Although China, who was the most populous country in the world, is really the electronics industry market, it is definitely not as good as Japan, the world's second largest economic power.

When Fanhan Group and Toshiba reached a proxy agreement for USB drives, Toshiba even shouted a declaration of completely eliminating floppy disks. The floppy disks need special floppy drives to read, and they must endure their shortcomings such as slow reading speed, low capacity, and poor reliability. However, if the emergence of USB storage devices in history, 1995 was its heyday. According to conservative estimates, at that time, at least 5 billion floppy disks were used to meet people's mobile storage needs.

A 3.5-inch floppy disk with a capacity of 1.44MB was a standard commonly used at that time. However, even such a small floppy disk was still very troublesome to use. The plastic shell could not bear the load, and the floppy disk disk was very delicate and had limited reading times...

These problems have made computer users eager to have a new mobile storage device. When Toshiba announced the launch of USB drives with two capacity capacity of 32M and 16M, the market response was no longer described as fierce. After all, in 1995, after the birth of Windows 95, with the growth of hardware performance such as Pentium series CPUs, the size of the software also increased explosively.

The 1.44M capacity that was originally considered sufficient makes people feel that they are gradually overwhelmed. Faced with large-scale files, they have to use segmentation and compression to store them on multiple floppy disks. The cumbersome, poor security, and frequent disk bad tracks all deeply trouble users' use.

Although the early USB drives did not have the ability to make the size of a thumb cover later, the size of a paracetamol pill box was enough to use. Just now on the market, Toshiba's USB drives received widespread attention. After considering the chip cost and patent licensing fees, the retail price of a 32M USB drive sold in Japan was 10,000 yen, while the 16M USB drive was 6,000 yen. Compared with China, the price has increased by more than twice.

However, the Japanese engineers and software programmers of this era earned more than 100 times that of Chinese workers. Electronic products that needed a month's salary to buy in China were only two or three days of labor income for the Japanese. The first batch of 500,000 USB flash drives were sold out almost within a week. Under Toshiba's strong request, the Fanhan Group had to reduce its domestic supply. This was the only way to provide intermittent support to the Japanese market.

The hot sales of USB flash drives not only brought another abundant foreign exchange income to Fanhan Group, but also forced Toshiba to seriously promote the 0.5 micron chip production line and open its export plan to China. There is no way. Seeing such a huge market, the result is that it is impossible to eat due to capacity restrictions. It is simply the most vicious torture of a foodie!

Groups like Toshiba have always been willing to trample on national interests for profits.

However, what is unexpected is that the fastest reaction to this in the market was Sauni Company. In just two days after the launch of the USB flash drive, Sauni's business personnel came to Fanhan Group.

Fanhan Group has no office space in Japan. The other party first found the Japanese branch of Xinke Computer, and then after introduction, he found the DB Software Company. At least nominally, Tang Jun is the manager of all the business of Fanhan Group in Japan. The cooperative relationship with Toshiba was indeed achieved by him.

Sauni was the largest floppy disk and floppy drive manufacturer in the world at that time. If USB disks are supplied to the market on a large scale, the one that will be hit the most is the one that will be hit. From this point of view, their speed of movement is not surprising. After all, USB disks have a tendency to surpass floppy disks in terms of convenience and cost. Sauni naturally cannot ignore them.

This is also because Fanhan Group found Toshiba to take the lead. With this MT in front, you can easily enjoy the high profits in the Japanese market without having to fall into specific business competition.

Sauni also saw this. As a veteran electronics manufacturer, Toshiba may not have a lower position in the industry than Sauni. Instead of fighting against the other party's advantageous products in the market in vain, it is better to remove the fire from the bottom of the pot and change the door as soon as possible. With its current monopoly position in the market, floppy disks should be able to last for another three to five years. With the improvement of production technology, the capacity and cost of USB drives will exceed that of floppy disks. At that time, it will be too late to enter the USB drive market again.

Sauni's business representative is Yamagata Ken, the director of the storage business unit. He would not have noticed such changes in the market so quickly. After all, the USB flash drive has just been on the market for two days, so it is too early to make any assertion. At this time, Sauni had already acquired Columbia Film Company, which was arrogance. The director of the storage business unit can be considered a senior position.

However, Ken Yamagata, who wanted to sit firmly on Diaoyutai, could not resist the enthusiasm of the newly appointed President Sauni Nobuyuki Izumi.

