781,How to overtake in corners in the semiconductor industry
Although Chu Huan wants to use the fast ship of Samsung to overtake the semiconductor industry.
But the first condition now is that Samsung must have built the ship. Samsung has not built the semiconductor ship yet, and what Chu Huan needs to do now is actually to make Li Bingzhe become interested in this industry.
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"Director Chu, I am planning to go to Japan in two days to visit the Japanese economist Dr. Inaba. I want to hear his thoughts on the development of the current economic situation in Japan. I know that you yourself, Director Chu,
Japan has a strong business system, and it has cooperation projects with powerful chaebols such as Mitsui and Sumitomo, so I would like to know, Director Chu, what do you think of the business environment in Japan?"
Li Bingzhe asked Chu Huan for advice seriously.
Over the years, Li Bingzhe has been paying close attention to Japan's economic development. The reason is also because the development environments of South Korea and Japan are basically similar. They are both Guo families who are extremely short of natural resources and can only rely on
Talent comes to occupy the market.
"President Li is being humble. My development in Japan is just a small matter, but I don't dare to do anything in front of President Li!" Chu Huan said with a smile.
"Haha!" Li Bingzhe laughed loudly and said: "Dr. Chu, you are really too humble to say this. Jiaku, Japan's new generation of chaebols, especially owns a lot of shares in Japan's small and medium-sized enterprises.
, an investment of US$1 billion from the Japanese branch of Alder Commercial Bank that year allowed Jiaku to accurately find some of Japan's emerging companies with the greatest development potential.
My friends in Japan once told me that if the current situation continues, in less than ten years, Chairman Chu's Jiaku will become the same as Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, and Fuji in Japan.
There is such a situation. If Director Chu said it was just a small fight, then he was really joking!"
Since Li Bingzhe has always been very concerned about the situation in Japan, he naturally knows about Jiaku's development in Japan.
Li Jianxi, who had been silent and looked very respectful, also showed a surprised expression at this time. You must know that Japan is actually a very xenophobic country that pays attention to self-protection of technology. He was really shocked. How could it be possible with Chu Huan's Jiaku?
Is there such a large scale in Japan?
If Li Bingzhe knew what Li Jianxi was thinking, he would definitely remind Li Jianxi that just looking at commercial development is not enough. Just as Li Jianxi thought, how could their government allow such an xenophobic country like Japan to have such a thing in their country?
Large-scale foreign-invested enterprises exist.
Although most of the companies in Jiaku are locally registered companies in Japan, their boss is a Xiangjiang native!
The two fathers and sons had no way to talk, so naturally they had no way to say this.
After hearing what Li Bingzhe said, Chu Huan smiled and said: "Well, since President Li has said this, I won't be humble anymore, otherwise it will really seem a bit hypocritical!"
Li Bingzhe laughed and said, "I'm all ears!"
Then Chu Huan said: "In fact, at this time in Japan, the basic industries such as ironmaking, shipbuilding and petrochemicals that they are proud of have become old industries, so the Japanese government has now begun to intervene in these industries.
The scale of development is huge!”
Old industry does not mean that this industry has no development prospects. The main problem is actually that Japan has reached the world's leading level in these industries, both in terms of technology and scale, and these industries have been beaten by Japan.
A few large chaebols control it, and there is no way for others to enter.
If basic industries such as petrochemicals really become sunset industries, Chu Huan will not invest more than 20 billion US dollars in his hometown to build an expanded version of the "Cangjiang Plan"!
The reason why I say this now is to let Li Bingzhe firmly believe in Samsung's transformation.
Li Bingzhe had obviously listened to Chu Huan's words and continued to ask Chu Huan: "So Director Chu, where do you think the future of Japan's industry will be?"
"President Li, you should know that in the 1960s, Japan received technical support from North America. At that time, Japan obtained a large number of North American technology licenses at extremely low prices, including transistor technology.
In 1962, North America opened up its most advanced integrated circuit planar manufacturing process technology to Japan. Japan's NEC Company obtained the technology authorization for integrated circuit mass manufacturing from Fairchild Semiconductor Company in North America. Then, under the leadership of the Japanese government,
NEC opened its technology to Mitsubishi, Kyoto Electric and other companies, thus forming the prototype of Japan's semiconductor industry.
