The time was not yet up, and Zhao Ye was still waiting, like a hunter lying in wait, quietly waiting for his prey to take the bait.

In about two weeks, Wujiang Photoresist Company has been able to effectively absorb Inpex's technology.

Zhao Ye then directly instructed Inpex to send engineers to Wujiang Photoresist Company to assist Li Yiming and others in establishing the photoresist production plant.

Of course, this also needs to be done discreetly.

Finally, by taking advantage of the four major photoresist manufacturers in Japan, we can catch them off guard and seize the G-line photoresist market.

At the same time, we also need to start researching the next generation of i-line photoresist (365nm).

After acquiring Inpex, the development speed of i-line photoresist should increase significantly.

"Boss, the financial statements for 1985 are ready!" Liu Yinyin said as she walked up to Zhao Ye and handed him a document.

"Okay, I understand." Zhao Ye nodded to Liu Yinyin, took the document, and began to read it.

Seeing this, Liu Yinyin quietly withdrew.

In 1985, Wujiang Company's revenue was 4.85 billion RMB, and its net profit after tax was 2.3 billion RMB!

"Imagine typewriters had global sales of 1.6 billion RMB, with the main market being in China, generating 1 billion RMB in revenue, while overseas sales were only around 600 million RMB. That year, the US typewriter market had already begun to decline, and it probably wouldn't be profitable for another two years."

"Imagine Printing Chain Stores generated 125 million RMB in revenue in China, a remarkable achievement! Printing is a basic necessity, and just making money from students is enough to make a living. At that time, printing shops were scarce, and Imagine Printing Chain Stores should be considered one of the first companies to take the plunge."

"The global sales of the Imagine Chinese Character Card 2.0 were only 140 million RMB. Alas, there's nothing we can do about it. On the one hand, the competition in the Chinese character card market is too fierce, and on the other hand, not many Chinese people can afford PCs. The main users are still domestic institutions and government units."

"The Imagine digital pager has become a global phenomenon, and its sales revenue has exceeded expectations, reaching 2.24 billion RMB, making it Wujiang's highest-grossing product to date!"

"The sales revenue of Imagine computer motherboards reached 452 million RMB!"

"The sales of WPS Office software reached 112 million RMB."

"PC distributor sales reached 232 million RMB."

"Due to the limited production of the Kirin 1 chip, it is currently only produced and sold by the company itself. Loongson Design Company has not earned a single penny and relies entirely on its parent company, Wujiang Group, for financial support."

"The Shanghai Animation Film Studio didn't make much money either; the animations they produced were all planned to be sent to television stations for free."

Zhao Ye muttered to himself, "Wujiang Microelectronics is a joint venture with independent finances. Currently, it generates a revenue of 304 million RMB by manufacturing Kirin 1 chips and producing and selling BG-101 stepper lithography machines. However, the company's R&D and wafer fab expansion expenses are huge, and so far, Wujiang Microelectronics is still not profitable..."

"Not to mention Wujiang Photoresist Company, it was only established not long ago and is still building a photoresist factory..."

"However, at the beginning of the year, we made $1 billion in foreign exchange settlements, which is roughly 3 billion RMB."

Zhao Ye looked astonished: "If we add the 2.3 billion RMB net profit generated by Wujiang Company's physical enterprises, I earned 5.3 billion RMB last year?! However, I also spent a lot of money to buy land and build factories, and to acquire Inpex, Shanghai Animation Film Studio, etc."

"At this point, not counting the money earned from foreign exchange, the company's domestic accounts held several billion RMB in funds—that's terrifying!"

In 1986, with an average monthly income of about 100 RMB per person, Wujiang Company was incredibly wealthy.

Even Zhao Ye himself was shocked by how much money Wujiang Company made.

However, this amount of money would be a drop in the ocean if invested in the semiconductor industry.

Take PCs as an example. Wujiang needs to independently develop CPUs, memory, hard drives, graphics cards, monitors, etc., but Wujiang can only produce 8-bit CPUs at most, which is far behind Intel's 32-bit chips, making it completely unable to compete with the latter. As for memory, hard drives, graphics cards, and monitors, Wujiang cannot produce any of them itself and can only import them from abroad.

Currently, Wujiang is developing a PC operating system, but its hardware foundation is too weak, so Wujiang has been slow to launch its own brand of computers.

Fortunately, Microsoft's Windows 1.0 operating system, released last year, was not successful and was criticized by many long-time users. It wasn't until May 22, 1990, that Windows 3.0 was officially released, becoming Microsoft's first product to achieve widespread commercial success.

There are still four years until 1990, and Wujiang Company can develop a better system than Windows 3.0 during this period.

As the saying goes, "If you don't make a sound, you're doing it for good; but when you do, you'll amaze everyone!"

The Wujiang operating system has been under development since last year. By 1990, it had been five years of hard work. Zhao Ye was confident that once the Wujiang operating system was released, it would directly crush Windows 3.0.

"Wujiang's TV game console should be released in the first half of this year!"

"In addition, we also need to invest in the research and development of memory, hard drives, monitors and graphics cards in the PC industry chain. Although it is difficult to make a full industry chain investment layout, Samsung can do it, and so can Wujiang Company. Isn't this what we want to achieve after being reborn?"

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