Nobuyuki Irii, who became president of Sao Ni, was eager to establish his prestige and prepare for the next internal reform. When he saw the USB flash drive for the first time, he keenly realized that this would be a perfect entry point. The USB flash drive production technology is not complicated, but the prospects are much larger than floppy disks. If the USB flash drive technology can be introduced to replace Sao Ni's floppy disk production line, the entire process of replacing the product will give him an opportunity to fully display his blueprint.

Under the enthusiastic operation of Nobuyuki Irii, Ken Yamagata had to cheer up and work hard for Sauni to obtain the USB drive technology.

"This is the chairman of our Panhan Group, Mr. Zhou Shuo." Tang Jun introduced with a smile to Ken Yamagata.

Yamagata looked Zhou Shuo up and down, and couldn't help but sigh at the other party's age. His negotiating opponent was actually a young man in his twenties, which was beyond his expectations. If he had met such a young man in Sao Ni's company, he wouldn't even give him a direct eye, but now he has to maintain a minimum equal status on the surface.

"Minister of Yamatsu, welcome you." Zhou Shuo looked at Ken Yamagata who looked a little old. After all, Sauni Company is one of the top major companies in Japan. Of course, it is impossible for a solid person to climb to the high-rise position. The more honest the surface is, the more it means that the deeper he is hiding.

"Zhou Sang, Tang Sang, you two are so young and promising!" Yamagata Ken smiled with a squinting eyes and reached out to hold it with Zhou Shuo.

"I believe that both of us have already known our purpose." Yamagata Ken took the initiative in the conversation and said: "With the patent issue of USB flash drives, Sauni hopes to form a cooperation agreement with Fanhan Group that satisfies everyone."

"Of course, I'm just thinking that way," Zhou Shuohan nodded and said with a smile: "I just don't know what method Sao Ni hopes to cooperate with Fanhan Group? Patent licensing, or imported chips?"

Ken Yamagata Dama Jindao sat on the sofa, waved his hand and smiled: "Well, we Sao Ni hoped to acquire the patent for USB drives from Fanhan Group."

As soon as he said this, both Zhou Shuo and Tang Jun immediately retracted their smiles. For large companies like Sao Ni, acquiring patents is actually a matter of course. Once Sao Ni decides to invest in this field, the investment amount will reach tens of billions of yen. In this case, he will hold the patent rights in the hands of others and will be too irresponsible to himself. So as long as conditions allow, Sao Ni must hope to buy a USB flash drive patent.

"Oh, okay." Zhou Shuo sat opposite Ken Yamagata and said expressionlessly: "I don't know how much the price Sauni Company plans to acquire the patent for USB drives from us."

Ken Yamagata stretched out a finger, as if he didn't see Zhou Shuo's expression, and said in a big way: "One hundred million US dollars, this price is very good, right?"

According to Ken Yamagata's estimate, although Fanhan Group has a chip production line with a decent output, the cost is probably no more than 20 million US dollars. The investment in USB drive production will be as low as 50 million US dollars. Not to mention acquiring patents, it should not be a problem to acquire Fanhan Group.

"Is it $100 million?" Zhou Shuo shook his head in disappointment. He originally thought that Sao Ni could offer some price. After all, the Japanese were very rich at this time. But he didn't expect that the other party actually regarded him as a local bun, thinking that Fanhan Group had never seen money before?

"Does Minister Shanxing know how much profit can the U disk chip and its technical patents bring to Fanhan Group every year?" Zhou Shuo said bluntly: "Even if China's domestic sales performance and the profits of the Japanese market alone can bring at least 200 million US dollars in net income by December next year. You must know that the export agreement we have reached with Toshiba will double the supply volume every two months. By this time next year, the supply volume of U disk chips will reach 1.8 million."

Yamagata Ken was not affected by Zhou Shuo's attitude at all, and said to himself: "That's just a possibility in the future. Instead of making that hard-working money, why not transfer the patent to Sauni? This is 100 million US dollars! As long as you sign a letter, you can get it immediately. Besides, our Sauni doesn't have a big appetite, and they only need patents in Japan. The memory chips produced by the Fanhan Group can be sold to other countries."

Zhou Shuo shook his head unmovedly and said, "I'm afraid that Minister Shanxing will disappoint him. Compared with the hard work, I am more afraid of the insufficient profits I make."
Chapter completed!