Chapter 847 Technical camp

NEC cannot provide joint venture projects with more advanced technology than Zhongjing Microchip. Huaxia Electronics and Jianye Municipal Government have Zhongjing Microchip construction experience as reference, and they also know what details should be paid attention to during negotiations - everything has Zhongjing Microchip as a template, so that the negotiations between NEC Electronics, Huaxia Electronics and Jianye Municipal Government will go smoothly. On June 18, the three parties reached a preliminary intention to jointly build Huaxia NEC wafer factory project.

Ge Jiande failed to keep his hesitant ambition until after dusk. Before dusk, Zhongjing Microchip delivered a statement to the editorial department of Jianye Morning News Agency. Although this statement will not be reported until tomorrow morning, Ge Jiande knew the contents of Zhongjing Microchip's statement as quickly as possible in advance.

Today, Zhongjing Microchip, led by Yuexiu Holdings, reached an agreement with Deyi, agreeing that Deyi injected $60 million in funds into Zhongjing Microchip in exchange for 10% of Zhongjing Microchip's equity.

Deyi’s capital injection agreement still needs to be approved by the National Development Planning Commission before it will finally take effect, but this news is enough to destroy Ge Jiande’s good mood for a day.

For Hikami Chi Sao-shuizo who attended today's signing ceremony, the Chinese NEC project was a useless, because China made huge concessions and NEC did not have any good losses and did not have to take any risks. It is not impossible to promote the joint venture project with the flow; but it is always useless, and Hikami Chi Sao-shuizo would not feel particularly happy.

Huaxi Mining, which aims to integrate rare earth mineral resources, is officially listed in Jianye today. Ji Zuoxuezhao will undoubtedly feel that this is a mocking his disastrous defeat in handling this crisis. Toshiba also reached a cooperation agreement with Kumho the day before yesterday, and undoubtedly slapped Ji Zuoxuezhao in the face.

The only ones who were frustrated were Ge Jiande and Chi Zuoxu. In the temporary apartment, Lee Jae-soo stared at the rain curtain outside the window, with no expression on his face. After staring for a long time, he said expressionlessly: "Toshiba's movements are so fast!"

Jin Nanyong didn't say anything. What could he say, complaining about the slow movement of the headquarters? It should be said that Toshiba's movement was too fast. Their technical negotiations with Kumho lasted less than half a month. They had just decided to formally contact Kumho, but they were told to be eliminated, and they were depressed and couldn't relax.

"We might just use the pressure on Kumho to put pressure on Toshiba," Lee Jae-soo sighed softly, "Their goal is to cooperate with Toshiba. They had this intention half a year ago. Once the situation forces Toshiba to take the initiative, the cooperation agreement will be reached immediately. Take an old Chinese saying: Ganchai has been waiting for the fire..."

Jin Nanyong thought to himself: How can there be such an old saying in China?

Kim Nanyong said: "In the past six months, the shipments of Kumho's IPlayer and other DMP products have increased month by month, but there is still no way to see the Dawn of CDs, tape walkmans, and MD. Toshiba officially joins the DMP camp, which can probably accelerate the global promotion of DMP?"

"Samsung missed the match-" Lee Jae-soo sighed again, and he was eliminated without even the opportunity to get in touch. He felt a little regretful. Samsung has never had excellent portable audio-visual products. Maybe he felt that Kumho's DMP technology is not worth exchanging with flash technology. However, Kumho launched the physical flash drive for the first time at the Moscow International Electronics Exhibition a week ago. Lee Jae-soo thought to himself: This is the bargaining chip that ultimately made Toshiba surrender. Samsung was a beat slower after all.

Lee Jae-soo looked at the flash drive slightly smaller than the disposable lighter. The real thing was better than the simple technical documents. He clamped the flash drive in his train style between his fingers and said, "It's really possible to end the floppy drive... Microsoft seems to plan to directly support the USB interface standard in the new operating system."

Flash memory technology is actually developed by Kumho in the two possible applications in the future. Li Zaizhu is mixed with all kinds of feelings. He is still calculating the output value of the current global floppy drive market. In the end, the mobile memory market size based on USB interface standards will definitely not be smaller than floppy drives.

