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Chapter 114 Boil the Frog in Warm Water

This building in the capital of Hanxi Province occupies a large area, but it is very low-key and inconspicuous. There is no sign hanging outside, and it seems that it does not want to attract attention from the outside world.

Security is also very tight. Not only are there guard posts outside the building, but as soon as you enter the gate, there are security personnel guarding the inside. The entire building is being installed with surveillance technology that was imported from abroad only seven years ago. It was not until you went upstairs that you saw it. The words "Dongxin Semiconductor" are posted upstairs.

The building is still a bit empty now, but there are many professionals working inside, renovating laboratories, moving equipment, etc.

"Donngling Hi-Tech really wants to develop chips?!"

Looking at some of the chip experimental equipment that can be purchased in China, including etching equipment, thin film deposition equipment, cleaning equipment, etc., have begun to be moved into the laboratory. Compared with the equipment from Japan Benzene and America, these equipment are definitely not as good as those from Japan. They are considered advanced, and some are even second-hand, but these are already the best equipment that Dongxin Semiconductor can buy in China.

Looking at the experimental equipment in front of him, even if it is domestically produced, Liu Youguo, a professor at Hanxi Jiaotong University and the current nominal head of the joint laboratory, also knows that these things are by no means cheap. He can also see that Li Dongling is really serious this time. He was cruel.

"Nippon Toshiba's chip motherboards increased the price to Dongling Hi-Tech by 20%. Tanglin Hi-Tech contacted NEC, Panasonic, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Texas Instruments and other companies. These chip companies are in a wait-and-see mode and are willing to supply Donglin Hi-Tech. The goods are good, but the asking price is not low, even..."

Mentioning this made Li Dongling feel a little itchy, but he said helplessly, "Siemens contacted Dongling Hi-Tech and threatened to let its Infineon Semiconductor provide chips for three digital cordless phones: Shenzhou, Coolpad and Simon. !”

Siemens is obviously adding insult to injury. They are ridiculing Tanglin Hi-Tech. However, Tanglin Hi-Tech has no power to fight back against those chip manufacturers' price hikes and Siemens' taunts. If it doesn't exist, it doesn't exist. This thing can't be made out of thin air. Appear.

"This price increase for Tanglin Hi-Tech will not be the first time, nor will it be the last!"

Li Dongling looked a little heavy and said to Liu Youguo that he had clearly felt that those overseas companies had begun to target Dongling Hi-Tech.

Donglin Hi-tech has made rapid progress since its establishment, especially its ability to turn defeat into victory in the battle with Siemens. I am afraid that it has been targeted by many giant companies. This time the price increase of parts and components is probably just a test. Small moves in the future will be more and more.

Especially after notifying Donglin Hi-Tech of the price increase, Toshiba and other companies immediately announced to other domestic companies that they would not raise prices for them, threatening to increase the price of Donglin Hi-Tech's parts and components because of Donglin Hi-Tech's zero The demand for parts is so high that they have insufficient production capacity to raise prices.

Sales of the Shenzhou series of phones continue to soar. This month, sales have more than doubled compared to the previous month, reaching 2.6 million units. Companies such as Toshiba are now seriously short of chip component production capacity and have to invest in the construction of new production lines. line, that’s why we started to raise prices to Tanglin Hi-Tech!

This is just like the memory chips of Toshiba and Samsung. As long as they cannot be produced domestically, they will be in dire straits for three days or two. There will be power outages, water outages, earthquakes, floods, or fires. Every time an accident occurs, the price of memory chips will rise. The price is 30%, and the price increase is also targeted at mainland China. The rest of the world will not be affected...

Now Dongling Hi-Tech has only enjoyed this kind of treatment in advance, and the taste of it should not be too obvious.

Companies such as Nippon Toshiba, Sharp, Sony, etc. do not want to have an existence that threatens them in Asia, which they regard as their back garden!

When it was first reported in China that Donglin Hi-Tech had been raised in price by Toshiba and other companies, there was still a lot of anger. Many domestic companies were a bit sad, fearing that the price increase of foreign parts and components would fall on them. However, when Toshiba and other companies announced that they would only sell products to Public opinion has obviously changed since Tanglin Hi-Tech increased its prices, especially after announcing the global sales of the Shenzhou series phones in the latest month.

Two and a half million Shenzhou series phones were shipped in a single month, and revenue soared to over 270 million U.S. dollars. Although the net profit was far from that high, many domestic companies still surprised many domestic companies after hearing this number. I am really jealous of Dongling Hi-Tech.

Toshiba's move is very vicious and the differentiation effect is very obvious. It is the same as Qualcomm's previous strategy against Chrysanthemum Factory. It only targets one company and then announces that it will continue to supply other companies. This makes it difficult for domestic companies in the entire industry to share the same hatred and directly An industry is artificially divided into two camps. The method is not very sophisticated, but the effect is very obvious.

After seeing the revenue of Shenzhou Phone, many domestic companies have obviously changed their attitudes. Seeing that Tanglin High-tech has such high revenue relying on Shenzhou Phone, it is impossible to expect them to stand with Donglin High-tech and fight against Toshiba and other companies. Impossible, and some companies even have the idea that Toshiba and other companies would like to raise prices even more to make Shenzhou Phone unprofitable and withdraw from the market, so that they can seize the market!

