My life turned upside down after the divorce

Chapter 129 Investing in Fabs

Wang Dalong sent people to the United States to consciously invest in some high-tech companies and secretly control them.

In order to hide the identities of the Chinese, the personnel sent to the country are all personnel from some overseas countries, and even the holding companies that invest in these enterprises are registered in certain overseas islands.

Directly as a Chinese, investing in high-tech companies in the United States is easy to be targeted by Americans. It is as difficult as heaven to fool scientific research results back to China.

However, it is much easier for companies registered overseas without revealing their Chinese identities.

At the same time, in China, Wang Dalong's high-tech development group has also established the Dalong Technology R&D Center, which employs technology R&D personnel from all over the world to conduct scientific and technological public relations.

Under Dalong High-tech Development Group, many technology subsidiaries have been established. Among them, Huaguang Technology Company is the largest. The lithography machine production line and etching machine production line that have been built are producing various low-end lithography machines. machine, etching machine.

The products are not only supplied to the domestic market, but also exported to overseas markets, competing for the middle and low-end market of lithography machines with Asman, Caneng, and Nikang.

The battle for mid-range lithography machines is mainly between Nikang, an island country.

Whether it is Shanghai Microelectronics in its own country or Jianeng in the island country, it can only produce the lowest-end lithography machines at present. Shanghai Microelectronics Group can only produce lithography machines with a process technology below 90 nanometers.

However, Huaguang Technology Co., Ltd. can already produce lithography machines with 65nm process technology.

Although it cannot compete with Asman in the high-end lithography machine market, Huaguang Technology is not inferior to any lithography machine manufacturer in the low-end lithography machine market below 65nm process. enterprise.

The shipment volume in 120 was as high as 60.00 units, occupying 30.00% of the domestic market and Z[-]% of the international market.

In the field of etching machines, it keeps pace with the international advanced etching machine technology.

120 lithography machines do not seem to be many, but although the lithography machines are low-end lithography machines, the price is very expensive.

In particular, mid-range lithography machines can cost hundreds of millions of yuan, or even hundreds of millions of yuan. Even a 90-nanometer lithography machine costs tens of millions.

The high-end EUV lithography machine mastered by Aslow is worth hundreds of millions of meters, and it cannot be bought even if you have money.

At this time, Asiman has not yet realized the mass production of EUV lithography machines, and the production of three or two prototypes a year is not enough for urgent electricity. The chip giants such as Sanxin have divided it up.

Therefore, Kan Huaguang Technology Co., Ltd. only sold 120 lithography machines a year, but its sales revenue reached 39 billion yuan, and it achieved profitability for the first time.

Although there are not many, Wang Dalong is also very happy. At least Huaguang Technology Company has achieved self-sufficiency and has its own hematopoietic function.

Even so, Wang Dalong is also determined to increase investment, speed up research and development, and break through the technology of high-end lithography machines as soon as possible.

For this reason, he spent a lot of money to buy two domestic companies,

However, Wang Dalong is obviously not satisfied with only producing low-end lithography machines. He has set his sights on fabs and launched a chip production project.

As a reborn person, he deeply knows that the future era is an era of intelligence, the consumer market for smart chips is huge, and the phenomenon of enterprises lacking cores is very common.

Especially high-end chips, due to the constraints of high-end lithography machines, high-end chips are in short supply.

The most important thing is that due to the sanctions imposed by the United States, Taiji Electric is prohibited from supplying domestic companies. Due to the cut-off of high-end chips, domestic high-tech companies cannot buy chips even if they spend more money. We can only reluctantly reduce production, or even stop production, and give up the hard-won market to foreign companies.

Wang Dalong resurrected his life, and he has a lot of resources, wealth, and a large number of scientific research talents in his hands. Of course, he doesn't want the history before his rebirth to repeat itself.

To be honest, the principle of a lithography machine is not complicated, and there are not many core components. The core may be the light source, but this is actually not that important.

What really determines the accuracy of the lithography machine is technology, assembly process, and experience.

Aslow has cooperation with all major chip manufacturers in the world. Chip giants such as Taijidian, Sanxin, and Intel are all shareholders of Aslow. They work with chip manufacturers to debug machines and adjust light according to the needs of manufacturers. Engraving machine, to achieve the best precision, this is the advantage of as slow.

And this is also the reason why lithography machine manufacturers such as Nikang, Jianeng, and Shanghai Microelectronics have not been able to catch up with Ashman, because the chip manufacturing level of both island countries and Huaguo is not very strong.
And the manufacturing level of Asman's lithography machine is the result of years of hard work with chip manufacturers.

This is also one of the main reasons why Wang Dalong decided to start a fab to produce chips.

At present, both Shanghai Microelectronics and Daoguo Jianeng can only produce low-end lithography machines at the 90nm node, while Huaguang and Daoguo Nikang are the leaders in mid-range lithography machines.

Nikang is now able to produce lithography machines with 45nm process technology, which is one step ahead of Huaguang for the time being.

However, Huaguang is about to make a breakthrough recently, and it is just around the corner to produce a lithography machine with 45 nanometer process technology.

As we all know, lithography is the most important and critical link in the chip manufacturing process. The principle of lithography is to use a light source to project the circuit diagram of the chip onto a silicon wafer coated with photoresist.

The accuracy of the lithography machine determines the accuracy of the circuit diagram of the chip, which represents the manufacturing process of the chip, so the ability to buy a high-end lithography machine is also one of the prerequisites for whether the chip manufacturing level can reach the top.

At present, there are not many companies in the world that can produce lithography machines, but there are only five companies with the largest sales, the highest rankings, and the most familiar companies.

Among these five lithography machine companies, He Lan has one, which is the well-known Asman Company, Huaguo has two, namely Shanghai Microelectronics and Huaguang Technology, and Daoguo has two, namely Canner and Nikang , these five companies accounted for more than 90.00% of the world's eighth share, in an absolute monopoly position.

The lithography machine industry is an industry where the winners monopolize and the losers can't even drink soup.

In fact, it doesn't matter if you have a monopoly, it's too bad to spend more money.

This is also the current mainstream thinking in China. It is not cost-effective to spend a lot of money to develop high-end lithography machines. The key is that it is not known whether it will succeed in the end.

However, Wang Dalong knew that due to the obstruction of the United States, Huaguo companies would not sell high-end EUV lithography machines to Huaguo companies even if they paid a lot of money.

And not only that, they don't even produce high-end chips for companies in Huaguo, which is the most annoying thing.

(End of this chapter)