"Is there a problem?" Chen Geng asked looking at the stunned Dorothy.

"Uh...... There is no ......"

Chen Geng shrugged: "Then what else do you have to worry about?"

Dorothy didn't speak, and she suddenly felt some sympathy in her heart: When the boss extended an olive branch to you, you pretended to be X one by one, and now it's okay, wait for the hemorrhage.

But in any case, this is a good thing for himself and Gary, he and his wife are shareholders of the company, and if the company is good, it means that he also gets benefits. After settling down, Dorothy said to Chen Geng: "Boss, the Dongying enterprises who came to participate in our company's bidding conference, I think they are not good." ”

"Oh?" Hearing Dolucy say this, Chen Geng was a little strange: "What do you say?"

"Mitsubishi, Sony, NEC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Toshiba, the six pillars of the semiconductor industry, all came, they expressed interest in all the high-tech projects in this bidding, and the price is much lower than the price of our local companies in the United States," Speaking of this, Dorocy couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "boss, do you believe it? What are the offers of memory suppliers such as Intel, they are all 20% lower than their competitors...... God, are all the people in Dongying crazy?"

"It's not that the Dongying people are crazy," Chen Geng said, "thanks to the foresight of the Dongying government." ”

"Huh?" "Dorucie" was a little puzzled, "Boss, what do you mean by that?"

"In the 70s, the semiconductor industry suffered the impact of two major events: one was that under the political pressure of the United States, the Dongying government was forced to relax the import restrictions on computers and electronic components in 1974, and after the import restrictions were relaxed, because of the overwhelming advantage at the technical level, IBM was like a no-man's land in Dongying, which can be said to be swept, and it took only one year to occupy 40% of the Dongying computer market;

The second is actually related to IBM, because an internal IBM document called the 'Future System Project' was accidentally exposed, in which IBM's ambitious plan was to develop 1M DRAM memory chips for the next generation of computers by 1980......"

Speaking of this, Chen Geng couldn't help but shake his head: "IBM is IBM, do you know, you know, at that time, Dongying Enterprise was still at the technical level of 1K in terms of memory manufacturing capacity, and the gap between them was not ten times, nor a hundred times, but 1024 times!"

"God," Dorocy couldn't help but exclaim, "the people of Dongying must be stimulated a lot, right?"

Looking at the performance of Hitachi, NEC, Fujitsu, Sony and other companies in the semiconductor market, we know that the Toei government has been stimulated.

"Yes," Chen Geng nodded: "The Dongying people and the Dongying government were deeply stimulated by the huge gap between themselves and the United States in semiconductor technology, and in order to cope with the impact and catch up in the semiconductor field, in March 1976, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, the Liberal Democratic Party, and the Ministry of Finance launched the national project of 'DRAM Manufacturing Law Innovation' after many consultations.

Centered on the 'Ultra-LSI R&D Plan for Next-Generation Electronic Computers' proposed by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, the VLSI R&D Institute has been established as a national research institute with Fujitsu, Hitachi, Mitsubishi, NEC, and Toshiba as the backbone, in collaboration with the Advanced Electronics Research Institute and the Computer Research Institute of Toei.

The entire project will be funded by the Toei government with 32 billion yen, and the five major companies of Hitachi, NEC, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, and Toshiba will jointly raise 40 billion yen, with a total investment of 72 billion yen...... Converted into US dollars, it is about 236 million ...... For the fund, carry out the joint combination of VLSI technology innovation action ......"

Speaking of this, Chen Geng couldn't help but shake his head again: "Duo Lucy, you must know that this is 236 million in 1976, and the courage of the Dongying government ......."

How big is this amount?

For comparison, the total foreign exchange reserves of Huaxia that year were only 180 million US dollars, that is, in order to develop semiconductor projects, the Dongying government took out more funds than the total foreign exchange reserves of the Huaxia government that year!

By 1980, the four-year "VLSI" project was successfully completed, relying on the large-scale investment of the government and industry, Dongying gradually smoothed the technological gap between the semiconductor field and the United States.

Dorothy fell silent as well.

She doesn't know much about strategic things, but she clearly sees the impact of Dongying semiconductor companies on American semiconductor companies, and the Intel DRAM project, which was originally profitable, has now become Intel's biggest money-loser, which is the best proof.

