Rebirth 99 to become a car giant.

Chapter 750: A charger has been tricked. This is the beauty of material breakthroughs.

Gallium nitride is a good thing.

Anyone who works in semiconductors knows this.

Previously, everyone thought that the preparation of gallium nitride single crystals was very difficult, especially the preparation of high-purity gallium nitride crystals in large quantities, which was a world-class problem.

Although many companies have made certain progress in recent years, they have not yet achieved true mass production.

Now Nanshan Semiconductor suddenly jumped out of the cracks in the stone and said that it had developed gallium nitride power components. This naturally put great pressure on many semiconductor companies.

"Pat, what impact do you think the emergence of gallium nitride power components from Nanshan Semiconductor will have on the semiconductor industry?"

As Intel CEO, Otellini must pay great attention to the dynamics of the semiconductor industry.

Although Intel has not previously made gallium nitride power components the focus of the company's research, he knows that industry giants such as Infineon, ON Semiconductor, Texas Instruments and STMicroelectronics are doing work in this area.

Now he didn't hear any news from the industry giants, but he heard the bad news from China first. He definitely wanted to evaluate the impact of this matter.

"This kind of power component does not have much use in computers and mobile phones. Whether it is CPU or memory, it basically has nothing to do with gallium nitride power components."

Whether it is computer CPUs, mobile phone chips, or car-grade chips, they were all produced earlier by other manufacturers in the industry.

"Otellini, Nanshan Semiconductor has a brother company called Nanshan Equipment. You must be familiar with it."

Once you're used to being the boss, you don't want to be on an equal footing with others.

However, he is not particularly worried, because according to the information he has learned, America's research on gallium nitride has reached a stage where it can be mass-produced.

"There are also some inquiries from us about purchasing gallium nitride power components, but most of them want to get samples for testing before finalizing the order."

Pat was helpless when he heard his boss ask this question.

"It is not that difficult to produce gallium nitride. Gallium nitride products have been used in LDE lamps a long time ago."

"On the contrary, it has relatively large application prospects in some fields such as LED diodes, radars, and electric vehicle chargers."

I feel that as long as the semiconductor technology in the United States is not surpassed, the problem is not very serious.

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“But it is very difficult to produce high-purity gallium nitride crystals and then produce high-quality gallium nitride power components.”

Now it is said that if China's high-end equipment industry is not good, then Nanshan Equipment must be taken out.

Currently, Nanshan Semiconductor lacks impressive flagship products.

If a company does not have a few well-known flagship products, it is ultimately missing something.

However, when it comes to Nanshan equipment, Otellini immediately thought of what ASML's president had communicated with him, and he naturally knew it well.

Seeing that the gallium nitride power component recommendation meeting is about to be held.

Otellini continued to ask.

Zhang Jing added on the situation at Nanshan Semiconductor.

However, other manufacturers are different.

At most, Nanshan Semiconductor would have taken the lead, which he felt was not of great significance.

So I dragged Zhang Jing from Nanshan Semiconductor over to report to Cao Yang.

Everyone is paying close attention to this special recommendation meeting of Nanshan Semiconductor.

“The biggest difficulty is the production equipment of gallium nitride crystals, which need to form high-purity gallium nitride crystals in a relatively harsh working environment.”

"Mr. Cao, many semiconductor companies are now consulting us about purchasing gallium nitride crystal production equipment. I feel that many companies are interested in the gallium nitride market."

Pat didn't explain much, he simply expressed his thoughts.

“As long as qualified gallium nitride crystals are available, producing gallium nitride power components itself is not particularly difficult.”

As the CTO of Intel, Pat is naturally very familiar with the performance of gallium nitride.

"Why haven't there been any major breakthroughs in the past few years?"

Pan Jinxing felt it was necessary to report some situations in the industry to Cao Yang.

Of course, Pat only looks at the problem purely from the perspective of technological development.

"China can produce gallium nitride, which shows that the production of gallium nitride is not as difficult as everyone thinks."

"After all, the production process of power components is already relatively mature. All it takes is appropriate adjustments."

Unlike John, whose radar and other technologies were originally far ahead of China's, now they might be tied or even surpassed, and he immediately became anxious.

As the company's brand new flagship product, Zhang Jing attaches great importance to gallium nitride power components.

However, Nanshan Equipment has not only developed high-precision five-axis CNC machine tools and other products in recent years, but it can also produce its own photolithography machines.

Before the emergence of Nanshan equipment, Otellini's understanding was naturally no problem.

After Pat explained this, Otellini's doubts were not completely eliminated. He then asked, "Isn't China always relatively weak in the field of high-end equipment?"

He is even planning to make this component one of Nanshan Semiconductor's flagship products.

"Nanshan Semiconductor takes the lead in producing gallium nitride power components, which is likely to lead to breakthroughs in China's LED, radar and new energy vehicle technologies."

"I speculate that the production equipment for gallium nitride crystals was developed by Nanshan Equipment."

Fortunately, he feels fortunate that Intel has not invested any resources in this area. No matter who takes the market of gallium nitride power components, it will not have much impact on it.

In this case, others are not so impressed with similar products of Nanshan Semiconductor.

"As long as high-purity gallium nitride raw materials are available for components such as gallium nitride power semiconductors, there should be quite a few manufacturers that can produce them."

"After all, the threshold for this kind of parts is mainly raw materials."

"The current gallium nitride crystal production equipment of Nanshan Equipment should be at the forefront of the industry."

"It's rare for us to be able to block someone else's business, so naturally we can't pass up this opportunity."

"Until other manufacturers develop equipment that is comparable to ours, we will not sell the equipment to the outside world for the time being."

"Of course, you have to think about the reason."

Without any hesitation, Cao Yang made a general plan for the sales of gallium nitride crystal production equipment.

If high-precision equipment is sold everywhere, there is no way to reflect the importance of Nanshan's equipment.

It is also not in the interests of Nanshan Equipment.

"The reason is easy to explain. If it doesn't work, I will quote a very high price to scare away a large number of customers first."

"If people are willing to buy at a high price, then we will give them a longer delivery cycle."