Rewrite the Technological Landscape

After putting forward his opinions to the employees, Meng Qian met with a very high-profile person the next day, and the reason why he wanted to be so high-profile was to show it to the employees in a high-profile manner.

The person Meng Qian met was Atsutoshi Nishida, a very famous president in the history of Toshiba. However, he was not the president of Toshiba at this moment in 2003, and he became the president of Toshiba in 2005.

He is famous because he led the team to enter the Omi market for Toshiba notebooks, and he also helped the Toshiba notebooks to turn losses into profits through reforms, so that Toshiba notebooks can truly become a symbol of the times.

Many people know that the world's first personal computer was IBM's IBM5150 in 1981, but many people don't seem to know that the world's first personal laptop computer was Toshiba's T1100 in 1985.

The 1990s was the most glorious period for Toshiba notebooks, the first notebook computer with color LCD display, the first notebook computer with optical drive, the first ultra-thin notebook computer, the first notebook computer with battery, the first low temperature Polysilicon notebook computer, the first notebook computer with discrete graphics card, the first AVPC launcher, etc., Toshiba has been leading the development of notebook computers all the way. However, after 2002, Toshiba began to go downhill, and it is a downhill road without turning back.

As for why, the core reason for this is hard to understand. Maybe it is because the R\u0026D capability is not as good as that of the United States, maybe it is affected by the economic recession in Neon Country, maybe it is the impact of Chinese enterprises, maybe it is Toshiba’s wrong decision to enter the electric power industry. , anyway, the product will not deceive people, and the Toshiba laptops of later generations are indeed not good.

After Nishida Houcong arrived at the company, Meng Qian took him to visit the Dafeng Group, especially the computer-related departments to learn about the current development of the Dafeng Group.

I introduced them while shopping, and visited for a full afternoon. In the evening, Meng Qian took Nishida Houcong to the hotel for dinner.

After an afternoon of contact, Meng Qian saw that this Nishida Atsutoshi liked to hold it, and he didn't say anything directly, and he liked to play tricks.

For such people, Meng Qian has his own way, which is to deal with them directly, "What do Mr. Nishida Houcong think about our Dafeng Group?"

"The research and development attitude and research and development capabilities possessed by Dafeng Group are very rare in China." Nishida Houcong always speaks politely, but he has nothing to say. "So I dare not make suggestions without knowing enough."

Meng Qian just opened up the topic, and then deepened the topic, "Mr. Nishida Houcong also saw that our Dafeng Group's investment in computer research and development is all-round. Some time ago we went to your company to purchase flash memory particles. I wonder if Mr. Nishida Atsutoshi knows about this?"

Regardless of whether it is producing solid-state drives or memory sticks, the core is flash memory particles. Simply put, flash memory particles are raw materials. Without flash memory particles, it is impossible to make solid-state drives and memory sticks. At this time, in the entire China, a company that can independently develop flash memory particles Enterprises have none, and there will be none in the future.

There are six companies in the world that can produce flash memory particles, namely Toshiba, Samsung, Intel, Hynix, Micron and Western Digital.

The two most mainstream non-volatile flash memory technologies NOR and NAND on the market are produced by Intel and Toshiba respectively.

But once everyone mentions solid-state drives and memory sticks, the impression of Toshiba is that it is not bad, but can it reach the top level?

At least compared with Samsung and Intel, judging from the comments on the Internet, it seems that Toshiba is more inclined to be listed as the second echelon, and the core problem lies in the main control.

Toshiba's master control design ability is much worse than that of Samsung and Intel. The so-called main control design ability, that is, the chip design ability, in the field of main control design of solid-state hard drives, Huaxia still has several companies entering the game.

Today, when Meng Qian took Nishida Houcong for a visit, he specifically let him see that Dafeng Group is also engaged in master control design, and has a large team and sufficient research and development funds for the time being.

"I know about this." Nishida Atsutoshi simply responded.

Atsutoshi Nishida has always held it like this anyway, and Meng Qian ignored him and continued to dig deeper, "I am now planning to further develop in the fields of solid-state drives and memory sticks. I wonder if Toshiba is interested in cooperating?"

"How to cooperate?"

"Merge our main control design teams on both sides together." Meng Qian responded very simply.

Atsutoshi Nishida thought for a few seconds on the pretense of drinking tea. Before he came, he had heard that Meng Qian liked to seek the reputation of cooperative research and development, so he had already made relevant preparations. Hou Cong seemed a little surprised.

Because the main control design is not Toshiba's strong point, and it is even considered a weak point now, Nishida Atsutoshi believes that Meng Qian should more likely seek cooperation with Toshiba's strong points such as screens, batteries, and even flash memory particles.

