Rebirth Starts From 2006

Thursday, September 11th,

The weather is nice today. It is a day worth remembering.

Shanghai Dongjiao Hotel, two kilometers away from Zhangjiang Science and Technology Park, is a five-star hotel opened in 1995. Many large companies nearby will choose this location to hold events.

Shang Wei is naturally no exception.

In a large conference room, Feihong Supply Chain General Manager Zhong Ruilin and Monk Micro Company General Manager Yuan signed their names on the formal agreement, then exchanged signatures on the agreement, and then printed the company's official seal.

From this moment on, Feihong Supply Chain Company has officially become the third largest shareholder of Shangwei Electronics.

Well, actually it’s the second largest,

Because the other shareholders are all one family, regardless of each other.

At the moment when Mr. Zhong and Mr. Yuan exchanged agreements and shook hands tightly, there was warm applause from below.

In such an occasion, the leader's speech is naturally indispensable.

Today, a deputy leader of the city government attended the signing ceremony in person, which can be regarded as a high-standard treatment.

Under the guidance of the host, he walked up to the rostrum, took out the speech prepared by his secretary in his pocket, held the microphone, and said seriously,

"Today is an unusual day,

Why do I say this? Because in 2002, after we established Shangwei Equipment Company for the rise of the national semiconductor industry, it was the first time in six years that private capital invested in this field.

This significance is extraordinary and shows that we are not alone in our path. On the road of developing national industry, not only are state-owned assets shouldering the burden, but there are also national capitals like Feihong who work together with us to write a brilliant chapter. .

…

Finally, I wish Shangwei Equipment Company to forge ahead, live up to high expectations, and make its due contribution to the rise of our national industry! "

Hua Hua Hua Hua...

There was a roar of applause,

Later, Mr. Zhong and Mr. Yuan spoke respectively.

Chen Yang and Huang Shan were always sitting in the audience, as if they were just bystanders.

But after all, he is the protagonist today. He has been the center of the venue since the signing ceremony even started, even after the deputy leader arrived.

It was not until the signing ceremony was over that the deputy leader, who had a pleasant chat with Boss Chen, left happily.

The rest is naturally the stage for Shang Wei and Boss Chen.

Mr. Yuan took a glass of champagne from the dining table, walked up to Chen Yang, raised his glass with a smile and said, "Mr. Chen, for your optimism about our semiconductor business, I would like to toast you."

Chen Yang raised his glass gently and said with a smile, "Mr. Yuan, you're welcome. We are just investing some money. Specific undertakings require a doer like you to start them!"

After drinking the wine in the glass, Mr. Yuan looked at his old friend, Mr. Wu, the chairman of Zhanrui Company, who came over. Then he looked at Chen Yang and sighed,

“In fact, as early as the 1970s, Wang Yangyuan and other seniors from the Semiconductor Research Group of the Department of Physics of Peking University designed my country’s first batch of three types of 1K DRAM dynamic random access memories.

It is five years later than the C1103 developed by Intel Corporation of the United States, but four or five years earlier than South Korea and Tawan. At that time, Tawan had just purchased a 3-inch wafer fab from the United States.

In November 1976, the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences successfully developed a large-scale electronic computer with 10 million operations. The circuit they used was the ECL-type emitter developed by Factory 109 of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which is now the Microelectronics Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Extremely coupled logic circuits.

At that time, although our country's semiconductor technology was not as good as that of the United States and Japan, it was similar and was at an advanced level globally.

Unexpectedly, thirty years later, we have fallen so far behind. If we don’t catch up, we will be at the mercy of others in key areas of electronic technology! "

"That's why we're here,"

Chen Yang held the wine glass, looked at Mr. Wu, turned around and said, "Semiconductors are a very complex and huge system. From chip design, to manufacturing, to later packaging and testing, it requires countless manpower and material resources to put it together. Our own complete semiconductor industry,

Zhanrui initially engaged in design, and is now also involved in the manufacturing process.

This requires a lot of equipment. I hope that Zhanrui can use the equipment produced by Shangwei Company as soon as possible to create a production line with a high localization rate. "

Mr. Wu also smiled and nodded, and said to Mr. Yuan, "Our factory in Shanghai Future Industrial New City has started construction. Feihong is also helping us inquire for prices from major equipment suppliers around the world.

Lao Yuan, don't keep us waiting! "

"Haha, that won't happen,"

Mr. Yuan laughed twice and said, "By coincidence, if nothing else happens, we will be able to produce the first packaging lithography machine by this time next year, and we should be able to catch up."

