Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1233 Wen Tailai Alliance

In the afternoon of the same day, Duan Yun sent someone to help Jiang Mingwei buy a plane ticket. On the second day, under the escort of one of Duan Yun's personal security personnel, Jiang Mingwei got on the plane back to BJ.

The software team headed by Jiang Mingwei was successfully formed, which finally freed Duan Yun to start the next step.

For the future planning and development of his company, Duan Yun has always had a clear idea.

According to the conclusions of previous generations, there are three major reasons for the slow development of my country's chip industry: the first is insufficient capital, the second is the lack of talent, and the last is the lack of mechanisms.

But in fact, the main reason why China lags behind in the chip field is that the path of development is not right.

The reason for the successful rise of the Japanese semiconductor industry is that under the coordination of the official industry, large oligarchy companies formed a joint investment "R&D alliance" to conduct joint research in this field.

The situation in South Korea is the same. With the support of the government, oligopoly companies like Samsung have formed systematic R&D alliances internationally through mergers and acquisitions. Therefore, the successful experience of the two countries is: Driven by government industrial policies, leading oligopoly companies form R&D alliances Carry out technical breakthroughs.

But Duan Yun will never have such a condition. He has been fighting alone until now. Although the Ministry of Electronics Industry held a meeting in Xiamen last year, he proposed the 531 strategy, that is, "5 microns for popularization, [-] microns for research and development, and [-] micron for public relations". Implemented two bases in the north and south for chip research and development, one point layout, the south is concentrated in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, the north is concentrated in BJ, basically one point is Xi'an.

So after this meeting, the state made key investments in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, but all the participating projects were state-owned enterprises and scientific research institutes, and they did not intend to support private enterprises at all, so Duan Yun could not obtain resources to develop the chip industry through the state .

Fortunately, Li Hao, the mayor of SZ City, gave Duan Yun a lot of support and helped them solve the industrial land and policy issues. He also led him to find the leaders of Shenzhen University and wanted to help them establish a cooperation model of industry, university and research. , although it did not succeed, Duan Yun was still very moved.

Duan Yun's original plan was to establish a cooperative relationship with domestic universities and institutes and take the path of joint research and development, but because national policies do not allow universities and private companies to cooperate, this also cut off Duan Yun's path of joint research and development in China.

Since the domestic industry-university-research path is not feasible, Duan and another joint R&D path is placed, which is to imitate the original Samsung company and form a systematic R&D alliance through mergers and acquisitions internationally.

However, although Duan Yun currently holds more than 1500 million U.S. dollars in foreign exchange, this amount of money alone can't cause any disturbance in the international M&A market. It is still unknown whether such a company can produce the technological achievements that Duan Yun wants. Moreover, due to the Batumi agreement, Chinese companies cannot directly purchase top foreign high-tech.

Since the current policy does not allow joint research and development with universities and institutes, and the road to foreign joint ventures and mergers is also blocked, Duan Yun can only rely on independent research and development in a short period of time, waiting for the relaxation of national policies.

In addition to joint research and development, there is a huge gap between my country and the international advanced level of core technology. Another very prominent reason is that domestic key enterprises have not formed synergies like Microsoft, Intel, Google and Apple.

There is a so-called "Wen Tailai" alliance in the United States. Microsoft's Windows operating system is only paired with Intel's chips. In terms of core technology research and development, a strong alliance is better than going it alone. Working together is difficult.

Duan Yun also realized this very early on. Since he first established the electronics factory, he has controlled many small private companies through technology, forming a small internal and complete industrial chain. The lucrative and Walkman market also played a very important role.

After establishing a chip manufacturer, Duan Yun also wanted to form an alliance similar to the American "Wen Tailai". He had previously signed a cooperation agreement with Hou Weigui's ZTE Corporation. A cooperation intention has been reached, but with these two companies alone, it is still impossible to build a strong internal alliance, and he still needs to find more partners.

In today's world, PC computers are basically dominated by Americans. They have Microsoft's Windows software, Intel's IC chips, Google's search system, and Apple's computer complete machine. This alliance can be said to be invincible in the world. Always in the field of personal computers, it cannot be compared with the United States, let alone surpass it.

Japan, on the other hand, has made household appliances to the extreme. From the earliest TV sets, tape recorders, and refrigerators to the later Walkmans, karaoke recorders, and red and white handheld game consoles, all of them are epoch-making products that sell well in the world. It is also invincible in precision manufacturing, automated processing, and microelectronics, and has formed a certain industrial supply chain alliance. Therefore, in terms of household appliances, it is difficult to surpass in a short period of time in China.

After thinking about it, Duan Yun felt that there was only a certain breakthrough in the communication industry.

Whether it is the current program-controlled telephone, to the later pager, PHS, mobile phone, and smart phone, the market scale and development potential are huge, especially the mobile phone industry, which is almost tailor-made for China. The internal structure of the early telephone was not Complex, and the demand in the domestic market is also very large. It is not only a high-tech product, but also a labor-intensive industry. Due to the high labor costs in the United States, Japan and Europe, the cost of the products produced is high. If the country can master its advanced technology If so, it will have a very large labor cost advantage, which will eventually form a product price advantage.

At present, neither Japan's NEC and Fujitsu, America's Lucent, Sweden's Ericsson, Germany's Siemens, Belgium's BTM, nor France's Alcatel have formed a monopoly position.

Of course, Duan Yun himself does not intend to start a telephone communication company by himself. Even if he wants to do this, it is impossible, because the domestic communication industry is basically controlled by the state, and there is currently no possibility for private companies to enter this industry.

Therefore, Duan Yun's real goal is to become an upstream supplier of the domestic communications industry. Whether it is large-scale program-controlled telephones, digital switches, or GPS and other fields, the demand for chips is huge. Duan Yun can also form a domestic computer similar to the United States. The industry's Chinese version of the communication industry "Wen Tailai" alliance focuses on the communication industry.

Previously, Duan Yun and Hou Weigui's ZTE Corporation had jointly developed a phone with caller ID and automatic message function. This was the first step for Duan Yun, and he still needed to find another partner.

Soon, Duan Yun thought of another person, that is the founder of Huawei: Ren Zhengfei.

(End of this chapter)