Chapter 287: The Third Bowl of Rice

"I will definitely not let Chairman Li down!"

Tang Qinliang clenched his fists and said seriously to Li Dongling with a slightly hoarse voice. A scholar dies for his confidant; at this moment, Tang Qinliang felt this feeling from Li Dongling.

If he didn't develop the STN color screen, Tang Qinliang felt he would be sorry for Li Dongling's expectations and high hopes, and his career would probably be left with regrets.

Li Dongling nodded, "Engineer Tang, don't worry about the funds for the STN project. As long as you can develop a color screen, Dongfang Optoelectronics will give you and the entire R&D team the rewards you deserve. Dongfang Optoelectronics will not treat anyone who has contributed to Dongfang Optoelectronics unfairly, nor will it forget all this!"

Hearing this, Tang Qinliang and the several main technical personnel of the STN laboratory around him all showed excitement on their faces.

They knew that Li Dongling was not just talking empty words. Previously, after the Little Smart equipped with Dongfang Optoelectronics' STN mobile phone screen went on sale, Tang Qinliang and the others received an extremely generous reward. That bonus was almost more than the sum of his sixty years of salary at the panel R&D unit where he worked before, with a monthly salary of four or five hundred!

Why was Tang Qinliang so excited just now? Besides being truly unwilling to have his career interrupted, it also had to do with Dongfang Optoelectronics' salary, treatment, and benefits. After tasting the sweetness, who would want to live a hard life?

Wang Dongsheng looked at Tang Qinliang, who showed excitement on his face. He had seen Li Dongling's ability to brew chicken soup with his own eyes. Compared with the mobilization meetings he held at BOE before, the chicken soup brewed by Li Dongling clearly had much better effects and more lasting power!

Li Dongling stayed in the STN laboratory for a long time, listening to Tang Qinliang introduce all the projects in the laboratory, including the R&D ideas for the STN color screen, before getting up and leaving.

Until leaving the STN laboratory, Wang Dongsheng could feel that Tang Qinliang and a group of technical personnel were all excited and full of fighting spirit, as if they couldn't wait to stay up late and work overtime to start developing STN color screen technology.

"Mr. Li really has good methods!"

Wang Dongsheng said to Li Dongling with some emotion. Everyone can use this set of poisonous chicken soup plus gold-dollar offensive methods, but how many people can use it well? Most of them don't want to give meat, but still want to engage in some wolf culture, can't give the salary of Huawei or Pang Donglai, but still want employees to treat the company as their home and provide God-like service to customers. Isn't that bullshit!

"The TFT LCD panel may be the future of panel screens, but we cannot forget what Tang Qinliang, the STN laboratory, and all STN practitioners have done for Dongfang Optoelectronics. It is the STN laboratory that supports the current Dongfang Optoelectronics!"

The future of the STN screen is indeed not as good as the TFT LCD panel, but now, Dongfang Optoelectronics is relying on it to live, and even within the next ten years, it will probably be the same.

In the next ten years, most of Dongfang Optoelectronics' revenue will probably also rely on the STN panel business. It is precisely because Dongfang Optoelectronics has the STN business to make money that Li Dongling doesn't have to invest so much money. Otherwise, referring to BOE in the previous life, it was almost like a bottomless pit, only throwing money and not laying eggs, several times on the verge of bankruptcy.

Not only Dongfang Optoelectronics, BOE actually needs the business brought by STN panels even more. BOE is the company that built the factory and put panels into production. The cost of building the factory is much larger than that of Dongfang Optoelectronics!

Leaving the STN laboratory and coming to the newly established TFT LCD panel laboratory, a large group of people were busy, and occasionally a few sounds of Japanese could be heard.

Li Dongling looked at those personnel who spoke Japanese. Seeing Li Dongling's gaze, one person came out of the crowd and said to Li Dongling, "Chairman Li, those few are technical consultants transferred from the Japanese laboratory!"

The person speaking was Miao Xuguang. Compared with Tang Qinliang, he was clearly younger, but he was already the best TFT LCD panel technical personnel Dongfang Optoelectronics could find.

Once the STN color screen is developed, it can also be supplied to mobile phones, computers, TVs, game consoles, and other electronic home appliances. It will be no problem to be brilliant for ten years.

Panels, like chips, are very money-burning industries. With the STN panel business, Dongfang Optoelectronics can earn revenue by supplying Little Smart mobile phones, Shenzhou digital cordless phones, Feiyan radios, as well as various instruments and meters such as car dashboards, air conditioning display screens, and electronic watches.

Li Dongling shook his head, turned back and looked at the STN laboratory behind him, "I didn't lie to Tang Qinliang or anything. Dongfang Optoelectronics really needs the STN laboratory. We cannot be full when eating the third bowl of rice and forget the credit of the first two bowls!"

Wang Dongsheng heard this, was slightly silent for a while, and then nodded. He knew that his thoughts were all on the TFT LCD panel, so he somewhat ignored the current STN panel.

After all, the TFT LCD panel has only emerged in the past few years. Most panel practitioners are still in the STN panel and have not yet transformed. To be honest, the technical personnel who developed TFT panels in the past few years were betting with their careers. After all, if the TFT panel did not become the mainstream of screen panels, it meant that their efforts in the past few years were basically in vain, and their entire career was half wasted.

