Tomorrow is 515, the anniversary of the starting point, and the day with the most benefits. In addition to the gift bag and school bag, this time's "515 Red Envelope Flip" must be seen, how can there be a reason not to grab the red envelope, set the alarm clock high~

If it is said that for example, the director of South Korea's KMT company, Park Chang-hyuk, can directly deal with the visit, and if the chairman of Japan's NEC company, Tadahiro Sekimoto, comes to visit Hong Kong, it will be necessary for a higher-level figure in the Eastern Group to come forward to receive him.

NEC's full name is Nippon Electric Corporation, and the company's earliest history can be traced back to 1899. NEC started as a manufacturer of telephones, and by the 60s of this century, it had grown to become the largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer in Japan. At that time, the Japanese telephone network had been popularized, and NEC's performance growth began to be sluggish due to the saturation of the domestic market.

At this time, Kobayashi Koharu began to serve as the president of NEC, and under his leadership, NEC began to actively expand overseas markets. At the same time, Kobayashi Koharu also keenly grasped the rise of the world's new technological revolution, took the lead in advocating the new concept of C&C (Computer &Communication), committed to the combination of computer and communication technology, and transformed NEC from a single professional manufacturer of communication equipment to a multinational information technology company with semiconductors, computers, and communications.

Koharu Kobayashi, the legendary manager of NCE, announced his retirement in March this year after serving as president and chairman for more than 20 years. The former president, Tadahiro Sekimoto. He succeeded Kobayashi as the new chairman of NEC. 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 NEC. Naturally, you have to come up with your own business strategy. And he looked at the development history of NEC in the past ten years, and found that there are really a lot of intersections with the Eastern Group. Former Chairman Kobayashi Hiroharu Kobayashi proposed the C&C strategy in 1977. That year also happened to be the time when the Apple computer was born.

At the end of the 70s, Apple computers were also selling very well in Japan. This made NEC begin 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, after the advent of IBM's PC, there was a similar problem, so NEC in another time and space was the first to solve the problem of Japanese kana input, thus beating IBM's PC with a compatible machine, and almost dominated the Japanese PC market in the early 80s.

But in this time and space, Li Xuan would not have made such a low-level mistake at all. The Japanese market has always been one of the top three markets for the Eastern Bloc. Therefore, when the ABC-1 and ABC-2 computers were launched, a Japanese version of the operating system was developed specifically for the Japanese market. Over the years, Akon, a subsidiary of the Oriental Group, has firmly occupied the sales championship title in the Japanese PC market, while NEC has been relegated to second place.

In addition to the computer field, the semiconductor industry has also developed into one of the core businesses of NEC. After nearly a decade of development, NEC's semiconductor division has been promoted to become one of the largest semiconductor companies in Japan. However, like other semiconductor companies in Japan, the core business of NEC's semiconductor division is focused on the development and manufacturing of memory...... With the rise of the personal computer industry, the capacity of the memory market has grown very rapidly over the years, but the star product of the semiconductor industry throughout the eighties is the processor chip. 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, American companies even played the scoundrel in the end. It is simply said that the US government stepped forward and forced Japan to sign the "US-Japan Semiconductor Agreement" to strictly control the export of Japanese memory chips to the United States. This makes the survival of the Japanese semiconductor industry. It's nowhere near as beautiful as it seems.

In contrast, the Eastern Bloc has almost achieved a market monopoly in the processor market. The return on profit is far from what Japanese semiconductor companies can catch up. This makes a number of Japanese semiconductor companies, including NEC, envious, and what makes Japanese companies even more frightened. Oriental Semiconductor, 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. Over time, Dongfang Semiconductor is likely to steal a large number of orders that originally belonged to Japanese companies.

In addition to these intersections, such as the LCD industry, which Tadahiro Sekimoto is very optimistic about, the Oriental Group has once again taken the lead, so that NEC can only play a catch-up role again. And now, the Eastern Group has begun to extend its tentacles to NEC's old business - the field of communication equipment.

In fact, as early as a few years ago, NEC and the Oriental Group had a fight in the field of communication equipment. At that time, NEC 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 how backward China's telecommunications industry was at that time, which seemed a bit incredible to Japanese companies. Make an inter-provincial long-distance call, and if you're unlucky, it can take up to a week to get through.

Manual wiring, which was only used in Japan before World War II, is still very popular in China's telecommunications industry. China's urgent need to replace its more modern communications network has given NEC an opportunity to slaughter the Chinese. Therefore, NEC has been very perfunctory in China's hope 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 province of Guangdong was preparing to bow its head and accept the harsh conditions of the NEC, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, which was responsible for the management of China's entire telecommunications system. The joint venture plan was rejected directly. Later, NEC found out the news. The Chinese side has found a better partner for cooperation -- the Institute of Oriental Studies.

