giants of the era

Chapter 188 Semiconductor Ultimate Weapon Manufacturer

Right now, the Flamingo Company is in full swing, and third-party game manufacturers have finally succumbed!
In fact, they had no choice at all.

In the home game console market, Flamingo-1 accounts for more than 90%, even if they abide by the royalty system, they can still make a lot of money.

However, as more and more game companies agree to the royalty system, the profits of Flamingo will increase significantly.

Although there are many junk games on the market, there are also some good games.Porting from the Atari 2600 to the Flamingo-1 platform can bring Flamingo 20% of revenue, and some arcade games can also be ported over.

In addition, the royalty system stipulates that the game cassettes are produced by the Flamingo Company, and the final production is naturally handed over to the Ant Factory.

Therefore, the ant factory must be expanded!

Ant Factory is now producing game consoles, game cassettes and other related products for Flamingo, and is also producing GalaxyNet1.0 network cards for Galaxy Networks. In addition, even Netflix’s movie video tapes are also produced by Ant Factory.It won't be long before Sun Computer Systems' graphics workstations will be manufactured here, too.At the same time, Ant Factory also began to accept OEMs for other electronic products, including personal computers, televisions, and more.

Ant Factory has gradually developed into a huge electronic foundry.

Near the Ant Factory, some accessories factories have sprung up like mushrooms after a spring rain, such as plastic factories, steel factories, etc. The Flamingo-1 game console and game cassettes are not cutting-edge technology. Li Zetian is willing to buy some simple accessories These factories purchase some.Besides, their products are of good quality and cheap, which can save the company money
"Made In China" is not in vain~~
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The success of Flamingo Company has brought huge income to Li Zetian, allowing him to have enough financial resources to realize his plan.

The acquisition of Disney is just one of them. The most important thing is that he wants to integrate the upstream and downstream industry chain of chips!

The most important equipment for making chips is the chip lithography machine.

There are very few companies in the world that can produce chip lithography machines, and you can count them with your fingers, because the technology involved in lithography machines is too high.

So far, there are three main lithography machine manufacturers, one is ASML, which belongs to Philips and has not yet become independent, and the other is RB's Nikon and Canon.

Compared with Nikon and Canon, ASML can only be regarded as a rising star.

The reason why RB Semiconductor in the 80s and [-]s is so powerful, some people have concluded that it is because Nikon and Canon's lithography machines are powerful, and RB semiconductor manufacturers are using these two lithography machines, so the products produced by these semiconductor manufacturers are very good. excellent.

However, with the rise of ASML, global semiconductor manufacturers have switched to the lithography machines of this company, but RB manufacturers still use Nikon and Canon lithography machines with backward technology, resulting in a sharp drop in the competitiveness of RB semiconductor products , so the decline of the entire RB semiconductor industry is caused by ASML!
There is an unwritten famous saying in the semiconductor industry in the previous life: wherever the technology of ASML is, there will be the manufacturing process of global semiconductors.

Obviously, this sentence is enough to explain all the problems.

Intel is now also using Nikon and Canon lithography machines, but the purchase price is much more expensive than RB manufacturers. Therefore, compared with RB semiconductor manufacturers, Intel first pays a lot more for factory construction costs.In addition, the best and most advanced lithography machines are usually obtained by RB semiconductor manufacturers in the first place.

Intel's loss to RB semiconductor manufacturers in the memory market is indeed not wronged.

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At the end of the year, the financial statements are out.

The most astonishing performance is of course Flamingo, whose sales exceeded 100 billion U.S. dollars. Since the game consoles do not make money, the profit is only about 15.4 billion U.S. dollars. However, the game console platform is a cash cow, which will continue to bring huge profits income.

Furthermore, there is Violet Records. The sales of Michael Jackson and Yu Jingqiu's records have exceeded 4000 million copies. In addition, there are MVs, Michael Jackson's commercial performances, and endorsements, which earned the company 30 billion US dollars and a profit of 12.5 billion US dollars.However, this is a special case, and it will not be so profitable in the future. MTV music television network has developed, and it has successfully recorded "The Voice of America". It is currently undergoing post-processing and will be broadcast next year. In this regard, Li Zetian only learned about it, and paid less attention to it. He almost completely delegated authority and let them run it themselves .

