On the one hand, Liu Si doesn't want his remaining funds to be used abroad, and the preparation for the establishment of VIVO and Meizu foreign research institutes is not remembered in a month or two, as long as he waits until November this year, those top chips in Xinjiapo are thrown away, Liu Si will have nearly 100 billion US dollars in funds, and it is not better to go to the United States, Japan, South Korea, Germany, the Netherlands and other countries to prepare for the establishment of VIVO and Meizu foreign research institutes.

What's more, in October 1997, the wind of the Asian financial crisis will blow to South Korea and Japan, and when the economic crisis comes, it will dig up Japan's Canon, Nikon, Sony, NEC, Toshiba, Hitachi, ...... Samsung, SK hynix, LG, SFA, Semes, KCTech...... Wouldn't the corners of these companies be even better!

In particular, South Korea has suffered the most damage in this financial crisis, and its domestic semiconductor companies have the most, even surpassing Japan, although there are few large enterprises, but South Korea has allowed foreign investors to control South Korea and even acquire Korean companies after the financial crisis, this is the best opportunity, isn't it?

According to the South Korean Small and Medium Business Agency, there are more than 300 integrated circuit manufacturing enterprises, nearly 2,000 PCB manufacturing enterprises, more than 2,000 semiconductor equipment enterprises, more than 4,000 semiconductor material enterprises, and more than 10,000 other electronic component enterprises in South Korea. There are more than 20,000 enterprises forming the entire semiconductor industry chain.

South Korean semiconductor manufacturers with strength and technology include Samsung Electronics, SK hynix, and Dongdong Hi-Tech. There are 21 PCB manufacturers, and the more well-known ones are Dade Electronics, Xintai Electronics, Samsung Electro-Mechanics, and LGInnotek. In the field of semiconductor packaging and testing, in addition to Samsung Electronics and SK hynix, South Korea also has SFA Semiconductor, Nepes, and HanaMicron. There are 57 semiconductor equipment manufacturers listed in South Korea, among which the more well-known ones are Yuanik IPS, Zhouxing, Hanmi, SFA, PSK, TES. There are 31 semiconductor material companies, among which the more well-known ones are Dongjin, FST, Yuanyi, SK, Soulbrain and so on.

There are many equipment manufacturers in Korea that make both semiconductor equipment and panel equipment. As we all know, South Korea has the world's top 2 panel manufacturers Samsung Display and LGDisplay. South Korea's panel equipment manufacturers are also relying on these two major customers and are rising rapidly. Some of them, who were originally only made of panel equipment, have also entered the field of semiconductor equipment and achieved good results.

In addition to the semiconductor industry in South Korea, the panel industry is also the goal of Liu Si.

There are many semiconductor manufacturers in Japan, and the number of manufacturers on Kyushu Island is staggering, according to the statistics of several years, the number of manufacturers on Kyushu Island has exceeded 300.

The development of Japan's integrated circuit industry can be traced back to the 50s of the 20th century. After World War II, Japan was in ruins, but as a bridgehead for the United States to resist the influence of the Soviet Union, it received great active assistance from the United States, and the United States is the birthplace of the world's semiconductor industry, and the semiconductor industry is guided by science and technology, which gives Japan strong "support".

In 1963, NEC acquired the license of Planar Technology from Fairchild Corporation of the United States. The Japanese government requires NEC to share the acquired technology with other domestic manufacturers. With the introduction of this technology, Japan's NEC, Mitsubishi, and Kyoto Electric began to enter the semiconductor industry. This was the beginning of the development of Japan's semiconductor industry.

In the early stage of development, Japan's IC industry was mainly guided by the development of "introduction to catch up", the development of civil electronics and the aiming of market trends. On the one hand, the "introduction catch-up" model is in line with the conservative and rigorous characteristics of Japanese enterprises, and the expansion of the original research that has been formed to the application field can greatly reduce the risk; On the other hand, Japan has adopted the potential demand of the civilian electronics market to stimulate the healthy development of technology and integrated circuit industries.

Japan has actively enacted laws and national plans, and the semiconductor industry has developed healthily and rapidly under the leadership of the government.

In 1957, the Act on Temporary Measures for the Promotion of the Electronics Industry (Electro-Vibration Act) was enacted.

