The core opportunity lies in Fuso Country, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and it holds key technical barriers to the semiconductor industry.
The development stage of semiconductor enterprises in Fuso Country has successively gone through three stages: rise (1970s), heyday (1980s), and decline (1990s). It is still in the stage of industrial transfer.
At the beginning of this century, Fuso's semiconductor industry as a whole lagged behind the United States for more than ten years.
In the mid-1970s, Fuso's semiconductor companies were severely impacted by two events.
One thing is that in 1975, under pressure from the United States, it was forced to open its domestic computer and semiconductor markets.
Another thing is that the high-performance computer called the future system (f/s) developed by IBM uses a one-megabyte dynamic random access memory that far exceeds Fuso's technical level.
Inspired by these two events
From 1976 to 1979, under the guidance of the government, Fuso State began to implement the landmark VLSI joint combination technology innovation action project ~ vlsi.
The vlsi project is led by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, with the five major companies of Hitachi, Mitsubishi, Fujitsu, Toshiba and RB Electric as the backbone.
In conjunction with the Electrical Technology Laboratory EIL of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Fuso Institute of Industrial Technology's Electronics Research Institute and Comprehensive Computer Research Institute, a total of 72 billion yen has been invested in breakthroughs in core common technologies in the semiconductor industry.
The vlsi project is an important practice in the integration of government, industry, and academia in Fuso. It brings together five computer companies that usually compete with each other, as well as the research talents of the Electronic Technology Research Institute affiliated to the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, to conduct research work together.
It not only concentrates the talent advantages, but also promotes mutual exchanges and mutual inspiration between computer companies that are usually technically incompatible with each other, and promotes the improvement of semiconductor and integrated circuit technology levels across the country.
It provides a platform for the further development of semiconductor companies, allowing Fuso to quickly keep pace with the United States in its technical level in the field of microelectronics.
In the 1980s, benefiting from the rapid development of the domestic automobile industry and the global large computer market, the demand for DRAM increased sharply. The rise of Fuso's semiconductor industry took memory as the entry point, mainly DRAM (dynamic random access memory), relying on low prices.
Strategy quickly captures the market.
Fuso had already achieved technological leadership in dram at that time. At this time, with its large-scale production technology, it quickly penetrated the US market and quickly replaced the United States as the main dram supplier around the world.
In 1986, the market share even reached 80%.
With the development of the semiconductor industry, the United States has raised a big trade stick to beat the small book, and the world market has been rapidly reshuffled.
By 1989, Fuso's chip market share in the global market reached 53%, showing an obvious shrinking trend, with the United States accounting for 37%, Europe 12%, South Korea 1%, and other regions 1%.
As of 1990, Fuso's semiconductor companies accounted for six of the top ten and twelve of the top twenty in the world. Fuso's semiconductor industry is still strong.
It can be seen from this that the true strength of Fuso's semiconductor industry is unrivaled in the world.
At this time, Samsung, the country of Bangzi, has been waiting impatiently, staring greedily at the Japanese semiconductor companies, ready to pounce at any time and tear off a piece of flesh.
Entering the 1990s, the United States launched a technological revolution centered on downsizing. The economy shifted from reality to reality, set off a wave of revolution in the information industry, and led a new round of development in the world's high-tech field.
New information and communication equipment represented by individuals is developing rapidly, but Fuso Country is not sufficiently prepared in this field.
At the same time, with the sharp appreciation of the yen, Fuso's technical advantage in dram has gradually been lost, and its cost advantage has gradually been replaced by South Korea, Taiwan and other places.
Personal PCs have replaced mainframes and become the leading product in the computer market, and have also become the main downstream applications of DRAM.
Different from mainframes' high requirements for DRAM quality and reliability (reliability guarantee years), PC's main demand for DRAM has changed to low price.
The technical threshold of dram is not high. South Korea, Taiwan and other places have mastered the core technology through technology introduction, and through labor cost advantages, they quickly replaced rb and became the main supplier.
Wang Yaocheng flipped through the information in his hand, and the goal in his mind gradually became clear, that is;
In line with the rapid development of new information and communication equipment represented by personal PCs, they quickly entered the market.
The first step is to enter the DRAM field where the technical threshold is not high. Through the labor cost advantage, in this semiconductor industry transfer competition, we will slowly gain the first mover advantage and take the first bite of meat.
The biggest problem plaguing him now is;
If you want to obtain dram technology and production lines from the United States or Fuso, the identity of China Continent is an unavoidable issue.
The semiconductor industry is a standard high-tech industry, and the Paris Coordination Committee keeps a very close eye on it. It will never allow technology to flow in and will definitely obstruct it.
unless……
Become a Hong Konger.
Wang Yaocheng shook his head in annoyance, cut off this thought, and did not think about this annoying problem for the time being.
Finland's capital Helsinki International Airport
2:20 noon
After a long-distance flight of 12 hours and 40 minutes, the Hong Kong Cathay Pacific flight finally arrived safely at Helsinki International Airport. Wang Yaocheng and his party of four wore thick down jackets and dragged their suitcases out of the airport.
It is the coldest season in Northern Europe. Outside is a land of ice and snow, and the breath turns into ice.
"Wow! It's freezing to death."
Cai Linlin was wearing a down coat, tightly wrapped up and down, and a cotton mask on her face, revealing only a pair of watery red phoenix eyes, with obvious frost on her eyelashes.
"With so much luggage, it looks like we have to call two taxis. Let's leave quickly."
Wang Yaocheng waved his hand and stopped two pickpocket taxis at the airport. Several people quickly got into the car and the taxi drove towards the city of Helsinki. The wheels rolled over the thin ice and snow on the road, making a slight sound of ice cracking.
The capital, Helsinki, is the largest city in Finland. It is located at 60 degrees north latitude and borders the Baltic Sea. It is a beautiful city that combines urban architecture and pastoral scenery. It has a population of more than 1.2 million, accounting for about 1/4 of the country's population.
forty minutes later
Two taxis stopped at the 1952 Hotel next to the House of Lords Square. This hotel was newly built to host the 1952 Helsinki Olympics.
Although it has been 40 years ago, it is one of the few new buildings in Helsinki where there are hundreds of years old buildings everywhere.
After checking in at the front desk of the hotel, a group of four people dragged their suitcases and walked into the elevator with an iron fence. The elevator operator in his 50s first pulled up the iron fence and then closed the elevator door.
The elevator slowly goes up with a squeaking sound, and the sound of metal friction can be heard from time to time, which makes people feel like they have returned to Europe in the 1950s.
All the facilities in the hotel seemed old, but they were very clean. The carpet in the corridor was bald, and the oval door and window arches with complicated patterns gave it a strong exotic feel.
Dragging the huge suitcase, several people in the group breathed a sigh of relief;
"I'm so exhausted. I'm finally here. It's been such a long journey!"
"I still can't believe it. Standing on the other side of the earth now is like a dream."
“The weather here is so cold that it’s really hard to go out.”
"Well... don't be busy today. Let's take a rest for a while and catch up on the jet lag. Let's have dinner together tonight."
Wang Yaocheng explained, opened the wooden door of the business suite with a brass key, and reached out to push it open.
Sudden,
The wooden door creaked, which startled Wang Yaocheng.
Then he smiled helplessly, this is the price that must be paid to preserve the historical deposits.