Steve Chou notes that after years of making producing scanners, Microtek found it difficult to make a technological break-through. Upon arriving in the mainland, they discovered that telescope and guided-missile technology were highly developed there, with optical technology that could produce resolution 10,000 times sharper than the company's existing scanners. The mainland was already making zoom lenses decades ago, while Taiwan still has to buy the technology from Japan.
周榮正指出，做掃描器多年，全友在技術上始終有難以突破之點，來到大陸後，發現大陸的天文望遠鏡及導彈技術相當成熟，光學技術上遠比掃描器精準數萬倍，而且幾十年前大陸就會做變焦鏡頭，台灣卻到現在還得向日本買技術。