Chapter 644 Samsung Emperor Li Jianxi (4100+ chapters~)
"Are you really working as the translator for Director Wu Jianye?"
Han Enzhen nodded matter-of-factly and said, "Yes, what's the matter?"
"I just saw him getting into Li Jianxi's car!" Han Enzhen's boyfriend said in a complicated tone.
Han Enzhen said in disbelief: "How is it possible? He is a director. How could Li Jianxi send a car to pick him up? Are you mistaken?"
"I may have misjudged the president's car. How could I have misjudged Li Jianxi's car!"
Two people......
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The car arrived at a typical Korean manor. When Wu Jianye got off the car, he saw someone waiting for him at the door. When the man saw Wu Jianye, he immediately bent down slightly and said in English: "Wu Jianye."
Director, our president has been waiting for you for a long time, please come with me!"
Wu Jianye nodded and walked into the manor under the leadership of the other party. The style of the manor can be seen to have a distinct Jiangnan style in China. Pavilions, terraces, buildings and courtyards can be seen everywhere.
Under the leadership of that person, Wu Jianye and others came to a room. At the door of the room, there was already a middle-aged woman wearing a classic Korean dress waiting there. Although the woman was middle-aged, her overall temperament was very dignified.
Elegant, just like a lady coming out of a big house.
"Director Wu, welcome to Furong Pavilion. I am Representative Jin from Furong Pavilion. This is my business card. You are welcome to come here often in the future!" After speaking, Representative Jin respectfully handed a business card to Wu Jianye.
After Wu Jianye took the business card, he smiled and said, "Thank you!"
At this time, Wu Jianye already understood what this place was. This should be a place similar to private clubs in China, but judging from the decoration here and the temperament of the boss, it is obviously the top club in Bangzi.
Of course, even if you are not the top Li Jianxi, you will not be able to treat here!
Representative Jin opened the door, and Wu Jianye walked in and saw that the room looked very neat and simple. Except for a dining table in the middle, there was nothing else visible. It was similar to a tatami room in RB!
At this time, the middle-aged man in his forties who was sitting in the middle also stood up, smiled and welcomed Wu Jianye and said: "Director Wu, welcome!"
Wu Jianye stretched out his hand and said with a smile: "President Li is so polite!"
The middle-aged man is naturally the current president of Samsung, Lee Kun-hee, the reclusive emperor of Bangzi!
There is no need to describe too much how powerful Samsung is in Bangzi. Even though it is only 1990, Samsung is still the most powerful group company in Bangzi. Samsung-controlled subsidiaries are spread across almost all industries in Bangzi.
One of Samsung's most powerful semiconductor businesses actually developed and expanded in the hands of Lee Kun-hee.
However, at this time, Samsung’s semiconductor business was not as dominant as in later generations. At this time, Bangzi’s semiconductor business was still producing cheap products and had not entered the mainstream of the world!
However, the semiconductor business is the one that Li Jianxi values the most.
After the two parties sat down, they began to chat. Li Jianxi praised Wu Jianye for being young and promising and bringing glory to Asians. Wu Jianye reciprocated by praising Li Jianxi as a management genius that is rare to see in a century.
Anyway, it’s just mutual business promotion.
However, Wu Jianye knew clearly that it was absolutely impossible for Li Jianxi to invite him here specifically for business promotion!
At this time, the golden representative of Furong Pavilion had already started serving food to their private room. Li Jianxi treated the guests personally, so he naturally reserved the entire Furong Pavilion. In fact, even if Furong Pavilion was open for business, they would not entertain more every day.
guest's.
After the dishes were served, Wu Jianye found that the gold representative asked Li Jianxi's secretary softly about something, and then said with a smile: "President Li, Director Wu, next is our prostitute from Furong Pavilion performing with you. I hope you two like it."
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Li Jianxi laughed and introduced Wu Jianye: "Director Wu, the prostitutes in Furong Pavilion are the best in Seoul. Please enjoy them!"
Wu Jianye said casually: "Then it's better to be respectful than to obey!"
As Representative Jin clapped his hands, the door was opened again, and a girl wearing a classic palace dress walked in, bowed slightly, and started her performance.
In fact, Bangzi's prostitute performance is similar to RB's geisha performance. In ancient times, prostitutes were untouchables. They usually received various arts training in workshops since childhood, such as musical instruments, calligraphy, dance, literature, female celebrities, etc. Some also included medical skills.