In 1971, the Act on Temporary Measures for the Promotion of Specified Electronics Industries and Specified Machinery Industries (Mechanical and Electrical Law) was enacted.

In 1978, the Act on Temporary Measures for the Promotion of the Information Industry of Specified Machinery (Act on Machinery) was enacted.

The Basic Law on Science and Technology was promulgated in 1995

The plan includes the ultra-cutting-edge electronic technology development plan, the Flying Bird plan and future plan, and the SOC basic technology development plan.

Japan's pioneering technology is DRAM and VLSI, and the chips that China cannot produce in the future history are DRAM and VLSI.

Intel relies on its strong strength, and when the first DRAM was mass-produced, the reliability of the product was not high, but Intel still sat in the leading position of DRAM. The expansion of the PC market has opened the door to the expansion of DRAM memory demand, and the entire market is waiting for the emergence of higher quality, high-performance DRAM memory. When Japan entered the industry, great changes took place.

With the rapid development of the automobile industry, Japan's DRAM began to develop rapidly, and Japan spent a lot of money to purchase a large number of integrated circuit patents, focusing on quality improvement and its own innovation. Japan has developed 1MDRAM using the CMOS process, which is an important node in the history of DRAM development.

In the early 1980s, the reliability of Japan's DRAM products surpassed that of the United States, and in the 80s, Japan replaced the United States as the main supplier of DRAM, with a share of 80% in the world market, known for the world's highest quality, and was known as the "industrial hub".

For a long time, the top three semiconductor companies in the world were all NEC, Toshiba and Hitachi, and once owned 90% of the market share of the DRAM industry. At that time, the American companies involved in DRAM, except for TI and Micron, other manufacturers were basically beaten by Japan, and Intel at this time not only lost its prestige but was also forced to turn to microprocessors with higher technical requirements.

As for integrated circuits, Japan's position in the field of semiconductors was quickly established after the Japanese government organized a well-known technological innovation initiative in 1976 and 1979 that combined government, industry, and research with the joint combination of ultra-large-scale integrated circuits. Integrated circuits are crucial to the development of microelectronic technology and are often referred to as the food of high-tech industry.

Organized by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry of Japan, with Fujitsu, Hitachi, Mitsubishi, NEC and Toshiba as the backbone, and jointly with the Institute of Electronics and the Institute of Computer Science of the Industrial Technology Research Institute of Japan, the VLSI project was jointly implemented with an investment of 72 billion yen.

The reason for catalyzing the establishment of the Japanese VLSI R&D consortium and independent research and development of chips is that Japan was forced to open its domestic computer and semiconductor markets to the United States. Once the market is opened, this kind of competition will undoubtedly make it worse for Japanese semiconductors.

IBM Corporation of the United States is developing a computer system with high performance and small size, FutureSystem. Japan's share of the domestic market fell from 60 percent in 1970 to 48 percent in 1974, while IBM accounted for 40 percent of the Japanese computer market. IBM poses a huge threat to the survival of the entire computer industry in Japan.

? The VLSI project has been in operation for four years and has obtained more than 1,000 patents, with remarkable results. In 1980, 64K integrated circuits were successfully developed, half a year earlier than the United States; Japan's Electrocommunications Research Institute developed 256K dynamic memory, two years earlier than the United States.

In 1986, Japan's semiconductor products accounted for 45% of the world market, becoming the world's largest semiconductor producer. In 1989, Japanese companies accounted for 53% of the world memory chip market, while the United States accounted for only 37%.

In 1990, Japan accounted for 6 of the world's top 10 semiconductor companies, NEC, Toshiba and Hitachi were the top 3 semiconductor companies, Intel was only 4th in the world, and Samsung had not yet been able to enter the top 10 list.

In 1995, Japan accounted for 4 of the world's top 10 semiconductor companies, Intel jumped to the world's leading semiconductor companies, NEC, Toshiba and Hitachi retreated to 2nd, 3rd and 4th places, and Samsung Electronics and Hyundai Electronics squeezed into the top 10.

In 1997, only NEC, Toshiba and Hitachi entered the world's top 10 semiconductor rankings, Samsung Electronics ranked fourth behind Toshiba and NEC, and Intel still ranked first in the world. The decline of Japan's semiconductor industry seems to be unstoppable.

