After Henry Morgan left, Chen Zhiwen asked his assistant to inform Lei Shengli to come over.

"Henry Morgan has promised us to ask about the relationship, and if his relationship is a little harder, plus we give a little sponsorship to the US congressman, it shouldn't be a problem." Chen Zhiwen said.

"That's great, if we can produce chips for home appliances in Hong Kong, the cost will be much smaller." Lei Shengli said with some joy.

They have tried to buy the latest chip production line through normal channels, and the manufacturers are very interested, because the price of Midea is not low, but as a high-tech pipe product, there are many restrictions on export.

"There's still a little bit of a chance now, and it's going to get harder and harder in a few years." Chen Zhiwen said again.

The current Hong Kong is not a place strictly controlled by the United States, but the entire semiconductor industry is a moat left by the American industry, especially after the wave of globalization and the popularization of shipping containers, many industries in the United States have been forced to relocate because of the cost.

But fortunately, it is only 1977, and as long as the export of chip production equipment is not from those countries and regions that have been named, it will not go to Congress, as long as some officials are connected.

In a few years, especially after the rise of Japanese semiconductors, it will begin to beat the United States, and the control in this regard will become very strict.

As for the future chip industry will definitely be controlled by the United States, Samsung is such a product, and TSMC is the same, Chen Zhiwen never thought that he had any hope of fighting with them, that is, dreaming, even if ZZ is not considered, in the talent environment of Hong Kong, it is unlikely to succeed.

However, the requirements for chips in the home appliance industry are not high, and the purpose of building a factory in Hong Kong is mainly to cooperate with the home appliance industry to achieve the transformation to chip control, because in the previous home appliance field, it was difficult to succeed.

The simplest example,Remote control for color TV and air conditioner,There is no such thing in this era,Because chips and integrated circuits are needed in it,And Midea can try to make it first,Or,The first batch to make it,There will always be some advantages。

But this premise is that R&D and production can cooperate smoothly, if you expect chips to be released overseas, it is impossible, there may be mistakes in R&D, basically there is no quantity, who will do it for you?

Therefore, regardless of whether the chip industry will die in the future, it is still needed now, otherwise, the home appliance field will also be thrown far away by other peers, which may be an opportunity for the home appliance field to have more markets.

Besides, before Samsung and TSMC unify the chip market, there is still a lot of space, and the most important thing is that these two giants basically only produce high-grade electronic chips in the future, and others such as industrial chips or automotive chips are not very produced.

If you enter the field of chips, you can be squeezed in the medium term, and you can completely transform to produce chips for non-civilian products, although it may continue to lose money, but as long as you stay up for more than ten years and work hard in the field of industrial and automotive chips, there will be many opportunities in the 21st century.

Even at the beginning of the 21st century, in addition to TSMC and Samsung, there are a large number of non-high-end chip production plants in this world, but behind these companies, there is no strong capital, completely relying on their own survival, the industrial market is too small, resulting in many of these companies are long-term losses, most of them have been played bankrupt, only a few seized the opportunity of the automotive industry, slowly growing, to 2010, the era of automobile electrification has arrived, the importance of chips is getting higher and higher, and finally survived to the spring, That's what Chen Zhiwen's current goal is.

Again, the home appliance chips you need can also be produced by yourself, if you can really make a difference in the home appliance market, the market in this will not be small, of course, it is still far from the big chip manufacturers such as mobile phones and computers.

"That's no way, but the home appliance market does not have very high requirements for the chip manufacturing process, and there should be no problem in a short period of time." Lei Shengli said.

"Let's take one step at a time, and even if we can't make chips, we have to participate in some, when will the placement machine production line in the Midea Industrial Park start production?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"Engineers in Japan are debugging, and it is estimated that trial production will not start until next month." Lei Shengli said.

"Okay, let our people work with translators, learn more from these Japanese engineers, and in addition, give these Japanese some red envelopes, let them teach more, and it is best to give our people a separate class after work in the evening, and we must learn the relevant knowledge." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

The semiconductor industry is very large, the most important of which is naturally chips, and then all kinds of storage particles, electronic components, etc., and all these electronic parts need to be placed on the circuit board, which is often called the PCB board.

The technical content of the chip industry in the early stage is too high, and it basically needs the research and development of the national level or top industry to make progress, Chen Zhiwen naturally knows that he does not have this ability, so the first step is to make integrated circuit PCB boards first.

This requirement is very simple, as long as you spend money to buy related equipment, and then build a dust-free workshop in Hong Kong, so in the middle of last year, Midea placed an order for a complete set of equipment to a Japanese company, and also invited Japanese industrial construction companies to come to Hong Kong, and chose a place in the Midea Industrial Park to make a dust-free workshop.

In this era, the efficiency of Japanese companies is still okay, and now, the equipment has entered the dust-free workshop for relevant debugging.

"I've arranged for someone to follow them, but they're still very secretive, and this group of dogs has collected money and is still keeping it secret." Lei Shengli shook his head and said.