Provide performances and entertain guests at banquets.
In ancient times, a girl had to go through a ceremony called Pantou and put on a hairpin before she became an official prostitute.
The female family members of prisoners who committed major crimes involving their families will also be demoted to prostitutes.
It is a similar concept to ancient China when the female dependents of demoted ministers were sent to the Jiaofang Division.
However, the development of prostitutes in Bangzi has been very different now. Most of the prostitutes now are girls who are learning to dance and come here to make some extra money. Of course, some people hope to make more friends through this way.
Some rich people, after all, in this era, those who can come to places like Furong Pavilion to spend money are the top rich in Seoul!
The prostitute's appearance is very delicate, with a standard beauty oval face and a little baby fat. But what makes Wu Jianye more curious is her pair of eyes, which always seem to have a touch of sadness, but Wu Jianye doesn't have much.
His idea was just that of a prostitute, and it had nothing to do with him.
Accompanied by Bangzi's classical music, Jisheng began his performance.
At this time, it is naturally impossible for Wu Jianye and Li Jianxi to talk about anything serious. In fact, there is a bartender service here, but neither Wu Jianye nor Li Jianxi has much interest in such services. The relationship between the two
It’s not yet time to show the other person’s unrestrained side of friendship.
It was Representative Jin who softly explained to the two the origin and story of the dance performed by the prostitute...
When the prostitute performed the dance, Representative Jin said: "Yuclan, come here and toast to President Li and Director Wu!"
Through the introduction of Representative Jin, Wu Jianye already knew that the prostitute's name was Dan Silan, and she studied classical dance at the Seoul Art Academy!
Dan Silan held up her skirt, came to the two of them, and knelt down in front of the dining table. Someone had already brought her a wine glass. Dan Silan toasted to Wu Jianye and Li Jianxi with a calm face!
After all this was over, Li Jianxi gave everyone a look, and everyone left the room with understanding. Wu Jianye knew that Li Jianxi wanted to talk to him about the purpose of inviting him this time!
"Director Wu, I know that Tunan Technology, a subsidiary of your group, is working hard to develop the semiconductor business. However, the global semiconductor market is not very good now. Our group is interested in acquiring the semiconductor business of Tunan Technology!"
Li Jianxi said directly.
Regarding Li Jianxi's request, Wu Jianye had already vaguely guessed it during the banquet, so he was not too surprised now. In fact, Li Jianxi had almost paranoid trust in the semiconductor business.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the global electronics industry developed rapidly.
Li Bingzhe, Li Kunxi’s father and the founder of Samsung Group, is keenly aware that this high value-added industry is Bangzi’s hope for the future.
But his idea was just to work for RB Sanyo.
At that time, semiconductor technology was monopolized by the United States and RB, and Li Bingzhe did not dare to have too many extravagant hopes.
Most people in the company, including the president who is close to them, are opposed to investing in semiconductors, and even the government is not optimistic about it.
At this time, his youngest son Li Jianxi, who had returned from studying in the United States, stood up and said to his father: "Dad, even if I am the only one, I have to try that thing!"
Therefore, amid the radical remarks that "semiconductors will bring down Samsung", Lee Kun-hee started his own business.
In 1974, he used his own funds to buy a Korean semiconductor company, targeting the emerging memory technology at the time.
Memory, also called storage, is the main component of most electronic products. According to different technologies, it is divided into many types. The current mainstream ones are DRAM memory and NAND flash memory. The former is used as mobile phone and computer system memory, and the latter is used as mobile phone flash memory and
Solid state drive (ssd).
However, Li Jianxi's semiconductor journey was not smooth. He went to Silicon Valley more than 50 times to introduce technology and talents, and devoted huge efforts and investments, but he still continued to lose money.
In desperation, the father finally took action and sent capable men to assist his son in the future.
The two oil crises made him realize that in a small country with scarce resources, Samsung's future lies in semiconductors.
"I must start this business before I close my eyes, so that Samsung will be safe and sound."
In 1983, Samsung established its first semiconductor factory in Giheung, Gyeonggi Province and officially declared war on memory.
However, both father and son underestimated the brutality of this battle.
In people's minds, the prices of electronic products drop every year.
But memory is very strange. Like chemicals, it is a heavy asset with a strong cycle. The price fluctuates greatly. When it goes up, you can count the money until you feel weak. When it goes down, you even want to cut it off.
