Chapter 1364 Conspiracy
The first item is the NAND flash memory stick. It used to be a Toshiba product, but now Samsung also has it, and Samsung has been in contact with Huahong, hoping to become WinClover’s component supplier. .
Under such circumstances, if Huahong takes the Zhangjiang joint venture as a condition for purchasing memory sticks as a weighted item, it will be beneficial to both parties to save costs, increase sales, and jointly enhance competitiveness.
The second item is Clover's strengths. Taking advantage of the MiniCOS instruction set, working all the way from audio to video, being able to carry the MPEG first generation platform and developing the speed of MPEG second generation is unnecessary. Too fast.
In other words, although the VCD and DVD protocol standards are developed by major manufacturers such as SONY, all major manufacturers cannot catch up with Clover's ability to transform the protocols into application products.
This is a victory of ideas. The big manufacturers' ideas still stay on the workflow of formulating protocols - developing protocol carriers - developing products, while Clover's ideas have turned it into a general research and development carrier - piggybacking protocols - — launch products.
It is equivalent to major factories first preparing the goods, then tailoring a suitable ship for the goods, and then loading the goods; while Clover Company first builds a ship that can load any goods, and then waits for the goods to come out If it is installed directly, the research and development speed of the two sides will naturally be different.
The reason why domestic manufacturers in the previous life were manipulated by foreign countries was because the decoding chips were not in their own hands. In the final analysis, they were all "machine dealers."
In this life, Zhou Zhi has obtained the production capacity of video decoding chips after taking over Scobo Company, and is now continuing to research second-generation chips, which are DVD chips.
So now Zhou Zhi proposes to lead the research and development of DVD. This is based on the ability to develop DVD decoding chips. Now he does have the qualifications to dominate other manufacturers.
Although the third item is a "future event", it is of great significance. With protocols and standards, the development direction of future automation equipment can be formulated.
If it is small, it can be the core software of future CNC machine tools. If it is large, it can be the industrial control center of an automated workshop. If it develops further, it can be a fully automated factory from ingredients to delivery under the management of the Internet of Things.
Although this last point was not fully realized until Zhou Zhi came here, the countless industrial control equipment, software, and Internet of Things systems created in the process of moving in this direction have already been used in the human world. It plays a huge role and affects all aspects of society.
Although it is still just a blank piece of paper, Zhou Zhi can already lead Clover Company to enter, and the reason is also the trump card in his hand-MiniCOS universal platform.
It can be said that when many large manufacturers are still confused, Zhou Zhi has a clear idea, that is, to insist on building a universal IoT platform for information equipment as the main task of Clover. So far, it has achieved achieved some results.
In the eyes of Matsui Zuo and Jin Chunyi, Zhou Zhi grabbed a golden doll and brought it to the extreme. Although the small seed planted had just sprouted, it had already sketched out what it would look like when it finally grew into a towering tree. look.
However, you can’t say that he is wrong yet, because regardless of the short-term, medium-term, or long-term goals, what he has planned so far will have matching outputs, or in the near future, he can There are supporting outputs.
Not only that, the benefits are visibly rich, otherwise it wouldn’t attract the jealousy of major domestic manufacturers who want to get involved and get a share of the pie.
Matsui Zuo found that this kind of "lunch party" organized by Zhou Zhi was really a good way to communicate. Zhou Zhi explained all this clearly while eating and drinking with them, and the two sides had some disputes and exchanges. , you can speak freely without any scruples in this informal setting, which is indeed very efficient in grasping the true intentions of both parties.
What Zhou Zhi used was all conspiracy. The reality was clearly placed in front of Matsui and Kim Chun-il. This was a victory for the idea. Japanese and Korean manufacturers now have to develop under the constraints of the old idea. The required chips are no longer efficient enough to load protocol modules on mature platforms. However, it will also take a long time to start from scratch and develop a universal platform of our own, and to catch up with the current level of Clover Company.
And it is difficult to bypass the patent barriers built by Clover and Microsoft. Even if it is open source Linux, only the bottom kernel is open source. It must be easy to use, easy to develop, and have numerous interfaces. Even if the agreement is satisfied, the MiniCOS patent package that Clover Company spent a lot of money to develop cannot be avoided.
According to international practice, when you can't beat them, joining is the only way to go. Instead of wasting time on endless competition, it's better to join forces and carve up the world.
Or to put it another way, before the market is divided, there is a cooperative relationship. After the market is divided, the cruel competition will really begin.
It just so happens that the market is still in its infancy, and the market left to be divided among the big manufacturers will be in the hundreds of billions of dollars, and this is just the "starting price."
Therefore, the main contradiction now is the contradiction between insufficient production capacity in the early stage of development and the extreme hunger of the market, rather than the contradiction between overcapacity and thin profits in the later stage of development and oversaturated market.
For the former contradiction, the solution is simple and crude, that is, cooperation, investment, and building factories! ASAP!
The three of them chatted until late at night. Their thoughtful attitude made Matsui Zuo and Jin Chun feel more comfortable. Openness, frankness, transparency, what they could and couldn't do, what they wanted and what they didn't want were all laid out in the open.
Although the two have their own plans for building a NANDflash factory, now is not the time to quarrel. Moreover, it is a competition between Toshiba and Samsung, and Clover needs to actively fight for it. object, so it’s not the time to break up.
Among the remaining two items, the major manufacturers behind Kim Chun-il did not participate, while SONY behind Matsui Manufacturing was obviously lagging behind. The introduction of MPEG-1 decoding chips and VCDs brought great pressure to Matsui Manufacturing. What happened was deeply shocking and silent. After careful calculation, I am afraid that as Zhou Zhi said, with Clover as the leader, SONY takes out the existing technology, the two parties realize technology sharing, formulate specifications, build a DVD player in the shortest time, and then harvest the entire market. The world market is the real thing.
As for the third item, it is not just Japanese and Korean electronics companies, it should include machine tool manufacturers, automotive robot manufacturers, and even some industry associations need to participate.
But should things be done? Obviously, we should do it, but can we leave Clover Company behind? Obviously, it's not easy to put aside.
Whether this standard will be led by cutting-edge universal platform architects or by traditional industrial control manufacturers is still a matter of debate. As "brokers", Matsui Zo and Kim Jun-il are not qualified to speak, but they both said that they can serve as a "bridge of friendship" and convey Zhou Zhi's intentions to the country.
Of course Zhou Zhi also said that he would use his influence and do his best to persuade Director Hu to agree to these measures.
When we came out of the noodle shop, it was past midnight and the second night show of the World Cup had begun.
(End of this chapter)