Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1290 Joint Venture Trap
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Entering the dust-free workshop, the moment the lights are turned on, the huge closed factory building is like daytime, with a white luster on the ground, which is extraordinarily clean.

"No one has been here?" Duan Yun turned to Wu Gang and asked.

"Since the dust-free workshop was built, no one has visited it again, but the air is kept purified every day, and it feels like a waste of electricity..." Wu Gang said.

"This little electricity money is nothing..." Duan Yun thought for a while, and then said: "In the future, I will continue to maintain the air purification. In addition, you must also be prepared. Maybe in a few months, I will build a road here. New production line."

"Build a new production line?" Hearing this, Wu Gang's eyes lit up.

Since the chip factory was put into production, it has been in a state of full-load operation, but the production capacity has not been able to increase, and it cannot meet the order needs of the electronics factory.

If new production lines can be added, the production capacity of the chip will be raised to a higher level. The more profitable the chip factory, the more year-end bonuses for their core backbones will be. Because it is linked to interests, Wu Gang also hopes to introduce new chips as soon as possible. production line to increase its production capacity.

"I can't say for sure about this now, but if the machine comes, you have to cooperate with foreign experts to debug the machine, and it may be busy for a while..." Duan Yun paused, and then said: "In addition, I have to You made a request, that is, the technicians at your chip factory need to strictly keep secrets in the future, and cannot disclose the technical parameters of the new production line to the outside world, do you understand?"

Because the process of the lithography machine purchased this time has reached one micron, it is a Chinese product under the Batumi Agreement, so after the machine is shipped to China, Duan Yun must strictly keep it secret, and cannot sell the five-axis machine to the Soviet Union like Toshiba Like CNC machine tools, it eventually led to Toshiba being sanctioned by the United States, which caused very big troubles.

Before these lithography machines enter the mainland, Duan Yun will ask the businessmen in Hong Kong to erase the logos of ASML lithography machines. Anyway, Duan Yun does not want to have any problems with ASML because of this incident. In the future, he may need to continue dealing with ASML through a Hong Kong businessman.

Moreover, Duoyun has another consideration in doing so, which is to guard against Toshiba.

Generally speaking, limited to the current principle of foreign companies investing in China to exchange technology for markets, Chinese companies must hold 50% of the shares, and foreign companies are obviously not willing to do so, just out of helplessness.

But in joint ventures, although the Chinese party holds the bulk of the shares, that is, at least 51% of the shares, the foreign company that actually masters the core technology has an absolute right to speak in the joint venture. With the authorization of its product technology, They can control the development and management of joint ventures, while Chinese companies are often in a very weak position.

In the case that the foreign party dominates the product development rights, it is difficult for the foreign party to allow an active R&D organization in the joint venture.

On the contrary, castration, dismemberment, dissolution or "captive breeding" of the blueprint importer's original technology research and development force has become a global commonality of joint ventures.

In the process of joint ventures between Chinese enterprises and foreign parties, the R&D capabilities of the original state-owned enterprises were dismantled, and even a large amount of it was lost in the end, and it is still happening in later generations.

Many excellent domestic developers and development teams are bound under the framework of joint ventures. Although they can design some conceptual technologies, almost all of them are "deadborn" or "exclusively for demonstrations". The real marketization of products has not been realized, so it still cannot become an effective organization that accumulates development capabilities.

So when Duan Yun established the chip research and development team before, Duan Yun had avoided publicity as much as possible, and even if the Japanese knew about it, they would not be too worried, because chip design is a very difficult thing, and with the current talent strength of China , It is very difficult to design high-end chips. Even if Duan Yun can design relatively advanced chips, because there are only three-micron process production equipment, it is impossible to produce them at all, so at most, we can only produce some low-end chips with relatively backward processes. End chips have little impact on Toshiba's technical discourse power.

Moreover, Duan Yun only has one production line and one lithography machine. Once there is a problem with the machine, it can only be repaired by Japanese personnel. This is also an important reason why Toshiba is more "relaxed" about Duan Yun.

But at this time, if Duan Yun introduces 4 or [-] more advanced lithography machines, Toshiba will lose its last card in controlling the joint venture.

So once Toshiba knows that Duan Yun has introduced the world's most advanced lithography machine equipment, he will definitely interfere with it, and may even report to the Batumi Agreement Committee. In short, he will try to maintain his absolute technology in this joint venture The right to speak.

"I understand." Wu Gang nodded in response.

"Debugging equipment requires a lot of technicians. Pick a few honest, capable, and strict-mouthed ones. I will sign a non-disclosure agreement with you at that time. Anyone who leaks the secret will face huge compensation and even go to jail... "Duan Yun added another sentence.

"Don't worry, Manager Duan, I will explain this matter clearly to everyone."

"If you can complete the equipment debugging this time, I will give you twice the year-end bonus. You know, I never treat people who do a good job badly..."

"We know this, and we will definitely complete the task." Wu Gang repeatedly assured.

"In addition..." Duan Yun glanced at the workshop, and then said: "You can arrange it later, hang a sign at the entrance of the workshop in Area C, and set it up as an important warehouse. Others are not allowed to enter normally. In addition, we call it here internally. It is Warehouse No. 3, and in short, we must not let anyone other than the operator know that this is a production workshop."

"Ok."

"That's all for today, go get busy." Duan Yun waved his hand, signaling Wu Gang to leave.

Seeing this, Wu Gang turned around and walked out of the workshop in Area C.

Standing in the large and empty workshop, Duan Yun thought for a moment, then turned and left the workshop...

……

That night, Duan Yun and his wife Cheng Qingyan talked about buying a lithography machine.

In fact, the two had talked about this matter before, but this time they increased the purchase of three lithography machines, which meant an additional expenditure of 450 million US dollars.

Duan Yun had already spent more than 1550 million US dollars on the 200 million US dollars obtained from the transfer of Walkman production line technology, and still had more than 1300 million US dollars in his account. This time, he had to spend 850 million US dollars in one go.

Although Cheng Qingyan was surprised by such a large expenditure, she did not object, because the sales of repeaters are really good at present, and the electronics factory also needs a lot of flash memory chips. Since the capital can be earned back, Cheng Qingyan will naturally not object to Duan The cost of such a large sum of money...

(End of this chapter)