Chapter 128: Toshiba Chips
After seeing the Walkman released by Sony in the afternoon, Bao Zixuan knew that Philips was going to sell it at a reduced price next. The Walkman market will be more competitive than in the previous life, and the profits of various manufacturers will also decrease.
In fact, Bao Zixuan was also very conflicted in his heart at that time, and he didn't want to license the Walkman patent so easily, but if he didn't use the Walkman patent to authorize it, what else would Heiyun look up to these big companies.
The answer is "no", so why should other companies sell you patents? All things considered, it is still necessary to give up this monopoly, and there are also anti-monopoly investigation agency constraints. In order to get the technology and equipment he wants, Bao Zixuan can only endure the pain and cut his love.
The first day of the exhibition ended after Sony's introduction of new products, and a total of eight companies released new products. However, except for Heiyun and Xiangjiang Company, the rest of these companies were almost divided by American, RB, and German companies.
This is also the reality, this era in the field of consumer electronics these three countries are dominant. After returning to the hotel, Junhei Yokoi and Ma Chenglong began to report on the orders of game companies and home appliance companies.
Black Cloud Razor is also in the limelight at this exhibition with a design and technology that transcends this era. Ma Chenglong knew that he would not lose money if he jumped to Heiyun to come to Heiyun, at least for now.
Ma Chenglong said: "Chairman, our two shavers in Heiyun have performed very well today, and at present, METRO in Germany and Walmart in the United States have signed procurement contracts with us. After the show, our shavers will be on the shelves of the two supermarket giants. At the same time, we also signed a few small contracts, and on the first day alone, we sold more than 200,000 units of our two shavers. This made Philips' new product launch very unsuccessful. β
Philips did not recommend the Walkman as a new product this time, but chose its own strong point shaver. I didn't expect the Black Cloud shaver to be stronger than its new products in terms of design and function. It made Philips very depressed, why did it license some of the basic patents and motor technology of the shaver in the first place!
After Bao Zixuan nodded, he made a gesture of please to Yokoi Junhei.
"Our Gameboy has now received orders for 3 million units, which is the result of restricting the first batch of customers from placing too many orders, otherwise it will definitely exceed 5 million units," said Yokoi excitedly. However, many customers who did not sign a contract today said that they must sign the contract as soon as possible tomorrow morning. We sold more than 10 million Gameboy handheld consoles at this exhibition, and we have no problem, Your Excellency President, we have succeeded. β
Hearing this, Bao Zixuan didn't expect the gameboy to be so popular, in fact, he didn't blame him for underestimating. In the previous life, it sold 20 million units in the year it was launched in 1989, and at that time consumers were already very discerning. Nowadays, many classic games have not yet entered the eyes of players, and they can be played at home, in the car, and in the park anytime, anywhere. That's something consumers couldn't have thought of before. Heiyun Group can actually help them achieve it, which is the reason why major agents are desperately ordering.
Bao Zixuan: "What about other games!Yokoi-kun!"
I was too excited to forget about it, and Miyamoto Hat is still developing new games in Xiangjiang. As the general manager of a game company, he only thinks about the gameboy, a product developed by himself, and he is indeed not a qualified manager. After all, the arcade of the game is also managed by itself. But fortunately, I also took a look at the statistics just now.
Yokoi hesitated for about 1 minute, he wanted to recall the data he had just seen. said: "The number of game arcade sales is not particularly ideal, except for the Legend of Senna, which sold 5,000 units, the rest are around 1,500 units. β
In fact, Yokoi Junhei was confused by the number of Gameboy starting with a million units, this is an arcade machine, and it's the first day. For this sales, Bao Zixuan has been very satisfied.
The next morning, the employees of Heiyun Group came to the exhibition hall early, and Bao Zixuan also dressed up carefully today. He wants to explain the new products of the black cloud laptop.
This morning, the Black Cloud Showroom is still the hottest, and many buyers who did not sign a gameboy purchase contract yesterday came here for the first time to start signing a contract with Black Cloud Games.
Today, a total of two new products were recommended and promoted, and Bao Zixuan was arranged to appear for the second time, and it was also the last new product to be publicly recommended in the entire exhibition. After that, it is time for buyers and sellers to communicate freely. The presiding committee will not arrange other products to be publicly recommended and explained.
Many people were in the Black Cloud Exhibition Hall, which made the first representative of RB Toshiba to take the stage today very depressed. There aren't a lot of people in the audience, but it's better than yesterday!
Toshiba Corporation has launched a Japanese processor chip that can be programmed in Japanese. It can be said that it is very memorable. If it weren't for the United States that later suppressed Toshiba, Toshiba could indeed develop better in the field of electronics.
Other countries see that programming can be done in Japanese, so what about German and French! Don't you have to program in English? Can any country in the world program in its own Chinese language? It is still not reflected, if once you enter the Internet era, when network security is very famous, then software written in your own Chinese language will be more trusted.
Bao Zixuan knew about this chip in his previous life, and why it was not promoted is directly related to Toshiba's own mistakes. It is also indirectly related to the United States' desire to suppress the RB software industry.
Toshiba has cooperated with the Soviet Union, and there have been very famous events in history, and Bao Zixuan knows that it will happen in a few years.
Late one night in the early spring of 1983, the 10,000-ton freighter "Old Communist", which was bound for RB by the Soviet shipping company, departed from RB's Shibaura wharf and carried away dozens of boxes of parts for "five-axis CNC machine tools". According to the RB people, the Soviets bought these CNC machines for the purpose of improving the thrusters of the new aircraft carriers, in addition to improving the propulsion performance of the submarines, as well as the thrusters of the new aircraft carriers that were being built at that time. This is the sensational "Toshiba Corporation's violation of the Batumi export incident". The consequences of this incident were serious: for the first time, the US Navy lost its superiority in hydroacoustic detection over the ships of the Soviet Navy, and to this day the US Navy is not absolutely sure about the detection of a new Russian submarine.
On May 27, 1987, the RB Metropolitan Police Department arrested Ryuji Hayashi, head of the foundry department of RB Toshiba Machinery Corporation, and Hiroaki Tanimura, head of the machine tool division. Ryuji Hayashi and Hiroaki Tanimura were accused of being directly responsible in the high-tech smuggling case in which Toshiba Machinery had conspired with Norway's Kongsberg to illegally export high-tech products such as large milling machines to the Soviet Union. This case has caused an uproar in international public opinion, and this is one of the military-sensitive high-tech smuggling cases that posed the greatest threat to the security of Western countries during the Cold Warβββ Toshiba incident.
Bao Zixuan, who knows the historical context, thinks that this incident will hardly change, and the only variable is that the Black Cloud Group provides large CNC machine tools to the Soviet Union, but his small body does not dare, so don't think about mixing in Xiangjiang. At that time, Toshiba paid a very heavy price to settle the matter.
Since Toshiba is very likely to export large numerical control machine tools to the Soviet Union, can Heiyun use this incident to threaten Toshiba? However, this matter must be carried out in secret, otherwise it will be difficult for the Soviets to know that they want to die. However, seeing that such a good chip technology can't be obtained, Bao Zixuan's heart is always itchy, and he thinks that he must find an opportunity to get Toshiba's Japanese processor chip technology, and then develop Huaxia processor chips.
Toshiba representatives didn't know that the chip they had just released had been targeted by a hungry wolf.