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Chapter 825 The Most Crucial Lesson

Of course, not only the Japanese, but also many technology companies read these newspapers and faintly felt the arrival of the portable era.

Why many electronic products are heavy and large, on the one hand, because the integrated circuit has not yet been formally developed, so all kinds of large and cumbersome hardware are piled up desperately.

On the other hand, the battery is bad, and no one wants to take a dead-end product out for a stroll with a bad battery life.

However, the development of science and technology is mutually advancing. It is not that the Tiangong Laboratory takes out the lithium battery, which is the king bomb, and the portable era will come immediately.

Many products still have software and hardware to overcome.

Lithium batteries are only bringing the dawn of the portable era.

It will be many years before the real arrival.

If you want to be truly portable, you have to wait for the semiconductor industry to enter another level, the era of rapid development of integrated circuits.

Otherwise, just for the hardware in most electronic products, if you want to make it work normally, the weight of lithium batteries is definitely not light.

To give a simple example, you can't use two AA batteries to start a TV, but you can put it on other lighter products.

Another example is our Big Brother, which takes a different path.

Now everyone has two options for research and development in the field of electronic technology, either mainly research and development of transistors, or mainly research and development of electronic tubes, or they can choose both if they are strong.

Considering the sanctions imposed on the Soviet Union by the entire Western camp, both the Soviet Union and its successor Russia have undoubtedly chosen electronic tubes.

Because in the war, the stability of the transistor is very poor, it cannot effectively resist the electromagnetic pulse, and even the equipment will be paralyzed, but the electron tube is different, its stability is extremely strong.

In the face of the big and heavy electronic tube products of Big Brother, lithium batteries are actually not very useful.

No one would be so stupid as to use lithium batteries to start these big blacks. Wouldn't it be better to use electricity directly if you have the time.

So Su Chen's lithium battery plan is for Europe, America and Southeast Asia.

After the three-day exhibition of lithium batteries ended, those workers who worked 996 every day did not seem to realize what happened.

But for big technology companies, it feels like a dark cloud is hanging over their heads.

This is because the position is different, and the things you look at are different.

Especially big companies like Sony and Panasonic, because they have launched a lot of portable products, and they are also researching lithium batteries.

Although the lithium batteries of Peak Technology may enable them to launch more excellent products, it is also very likely that the lithium batteries in their laboratories will die.

Whether it is Akio Morita or the head of Panasonic, they are unwilling to see this situation.

But if the research on lithium batteries is not given up, the road ahead has been blocked by peak technology, no matter in terms of performance or patents.

The patents obtained at the beginning were only applied for Japanese patents, not global patents, because they were worried that it would cause other troubles.

Originally, it was hidden and developed in private, but now that the peak technology comes up, it directly overturns the stage and cuts off the way forward.

If you give up, years of research will go to waste.

This is the biggest problem facing these companies at present.

Su Chen didn't care what these people thought. After the exhibition, he asked Miranda to take people to the mainland to discuss the establishment of a lithium battery factory.

And he himself stayed in Japan for a few days, and made several sophisticated plans to short Japan.

When he planned to short the Japanese economy, he invested hundreds of millions of dollars into the Japanese market to buy Japanese stocks and real estate. The prosperity of the Japanese economy caused the stock market and real estate to rise like crazy. After the Plaza Accord was signed in 1985, the yen began to appreciate.

By the beginning of this year, the stock market and real estate have at least doubled, that is tens of billions of yen.

At this time, the yen has appreciated to 1:120. If you sell off the Japanese real estate and stocks in one year and then convert them back to US dollars, it will be billions of dollars!
But Su Chen still wants to wait, wait a few more years, and now that he has a lot of money in hand, he doesn't need to hold back any more, so naturally he has to increase his bargaining chips.

There is nothing else left for the time being, and he doesn't need to worry about some small details.

He called to the United States and asked Bernice to find a way to acquire Ultratech or P&E. The plan was to inject capital first and then take full control of it. If they could acquire all of them, they would arrange people to study and then return to China to develop indecently.

After spending a few days with Teresa Teng, Su Chen is also preparing to leave Japan.

At this time, the time has come to mid-April.

Several big things are happening in the country.

One of them is that Hainan is going to build a province and set up a special economic zone. When the news spread, countless young people with dreams traveled all the way south to Zhanjiang, Guangdong by train, and then changed to long-distance buses to Haian Wharf.

Everyone huddled in the small cabin, while enduring the unpleasant smell, while looking forward to a bright future.

Although these people themselves don't know why they are going, it doesn't matter, they must go, no matter what they do!
The streets of Haikou became crowded overnight, and the streets and alleys were crowded with a large number of people who looked like intellectuals wearing glasses and Chinese tunic suits.

Interestingly, there are no traffic lights on the roads in Haikou now, and the traffic policemen at road intersections don't hold batons, but stones or branches, and they will throw them when they see someone violating the rules.

However, it seems that 10 people have nothing to do with Mr. Su.

Did you fry the land in the past?

Don’t forget that it’s still a planned economy, and many people are reselling approvals. Mr. Su is not in the system. He could open factories in the past, but if he really wants to speculate on land now, he thinks he will live a long life.

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At this time, there is nothing worthy of Mr. Su's concern in Japan.

As the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States faded, the United States began to contain the development of Japanese technology companies from the perspective of national interests. Is this scene familiar?
However, the United States cannot be blamed for this, and Japan is also unlucky, because it has repeatedly misplaced "skill points" at critical moments of technological development.

Whether it is in the field of mobile communications or semiconductors, the brain circuits of the Japanese are different from those of others.

Therefore, when the global computer market changed from mainframes to personal PCs, the global computer market began to change from the original vertical integration to the horizontal and horizontal division of labor.

In the past, the R&D, production, assembly, software system, and sales of components were all done by one company. Later, the CPU, components, systems, assembly, and sales were all undertaken by different companies around the world.

For example, the United States is responsible for the supply of CPUs and systems, South Korea is responsible for DRAM, and China is responsible for production, processing and sales. In this way, risks can be minimized when the market changes suddenly, thereby improving the company's ability to resist attacks.

However, in the 90s, Japan still insisted on vertical integration. From CPU to assembly, it relied on itself. The technology control of each link was in the hands of the headquarters. It wanted to do everything well, but in the end it couldn’t do anything well.

This is very inspiring to Teacher Su.

Because it is impossible for him to light up all the skills, and then develop and produce by himself, and control every link. At that time, he will only be in trouble.

This is why he abandoned the switch. Healthy competition is the root of development. Once you monopolize all links and others have nothing to play, others will kill you.

Right now, he has mastered lithium batteries, lithography machines that are still under development, ARM, Qualcomm, etc., but it does not mean that he still has to make his own CPU, build his own system, and produce all the software and hardware of the computer himself.

Just before he was about to leave Japan, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and there seemed to be a very powerful company in Japan...

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