Chapter 586: NEC's nemesis

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If it is said that for example, the visit of Park Chang-hyuk, the director of South Korea's K company, can be directly dealt with, and the chairman of the Japanese company, Tadahiro Sekimoto, comes to Hong Kong to visit Wèn, and it needs to be received by higher-level figures in the Eastern Group.

The company's earliest historical origins can be traced back to the early 1899 when it started with the production of telephones, and by the 60s of this century, it has developed into the largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer in Japan. At that time, the Japanese telephone network had been popularized, and the saturated performance growth of the domestic market began to become sluggish, and the company began to fall into a management crisis due to the conformism and floating personnel within the company.

At this time, Kobayashi Koharu began to serve as the president of the company, and under his leadership, the company began to actively expand overseas markets. At the same time, Kobayashi Koji also keenly captured the rise of the world's new technological revolution, the first to put forward the new idea of &aputer&ati), committed to the combination of computer and communication technology, the company from a single professional manufacturer of communication equipment, transformed into a semiconductor, computer, communication troika go hand in hand with the multinational information technology company.

Kobayashi Koji, the legendary manager of Company E, announced his retirement in March this year after serving as president and chairman for more than 20 years. The former president, Tadahiro Sekimoto, succeeded Kobayashi Hiroharu as the new chairman of the company. The chairman and president of Korean and Japanese companies are equivalent to the chairman and general manager, respectively.

After Tadahiro Sekimoto became the new leader of the company, he naturally had to put forward his own business strategy. And he looked at the company's development history in the past ten years and found that there are really a lot of intersections with the Eastern Group. Former chairman Kobayashi Koharu proposed the & a strategy in 1977, the year when Apple Computer was born.

At the end of the 70s, Apple computers were also selling very well in Japan. The company is starting to take notice of this emerging field. After all, Apple is an American company, and the computers it develops are all operating systems in English, and the support for Japanese input is very poor.

In fact, the same problem existed on the computer of the IB company later. Another space-time company was the first to solve the problem of Japanese kana input, and thus defeated the IB machine with a compatible machine, and almost dominated the Japanese personal computer market in the early 80s.

And in this space-time. Li Xuan did not make such a low-level mistake at all, and the Japanese market has always been one of the three major markets that the Eastern Bloc attaches the most importance to. So when the A-1 and A-2 computers were launched, a Japanese version of the operating system was developed specifically for the Japanese market. Over the years, Aikang, a subsidiary of the Oriental Group, has firmly occupied the sales championship title in the Japanese personal computer market, and the company has been relegated to second place.

In addition to the computer field, the semiconductor industry has also developed into one of the company's core businesses, and the company's semiconductor division has been promoted to one of the largest semiconductor companies in Japan after nearly a decade of development. However, like other semiconductor companies in Japan, the core of the semiconductor division is the development and manufacturing of memories.

Although, with the rise of the personal computer industry, the market capacity of the memory market has grown very fast in recent years. But the star product of the semiconductor industry throughout the eighties was processor chips. Don't look at the fact that Japanese companies have beaten American companies to the ground in the field of memory, but the result of the price war can only be to hurt the enemy by 1,000 and lose 800 by itself.

What's more, in the end, American companies even played the role of scoundrels, simply saying that the US government would come forward. Japan was forced to sign the "U.S.-Japan Semiconductor Agreement" to strictly control the export of Japanese memory chips to the United States. This makes the situation of Japan's semiconductor industry far less beautiful than it seems.

In contrast, the Eastern Group has almost achieved a market monopoly in the processor market, and the profit return is naturally far from being able to catch up with Japanese semiconductor companies. This makes a number of Japanese semiconductor companies, including Bao Company, envious, and what makes Japanese companies even more frightened is that Oriental Semiconductor Company, a subsidiary of the Oriental Group, is relying on its scale advantage to begin to counterattack the memory market.

