Technological power starts with upgrading lenses

When it comes to the semiconductor industry, island countries are definitely a key player that cannot be avoided.

Since the 1960s and 1970s, with the financial support of their father M, young people have vigorously developed the semiconductor industry.

At its peak, they even surpassed their own father and occupied half of the global semiconductor market.

It's really unbearable, dad can't bear it.

Seeing that his son was climbing on his head, Old M directly summoned all his younger brothers and signed the Plaza Agreement, the Semiconductor Guarantee Agreement and other agreements, directly dividing the small semiconductor industry into four parts.

Among them, the design returned to the old M, the OEM was given to Baodao, the most cutting-edge equipment was in Windmill Country, and Hua Country was responsible for assembly.

The trembling little notebook found that all it had left was photoresist, substrate insulation materials, and some manufacturing equipment...

But a dead camel is bigger than a horse after all.

After being dismembered, the island country still provides 50% of the world's semiconductor materials and 30% of semiconductor manufacturing equipment.

Shin-Etsu Chemical is one of the important players who survived this food division.

Whether before or after sharing, Shin-Etsu Chemical has always been a global leader in the fields of photolithography materials, substrate insulation materials, and silicon wafer manufacturing equipment.

It has been a long time since they looked up at the stars and experienced the untouchable pain.

The footage captured by the news was very clear, and with Kang Chi’s permission, the photographer even boldly took a close-up shot of the heating rod at work.

Just highlight one word:

Arrogant!

But this time, China does seem to have the capital to be arrogant...

The engineers of Shin-Etsu Chemical stared for a long time, unable to see what was going on inside.

This seems to be no different from the floating belt method single crystal furnace they are developing?

Why does the silicon crystal solution flow everywhere uncontrollably as soon as they are smelted?

They even caused several experimental accidents...

Although they didn't want to admit it in their hearts, the news footage playing in front of them forced them to admit it.

They really lost to China in the field of floating belt method!

“Another feature of the floating belt method is that it can achieve a 100% yield rate of silicon rods through repeated melting.”

In the camera, Kang Chi continues to explain the advantages of the floating belt method single crystal furnace to the audience.

"For example, during quality inspection, if the purity of the silicon rod is found to be substandard, we only need to analyze the main components of the impurities and then conduct a targeted purification. This process usually only takes ten minutes."

"As for the traditional Czochralski single crystal furnace, once a defective product appears, the whole furnace has to be rebuilt, which takes eight hours!"

"idiot!"

Seeing the Chinese man's excited explanation on the screen, Nohara Takehiro finally couldn't help it and turned off the projector directly.

Everyone at the venue immediately straightened their backs and focused their attention on the chairman of the group.

"Fukuhara-kun, you are the head of the silicon wafer department, tell me what you think."

Fukuhara Koji quickly stood up, bowed to everyone, and then said: "Judging from the news footage just now, I think this single crystal furnace should be real... but the performance of the silicon rods made using this method is in the end Whether it is qualified or not, and whether it can be competent in chip manufacturing, may remain to be further observed.”

"Observation?" Nohara Takehiro snorted coldly, "So what if I fail?!"

"I have given you so much money to develop the floating belt method over the years, but you can't even make a single substandard silicon rod!"

"If we continue to observe, our large island country will not even be able to secure the last piece of land for the semiconductor industry!"

Fukuhara Koji lowered his head after being scolded and said nothing.

In fact, everyone present knows that

What Fukuhara Koji just said was actually to comfort everyone.

With the size of the silicon wafer market, China simply cannot use the credibility of authoritative media such as Huaguo News and Huaguo Daily to release such low-level smoke bombs...

Nohara Takehiro leaned back on the chair, closed his eyes, and exhaled deeply,

When he opened his eyes again, his expression returned to normal.

"Dr. Nitta, did the scenes just now inspire your research?"

Kosuke Nitta stood up quickly when his name was called and shook his head.

If you can get inspiration from videos, then countries all over the world will build nuclear-powered aircraft carriers...

Kosuke Nitta complained silently in his heart, and then said:

“Although we can’t see what technology they used through the video, at least they helped us verify that the floating belt method is a completely feasible and extremely advantageous technical route. I think the company can continue to increase its focus on the floating belt method. Research investment.”

Nohara Takehiro nodded: "Then from today on, we will stop all R\u0026D and improvement projects for Czochralski single crystal furnaces and concentrate on conquering the floating belt method single crystal furnaces!"

"ah?"

"Isn't this a little too hasty?"

The notebooks present were a little surprised.

But after thinking about it calmly, they realized that Takehiro Nohara was actually right.

Shin-Etsu Chemical is still a global leader in the Czira method, and temporarily suspending the exploration of the Czira method will not have any impact.

Moreover, the lifting method is already a relatively mature technology. At this time, every step forward requires paying a considerable price.

It is better to put time and energy on the floating belt method that China has proven to be feasible.

It would be irrational not to change direction at this time but to cling to a technology that is destined to be eliminated.

The truth is this:

But it still takes considerable courage for Nohara Takehiro to accept that the technology he has worked hard on for many years will be eliminated in such a short period of time, and then make such a major decision to change direction.

"Actually, there is no need for us to mess up everything just for a single crystal furnace."

Nohara Takehiro, who had completely calmed down, analyzed,

"The single crystal furnace has been surpassed. Anyway, it is only one part of silicon wafer manufacturing. Even if they can build more single crystal furnaces, the subsequent chamfering, cutting, and polishing equipment will still have to rely on us?"

"If we don't sell them these processing equipment, the silicon rods they produce will be just a pile of scrap copper and iron, and they won't be turned into silicon wafers at all!"

After listening to Takehiro Harano's analysis, everyone else gradually calmed down.

"Yes, it's just a single crystal furnace. They make 12-inch silicon rods anyway, but they are just a little more advanced."

"The director Yuanye still has a large structure. In this case, the matter is far less serious than we imagined."

"Yeah, but we still can't underestimate the enemy, and we have to think about the countermeasures we should have."

So soon, they discussed a series of countermeasures.

First, make every effort to conquer the floating belt method technology.

Second, get rid of the inventory of Czochralski single crystal furnaces as soon as possible.

Third, stop selling all silicon wafer manufacturing and processing equipment to China.

Fourth, find a way to buy a floating-belt single crystal furnace from Dahan Silicon Industry and conduct reverse research.

Fifth, join forces with Goldman Sachs Group to lower silicon wafer prices, increase silicon wafer exports to China, and dampen their enthusiasm for research and development of silicon wafer manufacturing equipment.

Among these countermeasures, the fifth one can be said to be the most ruthless!

Originally, most of China's silicon wafer factories had been operating at a loss while working in island countries. They relied solely on policy support to barely survive.

If Shin-Etsu Chemical really engages in silicon wafer dumping, I don’t know how many silicon wafer factories in China will close down.

The collapse of the silicon wafer factory will inevitably put the research and development companies and institutions of silicon wafer manufacturing equipment into the dilemma of having no one to pay, thus halting the research and development plan...

This is a vicious circle for market economies.

Fortunately, China is not a country dominated by a market economy, so the lethality of this move must be reduced by at least 50%.

Because the more this happens, the greater the policy support will be!

The fourth update, 2+2 has been sent out, the rest depends on whether the first order data is strong~