In the early days, most of Japan's equipment materials were imported from North America, but then joint ventures were gradually established to start localizing equipment. In 1967, Japan Electric established a joint venture with Varian Associates and began to develop and produce automatic aluminum wire vacuums in Japan.
Coating equipment and sputtering equipment, etc. Hitachi Research and Development ion implantation equipment was developed in 1968.
In the 1970s, under the guidance of the government, Japan established a VLSI joint research and development body, which brought together talents from across the country and cooperated with industry, government and academia for joint research and development. In the later period, Japan's technology research and development was faster than that of North America. At the same time, the localization process of Japanese semiconductor equipment was accelerated.
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In 1976, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry of Japan selected semiconductor experts with comprehensive knowledge and coordination capabilities for the entire process of IC design, production, and testing from its affiliated Institute of Electronic Technology. They took the lead in organizing the five largest computer companies in Japan.
Fujitsu, NEC, Hitachi, Toshiba and Mitsubishi Electric formed the "Very Large Scale Integrated Circuit Technology Research Group", whose main goal is to develop and manufacture the most advanced VLSI memory chips, especially 64K and 256K dynamic random access memories (DRAM)
the necessary basic technologies.
1K DRAM and 4K DRAM were first developed in North America in 1970 and 1972. 16K DRAM was developed by the United States and Japan in 1976. 64K DRAM was developed by Japan and the United States in 1977 and 1979 respectively.
Developed by Hitachi, the manufacturer with the largest market share at this time actually means that Japan entered the VLSI era two years earlier than North America.
And I heard that Japan has now developed 256K DRAM."
Li Bingzhe listened to Chu Huan's words carefully and asked tentatively: "So, Director Chu, do you mean that Japan's future industrial outlet is in semiconductors?"
Chu Huan nodded and said: "That's right, South Korea and Japan are both resource-poor areas. If you want to develop the economy quickly, you must rely on high technology to win, and semiconductors are very cutting-edge technology at the moment.
Currently, only two countries, Japan and North America, have semiconductor technology. Although semiconductors are just in their infancy, I assert that in ten years, it will definitely become a social development trend."
"If that's the case, why don't you, Mr. Chu, develop the semiconductor industry?" Li Jianxi listened to Chu Huan's words and finally couldn't help asking.
Li Bingzhe's expression suddenly changed and he scolded: "Jianxi!"
Li Jianxi sat up straight and said quickly: "I'm sorry."
Li Bingzhe apologized and said to Chu Huan: "Director Chu, I'm sorry, young people are ignorant, don't take offense!"
Chu Huan waved his hand and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, Mr. Li just hasn't figured out the problem yet!"
Although Li Jianxi had just been reprimanded by his father, in fact, as Chu Huan said, he had not yet figured out the key to the problem. This question was suppressed by Li Jianxi, and he decided to wait until Chu Huan left to ask his father in person.
the father asked.
At this time, Li Jianxi was not worried that his inquiry would make his father dissatisfied. In the process of taking over, many company successors always hope to prove that they are smarter and far-sighted than their parents.
Therefore, they are very unwilling to listen to the opinions of their parents and want to do something successful under their own leadership.
This is used to prove their judgment, but in fact, their parents actually hope that they can learn from them, because their parents have richer experience and experience, although they may not have the ability to develop emerging industries.
My descendants have better sensitivity, but their experience and experience can ensure that they take fewer detours on the road ahead.
Li Jianxi understands this, so he asks his father about such a matter. Of course, he cannot ask about something that is too easy, because it will make him appear incompetent!
This is actually a question of degree.
"To develop semiconductors is not a small investment. If it fails, the entire Samsung may lose money!"
Li Bingzhe preached to Chu Huan.
Chu Huan has no doubt about this. In fact, when Li Bingzhe wanted to get involved in the semiconductor industry in another time and space, the outside world called Samsung's transformation as Samsung's third venture.
"President, why are you bothering? If you don't get out in time now, it will be too late when the company starts up. What if you regret it in the future?"
