Rebirth of Hong Kong’s Glorious Era - Chapter 123

Since knowing that Nintendo’s 6502 CPU is produced by Ricoh, Li Wansui has also collected a lot of information on Ricoh these days. Knowing that Ricoh is now in full swing!

In 1936, Kiyoshi Ichimura founded the Ricoh Group. Ichimura’s first major innovation was the III, which came out in 1950. It was the world’s first mass-produced twin-lens reflex camera. This level of technological innovation is far-reaching and shows Ichimura’s vision and ambition for the future. Ricoh created its first desktop photocopier 101 in 1955. In 1973, the world’s first fully digital fax machine RIFAX600S came out in Ricoh.

By 1979, Ricoh’s technological strength and market share in office equipment and optical instruments were leading in the United States, Europe and Japan.

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Early the next morning, Li Wansui came to Ricoh, Japan, but ran into trouble at the front desk.

He took out the certificate of the representative of the Hong Kong Institute of Technology to meet with Mr. Masamitsu Sakurai, the general manager of Ricoh Corporation in Japan. The little girl at the front desk did not give him face at all.

“Mr. Li, I’m very sorry, the general manager’s schedule is very full. Please make an appointment with Mr. Sakurai Masamitsu in advance. Why don’t you leave a phone number and let us know when the general manager has time?” The girl at the front desk is very professional. sorry.

Li Wansui was a little dumbfounded, but fortunately he had thought about this situation before. Ricoh is different from Nintendo, the current Nintendo is very small, and although Ricoh has grown to the level of the world’s top 500, it is also a serious multinational company, and I want to visit such a scale. The general manager of a company is not easy.

He was a little fortunate that he had made a plan in advance to deal with such a difficult situation for the kid. He said calmly: “Hello, I am not only representing the school, but also the personal representative of Mr. Shao Yifu, a billionaire film and television tycoon in Xiangjiang, and Mr. Bao Yugang, the world ship king of Xiangjiang. Mr. Shao Yifu is also me. My uncle, the purpose of this visit to Mr. Masamitsu Sakurai is to discuss potential cooperation with your company, but it involves commercial secrets and needs to have a private talk with Mr. Masamitsu Sakurai. It is a serious matter, please be sure to convey it. Don’t delay. It’s over!” Li Wansui looked arrogant and spoke as if he was giving orders.

This was the plan he had in mind. After catching the tiger skin, he took out the university certificate first, which was true. As for the identity of Bao Yugang and Shao Yifu’s personal representatives, with the endorsement of university representatives, presumably even if the clerk of the Polytechnic Company has doubts, it will not prevent him from seeing Ricoh’s general manager Sakurai Masamitsu. There is no need for the clerk to bother the two billionaires to check for a simple visit.

It was just a meeting, and it was unlikely that Ricoh would verify whether Li Wansui really represented the two billionaires.

However, when it comes to specific cooperation in the future, a big company like Ricoh will definitely figure things out. At that time, he will naturally have a way to come back.

The little girl at the front desk saw Li Wansui’s tone was very loud and proud. Although she had never heard who Bao Yugang and Shao Yifu were, she felt that these two people should be big shots. Li Wansui, who had a flustered expression on her face, bowed and apologized, then quickly picked up the phone and called Sakurai Masamitsu’s secretary, chatting for a long time.

Li Wansui didn’t understand what the little girl was saying. Although Han Ping, a new translator he found in Tokyo, came to his ear and wanted to translate for him, but he just made a proud look and did the whole show. Since he was at the front desk Xiaomei played Long Aotian in front of her, so naturally she couldn’t surrender her identity to listen to the content of her phone call, which seemed to lack confidence. He waved his hand, indicating that Han Ping didn’t need to translate, and looked at the front desk indifferently.

After a long while, the girl at the front desk finished the phone call, bowed to Li Wansui, said a few words of apology, and led Li Wansui to Sakurai Masamitsu’s office.

As soon as he entered the office, he saw a middle-aged man in his 40s with a somewhat obese demeanor. He stared at Li Wansui with a smile. It was Sakurai Masamitsu.

After the two briefly shook hands, Sakurai Masamitsu waved to let the front desk girl and the secretary leave the office, and Li Wansui also let Han Ping out. The two of them just greeted him and learned that Sakurai Masamitsu’s English was not bad.

There were only two people left in the office, Sakurai Masamitsu said with a smile: “Li Jun, you are the personal representative of two well-known rich people in Xiangjiang, do you know what cooperation you can bring to our company?”

He did not mention the identity of Li Wansui University at all, which was worthless in the eyes of Sakurai Masamitsu.

Li Wansui said with a smile, “Of course it’s a good thing to make money.”

“Hahaha, Li Jun, please tell me?”

Li Wansui slowly organized the words in his heart, and tentatively said: “Mr. Sakurai, I learned from elsewhere that your company has obtained the authorization of the 6502 cpu from the American mos technology company? Including the authorization of production and modification of the cpu instruction set?”