South Korea has a financial crisis, and Japan has an industrial crisis. The Asian financial crisis has not yet profoundly affected Japan and South Korea, and the current $2.6 billion in Liu Si's hands has decided to invest in China, and there is no money to build a foreign research institute of VIVO and Meizu.

Therefore, Liu Si refused Moynihan to go out of the UK to other countries to help him prepare for the establishment of VIVO and Meizu research institutes. However, Liu Si also suggested that Moynihan should open Moy's company to South Korea and Japan, and VIVO and Meizu will be established at the same time at the beginning of next year.

As for Moynihan's current affairs, the main thing is to help VIVO and Meizu dig deep into the British ARM, CSR (one of the largest manufacturers of Bluetooth and GPS chips), Wolfson...... The corners of these companies. At the same time, Moynihan was also instructed by Liu Si to negotiate with Chrysler, who was in a tug-of-war with Mercedes-Benz, the possibility of Bugatti's acquisition of JEEP, and to discuss with BMW Bugatti's acquisition of the Louvre Group, which had lost nearly $3 billion in BMW, and at the same time prepared to publicize the current BMW President Piëch, with all his strength to poach Piëch, who was being criticized and exhausted by BMW shareholders, to take charge of the Bugatti Automobile Group.

"So be it! You go down first and give orders to the people below to make preparations, and I will give you the order and start acting immediately. By the way, you take care to protect yourself, being noticed by MI6 and some other rats is not good for you and for me. Liu Sijian also met Zhou Chang, and he didn't see any disloyalty to him, but he was also thinking about whether he should set up another intelligence department. After all, people's hearts are separated from their bellies, and there is no absolute true trust in this world, only to strive to create balance.

"Okay, I'll go first." Zhou Chang got up and spoke more concisely, "The boss has something to call me!" ”

"Let's go out together! I've got something to do with a press conference at Crystal Palace later. Liu Si's press conference was mainly to announce that Crystal Palace was going to build a new stadium, and that it had obtained the right to develop Whitehorse Meadows, located 1 kilometre from Selhurst Park in Croydon, south London.

The new stadium has a 133-metre-high arch with a total length of 315 metres, making it the longest single-span roof structure in the world. The arch is very well lit, like a beautiful rainbow bridge at night, of course, the arch is by no means a simple decoration, the purpose of the arch is to fix the north side of the roof of the heavy court and 60% of the south side of the roof with dozens of steel cables. This will ensure that the new stadium will not need to be supported by support columns like the old stadium, and that the new stadium's 90,000 seats will have a very good view from every angle. The grandstand of the new stadium is divided into three levels, with 34,303 seats on the lower level, 16,532 seats on the middle level and 39,165 seats on the upper level. The roof of the new stadium is 52 meters above the turf, and the total roof area is 11 acres, of which 4 acres can be moved and closed, and the total weight of the roof is 70,000 tons. A total of 90,000 cubic meters and 23,000 tons of reinforced concrete were used in the new stadium. Without four walls, the roof and the volume of the new stadium is 4,000,000 cubic meters. The seats on the new stadium are 54 kilometers long and the circumference of the new stadium is 1 kilometer. In total, 35 miles of cable lines were laid. The stadium is equipped with two large screens, each the size of 600 ordinary televisions. With a total of 2,618 toilets, the new stadium has more space for each seat, which is larger and more comfortable than the royal box of the old stadium. The private box at the new stadium can also be used as a meeting room. A year is made up of 350 days, even on match days. Whether it's a break, a meeting, or entertaining a client, such a background is unimaginable to the average person. In addition, the dining room also offers a catering service, allowing customers to customize their meals and drinks to their liking.

The second floor is mostly occupied by VIP seats, as the UEFA five-star football stadium requires no less than 200 VIP seats, which is enough to accommodate 400 guests (200 on each side).

When Crystal Palace held a press conference to announce their plans for a new stadium, the entire British media fell silent. Not long ago, they all joked about Moynihan announcing that Crystal Palace would build a new $500 million stadium, and now, in the face of this fact, they are envious of what they can do other than have money. Of course, Liverpool may be unhappy, they are frugal for the new stadium, and they are envious and jealous in their hearts!