Reborn America, this is my time

Chapter 233: Diverting trouble to the east, the battle of chips

"Japan?"

When this word appeared, the other four people present frowned.

They tilted their heads slightly and glanced at each other, each seeing confusion on the other's face.

Because in the current international situation, the relationship between America and Benzi is very tense.

In the past ten years, Benzi's economy has been booming, and the share of foreign exports has soared. And because America is the world's largest economy and the world's largest consumer country, many of Benzi's products are In fact, they are all sold to America.

The most famous of these are cars produced by Honda and Toyota, televisions, tape recorders and record players produced by Sony, and cameras produced by Nikon and Canon.

When Benzi's products are like locusts crossing the border, crazily devouring the market share of major consumer goods industries in America, all walks of life related to it are complaining.

To put it simply, the capitalists can no longer make money, and they feel that they can no longer survive. If the vision is broader, the loss of the market will cause many people to lose their jobs.

Because of this, six months ago, when Ethan Jones revealed the sales performance of his own products in this book, the major media immediately wrote about it, making MGM disgraced.This is not because Warner Communications and MGM have lost their ability to intervene in the media, but that they are not good at intervening in such matters.

When major companies move their factories to South America one after another in order to reduce the cost of their products in exchange for a larger market share, the companies that stay in America for local production are warriors, and they can solve the problem of employment in the process. For exports, especially those exported to notebooks, those with special codes are heroes!

In the face of this general trend, they will only take action when they are tired of living. This is not because they are unable to stop everyone's mouths, but because Ethan Jones' code is not made from scratch!If there was no one behind Ethan Jones, then they would definitely suppress his development momentum, but when the guy who was one of the heroes of World War II could still walk around Stanford with a cane...

Ha ha.

"So... Steve, don't you want to start a company in Benzi and then dump a lot of junk games on us in the name of exporting?" The chairman of MGM understood his friend's thinking and said "You want to transfer the risk of public opinion to Benzi?"

“But isn’t this thing too difficult to operate?”

Ron Miller shook his head and said: "Steve, although you can use the public's dislike of the book to cover up your actions, when the public discovers, or rather Ethan Jones discovers, the place where garbage games are produced When coming from Benzi, they may think that this is a fierce counterattack by Benzi’s game manufacturers who have been unable to withstand the impact of Destiny games to compete for the market.”

"But want to be truly invisible? There are two more problems that need to be solved."

"The first problem is that the Benzi company that produces junk games must be controlled by Benzi people. Only in this way can we label them as malicious competition."

"Second question, if you didn't do this yourself, then I want to know how the people in this book could get the patent drawings of Johnson's home console?"

"You gave it to them?"

"But wouldn't it be better for you to take the initiative?"

"It doesn't make sense!"

Ron Miller spread his hands and looked around.

His words also caused everyone around him to nod.

"That's right, if you don't take action, how can this company, which has no legal dispute with Destiny Games, get the design drawings of the Johnson console?" asked Jack Trammell, the boss of Komodo.

"But if you take action in person, Ethan Jones will definitely know about this matter as soon as possible." Rockwell's chairman Willard Rockwell Jr. shook his head, with a look of regret on his face. , "Steve, Cornelis, although your idea is good, but..."

"I think the success rate after implementation should not be high."

Willard Rockwell Jr. pursed his lips and tapped his index finger on the table.

As the clicking sound appeared, he also expressed his thoughts, "Of course, if you have allies in this book, and this guy has business dealings with Destiny Game, and he is also willing to join us, then I I feel that...the probability of success of this plan may be improved a lot."

"I think……"

"You should understand what I mean?"

Willard Rockwell Jr. raised his eyebrows and stared at the CEO of Philips with a smile.

Cornelis van der Crucht and Steve Ross looked at each other. The next second, they looked at each other and laughed at the same time. "We understand what you mean." Cornelis van der Crucht said: "Willard, I can even tell you this, we had already looked for him before coming here..."

Five days ago, Kyoto.

While Ethan Jones was talking eagerly with his suppliers, Nintendo's headquarters, Hiroshi Yamauchi, also received an invitation from the other side of the ocean.

After he took the letter from Nintendo General Affairs Manager Imanishi Hiroshi, after reading the content, he threw the letter directly into the shredder, "Mi Luohua wants to meet with me."

