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The pressure from Intel was quickly passed on to ASML.

After ASML's president Christopher was severely criticized by Intel, he immediately called the technical director Peter to his side.

"Pete, Intel has gone crazy. We must produce lithography machines capable of producing 7-nanometer process chips in the first quarter of next year."

"Otherwise, Intel will have to consider purchasing lithography machines from Nanshan Equipment."

"I guess Samsung and TSMC will contact us about this matter soon."

It is almost inevitable that the pressure will be escalated layer by layer.

Intel asked Christopher to get the lithography machine done within the first half of next year, and Christopher asked Pete to get the lithography machine done within the first quarter of next year.

I guess by the time Pete communicates with the project team, we will have to further compress the time.

Of course, ASML has invested a lot of manpower and resources in the past year or so to research 7-nanometer process lithography machines.

So Christopher had some confidence in his heart, otherwise he wouldn't have acted so recklessly.

"After I saw the news about Nanshan Semiconductor yesterday, I started asking people to urge suppliers to speed up the process."

"Otherwise, simply relying on our own internal resources is not enough. Many of our parts are purchased from suppliers."

Pete was not at all surprised as to why Christopher was looking for him.

In recent years, he has been almost worn out by the upgrades in lithography technology.

The days of making money without doing anything are gone.

"Then tell those suppliers that whoever fails to deliver this time will be replaced and we will not cooperate with them on future projects."

"China already has its own lithography industry chain. If we don't work harder, we will have nothing to do in this industry."

Christopher said very dissatisfiedly.

Every time I asked about the progress of the lithography machine, I had various reasons.

Although these reasons are not without reason, they are still very annoying.

"I understand that the various suppliers should have gradually learned about this news."

"It may be luck that Nanshan Semiconductor took the lead once, but now it continues to lead the industry and has mastered the 7-nanometer process technology. The situation is completely different."

"If everyone doesn't work harder, the company will have no room to survive in the future."

Pete knew that his boss was in a bad mood, so naturally he had to say more nice words and express his attitude at this time.

Let’s get through this first.

"The way companies in China do business is really bad."

"We shouldn't be putting them on the international market. Isn't that disrupting the market?"

For Christopher, any company that threatens his interests is annoying.

Especially other manufacturers of lithography machines are very hated.

"We have previously pushed customers such as Samsung to suppress Nanshan Semiconductor, but the final result was not very good."

"I think we need to think of other ways to make Nanshan Semiconductor less arrogant."

"At their current pace, Nanshan Semiconductor's market share will continue to grow, which means the scale of customers using our equipment is shrinking."

“This is totally unacceptable.”

Pete slowly shifted the topic to something other than technology.

It's just complaining anyway.

He definitely will!

However, we can still complain about ASML, but we are no longer able to complain about Apple and Samsung.

Everyone feels the pressure.

"KUKA, Honor Technology has clearly stated that they will use 2016-nanometer chips in their new products to be launched in 7."

"By then, both the operating speed and energy consumption will definitely be greatly improved."

"This is definitely negative news for our global sales growth."

As the head of Apple's China branch, Wang Ziming naturally had to report the potential threat posed by Nanshan Semiconductor to the headquarters at this time.

Anyway, there is no harm in reporting more.

"I just communicated with TSMC and Samsung. Their 7-nanometer chip factories will not be put into production until 2016 at the earliest. Our products will not be available until 2017."

"This situation does make people more passive."

Kuka has actually been under quite a lot of pressure in recent years.

He took over the big company Apple from Steve Jobs, and many people were not optimistic about him.

Although Apple's stock price has continued to rise in recent years under his leadership, doubts about him have never completely disappeared.

If sales plummet by then, the situation will definitely be more serious.

So now seeing the unfavorable news about chips, Kuka is a little nervous.

"Should we consider changing our promotional plans in advance to let consumers know that the performance of a chip is not simply determined by how many nanometers it uses in its manufacturing process, but is also related to many other factors."

"Even if Apple uses the 14-nanometer chip process to produce mobile phone chips, the performance is better than that of its peers, and even higher than that of 7-nanometer chips."

At this time, Wang Ziming could only offer suggestions from a publicity perspective.

After all, if technical matters can only be done in that way objectively, then no matter how much he says, it will be useless.

As for forcing Samsung or TSMC to speed up, Apple's purchasing manager will definitely do it without his reminder.

"This is one way, but I'm afraid Honor Technology will also make a fuss about this, and we will be more or less in a passive situation."

Kuka can almost imagine how Honor Technology will discredit the chip performance of its competitors.

Although Apple can minimize the impact of this incident by muddying the waters.

But it is still relatively passive after all.

"Or can we consider asking Nanshan Semiconductor to help manufacture some of the chips?"

After a moment's silence, Wang Ziming boldly put forward his suggestion.

He knew that this suggestion had a low chance of being adopted, but it was a real good way to solve the problem.

"The investors will not agree, and the relevant departments will not agree either."

Kuka did not get angry directly, but after a moment of silence, he gave his opinion.

Nanshan Semiconductor also has chip foundry business, so he must know about this.

But even though I know it, there is no way I can cooperate with them.

This involves a matter of principle.

Semiconductor manufacturers such as Samsung and TSMC are also struggling.

Just when everyone was still struggling to figure out the outcome, Cao Yang suddenly announced on his official Weibo account that Nanshan Semiconductor will build four 4-nanometer chip factories with an investment of more than 7 billion yuan.