The people of Toshiba received Gu Biao very warmly and thoughtfully, and did everything they could to make him feel at home, but before meeting Chairman Saeki Masayoshi, they also did everything possible to inquire about Gu Ao's true intentions.

Of course, it is impossible for Gu Biao to expose his business motives in advance, so he can only choose unclassified ones.

In the end, Toshiba's general manager, Sugiichiro Watarato, asked him a question himself—of course, in the middle of other seemingly inconsequential questions, so it was inconspicuous.

"I don't know if Gu Sang and Mr. Zhang Zhongmou of Texas Instruments are acquainted? To tell you the truth, Toshiba Electronics, a subsidiary of Toshiba Group, was also an important supplier of Texas Instruments for a time, so maybe we can have more cooperation in business. ”

Although this question asks about the relationship between Gu Biao and Zhang Zhongmou, it is a signboard to attract business, and it is inconvenient for Gu Biao to deceive people - not to mention that if he is deceived, he will be exposed immediately.

So, of course, he chose "selective admission".

"Mr. Zhang Zhongmou, if it was half a year ago, I didn't know him very well, and I had a few encounters under the introduction of Mr. Galvin of Motorola, so I can't talk about friends.

However, in the past two months, Texas Instruments has undergone major personnel changes, Mr. Zhang Zhongmou was dismissed, he should be interested in starting his own business, and he has come to many places in Southeast Asia to inspect the investment environment, and I have also been fortunate to contact twice - what? Since Toshiba Electronics is also an important supplier of Texas Instruments, Mr. Zhang has not even thought of a way?

Gu Biao's words are quite Tai Chi skills, and he knocked the topic back lightly.

Ichiro Watari Sugiichiro also pretended to be confused: "It's true that I haven't been here, and I think it's strange that if Mr. Zhang is still in Texas Instruments, with Texas Instruments' family background, and starts a business internally, then naturally he can do anything."

However, after leaving Deyi's basic market, he chose to return to Asia to start a business, so with all due respect, we think that he still wants to carry out his ambition to develop chip design in the direction of Texas Instruments, and I am afraid that it is only possible to seek cooperation with Toshiba or other semiconductor process suppliers such as NEC. ”

The subtext of this sentence is, of course:

"Only by cooperating with the long board of his chip process and making up for his own shortcomings in the process can he continue to engage in chip design. And since he has no intention of cooperating with us, he just doesn't want to do chip design?"

This sentence also has an optional meaning to be deduced downward, which becomes "He wants to make chips, not design, so does he have to start from the process?"

Of course, Ichiro Watarasato would not have said it so clearly, so it would not be like the normal scale of concern of a "Texas Instruments supplier".

And Gu Biao also felt a slight pang in his heart, realizing that before he came, he seemed to have done less homework.

He only regarded the boss of Toshiba Group as a common interest in his participation in the TNC Association, and did not have an in-depth understanding of the details of Toshiba's current industrial structure.

Listening to what Ichiro Watari meant, he was spying on whether he and Toshiba would have a competitive relationship in the future, and would he threaten Japanese manufacturers after supporting Zhang Zhongmou?

Gu Biao secretly regretted a little, there were too many things, and he thought about it simply.

The other party chatted for a few more minutes and seemed to get the answer he wanted, and then Mr. Masayoshi Saeki, the chairman of the Toshiba Group, also finished the meeting just right, and came to shake hands with Gu Biao with a very sorry face, and put on a banquet to entertain Gu Biao.

During this period, Gu Biao privately raised some cooperation matters with TNC, but he kept a hand, and did not say that he had a friendship with Senior Bill and Senator Albert, only that he had certain resources at the political level of TNC, and then hoped that Saeki Masayoshi would allow him to participate in the Toshiba Environmental Charity Foundation and donate a sum of money.

However, Masayoshi Saeki is very polite, has good things to say, and finds very tactful reasons...... But rejected him.

Gu Biao insisted a little, but it didn't work, so he pretended not to care, talked and laughed with the other party, and acted as if nothing had happened.

At the end of the banquet, Saeki Masayoshi politely asked Gu Biao and his entourage if they had arranged a place to stay, and wanted to help him arrange it on his behalf, but Gu Biao very tactfully said that he had other arrangements and politely refused.

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Before the dinner was over, Gu Biao made a phone call and asked Tian Kun to send a car to pick him up, and then went directly to Roppongi's sister's house.

My brother-in-law hasn't gotten off work at the embassy yet, and my sister is working from home, so Gu Min was the only one when Gu Biao arrived.

Seeing his younger brother coming, Gu Min was very surprised, because Gu Biao's original itinerary was not arranged like this.

"Why are you here?"

Gu Biao casually spread on the sofa: "Sister, do you know the inside story of the major electronics industry giants in China?

Gu Min smelled a little alcohol on his younger brother, and hurriedly poured him hot tea, while replying: "I can't talk about the inside story, but I still know the business situation, how can I say that I am also the president of Tiankun Yueben, this point still needs to be cleared - what do you want to know?"

