Hongsinoya Hotel is located in the Otemachi area of ​​the heart of Tokyo.

As a Japanese hot spring hotel with extremely high quality, with the concept of "Tao Japan Hotel" to create a rare Japanese style in this prosperous area of ​​Tokyo.

I knew in my previous life that Japanese people were very concerned about hotel hygiene issues.

I heard that every room has a very strict standard, and there are more than 190 procedures for checking hygiene alone. As long as one does not meet the requirements, the cleaning staff will be asked to clean it again.

I don't know if this is true or not.

But as soon as I entered the room, I felt an unprecedented purity, which made Lin Yi a little confused.

I thought that although the hotel is very clean, no matter how you clean it, you have to pay attention to the limit, right? There is no dust or garbage in the local area, so it’s always up to the top, right?

But this hotel just feels unique and superior.

After throwing his coat on the bed, Lin Yi stood in the center of the room and studied it carefully. After a long time, he found that it was the environmental reason.

The color, size, shape, and placement of each object in the room are very particular, making people as close to nature as possible in terms of vision and sense.

It is refreshing and transparent everywhere.

Lin Yi nodded, secretly showing off the designer's greatness and a very good psychological perspective.

I brushed my teeth, rinsed my mouth, washed my hair and took a shower, and after tidying up, I felt that I was much lighter.

He pulled a cotton drag, and banged his back to the bed, and put his thighs on his body. His tired body felt very comfortable for a moment.

Lin Yi, who had half-closed his eyes, wanted to sleep for a while, found that Nokia at the bedside sounded.

The casual artistic conception was disturbed and I felt bored. I reluctantly took the phone and saw that it turned out to be a strange number.

Lin Yi was a little confused, but pressed the call button the next second.

As soon as Bu was connected, Wu Jingxiu's familiar voice came from there: "Mr. Lin."

"You changed the number again?"

"I haven't changed it. This is to contact you specifically. I made it new. I did it according to my brother-in-law's request."

When she heard her mention Guan Ping, Lin Yi was tactful and stopped asking: "Are you going well?"

Wu Jingxiu on the other end of the phone did not answer, but asked: "When will you come to Tokyo?"

"It's already here."

Wu Jingxiu paused and asked again: "Where is it?"

“Hongsinoya Hotel in Otemachi.”

"Then you are ready to go downstairs and we will pick you up."

Seeing the woman hanging up the phone neatly, Lin Yi only silenced for a second, then got up and put on clothes and shoes.

Over the past year, Lin Yi has long been used to Wu Jingxiu's behavior of being cautious everywhere. He even felt that the more cautious this woman was, the greater the gains she gained this year.

According to the plan, Wu Jingxiu originally planned to transfer from South Korea to China during the Chinese New Year to report the situation face to him in detail.

But when he heard that Lin Yi was coming to Japan, he changed his mind.

After cleaning up, Lin Yi called Dr. Lu when he arrived at the first floor and told them that he had to leave in advance.

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Tokyo winds are a bit strong and a little cold in February.

He was angry outside the hotel, stamping his feet and closing his sleeves before waiting for a black Toyota.

When he opened the door and entered the car, Lin Yi called out the old-fashioned "Brother Guan", and then he turned his attention to Wu Jingxiu, who had not seen him for a year.

The height, fat and thin are still not changed. They are just suits and ties, and their capable short hair, which makes them look like elites in the workplace.

The prosperity of the semiconductor industry also lies in the Japanese government's purpose of driving economic recovery. Therefore, many policies have been tilted to protect the local semiconductor industry through tariff barriers and trade protection.

On the other hand, American companies have seen a huge potential market in the prosperous semiconductor industry in Japan, but due to strict policy protection, they can only enter the market in the situation of joint venture technology patent transfer.

In 1968, Texas Instruments and Sony established a joint venture, each accounting for 50% of the shares. Texas Instruments transferred I-circuit manufacturing technology to Japan within three years. This technology transfer method greatly contributed to the barriers to the leading semiconductor technology in Japan.