When the DS series of digital telephone program-controlled switches began to appear in the procurement catalogs of telecommunications bureaus across China, NEC was the first to respond. Let your own similar products reduce the price across the board. Even so, NEC's digital switches still failed to compete with the DS series.

This is not because NEC is inferior to each other in terms of product quality, but because their switches need to be paid for entirely in foreign currency. However, DS series digital switches only need to pay half of the foreign exchange, and the other half can be paid in RMB. This difference in payment alone has made telecom bureaus across China prefer to wait in line for DS series switches rather than take NEC's spot.

In order to compete for the market, NEC finally came up with a remedy. That was to contact a Japanese bank and provide China with a yen loan for the purchase of NEC's communications equipment. You must know that Chinese officials have a term of office, and they only need to make good achievements within their own time. As for the repayment of the loan when it is due, that is something that the next official needs to worry about.

This approach has indeed allowed NEC to seize a part of the market share in the upgrading and transformation of China's telecommunications industry. However, due to the continuous strengthening of the yen in the foreign exchange market in recent years, China's original yen borrowings have suffered huge losses in the exchange rate alone.

Under the malicious rumors spread by people with good intentions, NEC's original matchmaking was considered a conspiracy. As a result, NEC's brand image in China's entire telecommunications system plummeted, leaving the company's office in China at a loss for words!

Tadahiro Sekimoto found out after combing. All of these things are directly related to the Eastern Bloc. It is not an exaggeration to say that the Eastern Group is the biggest nemesis of NEC in the past decade, which also makes Tadahiro Sekimoto can't help but pay the highest attention to the Eastern Group.

With the exception of emerging markets such as China, the traditional telecommunications market with telephone as the core is basically saturated. However, with the advent of mobile phones, it has suddenly 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 GSM standards.

As Japan's largest communication equipment giant, NEC is Japan's second-generation digital cellular mobile communication technology - PDC. One of the most important behind-the-scenes propulsions. However, the PDC standard is still in the laboratory research and development stage, and the Eastern Group is once again taking the lead. The CDMA standard was developed, which made Tadahiro Sekimoto not shocked!

NEC's technical experts have been on the newly published CDMA standard for the Eastern Group. A comprehensive technical analysis was conducted. According to the analysis report obtained by Tadahiro Sekimoto, the technical level of CDMA is much higher than the PDC standard developed by Japan itself. If the CDMA standard has really matured to the stage where it can be put into commercial operation, then the PDC has almost lost the value of continued development.

Is the CDMA technology really at the level where it can be put into commercial operation? Tadahiro Sekimoto does not think that the Eastern Group will joke with its own reputation! After carefully studying the Eastern Group, Tadahiro Sekimoto finally found some opportunities for NEC.

The strength of the Eastern Group in the field of communication equipment manufacturing is actually very weak, including the DS series digital telephone program-controlled switches that gave NEC a head in the past, and they are also directly licensed to Chinese joint ventures for production. Therefore, it is very likely that NEC will obtain the relevant patent authorization of CDMA technology from the Eastern Group.

So Tadahiro Sekimoto personally flew from Tokyo to Hong Kong with a delegation to negotiate the licensing of CDMA's technology, and he also wanted to take a closer look at the company, which has risen for less than a decade, but has attracted the attention of the whole world.

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, NEC has already fallen out of the ranks of the world's top ten communication equipment manufacturers. But in 1988, NEC was still the largest in Asia and one of the top five communications equipment giants in the world.

The Eastern Group attaches great importance to the visit of the NEC delegation, and Han Peng, the 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 NEC has made Li Xuan full of confidence in the patent licensing model in the field of mobile communications. He never thought of cherishing the CDMA technology for himself, but it was certain that he would take advantage of it to kill him. Qualcomm's monopoly on CDMA technology can support the company's market value of more than 100 billion US dollars in another time and space, which shows how huge the benefits are!

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

Walker's invitation was sent by Clarion, the president of Huaxing, and he hoped that he would accept Huaxing's plan to promote CDMA technology in the United States through his trip to Hong Kong. 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 MCI. 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 MCI was willing to let the Oriental Group Company buy shares in the situation of exchanging shares was because they fell in love with the Oriental Satellite Communications Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of the Oriental Group. At that time, MCI was eager to have its own satellite navigation network, which was to use satellites instead of fiber optic cables for long-distance data transmission, so as to save a lot of costs for laying optical fibers.

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

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

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