The Richest Man Yang Fei

Chapter 2285 PHS and Lithography Machine

Jiang Wanxia and Hu Zhibiao sat for a while, then got up and said goodbye and went back.

Yang Fei sent them to the door and said goodbye to them.

"Boss, please stay, we are leaving." Hu Zhibiao laughed.

Yang Fei watched them get into the car and then turned back.

This trip to the deep city did not take long.

He came here to check the yield rate of mobile phones and inspected shopping malls and other branches.

Regarding mobile phone production, before Hu Zhibiao left, he mentioned the production and sales of PHS to Yang Fei.

PHS is indeed slowly becoming popular now!

No one expected that this communication device, which was not a mobile phone, would develop so rapidly in China, with the number of users quickly rising to several million.

In fact, Yang Fei also knows that if he wants to have a PHS, this year is the best year.

The next five years can be said to be the years when PHS will develop the most and gain the largest market share.

It is foreseeable that within five years, the number of PHS users will increase tenfold!

However, PHS was originally a special-shaped product, a product of a special period. It was a helpless move by China Telecom and China Netcom when they did not have mobile licenses. However, before the advent of 3G, it also grabbed a large number of users for operators.

Moreover, the shortcomings of PHS are also obvious.

First, there are few functions.

PHS had few auxiliary functions. In the early days, short messages could only be sent between PHSs. Many fashionable new functions such as Internet browsing and mobile games were not perfected until later.

The second is poor coverage.

The network coverage is poor, generally limited to urban areas, and the signal is poor; there are few base stations, and calls are not smooth in some parts of the city, and it is even impossible to make calls in the event of a power outage.

The third is poor performance.

When the speed exceeds 40 kilometers, the call becomes intermittent. Although Japan continues to improve its technology, it has basically stopped developing domestically.

Fourth, roaming is not allowed.

PHS cannot roam across the country like mobile phones, so it can only be used as a "supplement and extension of fixed lines", and there is always a functional gap with mobile phones.

Another point is that Beijing and Shanghai, the two largest cities, have not yet opened PHS access.

Yang Fei is considering whether to enter the market for a product that he knows is short-lived?

It's okay to just take one bite and leave, but if you have to fight for a long time, you won't be able to fight.

It’s easy to enter the market, but difficult to get out of the market!

Because the Aiduo company that Yang Fei wants to run is prepared for long-term development.

Of course, Hu Zhibiao mentioned that a new brand can be built to develop PHS.

Yang Fei was noncommittal about this.

Because he doesn’t know whether PHS can navigate this murky water?

As far as he knows, Huawei, which will dominate the mobile phone industry in the future, also worked as a PHS for seven years, but failed in it, so much so that Mr. Ren's expression changed when talking about mobile phones, and later he did not dare to talk about mobile phones casually. In the production field, he once said harsh words: I will fire anyone who dares to mention the production of mobile phones to me!

Fortunately, there are many talented people around Mr. Ren. After all, there are always people with unique vision.

He was also good at eloquence, and finally persuaded Mr. Ren to invest one billion in the development of mobile phones, which resulted in the Huawei mobile phone that is praised by the world.

Yang Fei has experienced the mobile phone wars of later generations, so he has some understanding of the various ups and downs on the development of mobile phones.

Gentlemen love fortune, in a proper way.

Although PHS is a piece of fat, Yang Fei is not jealous.

One person cannot handle all the business.

If you really want to take advantage of all the benefits, you might be in trouble again.

Therefore, Yang Fei is not optimistic about entering the field of PHS.

As long as Aido Company can make a good product of mobile phones, it will be the greatest success.

Making money is a long-term matter, don't just focus on immediate benefits.

PHS can thrive quickly and fail quickly!

If you are not careful, you will be swallowed up by the market.

Although Yang Fei is experienced, he does not have the confidence to control the entire process completely and accurately, let alone guarantee that a company will only make profits and not lose money.

With this time and energy, Yang Fei would rather invest in mobile phone-related industries.

However, although the cake of mobile phones is huge, the pitfalls are also many and deep.

As we all know, the core product of mobile phones is the chip.

The research and development and manufacturing of chips integrate today's first-class technologies from various disciplines, and cannot be produced by any single family or company.

To produce a chip, it needs to go through 2,000 to 5,000 of the most stringent processes, among which the most important process requires a photolithography machine.

It can be said that lithography is the link between manufacturing and design.

In the production of mobile phone chips, many processes are carried out in independent factories, and the equipment used also requires specialized equipment factories to manufacture; the materials used include hundreds of special gases, liquids, and targets, all of which require specialized chemical industries.

In addition, the production of integrated circuits is carried out in clean rooms, so exhaust and air purification systems are also required.

There is a saying that integrated circuits are a higher technology than aerospace.

The reliability of aerospace is estimated to be like 4 9s or 5 9s. The number of 9s represents the ratio of the normal use time of the system to the total time during the one-year use of the software system. The purity of silicon wafer materials must be more than 6.9.

Global chips are almost monopolized by the United States, Japan and Europe.

According to a report from the Qianzhan Research Institute, global chips are still mainly produced by American, Japanese, and European companies, and the high-end market is almost monopolized by these three major regions.

In the field of high-end chips, domestic manufacturers have not yet formed economies of scale and cluster effects, so their production is still mainly based on the "OEM" model.

Moreover, even if domestic manufacturers can independently develop chips, they do not have the ability to produce them.

The lithography machine, also known as Mask Aligner in English, is the core equipment for manufacturing chips.

It uses a technology similar to photo printing to print the fine patterns on the mask onto the silicon wafer through light exposure.

The exposure machine is the core equipment for the production of large-scale integrated circuits. Its manufacturing and maintenance require a high level of optical and electronic industrial foundation, and only a few manufacturers in the world have mastered it. Therefore, the exposure machine is expensive, usually between 30 million and 500 million US dollars.

High-end projection lithography machines can be divided into two types: step projection and scanning projection lithography machines. The resolution is usually between seven nanometers and several microns. High-end lithography machines are known as the most sophisticated instruments in the world. There are 120 million US dollars in the world.

High-end lithography machines can be called the flower of the modern optical industry. The difficulty of manufacturing them is so great that only a few companies in the world can manufacture them.

Foreign brands are mainly ASML of the Netherlands, whose lenses come from Germany, Nikon, Intel has purchased Nikon's high-end lithography machines, and Canon.

The only one who can laugh in the end is ASML of the Netherlands.

Domestic mobile phone manufacturers, at best, are just doing assembly work.

Of course, there is a lot of room for assembly work, and it is also quite technical. If you do it well, you can still make the company bigger and stronger.

However, if the chips are in the hands of others, once others stop supplying, you will have no chips to use, and you will not be able to make mobile phones. The higher you rush, the worse you will fall.

What Yang Fei wants to do is not the short-lived PHS, but the lithography machine for the future!

As for how to do it, Yang Fei is already in the layout!

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