"President, please stop making such unnecessary challenges. A few years ago, many entrepreneurs studied semiconductors for a long time under the instructions of President Park Chung-hee, but finally gave up. So many people did
If not, we will definitely not succeed."
"President, we are still unable to meet the requirements for developing semiconductors in terms of funding and technical level. Moreover, the semiconductor market is now firmly occupied by North America and Japan. Semiconductors are a high-investment industry, even if We can do it, but if we want to catch up with and surpass the companies in these two countries, even if we sell all Samsung, it is impossible. The financial risk we need to bear is too great!"
These were all voices of opposition within Samsung, but in the end, Lee Byung-cheol acted decisively and started the semiconductor industry.
This also gave Samsung a decisive say in the subsequent semiconductor field!
But no matter how you put it, entering the semiconductor industry at this time is indeed a very risky thing for Samsung.
Chu Huan smiled and said: "If President Li has any financial problems, our Jiaku can provide appropriate help."
Li Bingzhe looked at Chu Huan seriously and did not directly express his position on this matter, but asked: "What does Director Chu mean?"
"Our Jiaku has a lot of business in North America, and the head office of Alde Commercial Bank is in North America. If possible, Alde Commercial Bank can provide Chairman Li with financing problems!"
Chu Huan preached relaxedly.
This is actually Chu Huan’s plan. Whether it is Xiangjiang or his hometown, there is actually no soil for research and development of semiconductors. If Chu Huan wants to familiarize himself with this industry in advance and have a say in this industry, he must cooperate with South Korea. Samsung, the guy from Taiwan is doing this kind of cooperation.
In this case, Chu Huan can request the two companies to dispatch management personnel, and at the same time, after the management personnel come in, he can develop his own technical personnel internally.
The most important thing is that Chu Huan can obtain the rights to use some of the patents of these companies in this field, instead of being stuck on various patents even if his hometown wants to enter this industry like in later generations. neck.
Of course, it is Chu Huan who has gained the most from this. After all, many emerging industries in later generations cannot do without the use of semiconductors.
After listening, Li Bingzhe still did not express his position. This is a huge plan. Li Bingzhe must weigh various situations before giving Chu Huan an accurate answer.
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Until Chu Huan asked to say goodbye, the dinner table was full of laughter.
Li Jianxi sent Chu Huan to the parking lot again, then came to Li Bingzhe's study and asked the question he had been wondering about just now.
"Father, since semiconductors are the future development direction, why doesn't Chu Huan personally enter this industry?"
Although Li Bingzhe knew that his son would come back at this time, when he saw Li Jianxi really coming back, he still felt a little disappointed on his face.
"You should leave with Chu Huan at this time to deepen the relationship between you two, instead of coming back to ask me this question, because I am here at any time, so I can answer this question to you at any time, but Chu Huan is in Seoul Won’t stay long!”
Li Jianxi raised his eyebrows slightly and said: "Father, I have let you down!"
Li Bingzhe waved his hand and said: "Forget it, this is not a big deal."
Later, Li Bingzhe said to Li Jianxi: "Let me ask you, where is Chu Huan from?"
"Xiangjiang!" Li Jianxi replied directly.
Li Bingzhe nodded and said: "When doing business at our level, we can no longer just look at the commercial aspects, but also pay more attention to the world political situation.
Chu Huan has considerable investments in North America, Europe, Japan and other places, but have you noticed a problem?"
Li Jianxi lowered his head and replied: "Father, please make it clear!"
Li Bingzhe said: "Except for Chu Huan's business in these areas, which is slightly sensitive in the banking industry, his other businesses actually do not involve high-tech fields. This is where Chu Huan is smart, because he cannot be involved in these fields. If he
If these areas are involved, his business in these areas will definitely be hit, and it will even affect his original business!
Do you understand the key now?"
Li Jianxi pondered for a moment, and finally understood what his father meant, and said: "So, father, what you mean is that Chu Huan's identity is actually destined, and he cannot make a difference in this industry?"
Li Bingzhe nodded and said: "Yes, my people also investigated that Chu Huan has a lot of investments in China. Although the situation between China and the United States has changed now, it is impossible for North America to let China achieve anything in such a core field.
Development, this is actually North America’s way of curbing China’s development to some extent.