With the support of domestic policy and learning of external technology, Japan's semiconductor industry continued to follow. In 1970, after ibm took out the Dram chip, Japanese Nec also took out the Dram chip the following year.

Compared with Japan's progress, what the United States is currently worried about is the huge trade deficit with Japan. In 1971, Japan's calculator industry was stimulated by the progress of IC circuits, so that 80% of the calculator products in the US market were made in Japan.

As a result, the U.S.-Japan trade frictions emerged, and soon the United States refused to provide the core IC integrated circuits to Japan, resulting in a 27% drop in the U.S. market share in Japan's calculator in 1974.

In order to technically catch up with the United States, Japan, which was brutally "halved", decided to increase its investment and bet on Dram products.

The Ministry of Public Health of Japan began to provide economic subsidies to six domestic semiconductor companies. From 1972 to 1976, these companies received a total of approximately US$200 million in subsidies, which greatly promoted the development of Japan's semiconductor industry.

In addition to government economic aid, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce has also joined forces with the five largest computer companies in Japan, including Fujitsu and Toshiba, to form a research portfolio of VLSI (ultra-large scale integrated circuits) in order to achieve its contribution and integrate first-class companies to create world-leading technological advantages through competitive cooperation.

In the early 1980s, Japan could already lead the United States in half a year to produce 64k Drams. In 1986, Japan officially defeated the United States and became the world's largest semiconductor producer, with Dram share accounting for 80% of the world. Under the measures of "spending money from the whole country and interoperating information", Japan's VLSI strategy achieved very obvious success.

With the rise of Japan's semiconductor industry, trade frictions between Japan and the United States are also intensifying.

Faced with Japan's large amount of Dram production capacity, under the current low price situation, domestic American manufacturers were unable to resist. In the end, Japan and the United States reached a semiconductor agreement in 1986 to restrict Japan's exports. The following year, the United States imposed 100% import tariffs on the part of Japan's failure to comply with the agreement…”

While looking through the documents and listening to the woman's detailed explanation, Lin Yi also made up the future of Japan's semiconductor industry in his mind:

Later, with the rise of the personal computer industry, Japanese corporate decision-making mistakes and excessive vertical failures eventually dragged the semiconductor industry to the direction of decline. Coupled with the domestic bubble economy, Japan's dream of a semiconductor country ended, and it was replaced by its "fenacious" South Korea.

After Wu Jingxiu talked about the Showa trap of Japanese semiconductors, she then talked about South Korea's determination and rise in semiconductors.

"When Japan-US semiconductor trade conflicts are frequent and traditional hegemony face challenges.

South Korea seized the window period of Japanese Dram production. While accepting guidance from the US industry, it also actively acquired Japanese corporate technology, gradually laying its own technical foundation.

In 1975, the South Korean government announced the "Six-Year Plan for Promoting the Development of Semiconductors", focusing on promoting the development of local semiconductor companies and introducing technology and talents to foreign countries with consortiums as the center.

At this time, Samsung Electronics, which had been established for 6 years, was no longer satisfied with joint ventures with foreign companies to lay product lines such as refrigerators and air conditioners, but was brave enough to advance upstream.

After acquiring 50% of the equity of South Korean semiconductor company in 1974, President Lee Byung-chul went against the opposition in 1979 and continued to acquire the remaining shares, and renamed South Korean semiconductor to Samsung Semiconductor the following year.

Regarding the semiconductor industry issues related to the "national destiny", the South Korean government has also been introducing policies to promote industry progress.

From the 1980s to the early 1990s alone, the South Korean government introduced five large-scale policies, directly pointing to the revitalization of the semiconductor industry.

Seeing the market potential of the semiconductor industry, Samsung took the lead in investing 2.7 billion yuan to establish a semiconductor research institute.