"What do you think of this matter?"

"I think Milova came to us for two things," said Hiroshi Imanishi: "Either to discuss the patent issue of Milova Odyssey, or to research Ethan Jones."

"And these two..."

"It has nothing to do with us, does it?"

Imanishi Hiroshi looked at his boss with a smile.

Yamauchi stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back and couldn't help but nod.

"Yes, none of this has anything to do with us."

He looked at the cherry blossom trees in the courtyard, snorted softly, and said: "Those people want to take advantage of me? Hahaha, what a pity, I, Hiroshi Yamauchi, am not an ordinary person without power -"

After sighing with emotion, he turned to look at his chief manager, his eyes under the brown lenses flashing with joy, "Go and tell them that we at Nintendo will never betray our allies, not before, not now, and more in the future." There can’t be…”

"Since they want to fight, let them fight on their own."

"And we..."

"Just look at it!"

"What? That Hiroshi Yamauchi actually said that he has never betrayed an ally?" Jack Trammell, the boss of Commodore, was shocked. "Isn't there any infringement of their COLOR TV GAME?"

Commodore has always had business dealings with Benzi. They introduced the Casio calculators sold in North America, so of course they know about the product COLOR TV GAME.

In their view, since Nintendo can kick away its allies without hesitation for profit, then when greater interests arise, they may not kick away Ethan Jones, but now...

That guy Hiroshi Yamauchi is firmly on the side of the game of destiny?
I'm afraid they have already betrayed Milohua once, so they simply can't believe that Philips will throw an olive branch to them regardless of past grudges, right?

"This kind of thing has not been finalized for the time being." Philips CEO shrugged.

"However, in the future, if they want to sell their products to America..."

"Then we will definitely take them to court."

None of the people present had any intention of understanding the dispute related to Philips.

After they learned that Nintendo, the best target for backstabbing, didn't want to join their team, they felt that Steve Ross's plan had little chance of success.

And just when everyone thought that today's meeting might end in vain, and the second meeting might not be held, Steve Ross patted the table and said: "I admit that if Nintendo joins us, it will be a real win for us." It’s good news.”

"But even if he doesn't join us, our plan can be implemented smoothly."

While speaking, he also set his sights on Jack Trammell, the boss of Komodo.

"Jack, you Komodo and Benzi have a long-term cooperative relationship, so you should know how the hot CPUs on the market were born, right?"

Steve Ross's eyes were deep, and his eyes staring at Jack Trammell were also sharp at this moment, "At the same time, you who are running the personal computer project should also know that the war related to transistors has just started, right? ?”

"So far, no one knows who will be the real winner in this war..."

Steve Ross's words were somewhat profound, and several people present did not understand them.

But Jack Trammell, the boss of Commodore, was obviously not one of them, because when he heard about the war on transistors, his eyes widened instantly!
The sudden surprise enveloped him crazily!
And almost instantly, he stood up directly!
"Steve Ross!"

He stared at Warner's boss with a surprised look on his face!

"is it necessary?"

He asked loudly: "Are you crazy? Can we do this kind of thing?"

"What you're saying is so damn traitorous!"

Under his roar, a knowing smile broke out on Steve Ross's face.

"Treason?" This Jewish man who made his fortune slowly stood up, put his hands on the table, and stared at the boss of Komodo with a serious look on his face: "Didn't Texas Instruments already sell it once?"

"and--"

"Aren't you a Jew?"

The riddle-like conversation made the boss of MGM, the president of Disney, and the heir to Rockwell look confused, while Steve Ross and Jack Trammell stared at each other without giving in. , the CEO of Philips also knocked on the whiteboard, signaling the confused crowd to look at him.

Then, he said: "Steve's idea is very simple, that is, I hope that Komodo and Rockwell can provide the 6502 patent for free."

These words made Rockwell's chairman Willard Rockwell Jr. change his face instantly, and just when he was about to curse, Philips' Cornelis Vandercrucht spoke faster and said: "Because the current books are a bit biased..."

"We all know that computers have been around for a long time. America developed transistor computers decades ago, and the computer speed is not slow. In 64, their Beichen Electric Co., Ltd. [-]KB transistor machine."

"The next year, in 1960, Texas Instruments showed the world its integrated circuits designed by itself. In [-], Westinghouse Electric even stated that semiconductors were the future."

