Just when Ma Fuyuan and others were about to make a big splash and wanted to make some articles on earning foreign exchange through exports, Duan Yun received a transoceanic call from Japan.

To Duan Yun's surprise, it was none other than Fujio Masuoka, who was the first to invent the "Flash" scatter memory chip.

Because Fujio Masuoka didn't understand Chinese, when he called Duan Yun, he also specially found a Chinese translator from the company to help him talk to Duan Yun.

During the call, Fujio mainly asked about Duan Yun's enterprise and the purpose of his purchase of this flash memory chip.

Duan Yun did not inform Fujio Masuoka of the purpose of his purchase of this chip, because his repeater has not yet been prototyped and patented, so he cannot tell anyone about this good business idea.

However, Duan Yun still expressed his strong willingness to buy their Flash memory chips on the phone, and said that if the price of their company's flash memory chips is right, he is willing to buy them in large quantities and sign relevant contracts.

However, on the phone, Fujio Masuoka obviously doubted the strength of Duan Yun's company, especially after learning that Duan Yun was only a private company, and felt incredible, as if in his memory, there was no concept of private enterprises in Chinese mainland at all, so that he had some doubts about the existence of Duan Yun's company, or simply a leather bag company.

Duan Yun didn't explain much about this, but said to Fujio Masuoka that he was welcome to come to Shenzhen to inspect his company, and discuss other things specifically.

After putting down the phone, Duan Yun was in a somewhat complicated mood, on the one hand, he really wanted to buy a large number of this flash memory chip, and on the other hand, if the other party's price was too high, then the repeater products he would produce in the future would become meager in profit, and the high price would also greatly affect sales.

In later generations, the cost of memory chips in general electronic consumer products will not exceed 20%, and Duan Yun was at the SEC exhibition before, the reference price of this Flash chip at Toshiba's booth was 45 US dollars per piece, if it was converted into RMB according to the exchange rate of domestic black market foreign exchange, it would be a full 450 yuan!

Duan Yun's factory price of each Walkman is now 380 yuan, and the price of this chip is actually higher than the entire Walkman, adding up to more than 800 yuan, such a price can be said to be uncompetitive in the domestic market, because this is already equivalent to the price of imported Sony Walkman, and families who can afford to buy a Walkman for 800 yuan will not mind paying an extra one or two hundred yuan to buy a Sony Walkman with more functions and better quality.

According to Duan Yun's thinking, if the cost of each chip exceeds $10, then there is no need to cooperate for the time being, and no one wants to do loss-making business.

Of course, Duan Yun also kept an eye on it, that is, in a phone call with Fujio Masuoka, he proposed that the other party could bring a batch of chip samples over, Duan Yun only needed a few chip samples to make a sample of the repeater, so that he could apply for a patent for the repeater in advance to avoid being taken by other manufacturers at home and abroad.

In fact, the Walkman was invented in China in 1993, and before that, Duan Yun didn't have to worry about someone coming up with this idea, and before 93 years, the price of flash memory chips in the world had already been reduced, and there was no problem with repeaters being on the market for two or three years at night.

But all this will have to wait until Fujio Masuoka arrives to make a decision......

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However, on the third day after the phone call with Fujio Masuoka, his plane had landed at Guangzhou Baiyun Airport, accompanied by a Chinese interpreter, who was actually a Chinese student studying in Japan.

After learning that Fujio Masuoka had come to Guangzhou, Duan Yun was very surprised, he didn't expect the other party to come so quickly, which shows that Fujio Masuoka still attaches great importance to this business.

In fact, as Duan Yun guessed, Fujio Masuoka really attaches great importance to this business in China.

Fujio Masuoka is currently a supervisor of Toshiba's microelectronics research department, and is a middle-level cadre in the Toshiba Group, although he has also organized many Toshiba product development projects over the years, and is also well-known in the company, but in the final analysis, Fujio Masuoka is too far away from Toshiba's core power layer and does not have any decision-making power in the company.

In fact, Fujio Masaoka has always paid little attention to China, thinking that China is seriously poor and backward, and it is just a dumping ground for Japan's obsolete products and production lines, and the product projects researched by his microelectronics department are mainly aimed at the markets of developed countries such as Europe and the United States, so he never thought that there would be Chinese customers interested in the products he researched.

Originally, Fujio Masuoka had considerable expectations for the "Flash" flash memory chip that he painstakingly developed, but the reality poured buckets of cold water on his head, and when he reported the product to his upper leadership, the other party just said to him "forget about this product" after understanding the performance of this product, and then there was no follow-up.

Even if the "Flash" chip participated in this year's CES exhibition, it was just an opportunity for Fujio Masuoka to fight for it, but the result did make him feel very disappointed, except for Duan Yun's company in the exhibition, which had a strong interest in this kind of bulk chip, no one from other European and American manufacturers even asked about this product in the exhibition.

So despite his disdain for the Chinese mainland market, Fujio Masuoka finally decided to embark on a trip to China to see if Duan Yun and his company could really save their research and development results.

This time, Duan Yun personally drove his Santana car, picked up Fujio Masuoka and the accompanying translator at Baiyun Airport, and went to his factory in Shenzhen.

In fact, according to Duan Yun's original arrangement, because when the plane arrived in Guangzhou, it was already noon, and he planned to let Fujio Masuoka stay in the Xi'an Hotel in Shenzhen, and then lead him to visit the factory early in the morning of the second day, but Fujio Masuoka insisted on visiting Duan Yun's factory first.

"Mr. Fujio, do you speak English?" Duan Yun asked in English.

"Yes!" Fujio Masuoka was stunned for a moment after hearing that Duan Yun could speak fluent English, and then nodded.

The two then spoke directly in English.

When Duan Yun went to Japan to investigate, he even saw Japanese people reading English newspapers on the train, but the Japanese English level is limited to reading and writing, and the speaking level is with a strong local accent, which makes people sound a little awkward.

However, Fujio Masuoka's Japanese speaking level is still good, and Duan Yun and him can have a barrier-free conversation, which also facilitates the communication between the two.