Gu Biao pulled his tie loose and poured two sips of hot tea: "I want to know, what kind of industry competitive position Toshiba is currently in in the field of semiconductor technology? Is there any competition conflict between them and the business that Zhang Zhongmou wants to engage in after starting his business." ”

Gu Min didn't think about it, and blurted out: "Of course there is, Toshiba is currently the world's second largest company in semiconductor process technology, the first is NEC, and the third place is later, and only after that, there will be American companies." Moreover, among the top 10 companies in the world, there are 6 companies.

The Americans only have an advantage in chip design, but the process is not as good as the original. It's just that companies such as Intel and Motorola have always insisted on not outsourcing the chips they design to Japanese factories, so the Japanese have empty processes, but they can't undertake many high-tech orders. Their process is mainly spent on chips designed by their foundry compatriots, including NEC, which also does chip design itself. ”

Gu Biao listened and slapped his forehead heavily.

It's no wonder that Saeki Masayoshi is so hypocritical with himself, it turns out that he realized that Gu Biao supported Zhang Zhongmou, and it is possible to become a competitor of Japanese semiconductor process suppliers!

Moreover, the trade war dispute between the United States and Ben is in full swing, and in nine months, the Plaza Accord and the appreciation of the yen will come. Americans now certainly want to see the transfer of their advantageous industries to other low-cost areas.

Because the current situation is "many semiconductor products, even if the Japanese goods are expensive, you have to buy them, there is no competition, there is no substitution".

In this case, if we don't create a disturbance, even if the yen appreciates, it will only make the US foreign trade deficit bigger - this is easy to understand, and what the appreciation of the yen can hit and divert must at least be "business that other people on the earth can do except for themselves"

Gu Biao's industrial transfer at this juncture is more likely to be regarded by Japanese factories as the spokesperson for the Americans' conspiracy to stand in the foreground.

The conscience of heaven and earth, Gu Biao is completely trying to make black money for himself! He didn't want to participate in the 85-year trade war between the Americans and himself! How could he be regarded as a "pawn and accomplice of the Americans"?

However, Gu Biao didn't notice this problem in advance and took the initiative to hit the muzzle, but he can't be completely blamed - the main reason is that the inertial thinking as a traverser is too serious.

Gu Biao was born in 85 in his previous life, so he can clearly remember the age, how can he also go to elementary school after 92.

At that time, the major semiconductor technology giants in this country had already gradually declined because of the "Plaza Accord" of the Americans and the digging of TSMC, which happened to be in a hurry to get the industrial transfer after the "Plaza Accord".

Gu Biao's impression of Toshiba in his previous life was the overwhelming household appliances in TV commercials, and he didn't know that Toshiba had been awesome in semiconductor technology.

In this life, Gu Biao was not engaged in semiconductors a few years ago, and when it came to chips, he also relied on buying and buying in previous years. Now that I have just started to pay attention to semiconductors, I only paid attention to the elements around Zhang Zhongmou, and I didn't have time to look at the world and pay attention to my own strength.

Fortunately, this time the oolong did not cause much damage.

Toshiba refused to cooperate, smelling the danger, so it was replaced by another Japanese company that is not involved in the semiconductor industry and also has a tradition of charity afforestation in China.

"Sister, please get me a list of Japanese companies that are stronger in the field of semiconductor technology, and I will check with the list of TNC sponsors I have on hand to avoid these potential competitors. After thinking about it, Gu Biao said that he would do it, and asked his sister to help prepare the materials.

Gu Min was also very powerful, busy until midnight, and brought all the relevant industry information to Gu Biao, and many employees who worked overtime overnight faxed back from the company.

"Global semiconductor process companies, technology and cost performance ranking: NEC first, Toshiba second, Hitachi manufacturing third...... Fujitsu 8th, Mitsubishi 9th......"

Looking at the companies on the list, Gu Biao also crossed them out of the list of potential collaborators one by one (if they were originally qualified to be on Gu Biao's list of potential collaborators.) ）

Panasonic and Toshiba Mitsubishi can't......

After going around in a circle, Gu Biao didn't dare to take any more risks, and he found that he could only find old acquaintances to solve the problem.

Let's join forces with Sony's Akio Morita, although Akio Morita did not have TNC relations and network accumulation, but he has done some charity in China and has a foundation. And the more he is suspicious of the Japanese system, the more Gu Biao needs to pull a "conscience of American imperialism" in the Japanese system to help him cover.

As for Toshiba, since it is known as the world's semiconductor technology double star together with NEC, and wants to guard against Gu Biao's Xiangjidian, then wait obediently, if you want to compete, you can compete. Brother will open Zhang Zhongmou's company first, and slowly settle accounts with you.

The gentleman turned over, three years is not too late.

After completing the preparations, Gu Biao embarked on a flight to Washengton from Tokyo without hesitation.

Senator Albert, although he is a senator from Tennessee, does not work in Tennessee - as we all know, the Senate is in Watsonton, so senators in the United States, no matter which state they are, are all in Watson all year round, which makes it much easier for Gu Biao to find someone, than to find Bill senior.