"So, from that time on, many countries around the world began research in this area."

Although Cornelis van der Krugt is a Dutchman, as a member of the high-tech industry, this history is simply at his fingertips.

Putting down the oil-based pen in his hand, he walked to the conference table and calmly introduced to everyone present: "Since a large number of technologies related to semiconductors were in Fairchild at that time, even if our government took the initiative and roped in well-known companies in this book, They launched an attack on integrated circuits with universities, but they still could not bypass Fairchild's patent barriers and solve the manufacturing problems of integrated circuits. Therefore, in [-], Benzi had no choice but to surrender and purchase transistor planar lithography production technology from Fairchild , used to produce integrated circuits.”

"After they received technical support, their integrated circuit production surged instantly. In 50, they could only produce 800 yuan of integrated circuits for the whole year, but by 5, it instantly soared to 1970 yuan. 96 yuan, by [-] it had reached [-] yuan, and by [-], this number had reached a terrifying [-] million yuan."

"The continuous development of integrated circuit technology has also allowed them to make major breakthroughs in the high-tech field. They used the [-]-micron production process in calculators. Companies such as Sharp and Mitsubishi have accumulated countless achievements in this technological revolution. wealth..."

"but……"

"That's not their real gain yet."

"because……"

Speaking of which, the CEO of Philips North America stopped.

He looked at the boss of Komodo with a smile.Jack Trammell sighed and said: "Their real harvest came in [-]. At that time, Texas Instruments directly gave away its integrated circuit patents to notebooks in order to open up the notebook market."

"Because Texas Instruments felt that the book was not good enough, even if they obtained their patent, they would not be able to develop anything outstanding, but... they were wrong, and they were very wrong."

In order to protect the country's nascent electronics industry, our government has resolutely implemented trade protectionism in the electronics industry. They prohibit domestic companies from importing large quantities of electronic components from the outside world, and will only provide low-end and mid-range integrated circuit components under [-] yen. At the same time, they also used methods such as raising import tariffs and issuing import licenses to restrict American companies from impacting this market.

In this case, Texas Instruments, which wanted to enter the notebook market, used its own integrated circuit patents to seduce notebooks, saying that as long as notebooks opened the market, they would sell all their IC manufacturing processes. The core patents are handed over to them.

The notebook was indeed tempted, but at the same time they also kept a clear mind and only agreed to let Texas Instruments enter the notebook market through a joint venture. Finally, Texas Instruments agreed. In April 50.00, Sony President Dai Ibuka Signed a contract with the chairman of Texas Instruments to establish a joint venture company with each holding [-]% of the shares. It was also agreed that within three years after the establishment of the company, Texas Instruments must disclose all technology patents to Benzi, and Texas Instruments' market share in Benzi must not be More than ten percent.

"Hey……"

Commodore owner Jack Trammell sighed.

He didn't want to recall this history.

After all, it was the U.S. Army that saved him from fire and water in the first place.

Steve Ross, on the other hand, showed appreciation, knowing that the boss of Komodo chose someone of the same race.

So, after the other party stopped, he took over the conversation and said: "No one knows what Texas Instruments was thinking at the time, but their behavior caused the company to develop crazily in the semiconductor field. Before that, Their technology was inferior to America's, but after that, Benzi Electric took the lead in developing static random access memory using NMOS technology, while Intel, the company invested by Lawrence Rockefeller, did not come up with similar products until two years later. After releasing 1KB memory, Benzi Electric launched the same competing product in the second year, and the price was only 90.00% of Intel’s.”

"But even so, all the companies in this book combined could not beat Intel in the early 70s. They wanted to develop an integrated chip that included ROM, RAM and CPU, and then Intel came up with a dynamic memory code-named 4001, code-named The read-only memory of 4002, the register code-named 4003, and the microprocessor code-named 4004, and then, as if inspired by God, they developed the 8008 based on these products, saving Texas Instruments from its mistakes."

Having said this, Steve Ross, who was still holding the table with his hands and staring at Commodore boss Jack Trammell, sat down. He leaned on the soft sofa chair and put his hands on his abdomen.

