Homecoming of Rebirth

Then what's the use of keeping them secret for so long?As soon as your opponent hears it, you agree, even if you don’t guess that this is the technical direction of EUV LLC, what if someone tries it?As long as one of Canon and Nikon makes a move, their previous efforts will be wasted.

And aggrieved!Isn't that equal to giving Qi Lei a platform?Help him clarify.

What's more terrible is that EUV LLC doesn't know at all, whether Qi Lei is really guessing, or has already clearly known their technical direction, and he is setting up a situation.

If it's the latter, no matter how they reply, they will be used.This grandson has done absolutely nothing. If he helps Canon and Nikon, it will be over.

So, this press release, how to write how wrong!

Oh shit! !

Only then did Klaug understand that this social science guy doesn't talk about martial arts and plays word games, so he really can't beat him?

Now it seems that it is better not to have this common sense mistake, because now EUV LLC is more passive.

What?

The angry Klauger wanted to follow Bill Gates and fired all Intel's public relations.

Bunch of trash!

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Chapter 574 Strategic Implications

EUV LLC is now riding a tiger.

Think about it, the thing in the technology circle was not an eye-catching project, it was just a lithography machine manufacturing, and no one paid attention to it in this era.

This is like a fight between two grocery buyers in the vegetable market. Except for the neighbors in the neighborhood, who cares about this crap?In the end, it was revealed that one of the family members who bought the vegetables was a family member of a famous celebrity, and the excitement became huge, and it was completely out of the circle.

This is how it is now, just because Qi Lei made a big joke, everyone is eating melons and paying attention, even if you want to keep a low profile.

Klaug even thought that Qi Lei did it on purpose!

He was deliberately stupid to manipulate the news, and then led the national war to EUV LLC.

In desperation, EUV LLC can only make a coping strategy that is not bad, but definitely not good, and that is-ignore.

I treat you as if you don't exist, I don't bother arguing, I don't bother replying, let you guess, it's okay, right?

Actually, not yet!

Doesn't it make people suspicious if they don't respond?

Anyone, any party, including your enemy, is, is, tool, tool!

Originally, even if Qi Lei wrote a popular science post in a serious manner, it was unlikely that Canon and Nikon would recognize the direction of EUV LLC.

But now, instead, EUV LLC is helping Qi Lei draw this conclusion, helping Canon and Nikon to make a judgment.

Even if there is no response, in the eyes of Canon and Nikon, it is worth pondering.

Why not respond?

Why make a posture of indifference?

You were not like this before!

Paulson just broke the news that you are developing a new technology, and you all went on TV to ridicule Sanshi and Qi Lei all over the world, and reacted fiercely.

Why are you being honest this time?This is very abnormal.

If they really had extreme purple light, far surpassing the technology of water injection, would they be so magnanimous and so merciful?

In fact, this is the same as Klaug's negative public relations plan, which is to agree with Qi Lei.Ridiculous in the front and praise in the back are inconsistent, which is more likely to cause misunderstandings in public opinion.

then……

The silence of EUV LLC is also not good in the eyes of Canon and Nikon!

For a large company, combined with the analysis in the professional field, it can actually be concluded that the technology of EUV LLC is unlikely to be extreme violet light.

Then, either they are water injection, or they are other technical directions other than water injection, or even lower-end technological progress than water injection.

This again involves the issue of commercial application and technological progress. Canon and Nikon are not idle these days. After research and demonstration, they have come to a conclusion that unless it is extreme violet technology, any technology may not be as easy to implement as water injection, and it is more costly. Advantage!In other words, Qi Lei not only got it right, but also got an optimal solution!

In this way, for the two Japanese companies, the betting chips have increased again.

Do you want to invest in research and development?

While Canon and Nikon were hesitating, Mr. Paulson, a Wall Street tycoon, approached both companies at the same time.

While bringing sincerity, it also carries a big stick.

"Desheng will provide you with research and development funds! Then..."

