Rebirth of the 80s New Farmer

Chapter 1491 A History of Semiconductor Chip Hegemony

The drinking team composed of Chen Dao, Zhang Shan and Li Kaiyun was formally established.

These three people didn't know each other without drinking, and they met each other at this time, and they got together to exchange wine experience.

And Wan Feng was reading some books that couldn't be seen outside.

These newspapers were piled up in the army's library, and Wan Feng came here to read and read newspapers after the selection of the drinking team.

Because there are some inside information books and newspapers that cannot be seen in the world.

Of course, it is now in a declassified state.

Wan Feng mainly flipped through those newspaper documents with internal references.

On a piece of reference news from last year or this year, an article caught Wan Feng's attention.

What first caught Wan Feng's attention was not the article itself, but a chart.

There are four lines on this chart, and the names of four countries and regions are written on the four lines: the United States, Japan, and South Korea.

It was these four names that aroused Wan Feng's curiosity.

The United States was one of the two superpowers at that time, and Japan and South Korea, which was also called South Korea at that time, were two colonies of the United States.

Wan Feng thought it was an article about politics, but at first glance it turned out to be about the semiconductor storage business.

Wan Feng immediately became interested, and spent an hour reading through the genuine article with very small handwriting.

After reading this article, Wan Feng had a clear understanding of the international semiconductor chip issues at that time.

The early 80s was the highlight moment for Japanese semiconductor chip companies.

U.S. companies such as Intel and AMD have been beaten to the ground by Japanese idiots in the field of semiconductor storage.

The development model of American companies has always been to inject funds into start-up companies through venture capital. After receiving financial support, start-up companies conduct scientific experiments and technological innovations, then launch products to gain market access, increase company valuations, and finally go public. Venture capital sells stocks and gains Lee quit.

This model was not only the mainstream of development at the time, it remained so even decades later.

Before Wan Feng was reborn, countless private enterprises in Huaguo were also following this path.

This model is market-oriented, fast in raising funds, high in efficiency, and low in risk.

But the shortcomings are also obvious, that is, the volume is small, and it is difficult to integrate resources between companies.

At that time, the stupid people in Japan adopted a completely different approach from this market economy in the development of this field, that is, they adopted the common approach in socialist countries at that time: concentrate their efforts on big things.

The Japanese government approved the VLSI development plan in [-], and the MITI organized five companies including Hitachi, NEC, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi and Toshiba to fully enter the field of semiconductor chips.

Under the integration of a person named Yasufu Tarui, Japanese stupid people began to attack the king of this field, Silicon Valley of the United States.

By 1980, Nippon had acquired thousands of patents, greatly narrowing the technology gap with Silicon Valley.

At this time, the Japanese government gave them great support with loans and tax incentives.

These companies, backed by sufficient funds, began to launch saturation attacks.

During the five years from 1980 to [-], Japan occupied more than half of the market share, and Americans were left behind.

These high-tech companies in Silicon Valley were desperate after visiting Japanese companies on the island of Kyushu.

A whole building is used for memory chip research and development. The personnel on the first floor develop 16KB capacity, the personnel on the second floor develop 64KB, and the personnel on the third floor develop 256KB.

Japan's three-pronged approach to research has left Silicon Valley companies that are used to wiping their butts with one hand helpless.

What makes Americans even more desperate is that Japan's memory chips are not only large in quantity, but also of good quality.

These technology companies in Silicon Valley conduct quality tests on the memory chips of the two countries, hoping to find the weaknesses of their opponents. They found that the highest quality memory chips in the United States are worse than the worst quality in Japan.

It is in this environment that these companies in Silicon Valley have failed miserably.

In 85, Intel disarmed and surrendered, announcing its withdrawal from the DRAM storage business, and it was on the verge of bankruptcy.

If it hadn't been for IBM to give it a hand and buy 12% of its bonds to ensure cash flow, it would be impossible to say whether this late-stage company would exist or not.

At this time, the nature of the American hooligans began to show.

Yes, it is the same excuse that has been used for more than 1 years: it threatens the national security of the United States.

In the spring of 1986, Japan was identified as dumping read-only memory; in September, the "Miri Semiconductor Agreement" was signed, and Japan was required to open up the semiconductor market and ensure that foreign companies won 9% of the market within 5 years; soon, 20 million US dollars of exports to Japan Chips impose 3% punitive tariffs; veto Fujitsu's acquisition of Fairchild Semiconductor.

And accuse the policy of stupid Japanese companies to be unreasonable and must be changed.

according to their policies.

That is to say, starting from this time, in the next 30 to [-] years, the United States will always threaten its security as an excuse to start rectifying foreign companies that want to put their companies to death. The most famous one is Alstom up.

With the signing of the "Miri Semiconductor Agreement", the Japanese semiconductor chip industry, which was at the top of the wave, turned around and slipped into the abyss.

Among them, DRAM has been hit the hardest, with its global market share falling from nearly 80% at its peak to a little over 60.00% now.

That chart shows the distribution map for [-].

At this time, Japan still occupies more than 60.00% of this field, and the United States is 20.00%.

Han Country and Dawan each accounted for about ten percent.

It's gone any further down.

Wan Feng laughed out loud when he saw this.

He is not very clear about this period of history, but he only knows that in the 80s Japan and the United States had a chip war.

Now he knows.

Don't look at the fact that Japanese companies still accounted for 60.00% of the memory chip industry in [-], and don't look at this newspaper when it comes to this point.

But Wan Feng knew what happened next!

Wan Feng will not idle away to learn about computer chips.

It was this incident that allowed him to have a more detailed understanding of the development of many things in this field in those days.

In 20.00, the market share of Japanese companies in this field was [-]%, while that of the United States was still [-]%, so where did the remaining [-]% go?

Yes, it went to the stomach of Samsung in the cold country.

When Japan began to slide, and the United States could not recover the lost ground, Samsung ran out in the 90s. By embracing the thighs of the Americans and passing the gap between [-]% and [-]% of anti-dumping duties, it defeated Japanese stupid companies in one fell swoop and succeeded. Occupy the huge market of DRAM.

(End of this chapter)