58% of the global market share, and the 256K chip has reached a terrifying 80%.

Among them, Toshiba alone took over nearly one-third. It is not an exaggeration to describe the profitability of DRAM by using the monthly income to make a fortune.

The 1M DRAM that will be launched next year is a bit ahead of Neon’s peers because of its technology.

In that part of the business, Toshiba can monopolize more than 60% of the global market.

According to external statistics, Toshiba's daily profit is only 200 million yuan per month in its DRAM storage business!

Profits! Every day! And that’s very much just the Semiconductor Division!

So with such huge profits at its disposal, it is understandable that Toshiba does not pay attention to flash memory.

The same is not true for Masaichi Saha now. After listening to Takeishi Yoshiyuki's explanation of the specifics of flash memory, he was not interested in that new storage method.

Yizhitu's technology is in the theoretical stage, and I don't know if it can be implemented.

Instead of investing more R&D funds to bet on the commercial use of flash memory in the future, why not continue to work hard on the DRAM track?

After all, the profitability of DRAM has been proven. As long as it develops step by step, profits are almost impossible to achieve.

Storage or not, flash memory seems redundant and full of uncertainties.

Saeki thought for a few seconds before replying, "The flash memory issue can be negotiated with Toshiba, but what about the SIC chip licensing fee...?"

"1%!" Hongchuan Feng gave a very favorable licensing rate.

The normal chip licensing fee ranges from 1% to 3%, but now he directly gives it to the lowest.

Even when Saha Masashi wanted to open his mouth, he unconsciously stopped in the middle of opening his mouth.

"Well, the licensing fee is not reasonable." Zuo Bo turned around halfway and complimented him naturally.

"There is also a condition for SIC." Without waiting for the other party to nod in agreement, Hongchuan Feng also added naturally.

Is it so easy to take advantage of Hongchuan Maple? There are natural reasons why he charges a low price.

And when he heard that the conditions were very good, for some reason Saha Shoichi breathed a sigh of relief.

Or, how can a technology like flash memory, which currently has no commercial value, be exchanged for the architecture technology of a processor chip?

Even if there is a discount, the benefits are pretty good. It’s good that there are supplementary conditions, which means there should be no traps in that transaction.

Tsk, if Hongkawa Kaede knew what Saha Shoichi was thinking, he would definitely sigh that Sabo Sander's delusion of being persecuted was a bit serious and he should take medicine.

"Please tell me if you have any conditions for Hongkawa-san." Shoichi Saha breathed a sigh of relief and waited patiently for Hongkawa Kaede to make another offer.

Since the wrong party said that, Hongchuan Feng won't be polite either.

"Because the technology is very theoretically based, they need Yusei Fujioka to support SIC in improving its verification."

Then I not only want to seek skills, but also want to seek help from people.

"I would like to ask, in which businesses does your company want to apply flash memory technology?" Masaichi Saha did not answer first. Instead, he asked SIC about the purpose of applying flash memory technology.

Hongchuan Feng smiled at this, "It's not a secret, Hongchuan Electric is currently developing a new game cartridge.

Let’s see if we can find a more efficient way to store legs and support game progress saving.”

Of course, this is not a pretense. Although DRAM does not support data saving after power failure, ROM does, but it is just a bit larger.
To be continued...