The new wafer fab built by Dongfang Semiconductor Company in Taiwan and Bay is not only ahead of the mainstream Japanese wafer fabs in terms of technology upgrading, but also better than Japanese companies in terms of cost expenditure. Add time later. It is likely that Dongfang Semiconductor will steal a large number of orders that originally belonged to Japanese companies.

In addition to these intersections, such as the LCD industry that Tadahiro Sekimoto is very optimistic about, the Oriental Group is once again one step ahead and can only play a catch-up role again. And now. The Oriental Group has even begun to extend its tentacles to the company's old business -- the field of communications.

In fact, as early as a few years ago, the company had a fight with the Oriental Group in the field of communication equipment. When the company was preparing to set up a joint venture in eastern Guangdong Province to produce digital programmed computers that were urgently needed in China. You must know that the backwardness of China's telecommunications industry at that time seemed a little unthinkable in Japan, making a long-distance call across provinces. On a bad day, it can take up to a week to get through.

Manual wiring, which was only used in Japan before World War II, is still the mainstream of China's telecommunications industry. China urgently needs to replace its more modern communications network, and the company sees an opportunity to kill the Chinese. Therefore, it has been very perfunctory for the Chinese side to introduce technology and realize the localization of digital program-controlled telephone exchanges. The biggest concession is to ship the relevant parts to China for assembly, and firmly disagree with the opening of the core technology.

Just when the eastern Guangdong province was preparing to bow its head to the harsh conditions, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, which is in charge of China's entire telecommunications system, directly rejected the joint venture plan. Later, the company found out the news that the Chinese side had found a better partner.

When the DS series of digital telephone program-controlled switches began to appear in the procurement catalogue of telecommunications bureaus across China, the company was the first to react and reduce the price of its similar products across the board. But even so, the company's digital switches still failed to compete with the DS series.

This is not because the quality of the company's products is not comparable to the other party, but their switches need to be paid in foreign exchange, while the DS series digital switches only need to pay for general foreign exchange, and the other half can be paid in RMB. Just this difference in the payment link makes buyers all over China. I'd rather wait in line for DS series switches than stock them in the company.

In order to compete for the market, the company finally came up with a solution, and that was to contact Japanese banks. Provided a yen loan to China for the purchase of the company's telecommunications equipment. You must know that Chinese officials have a term of office, they only need to make good achievements within their own period, and as for the repayment of loans after the expiration of the loan period, that is a problem that the next official needs to worry about.

This approach has indeed seized a part of the market share in the upgrading and transformation of China's telecommunications industry. However, due to the fact that the yen has been strengthening in the foreign exchange market in recent years. As a result, China's original yen borrowings suffered huge losses in the exchange rate alone.

Under the malicious spread of rumors by well-intentioned people, the company's original matchmaking was regarded as a conspiracy, and the company recognized that China did not understand international financial rules, and worked with Japanese banks to dig a hole for the Chinese side! As a result, the company's image in China's entire telecommunications system plummeted, and the company was at a loss for words!

After combing through it, Tadahiro Sekimoto found out that all of this thing was directly related to the Eastern Bloc. It is not an exaggeration to say that the biggest nemesis of the Oriental Group Company in the past ten years makes Tadahiro Sekimoto not pay attention to it.

With the exception of emerging markets such as China, the traditional telecommunications market with telephone as the core is basically saturated. However, the confidence of mobile phones has opened up a new blue ocean for the entire telecommunications industry. And because of that. European communication giants such as Siemens and Ericsson will spare no effort to compete for the core patents of GS Standard.

As Japan's largest telecommunications equipment giant, it is one of the most important behind-the-scenes promoters of Japan's second-generation digital cellular mobile communication technology. However, the P standard is still in the research and development stage of the real Yàn room, but the Oriental Group has once again taken the lead and developed the D standard, which makes Sekimoto Tadahiro how can he not be shocked!

The company's technical experts have conducted a comprehensive technical analysis of the newly published D standard of the Eastern Group. According to the analysis report obtained by Tadahiro Sekimoto, the technical level of D is much higher than that of the P standard developed by Japan itself, and if the D standard is really mature enough to be put into commercial operation, then P has almost lost the value of further development.

