According to reports, this story begins at an entirely unscientific moment: Zhou Ziye, a designer who rose from creating counterfeit mobile phones, suddenly time-traveled back to the year 1984.
...Then I boarded a plane and went to South Korea.
Upon arriving in South Korea, the Third Prince warmly welcomed them.
Of course, he had also heard about Xing Baohua's situation in Hong Kong and felt very sympathetic towards her.
Xing Baohua asked him if his family matters had been resolved.
The Third Prince was also saddened. The old master was still alive, and although he was in a VIP ward, he was still breathing. So he was unable to handle some family matters.
They were also waiting for an opportunity.
After being attacked, the two surprisingly felt a sense of shared misfortune.
Xing Baohua thought to himself: What the hell is this?
After a day of rest, Xing Baohua, accompanied by the Third Prince, visited several factories within the Samsung system.
The Americans are very supportive of the Koreans in terms of equipment; the most advanced equipment is displayed in several factories here, which makes Xing Baohua very envious.
Xing Baohua and the chief engineer of Samsung Electronics' chip factory kept talking and exchanging technology.
Ultimately, they encouraged Samsung Electronics to develop high-capacity storage memory.
We are currently selling 64k memory and are conducting preliminary research on a 4m next-generation product.
Samsung is already preparing to sell 128k memory, and according to their plan, they are going to conduct preliminary research on 256k memory.
To jump directly to trillions, this leap is five years ahead of schedule.
Samsung thinks Xing Baohua has gone mad.
Xing Baohua only suggested that South Korea enable them to skip generations of production after seeing the other party's lithography machine. Currently, South Korea uses the latest lithography equipment, and its technology has reached a sub-micron level.
With proper design of the resistors and transistors in the chip, increasing the speed to megawatts is still achievable.
If the equipment requirements can be met, then we need to work on the design to make the tiny chip have more resistors and transistors in order to realize its capacity.
This isn't very complicated; it's a completely different concept from CPU design.
While advanced domestic CPUs cannot be replicated, memory is a simple matter; back in the day, counterfeit memory was everywhere.
Memory modules from small factories can be sold for a high price simply by putting a brand on them.
Kingston was originally a very good brand, but it almost became unsellable in the country because of those small factories.
Back when Xing Baohua was making counterfeit phones, he collaborated with many small memory manufacturers to reduce costs, and even visited their factories.
It didn't seem technically challenging back then, but now it's incredibly difficult.
Xing Baohua made a verbal agreement with Samsung Labs to jointly develop groundbreaking products.
Xing Baohua was in charge of the design, and Samsung was in charge of the production.
With the patents split equally between the two companies, Xing Baohua took the opportunity to propose a condition: 80% of the products produced by Samsung would go to Da Mi.
Once the domestic factory is built, the equipment will be moved there for production to take place nearby.
The Third Prince also felt that the revolutionary memory was difficult to complete, so he made a bet with Xing Baohua that as long as Xing Baohua completed the design, he would send people to transport the equipment.
The equipment we discussed before wasn't the most advanced; now they've changed its name.
The Third Prince also took a huge risk, after all, he only managed to get the new equipment by losing hundreds of millions.
Samsung Electronics also wants to get involved in the mobile phone project and hopes to get support from Dami Technology, such as for two-way paging systems.
Xing Baohua told the Third Prince, "Stop with the simulators. I'm already planning to play with the digital ones."
I just finished a standards meeting in Hong Kong and came straight here.
I briefly summarized the meeting's content.
The Third Prince understood, and even complained that Xing Baohua was not righteous, how could he not call them Three Stars for such a thing?
Xing Baohua retorted confidently, "Who told you not to say so earlier? I thought you only produced chips."
The Third Prince was speechless. The companies Xing Baohua invited were all in the telecommunications industry, and even if Samsung went there, they wouldn't take it seriously.
There isn't even a model available yet.
To appease the Third Prince, Xing Baohua secretly gave Samsung a spot, saying that they should be invited to the next meeting to set standards, provided that Samsung could produce a phone.
Dami Technology fully supports Samsung in developing its own mobile phone series.
Rice supports you, so you should support Rice spare parts too! Here's what we'll do: we'll give you a parts list, and you can help Rice scavenge spare parts from all over the world!
Thus, Xing Baohua treated Samsung as a transitional parts supplier.
For the next few days, Xing Baohua stayed put and worked for Samsung Electronics.
Besides traveling between his residence and Samsung Electronics' laboratories, Xing Baohua also took time to visit other Samsung industrial facilities.
I won't watch TV or refrigerators anymore.
Several projects, ranging from chemical engineering to electrical engineering, gave Xing Baohua some ideas, but he hadn't yet figured out how to implement them.
Then they went to LG, which has a family relationship with Samsung.
Xing Baohua was unaware that the Third Prince's older sister had married into the Ju family, a powerful conglomerate within the LG Group.
In short, the Third Prince's relationship with his older sister was not very pleasant after he took over the family.
Like Samsung, LG is a large, diversified company. Furthermore, LG is part of the Koo Group.
There's a saying in South Korea: Samsung makes high-end products, while LG only makes low-end products.
Those with money buy Samsung, those without money buy LG.
The home appliances produced by the two companies largely overlap, and they also compete with each other in the market. This is why Samsung looks down on LG, while LG has always wanted to overthrow Samsung.
Xing Baohua's past visits were just for observation. In this era, Philips, Sony, and LG were still very strong in the research and development of LCD screens.
Xing Baohua wanted to see what stage LG's LCD screen technology had reached. If it was good, he'd have Changhong come and discuss it. If it was roughly the same level as Changhong's, then he'd forget about it.
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