Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 779
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For people in the IT circle, Dresden is quite famous.In the original time and space, it was equivalent to a Silicon Valley in Germany.Infineon, which originated from the semiconductor department of Siemens Group, and GLOBALFOUNDRIES, a foundry company spun off from AMD's manufacturing department, have factories here.After all, East Germany has invested here since the 1970s. Although the economic benefits are not satisfactory, it has indeed accumulated a foundation.

For the blitzkrieg of Tang's richest man, this field was chosen for the first battle.Under the stars, he inspected ZMDI, the most representative semiconductor factory in the area.

Just in 1988, ZMDI developed the 1MB chip technology of DRAM—u61000. Regardless of performance, production and other issues, it is enough to be second to none in the Eastern camp if it can produce actual results.

In order to get off to a good start, Tang Huan took great pains. First of all, he made his name from the most familiar and best aspects, that is, the acquisition of ZMDI, and then created a model project.

"If the acquisition of ZMDI can be completed, in addition to no layoffs, the salary income of employees will immediately be on par with the developed western regions of Germany." Tang's richest man stated clearly in public.

There is no more tangible promise than this. East Germany is crying and scrambling to sell itself to West Germany, isn't it just to live a good life, the guarantee of the richest man can be said to hit the nail on the head.

In fact, no force dared to compete with Tang Huan for ZMDI.

You know, as far as DRAM technology is concerned, in the whole equation, Europe is lower than the United States, and the United States is lower than RBRB and Tang Huan. In the field of high-end products such as memory, the market share is only [-]-[-].

In this case, Siemens, who is most likely to reach out, can only stay away.

Pointing to the beaming people running around outside the office, Tang Huan gave meaningful instructions to his team: "Whenever I invest in a place, I attach great importance to localized operations. This investment in East Germany can be said to be an advantage Income, but can not have the mentality of giving to each other. After all, they have been influenced by collectivism education for so many years, their simplicity is still worthy of respect. The most important point is that I need to inherit ZMDI’s unique market share within the scope of the Mutual Economic Aid Committee .”

The Economic Mutual Assistance Committee is a political and economic cooperation organization composed of socialist countries established by the Soviet Union, which is equivalent to the Eastern camp version of the Western camp European Economic Community.

When it was first established in January 1949, the Economic Mutual Assistance Committee included six members: the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Czechoslovakia; then, Albania, East Germany, Mongolia, Cuba, and Vietnam joined in; by 1, The Economic Mutual Assistance Committee has successively signed cooperation agreements with Finland, Iraq, Mexico and Nicaragua.

Since its establishment, the Economic Mutual Assistance Committee has become a regional economic organization with the world's trade volume second only to the European Economic Community, which has greatly promoted the economic exchanges between member states; of course, it also objectively strengthened the Soviet Union The economic control of other member states weakens their economic independence, which is inevitably worse than the consideration made by the European Economic Community for the equal respect and compromise of the interests of each member state.

欧洲经济共同体成员国包括西欧16个国家，覆盖人口达到2亿7千万；经济互助委员会的成员国数量虽然只有10个，但覆盖人口达到4亿5千万，遍布欧洲、亚洲和美洲三大洲。

With the upheaval in Eastern Europe that started last year, it will be a matter of time before the Committee for Mutual Economic Aid will step down from the stage of history. ZMDI, whose products are very popular in the scope of the Economic Mutual Aid Committee, has a great opportunity to inherit some inheritance.

With this plan in mind, Tang Huan can only be described as beautiful when he does things, and then the media in Dresden spread overwhelming reports, praising Tang's richest man for being one step ahead of others and helping the troubled local economy. It brought new hope and vitality; even German Chancellor Helmut Kohl followed suit to express his position again—Don’s investment has played a very good role model for the reunification of Germany and the subsequent economic reconstruction.

The reunification of the two Germanys does not mean that when the upper lip touches the lower lip and says "we are unified", the "unification" is really completed. There are huge differences in life, wealth, beliefs, etc., and integration requires a process. .

