Rebirth Tokyo 1986

Chapter 130 Solid State Drive

After splitting the shares and apologizing, several major semiconductor companies reluctantly forgave Xinghai Semiconductor for its poaching.

Moreover, these major semiconductor giants were generous enough to quickly terminate the contracts of employees who resigned without affecting the company's business research and development.

“It’s not a loss this time.”

On Monday morning, Masato Takeshita felt very satisfied as he looked at the more than 300 new semiconductor talents.

This is just the first batch. Once all employees complete the handover, Xinghai Semiconductor will be able to add more than 800 people.

"Kagawa-san, go and tell these people to come to the conference room. I have a short meeting at 10 o'clock."

Masato Takeshita handed a list he had prepared this morning to Yuriko Kagawa who was waiting nearby.

"Yes, President!"

At 10 o'clock, Takeshita Masato arrived at the meeting room on time. When he saw everyone preparing to stand up and bow, he smiled and waved his hand to refuse.

"That's not necessary. Our company doesn't have so many messy rules. Everyone, just relax."

Then he turned to his assistant and asked, "Kagawa-san, are they all here?"

"Everyone is here."

"Ah That's good."

This morning meeting is considered the first core meeting after the company's large-scale expansion.

It includes not only the three old employees of the company, Masanari Morita, Koichi Ueyama, and Tetsuya Tomioka; as well as the four people who joined in the middle, Fujio Masuoka, Masaki Momotomi, Riichiro Shirata, and Koji Sakui; but also the five people who have just joined the company, Takuma Yamazaki, Tsuneichi Ohkawa, Manjo Toda, Kazuo Yamamoto, and Naru Asakura.

These people have very strong personal abilities and can effectively promote the progress of Xinghai Semiconductor.

"First of all, let us once again congratulate the R&D team led by Vice President Masuoka for successfully developing a new model for flash memory technology."

"Clap clap clap!"

Everyone was very respectful and there was unanimous applause in the conference room.

"You are welcome, President. Everyone is welcome."

Fujio Masuoka was very embarrassed and his face turned a little red.

He is an honest man and is not very good at expressing his emotions.

"No, no, no, this invention is very important and will change the world in the future. No matter how much praise you give it, it's well deserved."

Masato Takeshita will not allow Fujio Masuoka to belittle himself. In the future, he will represent the image of Star Ocean Semiconductor and must remain humble while being very confident.

You know, if the development of computers were written into a book, then Fujio Masuoka's inventions would occupy at least half a page in the future.

This is a milestone event in the computer industry, as important as the birth of memory chips.

"I, I know."

Fujio Masuoka nodded solemnly, his eyes full of gratitude.

Ohkawa Tsuneichi looked at the scene in front of him and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "Great, this is the company I should join."

He chose to join Xinghai Semiconductor not only because of money, but also because of his emphasis on flash memory technology.

Ohkawa Tsunekazu was also deeply convinced that flash memory technology would shine sooner or later.

Several other new employees who joined Xinghai Semiconductor also had similar ideas.

They joined Xinghai Semiconductor Company because they wanted to invent some flash memory products, making more money and leaving their names in the history of technological inventions.

After a brief compliment, Masato Takeshita brought the topic back on track.

He pointed to the computer he had brought to the conference room and asked, "Everyone should know what this is, right?"

"Toshiba T1100." Takuma Yamazaki answered proudly.

Toshiba T1100, the world's first laptop computer.

Although companies such as Compaq and IBM announced that their products were the earliest laptop computers, they can only be called pioneers.

Toshiba's T1100 is truly the world's first laptop computer.

It laid the foundation for laptop computers. Basically all subsequent laptop computers were developed from Toshiba T1100.

"Yes, it is the Toshiba T1100 laptop. Compared with a desktop computer, it is lightweight and easy to move."

"I think as technology advances, convenient and fast laptops are likely to be on par with desktop computers in terms of sales."

Time will tell, laptops in the past were brilliant, even surpassing the development of desktop computers.

After all, compared to bulky desktop computers, laptops that can be carried everywhere are obviously more popular.

Of course, current laptops are still very niche due to the limitations of technological development.

Toshiba's T1100 has annual sales of only to units.

This is inevitable, as laptop computers have only been around for two years, compared to the more than 20-year history of desktop computers.

"But laptops nowadays break down too easily."

"Yeah, it's easy to break if you touch it a little bit."

Currently, laptop computers are expensive and very impractical because they use magnetic hard drives.

It is easy to damage the computer hard drive due to collision during movement.

This is also the main reason for the poor sales of laptops.

People buy laptops for the convenience of office work, but it turns out that they are very easy to break when moving, so sales are naturally lower.

Only those enthusiasts who pursue the forefront of technology, or those who are not short of money, will choose to buy it.

Masato Takeshita asked back: "But, isn't this our chance?"

"If we make a new hard disk with a stable and lightweight structure, there will definitely be a huge market for it."

"Maybe one day in the future, even desktop computers will be equipped with flash drives."

Mechanical hard drives use magnetic storage technology, which is not only large and heavy, but also very susceptible to physical vibrations and accompanied by strong noise.

These shortcomings are acceptable on desktop computers, but in the field of laptop computers that need to be moved frequently, they become problems that need to be avoided at all costs.

In this regard, hard drives made of flash memory chips have very obvious advantages.

Although the storage space is smaller, it has the advantages of fast reading and writing speed, low noise, strong shock resistance and light weight, making it a perfect match for portable laptops.

Of course, what Masato Takeshita said about flash memory solid-state drives replacing magnetic mechanical hard drives is a complete exaggeration.

Price is always a pain for solid-state drives.

"Yes, this is our opportunity. If we use flash memory chips to make hard drives, none of these problems will be a problem, and our hard drives will definitely sell very well."

At this time, Fujio Masuoka's eyes sparkled.
It was obvious that he understood what Masato Takeshita meant.

Soon, Morita Masaki, Yamakawa Tsuneichi and others also realized that flash memory chips are indeed very suitable for laptops.

"Very good, it seems everyone understands. Then, please work hard to invent a practical flash drive as soon as possible. Then we can find Toshiba and other companies to cooperate with us."

The notebook computer industry has a bright future, but Masato Takeshita has better plans for the future, so he is not planning to enter this field for the time being.

(End of this chapter)