"The income of this kind of engineer in Japan is estimated to be not low, and if you want to buy them, you can't do it without working hard." Chen Zhiwen thought for a while and said: "Discuss it with them, it's best if you can keep one person down, or go to this kind of company to poach someone." ”

"I also think that I sent someone to discuss with these Japanese people before, and some of them were willing to pay a high salary, but they all thought that we would kick him away after learning his skills, so they didn't agree at all." Lei Shengli shook his head and said.

"Japanese companies are now seriously brainwashed, but the lifetime employment system is still popular, this system is not bad for ordinary workers, and it is really difficult to poach them." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

South Korea's Samsung Electronics, in the 80s, wanted to develop semiconductor technology, it was difficult to poach people from Japan, until the Japanese semiconductor industry was sanctioned by the United States, a large number of related technical personnel were unemployed, and Samsung Electronics was given a chance. The technical content of this kind of production line is certainly not as good as that of the chip, but now the Japanese industry is also at its peak, and it is really difficult to dig up the Japanese to come to Hong Kong, especially the level of the engineer basically has a family, and even Samsung has to lease a plane on the weekend, send the Japanese engineer back to China, and then take it over on Monday, which has spent a lot of costs and costs, and finally Samsung has done the chip and LCD industry.

Lei Shengli continued: "I still don't believe in this group of people in Japan, so I have asked Japanese headhunting companies to look for Chinese people in Japan with relevant experience, and it is said that they have found 3 people there, they do not have a lifetime employment system in Japan, and it will be easier for us to dig them up and communicate, but they are from Wanwan." ”

"It doesn't matter, as long as you have the ability, we can provide whatever you want, a house, a car." Chen Zhiwen said with a light smile, compared with an industry, a house and a car are all pediatrics.

"It's already been discussed, and my idea is that three people are not enough, there should be more such talents, and only when we cultivate enough talents in Hong Kong can we be completely relieved." Lei Shengli also said that to do this kind of high-tech industry, talent is too important, even if it is cutting-edge equipment, you have to know how to choose people, lack of people, the entire factory may be shut down.

"Yes, a little more, our goal is to supply all kinds of electronic products to the whole of Hong Kong first, which is nothing." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

Midea's investment in PCB chip production line is not only to supply itself, Hong Kong is a big market.

Although Hong Kong is not large, there are not many people, the general consumer goods market is not large, but the electronics industry is another matter, even if there is no United States, Hong Kong electronic products in 1975, the export volume of 2.7 billion Hong Kong dollars, including radios, televisions, electronic watches, calculators, speaker equipment, etc., will double the rate of growth in the next three years.

In fact, these commodities also need integrated circuits, however, these integrated circuits have no process at all, many can still be hand-soldered, when imported chips are more expensive, this method is naturally possible, but as long as Midea can do ordinary chips and integrated circuit boards in Hong Kong production, the cost will be completely labor, even if Hong Kong's labor is cheap, it is impossible to compare with the fast placement machine.

"I've negotiated with the largest electronic watch manufacturers in Hong Kong, and when our integrated circuit boards come out, they will buy some and then put them on the market for testing, and if there is no problem, they will buy our goods on a large scale." Lei Shengli said with a smile.

"Well, e-watches are a huge market." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said: "By winning this market, our production technology can also be improved." ”

The semiconductor industry has a professional word called "yield", which is related to the quality of equipment, but also related to production management capabilities and experience, such as the 21st century, basically only TSMC and Samsung in the world can make high-end chips, other manufacturers, in fact, can also buy related equipment, but their own production, it is impossible to compare Samsung and TSMC in cost, because of many years of production experience in large orders, they have controlled the production error rate to the extreme, plus the market has been controlled by them, Basically, there is no chance.

Radio, TV and other equipment, so that Hong Kong manufacturers to replace the integrated circuit board is a bit difficult, because this means a big change in the entire structure, plus these manufacturers themselves are low-end brands, TV can be turned on, not necessarily only high quality.

However, electronic watches must need chips and integrated circuit boards, and only PCB boards can control time accuracy in such a small space. The control circuit boards inside Hong Kong electronic watches are imported from overseas, mainly from Japan, and the same is true for liquid crystals, these two main components are the largest cost of electronic watches.

"Chen Sheng, we have an internal debate, some people think that we can also make this electronic watch, last year alone, the export of electronic watches in Hong Kong was as high as 3 million, if we do it, one million should not be a problem, this can also increase the popularity of our brand." Lei Shengli said.

"Make an electronic watch?" Chen Zhiwen smiled and shook his head and said: "Don't do it, the core of this thing is actually LCD, chips, batteries, many factories here in Hong Kong, but just to make an assembly money, we can make it, but the cost performance is too low, it is better to make chips with peace of mind, and in the future, it will also involve LCD." ”

If electronic watches can always exist, it will make sense to put them into it even if they are assembled, but obviously it is impossible, and the speed of electronic product replacement is too fast.

And the most important thing is that the electronic meter is small in size, whether it is the cost of freight or the cost of shopping mall stalls, it is very low, which also leads to the fact that the terminal retail advantage created by Chen Zhiwen is basically useless, which is completely different from the electric fan, the electric fan is also low value, but the cost of terminal retail is very high, because a large position is needed to place the fan, as long as the terminal is controlled, the cost and quality are good, and it is basically stable.

