Technological power starts with upgrading lenses

As usual, China strongly condemned and protested the money grabbing behavior of the Global Silicon Wafer Industry Association, and stated that it would submit the matter to the International Commercial Arbitration Organization.

But in fact, everyone knows that this is just a statement, telling them that we are not convinced, and it will not substantially help the situation...

Magic City,

Chen Yunming, President of Shanghai Silicon Industry Group, had just gone to Yanjing for a meeting. After returning, he immediately held a high-level meeting of Shanghai Silicon Industry and conveyed with a solemn expression:

"The message from above has come down. This time, our companies can only bear the burden first. If we can't carry it anymore, the Ministry of Finance will take action. When they can't make up for it anymore... I guess we will have to appropriately relax the export control of rare earths." .”

"Release the export of rare earths?" Dong Jianyuan snorted, "It turns out that this is what Old M had in mind."

"Well, they have been brooding over their defeat in the rare earth war for more than a day or two."

After Chen Yunming finished speaking, he asked again: "Have we finished counting our silicon wafer inventory? How long can we last?"

"If you include Silicon Information Technology's shipments, it should be able to last for another three months..."

"Only three months?"

"We have Silicon Information Technology that can make silicon wafers. If we can last for three months, it's enough. SMIC is miserable. It's estimated that they won't be able to last even two months."

"Hey, I should have reminded them that they need to build the entire industry chain..."

"It's not their fault. Their mission is to specialize in wafer manufacturing. Otherwise, how would they be able to produce 28-nanometer chips so quickly."

Chen Yunming nodded and asked again: "Jianyuan, how was your trip to Steel City this time?"

"It feels good. Kang Chi seems to be easy to get along with. He doesn't hold anything against Liu Xingdong. His attitude towards our Shencheng silicon industry is also friendly. He sold us three monocrystalline furnaces."

"That's good. How much does their single crystal furnace cost?"

"180 million is quite reasonable."

"Well... But the problem is that now Shin-Etsu Chemical has completely stopped supplying our silicon wafer production equipment. Si-Etsu Technology's production expansion plan is estimated to have to be stopped for a while. Your three single crystal furnaces..."

"Absolutely no retreat!"

Dong Jianyuan interrupted Chen Yunming,

"I think the more this happens, the more the production expansion plan of Silicon Information Technology cannot be stopped. Otherwise, after the manufacturing equipment is successfully developed, it will waste a lot of time to expand production. Now time is money."

"Of course I understand this."

Chen Yunming took off his glasses, rubbed his eyes vigorously, then slowly put them on and sighed,

"The problem is, money is needed everywhere now."

"If we don't want to close down and stop production in three months, we have to prepare money to buy their high-priced silicon wafers. And now they have dared to increase the price by 7 times at the beginning. Will it become 10 times in three months? 20 Doubled?!"

"In addition, Silicon Information Technology's production expansion plan also requires money, not to mention the research and development of silicon wafer equipment. That is the key to getting through this crisis. You have to spend the most money..."

"Now all the loans that can be borrowed have been taken out. When the bank boss saw me, he took a detour. Tell me, where else can we get so much money? If we really can't make enough money, in wafer production and silicon wafer manufacturing equipment research and development, Among the three options of expansion and silicon wafer production, is the priority of the production expansion plan allowed to be moved to the back?”

After listening to Chen Yunming's analysis, Dong Jianyuan also fell silent.

"Is there really no indication from above?"

"There is definitely some, but it should mainly focus on the research and development of silicon wafer manufacturing equipment, and the intensity is not necessarily great... After all, they have already provided a lot of support to semiconductors, not to mention that the semiconductor industry is not the only one that needs support. They are under no less pressure than we are.”

Actually there is one more thing,

For things like research and development, sometimes if we don’t increase support, we will definitely get results...

Because he was worried about exacerbating everyone's pessimism, Chen Yunming simply ignored this point.

"How about we engage in joint research and development with Dahan Silicon?" Dong Jianyuan suddenly suggested,

"The previous silicon wafer technology alliance has basically become useless because of Liu Xingdong's incident, but I think this starting point is a good one. Now is the time when the entire silicon wafer industry needs to work together."

Chen Yunming nodded: "You can give it a try, but I guess it will be difficult. After all, what is being affected this time is wafer manufacturing. For those who are engaged in silicon wafers, it is actually good..."

"By the way, Silicon Information Technology is now leaderless and disengaged. During this time, you have to spend more energy there, and at the same time, you have to find a way to invite Dr. Yan back. Silicon Information Technology can do without Liu Xingdong, but it must not be without Yan Hui! "

"Well, I understand."

After Dong Jianyuan finished speaking, he stood up directly and prepared to start practical actions.

However,

What he didn't know was that Yan Hui had already appeared in Steel City at this time...

When he heard that Dr. Yan was looking for him, Kang Chi immediately put down what he was doing.

The smile on his face is impossible to hide!

During this period, while the second phase of the project was still under construction, he wanted to train a group of technical talents capable of manufacturing single crystal furnaces, but the results made him quite distressed.

These people even need to look at the drawings for a long time to understand them, and the actual assembly speed is even more horrifyingly slow.

According to their speed, they won’t even be able to hand over the sixteen single crystal furnaces until next year!

What's more, in order to prevent technical leaks, he redesigned the single crystal furnace this time and added some physical anti-theft measures.

Um,

To put it bluntly, they are just mechanical mechanisms. Once someone tries to dismantle the device, the encryption system inside will immediately activate the anti-theft program and destroy the core component structure.

As for this encryption system, it was customized by the digital encryption company that Kang Chi found through the introduction of Chief Lu.

This company from Yanjing Encryption Company is currently serving many high-tech companies and even banks, and its technology is certainly impressive.

With the two sets of physical and software anti-theft encryption systems that work together, there is no need to worry about technical leaks caused by selling single crystal furnaces.

At least domestically, the possibility of this system being cracked is almost zero.

As for abroad,

Kang Chi was not prepared to sell to them at all.

At least not now.

But because of the addition of these two systems, the structural complexity of the single crystal furnace has increased by another level, which immediately confused the engineers of Dahan Silicon Industry.

Kang Chi hated that iron could not become steel, but he could only worry.

result,

If you want to take a nap, someone will bring you a pillow!

Although Kang Chi is not sure Yan Hui’s purpose of coming to him,

But since everyone has come, can we still let him run away?

"Dr. Yan, I'm sorry to keep you waiting..."

As soon as Kang Chi entered the reception room, he smiled and held Yan Hui's hand: "I have heard about you, the number one person in silicon wafers in the country, for a long time. When I saw you today, you are indeed extraordinary."

"Ahem." Yan Hui smiled awkwardly, "I don't dare to take it seriously. They are the ones who call me that kind of name. Even if you really have such a name, it should be you now."

"Haha, I just got lucky this time. I happened to achieve some small results, but they are nothing compared to the results you have brought after so many years of hard work."

"Well...Mr. Kang, how about we stop talking politely and just say what I have to say..."

"The purpose of my coming to Steel City this time is to join Dahan Silicon Industry. If Mr. Kang doesn't dislike me, I hope I can learn from you and continue to research and develop silicon wafer production equipment!"