"It may be that high prices will become the only obstacle... Although flash disks have not been officially launched yet, the market price of flash disks with a capacity equivalent to twenty-two floppy disks will not be less than US$100, or even 120 US dollars. Such a high price will limit the promotion of flash disks. Kumho's IPlayer and other DMP products cannot completely shake the market position of CD, MD, and Walkman. The main reason is the high price," said Jin Nanyong. "Whether it is player and other DMP products, or flash disks that will be officially launched soon, their key core components are flash chips. They need to develop higher capacity and lower cost flash chips..."

"Yes, this is the fundamental reason why Toshiba can't wait to choose to cooperate with Kumho," Lee Jae-soo frowned slightly. "Higher capacity, lower cost, and also means a wider application field. We can't leave them behind..."

"We need higher capacity and cheaper flash memory chips. If the cost of the IPlayer can be reduced by half, it can win an absolute advantage in the digital audio market. The price of flash memory disks must also be reduced to be widely used," Zhang Ke held a flash memory chip with his finger and stared at him affectionately. "Before this, we could only passively wait for others, and now we can rely on ourselves..." Before going to Hong Kong, Zhang Ke specially summoned Chen Xinsheng, Ding Huai, Liu Zhicheng, Cheng Hanzhang and others to call at the Oak Garden.

An internal meeting was held. Although transfers to third parties were prohibited, Kumho did obtain a complete flash memory technology authorization from Toshiba the day before. As a bargaining chip, Kumho also almost brought out all the technical foundation accumulated over the past few years. It was only after signing an agreement with Toshiba that Zhang Ke had a little confidence that Kumho could occupy a place in the future electronics industry. "I won't expect a higher capacity for the time being, after all, I have to give the R&D department some time... The cost is lower. I don't know if it will be realized in October?"

Zhang Ke couldn't wait to ask Oak Park to set up a special R&D team. Of course, if you want to make a breakthrough in Toshiba's current flash memory technology, you need to invest huge financial, material and manpower, and you need to introduce more excellent researchers. It takes a certain amount of time, but it is relatively easier to reduce costs.

In addition to 16M and 32M capacity flash memory chips, Zhongjing Microchip's 0.35 micron wafer process process can even produce higher capacity flash memory chips.

The construction of Zhongjing Microchip's factory has been completed and the pilot line of the Oak Garden's process technology development platform and the 2,000 square meters ultra-clean room pilot line is completed and put into use in advance. The technical team of Zhongjing Microchip and Oak Garden can first use the Oak Garden's platform to absorb and digest the flash memory technology provided by Toshiba. With four months of buffering, it should be certain.

Liu Zhicheng said: "Then let's prepare for the production of flash memory chips first, but don't expect the cost to drop suddenly. The yield rate problem may plague Zhongjing Microchip for a long time. Everyone should be mentally prepared early."

Zhang Ke smiled and said, "There is no need to rush. I think Zhongjing Microchip will not have much problem in surviving. The key is to develop..."

In the past, in 2005, the global output value of flash memory chips exceeded 10 billion US dollars. No matter how hard Kumho is, he must be one of the four major flash memory manufacturers. Even if he only accounts for 10% of the market share, it is a output value of 1 billion US dollars. Zhang Ke thought that relying solely on the survival of flash memory chips can allow Zhongjing Microchip to survive.

Liu Zhicheng is not very worried about the survival of Zhongjing Microchip. Although Huaxia Electronics, NEC Electronics and Jianye Municipal Government have reached a preliminary intention for the Huaxia NEC wafer factory joint venture project, they have no idea of ​​even discussing here. Huaxia NEC has too many innate shortcomings and it is impossible to pose a threat to Zhongjing Microchip. Zhongjing Microchip can survive by relying on the internal chip demand of Jinhu. Although the first phase project has not been completed, Liu Zhicheng is already considering the second phase project and considering future development issues. He said: "The current process level of Zhongjing Microchip can at most support the production of 64M flash memory chips. If you want to produce a higher capacity flash memory chip, you can only count on the second phase project..."