In fact, more than ten years later in the original time and space, the reunification of the two Germanys took more than 15 years, and the development gap between the two regions in Germany is still very obvious.Even in the original East Germany, the unemployment rate reached double digits, so much so that "East Germany complex" appeared, that is, people began to miss the egalitarianism of the East German era.

In order to promote the real integration under the superficial unity, Germany needs a lot of capital investment for a long time.For this reason, Helmut Kohl thought of an idea called "solidarity and mutual aid tax", that is, on the basis of the income tax that no one can escape, at a tax rate of around 5.00%, another sum of money is levied.

No matter how high-sounding it is on the surface, no one wants to let other people's hands reach into their pockets.

As a result, affected individuals and companies have mixed feelings about the "solidarity and mutual assistance tax".

As the administrative head of Germany, Helmut Kohl naturally felt the invisible pressure.At this time, Tang Huan's appearance made the prime minister find an excuse to lobby all of a sudden - Tang, an outsider, showed a moving view of the overall situation in the process of acquiring ZMDI; Not as good as Tang?
Seeing this scene, Tang's richest man couldn't laugh or cry. He didn't even realize that he had such a great sentiment—well, this is the "duty" of a German girl's handler.

The acquisition of ZMDI was done so beautifully that Tang Huan, the big boss, naturally didn't need to continue to spend energy on specific matters, so he turned his attention to the target that had already done the preliminary work-Zeiss Jena.

As early as 1846, the 30-year-old German optician Carl Zeiss established a precision optical instrument processing factory in Jena, and in 1847 mass-produced his first microscope - using only a single lens , A simple microscope suitable for dissection work.By 1866.The factory sold its 1000th microscope.

After this success, Carl Zeiss chose a new challenge, the development of a compound microscope.He and Dr. Ernst Abbe, a 26-year-old physicist who joined as a research supervisor, studied the scientific basic principles of optical products, and finally jointly produced a compound microscope in 1872, which is the first step of all modern compound microscopes. The ancestor of the conventional microscope.

The quality of such products naturally depends on the key component of the lens.Theoretically, the research result - the Abbe sine condition can greatly improve the quality of the lens.The problem was that there was no glass strong enough to test this theory.It was not until 1879 when the 30-year-old glass chemist Dr. Otto Schott joined in that he made a huge breakthrough. In 1886, a new type of glass was produced, and the apochromatic_lens-achromatic objective lens was produced, which opened up a new era for the objective lens of the microscope. a new path.

Carl Zeiss died in 1888, shortly after the creation of this epoch-making microscope.In his will, he transferred the shares to his son Roderick, Roderick.Laudilic sold the shares to Ernst Abbe, who founded the Carl Zeiss Foundation in 1889.Through this organization, a new group was established as the owner of a series of Zeiss factories.

With the great success of microscope products, Zeiss's product line naturally extended to related fields such as cameras and telescopes, and then became the darling of the military under the background of constant wars, producing various military optical products for the German army, such as the army and navy. Telescopes, range finders and shooting sights, bombing sights used by the Air Force, etc.In order to prevent the location of the manufacturer from being exposed.Zeiss also used the product code BLC during World War II.

In 1935, Zeiss improved the anti-reflective coating formula of British Harold Dennis Taylor, and after it was applied to German military scopes and rangefinders, the lens would not expose its position due to reflection.This is the world-famous T coating, which also became an important technological secret of the German army during World War II.

It is precisely because of this irreplaceable technology and product advancement that Zeiss has become the focus of both warring parties.

Although the United States and the Soviet Union negotiated the conditions for dividing Germany in the Yalta Secret Treaty, Zeiss in Jena, East Germany, should be occupied by the Soviet army, but George Patton's Third Army still crossed the border and invaded the area and the Zeiss company. The location of the factory - Dresden, in the name of "assistance", swept away some technical personnel and equipment at the fastest speed overnight, and transferred them to the territory of the Allied forces - West Germany.

