Mr. Gou’s love for Japanese companies may be beyond anyone's reach. He acquired Sharpe, a century-old Japanese store, and invested in Softbank’s Asian capital. He later threw out an olive branch to Toshiba Corporation of Japan. You may have learned that Toshiba has already reached the brink of collapse due to financial fraud scandals and huge losses in the nuclear power business.
Previously, the company decided to split the Semiconductor Division and set up Toshiba Memory, and hoped to sell its full equity, which triggered the competition of multinational top companies, and Gou responded with the first time, saying, "Foxconn With Toshiba, we are confident and sincere."
But recalling the various twists and turns experienced during the acquisition of Sharp last year, this time Gou wanted to acquire Toshiba, which must also be a bitter experience. Because not only can we afford high prices and beat top European and American companies, we must also face the intervention of the Japanese government. Due to the fear of leaking core technologies, the Japanese government has always guarded against Chinese companies.
Earlier, officials from Japan’s Ministry of Industry and Commerce stated that Foxconn’s acquisition of Sharp is OK, but Toshiba is completely different. Foxconn's factory is mainly set up in China. If high-tech flash memory is put into production in China, the technology will be immediately stolen by the Chinese. Japan will absolutely not allow such a thing to happen and will try its best to stop (Chinese company acquiring Toshiba's flash memory.) business).
Japanese government officials even bluntly said: Toshiba can sell US companies like Apple, but it cannot be a Chinese IT company.
But this did not stop Terry Gou's desire for Toshiba. According to the latest news, Foxconn is preparing to join South Korea’s SK Group or Taiwan’s Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., hoping to grab Toshiba’s bid in a strong and strong position. It is understood that Foxconn is the fourth largest shareholder of SK Group, holding 3.5% of the other party's shares; and TSMC’s Chairman Zhang Zhongmou is the cousin of Mr. Gou’s cousin and the two are closely related. However, Foxconn will eventually join with whom, and whether they can take Toshiba, have to wait for some time.
Here, we have to analyze why Gou has always been a soft spot for Japanese companies.
In fact, whether it is Sharp or Toshiba, Terry Gou may only look at the technology of these Japanese companies. According to Sharp, although the company encountered operational problems before last year, the technology that has been precipitated by its 100-year foundation still remains, such as the unparalleled global IGZO borderless display technology, OLED display technology, and 8K display technology. Wait, and these are exactly the areas that Foxconn wants to intervene but itself is very weak.
When acquiring Sharp, Terry Gou promised to use the resources of the entire Foxconn Group to continuously invest in the research and development of cutting-edge technologies such as 8K panels and clean energy. It is necessary to speed up the commercialization and marketization of these R&D achievements; Sharp should return to glory.
Just a few days ago, Foxconn invested 61 billion yuan to allow its Sharp Display Co. to build a 10.5-generation 8K panel production line in Zengcheng, Guangzhou; there is also news that Sharp is planning to increase investment to 100 billion yuan. Yen (60.6 billion yuan) manufactures OLED displays for Apple’s next series of iPhones.
In fact, after relying on Foxconn's restructuring and adjustments, Sharp has recovered its profits in a matter of months, and its stock has hit a new high for three years. It can be seen that Guo Tingming is gradually realizing the promise he had allowed.
As for Toshiba, Terry Gou saw its flash memory technology. Although Toshiba is already facing a collapse, it is still the world's second-ranked NAND flash memory maker in the semiconductor business, accounting for 20% of the global market share, second only to Samsung. As a technology-oriented enterprise in Japan, its NAND Flash technology is highly recognized around the world.
And Gou Ming hung in Toshiba's semiconductor technology, more to the 8K, big data and artificial intelligence layout. Previously, he also showed some of the reasons for the acquisition of Toshiba. “8K images, big data and other applications generate huge amounts of data. Finally, a large amount of storage equipment is needed, and massive 8K imagery big data can analyze useful artificial intelligence. This is how I Why are you interested in Toshiba Memory?".
In fact, in November 2016, Foxconn established the 8K TV Ecosystem Laboratory in Shenzhen. It also invested in Softbank Asia Capital's cooperation with ARM and set up a chip design center in Shenzhen to design IoT TV chips.
From the perspective of the layout of the semiconductor industry, Foxconn originally had semiconductor-related subsidiaries such as Tianyi, Xunxin and Jingding, plus Toshiba’s semiconductor business, which allowed Foxconn to have IC design, packaging and testing, and memory. The foundation.
In other words, if you buy the Toshiba Semiconductor Business Unit, it not only paved the way for Foxconn in the 8K, but also completed its layout in the semiconductor field. This is obviously a good move.
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Toshiba, the maker of the world’s first notebook, is now still in its midst, but its technical strength is still there. Like Sharp, both are the century-old nobility of the Japanese IT industry. Gou Ting-ming has a special liking for them, on the one hand, or out of a "cherish hero" feeling, but more important is that they can be used for the technical strength.
In this regard, Lenovo's preference for the acquisition of US companies may have to learn more.
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