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Chapter 1149 The Imperial Group has developed the first commercial lithography machine!

Empire State Building.

The conference room of the Imperial Group headquarters.

"Oriental Daily", "Ming Pao", "Sing Tao Daily", "Xiangjiang Commercial News" and so on, all important media newspapers in Xiangjiang, as well as Hong Kong TVB, Hong Kong Asia TV, Hong Kong Radio, Hong Kong Commercial Radio, and major global reporters stationed in Hong Kong , They were all invited to attend the press conference on the acquisition of Huifeng Bank by the Imperial Group.

In addition, the Governor-General of the Governor's Mansion, Mr. MacLehose, was not present, but the Chief Secretary, Mr. Chung Yat-Kai, and the Financial Secretary, Mr. Peter Richard, were present.

As for the Imperial Group, apart from Mai Lisi, Ma Shimin, Wei Li, Li Caixin and others attended, there were also people like Huifeng Bank headed by Shen Yan, Zheng Weijian, Xu Shixun, Deng Lianru, Swire Bank's board of directors Shijodi and others attended the press conference.

18:00 in the evening.

Headed by Meris, Shen Yan and others sat in the front.

Meris announced that he would represent Sir Yang, the chairman of Imperial Group, the cabinet of Imperial Group, and the secretariat of Imperial Group, to officially announce the acquisition of Huifeng Bank.

Imperial Group will acquire Huifeng Bank with a total market value of 400 billion Hong Kong dollars.

At this time, globally speaking, the acquisition of Huifeng Bank based on the total market value of 400 billion Hong Kong dollars is indeed not low.

Apart from these.

Merris also announced new appointments at HSBC.

Shen Yan is still the head class of Huifeng Bank, but now he has become the new general manager of Huifeng Bank, directly responsible to Yang Ming.

In addition, Shen Yan is also a director of Huifeng Bank and a cabinet member of the Empire Group Company.

In other words, Shen Yan became a new cabinet member of the imperial group.

However, Shen Yan is now 60 years old. Under normal circumstances, he can do one more term at most, that is, when he is 65 years old, he will definitely resign from his position as the head of the Huifeng Bank.

The reason why Yang Ming let Shen Yan continue to serve as the head class of Huifeng Bank was that apart from Shen Yan's own ability, the internal stability of Huifeng Bank still had to be dealt with by Shen Yan.

In other words, it is equivalent to a new boss at Huifeng Bank, and nothing else seems to have changed.

When this press conference is over.

Someone is happy.

Some people look ugly.

. . .

When the press conference is over.

Shen Yan, Mai Lisi and others were interviewed by reporters.

Afterwards, Shen Yan, Mai Lisi and others took cars to see Yang Ming at the mid-level villa in Repulse Bay.

. . .

Take a night off.

Early the next day.

Yang Ming got up for a walk, and when he finished his walk and had breakfast, he learned from the newspaper that it was all about the press conference jointly held by Imperial Group and Huifeng Bank last night, in which Imperial Group had officially swallowed Huifeng Bank.

In other words, the two largest banks in Xiangjiang.

Both Huifeng Bank and Zhada Bank are now owned by the Imperial Group.

In addition to these two banks, Hengfei Bank, a subsidiary of Huifeng Bank, has also indirectly become part of the Imperial Group Financial Bank.

In other words, from now on, as long as the Imperial Group does not let these banks move out of Xiangjiang, Xiangjiang's finances will still be very stable.

Now there are various reports and comments in these newspapers and periodicals. It can be seen that the sudden acquisition of Huifeng Bank by the Imperial Group still caused a great commotion.

After the Imperial Group acquired Huifeng Bank, the news continued to cause a sensation.

Yang Ming has already focused on other aspects.

1987 2 Month 17 Day.

Thursday.

This morning, Yang Ming just woke up. Although it was raining slightly outside, Yang Ming was very happy today.

Yesterday, he had already received an exciting news.

Imperial Group officially developed a commercially available lithography machine in a technology company in Xiangjiang Science and Technology City.

what does this mean?
Can be imagined.

From the beginning of the 80s, Yang Ming established a science and technology city in the north of Xiangjiang, laying out the semiconductor industry chain, in addition to establishing Xiangjiang Integrated Circuit Manufacturing Company.

Like lithography machines, Yang Ming has already been established.

In recent years, in addition to talents from the East, Europe, America, and Xiangjiang, there have also been talents from the Soviet Union in the past two years.

Now that several years have passed, the first lithography machine has finally been developed.

Of course, compared with the lithography machines in the next three or 40 years, the current lithography machines are actually much simpler in complexity.

As far as the domestic aspect is concerned, as early as 1965, the Z National Academy of Sciences developed a 65-type contact lithography machine.

If the gap in performance is not considered, the first contact lithography machine in country M was manufactured by GCA in 1961, and the difference between them is only 4 years.

