Chapter 509: Conspiracy
Dallas-Fort Worth Airport is one of the busiest airports in the world. Sitting in the pick-up hall and looking out, the lights on the landing gear of the plane seem to be dotted with orange stars. The busyness makes Zhang Ke feel that the planes are so frequent. It is a miracle whether the landing does not collide, and it is normal to collide with two planes a day.
Everyone is used to staying up late, and they had a good rest during the Spring Festival. After getting off the plane, they were not confused by the jet lag and looked exhausted. They took a luxury car and arrived at the manor villa area in the Dara Preston Hollow area. wealthy areas of Texas. Novel chapters are updated the fastest
The early spring in Dallas is warm and humid, and the Preston Hollow area is covered by giant trees, as if you have come to the National Forest Park in the United States, and manor houses are hidden in the shade of the trees.
Angelbo received Zhang Ke and his party at his mansion in the Preston Hollow area of Dallas.
Different from the domestic banquet where the table is full of sumptuous dishes and dozens of plates and bowls are placed for several rounds, at the first night banquet in Dallas, there is only smoked guinea fowl salad as an appetizer, and the main course is fried steak with Washington yellow onions and a Dessert, but unfortunately the dessert is not a butter almond cake, and there is no choice of Alaskan halibut with prawns for the main course, otherwise Zhang Ke will enjoy the most prestigious treatment.
After chatting cordially at Angiebo's house for the agreed half an hour, and spending another half hour visiting this five million dollar manor mansion, Zhang Ke and his party took their leave and went back to the hotel in moderation. "Fiction" novel chapters are updated the fastest
In 1997, it took five million US dollars to build a villa with the same specifications in China. It took about three hours for people to visit, but Zhang Ke was not anxious at all. The living standards of Chinese people are very slow to catch up with Western society. It is definitely not the wind of floating losses in the 1960s and 1970s that the housing prices of China's housing prices catch up with Britain and the United States in ten years.
Arrange for Zhang Ke and his party to stay in the most luxurious hotel in Dallas. To be honest, today is February 14th, which is a special day. Zhang Ke also wanted to get rid of An Jibo as soon as possible, this little American old man who is only forty-four years old, mature and prudent but looks like sixty-four years old.
It was dark outside, and after leaving the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, it was raining continuously. Sitting in a luxury car and drinking champagne through the night and quiet streets of Dallas, it felt really good.
In Dallas, there is no bleakness of withered leaves, only the grass at this time in spring has a smell of forest dyeing, and it will be unknowingly decorated with fresh green after a short period of time.
Zhang Ke only saw the introduction of the hotel in the world travel magazine, and he felt that the introduction of the magazine was not exaggerated at all. There is a large garden square under the dome of the hotel's steel structure and tempered glass structure, and the river is winding. Some guests even take a small boat to visit the indoor garden square. Zhang Ke also did not hesitate to ask for help to arrange a small boat to experience the world's largest indoor garden square.
It's only ten o'clock at night in Dallas,
Zhang Ke took a nap on the plane for enough time—Chen Xinsheng, Xiao Jincheng, and Cheng Hanzhang had to consider going back to their room to beat the jet lag, otherwise they would not be able to cope with work normally during the day tomorrow——Zhang Ke had no worries about this at all. Yawning can only make people think that there is an uncontrollable excitement at the first arrival of Guilin, and everyone else is sent back to the room. Zhang Ke and Xu Si spent February 14th in the most luxurious hotel in Dallas. The remaining hours.
next morning. I visited the world's most advanced wafer fab invested by Texas Instruments with an investment of 3 billion U.S. dollars. The area of the factory is as large as 25 football fields and all use natural sunlight. It is very troublesome to visit the clean factory building, but in Zhang Ke's view , Semiconductor devices are like miracles produced under the modern industrial system. The cleanliness of the absolute clean room is 1000 times cleaner than that of the strict hospital operating room. Accompanied by the chairman and chief executive officer of Texas Instruments, I was really excited.
It will not be until three years later that Motorola will invest 12 billion to build a fab in Tianjin; Zhang Rujing, who was born in Texas Instruments and has worked in Texas Instruments for 20 years, will not raise 20 billion yuan until seven years later. Huge sums of money were raised in Shanghai for SMIC.
