Rebirth 1984: Starting with the development of Hanka

Ten days later, ASML replaced some of its senior management with people from Wujiang Group, with Academician Qin Guogang as CEO of ASML.

However, before Qin Guogang became the CEO of ASML, Zhao Ye specially called him to the office and gave him a few words of advice.

"Given that ASML is currently in a very difficult situation and short of funds, it is very reasonable to sell part of ASML's technology patents to Wujiang Group. After all, if ASML does not receive capital injection, the company will go bankrupt soon. "

"Academician Qin, you are a technician yourself, so you are responsible for sorting out the technologies needed by Wujiang Microelectronics and then selling them to Wujiang Microelectronics."

Qin Guogang nodded upon hearing this, knowing his mission very well.

Zhao Ye sent him as the CEO of ASML not really because he wanted to develop ASML, but because he wanted to understand ASML's technology.

"Boss, I understand!" Qin Guogang responded.

The next day, Qin Guogang flew to the Netherlands and officially took office as CEO of ASML.

After some time, Academician Qin Guogang learned about ASML's technology in detail and couldn't help but exclaimed: "ASML's technology is more advanced than I imagined. I thought the PAS2500 lithography machine was already very advanced, but I didn't expect it. Bismarck is still developing PAS3000, and the technology it reserves is very advanced!"

Immediately, Qin Guogang was overjoyed. If Wujiang Microelectronics could buy ASML's technology, the development of a new generation of lithography machines should soon make breakthrough progress!

Moreover, the production technology and process can be greatly improved.

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Of course, if ASML wants to sell technology, Wujiang Group cannot have arbitrary power. After all, there is still a major shareholder.

Philips never expected that it had just reached a cooperation with Wujiang Group, and as a result, the two companies now became the only shareholders of ASML.

"President Wells, Wujiang Group sent a notice that in order to save ASML, which is on the verge of bankruptcy, Wujiang Microelectronics will invest US$200 million to purchase some of ASML's technologies." The secretary said to Hank Wells , thought about it, and then expressed his thoughts, "President Wells, in my opinion, the main purpose of Wujiang's move is to purchase ASML's technology!"

Hank Wells smiled and said: "Well, your analysis is correct. However, it doesn't matter. We are not interested in ASML anyway. ASML has been losing money since its establishment, so as long as Wujiang Group does not ask for We just need to invest more.”

After a pause, he added, "Of course, ASML's technology cannot be sold at a low price. Please pay attention to it."

"Okay, President!" The secretary nodded, looking like he didn't take this company seriously.

ASML basically has no status in Philips. Philips almost allows ASML to fend for itself. It is obviously very unoptimistic about ASML's future development.

In the mid-to-late 80s, Japanese lithography machines were so powerful that it was difficult for other lithography machines to survive.

Furthermore, the photolithography machine market is relatively small, and Philips may still look down upon this market.

When ASML was first established, Philips did not like it and threw people directly into a temporary board room next to Philips headquarters.

It can be said that Philips abandoned it like chaff.

In a previous life, ASML went public in the 90s. As a result, Philips directly sold all its shares. Later ASML basically had nothing to do with Philips.

Philips regarded ASML as a bad company, but Wujiang Group regarded it as a treasure. If it weren't for Western countries not allowing Wujiang Group to control ASML, Zhao Ye would have asked someone to directly acquire ASML.

We have no choice but to do the next best thing and extract value from ASML. For example, three days later, ASML reached an agreement with Wujiang Microelectronics Company to exchange technology for funds in order to survive...

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The introduction of ASML technology has a great impact on Wujiang Microelectronics, and the whole company is excited.

After reading these technical materials, Academician Huang Kun directly issued a military order to Zhao Ye, stating that a new generation of lithography machines will be launched within half a year.

By the way, Wujiang Microelectronics at this time is very powerful. Not only the "Six Knights of TSMC R&D" have joined Wujiang Microelectronics one after another, but also more Chinese semiconductor talents have joined Wujiang Microelectronics.

In previous lives, TSMC used its status to recruit a large number of Chinese semiconductor talents.

But in this generation, Wujiang Microelectronics Company is more legitimate and has a good foundation than TSMC, and it is ahead of TSMC in recruiting these Chinese semiconductor talents into the company.

Some of these talents are good at processes, some are experts in integrating the overall logic process and are responsible for improving yield, and some are good at materials...

In recent times, the development of Wujiang Microelectronics Company has been booming, which can be described as "changing with each passing day".

However, in terms of lithography machine lenses, Wujiang Microelectronics’ technology is still lacking.

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At this moment, Rex Aiden has arrived in East Germany and has begun to make preliminary preparations for the Hunting Plan.

The current economy of the Soviet Union is very bad, and East Zeiss will naturally not be much better. As for West Zeiss, it is only slightly better than East Zeiss.

The two are almost the same.

However, in comparison, Wujiang Group is more likely to acquire Dong Zeiss.

When Leske Eden's team arrived in Dongdehou, they immediately conducted a detailed investigation of Zeiss.

At present, Zeiss's main business is camera lenses and semiconductor lenses. Medical lenses only began to develop in the 90s.

However, neither camera lenses nor semiconductor lenses could compete with Japanese companies in the 80s.

The reason why Zeiss cannot compete with Japanese companies is not because of Zeiss's technical background, but because Zeiss has always followed the tradition of manually building lenses. This backward production method is outdated, low-yield, and error-prone, which has led to the decline of Zeiss.

In the previous life, until Zeiss used machinery instead of manual labor to build lenses, thus turning around profits and losses.

During this period, if ASML had not been providing blood transfusions to Zeiss, Zeiss would have gone bankrupt.

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Inside the office.

Zhao Ye is carefully reading the investigation report about Zeiss sent by Rex Aiden.

"Based on this investigation report, Zeiss can still hold on for a while."

"Now let the bullets fly a little longer."

Zeiss can still struggle for a while, but Rex Aiden is an excellent hunter. He lies dormant in Germany, waiting for his prey to show weakness, and then he will immediately pounce on it.

Zhao Ye is also a very patient person and can afford to wait.

The key to the Hunting Plan lies with Zeiss itself.

They say flies don't bite seamless eggs.

If Zeiss itself is doing well, how can Wujiang Group stand a chance?

PS: I don’t have time to type today, so I only updated two chapters. The number of words is a little less, but readers are so handsome, so I can understand and give a monthly vote by the way.