"In return, one of you sold me more than half of the shares in the lithography machine business."

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"Will that Paulson succeed?"

Li Hanhan was very curious about the result, but Paulson just went to the door in a daze, which seemed a bit abrupt.

I saw Qi Lei slide the swivel chair and back away from the computer, "80.00%!"

Li Hanhan was puzzled, "Cut, isn't that sure? Are you so confident?"

Qi Lei smiled, "It's not that I have confidence, but that the situation is like this."

Li Hanhan shook his head blankly, "I don't understand."

Qi Lei, "We have to start from the beginning."

Li Hanhan nodded vigorously, "Yeah, I'm listening!"

Qi Lei, "To put it simply, in the semiconductor industry, from design, supporting to manufacturing, it can be divided into four camps, Japan, South Korea, the United States, and Europe."

"These four camps have both cooperation and confrontation, but the main thing is the capital game."

"They were strangled together like a mess. They couldn't figure out the relationship. In fact, it was difficult to understand the logic of Paulson's direct approach."

Li Hanhan leaned forward with his chin propped up, "And then?"

Qi Lei laughed and began to tell a story.

Really, only by telling this story clearly can Sister Hanhan understand why the current situation has occurred.

"Before the 80s, the semiconductor industry was dominated by Americans. In terms of lithography machines alone, three American companies dominated the world. This is the earliest lithography machine property in the United States."

"However, in the early 80s, Japan's semiconductor industry took off. It took only three to four years to surpass the United States and become the leader in the semiconductor industry. Led by Canon and Nikon, Japan's lithography machine camp was formed."

"Also in the early 80s, both the United States and Europe were aware of the threat from Japan, and accordingly adopted different strategies to deal with the industrial crisis."

"It goes without saying that the strategy of the United States is big enough. In addition, the threat from Japan is all-round, not just semiconductors. I will not talk about this process. It is very American and very Japanese. It is a bit like the first Japanese in World War II. Attacked Pearl Harbor, started an all-out war with the United States, and then it was wiped out in a few clicks."

"In short, the final result is that the Japanese semiconductor industry was crushed to death by the United States after a brief period of brilliance. However, Japan's semiconductor industry has only fallen into a stagnation, and major chip manufacturing and design projects have been missed. However, due to the lithography machine Technology, which was not a core industry at that time, survived, and Canon and Nikon have maintained their status to this day."

"As for Europe, they chose a more pragmatic way to deal with the changing situation, that is - the Eureka plan."

In fact, in the early 80s, that is, when the United States and Japan were fighting fiercely in the semiconductor field, although Europe was very low-key and not in the mainstream, it was not idle at all.

At that time, the European Community had already realized the importance of the semiconductor industry. In order to keep up with the times and not be left behind by Miri, the European Community organized a plan—the Eureka Plan.

The ultimate goal of this plan is to help the European Community establish its own semiconductor industry chain and occupy a place in the high-tech field.

This is also the source of the European semiconductor industry.It can be said that almost all European semiconductor companies in later generations come from this plan.

Including, ARM, Siemens, Philips, Nokia and so on.

It is the foundation for Europe to occupy a place in this multi-party strangulation in the next few decades.

When Qi Lei mentioned this, Li Hanhan listened fascinatedly, although if it was at school, she would definitely fall asleep after listening to the teacher.But when Qi Lei said it, it was very interesting.

"Then what? What does this have to do with the current lithography machine industry?"

Qi Lei, "Yes, and it has a lot to do with it!"

"Because in the European Community's huge Eureka plan, there is a sub-plan on the integrated circuit industry."

"JESSI, Jesse!"

"In Jesse's plan, there is another separate memory project—the MEGA (Mega) project."

"This project is easy to explain. Some technology companies in European countries join forces to catch up with Japan's memory technology within ten years."

"In that era, memory technology accounted for a large proportion of the semiconductor industry, and there was a lot of oil and water."

