Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1394 Strengthening Cooperation
To Duan Yun's surprise, a few days later, the first person to visit Shenzhen was not an American company, but Toshiba, a partner of Tianyin Chip Factory.

In fact, since Toshiba sold the 5-micron process production line to Duan Yun, Toshiba has always maintained a "stocking" attitude towards this company in mainland China. Their only concern is whether Duan Yun can fulfill the three-year 000 During this period, Duan Yun asked Toshiba several times to provide some technical support, such as increasing the production capacity of the production line, and the authorization of new chips, but Toshiba did not give Duan Yun any support. a reply.

Obviously, when signing this joint venture agreement with Duan Yun, on the one hand, Toshiba wanted to sell its second-hand chip production line at a high price; New technology products with commercial value are licensed to Duan Yun's Tianyin Group at a high price. If Duan Yun fails to complete the peer-to-peer agreement, Toshiba has the right to take back the production line and authorized technology sold to Duan Yun after three years, so that this The production line is sold to other companies in mainland China at a high price.

However, what Toshiba did not expect was that Duan Yun not only made money from this production line, but also made a lot of money, not only selling the chips to South Korea, but also relying on the learning machines and repeaters developed by their group, Flash memory chips Blooming and bearing fruit in the mainland has shown great commercial value in the market, which obviously far exceeds Toshiba's initial estimate.

And this time Tianyin Group successfully developed the world's first NAND flash memory chip. After the "Scientific American" magazine published the relevant introduction and performance of the product, Toshiba also got the news at the first time, so this time finally I couldn't bear it anymore, and I was going to visit Tianyin Group again.

And this time the people sent by Toshiba Group are all old faces of Duan Yun, one is Fujio Masuoka, the founder of the flash chip, and the other is the new minister Kono Masaichi who also visited Shenzhen last time.

Duan Yun frowned immediately after learning that these two people from Toshiba were coming to Shenzhen.

In fact, Duan Yun and Fujio Masuoka have a good personal relationship. This person has a straightforward personality and is a technical fanatic without much scheming. In Duan Yun's opinion, this person is very real and easy to get along with.

However, Duan Yun felt a little disgusted with Kono Masaichi, the head of Toshiba Microelectronics Department. The right to operate and price the chip, and threaten Duan Yun by terminating the contract and stopping technical support.

Of course, it was impossible for Duan Yun to hand over the management and pricing rights of the Tianyin chip factory, so because of this incident, Duan Yun and Kono had a very fierce verbal conflict, which eventually led to the two breaking up.

It is precisely because of this that since Kono returned to China, Toshiba has stopped providing technical support to Tianyin Chip Factory, and has not provided any help for flash chip technology upgrades. There has been no reply for a long time, only occasionally reminding Duan Yun that he must fulfill the reciprocal agreement of the contract, and the dividend of 5 million US dollars in three years must be in place. It is said that it has fallen into a cold war situation.

However, this time Toshiba took the initiative to come to Tianyin chip factory for inspection, obviously it should be for NAND chips.

But no matter what, Toshiba is still a partner of Tianyin Chip Factory, they have the right to come and inspect, and Duan Yun must also do a good job in reception.

On Monday morning, Duan Yun personally drove to Guangzhou Baiyun Airport to welcome the arrival of Fujio Masuoka and Kono Masaichi.

"Mr. Duan!" Fujio Masuoka, who had just walked out of the airport, immediately smiled when he saw Duan Yun, and greeted him warmly.

And Kono, who was following Fujio Masuoka, was also smiling at this time, and he even took the initiative to shake hands with Duan Yun, and his attitude was completely different from the last time he came to China.

"Welcome, welcome!" Duan Yun warmly greeted the two of them and got into the car, then drove to Shenzhen immediately.

Duan Yun originally wanted to arrange a hotel for the two of them like last time, but this time Kono offered to live in the guest house next to their chip factory, and Duan Yun readily agreed to their request.

Although he sat on the plane for several hours, Kono did not intend to take a break at all, but proposed to Duan Yun that he would like to visit the chip factory immediately and see the NAND flash memory chips they developed.

Kono's purpose this time is obvious. He came to China to verify with his own eyes whether Tianyin Group really has chip development capabilities.

Duan Yun also saw his intention, but he did not refuse his request, so after returning to Shenzhen, the three immediately put on dust-proof clothing and entered the production workshop.

At this time, the chip production workshop was operating at full capacity. Kono carefully observed the operation of each equipment and the operation of the workers. During the period, he used his blunt English to ask Wu Gang and others about some technical matters, with a very serious expression. .

Duan Yun followed Kono, and did not take the initiative to introduce. Occasionally, he asked a few words, and Duan Yun would answer him a few words.

"Mr. Duan, you have managed this factory well, and you have not wasted the technology authorized to you by our Toshiba company." After visiting the workshop, walking down the aisle of the exit, Kono suddenly said approvingly to Duan Yun.

"Thank you for the compliment." Hearing this, Duan Yun replied with a smile.

"Mr. Duan, we heard in Japan that the sales volume of Flash memory chips in your China is very high. I really didn't expect it." The company's senior executives also think that Duan Jun is an outstanding, honest and reliable partner, so this time when we come to China, Minister Kono and I want to discuss with you about expanding the cooperative relationship between our two companies..."

"Expand the cooperative relationship?" Duan Yun was startled when he heard this.

"Our Toshiba Group has always been the top microelectronics chip company in Japan. In terms of technology, it is not only the most advanced in Japan, but also occupies a high share in the international market." Kono also turned his head at this time and smiled. He said to Duan Yun: "Mainland China has always been the foreign market that Toshiba has focused on, and Mr. Duan is also our most capable and reliable partner in China, so Toshiba has decided to increase support for our new joint venture. We will talk about the technical support on the set and related specific matters later.”

(End of this chapter)