Global Monopoly of Technology

The latest website: Howard also gave Luo Sheng a price, and the latter couldn't help but be stunned for a while when he heard the number: "2.8 billion? Hehe, with all due respect, Sony is slaughtering me as a fat sheep. Passing on the losses to the Côte d'Azur? Sir, I'm afraid this friend cannot be made."

"Then slowly understand, and then see if you can be friends." Howard responded in the same context.

Luo Sheng nodded: "It should be so"

The first interview between the two parties did not reach any substantive written agreement or a pleasant consensus. Sony was already struggling. Luo Sheng really wanted to realize this M\u0026A transaction as soon as possible, but he did not express it urgently, nor did he have a high price with deep pockets. M\u0026A.

Otherwise, if the price is too high, you have to show your eagerness. If you don’t pay more money, it will make the other party suspicious. In the end, if you decide not to sell it, you will steal the chicken and not lose the rice.

Because this will make Sony feel that the Cell processor must have a unique side, otherwise how can the Cote d'Azur be eager to receive it, or maybe the other party will detect the idea of ​​​​the Cote d'Azur entering the host market... If this is the case It is not a good thing for Luo Sheng to continue to develop.

The interview lasted about two hours before it ended. Although there was no consensus, Howard did not make a clear statement that he would not sell. This is a key message.

It also gave Luo Sheng a reason to wait patiently. If you can't negotiate one time, you can talk about it next time. It's a business. That's it.

The arrangement for his trip to Japan this time is about a week, no more than ten days at most, and it is still early for the arrangement to return to China.

And Howard went back soon, anyway, I don't know what he discussed with Sony's internal executives.

On the second day, Howard personally invited Luo Sheng to visit Sony and conduct further interviews and consultations.

Toshiba also had a vice president on the same day, and a global vice president of IBM was also on his way to Tokyo.

Luo Sheng is not surprised by this. The Cell processor was born under the combination of these three companies.

There is no doubt that the Cell processor is a wonderful story told by the Japanese. The Japanese also have a good level of technical research and development. Unfortunately, they cannot play the ecology, because the small notebook likes to play the exclusive operation.

There is nothing wrong with monopoly, what is wrong is that while you are playing monopoly, your hardware is still so bad, who will die if you don't die?

The victory of Sony PS2 is actually because of software monopoly,

Final Fantasy was in its prime at the time, and the PS2 had a monopoly on the entire franchise, and just in time for the popularity of DVDs, the PS2's price was high as a console, but lower than a DVD player.

It is no exaggeration to say that the great success of the Sony PS2 is based on the strong annihilation of third-party game developers, because compared with other consoles of the same generation, the development of the PS2 is too difficult.

Sony didn't care about these problems at all. When it came to PS3, it finally overturned, because the developers refused to accompany them, and they couldn't afford labor and capital to hide?

Its failure also includes the fact that the focus of the game industry has shifted back to the United States, and the game companies in the United States do not take this set of monopoly, the PS3 does not have a monopoly on games, and the shortcomings of the hardware are quickly reflected, and the result is of course abandoned by the market. .

Another reason is that in the PS3 era, the way people make games has changed a lot. Developers have begun to buy mature game engines to develop games, and it is difficult for cross-platform game engines to be compatible with PS3 in terms of performance. A game console with a fantastic vector processor architecture.

This led to the occurrence of a result, Sony was directly stupid, and suddenly found that the "peak" performance of the PS3 went up, but the game developers ran away.

Developer: Your uncle's labor and capital will not play with you.

The "autopsy report" of Sony's fiasco to Luo Sheng is that those who have the right will help more, and those who have lost will have little help.

This kind of gameplay is very stupid when it does not have the absolute crushing strength itself. Instead of making friends, it is a fancy way to annihilate third parties. It is still in the time node when the game engine is popular, and the PS3 is not a fiasco in the competition.

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Three days later, in a hotel room.

"According to my country's current double-digit economic growth rate, compared with Japan's economic growth rate, it is no surprise that before the first half of 2010 or so, my country's economic aggregate should surpass Japan's and become second only to the United States for the first time in the world. The second largest economy in the world, and the total manufacturing volume is likely to overtake the United States to become the world's largest by next year."

The person who said this was Qin Weimu who was sitting in the living room, ever since Luo Sheng opened the door of desire.