It is worth noting that in the process of South Korea's semiconductor development, its highly concentrated chaebol system played a key role.

Since its beginning of development, the South Korean government proposed the economic development model of "government large consortiums" and took the lead in establishing the Korean electronics industry alliance with CSB, hoping to use the economic influence of giants through policy guidance.

Although South Korea's semiconductors are developing rapidly, they are still inadequate in the position of the Japanese overlord, the position of neighboring Japan's overlord. When Samsung completed the research and development of 64kdram in 1984, Japan had sold it for four years. It can be seen that the technological generation gap between Japan and South Korea has planted seeds since then.

Fortunately, the explosion point in the Dram industry, which belongs to Samsung, came soon. With Japan's Dram production capacity overcapacity, trade conflicts broke out in Japan and the United States, and global Dram prices plummeted.

In the semiconductor trade agreement, Japan promised to reduce production capacity and exports to boost prices, but the results were not obvious. Under the low-price offensive of Japanese companies, American companies lost to Maicheng one after another. Samsung, which bet on Dram, suffered heavy losses in this price fluctuation, and lost 300 million US dollars.

However, because Japanese companies killed 1,000 enemies and suffered 800, a gap in the market emerged.

Under the anti-dumping controls in the United States and the difficulty in adapting to market development, Japan's semiconductors gradually declined. Samsung went against the trend and believed that Dram would usher in an explosion, continuously increased investment, and launched a Dram product with a capacity of 1m in 1985.

Afterwards, Samsung gradually caught up with the R&D pace of Japan and the United States, and manufactured its first 64mdram in 1992. Later, it acquired technology from companies from both the United States and Japan, and made its foundation in the semiconductor field in one fell swoop."

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Speaking of this, Wu Jingxiu paused and then whispered: "This is an effort made by South Korea in the semiconductor industry on the surface."

Upon hearing this, Lin Yi, who was looking at the documents, raised his head and his eyes lit up: "On the surface?

Did you also touch the clues in secret?”

A year ago, when Wu Jingxiu set out to Japan and South Korea, Lin Yi and her had exchanged ideas and made arrangements about the rapid development of South Korea's semiconductor technology.

Everyone believes that South Korea has a secret force in Japan to poach people and dig technology. But this is the category of commercial inter-business, and the level of confidentiality is definitely very high, and it is generally difficult to touch.

This woman has never mentioned this issue in the past year, but now she suddenly mentioned it, that there must be progress in this area.

Sure enough, Wu Jingxiu smiled proudly and said, "It's also good luck. Thanks to Tang Shangzhilong, he discovered it."

Lin Yi was a little curious, "Is Tang Shitaka the technical director of Toshiba Company?"

The woman shook her head, “No.

This is another major goal of my development nine months ago. In my heart, he is more important than the technical department head Beiyuan Cangjie."

It turned out that the technical department head was named Beiyuan Cangjie. In the past, this woman never mentioned her name on the phone in order to be cautious.

Thinking of this in his heart, Lin Yi asked, "Do you have this person's file?"

Wu Jingxiu picked out a folder from a stack of documents, opened it and spread it in front of Lin Yi, and said, "This is his file."

Tang Zhishang Takashi, male, was once the director of the Hitachi Micro Processing Institute and was born in 1960.

After graduating from a master's degree in nuclear engineering at Kyoto University in 1986, he joined Hitachi Products.

In the Central Research Institute, Semiconductor Business Department, Equipment Development Center, Erbida Memory, Semiconductor Advanced Technology and other departments, we have been engaged in the development of micro machining technology for 11 years...

After reading his resume, Lin Yi asked: "How did you capture him."

Speaking of this, Wu Jingxiu is a little proud:

"He was in the wrong team in the factional rights dispute at Hitachi. Afterwards, his faction was ruthlessly liquidated by his opponent, and Tom Tsubaki was no exception.

This incident was very big at that time, and many news media reported it. After reading the newspaper, I became interested in him.
To be continued...