Howard also gave Luo Sheng a return price, and the latter couldn't help but be stunned for a moment when he heard this number: "2.8 billion? Hehe, with all due respect, Sony is slaughtering me like a fat sheep, and wants to pass on Cell's deficit to the Cote d'Azur? Sir, I'm afraid I won't be able to make this friend. ”

"Then take your time to get to know each other, and then see if you can be friends." Howard responded in the same context.

Luo Sheng nodded: "It should be so"

The first interview between the two parties did not reach any substantive written agreement or pleasant consensus, Sony was already entangled, Luo Sheng did want to realize the merger and acquisition transaction as soon as possible, but he did not show it urgently, and there was no high-priced merger and acquisition with deep pockets.

Otherwise, the offer is too high to show eagerness, and if you don't say more, it will make the other party suspicious, and finally decide not to sell it, but stealing chickens will not be lost.

Because this will make Sony feel that the Cell processor must have a unique side, otherwise how could the Cote d'Azur be eager to get into the bag, and the other party will spy on the idea of the Cote d'Azur to enter the host market...... If things develop like this, it will not be a good thing for Luo Sheng.

The interview lasted about two hours before it ended, and although there was no consensus, Howard did not explicitly say that he would not sell, which is a key message.

It also gives Luo Sheng a reason to wait patiently, if you can't talk about it once, you can talk about it next time, do business, it's like this.

The arrangements for his current trip to Japan are about a week, and no more than 10 days at most, and it is still early before the arrangements for his return to China.

And Howard didn't go back long ago, anyway, I don't know what he discussed with Sony's internal executives.

The next day, Howard personally invited Luo Sheng to visit Sony and negotiate further.

Toshiba also had a vice president on the same day, and a global vice president of IBM was on his way to Tokyo.

Luo Sheng is not surprised by this, the Cell processor was born under the joint efforts of these three companies.

There is no doubt that the Cell processor is a wonderful story told by the Japanese, and the Japanese also have a good level of technology research and development.

There's nothing wrong with exclusivity, what's wrong is that while playing exclusivity, your hardware is still so bad, if you don't die, who will die?

Sony's PS2 triumph was actually due to the monopoly of software, at the time Final Fantasy was in full swing, and PS2 had a monopoly on the entire range of games, plus just in time for the popularity of DVDs, the price of PS2 was high as a game console, but lower than DVD players.

It is no exaggeration to say that the huge success of Sony's PS2 was achieved by the defeat of third-party game developers, because the development of PS2 was too difficult compared to other consoles of the same generation.

Sony didn't care about these problems at all, and when it came to PS3, it finally overturned, because the developer picked on the son and didn't accompany him, and he couldn't afford to provoke labor and management?

Its failure also includes that the center of gravity of the game industry has shifted back to the United States, and American game companies do not eat the monopoly of this set, PS3 does not have a monopoly of games, and the shortcomings of hardware are quickly reflected, and the result is of course abandoned by the market.

Another big reason is that in the PS3 era, the way people make games has changed a lot, developers have begun to buy mature game engines to develop games, and cross-platform game engines are difficult to be compatible with PS3 in terms of performance.

This led to a result where Sony was stupid and suddenly found that the "peak" performance of the PS3 had gone up, but the game developers had run away.

Developer: Your uncle's labor and management don't play with you anymore.

Sony's fiasco to Luo Sheng's "autopsy report" is that those who have attained the Tao have much help, and those who have lost the Tao have little help.

This kind of gameplay is very stupid when it doesn't have the absolute strength to crush it, and instead of making friends, it will be fancy to annihilate a third party, or at the time when the game engine is popular, PS3 will not fail miserably in the competition.

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Three days later, in the hotel room.

"According to China's current double-digit economic growth level, compared with Japan's economic growth rate, it is not surprising that before the first half of 2010, China's economic aggregate should be able to surpass Japan, for the first time become the world's second largest economy after the United States, and the total manufacturing industry is likely to surpass the United States next year to become the world's first."

The person who said this was Qin Weimu who was sitting in the living room, since Luo Sheng opened the door of desire.

She burst the embankment.

From one extreme to the other.