At this time, Zhong Ruilin also came over, nodded and said, "Develop the back-end packaging lithography machine first, rather than the front-end manufacturing lithography machine. This shows that Shangwei's work style is very pragmatic.

I think that with this packaging lithography machine, Shangwei’s manufacturing lithography machine should not be far away! "

“I’ll lend you your good words, I’ll lend you your good words!”

Mr. Yuan nodded proudly, changed a glass of wine, touched it with Mr. Zhong, and drank.

After flying back from Nansha, Boss Chen was not idle at such a long distance. He read a lot of semiconductor-related information provided by Huang Shan on the way and knew that there are two types of photolithography machines, one with higher technical requirements. Manufacturing lithography machine, and the other is a packaging lithography machine with lower requirements.

Shangwei started by choosing packaging machines as its breakthrough point, rather than manufacturing machines with higher technical requirements, which is indeed relatively pragmatic.

However, Boss Chen pursed his lips and kept smiling.

If he were to make the decision on his own, he would definitely choose to study both at the same time.

Technology research and development is like this. You must have a sense of urgency to race against time.

Otherwise, if it is surpassed by others, it may soon disappear from the market without a trace.

Shangwei was established in 2002. Even if, as Mr. Yuan said, the first product will be launched by this time next year, it will still take a full seven years.

seven years,

It’s time for technology to be updated several times!

If he hadn't known that Shangwei would be able to make a difference ten years later, and with Feihong's shares, he would have no say in Shangwei Company, he really wouldn't have wanted Mr. Yuan to be the person in charge.

It’s so stable!

At this time, Mr. Yuan, who was being slandered by Boss Chen, drank two glasses of champagne and was very happy, so he started talking happily.

“Technology requires both years of accumulation and a sudden breakthrough. Even a sudden inspiration is more important than technical accumulation.

Just like Nikon, the global lithography machine giant, they are far ahead in the field of lithography machines through decades of technology accumulation,"

etc,

When Boss Chen heard this, he was stunned and couldn't help asking, "Is the Nikon lithography machine ahead?"

Isn't it Asmai? ? ?

"yes,"

Seeing that his words were interrupted, Mr. Yuan didn't care.

Of course, it depends on who is interrupting, Mr. Chen must be okay.

Not only does it not matter, he patiently explained, "Since the 1990s, Nikon has been the leading company in the field of lithography machines. The only companies that can compete with it are their own country's Canon, and even Germany's Philips." Worse,

It can be said that they were unparalleled at that time. Chip factories all over the world came to them to buy equipment.

Later, in order to suppress Nikon, Intel in the United States and their country’s Department of Energy took the lead in establishing an organization EUV LLC Alliance.

Who are the members of this organization?"

He raised his fingers as he spoke, "Three major national laboratories, including Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories, are the core, and combined with companies such as Motorola and AMD,

Of course, the leader Intel is indispensable, which is equivalent to sweeping away all American semiconductor institutions.

Then they began to develop in a wretched way, breaking through from the basics. After a few years, Nikon and Canon were almost ruined by them! "

Well,

Boss Chen couldn't help but smack his lips.

So cruel!

"But EUV LLC didn't take advantage either,"

At this time, Mr. Wu, who was standing nearby, took over and said with a smile, "The markets that Nikon has withdrawn from are basically occupied by Asmai, a little-known company in the Netherlands.

ASML's extreme ultraviolet lithography machine has now become the most advanced technology representative in the field of lithography machine.

Some professional organizations predict that according to the current development trend, ASMI is very likely to occupy 70% of the global lithography machine market next year and officially become the global leader in the field of lithography machines! "

What?

Boss Chen was like a frog in a well, his eyes widened.

So, it is only in the past few years that Asmail, a dominant family in later generations, suddenly developed?

At this time, Zhong Ruilin, general manager of Feihong Supply Chain, also joined the topic and said with emotion,

"Mr. Yuan just said something, a sudden breakthrough is more important than the accumulation of technology!

It was only by seizing this opportunity that a sudden flash of inspiration emerged that Asmei transformed from Philips's child bride into a new giant in the field of lithography machines."

ha?

Boss Chen was shocked again.

Is Asmail the child bride of Philips?

So this is the real-life version of the younger brother’s counterattack?

Seeing Boss Chen looking at him without blinking, Mr. Zhong thought that Boss Chen was interested in what he said, so he continued,

“This opportunity was not created by themselves, but proposed by TSMC’s deputy general manager Lin Benjian.