Among them, 126 scientists and engineers who were coerced were settled in Oberkochen in the U.S.-occupied zone, and the management and top-level control organization of Zeiss, the Carl Zeiss Foundation, was moved to Stuttgart in the U.S.-occupied zone. Eventually formed today's Zeiss AG.

When the Soviet army took over Jena, there were only empty factories and some first-class optical glass and production machinery that the US military could not take away.Of course, the Soviets would not return empty-handed. Immediately, all Zeiss machines were seized on the grounds of war compensation, and the remaining resources were transported back to the Soviet Union, Ukraine, and Kiev, and some of the remaining scientists were transported back to Russia by plane. Russia's optics industry has been in service for several years - folklore, Lao Maozi's telescope is as easy to use as a razor, which is related to this.

Being madly plundered by the two giants, Jena and Dresden were naturally swept away. Fortunately, as a center of optical equipment production for nearly a century, it is not so easy to be snatched away simply and rudely. The local technicians restored the Zeiss factory in Jena, East Germany, which is the Zeiss Jena that Tang's richest man is now eyeing.

In the early days of the Cold War, Zeiss AG and Zeiss Jena were still working closely together on product development.Until 1953, the East German government announced the prohibition of any further cooperation between the two companies, and Zeiss Jena even lost its export rights. Since then, the two Zeiss have completely split.

West Germany's Zeiss AG immediately re-registered the Zeiss trademark to prevent East Germany's Zeiss Jena from using it.This trademark dispute between the two parties lasted until 1971.An agreement was passed, an agreement was made, and a compromise was reached.

Zeiss AG, which occupies a leading position in the market in the Western camp, and Zeiss Jena, which occupies a dominant position in the market in the Eastern camp, are of the same origin and have the same business, and their product lines are very close. In telescopes, There is fierce competition in cameras, lenses, etc.

At this stage, Zeiss AG in West Germany is a medium-sized technology company with leading technology; Zeiss Jena in East Germany is a group with a larger scale and a more bloated organization.The latter is currently in trouble due to mechanism defects, but it does not hinder the eyes of coveting.

Undoubtedly, the top contender—Zeiss AG, definitely hopes to eat Zeiss Jena like West Germany annexed East Germany, and it also has the timing, location, and harmony that other forces do not have, almost A general trend.

However, Tang Huan has never been short of ways to snatch food from the tiger's mouth. He rarely took part in the battle in person. When giving a speech at Zeiss Jena, which still retains a large number of people's enterprises, he said with all his heart: "It is impossible to avoid in front of everyone. A consensus among the people is that if Zeiss AG merges with Zeiss Jena, there will inevitably be redundant staff in the same positions, and Zeiss Jena, which is already overstaffed, will definitely undergo large-scale layoffs."

"Imagine, overnight, a large number of employees of Zeiss Jena will lose their jobs, and your generation will become victims of the painful period of personnel adjustment."

"If I acquire Zeiss Jena, it will continue to exist independently and be revitalized in Jena, the most authentic birthplace."

"Ernst Abbe, one of the founders of Zeiss, is not only an excellent scientist and entrepreneur, but also implements systems such as 8 hours a day, paid holidays, paid sick leave, and pensions in Zeiss, and has become a modern employee. Pioneer of the security system."

"I admire Ernst Abbe's character very much, and I am willing to let Zeiss Jena continue this tradition. My performance at ZMDI must have been heard by you, and it is a model."

"All in all, I came here not to condescend to give alms, nor to annex ruthlessly, but to cooperate in solidarity and friendship."

Tang Huan, who was already rich in financial resources, resorted to an aggressive plan, and the "bloodline" advantage of Zeiss AG was wiped out.

To this, the richest man just replied lightly, "Actually, if you sell it to me, you can also achieve reunification. Why don't you think about it?"

(End of this chapter)