Once Toshiba is not only the development of the world's first color TV and telephone laptop technology giant, but also as more than 100,000 employees, business throughout the home appliances, computers, semiconductors, the status of Japan is equivalent to the status of Samsung in South Korea as the same business oligopoly, but it is such a giant only because of doing something wrong, was uprooted by the U.S. not only led to the splitting of their own business and sold, even the entire Japanese electronics manufacturing and semiconductor industry, but also the United States, the United States and Japan. The entire Japanese electronics manufacturing and semiconductor industry seems to have suffered a guilt by association.
Think back, two or three decades ago, from cell phones to TV microwave ovens to elevators, how many Japanese brands in our lives ah, but today? So Toshiba in the end did what, can give themselves and even the country to bring such a disaster? We have to start with how Toshiba became so strong.
Several of Toshiba's founders were local inventors, but the real reason the brand rose to prominence was that his old country gave its technology and orders to Japan around the 1950s, which can be said to be contributing and spreading, but what do you think he was trying to do?
Because at that time, World War II just ended soon, the United States urgently needed an intelligence center to restrain the two major powers in the Far East. That it took a look, hey, this little Japan in the Asia-Pacific region is a very suitable location ah, so actively help him to restore the post-war damage, not only will their own nearly four billion dollars of munitions orders thrown over, but also actively transfer a variety of advanced electronics manufacturing technology.
That big brother is so powerful, the little brother can not be dragged back, so the small day also introduced the introduction of subsidy system, for example, as long as the introduction of foreign advanced technology enterprises, imported equipment to the value of half of the subsidy, that is equivalent to half price.
So in the next two decades, the small Japan almost the introduction of the world's half-century invention of advanced technology, a number of Japanese enterprises rose, Hitachi's 64K DRAM chip, with a 40% market share to become the world's first, NEC also dominated the 256K chip, a long period of time, that itself is the invention of the manufacturing as a specialty, but also one of the five major military enterprises Toshiba is even more. Needless to say, not only engage in semiconductors, what nuclear energy, home appliances, computers, it is where high technology to engage in where. But as the saying goes, there is no permanent friend, only permanent interests, even if the old United States is the one that helped it rock up 90,000 miles of brothers, Toshiba in order to earn money, this friendship can be given up at any time.
We said earlier, the story is taking place in the fifties, at that time, in addition to the end of World War II, there is a big event, that is, the Soviet Union and the United States opened up up to 44 years, only through the armament and economic competition of the Cold War, so that is a war without smoke, but the nuclear weapons must be arranged, after all, the old U.S. just two years ago, the people have demonstrated the "fat man" and "little man", but the old U.S. has not been able to do so, but it is a good idea. "and" little boy "if he has you do not have, it is not guaranteed to come one day.
But it is easy to know and difficult to do, the number of nuclear submarines in the ASU is quite a lot, but the noise is also very large, there is a typical example is the construction of the ASU Alpha-class nuclear attack submarines in Norwegian waters caused by the sound of the water vibration can be the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, the old U.S. Navy Aquatic Listening Station detected, and after getting close, but also accurately identify the submarine's model, you said that such a submarine if it is put into the actual battle is not a head. The first thing you need to do is to get rid of the submarine, and you'll be able to do that.
It needs to import large machine tools with high precision machining capacity to process the propeller, but you have to know that since 1949, the old U.S. in order to limit the development of the ASU secretly united with the developed countries in the Western camp to set up a coordinating committee on export control, which mainly restricts member states to provide any economic militarization of preferential assistance for the ASU, and there is a directory of export control, which the ASU needs CNC machine tools on the list. The need for CNC machine tools on the list, directly back to 1979, a foreign trade company director Kumagai Komagatani alone acquaintance of a Soviet import and export company's deputy manager Osipov, in the knowledge of the Soviet Union needs to import four nine-axis five linkage CNC propeller milling machine and the corresponding size of the workbench, he felt that this is a good deal, so the two through the relationship between the company will provide the numerical control of the Norwegian Kongsberg company representatives and Toshiba to provide machining equipment Representatives and provide processing equipment Toshiba representatives and other people set up in this 3.7 billion yen under the contract, Toshiba almost no hesitation to agree to, although the old U.S. restrictions on the ban in the body, but in fact, the countries sneak export of contraband hooks have not done less, like when going to school, a person to do the wrong thing afraid of not, but some people together with the courage to do it, so that this Ossipoff First signed a yin and yang contract with Toshiba, written on the surface of the Japanese to provide Aso four not in the control list of two-axis linkage CNC machine tools, but in fact there is another secret nine-axis five-linkage supply contract, at the same time, the Aso signed an unrestricted two-axis linkage to Norway for the numerical control system sent to Japan, and then Toshiba's technicians adjusted to the system will be used for the two-axis linkage of the CNC system to be used for nine-axis five-linkage Numerical control system for nine-axis five linkage of the numerical control system, and in order to cover up the ears, but also special numerical control machine tools are divided into dozens of containers, to this is not over, in order to prevent the customs section of the branch ah, Kumagai unique from Moscow to fly to Tokyo, Japan, to personally supervise the shipment of the money and look for relations ah, four machine tools took more than a year to convey the completion of the process of the transaction looks seamless! This transaction process seems seamless, right? But the so-called day and night to prevent home invasion is difficult.