That is to use the refraction of water to move away and replace the away medium with water.

At that time, Lin Benjian published several papers to prove this idea.

It’s a pity that his idea was not taken seriously by photolithography machine manufacturers, which is actually correct.”

Mr. Zhong suddenly smiled and said with emotion, "Nikon, Canon, and even EUV LLC in the United States have spent a lot of manpower and material resources on their original technical routes, and naturally they are not willing to change their technical routes easily.

That is to say, Asmai was broke, the boat was small and it was easy to turn around. In addition, they were trying to survive in a crack. They thought that it would not matter if they failed anyway, but they could still build a relationship with TSMC, and maybe they could win a big customer. Agree to cooperate with Lin Benjian,

That’s why we have the current ASMAX extreme ultraviolet lithography machine! "

Is it so magical?

Boss Chen put the wine glass to his mouth in a daze, but drank lonely.

It turns out that the cup has long been empty.

Seeing this, Zou Rong immediately changed him to a glass of wine, and then continued to wait behind her husband.

At this time, Mr. Yuan suddenly said, "Although Shangwei was established in 2002, it was not until 2004 that we collected the first R\u0026D funds and started to engage in technical public relations.

Otherwise, if you accumulate two years in advance, you may not be unable to seize this opportunity in 2004! "

If the old technical route is mountain climbing, then the route Asmai took is to take the cable car directly to the top of the mountain!

Moreover, when ASML was engaged in extreme ultraviolet technology research, it could not even come up with four million US dollars.

Although Shang Wei is a bit poor, if he grits his teeth, he can still squeeze out the money.

What a pity,

I failed to seize the opportunity to develop at the beginning, and then took the wrong path. Now that I have adjusted back, I have lost the best opportunity for development.

Now he strongly recommends Shangwei to the superiors to accept Boss Chen's investment, also with the idea of ​​leveraging the resources of Damai and Zhanrui for development.

Asme has successively joined TSMC, Sanxin and Intel, proving the fact that it is easy to rely on customers to make efforts. Now that Shangwei has missed a good technological opportunity, how can it miss the opportunity to tie up with a large customer again?

If time could go back again, Extreme Ultraviolet would belong to Shangwei, and TSMC, Sanxin, and Intel would be Shangwei’s customers.

What's going on with Barley and Zhanrui?

Of course, Boss Chen doesn't know about his desire to be reborn, otherwise he would definitely understand it very well.

After hearing what he said just now, Chen Yang understood a little bit why Asmai was so awesome later.

The technology is better than the opponent, and it is deeply tied to the world's largest chip foundry. Who the hell can beat this? !

only,

Boss Chen frowned slightly and asked thoughtfully, "As for what you just mentioned, that organization in the United States."

Zhong Ruilin quickly added, "EUV LLC Alliance."

"Yes, this is the alliance,"

Chen Yang asked, "This alliance brought together all the semiconductor industry organizations in the United States. They spent so much effort to defeat Nikon, but Asma picked the fruit, and they didn't take any action?"

Only Lao America has always taken advantage of others, how can there be any reason for others to take advantage of Lao America?

The way of a gentleman is not the style of old Americans!

"How not,"

President Wu immediately smiled and said, "Being taken over by giants and being shoehorned in by the United States, what have you not experienced? At that time, Asmail suffered no less difficulties than some of our domestic institutions!

However, it was also a mistake. At that time, Asmail was very poor. We had nothing and had to rely on external procurement for everything.

Think about it, a photolithography machine requires tens of thousands of parts. For companies like Nikon and Canon, most of the parts can be produced in-house.

As for ASMI, they only had a few dozen people at the time, and they were all R\u0026D engineers. They couldn't even make a single screw. The only way was to buy it. And in order to be cheap, they still purchased it from all over the world.

Finally, the United States discovered that many of Asmail’s orders actually fell to American companies.

Then, in 2004, Philips sold their shares in ASML, and the companies they took over were Wall Street Capital International Group and BlackRock Group.

Isn’t this still one of our own? !

So they put it all together and thought, let's just recruit Asmail.

So, ASML is now also a member of the US EUV LLC alliance.

If he becomes one of his own, the United States will definitely not make things difficult for him. Instead, Intel will also hand over the order to Asmail. I heard that there are plans to invest in Asmail, and we have become a family.

Otherwise, Asmail may not be able to develop so fast and well! "