The liquid crystal industry first originated from the researcher Hymeer of RCA Company, and a series of electro-optical effects such as liquid crystal dynamic scattering and phase transformation discovered in 1961. However, due to RCA's lack of vision and strategic mistakes, Japanese companies have taken the lead in this field.

Of course, RCA's strategic mistake is actually understandable, because the main application fields of the early monochrome TN LCD screen are electronic watches, calculators, instrument panels, etc. Whether it is an electronic watch or a calculator, it is a labor-intensive industry.

The high labor costs in the United States make domestic enterprises not competitive in these light industrial products at all. If RCA's executives could have guessed that TVs, computers, and mobile phones would be the world of LCD screens in a few decades, it is estimated that they would have increased their R&D efforts even if they were smashing the pot and selling iron.

Unfortunately, they do not have the ability to foresee the future, and on the contrary, labor-intensive industries such as electronic watches and calculators are the advantages of Japanese companies. At that time, Japan, which had just finished rebuilding from the ruins of World War II, was focusing on the development of new industries such as electronics. And this is also the fundamental reason why the Japanese government was willing to vigorously promote the will of the country in the embryonic stage of liquid crystal technology.

In fact, until the rise of the Eastern Bloc, the application of liquid crystal displays was still mainly concentrated in the two major products of calculators and electronic watches. It wasn't until the GameBoy series of handheld game consoles swept the world that the demand for LCD screens ushered in a new round of surge.

Prior to this, LCD screens produced in Japan accounted for more than 90% of the total market sales. And the biggest beneficiary of this round of demand surge driven by GameBoy is not Japan. It's Taiwan-Bay. The TN LCD technology used in the GameBoy handheld was already relatively mature in the early 80s.

When Li Xuan founded the Oriental Group. To a large extent, it imitates the model of the Japanese consortium and strives to build an industrial ecological chain under its own control. Don't look at the subsidiaries belonging to the Eastern Group, there are only a dozen. A large number of peripheral companies that have risen around these dozen or so backbone enterprises do not seem to have any equity relationship with Li Xuan, but in fact, the fate of these companies is all in his hands.

Li Xuan's principle of selecting partners has always been that he would rather support those fledgling and weak new companies than cooperate with those industrial giants. Because only these small companies can wholeheartedly obey the baton of the Eastern Bloc.

And if you work with those big companies, you have to be always wary of the other party's tricks to overturn you and replace you. Therefore, when cultivating the personal computer industry, it will only be newcomers in the industry such as Lu's and Hongji who will receive the full support of the Oriental Group, and it will not be multinational companies such as IBM and Deyi.

To say Japanese companies in the eighties. Their influence in the computer field can be described as lackluster, but Li Xuan is more wary of them than American companies. The strength of companies such as IBM and Deyi lies in their technical background.

And the Oriental Group has the blessing of Li Xuan's rebirth golden finger, and is not afraid of any opponent in terms of technological competition. Even Microsoft and Intel, opponents who can be regarded as great demon kings in another time and space, have been killed and injured under Li Xuan's unintentional blows.

What's more, American companies also have a huge weakness, that is, the high labor costs at home. Whether it's a technical developer or an industrial worker, the salary level in Asia is only a fraction of that of their American counterparts. This is also the fundamental reason why the Oriental Group has dared to offer wages that are the envy of all white-collar workers in Hong Kong over the years.

Because even though the salary cost of the Oriental Group is higher than that of other companies in Hong Kong, it still has a considerable advantage when competing with its European and American competitors. And if Li Xuan passes through the future, he will gradually focus on production and research and development. This advantage will be even more pronounced when moving to the mainland, where labor is cheaper.

But for Japanese companies, their most buggy skill is that they are better than blue. Once the Japanese companies find the right way, then for the other companies in this industry. It could well be a catastrophe.

For example, the television industry in the United States, under the dumping of Japanese television sets, is now only left with RCA, a company that sells dog meat on the head of a sheep. Another example is the British automotive industry. Under the impact of cheap Japanese cars, only luxury car brands like Bentley remain. The German camera industry will survive for three to five years. But when Japanese digital cameras were thoroughly popularized, classic camera brands like Leica. In the future, it can only be reduced to taking the route of niche luxury.

Throughout the 80s, Japanese electronics companies were slaughtered in all directions, and European and American companies were defeated. But in the burgeoning field of personal computers, Japanese companies have not made much progress.

The most fundamental reason for this is that the two keys to controlling the personal computer industry, the processor and the operating system, have nothing to do with the Japanese. But in the 90s, Japanese companies still found a new key to open the PC market - liquid crystal monitors.

