Reborn in 1984: Starting with the Development of Chinese Character Cards, Chapter 107: A Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity. About a week later, Rex Aiden, Masuoka Fujio, and others arrived in Shanghai.
Zhao Ye personally picked up the person from Loongson Design Company at the airport to show his respect.
If Toshiba doesn't understand the value of NAND, how could Zhao Ye not know?
Leaving aside the value of NAND flash memory itself, just using it to develop products gives it a significant advantage over other competitors. For example, in developing USB flash drives, digital cameras, mobile phones, game consoles, etc., flash memory's data storage capacity far surpasses that of other storage media.
Around noon, Rex Eden, Fujio Masuoka, and their entourage emerged from the airport.
As Zhao Ye walked toward them, he waved and greeted them.
"Rex, thank you for your hard work!"
"Also, Mr. Fujio Masuoka, welcome to the Wujiang Group! I believe you will be able to fully showcase your talents at Wujiang!!!"
Zhao Ye shook hands with Rex Eden and Masuoka Fujio respectively.
Rex Aiden smiled and said, "It's not hard work."
Masuoka Fujio was quite moved by Zhao Ye's enthusiasm towards him. After all, he had been neglected by Toshiba for a long time, and he was very touched by any warmth he received from someone.
"Let's get in the car first, and go back to give Masuoka Fujio and the others a welcome dinner!" Zhao Ye called out, then led the way outside.
At this moment, many people at the airport had already noticed Zhao Ye.
Some people recognized Zhao Ye and immediately looked surprised, preparing to come over and crowd around.
This is the real Zhao Ye!
Zhao Ye quickly led everyone away, then got into the car and drove off.
That evening, Zhao Ye hosted a welcome dinner for Masuoka Fujio and his entourage at the Capital Old Hotel. The atmosphere at the dinner table was harmonious and everyone enjoyed themselves immensely.
The following day, eight members of the NAND design team, including Fujio Masuoka, officially joined Loongson Design Company.
Zhao Ye transferred fifteen employees to the NAND flash memory development department to learn from Fujio Masuoka and others.
NAND flash memory still has defects and needs further improvement.
In the previous life, despite being unpopular with Toshiba and lacking research and development funds, Fujio Masuoka and others still managed to perfect it in 1989, greatly reducing the cost per bit, achieving higher performance, and being easily upgradable through an interface like a hard disk.
In this lifetime, the development of NAND flash memory technology will inevitably be much faster.
Wujiang Group's third-generation game console can use NAND flash memory cards instead of CDs.
For second-generation game consoles, NAND flash memory technology was probably not mature enough, so when applied to game cards, the storage capacity was not as good as that of CDs.
Zhao Ye envisioned a 16-bit game console, planned for release in 1988.
The third-generation game was 32-bit and was released in 1993.
In his previous life, it seems that the world's first 32-bit game console was also released in 1993. Zhao Ye will not give his competitors the slightest chance to catch up!
Regarding memory chips, with the addition of Fujio Masuoka and others to Loongson Design, Zhao Ye no longer needs to worry about flash memory, but memory development still has a long way to go.
While Zhao Ye was busy developing EDA, he also had to lead the team in developing DRAM memory.
The importance of DRAM memory is self-evident.
In mobile applications, DRAM provides data storage space for application processing (AP) operations; in servers and personal computers, DRAM provides temporary data storage space for CPU operations.
Of course, DRAM plays the same role in game console applications.
Therefore, Zhao Ye is now focusing on DRAM memory and spends most of his day in the lab.
His secretary, Liu Yinyin, had to make a special trip to the lab to see him about something important.
"Boss, this is important news from Wujiang Group. Lloyds Bank of the UK wants to acquire Standard Chartered Bank, but Standard Chartered Bank does not want to be acquired, so it is seeking external assistance. Zhou Anping, the general manager of Wujiang Group, believes that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that will allow Wujiang Group to acquire Standard Chartered Bank... Standard Chartered Bank is a large bank in Hong Kong with the right to issue banknotes. It is large in scale and has a business network all over the world. For Wujiang Group, owning such a large bank would be of great value."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Ye's eyes lit up.
He also wanted to acquire a bank, but he didn't like the small ones.
Standard Chartered Bank would be a good fit; although it's large, it's not so much that Wujiang Group can't acquire it.
Zhao Ye vaguely remembered that in his previous life, Lloyds Bank had a hostile takeover bid for Standard Chartered Bank, but was thwarted by a joint effort from Qiu Deba, Hong Kong shipping magnate Bao Yugang, and Australian businessman Robert, who bought 37% of Standard Chartered Bank's shares for £1.3 billion.
In 1986, the exchange rate between the British pound and the US dollar was 1:1.4.
£1.3 billion, or $1.82 billion.
Wujiang Group alone could acquire a 37% stake in Standard Chartered Bank.
The question now is whether the other three will get involved, just like in the previous life.
With four people sharing the profits, Wujiang Group won't get many shares.
Zhao Ye was a little conflicted at this moment.
Standard Chartered Bank is such a coveted asset that it's hard to imagine anyone not wanting a piece of it.
He was powerless to stop Khoo Teck Puat, Pao Yue-kong, and Australian businessman Robert from acquiring Standard Chartered Bank's shares.
However, these people eventually sold their shares, which allowed me to take over.
In 1988, Chiu Te-ken was embroiled in a fraudulent accounting case and was forced to sell ATV. If I were to add fuel to the fire and force him to sell his shares in Standard Chartered Bank, it seems possible.
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