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In 1993, Toshiba violated the regulations of Batumi and privately exported four five-axis CNC machine tools to the Soviet Union, which directly led to a significant drop in the underwater navigation noise of the Soviet nuclear submarine after improving the propeller, which made the US Navy lose the first time. Sonar detection advantage of Soviet nuclear submarines. ,

The U.S. government finally found definite evidence for this major sensitive military high-tech smuggling case known as the "Toshiba Incident" in history last year. Lin Longji, director of the foundry department of Toshiba Group's machinery subsidiary, and Hiroaki Tanimura, director of the machine tool business department, were directly arrested, and the former group president was also forced to resign. Even Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakamura had to personally apologize to the American father.

Atsushi Tanimura took office after the resignation of the former president. In addition to the severe damage to Toshiba's reputation, the bigger blow came from the US government's severe retaliatory sanctions on Toshiba.

Toshiba is one of the top manufacturers of industrial machinery in the world, but after the conviction last year, the company's mechanical and electrical products have always been marginally marginalized when entering the United States, the world's largest consumer market.

In 1939, the Tokyo Electric Company, which produced consumer electronics, merged with the Shibaura Manufacturing Company, which mainly supplied heavy-duty electrical and mechanical manufacturing. The name of the new company took the first word of the original two companies, so it was called Toshiba Corporation. Therefore, in addition to its strong strength in the electromechanical field, Toshiba also performed well in the electronic field.

For example, since the late 1970s, American semiconductor companies have been beaten by Japanese companies with price wars and cannot take care of themselves. And Toshiba is one of the pioneers, its semiconductor division in the early 1980s. It successfully beat out another Japanese company ne's oible540 to start. After establishing the design specifications for future notebooks, the battery has become an irreplaceable standard configuration.

Although the development trajectory of the entire computer industry has already changed beyond recognition due to the emergence of Li Xuan and Dongfang Group, Toshiba and IB are among the first manufacturers to enter the notebook computer market.

The emerging personal computer industry has shown growing market potential since the 1980s. Toshiba naturally coveted this new market. What's more, computers are also one of the most intensively used consumer electronics for semiconductor chips. If Toshiba can occupy a place in the field of personal computers, it will undoubtedly greatly stretch the performance of its own semiconductor fabs.

However, the entire personal computer industry has already been completely controlled by Li Xuan. In Dongfang Group, through the er processor, east operating system, and aboible540. All are equipped with built-in batteries, which are able to work safely away from the power source.

The previous ibible540 weighed 95 kilograms. And the notebook that Aikang company launched this time is only 32 kilograms, the weight is only one-third of the former. It can be said that notebook has made great progress in battery technology. This greatly reduces the overall weight of the computer.

But that's not what Tanimura Atsushi really cares about, because Aikang does not manufacture batteries itself, and the batteries configured on the notebook are purchased from other companies, and Toshiba can also place orders with them. What upsets Atsushi Tanimura the most is the special relationship between Aikang and Dongfang Group, which allows it to always get more support in the development of new computers.

And Ikon's launch of the notebook series this time made Toshiba feel like a wolf is coming. It stands to reason that the current production scale of notebook computers is still very small. Based on Toshiba's sales in this market, Tanimura Yuichi, the president and CEO, is not worth the effort.

However, Atsushi Tanimura is very optimistic about the future development of notebook computers in the business market, which is likely to be an important new profit growth point for Toshiba in the future. So in the face of Aikang's quick step into the battle ~www.readwn.com~ Tanimura Atsushi also personally began to participate in the planning.

Since the technical support obtained in the fields of processors, operating systems, etc. cannot be comparable to that of Aikang, Toshiba wants to keep its notebook computers sufficiently competitive in the market, and can only work **** another core component, the liquid crystal display. .

What makes Tanimura Atsushi feel depressed is that Oriental Group's technology accumulation in the field of liquid crystal is also very deep. Although the notebooks listed this time use fstn and dstn LCD screens, Dongfang Group is one of the first companies to make breakthroughs in tft LCD.

At the Los Angeles Electronics Show this month, the Oriental Research Institute exhibited a 4-inch tft LCD screen with more than one million thin-film transistors, which immediately caused a huge sensation in the industry. Compared with the previous tn liquid crystal, tft liquid crystal has obvious technical advantages in color display.

The tft LCD screen exhibited by the Oriental Research Institute was only 27 cm thick, which made Atsushi Tanimura see the possibility of entering flat-panel TVs and flat-panel monitors in the future.

In addition to the Oriental Research Institute, Sharp also developed a 4-inch tft LCD screen in April this year. And Toshiba's competitor nec in many fields has also decided to follow up the construction of tft LCD production lines.

This makes Toshiba also faced with a choice, whether to call or not to know that the investment in building a tft LCD production line is likely to start from 100 million US dollars, and the risk is very large

After repeated weighing, Tanimura Atsushi did not plan to act alone, but found an ally for Toshiba