Relying on the monopoly position of Japanese manufacturers in the field of liquid crystal displays, Japan's major electronics companies finally entered the personal computer market through the emerging notebook computer, starting in the 90s. Toshiba, Sharp, Sony, Fujitsu, NEC and other companies have all ranked among the top ten laptop brands in the world.

Therefore, Li Xuan is naturally reluctant to carry out in-depth cooperation with Japanese companies in the field of LCD. The reason why the Eastern Group invested heavily in liquid crystal technology was to break the monopoly of Japanese companies in this field.

The Oriental Group completed the acquisition of RCA in 1983, but in fact, as early as 1981, the Oriental Company had already acquired the LCD division from RCA in advance. Since then, taking advantage of the huge demand for LCD screens in GameBoy handheld game consoles, the Oriental Group has begun to vigorously support the LCD industry in Taiwan.

When the Oriental Group took over the LCD division of RCA, it was already technologically backward. But this is only relative to Japan's top enterprises, as a real pioneer of LCD technology, it still has a high-tech heritage for Taiwan.

Taiwan-Bay is an important part of Li Xuan's vision of the Mainland, Taiwan-Bay and Hong Kong's Iron Triangle industrial planning. Compared with the mainland and Hong Kong, Taiwan has many unique advantages, such as a large number of universities in Taiwan can provide, and a large number of high-level technical talents and cheap land resources that Hong Kong cannot match. Moreover, compared with the mainland, it is much less difficult for high-tech to settle down.

Therefore, whether it is semiconductors or liquid crystals, the final foothold chosen by the Eastern Group is Taiwan-Bay. Moreover, with Li Xuan's involvement, Taiwan-Taiwan relations began to break the ice two or three years earlier than in another time and space. Although there is still a long way to go to normalize relations, there are no restrictions on business and trade such as those that affect the development of the Eastern Bloc.

"After all, there are still a few Hong Kong investors who are really willing to test the waters of the European stock market, Ding Sheng, if you want to attract more customers, you still need to work hard in the Hong Kong stock market!" Li Xuan was also bored when he was idle, so he chatted with this Mr. Ding Zeming without a word.

"Li Sheng, you are right, if it weren't for Aikang but other British listed companies, even if I had a lotus tongue, not many people in Hong Kong would pay attention to me! I don't know if you have heard of Li Sheng, this company Jiachuang Technology?"

Ding Zeming pretended to smile mysteriously, but found that Li Xuan didn't have much reaction, so he had to uncover the mystery himself: "In May last year, the Oriental Research Institute spun off its LCD project department separately, and established a wholly-owned Jiachuang Technology Company with all relevant technology patents, and the equity of a number of LCD manufacturing companies in Taiwan, as well as 100 million US dollars in cash!"

It can be said that this company can be regarded as the real descendant of the 'God of Wealth Li'! And just last month, the market reported that Jiachuang Technology intends to raise external financing, with a total amount of up to 200 million US dollars, for the construction of a second-generation TFT-LCD panel production line.

The production capacity of the new production line is mainly used to provide LCD displays for the next new models of NoteBook. In other words, once NoteBook successfully launched the first shot, the investment value of Jiachuang Technology Company will also skyrocket!

It is said that the shares that Jiachuang Technology is willing to give are only 15%, which means that it values itself at more than 1.1 billion US dollars!

Oh,The display screen I use on my handheld TV,It is the latest TFT-LCD technology of Jiachuang Technology,Clarity and other indicators are far from the mainstream SDTN LCD on the supermarket。 It can be said that the technological superiority of the Eastern Bloc is always so hopeless!

Once the sales of NoteBook are satisfactory, other computer companies are bound to follow suit soon to develop laptops, and the demand for large-size LCD screens will definitely expand rapidly! If Jiachuang Technology seeks to list in Hong Kong in the future, then we may have the opportunity to get some light, but at least for the time being, there is nothing we can do!

However, there is a Taiwanese company on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange that produces LCD screens, called Xincai Optoelectronics. This company is the supplier of the notebook and LCD screen. Jiachuang Technology holds 20.5% of the shares of Xincai Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. and is its second largest shareholder!

If you are interested, you might as well call your stockbroker now to give it a go! As long as the NoteBook sales data released by Aikang Company in the afternoon is better than market expectations, Xincai's stock price is likely to skyrocket tomorrow!

Ding Zeming habitually regarded Lixuan as his customer, and couldn't help but actively bewitch. It's just that Li Xuan still only had a faint smile on his face, and he didn't seem to be attracted by his analysis, which made him feel a little frustrated.

When Li Xuan introduced himself before, he only said that his surname was Li, so Ding Zeming couldn't imagine that the man in front of him who was chatting with him was the "God of Wealth Li" he mentioned several times. This also shows that Li Xuan's current disguise is unusually successful, and he does not recognize his true identity at all. (To be continued.) )