She burst.

from one extreme to the other.

At this moment, Qin Weimu sat lazily, chatting after some tossing.

Hearing this, Luo Sheng couldn't help but said: "It is certain that the GDP will surpass, but we cannot underestimate Japan, the country of small size, it is very small, and it is very hidden. It must be guarded against. Now, regardless of the quality or scale of the economy, it is the current world. Second, it is second only to the United States, which cannot be printed and distributed, so it can be seen that there must be something worth learning.”

In the 1980s, Japan once led the world in semiconductors.

Today is the sixth day of Luo Sheng's trip to Japan. Especially in the past few days, he has visited Sony headquarters and Toshiba headquarters, and visited the manufacturing departments of these two companies.

I went to the front line to watch this exchange in person. Luo Sheng also felt a lot of emotions based on the memories of his previous life, and further understood why Sony is in a wavering mentality when it comes to the Cell chip business.

Sony really hates it.

Many people say that the two decades of Japan's decline were caused by American intervention. With the signing of the Plaza Accord, the terms of trade were changed, and a large amount of hot money poured into the island country, which also pushed up housing prices and stock prices, and the economic bubble expanded rapidly.

This is of course undeniable.

However, the Japanese took the initiative to puncture the real estate bubble in the last century. Although it was painful, it also effectively bridged the gap between the rich and the poor.

It does take a lot of courage.

A series of practices after the bubble burst is also remarkable, but to develop the economy, it is far from enough to actively pierce the bubble. The key point after bursting is how to establish a new one.

The wealth of society always needs new growth points.

The Japanese are good at learning. They learned from China in ancient times, Europe in modern times, and the United States in modern times, and they all study well. They observed that the United States, which also burst the bubble, has a strong economic self-healing ability. After several economic crises broke out, economic growth began to regain momentum within a few years.

The reason is that Americans have mastered the world's high value-added core technology.

Companies such as IBM, Intel, Google, Apple, Qualcomm, Microsoft, etc. that have influenced the world have started a great wave of change in the Internet information age.

The problem faced by Japan at the time was that most of its manufacturing industries were still at the level of producing home appliances. To achieve industrial transformation and upgrading, it was necessary to cut down a number of low-profit manufacturing industries.

Luo Sheng used the memory of his previous life to know how the Japanese did.

There is a Japanese electric company called NEC. This company is the Japanese manufacturer of the first computer and the first artificial satellite. In Luo Sheng's last life, during 2011, NEC suddenly decided to abandon its computer business. Ministry, you must know that in 2011, when computers began to become popular in ordinary households, this decision shocked Japanese society.

The receiver is the domestic Lianxiang company.

Even many Japanese people are surprised, is the money hard to earn or not good enough?

With NEC doing this, a large number of local people will lose their jobs.

But after a few years, the computer industry has entered the sunset industry and the Red Sea industry, and NEC sold at a good price at that time.

When Sony, Toshiba, and Fujitsu also figured out and wanted to sell their computer industry, no one took over.

From a commercial point of view, Lianxiang’s acquisition of this disk cannot be said to be a loss, but it must be profitable, because the performance has been brilliant for a few years, but it has only been a few years, and it has become more and more difficult later.

Especially with the rapid development of smart phones and mobile Internet, on the one hand, the annual shipment of mobile phones has reached more than one billion units worldwide, while the number of computers is only tens of millions.

NEC sold off the computer division, which is actually a representative of Japan's manufacturing and industrial transformation, but NEC did not throw away its own semiconductor technology, but continued to increase R\u0026D investment, develop more cutting-edge semiconductor technology, and later developed the world's advanced semiconductor technology. system of a fully self-driving car.

Later, Sony and Toshiba also found their goals and new directions. Sony abandoned computers and radios and specialized in high-end products, such as cmos, OLEDs, and sensors for cameras.

Changed to do internal components, Sony's current sensor is basically the best solution in the world.

Toshiba threw away the white goods, and the company in Huaguo also took over the order, and also threw away the TV, or the company in Huaguo took over the order.

Facts have proved that this is true. With the advent of the Internet, especially the mobile Internet, there are basically not many people watching TV at home. Even if there is a TV, it may not be turned on several times, and washing machines and computers cannot be used every year. replace.