Chu Huan must have understood this, so he will not personally invest in this industry. The only thing he can do now is to use North American funds to penetrate into this industry. This is the right choice.
The best thing for him."
As the saying goes, one knows everything. At this time, Li Jianxi already understood what Chu Huan meant, and he naturally guessed what his father Li Bingzhe meant.
"So, father, you did not agree to Chu Huan's funds entering our group before. In fact, you did not want to reject Chu Huan's funds. You just wanted to weigh the forces in all aspects and at the same time give Chu Huan a sense of crisis. Tell him that we do not
He is not the only partner. When Chu Huan has a sense of crisis, we will be able to have more say in this project!?"
Li Bingzhe nodded happily and said: "Yes, there is almost a consensus in the entire Asian business community now that Chu Huan must have a large amount of cash in his hands. If this cash comes in, we can remove it.
The other parties have the right to speak in this project, and correspondingly, our own right to speak is even more important!"
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"Old fox!"
Chu Huan, who was sitting in the car and preparing to go to see Zheng Mengjiu, was helplessly complaining about Li Bingzhe.
Chu Huan naturally saw the problem that Li Jianxi could see. The other party was suppressing him and wanted him to come up with more cash, but he had the least say.
"It seems that we still need to add some information to this old fox. We need to let him know that he can't see so far!"
Chu Huan thought silently. The reason why Li Bingzhe dared to do this now was actually because in his opinion, if he wanted to enter this industry, he would have to rely on Samsung. After all, in North America at this time,
It has already formed a large scale.
It is simply impossible for me to enter it again.
"If you want to add something to the other party, then there are two ways. The first is to add competitors to him, so that the other party understands that he is not the only one."
Speaking of this, Chu Huan thought of the person from Taiwan, who should still be at Texas Instruments.
"The other way is to let the other party understand that you don't have to enter this industry. Anyway, this industry is an extremely money-burning industry in the early stage. Even if Samsung successfully keeps up with the pace of North America and Japan, their size can
Can you withstand this money-burning war?"
In fact, Samsung did get through it.
Although Chu Huan only told Li Bingzhe about semiconductors today, in fact, Li Bingzhe has always been paying attention to this industry. Whether he went to Japan to learn from experience or went to North America for research, it was Li Bingzhe who officially led Samsung for him.
determination to transform.
In fact, in 1974, Lee Byung-cheol bought a South Korean semiconductor company.
Then Li Bingzhe finally decided to enter the semiconductor industry in 1983 after many inspections. At that time, in order to achieve success, Li Bingzhe went to Silicon Valley more than 50 times, introduced technology and talents, and devoted huge efforts and investment. However, the difficulty of the matter
It was higher than he imagined. Year after year, all he got was constant losses.
But this did not stop Lee Byung-chul from wanting to make semiconductors. In the same year, Samsung established its first semiconductor factory in Giheung, Gyeonggi Province, and officially declared war on memory.
But the memory industry is a very strange industry. Like chemicals, it is asset-heavy and has a strong cycle. Prices rise and fall sharply. When it goes up, you can count the money until you feel weak. When it goes down, you even want to cut it off.
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In this industry, there is almost 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.
As a latecomer with no market position, Samsung can only endure the humiliation and work its way up step by step from talent to technology. Being a student has to pay a price. Taking food from other people's bowls, chasing and intercepting, and short-circuiting bans are all commonplace.
Samsung paid the price one after another, and was beaten round after round by its opponents. In the wind and rain, and in the precarious situation, Li Bingzhe became more and more courageous with every setback, and he insisted on not letting up on Qingshan.
Even so, the road ahead is still bumpy.
First there were technical difficulties. In 1983, Samsung developed 64K
When it comes to DRAM, the key technology is a full 5 years behind Japan. When it comes to 256K, it is 2 years behind Japan; when it comes to 1M, it is still 1 year behind.
After finally breaking through the technological blockade, the industry encountered its first recession. In 1984, Samsung just launched 64K
DRAM and memory prices have plummeted, from $4 per piece to 30 cents per piece, while Samsung's cost is $1.3 per piece. In other words, it loses $1 for every piece produced.
