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The panicked Peter Bernard couldn't help shouting on the spot: "Damn the magnesium people, I knew that such a blockade would only accelerate their technological explosion and breakthrough!"

The series of blockade measures enacted by North America to combat Xingyu Technology have instead accelerated the research and development of domestic lithography machines.

Peter Bernard now understands the light source solution of New Micro Semiconductor Company. The accelerator output power is greater than 1KW. Under normal circumstances, this whimsical "evil path" can only stay at the PPT level, or at most in the laboratory.

However, New Micro Semiconductor, which has received massive financial support and almost all the resources it can provide, has launched a saturated R\u0026D idea and brought it to fruition quickly. No matter what the path is, just get started. I am not afraid of your whims or how wild your path is. I'm afraid you don't have the courage to do it.

The current new micro-semiconductor is driving multiple routes at the same time, fighting to death.

There is the orthodox route, which is the route of ASML;

There is a joint project with Metropolis University's Intelligent Machine Research Institute and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. The feature of this technology is to replace the light source with X-rays;

There is also the current "Wild Road" plan that has made a major breakthrough. Its characteristic is simply that it can produce miracles with great force.

Isn’t it difficult to miniaturize the light source? But there is no physical law that says that light sources must be miniaturized?

enlarge! Turn up the power! Then the light source is directly stretched, and there is no need to adjust the light for ultra-long distances. The light of different wavelengths can be directly adjusted by itself, and then just find the light source of the corresponding wavelength.

This means turning the lithography machine into a lithography factory. First, build an ultra-high-power light source, and then guide the light source into the chip factory. It is equivalent to building a steam factory if you cannot build a steam engine, and then transport the steam through pipelines. Go to the factory where you need it.

If this path succeeds, it will directly subvert all previous routes.

Of course, the risk can also be said to be the greatest among all routes, but no matter how great the risk is, it is nothing more than getting stuck.

Peter Bernard was frightened by this incident. He was obsessed with the lithography machine to the point of going crazy. He was willing to pay any price for a technical breakthrough.

In the future, this kind of "lithography factory" with one accelerated light source and several or even dozens or hundreds of units, Peter Bernard increasingly feels that it is likely to be the key for the lithography machines of the Eastern countries to surpass ASML.

At this moment, the president of ASML, under the introduction of the technical specialist, has understood the general principle of this "evil path" of New Micro Semiconductor.

Because ASML's lithography machines need to be marketed all over the world and require long-distance transportation, the lithography machines cannot be made too large, and the light sources of the lithography machines must also be miniaturized.

The thinking of New Micro Semiconductor is that it can't sell it anyway, and it doesn't expect to sell it abroad. It simply treats it as infrastructure and uses it entirely for its own use. It doesn't learn from foreign miniaturization and goes directly to large-scale without leaving you. ASML is the old way.

Just draw a large piece of land and build a super-large high-energy light source from the ground. When it is turned on, it will be like starting the Death Star in "Star Wars". A high-energy light source can fly to multiple photolithography factories. What kind of process-precision light source is needed? Just look for the corresponding output port on it.

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Fang Hong took the initiative to spread some rumors about this matter, not just to stimulate his opponents, but it soon had an effect. The conflicts and differences within the European and American sanctions groups suddenly became larger and larger. They used to sanction with the United States, but now There were also disagreements.

For example, the lithography machine giant ASML can no longer sit still.

Once the big Eastern countries break through, and they break through through this new "evil path", then ASML's future will definitely be dark. Although ASML currently does not make a living by selling photolithography machines to manufacturers in the big Eastern countries, it does. sell things to other so-called allies.

But don’t forget that the world’s largest chip consumer market is in the Greater China market.

The semiconductor industry chain is obviously affected by one thing. When the domestic lithography machine technology of the big eastern country breaks through, future chips will be produced directly in the mainland. Foreign manufacturers will have no orders, and their research and development costs will be reduced. How to divide it equally? If their products can’t be sold, will they still buy your ASML lithography machine? If your lithography machine cannot be sold, how will the cost be recovered? Do you still dare to continue spending money on research and development?

By then, if you don't spend money, you will die, if you do, you will die faster. The result is only death. It's no wonder that Peter Bernard is anxious now.

In the afternoon, he held an impromptu video conference with organizational members of the North American Semiconductor Association to discuss the Eastern country's breakthrough in the field of lithography machines.

Not long after the meeting, Peter Bernard accepted an interview with a local media. His tone changed 180 degrees and he said to the media: "There is not much hope in trying to isolate the Chinese to curb their technology research and development. They have 1.4 billion people, and there are many smart people. They can think of solutions that we have not thought of, and blocking them will only force them to improve their innovation capabilities. They work harder, more focused, and faster. We are too self-righteous... "

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Saturday, November 15, afternoon.

At this moment, Fang Hong was sitting in the living room with his legs crossed and a tablet in his hand sliding on the screen. He was browsing an information report quoted by CCTV News.

The president of the North American Semiconductor Association accepted an interview with a media and said: "North American semiconductor companies cannot be absent from the Greater China market. This is our largest market, and we are not the only industry to make this claim. The Greater China market is quite important to the North American chip industry. Important, in addition to being an important customer of North American chip companies, it also plays an important role in the supply chain..."

After a while, Fang Hong browsed another report in which the president of ASML was interviewed. After reading for a while, he suddenly turned his head and glanced at the beautiful assistant next to him and smiled: "I can smell the smell of compromise between the lines, but I I still like to see their unruly look before."

At this time, Tian Jiayi couldn't help but said with a smile: "The speeches of many European and American semiconductor manufacturers associations in recent times are almost a perfect reproduction of DABDA."

Fang Hong removed the tablet in his hand and couldn't help but curiously asked: "How do you say this?"

Tian Jiayi immediately answered: "In 1969, Swiss-born psychologist Elizabeth Ross, in her book "Death and Death," first divided human grief into five stages when facing major events, namely: Denial, Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance, DABDA for short.”

When the beautiful assistant said this, Fang Hong couldn't help laughing: "Haha, it does taste like that."

Looking back at the relevant news this year, this is really what happened. For example, at the beginning, the president of ASML vowed to say that even if you were given complete drawings, you would not be able to build a lithography machine; and then he said that it is impossible for Chinese people to do so. Independently developed top lithography technology, but they will definitely try it; then they angrily stated that China’s self-developed lithography machines are destroying the global chip industry chain...

In the past two days, people have begun to say that it is absolutely necessary for ASML to enter the Greater China market.

The president of the North American Semiconductor Association next door also jumped out and said that North American semiconductor companies cannot be absent from the Greater China market.

Peter Bernard, the president of ASML, changed his previous unruly attitude yesterday and said in frustration, "We are too self-righteous."

Looking at their recent speeches, isn't it a perfect representation of DABDA, from denial to anger, to compromise, to frustration, to acceptance.

Now is the final stage of "acceptance".

But what I have to say is that if the domestic side breaks through the key technologies of the semiconductor industry chain such as chips and lithography machines, it will really be a major disaster for them.

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