He Guoyuan said with a smile: "A problem that can only be solved with money is not a problem!"

Xu Zhihaha smiled: "Not bad, good way!"

Different from the time when the motherboard factory was built, Midea's profit in the first half of 79 years alone was close to 80 million US dollars, and if the company ranking is calculated by profit, Midea Electronics is enough to enter the world's top 500!

This year, Midea has set up branches in the United States, Japan and the United Kingdom, and has begun to recruit elite talents from top local universities, and some universities in Japan have even taken Midea Electronics as the object of economic research.

At this moment, if you want to build an LCD factory in Xiangjiang, even if you don't have talents in this area, you can directly poach people from Japan and even Europe and the United States, and the cost will definitely be high, but compared to the key core components being stuck in the neck, this extra labor is nothing!

He Guoyuan said: "Building a factory is not a problem, but we must first obtain some of the most basic patent authorizations for LCD. ”

"Liquid crystal patent?" Xu Zhi frowned and said, "Is it in Sharp's hands?"

He Guoyuan shook his head and said: "No, it is the RCA company of the United States, which invented liquid crystal display technology as early as 61 years, and later made the first liquid crystal display model, but at that time, due to technical reasons, the gap with the TV color tube was relatively large, so it slowly gave up the research on liquid crystal!"

Later, the Japanese company bought the technology and put it on the LCD watch and calculator and other products, and achieved great success, in the past ten years, many Japanese electronics giants are developing liquid crystal, and the technology of the American RCA has declined, but it still has a lot of basic patents in liquid crystal!"

"I see. Xu Zhidao: "That is to say, there are still 2 years of patent for LCD screens to expire?"

He Guoyuan hurriedly said: "Xu Sheng, even if it's two months, we have to buy it!"

Xu Zhi smiled: "I know, it's just a casual talk, I agree to build an LCD factory." ”

At present, whether it is a chip or LCD, the threshold for entry is not high, and an LCD production line can be done with a few million dollars, but if it comes to the era of several giants competing for hegemony in the world 30 years later, the investment in a new LCD production line is as high as billions of dollars, and few can afford this kind of investment and subsequent money burning.

Compared with chips, LCD is not so sensitive to politics, and because it is a high-profit industry, it is not sensitive to the cost of labor.

"Okay, then I'll immediately arrange for my colleagues in the United States to contact RCA. He Guoyuan said: "The long-term concern has been solved, but the near-term concern is still there, and now several Japanese manufacturers are sitting on the ground and starting the price, what should we do?"

"Except for Japan, isn't there an LCD factory in the United States?" Xu Zhi asked, he remembered that in the 90s, Japan's liquid crystal accounted for 90% of the world's production, which also shows that before that, other countries and regions still had a lot of share.

He Guoyuan said: "There are several, General Electric, Westinghouse Electric, Motorola, IBM These companies have their own LCD departments, but because the cost is too high and the price is expensive, the market is not good!"

Xu Zhi nodded and asked, "What price?"

He Guoyuan said: "If it is a screen of the size of our Gameboy, it is estimated that it will be between 14-15 Hong Kong dollars. ”

Xu Zhidao: "In other words, this time these Japanese companies have actually calculated the price increase, and they are only a little cheaper than their American counterparts!"

He Guoyuan nodded and said, "Look at this situation, it should be like this." ”

Xu Zhi said: "Then you can also arrange for people to contact these American companies and try to keep the price down a little, I would rather buy from the United States now than accept the price increase of Japanese companies so easily." ”

He Guoyuan said: "I have arranged for someone to go, but this group of Yankees is not a fuel-efficient lamp, they can easily find out the price increase of Japanese manufacturers, and they can also infer our bottom line." ”

"It's okay, do you think I went to the United States to buy because I couldn't stand the anger of Little Japan?" Xu Zhi explained: "From the company's point of view, profit comes first! Even if Japanese companies deliberately make things difficult, as long as the cost is low, they should still be chosen, but I decided to buy from the United States mainly considering two aspects:

The Japanese have succumbed to the price increase this time, so it will be the same next time!

There is also the fact that Japan is now in a dominant position in the LCD industry, and American companies are already surviving, once they really monopolize the entire market, they will inevitably raise prices on a large scale, and we must guard against this trick before we have no ability to produce!"

He Guoyuan said: "I understand, we will survive this time, as long as our own factory can produce, then everything will be completely different." ”

Xu Zhidao: "It's not that simple, even if we have patents and production lines, the cost is not so easy to lower than that of Japanese companies!"

He Guoyuan asked, "Xu Sheng is worried about the scrap rate?"

Xu Zhi nodded and said: "Yes, the United States that a bunch of second-force companies can not compete with Japanese companies, just think that Japan's labor costs are low, this sentence is true in the 50-60s, but now Japan's per capita wages are not much lower than the United States, the strongest place for Japanese companies is cost control, especially in the LCD industry, making good is one thing, large-scale low-cost production is another thing!"

In the past 20 years, from textiles, garments, steel, electrical appliances, automobiles to the recent semiconductor, LCD and other industries, Japanese companies have risen in the global market step by step on the corpse of their American counterparts, which involves many reasons, such as American trade unions, Japanese professionalism, management models and other differences!

He Guoyuan said: "Then we can poach people from Japan, which involves the strategic development of our company, and we have to spend any money." ”

"Yes, especially Sharp, if you dare to trick us, you can dig up some of their core engineers for me. Xu Zhi agreed, the loyalty of Japanese employees can rank first in the world, this phenomenon makes many Westerners and even Chinese people not understand, but this is actually effective for the bottom!

This is only in the 50-70s, when Japanese companies are developing rapidly and there is a serious shortage of labor, in order to stabilize employees, companies have proposed a lifelong employment system and a seniority sequence system, which gives employees a stable working environment, but many consortium companies have also formed their own talents to avoid the additional expenses caused by mutual job hopping under the normal market economy.

But for some ambitious or capable people, this restraint is a joke, and later generations of Samsung do not know how many top engineers and managers from Japan have been poached to create a Samsung electronics empire.

He Guoyuan said: "Then I will contact the Japanese headhunting company immediately!"

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