The leisurely look seems to be admiring Intel's achievements, but it is more like confidence in its own layout. "Seventy-five years ago, Intel could beat the entire semiconductor industry out of breath. Similarly, seventy-five years ago, Intel was able to beat the entire semiconductor industry." , IBM alone can make all major computer companies in this world declare bankruptcy."

"But everything changed after January [-], [-]."

"Because of the advent of the Altair 8080, the computer industry has shifted from the research and development of large computers to the competition in the personal computer industry. The advent of the 6502 not only brought personal computers into people's homes, but also caused Intel and IBM to lose their technical advantages because of services They are concerned with the enterprise..."

“No value for money!”

What happened next, even if Steve Ross didn't say it, everyone present could imagine it.

In terms of cutting-edge technology, Benzi may not be able to match America, but in terms of cost performance, America will never be able to beat Benzi, because when the monthly salary of America's high-tech personnel is 380 US dollars, the per capita monthly salary of Benzi's technical staff is only [-] US dollars. Ten dollars.

This huge gap gives Benzi an advantage.

At the same time, after discovering that Intel was too strong in the chip field, Motorola should not be underestimated. Chuck Paido and others who betrayed Motorola even drove the price of civilian-level CPUs to the center of the earth. They understood that there was no such thing in the CPU field. With so much to gain, they focused their attention on memory.

"Then they really succeed."

The CEO of Philips North America said: "Two years ago, Benzi launched a national project called 'DRAM Manufacturing Method Innovation'. Five major companies, Benzi Electric, Toshiba, Hitachi, Mitsubishi, and Fujitsu, invested 400 billion yen in the national project. In the scientific research institution 'VLSI Technology Institute'."

"Their short-term goal is to produce civilian-grade 64K DRAM and 256K DRAM, and the long-term goal is to surpass Intel and be the first to produce civilian-grade 1M DRAM."

"This year, Intel, IBM, Texas Instruments, and Mostek have all introduced 64K memory, and at the same time, notebook 64K memory has also been launched."

"But even so, they can't create a complete computer."

"Because they lack CPU!"

The CEO of Philips North America looked around and said with a smile: "So we want to know, are you willing to use 6502 to cooperate with this computer company? The world's cheapest chip plus the world's cheapest memory, this can make You get the biggest advantage in the computer industry."

"What are the advantages of Apple computers?"

"Their previous products had no cost-effectiveness at all! They were popular with the public because of Ethan Jones's good publicity, which implanted in the public the concept that Apple computers can be used as productivity!"

"What are the advantages of Apple computers now?"

"Disk II's disk? Can it create better games?"

"This kind of lead may give you Komodo and Rockwell a headache, but as long as you adopt our ideas, nothing will be a problem!"

"As long as you use Benzi's memory and cooperate with them, you can make the cheapest machine that can make games! We may still not be able to beat Apple in our country, but it doesn't matter, you can gain countless gains there by cooperating with Benzi fans!”

"Then, we at Philips can work with you with our optical disc technology and try to put a disc that can hold half a movie into your computer!"

"When our cooperation is completed, your computer will have a low price that Apple computers cannot match! The same functions as Apple computers! A larger data storage space than Apple computers!"

"This will allow you to return to America as God descends! A fatal blow to Ethan Jones's personal computer business and semiconductor business!"

"At the same time, when the drawings of 6502 were circulated wildly in the book..."

"If you want to completely surpass America in the field of semiconductors, you will definitely not miss this opportunity! They will definitely start research and development of this chip! Likewise..."

"The video game industry will also win a carnival!"

"When Ethan Jones discovered that his advantage had been lost..."

"Do you think he will sue those companies?"

"As long as he stops this, we can let Benzi's company get their patent!"

"Next..."

“It’s time for Ethan Jones to welcome the sea of ​​garbage!”

"Oh!"

Cornelis van der Klucht, CEO of Philips North America, knocked on the table hard!
The dull sound made the chairman of Komodo and Rockwell breathe quickly!

Because they really didn't expect that Philips and Warner would even sacrifice the patented technology of the leading book in order to strangle Ethan Jones?This damn thing is too crazy!

Although it is unpleasant to think about giving up the 6502 that they finally got to others, if they can enter the notebook market in this way and then counterattack, then it is still possible for them, because even if they are No matter how long the stalemate continues, America will probably not be able to gain enough market share from Apple. Moreover, what they really want is a [-]-bit chip!