"And memory technology is divided into two major technical directions: sram and dram. These two technologies have their own advantages and disadvantages. At that time, the business prospects were [-]-[-]."

"Under the negotiation of the European Community, two companies took over the task of tackling key memory technologies. Germany's Siemens is in charge of DRAM, and Netherlands' Philips is in charge of SRAM."

"The two companies plan to invest 15 billion marks in R&D expenses each within five years, plus 5 million in support funds from the European Community. That is, one company will spend 20 billion to launch a tough battle on memory technology."

Li Hanhan couldn't help frowning when he heard this, "Why are we talking about memory again, aren't we talking about lithography machines?"

She curled her lips in disdain, and kept urging: "What's the matter? You, you, you, you, you, the point!"

Qi Lei stared, "It's a big deal, will you listen?"

"Hey hey, listen."

Qi Lei, "These two have a dram and a sram, both seem to be doing well, but their fates are completely different."

"Siemens' dram took a trick. It didn't do its own research and development at all. Instead, it took the money to buy technology directly from the Japanese. It was put into production soon and started to make a profit."

"Philips is miserable. Not only does it not have the brains of the Germans, but it has run into ghosts."

"It just happened that Intel, which makes American chips, is frantically involving itself and competing with other chip companies for the market."

Li Hanhan stared, "The chip is here again? What does it have to do with the memory?"

Qi Lei, "It didn't matter at first, but Intel made a big move. It integrated sram memory into the chip, which caused the sram market to shrink rapidly, and the demand was greatly reduced. There is no place to sell the sram memory that Philips spent 20 billion on. .”

"Its one-year production can consume three years' worth of the world's SRAM market, and the investment of 20 billion yuan has lost everything!"

Sister Hanhan grinned when she heard it, "When gods fight, mortals suffer!"

Qi Lei, "Afterwards, Philips lost 20 billion and got into trouble, so they had to find a way to save themselves."

"In the end, God helped me a lot, and the pie fell from the sky."

Sister Hanhan's eyes lit up, "Hurry up, tell me!"

"Before the MEGA project, Philips once produced an automated stepper lithography machine."

"At that time, the lithography machine market was not big, and the technology of this source machine was immature and had many defects. It had no commercial value, so it was thrown aside by Philips."

"But at the end of the day, Philips wanted to cash out the machine."

"No one wanted it at first, but I ran into a small company called ASM, also from the Netherlands. This company was established in the early 80s and was very small. They wanted the Philips machine. Philips Take a look, okay, let's cooperate!"

"Therefore, Philips and ASM agreed to invest 210 million US dollars each to jointly establish ASML, which is now ASML."

Li Hanhan nodded, so that's how Asmail came out?

Qi Lei hadn't finished yet, "Actually, ASML was tricked by Philips."

"It was said that each paid 210 million yuan, but Philips took 30 yuan, and the remaining 180 million yuan was arrived with that immature lithography machine."

Li Hanhan, "..."

Qi Lei, "And this kind of thing, Philips not only cheated the ASML family, to be precise, TSMC was also cheated by Philips."

Li Hanhan, "..."

Qi Lei, "In the early 90s, Philips repeated its old tricks. When they heard that Zhang Zhongmou of Baodao was going to engage in chip processing, he took ASML's lithography machine as a stake and played white wolf again."

"Originally, this deal was not optimistic, and it was difficult for TSMC to stand out in the mature chip manufacturing competition."

"As a result, it was pie in the sky again."

"TSMC lost a fire once, and it burned [-] lithography machines ordered from ASML without burning anything."

"As for Philips, the old button, he just insured ASML's lithography machine this time."

"So, in this fire, TSMC had no losses, Philips and ASML had no losses, and the insurance company paid for it all, but it burned the world's chip manufacturing structure."

"That year, it happened to be the Great Depression of the global semiconductor industry. All lithography machine companies had no orders. Only ASML had to remanufacture [-] lithography machines because of the fire. Only he had orders."

"It's like a fire that made TSMC and ASML a reality."