Shirakawa Electric's mid-year advertisement caused a stir throughout Tokyo, with companies with overlapping businesses paying attention to his products, and companies without overlapping businesses paying attention to his subsequent listing announcements.

In addition to the initial announcement, there is a lot of follow-up work to be promoted.

For example, the initial public prospectus, briefing, listing rules, etc. will be announced in the following days.

However, at present, Shirakawa Electric is conducting an external audit and has not issued an announcement for the time being.

But it's been about two weeks, because Deloitte and KPMG are coming to the end of their audits.

As for Shirakawa Kaede, the person in the Shirakawa Electric Center that everyone discussed, he did not appear in public at the moment, but drove to Chiba Prefecture in a low-key manner with people within the group.

What to do, it is still to invest in building a factory.

This time, he was going to build a CD factory, and the location was in Chiba Prefecture, which is across the sea from Tokyo.

Since the fifties and sixties, it has been a hub for the chemical and materials industries.

Most of the raw materials and upstream and downstream services of the industry can find their own needs here, and the processing of optical discs also belongs to the chemical materials industry.

So if you want to build a factory, Chiba is the best choice here. It is separated from Tokyo by Tokyo Bay, and it is relatively convenient in terms of transportation.

As for why Shirakawa Kaede built a disc factory, it is also making an advance layout for the future industry.

The SIC lab there has confirmed that the CD-ROM will come out this year.

As the first industry standard that he participated in the formulation, Shirakawa Kaede also attaches great importance to it.

This kind of technology that will change the future storage landscape, of course, you must prepare in advance.

If the format is launched this year, then the CD-ROM disc must be officially put into production next year.

He could already imagine that in the future, SIC has been studying the technology for more than two years, and it will definitely become another money printing machine for Shirakawa Electric.

And in addition to CD-ROMs, the CD player that will be launched this year also needs a large number of records to support its release.

Next year, Shirakawa Electric's CD factory will also be open to the outside world, and if there is a record company that wants to release CD discs.

Well, Chiba is ready here. It's close to Tokyo, so you can check the progress of the press plate at any time.

Although the format of CD-ROM and CD-DA is different, 90% of the processing technology is the same, the difference is only that the mold of the stamper is different.

Therefore, after Shirakawa Electric's internal estimates, they all believe that it is a very necessary choice to build their own optical disc factory.

At this time, Shirakawa Kaede was negotiating with the government officials in Chiba about the location of the factory, and suddenly Komatsu's assistant Yukise, who was accompanying him, hurriedly walked over.

With a confession to the Governor of Chiba beside him, Shirakawa Kaede walked aside alone, "What's wrong?" ”

"Fujitsu's Mitsuka Mitsuka-san and Tokita Ryuji-san just called, and it seems that there is a very urgent matter."

Assistant Komatsu, who was in charge of answering the phone in the car, also had a serious face at this time.

It is not difficult to hear from the other party's eager tone just now that there should indeed be something important.

Hearing that it was Fujitsu, Shirakawa Kaede was stunned.

Could it be that there is a problem with your own chip? No, SIC8089've been on the market for almost a year, and there are no major bugs.

But no matter what, it must have something to do with himself, Shirakawa Kaede also put on a serious expression.

"Do you know what's going on? What does the other party say? ”

"They won't say anything specific, but they have made it a few times to say that they want to see you right away."

It seems that something is really wrong, Shirakawa Kaede turned his head to look at Governor Chiba, who was still standing not far away, and sighed.

Forget it, I'll visit you another day.

There was no way, Shirakawa Kaede could only go over and explain the situation to Governor Chiba, and he was in a hurry to leave.

However, Heitaro Nakajima, who accompanied him, would remain here, and he also had his own professional views on the construction of the CD factory.

And the governor of Chiba also generously said that it doesn't matter, the president of the upcoming listing Sangma, it's normal to be busy.

Hurriedly saying goodbye to Chiba here, Kojima immediately drove back to Tokyo.

They didn't even enter the door of their own Shirakawa Electric Appliances, so they went straight to Fujitsu's headquarters in Minato Ward.

As soon as they arrived here, the staff who had been waiting for a long time immediately took Shirakawa Kaede and them to Mazuka's office.

"Shirakawa-san, you're here."

As soon as he entered the door, Mazuka Daoyi hurriedly greeted him.

"Mazuka-san, what's wrong, what's the matter so anxious?"

Shirakawa Kaede was very surprised to see Matsuka's face pale and panicked.

Not only him, but even Ryuji Tokita of the Electronics Division had the same expression.

Both of these positions are at or above the ministerial level at Fujitsu, and they are real high-level executives.

But now this appearance really doesn't match their identity.

Hearing Shirakawa Kaede's question, Matsuka Daoyi was not ambiguous and immediately handed him the Yomiuri news on the table.

didn't have time to ask in detail, Shirakawa Kaede looked down, and the thick black news headlines were extremely conspicuous.

"IBM and FBI arrested Hitachi and Mitsubishi members, and the commercial espionage case occurred!"

Bai Chuanfeng secretly took a breath, just one sentence, but the amount of information was amazing.

Not only the Yomiuri Shimbun, but also the Nikkei Shimbun and Asahi Shimbun also have similar reports.

