Daguo Science and Technology started from the copycat system

On December 4, 2003, Sugon Technology announced a news on this day, which successfully stirred up the world as soon as it came out!

On this day, Sugon Technology officially announced that it has successfully acquired the Camera and Imaging Division of the island nation Minolta Corporation for US$340 million.

And from then on, Dawning Technology and Minolta will reach a more in-depth mutually beneficial cooperation. In the future, at least half of Dawning's chip production will use masks produced by Minolta!

The Minolta company in this island country was hardly well-known in the previous life, but in fact this company is not much weaker than Nikang and Canon in the island country in terms of historical achievements.

But time is fate. Although the company's achievements in terms of history and history are not much weaker than Nikang and Canon, but living for a long time does not mean that it can become the final winner.

When the times shifted from film cameras to digital cameras, Minolta was always slow in responding, and the most delicious cakes have been eaten up by Nicon, Canon, Soni, Olympus, Fuji and other manufacturers. .

Under such circumstances, Minolta is also unwilling to be mediocre, and finds that there is no hope in the field of digital cameras.

They also directly entered the industrial and medical measuring instrument industry and the office equipment industry.

As for what office equipment is, it is naturally the manufacture of office equipment such as scanners, printers, and copiers.

Not to mention that Minolta has entered these two industries, they have done pretty well in these two sub-sectors, and even have a little money to support the camera and imaging business department.

But according to history, they can't last long.

Because in January 2006, they couldn't hold on to the long-term losses, and finally sold the camera and imaging business unit to Soni.

It directly strengthens the strength of Suoni's SLR camera and imaging business, and makes Suoni stronger.

At this time, Sugon Technology spent 340 million US dollars to directly acquire the camera and digital imaging division of this century-old company, which caused a sensation no less than dropping a bomb in the global camera industry and the island media.

Although the current Minolta company is not the Minolta company it was a hundred years ago, or even decades ago, the current Minolta company has become a third-rate camera manufacturer in the world, but this company has a long history. !

For a while, if we say that news readers around the world were discussing, surprised and curious about this matter.

Then the media and news readers in the island country are full of anger, opposition, protest and disapproval.

In this regard, the weird attitude of the island media and the people naturally attracted the attention of many foreign netizens. They wondered what happened to the island media on the Internet.

Didn't Sugon just acquire a third-rate camera manufacturer in the world? Is it necessary for the media and people in the island country to be so aggressive?

Overseas netizens just felt dumbfounded, saying that there is no need for the island media and the people to be so aggressive.

Didn't Sugon Technology acquire camera brands such as Nikon, Canon, Suoni, Fuji, etc. Is it necessary to be so radical?

In this regard, how do overseas netizens know about the grievances and disputes between Daxia and the island country?

In some people's eyes, Sugon Technology's acquisition of Minolta, a century-old camera company in the island country, is a plan to go online.

However, regardless of whether the island nation's media and private parties agree or object, Sugon Technology and Minolta have already signed an acquisition contract.

Now it is just an announcement to the outside world, and their opposition and approval actually have no effect.

At this time, after Sugon Technology acquired Minolta's camera and imaging business unit, although Sugon Technology's hard power in the field of camera lenses is far inferior to Nikon, Canon, Soni, Fuji and other brands.

But I have to admit that the 340 million US dollars spent is quite worthwhile, because the 340 million US dollars spent gave Sugon Technology the best start!

There are many industries in the world. If big summer companies have the opportunity to enter this industry, it will definitely make the overseas giants in this industry vomit blood with anger.

But it is a pity that there is a thing in this world called patent barriers. Under the blockade of this patent barrier, even if you have the strength to produce and develop.

But because you don't have the authorization of key technology patents, you just can't produce that thing and enter the industry.

Taking the computer field as an example, Daxia in the previous life actually had the strength to develop a CPU processor that was not inferior to Intel and A.M.D.

Unfortunately, the authorization of the X86 instruction set is firmly controlled by Intel and A.M.D.

Because they are unwilling to sell the authorization of X86 instruction set patents to domestic enterprises.

This has led to the fact that although Daxia Enterprises has the strength to develop excellent domestic CPU processors, it has no way to enter this field.

This all shows the importance of technology patents and the horror of patent barriers.

When others use patents to form a patent barrier, it is really difficult for you to enter the industry without patent authorization.

At this time, Sugon Technology spent 340 million US dollars to buy a camera and imaging business unit, which is actually not a loss.

Most of the 340 million US dollars purchased were actually used for the purchase of technical patents, and the value of the plant equipment was not so great.

Therefore, Minolta's technical patents are the most valuable, although Sugon Technology can directly purchase other people's patent licenses.

But is it really possible to buy a full license for all technologies? Even if you can buy it, it is not a complete technical patent authorization.

Because it is impossible for an electronic product to own all the technologies, it will inevitably use other people's basic patents.

In this case, in order to avoid patent disputes, global companies will reach a compromise with other companies, eventually forming a patent cross-licensing situation.

These cross-licensed patents are usually only available to the manufacturers themselves, and the technology patents obtained by cross-licensing cannot be sold to third parties.

Therefore, the acquisition is the simplest thing. It can directly obtain the technical patents owned by the acquirer itself, and can also obtain the technical patent authorization obtained through cross-licensing.

This is why global companies will spend more money to directly acquire companies instead of specifically acquiring patent licenses.

Of course, people at this time did not know that there is actually a very valuable patent in the camera and imaging division acquired by Sugon Technology, and it can also be said to block other camera and lens manufacturers, making them miserable.

What is this patent?

This patent is the built-in CCD body anti-shake technology developed by Minolta just this year, which officially opened a long debate on whether OIS lens anti-shake is better or body anti-shake IBIS.

That's right, Minolta is the inventor of IBIS, and it was invented this year! (end of this chapter)