20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3344 Guishan Factory

Zhao Changan glanced at Qiao Hang, and Qiao Hang understood what he meant and winked at Zhang Yuanxiong, the man he specially poached from Siemens this time.

In fact, he didn't even need to use his eyes to look at others, because since entering the factory, Zhang Yuanxiong's eyes were no longer on people, but all on the machines.

"You don't all have to follow us, you can look around freely."

Zhao Changan smiled at the female translator and said to Gao Qiao Xingsan: "It should be okay, right?"

After the female translator finished translating, Takahashi Kozo laughed and said, "Of course."

He knew that Zhao Changan had asked his subordinates to conduct a more detailed and undisturbed inspection of the assembly line and its related supporting facilities.

If this happened at Guishan Factory, even if Zhao Changan cried, they would not agree.

Even in other important areas of this mobile phone factory, it is impossible to agree.

Including the visit just now, the company's R&D department, and the manufacturing line of models that have not yet been launched on the market, these places need to be kept confidential, and the Yi Nanometer team was not led there at all.

Because it has been proven that mobile phone cameras are a wrong combination, and Sharp is gradually withdrawing from or no longer working hard to develop the camera and camcorder industry. So even if Yi Nanmi gets more photography and videography technology, there will be no loss for Sharp, and it may even cause trouble for its former competitors.

Although I don't think this possibility is very likely.

Moreover, Takahashi Kozo had reason to believe that as long as Zhao Changan was really stupid enough to want to make a camera phone, his subordinates would definitely tell him after visiting these equipment that this assembly line was still the most advanced in the world.

So, will Zhao Changan buy it? How much is he willing to pay for it?

Ten million dollars, or twenty million dollars?

Anyway, he is young and energetic, and looks like the kind of person who is stupid, rich, and lucky.

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After visiting Sharp's mobile phone factory outside Tokyo, it was already lunchtime, and everyone went to the factory's management cafeteria to have a simple working lunch.

Seeing that Zhao Changan had not made any statement on the J-SH04 micro camera assembly line, Nakata Yukihiko proposed inviting the One Nano team to visit their LCD TV factory in Guishan.

Compared to selling the J-SH04 micro camera assembly line to One Nano in a one-time deal, from Sharp's perspective, they obviously hope to reach an export agreement with One Nano for TFT-LCD panels for TVs to China.

This is also what Takahashi Kozo said last night when he received a call from Machida Katsuhiko. The president said on the phone, 'You can let them have a regional tour of the Kameyama plant.'

Although Sharp is in a global leading and monopolistic position in large-size TFT-LCD panels, Samsung, LG, and AUO have followed suit since the Guishan plant officially went into production last year.

The earliest one was LG, which built a fifth-generation TFT-LCD panel plant in August last year, planning to manufacture 1000mm-1200mm TFT-LCD TV panels. So the pressure and the need to seize the initiative are still very real.

"Because the company's high-tech needs to be kept confidential, the Guishan factory has always refused visits, but we are willing to give your company great convenience and allow you to visit some non-core product lines."

Although Nakata Yukihiko said this, he did not care in his heart. In his opinion, even if the entire Guishan Factory was opened to people like Zhao Changan to see, they would not be able to see anything.

This regulation is mainly aimed at technical elites in the same industry, including Samsung, LG, and Taiwan's AU Optronics, as well as many companies that have just entered or are preparing to enter this field.

However, to date, Sharp's AQUOS LCD TV still dominates the global market, occupying more than 80% of the market share, especially in the large-screen market above 20 inches, where it has formed a 100% market monopoly.

Zhao Changan glanced at his subordinates around him and saw that they all seemed very interested. Come to think of it, Sharp's AQUOS LCD TV is currently the world's dominant product, so their curiosity is understandable.

"Then I'll trouble you."

Zhao Changan nodded in agreement. Before this trip, he also paid attention to the domestic television industry.

After Sharp launched the AQUOS LCD TV in January last year (01), domestic companies that were still ambitiously betting on CRT TVs were all dumbfounded.

You should know that the mainstream of the current market is laptop computers and mobile phone screens, and the battle in the TFT-LCD panel field is still in the early stages.

Who would have expected that Sharp, the world's first manufacturer (in 88) of TFT-LCD mobile phone and notebook screens, would have no moral principles at all and would launch a cross-border dimensionality reduction attack, intending to carry out an extremely technologically disruptive revolution in the global television industry.

Afterwards, first-tier TV companies such as Changhong and Haier established their own TFT-LCD panel and LCD display R&D departments and invested in the market.

However, in fact, everyone knows that doing so is actually a waste of money. You must know that Sharp's investment in the Guishan plant exceeds 15 billion US dollars. Moreover, Sharp itself is the global leader in TFT-LCD panel technology. It has a large number of core technologies and patented technologies, as well as personnel reserves and industrial accumulation.

Therefore, while Changhong, Haier, and 7Up are investing in setting up R&D departments, their bigger move is to seek cooperation with Samsung, LG, AUO, Chunghwa Picture Tubes, HannStar Display, and other companies that have the ability to manufacture TFT-LCD panels.

However, at present, the maximum size of TFT-LCD panels of these companies can only meet the needs of ordinary laptops, and the televisions they produce are not competitive in the market at all.

The purpose of Sharp's move is very obvious, which is to carry out a cross-border dimensionality reduction bloodbath. After more than ten years of unremitting efforts, it finally rose up to drive all foreign TV brands out of the Chinese market, and began to go overseas to compete with Sharp, Panasonic, SAMSUNG, Sony, and other old companies around the world. It sold the original old-fashioned CRT TV glass panel assembly line to Chinese companies for a profit, and now it wants to regain the core control of the TV industry once again.

Let these Chinese TV companies continue to work for them and earn money.

In Zhao Changan's previous life, for some unknown reason, perhaps more because the domestic management department wanted to protect domestic TV companies, it had never approved foreign TFT-LCD companies, including Sharp, to build assembly line plants in China. This gave domestic companies some breathing space, and eventually they were able to overtake again in the future.

Therefore, Zhao Changan was actually not willing to visit the Guishan factory, because even if he had the ability and means to obtain approval to import TFT-LCD TV panels to domestic assembly plants, he would not be able to do so.

Would it be glorious if I really acted as a lackey and brought down these domestic TV companies?