Currently, there is not much support from public opinion. Unless Tanglin Hi-Tech is willing to accept its fate and work for a foreign company, or stay in the domestic territory and not go overseas, it can only get out of this predicament on its own.

Listening to the troubles that Dongling High-tech encountered, Liu Youguo also felt sad, "I have said long ago that those foreign devils are unreliable. They always say that it is better to buy than to build. There will be times when they will regret it in the future.

Now those companies, judging from Donglin Hi-Tech's jokes, they will be hurt sooner or later. When the pain comes, they will know the current situation of Tanglin Hi-Tech! "You have to make your own chips, otherwise you will be pinched by others all the time," Liu Youguo said angrily, and then asked Li Dongling with some worry, "What about the lithography machine? The most important thing in developing chips is the lithography machine." , which lithography machine should Dongxin use? "

"45 Research Institute of the Electrical and Mechanical Department!"

Li Dongling said, "Donngling Hi-Tech wants to hire someone to serve as the chief designer of Dongxin Semiconductor, and also wants to relocate the lithography machine team of the 45 Research Institute of the Ministry of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering to the provincial capital!"

There are teams in China that develop lithography machines, and there are more than one. The step-by-step projection lithography machine developed by Huaqing University fourteen years ago is not much different from the international mainstream technology.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that in those years, chips had not yet reached a dominant position in the technology industry. At that time, Mao Xiong was still obsessed with transistor miniaturization.

But the watershed was just nine years ago when a large number of foreign chips began to enter the country. The domestically produced chips were worse in performance and more expensive than the imported ones, so they were naturally abandoned. Without the market, no one would research and develop them. The R&D team If you don’t have money, you can’t continue working.

In the 45th Research Institute of the Ministry of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, the photolithography machine prototype produced at that time was not much different from the photolithography machine developed by American photolithography giant GCA. It was better than the most advanced photolithography machines produced by Toshiba, NEC and other companies at the time. machine, the gap is only seven or eight years, and it can barely be regarded as the first echelon of lithography machines in the world.

But after that, the 45th Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, which had no R&D funds, became like other research institutes. It did not start designing washing machines, refrigerators, TVs, etc. As for lithography machines, it had no funds for R&D.

"Looking for cooperation with the 45 Research Institute of the Ministry of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering?!"

Liu Youguo frowned, "In nine years, in the technology industry, there has been a technology gap of more than two generations!"

"Is there a better lithography machine R&D team in China than the 45 Research Institute? Is there a better R&D team that can be poached by Donglin Hi-Tech?!"

Liu Youguo was speechless when asked. Although he was unwilling to admit it, it was indeed as Li Dongling said that the domestic lithography machine research and development team has not made much progress in recent years and is trapped in the 193 nanometer light source. Not only domestically, The current lithography machine companies and R&D teams around the world are trapped here.

In China, there are indeed better R&D teams than the 45 Research Institute, such as the lithography machine R&D teams led by Huaqing and the Academy of Sciences. But can those teams be poached by Dongling Hi-Tech? Even if they are willing to cooperate, they will Do you want to listen to Tanglin Hi-tech? It’s estimated that a lot of money has been spent and Tanglin Hi-tech has no say at all.

On the contrary, the 45 Research Institute of the Ministry of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering will be fine. It has been building the third line before. As long as Tanglin Hi-tech pays for it, and then negotiates with the Ministry of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Electronics through the municipal departments of Binh Duong and Han Tay provinces, there will be I have great hope to recruit the lithography machine team of the 45 Research Institute. In the previous life, this R&D team was moved to Shanghai in 02 to participate in the lithography machine project.

It can be seen that this R&D team has been gritting its teeth over the years, otherwise it would not have been possible to bring this R&D team over to tackle technical problems more than ten years later.

"Now Shenzhou Phone and Tanglin Hi-Tech are developing new products. The requirements for chips are not too high. As long as Dongxin Semiconductor can develop products with usable performance, Tanglin Hi-Tech is willing to purchase them!"

Li Dongling looked at the Dongxin Semiconductor Laboratory in front of him and said to Liu Youguo that he did not expect the 45 Research Institute to develop any top-notch lithography machine, as long as it could meet Dongling Hi-Tech's current needs.

In the workshop with the BYD brand in Pengcheng Liantang, Boss Wang was busy improving the production line with more than 20 technicians when there was a sudden knock on the workshop door.

"This is BYD Battery Company?"

After Boss Wang opened the workshop door, he saw a person standing outside and looked inside hesitantly.

"This is BYD Company, who are you?!" Boss Wang immediately pulled the people into the rest room set aside. The conditions were not that good, but they were definitely better than in the workshop.

"I am Xu Kai from the Purchasing Department of Dongling Hi-Tech," Xu Kai introduced himself directly, took out a newspaper, and asked Boss Wang with a serious face, "Can your company really produce batteries that can be recharged twice?! "

(End of this chapter)