Is the technology really at the level where it can be put into commercial operation? Tadahiro Sekimoto does not think that the Eastern Bloc will joke with his own reputation! Tadahiro Sekimoto finally saw some opportunities in the company.

The strength of the Oriental Group in the field of communication equipment manufacturing is actually very weak, including the DS series digital telephone program-controlled switches that gave the company a blow before, and they are also directly licensed to Chinese joint ventures for production. It is likely that the company will obtain the relevant patent licenses for D technology from the Oriental Group.

So Tadahiro Sekimoto personally flew from Tokyo to Hong Kong with a delegation of delegations, in addition to the technical authorization of business D. I also want to take a closer look at this company that has risen for less than a decade, but has made the whole world look at it.

In later generations, under the impact of emerging companies in the mobile Internet era such as Qualcomm and Cisco, as well as Chinese companies such as ZTE and Huawei, the company has already fallen out of the ranks of the world's top ten communication equipment manufacturers. But in 1988, it was still the largest in Asia and one of the top five communication equipment giants in the world.

The Eastern Group attached great importance to the delegation's visit. Han Peng, president of the group, personally greeted him at the airport. After that, Li Xuan also specially held a family banquet to find distinguished guests from Japan. But Li Xuan's actions are limited to this, since he has stepped down as chairman of the Oriental Group, he simply let go of his hands and let Han Peng, Bradshaw and other old foxes deal with Sekimoto Tadahiro.

The arrival of the company has made Li Xuan full of confidence in the patent licensing model in the field of mobile communications. He had never thought of d-tech broom for self-cherishing, but it was certain that he would take advantage of this to slaughter him. Qualcomm can support the company's market value of more than 100 billion US dollars in another time and space by virtue of the monopoly of D technology, which shows how huge the benefits are!

When Tadahiro Sekimoto arrived in Hong Kong, Walker, the chairman of Company I, also flew to Hong Kong from the United States. Compared with the previous small Japan, Li Xuan is undoubtedly much more polite to the EO of his own holding company.

The invitation received by Walker was sent by Clay Lun, the president of Huaxing, hoping that he would be able to make a trip to Hong Kong and accept Huaxing's plan to promote D technology in the United States. But in fact, after Walker arrived in Hong Kong, he was most interested in the development of Hong Kong's Internet industry.

The last time Walker met Li Xuan was when Oriental Group took a stake in Company I. At that time, Li Xuan's words had a great impact on him, especially Li Xuan's optimism about the Internet industry, which made him completely determined to invest large-scale funds in the Internet infrastructure - optical fiber cables.

You must know that the reason why Company I was willing to let Dongfang Group Company buy shares in the form of a share exchange was because they fell in love with the Dongfang Satellite Communications Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Dongfang Group. Company I is eager to have its own satellite navigation network, which is to use satellites instead of optical cables for long-distance data transmission, so as to save a lot of costs for laying optical fibers.

However, due to his optimism about the development of the Internet, Walker, with the support of Li Xuan, finally persuaded the management and the board of directors to start laying its own optical fiber transmission system again. This is tantamount to rendering the satellite company that it had previously acquired from the Eastern Bloc at great cost useless.

So Walker decisively divested and sold the WeChat business, in exchange for a large amount of cash to support i's large-scale investment in infrastructure construction. In this in and out, Company I did not lose much in this capital, but Walker himself became a laughing stock in the industry.

It's just that a person who can climb to the listed public EO must be strong in his heart. What's more, he has the full support of the controlling shareholder behind him, and Li Xuan even promised that if i's stock price falls because of this, Oriental Group is willing to increase its stock holdings to support the market.

However, the worst-case scenario did not happen, and the stock price of Company I fluctuated, but soon leveled off. Because the profitability of Company I itself has not declined, but because of the large cash income from the sale of the satellite business, the financial statements are even better!

Walker came to Hong Kong this time, in addition to discussing with Huaxing Company about bringing D technology to the United States to open a test site, but also to inspect the actual development of the Internet in Hong Kong!

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