Zhang Ke scratched his head and looked at Chen Xinsheng. Chen Xinsheng said: "Although Deyi has officially invested, Deyi has just been in the 0.18 micron factory. It is quite difficult to provide 0.25 micron technology immediately... In the next few years, the market will not have particularly high requirements for the capacity of flash disks, but the requirements for the capacity of the IPlayer are very high - high-capacity flash chips, we only need to ask Deyi or Toshiba's factory OEM..."

"Now, the 32M capacity of the IPlayer can only be listened to for about half an hour. The capacity can be increased ten times, or it may be more perfect," said Ding Huai. "It is not realistic to increase the flash memory capacity at once. I heard that companies such as IBM and Hitachi are planning to develop micro hard drive technology. This may be the only shortcut to breaking through capacity limits in the short term. Can we follow up?"

"It's not good to have too much pressure. Hitachi and IBM's technical reserves on hard drives are not comparable to us. We will be very hard to follow up," Zhang Ke shook his head. Apple was the first to apply micro-hard disk technology to digital audio players, making micro-hard disk technology popular. For a long time, micro-hard disks can provide high storage capacity, and applications in mobile storage, especially high-end electronic products, are slightly stronger than flash memory. The two technologies competed until the end of 2007. Micro-hard disks were almost defeated. IBM, the first to enter the micro-hard disk field, chose to withdraw one after another. "From the application field, there will be competition between flash memory and micro-hard disks. We do not have the strength to step on two ships. Since we have chosen to board the flash memory ship, let's go one way to the dark..."

Zhang Ke’s greatest advantage can help Kumho avoid detours in the most critical stage of development. The competition between flash memory and micro hard drives continued until the end of 2007. However, this time, Kumho joined the flash memory technology camp, how long can the ending come ahead? Even if Kumho does not enter the micro hard drive field, high-end products can also use micro hard drive technology.

Ding Huai, Chen Xinsheng and the others laughed. It is indeed undesirable to disperse technical resources, otherwise it may lead to unsuccessful progress at both ends.

Obtaining complete flash memory technology from Toshiba is of great significance to Kumho, not only paying attention to the future development prospects of flash memory technology, but Kumho can be said to have a relatively complete vertical industrial chain for the first time. In the next few months, a certain or several of the audio devices will be the most domestic electronic product. Overemphasizing domestic production is not something worthy of promotion. Kumho will also implement the global procurement strategy in actual operations, but Zhang Ke still feels that such moments are of extraordinary significance, so he deliberately gathered relevant people and encouraged them.

After June, the rain along the river bank seemed to have never stopped. It seemed that the rain in the early stages of plum blossoms was mostly drizzling and would not cause disasters. However, the water level of the river and tributaries increased much more than the past. Not only the Xiaojiang River Basin, but also the rainy season in southern China also came earlier than in previous years, and the rainfall was also particularly abundant.

When I drove to Hong Kong, it was raining all the time before boarding the plane. Chen Xinsheng accompanied Zhang Ke to Hong Kong.

"The procurement business within the Kumho system can be incorporated into Kumho Commercial, and technology from overseas and high-quality talents will be introduced. These will be businesses that must be persisted in for a long time, and will be responsible for the Kumho Commercial. The Overseas Operations Department and Kumho Commercial should leverage each other to avoid repeated waste of resources. In order to avoid duplication of resources, the Overseas Operations Department can be temporarily placed under the name of Kumho Commercial. However, we still hope that Ida can become a world-famous brand. It is necessary for Ida Group to develop the ** overseas brand marketing network alone..." Chen Xinsheng didn't care much about the rain outside the plane porthole, and his mind was on the purpose of going to Hong Kong this time.

"Kumho Commercial needs to absorb capital from overseas, there is no only Zhang Kongke. We do not have the ability to inject too much capital into Kumho Commercial," said Zhang Ke. "The overseas business of Kumho, some assets of Yuexiu Holdings or a part of Yuexiu's shares in Kumho Commercial can be used as mortgage chips to absorb overseas capital... The most anticipated thing here is the overseas business with the strongest growth..."
Chapter completed!