Today's electronic watches, the price is still very high, generally between 10-30 US dollars, but as long as a few years later, when the production of integrated circuit boards, chips and liquid crystals after several iterations, the price immediately fell to between 1-3 US dollars, which is completely a very meager profit, and even the Japanese electronic watch brands in the past two years have been forced to let go, because the brand has no role in electronic watch products, they are all new brands, purely depending on the time, consumers basically only look at the price.

In the face of the market that will collapse in a few years, Chen Zhiwen is of course not interested, now through this market, to develop their own chips, integrated circuit boards and future liquid crystal technology, is important, and so on in the 80s, the market of household appliances will keep up.

"LCD? We're also going to do LCD? Lei Shengli hurriedly asked.

"Yes, LCD will also do it, there are no restrictions on this thing from the European and American governments now, just buy equipment, you arrange for someone to go to the United States to buy a set of equipment, plus some technical patents." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

Chips and LCDs, one of the most important pieces of hardware in the entire electronics industry in the next few decades, are now in the beginning stage, the cost of participation is also very low, and the restrictions in the United States are not high, at least until the 90s, there should be no major problems.

After the arcade machine has made enough profits, it is natural to enter these two fields, in fact, even the most expensive production line only needs a few million dollars today, which is just a drop in the bucket for Midea.

"As far as I know, the demand for fresh water in the LCD production line is very large, if we open an LCD factory in Hong Kong, will there be a problem in this regard?" Lei Shengli said worriedly.

"No, our current production capacity will not be very large, just buy water directly, but the sewage part, you may need to invest a little money." Chen Zhiwen shook his head and said.

In the 60s, Hong Kong's freshwater resources were so tight that it could only ensure that residents could only use water, and it was difficult to even take a bath, and this crisis also dealt a major blow to Hong Kong's industry and economy.

With the support of the mainland, as long as there is no drought in eastern Guangdong Province, there will basically not be much of a problem, you know, the Swire group specializes in Coca-Cola for Coca-Cola's beverage factory for the South Asian market, also in Hong Kong, Chen Zhiwen's very Coke, unless the scale of the LCD factory is very large, then there may be a shortage of water.

But the demand for liquid crystal in the 70s could not reach such a high demand for fresh water, and in the 80s, it will be said again.

"That's good." Lei Shengli said.

"LCD and chips, not only to do low-end, when we are familiar, with enough engineers and technicians, we still have to impact the mid-end chips, not to mention foreign supply, that is, our internal products, if we can use all our own chips and LCD, it will also be a very big advantage." Chen Zhiwen said again.

Arcade machines, future home game consoles, computers, handheld game consoles, home appliances, etc., all need chips, integrated circuit boards, some need LCD, their own chips and LCD, with stable customers, can develop step by step, of course, the process should also be very cautious, especially arcade machines such as money-making goods, without full certainty, is not afraid to change the chip at will.

"Understand, then I'll arrange someone to go to the United States to purchase an LCD production line, and I'll check it again before deciding on the patent." Lei Shengli nodded and said, as early as a long time ago, Chen Zhiwen said that the future of Midea will not only rely on capital to open terminal retail and all kinds of ideas, these are just short-term to open up the market, if you want to develop for a long time, you must develop core technology.

After all, no matter how strong the financial resources are, they can only get through the two supermarkets of Wal-Mart and Costco, and hundreds of other large supermarkets around the world, if you want to enter, you can only rely on technology, quality, and cost, and no capital can control so many large supermarket chains, even if it is an ancient European and American super family.

And liquid crystal, chips and integrated circuits, is this core technology, developed well, not only can be useful for their own products, but also can be sold to the outside world, to obtain other profits at the same time to reduce their own costs.

"It's best to go to RCA to see, they are the founding company of LCD, the underlying patent is still there, and the LCD production line should also be there, and it may be the latest, but they can't compete with Japan." Chen Zhiwen said that the United States is very strong in many technologies, but the factory management is much worse than in Asia, resulting in the technology developed by American laboratories over the years is all cheaper than the Japanese industry.

It is said that the chip industry, in the early days of the United States development is very good, Intel, Texas Instruments, IBM and other giant companies monopolize the global market, the yield is not high, but it is not a problem, but the company began to produce memory particles on the same day, a year to control the yield to a very high level, the normal competition in the market, is naturally to beat the European and American counterparts.

"Okay, understood." Lei Shengli agreed.

PS: Chip problem, I know that everyone will definitely have questions in the previous chapter, but in fact, the chip market is definitely not only mobile phones, computers, these two are the most profitable chip products, Samsung and TSMC monopolize this piece, but under the high-end chips, there are also a large number of goods that need chips, automobiles, industry, home appliances, military industry, etc., especially the automobile, after the rise of the tram, the demand for mobile phones is greater than the peak demand, I am related to cars.

Therefore, to make chips, it is not necessarily necessary to do the highest-end, and the low-end is basically unlimited, and there is no control, but before the rise of automotive chips, ordinary chip companies are indeed difficult to endure and lose money for a long time, but it is not a problem for the protagonist.

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