Rebirth 1984: Starting with the development of Hanka

The next day, in the morning.

Tiangong Technology Company.

Zhao Ye looked at the top management of Tiangong Technology Company and gave instructions: "Germany's precision processing technology is the most powerful in the world. We can't buy advanced technology. Can't we still find talents who are proficient in technology?"

“Don’t care about money, dig out German precision machining talents!!!”

Zhao Ye is so arrogant that he regards money as dirt and values ​​talents beyond everyone's imagination.

Currently, Germany is divided into West Germany and East Germany.

The split is good, it will help Tiangong Technology Company poach people.

If these domestic scientific researchers work hard, it is not that program-controlled machine tools cannot develop, but it will take a long time.

The German precision processing talents were poached, and they have their own technology, which can greatly improve the scientific research level of Tiangong Technology Company in a short period of time.

Therefore, it is unacceptable to work behind closed doors.

After Zhao Ye explained these things, he left.

Precision machining is not his strong point, so let the professionals do it themselves. He will work hard to make money, provide sufficient ammunition for Tiangong Technology, and work hard to poach German engineers.

……

Back at the group company, Zhao Ye announced the establishment of a CD Research Institute to further develop CDs.

The first step was to develop a CD drive. The first-generation CD-ROM drive provided by Philips was too slow, only 150KB/S, and could only be used as a unit of measurement. Therefore, this standard also established the unique name of the CD-ROM drive as a multi-speed CD-ROM drive.

CD games require at least four times the optical drive to meet the requirements.

In this regard, there is a lot of information on the Internet in the past life. If it were not limited by hardware conditions, Zhao Ye could also develop a higher-power optical drive. However, the 4x optical drive is enough for now, and we can speed it up later. Moreover, as products are updated, they can be sold one more time. Doing so is a beautiful character that every qualified capitalist should possess.

Therefore, some products do not need to be developed so advanced.

The other is to develop new CD formats based on CD standards, such as VCD, CD-R, etc.

VCD was very popular in China in its previous life, and most Chinese people know about it.

It is actually a disc that uses the CD-ROM XA format to store audio and video data in the full-motion MPEG-1 format, which can be played directly on the VCD Player.

CD-ROM XA is an architectural extension of the CD-ROM specification. It makes slight modifications to the CD storage format so that it can store voice and image data. Originally developed as a 1989 supplement to the Yellow Book (CD-ROM) by Philips, Sony and Microsoft.

Obviously, it is only 1987, and Wujiang Group is lucky enough to have a foot in the game.

Why Wujiang Group spends huge sums of money to purchase CD patent licenses is not just to develop CD home game consoles. In fact, it is also preparing to participate in the formulation of CD standards and take the lead in developing CD-ROM XA.

In addition, Wujiang Group still has a lot to do, such as MPEG-1, which is a lossy compression standard for video and audio. This video compression algorithm was not completed until 1990. At the end of 1992, MPEG-1 was officially approved as an international standard.

In Zhao Ye's opinion, the MPEG-1 video compression algorithm is very simple.

He also has a more powerful video compression algorithm, but there is absolutely no need to use it.

However, each compression algorithm has its own characteristics. Even MPEG-1 technology was the mainstream technology in the DVR digital video recorder market in its previous life.

Nowadays, as long as Wujiang Group develops VCD technology and leads the world, it doesn't matter even if the Americans don't admit it. VCD is popular all over the world. Whether you admit it or not, the market will do it.

The VCD in the previous life appeared a little late. Not to mention the DVD was about to appear, and even PCs had begun to become popular. At that time, who among the young people still went to see VCDs? Wouldn’t it be fun to watch movies on a computer?

the following few days,

Zhao Ye often appears at the CD Research Institute. He is in class again. From 10 to 11 o'clock in the morning, he will talk about the development of high-power optical drives. From 11 to 12 o'clock, he will talk about the development of CD-ROM XA. He will go there at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Loongson Design Company continues to engage in the development of EDA chip design software.

In the evening, I would write the MPEG-1 video compression format alone at home.

Although it was hard work, Zhao Ye himself enjoyed it.

……

Japan.

Del Prado was in a terrible mood at the moment.

He contacted several Japanese companies and wanted to sell ASML, but the results were unsatisfactory. No one was willing to acquire ASML.

"Mr. Del Prado, you are wasting your efforts. No one in Japan will buy ASML! In the photolithography machine market, Nikon almost occupies a dominant position. Which company can compete with it? If someone acquires ASML, then He must be a huge fool!!!" Mitsubishi Group executive Matsushima Kusaka said sarcastically.

