Rebirth 1984: Starting with the development of Hanka

G-line photoresist is the current mainstream photoresist, and this kind of photoresist is not difficult to develop.

There are many companies on the market that can produce g-line photoresists.

Zhao Ye certainly believes that Academician Li Yiming can lead the team to develop photoresist, but he must be prepared for everything.

"Immediately investigate which company has the ability to produce photoresist and has the possibility of selling the company. We will buy the company directly!!!" After the meeting, Zhao Ye found Ni Guangnan.

The photoresist market is very small, less than 10 billion US dollars in total. Most of the market share is occupied by Japanese and American companies, and other companies cannot make much money at all.

For example, there are companies in Europe that produce photoresist, but the scale is relatively small.

Instead of buying photoresist from other companies at high prices, it is better to go directly to Europe to acquire a company that can produce photoresist. In this way, not only can you buy the photoresist formula patent, but you can also own a g-line photoresist production line. , and then just expand production capacity.

It is worth mentioning that China and the United States are currently in the honeymoon period.

When Ni Guangnan heard this, he couldn't help but praise: "Boss, you have a good idea. I will send someone to investigate immediately!"

Zhao Ye reminded: "This time it must be done in secret, and no RB people can notice it again, otherwise they will definitely destroy it!"

RB is a good player in commercial espionage.

Zhao Ye remembered that he had read a report on Stone Company and mentioned RB commercial spies. When Stone Company was developing Chinese typewriters, he had encountered RB commercial spies spying on the development of Stone Chinese typewriters many times. Progress and technology.

Stone Company then secretly transferred the development team to Hong Kong to avoid the prying eyes of RB's commercial spies. Later, the Sitong Chinese typewriter came out, which directly destroyed the RB typewriter brand and occupied more than 80% of the domestic market share.

Zhao Ye couldn't help but suspect that Canon and Nikon had been keeping an eye on the activities of Wujiang Microelectronics Company. Some people were not aware of confidentiality enough and might be exploited by commercial spies to detect certain information.

You know, Zhao Ye is really no match for those old silver coins in RB.

Others have rich historical experience. Many RB consortiums have existed for hundreds of years. Sending commercial spies is just a routine operation. It is unknown how much technology has been "stolen" lurking in China.

Ni Guangnan was stunned when he heard this, but felt that what Zhao Ye said was reasonable. The acquisition of the photoresist company must be carried out in secret!

"Well, I understand. Don't worry. I will send people to do this secretly. We can even register an overseas offshore company to acquire the photoresist company. In this way, no one will know about the acquisition of the photoresist company. The person behind the scenes is our Wujiang Group!" Ni Guangnan said.

When Zhao Ye heard this, his eyes lit up, and he nodded immediately and said, "Well, as you said, we will not come forward ourselves, but register an overseas offshore company to acquire photoresist companies in Europe!"

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An intermediary company in Hong Kong helped, and an overseas offshore company called Alphabet was quickly registered in Bermuda.

After the company was registered, several employees were sent to the British company Inpex to negotiate the acquisition.

Inpex develops high-performance photoresist materials in the UK, and its products occupy a certain share of the European market.

Alphabet’s negotiators are all white, and yellow people are easily reminiscent of Wujiang Microelectronics.

The person in charge of the negotiation is Rex Eden, a thirty-seven-year-old man who used to work for Goldman Sachs Group and was recruited by Wujiang Group with a high salary.

RB has cut off the supply of photoresist to Wujiang Microelectronics. The situation is serious. Rex Aiden is very clear about his mission. In order to get a high salary and bonus, he must acquire the British company Inpex this time.

Before coming to the UK, Rex Aiden had made full preparations and had a detailed understanding of the information of the British company Inpex.

On the second day after arriving in the UK, Rex Aiden started the first round of negotiations with the British company Inpex to test whether the other party was interested in selling the company.

Rex Eden offered a purchase price of US$1500 million based on the size of British Inpex.

Inpex is small and sophisticated, and its scale is not large, but this is exactly what Wujiang Photoresist Company needs.

At this time, Philip Bulwer, the president of Inpex Company, was very surprised by the intentions of Rex Aiden and others.

"Mr. Aiden, I didn't expect that your company actually planned to acquire Inpex. I'm afraid this matter still needs to be discussed with the board of directors!"

"Of course, please tell the board members that we, Alphabet, are very sincere in acquiring Inpex!"

"Okay, Mr. Aiden, I'll tell them."

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A secret plan to acquire a European photoresist company has begun.

Only a few people know about this at this stage.

Zhao Ye pretended not to know, and would go to Wujiang Photoresist Company every day to cheer everyone up. The morale of the company was strong, and it was normal to work overtime and stay up until 12 o'clock in the middle of the night.

Zhao Ye plans to acquire British Inpex just to have an extra set of insurance. It’s not that he doesn’t value the technology development of Li Yiming and others. Buying Inpex will only be more helpful to the development team. G-line (436nm) photoresist is just a low-end photoresist. , Zhao Ye needs Li Yiming's team to develop i-line (365nm), KrF (248nm), ArF (193nm) and EUV photoresist.

As the saying goes, "A fire at the city gate affects the fish in the pond." At this time, international photoresist prices have skyrocketed, and many chip companies have suffered unreasonable disasters.

Many chip companies have expressed dissatisfaction with Tokyo Inka, JSR, Sumitomo Chemical, and Fujifilm.

You are suppressing Wujiang Microelectronics Company, but you still find some excuse to deliberately create a shortage of G-line photoresist and drive up prices. Do you want to suppress Wujiang Microelectronics Company and make a lot of money from us at the same time?

Many chip companies are resentful and dissatisfied, which has laid the foundation for the four major RB photoresist companies.

As the old saying goes, "The world has been suffering for a long time." Who will kill the four major RB photoresist companies?

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United Kingdom.

Rex Aiden soon came to Inpex again.

Inpex companies mostly agree on whether to accept the acquisition.

At present, the price of photoresist is soaring, and the company's valuation will naturally rise accordingly. But "the tide receded" and the price of photoresist returned to rationality, and Inpex became less valuable.

Therefore, the board of directors of Inpex Company wants to take advantage of this opportunity to sell the company and make a lot of money.

Of course, they weren't happy with Rex Eden's $1500 million offer.

In the second round of negotiations, the Lions opened their mouths and asked for US$3000 million.

Rex Eden certainly disagrees. The price far exceeds the value of Inpex.

Wujiang Microelectronics can still find a way to get some photoresist, and can continue production for three to four months, or even longer. Of course, the premise is to maintain current production capacity.

Inpex also knows that its bidding price is a bit high. Isn't this just to make the other party bargain?

Inpex's expected purchase price is actually around US$2000 million.

The second round of negotiations failed.

The third round of negotiations will take place two days later.

Time passes day by day.

Seeing that Wujiang Microelectronics has not been defeated, the price of g-line photoresist has begun to fall.

However, it is still not easy for Wujiang Microelectronics to buy cheap g-line photoresist.

RB Major manufacturers are on strict guard against Wujiang Microelectronics Company and keep a very close eye on it.

Rex Aiden successively launched the third and fourth rounds of negotiations with Inpex. Finally, at the beginning of 1986, Zhao Ye received good news from Rex Aiden...