During this period, the Samsung people were humiliated by the Japanese. But they ignored it, worked hard, concentrated on their efforts, and worked hard.
By the end of 1986, Samsung had accumulated losses of US$300 million and lost all its equity capital.
The next year, Li Bingzhe passed away.
That day when he closed his eyes, he failed to see Samsung Semiconductor making a profit.
US$300 million is nothing to Chu Huan, but Chu Huan is different from Samsung. Under the general environment, North America is willing to see South Korea compete with Japan. After all, they can benefit from it.
But Chu Huan is different. Again, if Chu Huan gets involved in this industry, even if Chu Huan has sufficient funds to do this at this time, Chu Huan will not have an absolute market to accommodate his semiconductors.
Therefore, if you want to make a living in this industry, you have to wait until your hometown develops. At that time, Chu Huan may be able to make a living in this industry by relying on his growing global prestige and his growing audience.
Forge ahead!
Talking about Samsung, Chu Huan has sufficient funds, but Samsung does not. As mentioned just now, Samsung, which lost 300 million US dollars at that time, almost lost all its equity. That was when Chu Huan really exerted his strength.
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"Since you want to spend it, then spend it all!"
Chu Huan leaned on the seat with a smile on his face.
Soon, Chu Huan arrived at the private club and met Quan Zaiguo and Zheng Mengjiu.
At the same time, the private room was already filled with singing and dancing.
When Chu Huan came in, he saw Quan Zaiguo licking wine from a girl's body. The girl's body was the container.
"Haha, Ah Huan, you are finally here. How was your chat with that old fox Li Bingzhe?" Quan Zaiguo said nonchalantly after seeing Chu Huan.
"The personal relationship went well, but the official business didn't go so well!" Chu Huan casually found an empty seat and sat down.
Quan Zaiguo smiled proudly and said, "The old fox is famous for being cunning. It's not that easy for you to take advantage of him!"
Chu Huan did not tell Quan Zaiguo about the specific matters that he and Li Bingzhe wanted to cooperate. He said nonchalantly: "It doesn't matter. South Korea is not the only Samsung group. We can't cooperate with Samsung. We can also cooperate with Hyundai."
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Zheng Mengjiu smiled bitterly, "Director Chu, I suspect you are exposing my scars!"
Chu Huan smiled and said: "Master Zheng is overthinking it. Although we can't cooperate on the matter in Xiangjiang, it doesn't mean we can't cooperate on other things. It just so happens that Master Quan is here today, why don't I choose
For a project, we have a three-way cooperation. You provide resources, I provide funds, and Mr. Quan provides connections. How about we cooperate with three parties and share the benefits equally?"
Both Quan Zaiguo and Zheng Mengjiu showed interested expressions at the same time. Chu Huan was not a second generation like them. Chu Huan actually controlled his own consortium, a real business tycoon... what the hell...
He is a global business tycoon. It is definitely not a small project for such a person to cooperate!
Quan Zaiguo couldn't hide the matter in his heart and immediately asked Chu Huan: "Director Chu, what project do you want to talk about?"
Zheng Mengjiu also looked at Chu Huan curiously, unable to hide the light in his eyes.
Chu Huan smiled and said: "I know that the South Korean government has been developing Jiangnan District in recent years. People from my company have already seen the land there. There are still many undeveloped projects. You two, the development of Jiangnan District has been unstoppable.
If we can form a real estate company at this time, with my funds, Mr. Quan’s connections, and Mr. Zheng’s resources, we won’t have the final say in the entire Jiangnan District, right?"
Quan Zaiguo patted the girl beside him and said happily: "Yes, why didn't I think of this?"
Zheng Mengjiu also showed an interested expression.
Chu Huan looked at the expressions of the two of them and also smiled. His Jiaku would definitely not touch residential buildings in Xiangjiang, but in places like South Korea and Japan, there is no such thing. Anyway, there will be Zheng Mengjiu,
Quan Zaiguo and the other two stood in front, and it was not him who was scolded.
The most important thing is that the business atmosphere in Jiangnan is not that strong at this time. If Chu Huan can make reasonable use of their relationship, it is impossible to say that the biggest land king in Jiangnan District in the future will belong to their company!