Galaxy Networks also started to make profits this year, selling 84.5 GalaxyNet1.0 network cards, with sales reaching 2.1 million U.S. dollars and profits as high as 1 million U.S. dollars.

The Star Wars film studio had net income of $7.5 million.

As for other companies, their performance has improved significantly compared with previous years.

Finally, according to the statistics, the revenue exceeded 500 billion US dollars, and the profit was around 105 billion US dollars.

Donate money to the LY Foundation every year to reduce taxes as usual, and then use part of the funds to distribute dividends.

In order not to pay the 20% dividend tax, Li Zetian and Yu Jingqiu transferred their shares to Umbrella Company, which already has 24.8 billion US dollars on its books!
At this time, Li Zetian has enough confidence to integrate the upper and lower chip industry chains and achieve a high degree of vertical integration! ! !

It's just that ASML is now a division of Philips, so I don't know if it's possible to buy it?

In fact, Li Zetian's worries are superfluous.

The reason why ASML became independent from Philips was because at this time, Philips was in a bad economic situation and was implementing a large-scale layoff plan, so there was no way to fund ASML.

Li Zetian sent someone to investigate, and soon found out about the situation.

"The right time, the right place, and the right people! It seems that the success rate of buying ASML is very high! Haha..." Li Zetian couldn't help laughing happily.

"Soldiers are expensive and fast", Li Zetian immediately sent someone to communicate with Philips in the name of Times Technology, and spent US$5 million to acquire ASML.

Philips was a little reluctant at first, but soon knelt down under the strong money offensive and accepted the purchase price of 5.5 million US dollars.

Philips obviously did not realize the importance of the lithography machine, otherwise it would never have been sold.

The Netherlands also did not come forward to block Time Technology's takeover.

This made the acquisition very smooth.

Li Zetian couldn't help but secretly proud of himself, as if he had gotten a huge advantage, but it was true.

With the acquisition of ASML, the task of integrating the chip industry chain has been half completed.

However, just the acquisition of ASML is not enough, and a huge amount of money has to be invested in research and development.As we all know, high technology is very costly, especially for lithography machines. It is normal to not produce products after several years of research.

Dongfang Yuqin smiled wryly and said to Li Zetian: "Mr. Li, is this investment too risky? Brinker, president and chief technology officer of Asmol, said that we need to invest at least 2 million US dollars in research and development, and because They have extremely strict quality requirements, so they cannot guarantee that new products will be released within three years..."

Without even thinking about it, Li Zetian smiled and said, "Tell them that Times Technology is willing to invest 4 million US dollars in research and development!"

"Uh, okay!" Dongfang Yuqin nodded helplessly. She is not very optimistic about such a company that costs a lot of research and development but has no products for a long time, because there are too many variables in the middle...

However, Li Zetian thought that the only lithography machine company that can compete with RB Nikon and Canon is ASML (ASML). The industry has never recovered! ! !
Of course, at the same time, let your own chip industry dominate, and then rely on powerful chip technology to produce semiconductor products!

ASML is headquartered in the Netherlands, and Li Zetian did not move it to the United States because it has many R&D partners in Europe, including Dutch universities and European research institutions.

However, Li Zetian insisted that Asmore Corporation establish an Asmore American Research Center in the United States and an Asmore Asia Research Center in Hong Kong.In this way, there are research centers in Asia, Europe, and America to speed up the development of new products.

The news of the acquisition of Asmore Corporation was not noticed except for the attention of competitors and semiconductor manufacturers.In fact, even if Asmore became a lithography giant, not many people in the world knew about this company.However, Esmol is the truly awesome company, and almost all semiconductor companies in the world cannot do without Esmol.Before Li Zetian crossed over, the EUV lithography machine, known as the "ultimate weapon of the semiconductor industry", was invented by Asmore, and the price of each machine exceeded [-] million US dollars!
RB's Nikon and Canon combined are not enough to beat Esmer!
Li Zetian's self-confidence has greatly increased at this moment, and he is full of ambitions. Little RB, let my brother destroy your semiconductor industry with his own hands! ! !

Subsequently, Li Zetian began to look for other semiconductor equipment manufacturers non-stop.

At this time, he thought of a person, a Chinese.

"Genius has been born of Chinese origin since ancient times!!!"

"The Chinese are really one of the smartest people in the world!!!"

Li Zetian said with a deep feeling.

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(End of this chapter)