Rebirth Tokyo 1986

Chapter 125 Be Courageous
The next day, Masato Takeshita compiled the social trends he observed the previous night into information and sent it to every senior manager.

"What do you mean, President?"

“We must always pay attention to the development of this trend and try our best to prevent our employees from being infected by this trend.”

Masato Takeshita plans to build an independent company that will not get involved in the extravagance of society.

Although this will affect the company's recruitment work, it can at least ensure the morale of the company's employees.

He didn't want the company's employees to be burdened with countless debts after the bubble burst.

By then, even if they want to work hard, they will not have the motivation, which will seriously affect the company's production and operation.

"Yes!"

Fujio Masuoka also disliked this trend, so he naturally accepted his president's proposal.

He has always believed that promoting scientific and technological progress is the most effective way to enhance national strength.

Xinghai Semiconductor, Songbei Manufacturing, and Xinghai Capital, all three places, Masato Takeshita held meetings to emphasize this matter.

Once someone in the company is found to be committing a crime in defiance of the law, he will be directly transferred to a bench position.

Of course, it is better to unblock than to block.

Masato Takeshita simply took this opportunity to establish his fourth fund - crowdfunding.

This is a public fund, so it is not named after the Chinese zodiac.

If company employees are eyeing the extra income from the stock and property markets, they can put their money in crowdfunding funds.

The rules for mutual funds are very strict and leverage is not allowed. Masato Takeshita went all-in on the market's leading stocks except NTT.

Real estate companies, in particular, are the focus of the new fund.

Japan is currently carrying out large-scale infrastructure construction, so the real estate industry will naturally rise accordingly.

After resolving the company's hidden dangers, Masato Takeshita finally achieved the result he had been looking forward to.

"Sorry, that's all I can say for now."

"It's okay, Senior Tarui. This is already countless times better than the scenario we imagined."

While stamping the company seal on it, Masato Takeshita smiled and comforted his old senior.

No matter when, starting from 0 to 1 is always the most difficult.

Without the help of Yasuo Tarui, Xinghai Semiconductor's wafer production technology would probably have only been able to develop from a 3-inch production line at the beginning, thus lagging behind the mainstream world by more than 5 years.

"Tarii-senpai, I wonder if I can trouble you for a moment."

"Oh, no problem. Go ahead."

Although Masato Takeshita kept comforting his old senior, Yasuo Tarui himself was still quite apologetic in his heart.

When he heard that his junior had a new request, he naturally nodded in agreement.

This way, he will feel more at ease when collecting the money.

"I plan to set up a separate company for the wafer fab, called Xinghai Foundry. Then this subsidiary will take out 40% of the shares and cooperate with NEC, Fujitsu, Toshiba and Sony."

The best way to get others to give you orders is to integrate with them.

Once the above four companies own shares of Xinghai OEM, they will definitely be happy to transfer some unprofitable and marginal projects to the new company.

If Xinghai's OEM work is done well, it can get more orders.

This move was learned by Masato Takeshita from TSMC's old rival UMC.

In the 20s, UMC relied on this trick to directly bundle chip design companies, win a large number of orders, and catch up with TSMC.

Unfortunately, UMC later took the wrong path.

At the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, experts gradually realized that copper processes have many advantages in the semiconductor industry.

Therefore, semiconductor companies have entered this field one after another.

The first company to make a breakthrough was IBM.

The company licenses its technology to others, but the conditions are very strict.

UMC accepted the conditions and TSMC chose to become self-reliant.

This time, the future direction of the two companies was directly determined. IBM's copper process was very unstable, and it didn't care much about UMC's life or death, so UMC used the more advanced copper process chip foundry technology very late.

TSMC chose to be self-reliant and quickly mastered the copper process and surpassed IBM in technology.

In the end, TSMC completely overwhelmed UMC with its copper process technology.

Since then, UMC, which once competed with TSMC, has gradually become a low-end foundry manufacturer.

If UMC had chosen the path of self-reliance, the outcome of the chip foundry industry would be uncertain.

After all, compared to TSMC's monopoly, a large number of chip design companies have shares in UMC.

"Oh, that's a good idea, but you might lose some money."

Yasuo Tarui also discovered the benefits of this and agreed with it in his heart.

"It doesn't matter. We can go with the normal market price or even a little lower."

Even if you suffer a loss now, you can earn it back in the future, so there is no need to be petty.

"Okay, leave it to me."

"Well, thank you, Tarui-senpai."

……

In a Japanese teahouse, two old men were kneeling facing each other.

"Tai Jing-san, is that junior fellow really worth your help?"

“It’s worth it.”

Yasuo Tarui, who came at the invitation, answered firmly without any hesitation.

"I heard that everyone is not optimistic about OEM. Can you tell me why you are optimistic about it?"

Noboru Takeshita was very hesitant, not knowing whether he should give his junior a helping hand in terms of policy.

If this kind of thing is successful, you can indeed get a lot of benefits in the future.

But if he fails, it will also damage his reputation a little.

“I don’t know if I can make it.”

Yasuo Tarui sipped a cup of tea and slowly explained the reasons for his support.

"I just want to provide more options for the Japanese semiconductor industry."

"Since the United States is willing to give it a try in the field of chip foundry, we must follow suit. If the division of labor is really adopted in the future, we will not suffer any loss."

Although Tarui Yasuo likes money, he values his own reputation and the development of the country more.

Everything he does revolves around the development of the country.

Masato Takeshita was lucky to have met such a patriot.

"Oh I got it."

Takeshita Noboru understood.

Only by casting a wide net can you catch more fish.

"It seems that I have to give a little support as well."

Noboru Takeshita plans to use part of the government's public investment fund to support the development of the semiconductor industry, with the main target being Star Ocean OEM.

He also wanted to see whether wafer foundry was the future.

In this regard, Takeshita Noboru was still willing to take a gamble.

This is also a characteristic of Japanese leaders during this period: each of them is full of courage and dares to do earth-shaking things.

For example, after Noboru Takeshita becomes prime minister this year, he will solve the consumption tax problem that has plagued Japan for a long time in one fell swoop, and greatly replenish Japan's finances.

He is now willing to take a small risk and bet on the possibilities in the future.

This is a recognition of Masato Takeshita's continuous creation of miracles, and also a recognition of the United States.

Since the United States has chosen this path, we in Japan cannot be left out.

(End of this chapter)