The good thing is that once you survive the recession, you will be the boss of the world.
In this industry, there is only one strategy, either use money to kill your opponent, or your opponent will use money to kill you.
Intel is the earliest player in this industry. It put DRAM into large-scale application in 1970 and swept 80% of the market four years later.
After that, the Japanese suddenly emerged and defeated Intel.
When Samsung got involved in this market, the Japanese were already the world's dominant players.
After finally breaking through the technological blockade and purchasing 64k DRAM technology from Micron, which was still inconspicuous at the time, it encountered the first recession in the industry.
In 1984, as soon as Samsung launched 64k DRAM, memory prices plummeted, from $4 per piece to 30 cents per piece. At this time, Samsung's cost was $1.3 per piece. In other words, it lost $1 for every piece produced.
By the end of 1986, the company had accumulated losses of US$300 million and lost all equity capital.
In fact, until the day Lee Byung-chul passed away in 1987, he was unable to see Samsung Semiconductor making a profit.
Due to the sluggish market, the former industry leader Intel was forced to withdraw and switch to CPUs. Japanese manufacturers such as NEC have also reduced their investment scale. Only Samsung does not know what is good or bad, and like a gambler, it is crazy to increase its bets against the trend.
"The more difficult it is, the more investment must be increased." The losses that lasted for more than ten years not only failed to shake Li Jianxi's belief, but instead aroused his fighting spirit.
In order to overcome technical difficulties, Samsung hired engineers from rb and used weekends to teach technology to Bangzi.
At the same time, we went to the American Semiconductor Company to recruit experienced Bangzi people. Inspired by their patriotism, these people gave up their careers for many years and returned to Bangzi, sacrificing all holidays and fighting day and night.
Among this group of people, there was a young man named Chen Daji, who refused IBM's repeated attempts to stay and joined Samsung without hesitation, on the grounds that he "really wanted to win IBM once." This young man later became the CEO of Samsung Electronics.
However, having passion alone is not enough.
In 1983, when Samsung developed 64k DRAM, the key technology was a full 5 years behind RB.
At 256k, it is 2 years behind rb; at 1m, it is still 1 year behind.
During this period, Samsung people were ridiculed by RB. But they ignored it and worked hard.
In 1987, the people of Samsung finally ushered in a turnaround in the industry after years of hard work.
That year, the United States initiated an anti-dumping lawsuit against rb semiconductor company, and the two parties reached an export restriction agreement.
Affected by this, DRAM prices rebounded, and Samsung took advantage of the situation. Not only did it achieve profitability, but it also began to lead RB in technology.
In fact, the development of Tunan Technology is similar to that of Samsung. Although Wu Jianye knows what technology is the most important, he does not understand the technology inside it. Therefore, for Tunan Technology, their development is not much faster than Samsung.
In particular, Tunan Technology's special status makes the technical barriers and difficulties it encounters even more powerful than Samsung's.
Tunan Technology's development route is actually somewhat similar to Samsung's, and their focus is similar. In 1984, Samsung was already tracking LCD technology. With the emergence of laptop computers, it also ushered in the LCD era in human history.
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During this period, liquid crystal technology has gone through countless iterations, giving birth to thin film transistor liquid crystal displays (tft-lcd), of which rb companies, represented by Sharp, have a monopoly of 90%.
Tunan Technology is also cooperating with rb companies while developing its own liquid crystal technology.
Let’s put it this way, in order to break down technical barriers, Tunan Technology’s annual research funding and losses have reached an annual loss of nearly 200 million US dollars!
This amount is not something that ordinary technology companies can afford. If Tunan Technology's product sales were not very strong, Tunan Technology's current profits would be negative!
Zhou Tao once had doubts about these projects and discussed with Wu Jianye whether to suspend the development of these scientific research projects first.
However, Wu Jianye knew how important technical barriers were to a technology company in the future, so Wu Jianye said at that time that he would rather Yaoguang Group subsidize Tunan Technology every year and continue to develop it. Only in this way can his lifeline be
Won't be caught!
This is why Tunan Technology invests in building laboratories for many famous global universities every year, in order to not fall behind others in this optimal era of rapid technological development!
Wu Jianye tapped his desk and said with a smile: "President Li, as a senior in the business world, we should respect your seniors. However, although Tunan Technology's semiconductor business is still losing money, our Tunan Technology is not responsible for these losses."