197. Canada
“Dear executives and employees! And the shareholders and partners who have been with Myungsung Group for the past several decades. Today, I am entrusted with the heavy duty of being the 2nd chairman of Myungsung Group…”
A small gym closest to the Myungsung Group headquarters.
There, the inauguration ceremony of Cho Jung-sik as chairman of the Myungsung Group was in full swing.
Cho Jung-sik was speaking passionately on the podium with an extremely excited expression.
“Dear executives and employees! Now, we have to achieve two values at the same time: economic performance and a social enterprise that contributes to the local community. At a time like this, we must…”
Hoyoung sat in the guest seat and watched the ceremony.
He thought Jo Jung-sik’s appearance suit him quite well.
Suddenly, many years ago, I remembered the first time I met Jo Jung-sik.
‘Aren’t you thinking of selling H&H’s shares to me?’
A typical example of a second-generation chaebol who acted as if there was nothing in the world that did not go his way.
‘I’m willing to sell my stake for 500 billion won.’
food-
When Hoyoung thought of that answer, a smile broke out.
In fact, if I think about Jo Jung-sik’s attitude now, I can’t even think of Jo Jung-sik in the past.
Hoyoung glanced at the face of Namshik Jo who was sitting to his right.
Surprisingly, Jo Nam-sik had a calm face.
“……. With a mature corporate culture and a mindset for development, it will become a reputation full of pride and pride, and a great reputation. Let’s build a reputation together for the next 100 years, or forever! thank you!”
clap clap clap clap clap-
After Cho Jung-sik’s inaugural address, applause filled the gym for a while.
Cho Jung-sik did not hide his thrilled face as he saw thousands of executives and staff applauding endlessly.
“Tsk-.”
Looking at that face, Nam-sik Cho heard a small click on his tongue.
However, his face wasn’t so bad.
It’s a pity that I clicked my tongue a little earlier.
It just seemed that way.
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After the inauguration ceremony, Ho-yeong asked Nam-sik Jo to talk for a while, and the two sat facing each other in a nearby coffee shop.
“What did you ask to see?”
“First of all, I sincerely congratulate you for succeeding in developing the world’s first 1GB DRAM.”
Hoyoung said congratulations from the bottom of his heart.
Nam-sik Cho was not only working at the front line of management, but also concentrating on development by locking himself in the lab all day.
He seemed like someone who was engrossed in semiconductor development and wanted to forget everything.
“thank you. Did you ask to see me to say congratulations?”
Maybe it was because he had seen Cho Jung-sik’s inauguration ceremony as chairman, but Jo Nam-sik was particularly picky today.
Hoyoung congratulated it lightly, and Namsik Jo was also congratulated lightly, but the development of 1 gigabyte RAM was a great thing that could not be passed on to this extent.
But they both seemed to think it was nothing.
“haha. That’s not it.”
“then?”
“Request···. should I say? There is something I want to request.”
“A request?”
“I am not a semiconductor expert, nor have I worked in the semiconductor industry, but I have the ability to write algorithms.”
Jo Nam-sik had an expression that he did not understand.
Hoyoung took out a blueprint he had prepared and said.
“Could you please look at this first?”
Jo Nam-shik slowly looked at the blueprints and opened his eyes.
“This?”
“What Myungsung Electronics is doing best right now is to make non-memory semiconductors.”
“Yes… Joe?”
“Then I think we can make enough RAM for this small size.”
The blueprint that Hoyeong showed to Namshik Jo was a rough blueprint for ‘smartphone RAM’.
The size of DRAM, or DDR RAM, currently produced by Myungsung Electronics is 12 cm wide and 3 cm long.
However, the size of the ram in the blueprint shown by Hoyoung was only a small square of 1.5 cm.
“What kind of RAM is this?”
“This is the blueprint for the RAM that will go into the portable device I’m thinking of.”
“A portable device? Are you referring to a PDA?”
“It’s almost like a PDA. But it is a smaller and lighter device than that.”
Jo Nam-shik’s brow furrowed slightly.
“We are still producing very small amounts of RAM for PDAs. But even now, the size is 4cm wide by 2cm tall. And at that size, you can only squeeze out a maximum of 16mb of performance.”
“That’s enough. The amount of RAM is just that much. If possible, please set it to around 32mb.”
Jo Nam-sik continued to stare intently at the blueprint.
It’s obviously a clunky algorithm, but looking at this blueprint, I had a vague feeling that something might be caught.
‘It might take a little longer than I thought.’
Hoyoung looked at him with interest.
The blueprint Jo Nam-shik is looking at now is the circuit diagram of ddr3 RAM that will not come out until 2005, and Hoyoung and Gaia have worked hard to reinterpret it with a simple algorithm.
Showing this blueprint will not make Myungsung Electronics immediately able to produce DDR3 RAM, but it will provide a clue to speed up the development tremendously compared to the previous life.
“President. May I take this?”
“sure. I made it for you.”
“thank you. I will start developing as soon as possible and contact you later.”
“It is not terribly urgent. Please proceed slowly and pay attention to quality.”
“All right.”
After a brief greeting, Hoyoung left the coffee shop.
“Then, it seems that RAM will be resolved somehow… Chief. Is today the day you decided to meet with CEO Park Young-yoon?”
