Rebirth 79: I opened a bank in the United States

Chapter 622 Raw Material Supply Restriction

"This Fujitsu."

Holding a list of Fujitsu products in his hand, Carter was a little surprised.

Compared with Fujitsu, it is obvious that Foxconn has a bigger name. This has led to Carter's lack of familiarity with Fujitsu even if he has done a small transaction.

If you want to toss the light control software, it must involve a computer program to control the actual circuit resistance.As for the software design, Carter is not worried that the people from Microsoft will not be able to develop it, but the instructions given by the computer want to be applied to the control unit on the physical level. Without the cooperation of hardware engineers, it will definitely not work!
In the spirit of not bothering the two masters, since Fujitsu's engineer came to Julianna to cooperate with the design of the light effect circuit diagram, it is considered experienced, and coupled with the relationship with the guy from Furukawa, Carter instinctively thought of finding Fujitsu to cooperate and toss together this matter.

Before making an appointment with the owner, browse through their product catalog
From memory to semiconductor; from computer to printer; from air conditioner to car audio.
This girl is doing a lot of business.
This can't help but make Carter have other ideas, such as continuing to do his old business of attracting investment.
"Carter! Brother Furukawa is here!"

"Brother Furukawa, long time no see! Sit down quickly!"

"Mr. Black is polite"

After a while of unnutritious pleasantries, Carter said straight from his heart:
"After seeing the success of Brother Yasuda, I plan to reproduce a Juliana in the United States! Those LED dynamic displays, can your Fujitsu provide them? And those engineers who helped Tokyo Juliana adjust the lighting at the beginning , I hope to borrow them, take them to the United States, and cooperate with my software engineers there to develop a light effect display that can be controlled by computer software!"

"It's easy to borrow engineers, and I'll call them later! But the LED screen."

Furukawa, who had bought DOS from Carter, agreed to Carter's loan request without hesitation.On the issue of LED displays, Furukawa showed embarrassment
"Although we can do this, we can't compare to HP in terms of quality. We are friends, and I will give you a real suggestion. When buying LED screens, it is better to find HP to customize than to find us!"

"Oh? Why is that? Is it because of technology precipitation?"

Think about the LED screen on the wall at Juliana in Tokyo, which is a product of HP.Carter believed that the other party really didn't lie to him, otherwise Michio Yasuda would not look far away when purchasing.
But think about the product catalog again, isn't Fujitsu's technical strength not bad?What's more, it can be traced back to Siemens in Germany
This aroused Carter's curiosity.
"Part of the reason is that HP was the first to get involved in LED screens, including the commercialization of LED screens! They launched the first commercial LED screen in 69, and it has been [-] years now."

"On the other hand, there are limitations on raw materials. LEDs are light-emitting diodes. To make this diode, compounds such as gallium, arsenic, phosphorus, and nitrogen are needed. We do not lack the processing technology of refined gallium in Japan, but we do not produce gallium here and It’s still the same kind, almost no production, basically all have to rely on imports, so the cost is very high! So from the beginning, our Japanese companies were not very willing to go in the direction of LED.”

"In addition to gallium, our arsenic production here is also very low, but in contrast to the United States, the United States is the world's largest producer of arsenic. In the United States, a pound of arsenic costs about $3, but in Japan, it costs more than eight dollars a pound. .”

"Then there is phosphorus. The place with the richest phosphate rock resources in the world is in Morocco. Mr. Black, do you understand? The cost of producing LEDs in Japan is too high! Even if we have this technology, the cost is too high." If it doesn’t come down, there is no market competitiveness at all.”

"Understood, thank you very much for your suggestion!"

Carter smiled helplessly.
Furukawa also sighed helplessly.
Perhaps for the Japanese, the lack of resources in a small island country has been their pain for several lifetimes.Obviously have the skills, but just can't do it, can't do others, this is such a feeling of aggrieved, this feeling of oppression, it is really unrealistic to expect them to keep their own place!
As for the relationship between Morocco and the United States, why not say more
Since 1950, Morocco has basically become the country that receives the most aid from the United States.The friendship agreement between the two countries was signed as early as 1787. On the one hand, there is a long-term tradition of friendship, and on the other hand, there are shadows of the United States in all aspects.
What kind of high price do you expect to sell this Moroccan product in the United States?What's more, the sale is still an important resource. Unless the federation's brain is kicked by a donkey, it will impose high tariffs on an important resource such as phosphate rock.

"Then you are now in the field of displays, are you focusing on LCD screens?"

The so-called LCD screen, that is, LCD screen.Compared with LED, Carter can't say who is good and who is bad, but in his memory, it seems that Japan did have a period of time, so-called LCD screens, LCD TVs and so on, sold very well in China.Even when it comes to Japanese goods, they are all representatives of quality
Could it be that the reason why Japan's LCD screens can do well is because the raw materials are blocked on LED screens? !

This is really not good news for Carter.Because when he heard that Fujitsu was limited by the supply of raw materials, Carter had some ideas.
Just like the Japanese car companies, let’s keep fooling around and see if Fujitsu can also go to Georgia to set up some factories.
But if their main attack direction changes
"It can't be helped if you don't put it on the LCD screen!"

Furukawa spread his hands, his face full of helplessness
In the face of Fujitsu, which has shifted its main attack direction, Carter's prepared drafts are useless.Compared with Japanese car companies, Fujitsu's restrictions and constraints are not as straightforward as the administrative order.

People simply can't come in, they have to go to the United States to bypass the contract restrictions and expand their market share.As for Fujitsu, there is no restriction on the import of their products into the United States. In terms of the source of raw materials, the big deal is that I don’t need those raw materials and change the direction.
Realizing that the two manufacturing companies have different root demands, Carter did not insist.In the next few days, I visited Japan, which was about to blow a big bubble. After working as an urban nerd for two days in my apartment in Tokyo, Carter took several hardware engineers sent by Fujitsu and set foot on the return journey. flight
"Fuck, why is Apple moving so fast?!"

"Steve, what happened to the internal investigation? Did our people leak the secret?!"

Ok? ? ?
With a few Japanese engineers, just arrived at Microsoft's office floor, a chill so heavy that the air seemed to be freezing directly rushed towards Carter.
Even wearing a sweater and a down jacket can't stop the bone-chilling chill.
Pushing open the door of Bill Gates' office in confusion:

"Hey guys, what's going on?"

(End of this chapter)