The R&D industry sounds high-end, but in fact, whether for investment institutions or practitioners, it is a big gamble. If you win the gamble, everyone will make a lot of money, gain both fame and fortune, and after achieving success, tell about their past difficulties and achievements in the media, enjoying flowers and applause.

But what if the R&D fails? Then it will not be remembered by anyone. Whether it is practitioners or investment institutions, no one will remember it. Losers are not remembered in history books; that is the patent of winners!

Miao Xuguang studied in Japan and later entered a modern panel company in Japan. Recently, he was dug back by Dongfang Optoelectronics.

"Currently, Dongfang Optoelectronics' TFT LCD panel department has three laboratories, located in Xiyuan provincial capital of Hanxi, Tokyo, Japan, and Seoul, Korea, respectively, used to track and develop the latest TFT panel trends and technologies. The laboratory in Tokyo, Japan, mainly recruits employees from companies like Xia Pu and Hyundai. In the laboratory in Korea, it mainly recruits technical talents from panel companies like Samsung, Hyundai, and LG!"

"These few are technical consultants transferred from Dongfang Optoelectronics' Japanese laboratory to assist the headquarters here in developing and building the first-generation TFT production line!"

Miao Xuguang pointed to those Japanese technical consultants who looked quite arrogant and said to Li Dongling. He and Wang Dongsheng were clearly accustomed to the attitude of those Japanese consultants.

Those Japanese technical consultants were all equipped with special translators and assistants. Without asking, one could know what the salary and treatment were like, but this was basically the norm for foreign technical personnel coming to the country.

Li Dongling watched this scene, his gaze stayed for a moment, but he didn't speak. Dongfang Optoelectronics said it established laboratories in Japan and Korea, but in reality, it was digging people, staring at people from panel companies like Xia Pu, Samsung, LG, Hyundai, etc. As long as they were willing to jump ship, Dongfang Optoelectronics would offer a salary 15%, or even 30% or more higher than their old employer to come to Dongfang Optoelectronics.

There is no way. Now the technical personnel with the best panel technology are in Japan and Korea. Except for these two sides, if you want to dig for panel technical personnel and get panel technology, there is no other way!

At the moment, these Japanese technical consultants have an arrogant attitude, but Dongfang Optoelectronics really needs them. Without them, relying on Dongfang Optoelectronics to explore by itself, not to mention that it cannot be developed at all, at least it will have to take three or five years of detours, or even more.

Li Dongling withdrew his gaze and said to Miao Xuguang, "Increase the salary for these Japanese consultants, assign more assistants to them, find those with flexible brains and fast learning, and let them be assistants. They must learn the technology of these Japanese consultants at the fastest speed. Don't let them get tired at Dongfang Optoelectronics!"

Miao Xuguang was surprised for a moment, and then understood what Li Dongling meant. It was clearly to let them steal the teacher's skills. If one cannot learn, then arrange more apprentices and assistants for these Japanese consultants, and give high salaries. I don't believe that good things cannot be dug out.

"Currently, to what extent is the TFT LCD panel production line prepared?" Wang Dongsheng asked the question he cared about most.

Miao Xuguang and Li Dongling walked into a conference room. There was a pile of materials on the table. Miao Xuguang sorted out his thoughts and said, "Currently, R&D personnel have all been recruited. We originally planned to cooperate with Japanese or Korean LCD panel manufacturers to jointly develop the third-generation TFT production line!"

"However..."

Miao Xuguang said helplessly, "Xia Pu directly rejected Dongfang Optoelectronics' cooperation. LG's price was too high. Just for technology authorization, it costs hundreds of millions of US dollars, not including subsequent R&D expenses."

"On the Korean side, there is some intention to cooperate, but the conditions are also quite high, and they have been delaying. If we rely on the Korean side, I am afraid I don't know when Dongfang Optoelectronics' TFT LCD panel production line can be built!"

"Therefore, currently, Dongfang Optoelectronics' TFT LCD department is preparing to independently develop the first-generation TFT LCD panel production line. This is currently the only way to go!"

Xia Pu has already started to engage in the third-generation TFT LCD panel production line, and Samsung has also gained a foothold in the second-generation LCD panel. Dongfang Era has just started the R&D of the first-generation TFT LCD panel, which is almost three generations of technology behind Xia Pu.

Hearing Miao Xuguang's words, Wang Dongsheng's face was uncertain. Developing TFT LCD panels from scratch sounds easy, but doing it is not easy. This is like building a high-rise building from nothing. The hardship involved, I am afraid only those who do it know how difficult it is and how much price is paid.

Seeing that Li Dongling's expression was not abnormal, Miao Xuguang breathed a sigh of relief. If both major shareholders had opinions on his plan, then he, the chief engineer of Dongfang Optoelectronics' TFT project, would not have to do it.

"Chief Engineer Miao, if we develop it independently, when can Dongfang Era's first-generation TFT LCD panel production line be developed?!" Li Dongling closed the document in his hand and asked Miao Xuguang.

"Before the end of next year!"

Miao Xuguang almost gritted his teeth and said, "Dongfang Optoelectronics has now recruited a lot of TFT panel technical personnel from Xia Pu, Hyundai, and LG. Directly developing the latest third-generation LCD panel may be a bit unrealistic, but we are confident in developing the first-generation LCD panel technology of Xia Pu four years ago!"

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