"Hitachi and Mitsubishi employees arrested for industrial espionage!"

"Clever trap: FBI undercover agent exposing operation leads to 'big' deals!"

The headlines are more sensational than the other, and not only that, but the report is accompanied by pictures of the arrest.

A neon man wearing a tie and a shirt, handcuffed behind his back, walks in front dejectedly.

Behind him, a foreigner put one hand in his pocket, and the other hand led the neon man in front of him and walked out of the airport without looking.

To be honest, this picture is like the owner teaching his disobedient dog a lesson.

Although he didn't read the news report specifically, Shirakawa Kaede already had a rough idea of what was going on.

Patience, read the news in his hand in detail, and Shirakawa Kaede finally understood the more detailed content.

The facts are not bad as he thought, this is indeed a commercial espionage case, and it is widely implicated.

Two days ago, on the other side of the world, two officials from the government of the capital announced the details of the case for the arrest of Hitachi and Mitsubishi employees.

"This investigation is a good example of how neon is infiltrating our high-tech industry and stealing key secrets," the director of the FBI declared at the press conference. ”

And two days later, Neon here began to report on this matter on a large scale.

Various news have also interpreted in detail the inside details of the commercial espionage case between Hitachi, Mitsubishi and IBM.

Basically, in order to obtain the technical information of the IBM mainframe 3081K, Hitachi's liaison in the United States secretly sought confidential information from Perlin, a former IBM employee.

Palin, a former director of IBM's computer systems lab, was shocked when he got his hands on the first ten volumes of Hitachi's secret information on the 3081K model.

Although he has left IBM, he also knows that this is IBM's most confidential mainframe technical information, and the level of confidentiality is very high.

But at this moment, Hitachi took the initiative to come to the door and asked if he could get the remaining seventeen volumes.

This made Perrin realize that there was a staggering number of trade secret deals.

After much deliberation, Palin ignored Hitachi's huge offer and instead told his old employer, IBM, about it.

So a typical case of fishing law enforcement, or the story of Infernal Affairs, was staged.

After IBM got the information, it decisively contacted the FBI.

At this time, IBM and the United States government had a lot of business cooperation, and almost all the servers and computers of the government departments were provided by IBM.

That includes the FBI and the FBI, so IBM has a very close relationship with the government.

In the face of the information provided by IBM, the FBI sent an agent to pretend to be a technical adviser to IBM.

At the same time, the FBI asked Palin to pretend to agree to Hitachi's conditions, and introduced Hitachi liaison to the FBI's pretended technical adviser.

Under the agent's ambiguous attitude, Hitachi's liaison flattered and promised all kinds of benefits.

In fact, the FBI had enough evidence to arrest the Hitachi liaison at this time, because each of their meetings was secretly recorded and even videotaped.

But the FBI and IBM also wanted to catch bigger fish, so under the bewitchment of the fake technical consultant, Hitachi liaison took him directly to Neon.

In the neon hotel, the director of the Hitachi Kanagawa computer factory personally met with the fake consultants.

Tempted by a huge amount of $500,000, the impostor pretended to agree to Hitachi's request for the remaining seventeen volumes of technical information.

After returning to the United States, IBM and the FBI soon made a good situation and notified the senior management of Hitachi to come to the United States to take away the information in person.

So the stupid Hitachi really came to pick up the goods without defense, but when he entered the door, he was pressed to the ground by several big men.

At the same time, Mitsubishi was also in the same bureau, and even Mitsubishi staff brought the materials to the airport to prepare to fly back to China immediately.

However, the FBI has also laid a wide net here a long time ago, and the other party was arrested as soon as he appeared.

And this commercial espionage case began to lay out last year, that is, in October 81, and it was not until the end of June this year that the net was officially closed.

It took more than half a year to completely brand the commercial espionage crimes of Hitachi and Mitsubishi with conclusive evidence through the method of seizing all the stolen goods.

So far, this Infernal Affairs method of solving the case has been a great success.

The face of the neon company has once again lost its glory in the United States.

Even more and more industrial and commercial capital is lobbying Congress to step up its technical surveillance of neon.

The exact outcome is unknown, but Neon is like dropping a depth charge here.

Not to mention the major media, there are not a few people discussing it on the streets.

Shirakawa Kaede went out early this morning and didn't see any related news.

At this time, when I returned to Tokyo, I felt that the undercurrent under the level of public opinion was turbulent.

But the FBI is arresting people from Hitachi and Mitsubishi Electric, what are you Fujitsu nervous about?

Suddenly, Shirakawa Kaede's heart moved, and he turned his head to look at Matsuka Daoyi, "Mazuka-san, Fujitsu won't be here."

"Of course not!" Mitsushi Matsuka and Ryuji Tokita jumped up at the same time.

"Shirakawa-san, Fujitsu has nothing to do with this matter at all! All of our technologies are developed in-house and are not borrowed from anyone! ”

The way Matsuka Daoyi swore a gambling curse made people think that Shirakawa Kaede was interrogating him.

Uh, I'm just asking casually, is it necessary to be so nervous?

The more Fujitsu denied it here, the more Shirakawa Kaede muttered in his heart.

If it's really related to Fujitsu, it won't involve itself, right.?

Mazuka morality also has suffering, and the fact is that it does have a little relationship.

(End of chapter)