Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1401 Chinese Engineer

Under the leadership of Duan Yun, the visiting team including McKess from IBM and John Wilson from Texas Electric entered the Tianyin Group's chip factory.

At this time, McKess and the others looked a little tired. They were already very tired after arriving in China last night after more than [-] hours of flying. As a result, they were taken to the industrial area by Mayor Li Hao this morning. In one round, I have already visited two large local electronic companies in Shenzhen, and also visited Shenzhen Electronics Mall and SEG Electronics Market. The itinerary is carefully and compactly arranged.

Before coming to China, these foreign enterprise inspection groups did not know much about China, because the West has always promoted China as a poor and backward country, so in many impressions, mainland China and Africa are almost equated, but when they arrived After coming here, they were surprised to find that China's development seems to be much better than they imagined, and although the enterprises in Shenzhen are not large in scale, they are quite dynamic, and there is Huaqiangbei. The electronic mall has a very large traffic flow, and the electronic products sold are also dazzling. They even saw some smuggled products produced by their own company on some counters. Kind of embarrassing.

IBM already had an agent in China a few years ago, which is Lenovo located in Zhongguancun, BJ.

However, compared to markets outside of the mainland such as Europe, America and Japan, IBM's sales in the Chinese market are relatively small. On the one hand, it is because a large number of smuggled computers with relatively low prices have entered the Chinese mainland, and on the other hand, it is the Chinese mainland nationals. The consumption level is very low, and most people can't afford this kind of computer at all. Basically, they are purchased by Chinese state-owned enterprises and units as office supplies, and it is only natural that the sales volume is not high.

As for Texas Electric, it has not yet established a business in China. However, when visiting the Shenzhen Electronics Mall this time, John Wilson, a senior engineer of Texas Electric, unexpectedly discovered that an analog control chip of their company was being sold on a counter on the second floor. , This kind of chip is a product of their company in the mid-to-late 2s. It is already a backward chip product in foreign countries, but in China, it seems that there is still a good market.

During the visit, the mayor Li Hao also kept introducing the situation in Shenzhen to the team leaders of IBM and Texas Electric through an interpreter, and hoped that they could invest and set up factories in China. At the same time, he promised a lot Preferential policies and tax relief.

Generally speaking, this kind of straightforward marketing method has little effect, but McKess and Wilson didn't seem to feel disgusted. Instead, they asked some questions about the situation of the Chinese electronics market with interest, apparently after a visit. , the two did find that the Chinese market has great potential.

There are many factors that need to be considered in doing cross-border investment business. In addition to commercial factors, political factors between countries must also be considered by these multinational giants.

Strictly speaking, China, which belongs to the Eastern camp, should not receive investment from the United States. Fortunately, the past two years are still in a honeymoon period between China and the United States. Because of the needs of international politics, the United States has temporarily shown a friendly side to China. Speaking of which, the investment policy towards China is also relatively loose, which allows American companies to safely and boldly carry out cooperation and investment in the general technology field.

But compared to these, what they are most concerned about is the NAND chip developed by Tianyin Chip Factory this time, because the "Scientific American" magazine has conducted a very systematic test on this chip before, and the results are quite amazing, proving that This is indeed a brand-new flash memory chip technology, and its test indicators are also very strong. It can completely replace the existing NOR flash memory chip and make electronic products with better performance.

After several years of decline, IBM has deeply realized that only relying on the authority of the market cannot guarantee IBM's hegemony in the PC computer market. They must ensure that the product technology is advanced, and they must not miss every industrial technology innovation.

Under Duan Yun's leadership, McKess and others were attracted by the majestic factory buildings as soon as they entered the factory area.

Although the technical scale of Tianyin Chip Factory is still far behind Intel and other chip giants in the United States and Japan, but at least in terms of the scale of the factory, it is not much inferior, and the factory area here is very large, and the environment is quite elegant , is indeed impressive.

"Mr. Duan, I heard that you are a joint venture with Japan's Toshiba. All the plant equipment and technology here are provided by the company?" McKess asked.

"Yes, I bought the equipment at a cost of 5 million US dollars, and the dust-free factory building was also built with the cooperation of experts from Japan." Duan Yun did not deny McKess's statement, because he knew that Americans would definitely trust him more The Japanese technology is beneficial to the cooperation between the two parties. He continued: "But now the chip factory is in my hands. In addition, the new chip developed this time has nothing to do with Japan's Toshiba. It was developed by the technicians of Tianyin Semiconductor Company, a subsidiary of our group, and 000% of the patent rights belong to our Tianyin Group."

"So that's the case." Hearing what Duan Yun said, McKess nodded.

"Your company's engineers must be very good. Which country are they from?" Wilson asked with interest at this time.

"These engineers in our company can be said to be the top in China. They used to come from our Chinese Academy of Sciences and other national key research institutes. Some of them have been engaged in chip research for decades. It is thanks to their unremitting efforts that Only then has a new generation of flash memory chips been developed." Duan Yun said.

"Chinese engineers? Amazing!" Hearing what Duan Yun said, Wilson gave a thumbs up.

In the 80s, there were few exchanges between Chinese and American scientific researchers. At that time, very few scientific researchers were sent abroad, and most of the time, Chinese technicians went abroad as "students" for exchanges, but this time they were able to The development of this technologically advanced chip before developed countries in Europe and the United States really made these American engineers look at it differently.

Later, under the leadership of Duan Yun, Duan Yun, Li Hao and the American delegation entered the chip production workshop and started a formal inspection.

At this time, at the entrance of the production workshop, the translator Li Yun and Chen Tiesheng were already in place. For this visit to the American company, they also took time to make preparations in advance, including the introduction of various equipment in the product workshop, and the current Tianyin chip, etc. The situation is already clear.

(End of this chapter)