As for the TV, it seems to have become a living room decoration in China.

And the domestic media has a big public opinion, saying that Japan's most powerful industry has basically been bought, and the Japanese manufacturing industry is about to collapse.

As a result, the Japanese realized the way out for transformation and upgrading ten years in advance, so they sold these low-profit industries at the best time and at the best price.

White goods are already a burden to the industry. Chips and sensors in home appliances are high value-added and core technologies.

Throwing away the burden of home appliances can only be carried out lightly, and then to open up new emerging technology industries with high added value. This is their transformation concept.

But objectively speaking, it sounds uncomfortable for mainland companies to buy these sunset industries, but in fact it is not a loss. It is exactly what China needs.

Because China has a large population and is a super-large country, and it is from backward to strong, the national economic level is in a period of rapid growth, and it is not a developed country. Many families even need to settle accounts when they buy a computer. High middle and low-end manufacturing industry to improve social employment.

It is also impossible for Huaguo to go from producing socks to the ability to produce high-end chips all at once.

Meals are always eaten bite by bite.

But then again, there will always be a day when the dividend will disappear. When the economy and industry develop to a certain extent, they will inevitably face the problem of transitioning from low-end manufacturing to high-end manufacturing with high added value.

However, the Japanese also have misunderstandings, and there are things they can't play. They go into battle lightly on a large scale, throw away too many things, and throw away some real gold mines.

Smartphones are a typical gold mine thrown away by the Japanese themselves. Now I really regret it, but it’s just that it’s shameful to say it.

And over the years, the Japanese have not only lost the gold mine of smartphones, but also the mobile Internet, and more than that.

In the field of consumer electronics, the Japanese have missed out on smartphones and the opportunity to become a big and powerful Internet country, and the semiconductor industry has also been robbed of a large amount of market share by the Koreans, but the Koreans' semiconductor life gate has been lost to Japan. In the hands of people, the semiconductors of Koreans are not solid, and they are very virtual.

Japan's Internet has not produced a world-famous giant company like Sony. Although Sun Zhengyi is known as the "Internet Electronics Emperor", he seems to be a "traitor" of Japan, and venture capital invests in China next door.

In the IT and Internet world, the only Internet companies in China that can compete with the United States in the world today are the Internet companies in China, and Bluestar Technology Group is the best one among them. It must be Bluestar Technology's first one to block the knife.

Luo Sheng's business trip to Japan lasted about a week, which gave him a more detailed understanding of the local manufacturing industry, especially the ICT field and high-end manufacturing representatives. The biggest gain is that the Japanese have gained a lot. But it also gave up too much, and some of the treasures were thrown away as garbage.

After so many companies in Japan threw away the mobile phone business, they left behind many excellent mobile phone R\u0026D talents.

Isn't it a good opportunity to collect these talents in a big way?

Thinking of this, Luo Sheng turned to look at Qin Weimu: "It seems that we haven't established a corresponding R\u0026D center in Japan, right?"

Qin Wei's words were concise and concise: "Yes, but it is optional. Bluestar Technology has a research institute in Yokohama for technology research and development related to virtual idols."

Luo Sheng made a decision on the spot: "Remember, when you go back, you will hand it over to Yao Jianhong to deal with it immediately, and continue to build a large R\u0026D center in Yokohama, Japan, and make Japan's excellent engineers, architecture, and architecture that are not limited to mobile phones. Teachers are hired at high salaries to help develop products on the Côte d’Azur.”

As for talents, Luo Sheng is never too much, never too much, the more the better.

Qin Weimu asked, "What is the estimated scale of the R\u0026D center?"

Luo Sheng thought about it and said, "It's about 800 to 1,000 engineers."

Qin Weimu thought thoughtfully: "The budget expenditure is probably about 450 million to 600 million US dollars."

Luo Sheng smiled and said: "For us, the things that can be settled with money are always the easiest things, so let's budget 600 million."

Qin Weimu nodded silently, and after almost resting, he got up and left the living room with his pretty body twisted.

Luo Sheng admired this beautiful scenery with great interest. Qin Weimu brought the work computer she carried with her, opened her cloud server, and took notes on all these things.

Then, the two continued to have in-depth exchanges and discussions on the issue of hobbies and hobbies, which can be described as a strong duel.

Japan is a place with frequent earthquakes.

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