Zhang Ke will not think about these too far away things for the time being, and he didn't even ask which Texas Instruments factory Zhang Rujing is working at at this time. Even with tens of billions of funds, Zhang Ke still wants to do too many things, and he can't Only invest in one project. What's more, fabs are also called "half-inverted" in the semiconductor industry, and they are said to be an industry that "usually half of them will be dumped", which has huge investment risks. Inviting Zhang Rujing and his team ahead of time and investing tens of billions may not succeed in building a fab.
The focus of this trip to Dallas is to visit the research base of Texas Instruments and visit the latest research results of Texas Instruments.
Zhang Ke is well aware of the huge differences in business ideas between European and American electronics manufacturers and Japanese and Korean electronics manufacturers.
European and American electronics manufacturers pay more attention to professionalism and focus on core business. For example, Texas Instruments is one of the largest semiconductor service providers in the world, but there are very few electronic products from Texas Instruments in the market, and ordinary consumers have never even heard of this company. However, Motoroto will package and sell non-core businesses such as chip factories under its name in the next few years. electronic product. They are rarely involved in their consumer electronics products - this is the professional management idea of European and American manufacturers.
What's more, European and American electronics manufacturers will habitually separate out their self-righteous non-core businesses. Texas Instruments, under the leadership of An Jibo, quickly packaged and sold twelve non-core businesses within one year of his appointment.
Why did Texas Instruments agree to put all the laser reading and burning technology under its name into the Taite Optoelectronics Research Institute, a joint venture with Kumho? Because this piece is not the core business of Texas Instruments. Why did Zhang Ke agree to share 50% of the shares with Texas Instruments in Tite Optoelectronics Research Institute, so that Texas Instruments will hold 40% of the shares in the movement factory. First, I want to use the technical resources of Texas Instruments in the early stage. There is also the determination and speed of An Jibo to cut non-core business. This means that what leaks out from between the fingers of the big man is enough to feed the little man. In fact, Zhang Ke kept his mouth open and waited for Texas Instruments to recover the investment, and then vigorously cut off these two non-core businesses with a knife.
The business ideas of Japanese and Korean electronics manufacturers are different. They are more focused on the system. The whole system includes a complete product structure and a perfect technical structure. Like Samsung Electronics, its factory includes the most upstream chip manufacturing in the electronics industry, as well as the final production of electronic products. It has the most dedicated and large The marketing team, the types of electronic products are also all-encompassing.
Because Japanese and Korean electronics manufacturers focus on systematic business ideas, electronic technology lags behind those in Europe and the United States, but they occupy most of the consumer electronics market in the future. Even in the more professional electronic chip market, their share No less than European and American manufacturers.
Kumho's goal is to establish a complete product structure and a sound technical structure. Kumho adopts this kind of business philosophy, and it is destined that Japanese and Korean electronics manufacturers will be Kumho's future and ultimate competitors. European and American electronics manufacturers, to a certain extent, In the future, or in a certain period of time, it will be Kumho's best partner; of course, Kumho must have the strength to make European and American electronics manufacturers regard Kumho as their partner.
One of Zhang Ke's most focused things in Texas Instruments in the past few days is to inquire with Texas Instruments staff every day about which business the tall, serious-looking Anjibo has classified as non-core business.
An Jibo was not stingy, and generously showed the latest research achievements of Texas Instruments to Zhang Ke. Although Kumho's technicians can roughly know the latest technological achievements of Texas Instruments by searching patents, it is different for Zhang Ke. His technical background is so poor that even if someone retrieves all the patents and lists them in front of him, he doesn't know what the patented technology means for the final electronic product.
But when the staff of Texas Instruments demonstrated the functions of their patented technology one by one, Zhang Ke could quickly tell whether this technology will be widely used in future consumer electronics products.
Only one out of ten technical research can produce results, and the proportion of large-scale commercial application of technical results will be even lower. If the correct research direction is known from the beginning, the time, energy, manpower, material resources, and research funds saved will be reduced It is extremely terrifying.
It took Kumho more than a year to develop the prototype of the first-class machine. If Texas Instruments mobilizes elite troops to focus on the research and development of the first-class prototype, it will take at least a year.
It was Zhang Ke who clearly knew the future development direction of the DVD player that made up for the originally insurmountable technological gap between Kumho and Texas Instruments to the greatest extent.
Texas Instruments is also excellent in reducing chip power consumption. The technicians who visited Texas Instruments can make a chip work by stringing seven grapes together. He stabbed Han Zhang's arm and said, "See if you see it, this is the gap."
When Cheng Hanzhang got the reminder, he memorized it in his heart. This is a technical difficulty that Kumho will focus on in the future.