At this moment, Qin Weimu was sitting lazily, chatting after some tossing.

Luo Sheng couldn't help but say: "GDP surpassing is certain, but we can't underestimate Japan, the country of projectiles, not big, hidden very deep, we must guard against the point, now both in terms of economic quality and scale, is the second in the world at present, second only to the United States, printed and distributed can not be done, it can be seen that there must be something worth learning." ”

In the 80s of the last century, Japan once led the world in semiconductors, which can be said to be in full swing.

Today is the sixth day of Luo Sheng's trip to Japan, especially in the past few days, he has gone to the headquarters of Sony, Toshiba, and the manufacturing departments of these two companies.

Luo Sheng also felt a lot of emotion based on his memories of his previous life, and further understood why Sony was in a wavering state of mind in its treatment of the Cell chip business.

Sony is really resentful.

Many people say that Japan's two decades of decline were due to the intervention of the Americans, and that as the Plaza Accord changed the terms of trade, a flood of hot money poured into the island nation, which also pushed up housing prices and stock prices, and the economic bubble swelled rapidly.

Of course, this cannot be denied.

However, the Japanese took the initiative to puncture the real estate bubble in the last century, which was painful, but it was also effective in bridging the gap between the rich and the poor.

It does take a lot of courage.

A series of practices after the bubble has been punctured are also remarkable, but to develop the economy, it is far from enough to take the initiative to puncture the bubble.

The wealth of society always needs new growth points.

The Japanese are good at learning, learning from China in ancient times, Europe in modern times, and the United States in modern times, and they all learn well. They observed that the United States, which had also punctured the bubble, had a strong ability to heal itself, and after several economic crises, economic growth began to regain momentum within a few years.

The reason for this is that the Americans have mastered the world's high-value-added core technologies.

IBM, Intel, Google, Apple, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and other companies that have influenced the world have opened a great wave of change in the Internet information age.

The problem that Japan faced at that time was that most of its manufacturing industry was still at the level of producing household appliances, and if it wanted to achieve industrial transformation and upgrading, it was necessary to ruthlessly cut off a number of low-profit manufacturing industries.

Luo Sheng used the memories of his previous life to know how the Japanese did it.

There is a Japanese electric company called NEC, this company is the first computer and the first artificial satellite of the Japanese manufacturer, and Luo Sheng's last life, during 2011, NEC suddenly decided to abandon its computer division, you must know that in 2011 was when computers began to become popular in ordinary families, this decision shocked Japanese society.

And the receiver is the domestic Lianxiang company.

Even many Japanese people themselves are surprised, is it because the money is not good or not fragrant enough?

As soon as NEC does this, a large number of locals will lose their jobs.

But a few years later, the computer industry has entered the sunset industry, the red sea industry, and NEC sold it at a good price at that time.

When Sony, Toshiba, and Fujitsu also figured it out and wanted to sell their computer industry, no one took over.

From a business point of view, Lianxiang can't say that it is a loss, and it must be earned, because the performance has been brilliant for a few years, but it is only a few years, and it is becoming more and more difficult later.

Especially with the rapid development of smart phones and mobile Internet, on the one hand, the annual shipments of mobile phones are as high as more than one billion units in the world, but there are only tens of millions of computers.

NEC's sale of the computer division is actually a representative of Japan's manufacturing and industrial transformation, but NEC did not throw away its own semiconductor technology, but continued to increase investment in research and development, develop more cutting-edge semiconductor technology, and later developed the world's most advanced fully autonomous vehicle system.

Sony and Toshiba also found a goal and a new direction, and Sony abandoned computers and radios to specialize in high-tech products, such as CMOS, OLED, and sensors for cameras.

Switching to internals, Sony's current sensors are basically the best solution in the world.

Toshiba threw away the white goods, and it was the same Huaguo company that took the plate, and also threw away the TV, and it was the Huaguo company that took the plate.

Facts have proved that this is right, with the advent of the Internet, especially the mobile Internet, few people watch TV at home in the future, even if there is a TV, it may not be turned on a few times, and washing machines and computers cannot be replaced every year.

As for the TV, it seems to have become a living room decoration on the Huaguo side.