“That’s right.”
“Then let’s go to Pantech now. It’s okay to wait.”
“All right. President.”
Hoyoung arrived at Pantech shortly after.
The original appointment was at 4pm.
But now the clock was only pointing to two o’clock.
Hoyoung leisurely occupied one of the parlors and sat down to open her laptop.
‘Smartphones may be far away, but the PSP may become a reality sooner than you think. We need to quickly develop a mobile operating system suitable for that.’
Hoyoung did not neglect to create an operating system whenever he had a moment.
This task could not be entrusted to other employees from the beginning.
Although H&H’s operating system department is competent, it was a time when the concept of lightweight operating systems was not yet established.
So, Hoyoung planned to make the entire skeleton and have the employees do simple repetitive coding that would later require a lot of work.
Tada da da-
In the empty living room, only the sound of the keyboard banging and the spinning laptop echoed.
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how many hours had passed
Park Yeong-yoon opened the door and entered the drawing room.
“Aye, Chairman. If you come, please tell me. How many hours have you been here?”
“one···. About three hours?”
Hoyeong closed the laptop and replied as if it was not a big deal.
Then, when he saw Park Young-yoon with an absurd expression, he smiled.
“Anyway, it’s not important, so let’s move on. Shall we listen to how far the new mobile phone development is going?”
“Yep. This is the woodcarving of the newly developed slide phone.”
Ho-young looked at the model of the mobile phone Park Young-yoon handed over with a face full of interest.
The folder phone that Pantech released last year was an unprecedented hit.
Optimized for CDMA communication along with a special design, this mobile phone really created a mobile phone craze in Korea.
Beyond Korea, the world was gradually increasing the penetration rate of mobile phones.
What if a slide phone comes out in the midst of this?
‘The pace of development is accelerating. At this rate, it will create enough capacity to mass-produce smartphones within a few years.’
Ho-yeong looked at all the wooden copies of the slide phone and handed it to Park Young-yoon again.
“First of all, I am satisfied with the appearance. Are you making internal functions as I said?”
“yes. We are working with the H&H Mobile Computing Department to incorporate several features.”
“good. From this slide phone, it is a color liquid crystal type, right?”
“That’s right. The 256-color color liquid crystal is entering in earnest.”
Hoyoung nodded happily.
“All right. I will be waiting with anticipation.”
“yes. We will make sure to live up to your expectations.”
Hoyoung could see the enthusiasm in Park Youngyoon’s eyes.
Park Young-yoon was ten years older than Ho-young, but he sincerely trusted and followed Ho-young.
From the moment he met Ho-young, Pantech has developed at a speed he could not have imagined.
In particular, there was an incident that made me realize that Pantech has grown tremendously recently.
‘I never thought I’d be on par with a chaebol.’
Just a while ago, he recalled being introduced to Jo Nam-shik of Myeongseong Electronics.
It didn’t end with simply being introduced, Nam-sik Cho even asked him to transfer technology.
It was a huge event for him, a petit bourgeois who had only seen chaebol in TV dramas and newspapers his whole life.
“I plan to go abroad for a week if it is short, or about 3 weeks if it is long. If anything happens in there, don’t think about the time difference and just call me.”
“All right.”
Hoyoung also liked Park Youngyoon.
To be honest, among the major companies under Hoyoung’s management, Pantech was the one he cared about the most.
After Ho-young fully explained the concept of the product to be made and gave some hints on how to make it, Park Young-yoon led the way to make a proper product.
“The mobile phone development we are doing now will play the most decisive role in engraving the names of Hermes and Pantech on the highest level in the world.”
“Just trust me.”
After Park Young-yoon’s confident voice, Ho-young left Pantech without hesitation.
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a few days later
Hoyoung had just arrived at the Quebec airport in Canada.
Despite his many overseas experiences, Canada was his first.
“Professor Donovan here?”
“yes. President.”
There was only one reason Hoyoung came all the way here.
Brody Donovan.
He was also a professor at the University of Toronto in Canada, and in 1987 he was the one who developed the capacitive multi-touch function.
“Did you find out why you suddenly dropped out of college and came here to Quebec?”
“sorry. I didn’t know until then. I just found out just by being here…”
“I was asking just in case, so don’t worry too much about it. You just have to meet up and ask.”
“Yep. I have an appointment with Professor Donovan. The president doesn’t seem to like meeting after a day off anyway, so I made an appointment two hours later.”
Hoyoung smiled happily.
“You did really well. thanks.”
“haha. It’s already been 8 years since we went together.”
“Time goes really fast. By the way, where is the meeting place?”
Miru said with a slightly troubled expression.
“It’s an Ontario elementary school.”
“yes?”
It is common to set the meeting place at a cafe or hotel.
However, there is only one reason why I called it a school.
“Professor Donovan is currently working at the elementary school?”
“yes. I am currently a science teacher at an Ontario Elementary School.”
Hoyoung became curious about why Professor Donovan, who developed multi-touch, which could be called the development of the century, had come here as if he had retired.
“okay. So let’s go quickly. I’m really curious what kind of person you are. What kind of story is there?”
“So do i. Please come this way.”
Miru, who had come to know the route from the airport booklet in advance, took Hoyeong to the place she had promised with the rental car company.