If you are only looking for the cooperation of the main control design, it is too gentle. This is not the same as the Meng Qian that Nishida Atsutoshi heard, so Nishida Atsuto guessed that there must be other things behind Meng Qian, so he controlled his attitude, "Cooperation R\u0026D involves a lot of details, and I didn’t bring a technical team here this time, so it’s really hard to reply to Mr. Meng.”

"It's okay, we can talk about it slowly." Meng Qian's attitude surprised Atsutoshi Nishida again, but fortunately, Meng Qian's next sentence finally made him feel that he had expected it, "There is one more thing I want to hear Listen to Mr. Atsutoshi Nishida."

However, when Meng Qian said this, Atsutoshi Nishida was stunned again, "I want to acquire Toshiba's graphics card R\u0026D team."

Several established IT companies in Neon Country have researched and developed graphics cards, and two of them are doing okay, namely Panasonic and NEC, but several other companies have not produced anything. Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi are all developing graphics cards. I stumbled.

So when Meng Qian took a fancy to Toshiba's graphics card R\u0026D team, Atsutoshi Nishida felt strange again. Why did Meng Qian take a fancy to our Toshiba's weaknesses?

Our Toshiba has so many strong research and development capabilities, does he even look down on it?

Faced with Nishida Atsutoshi's expression, Meng Qian almost couldn't help but want to tell him that your Toshiba will be cold in ten years. In the future, if you can afford it in the computer field, you will only have flash memory particles, but it is too expensive to make this thing, and the Gale Group really can't afford this money now.

As for the reason why Meng Qian wanted to acquire Toshiba's graphics card R\u0026D team, it was because of the particularity of the graphics card.

The development of graphics cards is much more difficult than that of image sensors. There are two main reasons. One is that the underlying technology is basically fixed, and the other is that the standards are fixed.

Unlike image sensors, which have not yet formed a large-scale technological monopoly, Meng Qian has carried out reforms directly from the bottom. However, graphics cards after entering the 21st century, in the words of the industry, every so-called revolution is actually an optimization .

If it was reborn ten years earlier, it would have caught up with the melee period of graphics cards. Meng Qian had made great achievements in the development of graphics cards. However, with the acquisition of S3, Trident, and 3dfx, Microsoft's DirectX unified the 3D API, AMD and NVIDIA's duo status. It is also confirmed that it is not so simple to challenge the field of graphics cards.

But this matter still has to be done. After all, Meng Qian has some advanced concept and technical advantages. The advantage of artificial intelligence, although this is difficult, as long as you have the opportunity, you have to do it yourself.

In order to do this job well, more experienced talents are needed. The previously acquired Taiwanese chip design company obviously lacks overall experience in graphics card design. Meng Qian needs a more experienced team.

Toshiba has become a good choice. Toshiba was also in the melee in the 1990s. Now that it has just passed the melee, the technical reserves and talent reserves are very valuable. At the same time, because the melee is over, Toshiba has already planned to withdraw from the competition in this market. I am worried. I don't know how to arrange these people, but someone bought them and solved a problem for them.

Meng Qian threw out two requests one after another, which were not too much, which made the well-prepared Nishida Atsutoshi a little overwhelmed, so he had to continue to give an uncertain response to see if there was anything else about Meng Qian.

In the end, after the meal was finished, they sent him downstairs to the hotel. Meng Qian still didn't ask for anything else, which made Atsutoshi Nishida a little embarrassed. After all, he still had something to talk to Meng Qian about.

"Mr. Meng." Before parting, Nishida Atsutoshi couldn't hold it any longer, "Does Dafeng Group have a partner in our Neon Country?"

"What does Mr. Xitian mean by cooperation?" Meng Qian deliberately pretended to be stupid.

"As far as I know, Huawei has not yet opened up the server market in Neon Country."

"Oh, Mr. Nishida said this. Our current customers in Neon Country basically use IBM servers." Meng Qian moved out of IBM directly, but he didn't follow Nishida Atsutoshi.

Nishida had no choice but to explain, "I think Toshiba and Dafeng Group may reach a cooperative relationship. Our servers and storage are top-notch in Neon China."

Atsutoshi Nishida's words are obviously bragging. Toshiba's servers have never been at the top of the neon country, but the storage is indeed doing well.

"I wish for it." After Nishida Houcong said, Meng Qian did not continue to tease him, "If Toshiba has the idea of ​​cooperation, we can sit down and discuss this matter."

"Then Mr. Meng, if you have time, come up and sit down?"

"good."

When he was forced to take the initiative, Nishida Houcong felt uncomfortable, but after a long talk with Meng Qian all night, Nishida Houcong found that Meng Qian had been talking to himself in a very real way.

On the other hand, looking back at his performance this day, he was always wary of Meng Qian, and his clever defense seemed a bit ridiculous.

After Meng Qian left the next day, Atsutoshi Nishida reported to the president about his work and said, "President, Meng Qian doesn't seem to be as cunning as the rumors say."