However, there is a great public opinion in the domestic media, saying that if Japan's best industry is basically bought, Japan's manufacturing industry will collapse.

As a result, the Japanese realized the way out of transformation and upgrading ten years earlier, so they sold these low-profit industries at the best time and at the best price.

White goods are already a burden of the industry, and the chips and sensors in the home appliances are high value-added and core technologies.

Only by throwing away the burden of household appliances can they travel lightly and then develop new emerging technology industries with high added value, which is their transformation concept.

But objectively speaking, it sounds very uncomfortable for mainland enterprises to buy these sunset industries, but in fact they are not a loss, and they are exactly what China needs.

Because China has a large population and is a super-large country, and it is from backward to strong, the national economic level is in a period of rapid rise, and it is not a developed country, many families even buy a computer to calculate the account, and these low-end manufacturing industries with low added value are needed to improve social employment.

It is impossible for Huaguo to suddenly move from the production of socks to the ability to produce high-end chips.

Meals are always eaten one bite at a time.

But then again, there will always be a day when dividends disappear, and when the economy and industry develop to a certain extent, it will inevitably face the problem of transformation from low-end manufacturing to high-end manufacturing with high added value.

However, the Japanese also have times when they look away, and there are also things that they can't play, and they travel lightly on a large scale, and they throw away some real gold mines when they throw away more things.

Smartphones are a typical gold mine thrown away by the Japanese themselves, and now I really regret it, but it's just that it's a shame to say it.

And over the years, the Japanese have lost not only the gold mine of smartphones, but also the mobile Internet, and more than that.

In the field of consumer electronics, the Japanese have missed the opportunity to become a big and powerful Internet country, and the semiconductor industry has also been robbed of a large market share by the Koreans, but the Korean semiconductor lifeline has been pinched by the Japanese, and the Koreans' semiconductors are not solid, and they are very empty.

Although Sun Zhengyi is known as the "Internet Electronics Emperor", he seems to be a Japanese "traitor", and venture capital has invested in China next door.

In the IT Internet industry, the only Internet companies in China that can compete with the United States in the world today are China's Internet companies, and at present, Bluestar Technology Group is the one that can play the most.

Luo Sheng's business trip to Japan lasted for about a week, and he had a more detailed understanding of the local manufacturing industry, especially the representatives of the ICT field and high-end manufacturing industry, and the biggest gain was that the Japanese got a lot, but also gave up too much, and some of them were also thrown away as garbage.

After so many companies in Japan threw away the mobile phone business, they left behind a lot of excellent mobile phone R&D talents.

Isn't this a good opportunity to co-opt these talents on a large scale?

Thinking of this, Luo Sheng immediately turned his head to look at Qin Weimu: "It seems that we haven't established a corresponding R&D center in Japan yet, right?" ”

Qin Weimu said succinctly: "Yes, but it is dispensable, Bluestar Technology's virtual idol-related technology research and development has a research institute in Yokohama. ”

Luo Sheng made a decision on the spot: "You take a note, and when you go back, you will hand it over to Yao Jianhong to deal with it as soon as possible, and continue to build a large-scale R&D center in Yokohama, Japan, and hire those outstanding engineers and architects in Japan, including but not limited to mobile phones, with high salaries to help the Cote d'Azur develop products." ”

For talents, Luo Sheng is never too much, never too much, more is better.

Qin Weimu asked, "What is the expected size of the R&D center?" ”

Luo Sheng thought for a while and said, "It's about eight hundred to one thousand engineers." ”

Qin Weimu thought thoughtfully: "Then the budget expenditure may be about 450 million to 600 million US dollars." ”

Luo Sheng said with a smile: "For us, things that can be settled with money are always the easiest things, so let's budget 600 million." ”

Qin Weimu nodded silently, got up when he was almost rested, and left the living room with his delicate body twisted.

Luo Sheng was interested in appreciating this beautiful landscape, Qin Weimu brought the work computer she was carrying, opened her cloud server, and memorized all these things.

Then, the two continued to have in-depth exchanges and discussions on the issue of hobbies, which can be described as a strong showdown.

Japan is a place where earthquakes are frequent.

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