At that time, the people of country Z held back the ambition of "surpassing Britain and catching up with the United States", and never gave up.Under the support of this belief, the lithography machine technology of country Z has entered a period of vigorous and independent development.

In the early 70s, the National Academy of Sciences of Z began to study computer-aided photolithography mask technology;

In 1977, my country successfully developed the GK-3 semi-automatic lithography machine.

In 1980, Qinghua University succeeded in researching the fourth-generation step-by-step projection lithography machine technology. The lithography precision reached 3 microns, which was close to the international mainstream level.

1982年，中科院109厂研制出第一台KHA-75-1型光刻机，与世界尖端水平差距缩短到5年内。

In 1985, the domestic new step-by-step lithography machine test machine passed the acceptance test. According to expert appraisal, its performance approached the level of the 4800DSW lithography machine of GCA Company, a lithography machine giant in M ​​country.

It is worth mentioning that this is the first step-by-step projection lithography machine in country Z. Although it is not as "world-leading" as described in some materials, it has made the country firmly grasp the domestic lithography machine field. The pace of the world's first echelon, the gap with the top is only seven or eight years at most.

So far, the development history of country Z's lithography machine technology has reached its apex, but who would have thought that it would also be the end of a glorious era?

With the deepening of the opening up, country Z has integrated into the world with a positive attitude, and there are many "sweet poisons" hidden in the huge opportunities that are coming.

In the 80s and [-]s, country Z and country M went through a "honeymoon period". From advanced weapons to various civilian products, as long as the money is in place, it is no longer an unattainable luxury.

Western countries have also been quite "generous", even willing to sell cutting-edge products such as lithography machines.

It can be said that whether the "generosity" of the West to the country is a temporary good intention or a sinister conspiracy, the interests and risks in it are really meaningful.

On the other hand, the development of domestic lithography machines happened to encounter a bottleneck, and it has been stuck in the 193nm light source for 20 years.

Since it can be easily obtained, why bother to develop it?At that time, country Z was far from wealthy. Compared with the two, "comprador thinking" soon became the mainstream.

If you sail against the current, you will retreat if you don't advance. The distance between country Z and the first echelon is getting bigger and bigger, and they will soon be completely out of touch.

In fact, in this field, compared with the gap between China and the United States, Japan, and Europe, the struggle within the first echelon is much more tragic and cruel.

The principle of lithography machines is actually not complicated, and even in the early stages of development, its complexity is not as good as that of cameras; some companies that need lithography machines do not buy from professional manufacturers, but buy parts and assemble them themselves, such as Intel .

The earliest lithography machine development trend was led by people from M country.

In 1961, GCA Company of M country developed the first contact lithography machine and became a giant in the lithography machine industry.

In 1967, with the support of the US Air Force, PerkinElmer Instruments launched the world's first projection lithography machine Micalign100, which increased the chip yield rate by 7 times overnight.

In 1978, GCA launched the stepper lithography machine DSW4800 with a resolution of 1 micron.

Although the unit price of this type of lithography machine is as high as 45 US dollars, major companies are still flocking to it, and there is no need to worry about selling it.At this point, GCA has entered its heyday. Under its leadership, the lithography machine industry in country M is in full swing. However, it does not know that tigers are infested, and the "industrial prosperity" created by the people of country M has entered the countdown.

In the 70s, major semiconductor manufacturers increasingly chose Toyo companies to match the optical lenses of lithography machines, such as Nikon and Canon.

During this process, Dongyang Enterprises had a clear understanding of the uncomplicated lithography machine technology, and started its own attempts.

With the continuous advancement of lithography technology, the chip manufacturing process is getting smaller and smaller, and the lithography technology relies more and more on the optical system.During this process, Oriental companies, which are good at optical components, gradually rose up and quickly took away market share from the people of M country. GCA company declined and was acquired. In the end, Toyoren became the new leader in the field of lithography machines.

Historically, in 1984, when the domestic pursuit of independent research and development of lithography machines was gradually eroded by "comprador thinking", the Dutch company Philips temporarily built a row of simple factories on the open space in front of the headquarters building. As a company with 31 employees The office space of the newly established joint venture company of the employees, this humble small company, is the Dutch company ASML (ASML), which later mastered more than 10% of the lithography machine market and has an unshakable position. If it wants to produce 1.2nm or less Chips, you can only buy a cutting-edge lithography machine from the company, and there is no second choice; such a lithography machine costs [-] million US dollars, and you may not be able to buy it if you have money.

Even later, I ordered an advanced lithography machine from ASML, and even paid the deposit. Unexpectedly, a fire broke out in an industrial park in Feldhofen, the Netherlands, which affected an ASML company. An important supplier, but after many years, the country has not received the goods.

In 2007, ASML's market share surpassed that of Nikon for the first time, and the world's top spot officially changed hands.

(End of this chapter)