Masamitsu Sakurai said with a smile: “Yes, our Ricoh company is optimistic about the stability of the 6502 CPU, and its cost-effectiveness is also very suitable for industrial applications. We have obtained all authorizations, and recently updated production equipment and expanded production capacity. The monthly output of 100,000 CPUs, Li Jun, are you interested?”

Li Wansui was very excited when he heard this, and asked, “Mr. Sakurai, our school has developed a new electronic device. My uncle, Mr. Shao Yifu, is very interested in this product, and he introduced me to the ship king, Mr. Bao Yugang. , the three of us are going to set up a company together, the strength of the company is unquestionable. However, this product has a technical difficulty, and the instruction set of the 6502cpu needs to be modified, so I specially visited Ricoh for this matter.” Most of his remarks It’s nonsense, mainly to increase his bargaining power. After all, relying on his leather bag company and his red and white machine design ideas that he can’t tell anyone, obviously he can’t impress the polytechnic company.

The design idea of ​​the red and white machine is the biggest secret in Li Wansui’s heart. The technical difficulty of the red and white machine is actually not big. After all, a small company like Nintendo has researched it in later generations. Its unique place is mainly the design idea of ​​​​the image controller.

Masamitsu Sakurai still has some understanding of Hong Kong’s business circle, and he did not express his deep understanding of what Li Wansui said. After all, it was only a part of the two parties’ trial, and said, “Mr. Li, your company’s background seems to be very strong. I don’t know what kind of modifications are planned to be made to 6502?”

Li Wansui said with a smile: “I need to design a cpu by modifying the instruction set based on the 6502 cpu, specializing in image processing, requiring the total number of hair colors to reach 64 colors, and 16 colors can be displayed on the same screen. , This cpu only needs to process graphics and images, and does not involve data processing, if I entrust your company to develop it, and we own all the intellectual property rights, how much design fee will it cost?”

Li Wansui also doesn’t know the technical parameters of the Nintendo’s graphics controller in later generations. He estimated it based on the 8-bit CPU performance. As for intellectual property rights, this thing is the basis for Li Wansui to monopolize the game console market, and he must have it in his hands no matter what.

Sakurai Masamitsu heard Li Wansui’s request, lowered his head and pondered for a while, and said, “Mr. Li, your request is unheard of, but I don’t ask much about business secrets, I need to discuss with the technical department, if you are free , why don’t you wait for me for a while? I’ll go back when I go?”

Li Wansui smiled and said, “Well, Mr. Sakurai Masamitsu, please do it.”

“Then trouble Mr. Li to rest in the office for a while, I’m really sorry.” Sakurai Masamitsu said, and got up and left the office.

After about an hour or so, he returned to the office.

“Mr. Li, I have discussed with my colleagues in the technical department. You said that the total number of hair colors can reach 64 colors, and the same screen can display 16 colors. This is the theoretical value of the 6502 8-bit cpu. Our engineer It is said that the total number of emitted colors can be around 50 colors, and the same screen can guarantee more than 10 colors, but it will definitely not reach 16 colors.” Masamitsu Sakurai said solemnly.

Li Wansui is very satisfied with the data released by Sakurai Masamitsu, which is several times higher than the display capability of the game consoles on the market today, but he still asks with an embarrassed expression: “What about the development time and quotation?”

Masamitsu Sakurai said with a smile: “The R&D cycle is about one year. As for the quotation, if Mr. Li does not ask for intellectual property, we will give you a quotation of 8 million US dollars. If Mr. Li asks for intellectual property, it will cost 12 million US dollars.”

He just estimated the R&D cost with the technical department~www.mtlnovel.com~ is about 2 million US dollars, but the cost is only the cost, the quotation must not be like this, without enough profit, Ricoh will definitely not do this thankless R&D Work. Although Masamitsu Sakurai does not know what Li Wansui is doing with such a wonderful CPU, as a technology company, Ricoh is naturally cautious about technical reserves, so it will have an offer of 8 million US dollars.

Li Wansui sucked in a breath of cold air. This is far higher than his estimated price. His previous estimate was between $1 million and $5 million. If the estimated cap is $5 million, his stock market returns , may be able to barely raise enough, this is not counting the money needed to open a factory to develop game production equipment. Now it is 12 million US dollars, which needs more than 60 million Hong Kong dollars to convert into Hong Kong dollars, which is really unacceptable.

The R&D cycle is one year, but Li Wansui didn’t care too much. He was a technician in his previous life and knew the psychological thoughts of technicians. The longer the R&D cycle, the better, so that he didn’t have to work overtime. The actual R&D cycle must be much shorter than that reported to the leader, and it may even take less than half of the R&D time to produce results, and this is just a tentative inquiry, not a contract finalized on the spot, the R&D cycle can be done at the time of signing the contract Talking carefully about compression.

As for the 8 million US dollars without intellectual property rights, Li Wansui never considered it.