Rebirth Tokyo 1986

Chapter 82: Mosquitoes are also meat (Please read it again, thank you!)
"Very good, it looks stable."

After leaving Yasuo Tarui's office, Masato Takeshita looked at the office building behind him and couldn't help but smile happily.

Big shots don't usually talk things out completely, but since both sides are chatting so well, there is at least a great chance of achieving their goals.

As long as Fujio Masuoka and flash memory chips are there, his semiconductor company will one day be able to stand at the center of the world stage.

Masato Takeshita is not Toshiba, who only thinks about products but not applications.

Even if Xinghai Semiconductor cannot sell a single flash memory chip, he can rely on his understanding of the future to digest all the flash memory chips produced by the company.

In addition, with the flash memory business, he could also enter the memory field in the future, but that would have to wait until the end of the 90s, when the Japanese memory market collapsed.

Currently, we are only developing flash memory business and chip foundry business, which is more in line with the needs of Xinghai Semiconductor.

After returning to the company, Takeshita Masato was still excited. He took this opportunity to go directly to Xinghai Semiconductor, which he had just established a few days ago.

The company is still very small, with less than 10 people.

However, the company currently only has the streamlined mouse business, and this number of people is enough.

He is not developing a wireless mouse or an optical mouse. He is just changing the shell of the mature mouse on the market. It doesn't matter if there are fewer scientific researchers.

If the mouse sells well, it will naturally attract more scientific research talents.

By then, we will not only expand the R&D department, but also build a separate factory to produce our own products.

Only when we have more talents can we better develop the ergonomic mouse business and develop more advanced wireless and optical mice.

There were very few people in the company, so Masato Takeshita didn't hide anything and walked straight to Masahiro Morita, the head of R&D.

"Morita-san, how long will it take to make the mouse?"

"Everything is going well. We expect to finish polishing the first mouse tomorrow."

Xinghai Semiconductor's first mouse was completely handmade.

This is more convenient and can also avoid product exposure.

"That's good, but it would be better to make a few more different models of mice so that there is a more direct comparison."

"no problem."

Although Masanagi Morita is a doctoral student who returned from Stanford, his innovative ability is seriously lacking.

Compared with industrial inventions from scratch, he is better at micro-innovations through reference and imitation.

However, even so, Masato Takeshita had to pay a huge price to successfully poach the talent.

Not only will the salary increase several times, but equity options will also be divided when the company goes public in the future.

But it was all worth it. It was under the leadership of Masanagi Morita that the research and development of the streamlined mouse went so smoothly.

After talking about R&D work, Masato Takeshita turned to look at the person in charge of mouse appearance design.

"Uesugi-san, this design of yours is much better than the previous one."

"But I want a sci-fi feel, and yours is still a little lacking."

"If possible, I hope you can learn more from science fiction movies, or learn about the design of airplanes."

Science fiction movies and airplanes both have many advanced designs.

If Koichi Uesugi could absorb this, he would easily become a master of design.

After all, in today's technology industry, except for a few companies such as Sony and Apple, no one pays attention to industrial aesthetics.

For most companies, it doesn’t matter whether it looks good or not; what matters is that the cost is kept to a minimum.

"Yes, President."

Uesugi Hirokazu felt a little depressed and his tone became much lower.

He didn't understand because his design was clearly recognized by his friends.

Everyone thinks the mouse is amazingly designed and is far ahead of similar products on the market.

Why does the president keep denying it?

Masato Takeshita didn't know what Uesugi Hiroichi was thinking, but he could guess roughly from his expression and tone.

He thought about it and decided to give a small tip. Industrial art design has just started, and even professional designers find it difficult to find the right direction.

"Do you think it would look more comfortable if we changed the color of the mouse to silver?"

"silver?"

"Yes, it's the bright silver color of alloy steel. It looks more upscale and has a better texture."

Masato Takeshita nodded confidently and began to talk about the advantages of the silver mouse.

This is a classic color that has become popular all over the world. If it is applied to the current arts and crafts industry, it is a complete dimensionality reduction attack.

"President, I understand, thank you!"

This time, Hirokazu Uesugi had an idea and designed more than ten mouse designs in a row.

Although it is still not as good as later generations, compared with the mouse on the market, it has made great progress in art.

“Also, don’t use fancy colors on your mouse. Users don’t like it.”

This is not the era of promoting personalization, and mice with too frivolous colors will not sell well.

After talking about industrial art design, Masato Takeshita walked over to Tetsuya Tomioka in two or three steps.

He is the company's production manager and is proficient in electronics OEM business.

Xinghai Semiconductor does not have a factory yet and needs to rely on foundries to develop itself.

"Tomioka-san, let's go to Ota-ku tomorrow afternoon to see if there is a suitable foundry."

"Don't worry. There are countless OEM factories over there, it's easy to find a suitable one."

Tomioka Tetsuya shrugged, revealing an extremely confident expression.

He used to deal with that place frequently and could definitely help the company find the best quality factory with the most suitable price.

Masato Takeshita raised his eyebrows and said jokingly, "Hey, show some respect, I'm the president."

"Yes, yes, you are the president."

The company's employees didn't care about his threats at all and continued to do what they were supposed to do.

"Alright, you guys are so good that even the president can't subdue you."

Masato Takeshita didn't care and returned to his small office with a smile.

Interestingly, it’s Star Ocean Semiconductor by Masato Takeshita.

Except for himself, all others are returnees, and there is not a single local talent.

This is related to the current economic environment.

The vast majority of native Japanese people pursue stability.

They would rather live a stable life in a big company than live in fear in a small company.

Ordinary Japanese cannot afford the disaster brought by unemployment.

Morita Masanagi and others are different.

They have studied abroad, do not like the seniority system in large Japanese companies, and are more eager to win based on their own abilities.

The reason why I resigned and came to Xinghai Semiconductor.

On the one hand, they pursue high salaries, but on the other hand, they can't stand the strict rules of big companies.

Although he clearly has better technical capabilities, he can't get much research funding, and he has countless mothers-in-law above his head.

Xinghai Semiconductor is different. The company atmosphere is very relaxed and everyone gets along like friends.

In addition, Xinghai Semiconductor also has good prospects.

There is the mouse business, which looks promising right now, and the semiconductor business, which will soon emerge.

Of course, the most important thing is that none of them are short of money.

Even if the company goes bankrupt and they cannot find new jobs, they can still rely on the strength of their family to make a comeback.

(End of this chapter)