Del Prado was walking on the street, recalling Matsushima Kusaka's words, and couldn't help but think of Wujiang Group and the legendary figure behind this huge business empire, Zhao Ye!

"Is Zhao Ye a super fool?"

Del Prado believes that ASML is still very valuable, otherwise no one would buy ASML.

Half an hour later, Del Prado returned to the hotel. He thought for a while and seemed to have finally figured out something. Then he opened the drawer and found the business card left by Rex Eden. According to the phone number written on the business card, , dialed it.

Soon, the call was connected.

Rex Eden's hearty laughter came from the other end of the phone: "Hello, Mr. Prado, what are you doing for calling me?"

"Mr. Aiden, hello, I have figured it out and accept your company's conditions."

"Wait a minute, Mr. Prado, the situation now is different from before. My boss has given me new instructions, requiring me to buy shares directly from you instead of investing directly. So, Mr. Prado, you are free. , you can finally escape from the sea of ​​misery, get a sum of money, travel as much as you want to taste delicious food from various places, or make up for the shortfall of another company of yours..."

Del Prado was stunned when he heard this, and then thought that Philips, another major shareholder of ASML, didn't care about the development of ASML at all. Why did he bother to work hard to maintain ASML? He had originally planned to sell ASML, and since Wujiang Group was willing to take over his shares, that would be the best thing.

"No problem, but how much does Wujiang Group plan to pay for my shares?"

Rex Eden replied: "$900 million!"

After hearing the offer, Del Prado was silent for a moment, and finally gritted his teeth and said: "Wujiang Group has to bid at least US$1000 million, otherwise I would rather not sell ASML's shares!!!"

Rex Aiden smiled and said at this time: "Okay, Mr. Prado, the deal is US$1000 million! Please come to the Japanese branch of Wujiang Group at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning to sign the share transfer agreement."

"Okay, no problem, I will arrive on time!" Del Prado nodded with a heavy heart.

Rex Aiden said: "Okay, then we'll see you tomorrow!"

"see you tomorrow!!"

……

At 10 o'clock in the morning the next day, Del Prado came to the Japanese branch of Wujiang Group as scheduled to sign the ASML share transfer agreement.

Since then, Wujiang Group has controlled 50% of ASML's shares.

Philips paid no attention to ASML, so Wujiang Group directly took over the management of ASML.

At this time, ASML was just an inconspicuous small company. It could be said that it was simply silent. Western countries led by the United States had not yet begun to support ASML. In addition to its own hard work, the rise of ASML is also closely related to TSMC.

You know, Philips is the major shareholder of TSMC. Although Philips did not pay attention to ASML at the beginning, "the good news does not flow to outsiders." After all, Philips is also the major shareholder of ASML, holding 50% of the shares, so, When TSMC purchased the lithography machine, it directly purchased the ASML lithography machine.

TSMC's business model (wafer foundry) is of course very successful, so ASML has benefited a lot and has also taken off. Since then, ASML has entered the horizons of Americans.

Nowadays, since Wujiang Group now holds 50% of ASML's shares, the United States may not continue to support ASML in the future. If the United States does not support ASML, it may support Japan's Nikon and Canon.

Zhao Ye feels that Japanese companies are more difficult to deal with.

ASML is indeed a bit like an assembly plant, while Japanese companies can produce many key equipment themselves.

Therefore, in the future, when ASML goes public, Wujiang Group can cash out part of its shares and retain no more than 20% of its shares in the end.

At first, Zhao Ye did not plan to acquire ASML, but invested in ASML to make some money. However, he later figured out one thing. As long as he acquired ASML now, he would be able to control ASML. management rights, and then you can control Zeiss.

Zeiss now relies on ASML’s blood transfusions to save lives.

If Zhao Ye lets ASML know that he no longer plans to cooperate with Zeiss, what do you think will happen to Zeiss?

At this time, Zeiss was panicked and on the verge of bankruptcy.

If Wujiang Group can take the opportunity to acquire Zeiss, it would be perfect.

Even if it cannot acquire Zeiss, it can still acquire Zeiss's patented optical system technology and poach Zeiss engineers.

"Boss, we have acquired all ASML shares from Del Prado." Rex Aiden reported the situation to Zhao Ye immediately.

When Zhao Ye heard this, he was overjoyed and said in a deep voice: "Immediately take over ASML and start the company hunting plan!!!"

"Okay, boss!!!" Rex Aiden responded excitedly.

The acquisition of ASML is just an appetizer. The hunting plan is to hunt Zeiss.

This is an optical giant with a history of more than 100 years. If it can lead the acquisition of such a company, Rex Eden's name will surely be heard all over the world!

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