As long as Chuck Paido can get that thing out, then their previous business will not be a loss!
And the cheapest [-]-bit chip in history coupled with the cheapest memory and Philips storage?
Oh--

Who can beat them?
Almost in an instant, Rockwell and Komodor were already in love.

But they didn't make an immediate decision and continued to look at Steve Ross.

"Steve, you should know that our identity is somewhat sensitive." said Willard Rockwell Jr., Rockwell's chairman: "A lot of our company's revenue comes from the American government."

"so……"

"It's very simple. My personal suggestion is that you and Komodo set up a joint venture." Steve Ross knew what he was worried about and said with a smile: "Then contact Benzi in the name of a joint venture, so that You can avoid a lot of trouble.”

"Of course, it doesn't matter if you have direct contact. Didn't you, like Lockheed, make deals directly with me before? And then you created the scandal of the century."

"Then how should we contact the notebook side?" Jack Trammell, the boss of Komodo, asked: "After all, so far, their memory research and development have been national projects."

"Direct contact with the five companies of Benzi Electric may cause problems."

"Then this is your job, isn't it?" Steve Ross shrugged and said, "After all, we at Warner don't have as many contacts with Benzi as you do."

"However, I personally think that Casio's line should work?"

This answer made Jack Trammell, the boss of Commodore, look stiff.

He didn't expect that Steve Ross had already been thinking about his relationship.

But when he thought about it again, he felt it was normal.

Now that Steve Ross was able to bring them all together and thought of using Philips' relationship with Nintendo against Ethan Jones, he should have figured them all out long ago.

In this case……

"Okay, I'll take care of this."

He didn't hesitate and nodded directly for tomorrow.

Following his response, MGM boss Kirk Kerkorian and Disney's actual controller Ron Miller also expressed their participation, and everyone focused on Rockwell's chairman Serena Williams. After Lard Rockwell's body, the guy pondered for a while and said: "I still have two things to do."

"You said it." Steve Ross waved grandly.

"I want to know who you just mentioned is the company that can obtain Johnson's home console patent?" Willard Rockwell Jr. stared at Steve Ross with twinkling eyes.

This question made Steve Ross frown slightly, seeming unhappy.

But the next second, he smiled calmly and said: "There is a game company in Benzi. It was not run by Benzi people. Not only that, its founder is a member of my race..."

When this explicit statement appeared, representatives from Disney, MGM and Commodore all suddenly realized!

"Tai Dong?" Ron Miller said directly.

"Yeah~" Steve Ross nodded slightly and said, "Since he wants to stay there and keep climbing, then he will definitely accept our 'good intention'."

Although Rockwell's chairman Willard Rockwell Jr. still didn't understand, he didn't care anymore. He pursed his lips, looked at Steve Ross seriously, and said: "Second A question."

"Can you help me deal with the threat to the Department of Defense?"

"..."

Steve Ross was stunned by this question.

But soon he started laughing.

"Oh - Willard, you don't mean Evelyn Johnson's teacher, do you?"

"If it were him..." Steve Ross tapped his index finger on the table.

The smile on his face grew wider, "Don't worry, he will be in trouble soon."

"I promise."

　Note: ① Looking back at history, Texas Instruments is indeed the culprit for the explosive growth of the semiconductor industry. This is really for profit, a typical representative of capitalists who can sell the rope to hang themselves.But the price of memory did not really come down until the mid-80s.I looked through HP's purchasing report in 1980. At that time, the price gap between Benzi Electric, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Intel, and Texas Instruments was only 64%. It wasn't until 0.75 that Benzi sold 1978K memory to US$64, and then "Contra" was successfully released. ② In 1979, the notebook did come out with 60K memory, but they did not sell it normally until [-], so the protagonist in the previous article does not know about it. At the same time, even if they use their memory, they cannot make a complete "Contra". Because they also sell for more than [-]. ③Although Komodor makes computers, their business nature is larger, but this is normal, after all, the boss is a Jew. ④The Lockheed scandal is about bribing local politicians to purchase their own aircraft. It is a traditional art. ⑤There are many reasons why this book does not make CPUs, including strategic misjudgment, insufficient technology, no profit from cheap chips, etc. The article is just an abbreviation.

　　
　
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