At the end of 1985, involved in this trade event of the lead Xiong Gu Duo and their bosses have fierce contradictions, was forced to resign, in order to retaliate, in a fit of pique, he did not pretend, to the old U.S. Committee set up to show their cards, reported the original secret deal, I said how this Soviet nuclear submarines suddenly can not be detected, it is said to be the deal that makes the old U.S. Navy, even if it is still not sure to explore the new nuclear submarines, but also the new nuclear submarines. Not sure to explore the new nuclear submarines, in short, ah in the subsequent search for evidence, the old U.S. through the CIA in the A Su propeller plant to obtain a photo printed with the Toshiba logo, situating his behavior, and in the face of ironclad evidence, the small day can no longer harbor Toshiba, half a month later, arrested Toshiba Machinery Company, Minister of Foundry and Machine Tool Division Minister, but then again, it's not just Toshiba's a company that is guilty, ah, there are what France, Norway, Sweden and the United States of America. But then again, it's not just Toshiba that's in trouble, it's the French, Norwegian, Swedish companies and so on. How did not only dry down the Toshiba, but also the whole of Japan's electronics manufacturing and semiconductor industry it?
Time to 1986, the Japanese semiconductor companies dominate the world, but the old U.S. IBM is poor to terrible, if not cut more than 10,000 employees, that bankruptcy is the price, the same Intel is embarrassing, six consecutive quarterly losses, shut down seven factories, look to be reduced to a joke, the old U.S. can look at the status of their own scientific and technological hegemony was shaken up and do nothing about it? It is not such a person it, so unsurprisingly, the old U.S. chose to step by step through the Toshiba incident of public opinion to suppress the semiconductor business of the small Japan, and even launched an anti-dumping lawsuit against his semiconductor business, reached the U.S. and Japan semiconductor trade agreement, on the one hand, the old U.S. on the chip of the small Japan to impose punitive tariffs of one hundred percent, on the other hand, to ensure that the foreign company to obtain the small Japan's twenty percent of the market share. What does that mean? Xiao Ri's products increased tariffs, which means that his chips want to return to the capital will have to be sold more expensive, that compared to other competitors, the loss of cost-effective, and at the same time, but also to force Xiao Ri to buy foreign companies' products. This is not the end of ah, the next year in April, the United States and further to the small Japanese computer and other products to impose 100% tariffs for trumped-up reasons, and require Fujitsu, Mitsubishi and other Japanese companies to disclose more than a thousand patents of the ultra-large-scale integrated circuits program.
He said pay it? I will not pay, it can how you look at what happened to Toshiba, Toshiba incident, the old U.S. led by members of Congress, led a boycott of Toshiba products, passed a five-year ban on Toshiba exports to the U.S. trade bill, we have mentioned at the beginning of the reason why Toshiba can be rocketing, on the one hand, the policy support, fast iteration of the technology, and on the other hand, is to benefit from the old U.S. military orders, but now the military purchases, the old The U.S. military canceled an agreement to buy missile technology from Toshiba. Not only that, in the 1980s, computers are also almost all government procurement, so Toshiba also directly lost the old U.S. Department of Defense's original 15 billion yen computer contract, after the bidding and then no Toshiba's figure, can not get the most core market orders, means that with the market demand is out of step with the market demand, just like doing clothing needs to follow the trend, they do not know what is popular now, that do Out of the clothes and how to sell it, so it happened in 1985 to 1987 two years period, the Nikkei index rose nearly doubled, and Toshiba machinery only less than three percent of the increase, this scene, despite the period of Toshiba invested 100 million yen in the United States in the various media advertisements of their own thank you, ask for forgiveness, but it is difficult to escape the fate of this long-arranged.
Trapped in the old U.S. procurement blockade and tariff penalties, the small Japanese semiconductor industry has gradually away from the old U.S. market, TSMC, Samsung's rise to the old U.S. chip companies have access to low-cost R & D and production environment, and out of the technological development trend of the small Japanese semiconductor industry, all of a sudden, from the global market share of 49% plummeted to 7%, and since then, the semiconductor industry, the forefront will be no longer the Japanese companies figure! After this, Toshiba seems to be a bad god, the semiconductor industry is not doing well, want to transform to do nuclear power construction, it was not easy to triple the bidding price of the acquisition of 77% of the shares of Westinghouse, immediately encountered the Fukushima earthquake, resulting in the nuclear power plant's nuclear waste began to overflow, all the countries began to re-evaluate the construction of nuclear power plants, Toshiba's nuclear power sector not only did not get another new order, even before the order has been canceled. orders were also canceled. Worse still, this Westinghouse also spent $ 2.29 billion at the end of the year 15 to buy the U.S. nuclear power engineering service providers, but the nuclear power business it fell apart, resulting in construction costs and labor costs continue to rise, indirectly leading to $ 4.2 billion in liabilities fell on the head of the major shareholders of the Toshiba, and this may be the last straw that crushed him. In April of the same year, Toshiba admitted in the past seven years, corporate profits watered down nearly 160 billion yen, after the incident fermentation, the stock plummeted, market value shrunk nearly forty percent, the next year is a record eighty-eight billion dollars, the largest full-year loss in the history of Japan's manufacturing industry, in order to fill the financial loophole, he had to be cut off to survive, once the light of Japan, Toshiba, the light of Japan, will be their own business is the best one by one to sell! The elevator business was sold to the Finnish Tongli, home appliance business was sold to the United States, the medical system company was sold to Canon, and the pit of their own Westinghouse Appliance filed for bankruptcy, and the semiconductor sector to make up for all the shares of the amount of the loss was sold to the old U.S. Bain Capital.
As the saying goes, eat people's mouths are soft, take manpower short, relying on other countries to climb higher and higher, people's ladder once withdrawn, you fall more miserable, so sometimes think about this old U.S. ban on Huawei to buy chips, it may be a really good thing, as Bill Gates said, the chip ban not only let their own loss of a large number of jobs, but more critically, under the ban will only make the Chinese in the field of chips to invest more, will only lead to China's self-sufficiency. The ban will only lead to China's self-sufficiency, although this road seems to be a long way off, also know that he is destined to be full of thorns, but to be honest, I am always convinced of the arrival of China's core!