20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3342 Takahashi Kozo's Confusion

As a subsidiary of a company that is only mediocre in the field of cameras and camcorders, the status and situation of these technical and R&D personnel are awkward because Sharp implements a lifetime employment system to a certain extent.

If they choose to resign and change jobs, it means that all the benefits and status they have worked hard to accumulate in the company will be wiped out in one day.

So after receiving the task of developing miniature cameras for mobile phones, these R&D personnel were all excited and nervous, and they threw themselves into the research and development like crazy.

However, no matter how hard these researchers tried, the technological bottleneck of the time prevented them from putting a miniature camera into a mobile phone and successfully taking pictures and storing them.

But there is no way to change the blurry photos taken, and every photo has to use the phone's battery, which does not have a lot of power to begin with.

However, it is precisely because of the obsession and madness of these R&D personnel that this assembly line is equipped with a large number of precision machine tools and optical scale cutting correction instruments - there are many high-tech technical equipment including miniature cameras. When calculating the assets here, even if depreciation is taken, it is still not less than 10 million US dollars.

When the budget was reported, the total investment of nearly 20 million shocked the top management of Sharp headquarters. They had originally planned to make drastic cost cuts and keep costs within 5 or 6 million US dollars.

However, at that time, JTT Telecom had a special liking for this "world's first camera phone". There were three major players in the Japanese telecommunications market, and being able to launch this gimmick before the other two was definitely worth the money.

So with the intervention of JTT, JTT also said that it could purchase the J-SH04 exclusively as a customized machine and then sell it as a company promotion activity.

This allowed the expensive assembly line to be built, which then proved to be a complete failure.

The failed product J-SH04 also led to the replacement of the heads of Sharp's mobile phone business department and film business department, who were then replaced by Okizo Takahashi and Takashi Okuda.

Yukihiko Nakata originally served as deputy chief technology officer and did not have much say, so he took this opportunity to replace the power of chief technology officer Eiji Hagiwara.

Hagiwara Eiji was already facing retirement, and it could be said that his reputation was ruined because of J-SH04. However, since he was a veteran of several dynasties after all and had made great contributions and worked hard, he was given some favor and was not asked to give up his position. Instead, he served as the chief technical officer and cooperated with Nakata Yukihiko's work.

To this day, Takahashi Kozo, Okuda Takashi, and Nakata Yukihiko still cannot understand why, when Hagiwara Eiji and his team got the J-SH04 mobile phone micro camera R&D project team and handed them the organization letter, the three of them all agreed and did not ask for a reduction in funds, and took it to the head office for approval.

It can be said that the total investment in this assembly line and its supporting facilities, tangible and intangible assets, is definitely no less than 30 million US dollars!

However, if it were demolished and sold, it would be considered good if it could fetch one or two million dollars.

So if Zhao Changan was interested in the J-SH04 assembly line, this young man is now worth three or four billion US dollars, and it is easy for him to make money. If he is stupid and has a lot of money, Takahashi Kozo would be happy to change the itinerary and take them to visit the mobile phone factory and the J-SH04 assembly line.

However, Takahashi Xingsan also felt that even if Zhao Changan was stupid and had a lot of money, it was impossible that all the employees around him were stupid. He estimated that this possibility was not high.

So with an attitude of waiting and talking later, he was deliberately indifferent to the visit of the Nano-machine team. If Zhao Changan wanted to cooperate in rebuilding a latest micro camera mobile phone assembly line, Takahashi Osamu would not play with Zhao Changan even if he was crazy, and would instead kick the ball to Okuda Takashi.

Of course, Okuda Takashi is not a fool, and he would not play with Zhao Changan like this, but if he is good at fooling people, he might be able to fool this young man into some other benefits, such as cooperating with the company, importing the company's LCD panels and other important components, and building a factory in China. However, this is not something that Takahashi Kozo needs to consider. If things are done, he will also have a share of the credit.

It was only then that he found out that the president's adopted daughter actually participated in the graduate thesis team at the University of Tokyo.

That's why the morning schedule was changed, and he, Okuda Takashi, and Nakata Yukihiko all participated in the decision.

However, this did not affect the three of them's contempt and disdain for Zhao Changan.

He was just a trader and a middleman who got rich by sheer luck.

In terms of industrial and high-tech background, he and his company are not even worthy of polishing Sharp's shoes, except for BlackBerry in North America.

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With the support of Katsuhiko Machida, Yukihiko Nakata has been fully responsible for the technical research and development direction of the entire company.

It was he who advocated the discontinuation of the production of J-SH04 and established the law of the last sheep in the mobile phone industry, which is to be the second or third sheep of the entire flock and follow closely the pace of the head sheep.

And this decision applies not only to the mobile phone industry, but also to electric fans, refrigerators, air conditioners, microwave ovens, air purifiers, washing machines, dehumidifiers, printers, cameras and camcorders - many industries have significantly cut research and development funds and invested heavily in AQUOS brand LCD TVs.

Sharp's AQUOS LCD TV was officially launched into the market in January last year. The products of this new brand are completely superior to those of Sharp's old factory outside Tokyo. Its sales last year exceeded US$400 million.

This is because the company is limited by its production capacity and cannot provide more products. Otherwise, as long as there are enough products, Sharp itself would not dare to predict how amazing the sales volume will be.

At this time, with the hot sales of Sharp's Guishan factory's products, the top management of the entire group was filled with a mysterious confidence. They believed that there were six or seven billion people in the world, and that the televisions these people were watching were all old-fashioned CRT TVs. Such a large market capacity was worthy and sufficient for Sharp to go all out.

Even though Samsung and LG surpassed Sharp in total area of ​​LCD panels last year, Sharp never cared.

Because SAMSUNG and LG's products are all mobile phones, computers, and some electronic instruments that require small LCD screens, Sharp believes that as long as the production capacity of their Guishan plant can be increased this year, it will be easy to catch up.

Moreover, in terms of product profits, even the profit margin per square meter of laptop and mobile phone LCD screens is lower than that of LCD TVs.

More importantly, the larger the area of ​​the LCD screen, the higher the technical requirements, which in itself forms a very high barrier.

Unlike computers and mobile phones, there are currently countless companies around the world that can manufacture these small-sized LCD screens, which require much lower technical content.