What Dorothy doesn't know is that this is actually just the beginning, in the first half of this year, Dongying's exports to the United States in the semiconductor industry have reached 1 billion US dollars, and the total export volume is expected to exceed 2.2 billion US dollars for the whole year, and what is the value of Dongying's semiconductor products exported to the United States in 1979?

Only $44 million.

The increase in Dongying's exports to the United States has had a huge impact on the semiconductor companies in the United States, coupled with the stagnation of the U.S. economy due to the impact of the oil crisis, and the gradual decline in investment in the semiconductor field led by enterprises, resulting in the semiconductor industry in the United States being comprehensively surpassed by Dongying in terms of technology, process and yield.

The backwardness of the semiconductor industry in the United States has directly led to a series of great changes, such as the acquisition of Mostek, and a few years later, Intel, the processing giant in the DRAM memory field, suffered huge losses in the field of DRAM memory, and finally had to announce its withdrawal from the DRAM field.

By 1989, the global market share of Dongying chips had reached 53%, while the United States was only 37% - what needs to be said here is that the signing of the "Plaza Agreement" between Japan and the United States also played a huge role in fueling the fire, after all, the yen is more valuable.

Duo Lucy's heart was surging when she heard this, and she couldn't help but say to Chen Geng: "Boss, look at the Dongying government, and then look at the Huaxia government, I suddenly think that in some special circumstances, it is not a bad thing to strengthen the centralization of the government, look at the Dongying government, they are very clever and very strategic." ”

Chen Geng shook his head with a smile, but didn't say anything.

In fact, the U.S. government is the real clever!

If the Toei administration is an excellent tactical commander, then the U.S. government, at least the two Reagan administrations are excellent strategists, we don't say what the Reagan administration did, just go back 30 years and look at the situation of the semiconductor and information industries in these two countries: Is there still a semiconductor and information industry in the east?

It can be said that don't look at the current Dongying in the semiconductor industry is quite happy, but in fact, everything is in the hands of the US government, the Dongying government's "I think we are very powerful" is actually just an illusion, the US government allows you to feel that you are very powerful, you can feel that you are very powerful, the US government collects the "dog leash" around the neck of the Dongying government, Dongying immediately fell into stagflation for twenty or thirty years, is it really the US government that has absorbed the world's elites for nothing?

Dolucy was completely convinced by Chen Geng: a boss is a boss, no matter what he says, he is the head of the way, like a number of treasures, how deep is this accumulation......? If you don't accept it, you can't.

It was only at this time that Dorothy remembered what she wanted to discuss with Chen Geng: "That...... Boss, in the next procurement, should we take proper care of our partners in the United States?"

"No!"

Chen Geng did not hesitate to veto this idea of Dorusie: "We are a business, not a charity, whoever provides accessories with better quality and lower prices, we will use whom's, what can we eat as food? For example, Intel, we take care of them so much, knowing that NEC's memory is better, we also share a part of the purchase volume to Intel, but how does Intel repay our support? We help them so much, do they thank us?"

Chen Geng knew in his heart that someone should have begged for Dolucy's head, so Dolucy would say this, and as a woman, Dolucy did have the idea of helping them when she looked at the situation of her American colleagues, but what did this have to do with herself? Even Chen Geng wished that they would die...... At that time, he may be able to be a second-hand dealer, directly package and buy a chip company, or simply package a wafer factory or something like that.

That's what Dolucy said, but after Chen Geng made her attitude clear, she immediately gave up her previous thoughts, shrugged her shoulders, and said, "Okay, you are the boss, you have the final say." ”

"By the way, I won't participate in the bidding activities," Chen Geng said to Dolucy: "To be honest, you can just give me a copy of the results, you just need to report to me at any time about Intel's movements." ”

“......”

Dolucy blinked, and looked at Chen Geng with some incomprehension: Such an important event, you said that if you don't participate, you won't participate?

"I'm very relieved to have you here in the data research company," Chen Geng said with a smile: "Don't forget, you are the CEO of the data research company, and these are all within the scope of your responsibility as the CEO, and it is also your right." ”

That's right, and after making sure that the boss was respecting his rights as the CEO of the company in this way, Dorocy was so happy that she blinked, "So what are you going to do?"

"What else can you be busy with," Chen Geng sighed: "Of course, I'm busy giving gifts to Europeans, I hope Europeans will like it." ”

Busy with gifts for Europeans?

Dorothy was confused: What is that? Can the boss be so busy that he doesn't even have time to participate in this bidding conference?