The car giant started by marrying the daughter of the king

The development of the automobile industry cannot be achieved simply by the main manufacturers producing more cars.

This involves the development of the entire industrial chain.

Only when the levels of parts, raw materials, equipment, etc. are improved, can China be truly considered an automobile power.

For example, China in later generations sells 3000 million cars a year, which is definitely a major automobile country.

But is it a powerful automobile country?
This may not be the case!

At least before the arrival of the electric car era, we can definitely not be considered a powerful automobile country.

Jiang Hui saw this very clearly.

Therefore, the BMW Group not only has the parts business, but also the steel materials business, and Nanshan Equipment is responsible for the development of various equipment.

With the support of BMW Group, Nanshan Equipment has developed very rapidly this year.

By training its own talents and recruiting people from various domestic equipment manufacturers, Nanshan Equipment's employee size has exceeded 1 people.

This is definitely not a small amount.

"Boss Jiang, the lithography machine we copied that can be used to process 3-micron chips has successfully passed the test."

“Although the performance is not better than that used by Lingnan Semiconductor, it has basically reached the level of being replaceable.”

Lin Qiaosheng, with a beaming smile on his face, personally came to the conference room to report to Jiang Hui on the progress of the lithography machine project.

As the most technologically advanced and important processing equipment in the chip industry, the importance of lithography machines is unquestionable.

China was not unaware of this before. The Ministry of Electronics Industry even set up a special lithography machine project in an attempt to catch up with international standards.

However, after years of hard work, they found that the gap was getting bigger and bigger, and finally the lithography machine project was discontinued due to various reasons such as insufficient funds.

Now, as a company, Nanshan Equipment has dared to launch a photolithography machine research and development project, and after several years of hard work, it has successfully achieved a technological breakthrough.

This is definitely beyond many people's imagination.

Even Lin Qiaosheng, the general manager of Nanshan Equipment, was a little bit unbelieving at first.

After repeated confirmation, he finally knew that his own lithography team had really developed a lithography machine, and he immediately became excited.

Although at this time, the world's most advanced chip manufacturing process has entered the nano era from the micron era.

Intel has already invested in a chip factory with a 0.5-micron process.

This means that ASML, Canon, and Nikon can already produce 0.5-micron process lithography machines.

It takes at least two generations of products to iterate from 3-micron process to 0.5-micron process.

It can be said that Nanshan Equipment's lithography machines are still far from the most advanced international level.

But it's still a huge breakthrough.

Because the 3-micron process is basically sufficient for the various chips currently used by the BMW Group.

At least that's how it will be for the next few years.

After the first product is produced, 1.5 microns, 1 micron, 0.8 microns, and even 0.5 microns can be continuously developed.

It is even possible to skip part of the process.

Finally, after 2000, it caught up with the mainstream level, and Jiang Hui felt that was enough.

There is no need to be too ambitious and say that the next product must reach the international advanced level.

This is simply unrealistic.

For example, Zhujiang Technology also needs to use some chips that are more advanced than the 3-micron process, but it can consider purchasing these chips from manufacturers such as Intel at the beginning.

Produce some other chips that are not so important by ourselves.

Eventually, we gradually transitioned to producing all of our own chips.

All beginnings are hard.

Once you get started, things will be easier.

"The three connections and one leveling work for the new factory at Lingnan Semiconductor has been completed."

"Just waiting for your lithography machine technology to break through."

"Other production equipment can be ordered accordingly, and we will strive to put this new factory into mass production within a year."

Lingnan Semiconductor produces both foundry business and the group's own business.

In addition, the production capacity of the production line was not very large at the beginning, so it has actually been almost fully utilized.

Part of the production space previously reserved has been allocated to the newly added production equipment.

At that time, the main consideration was that after Nanshan Equipment's lithography machine project officially went into mass production, neither ASML nor Canon would be willing to sell advanced lithography machines to Lingnan Semiconductor.

Ideally, Lingnan Semiconductor will soon be able to master the 1.5-micron process production technology.

By then, Nanshan Equipment will replicate and develop it, and combined with the previous experience in developing 3-micron process lithography machines, there should be some breakthroughs.

We will have to develop the 1-micron process lithography machine ourselves.

It is very likely that ASML is unwilling to sell anymore.

Of course, once Nanshan Equipment breaks through the 1-micron process technology, ASML will probably adjust its strategy immediately.

Lingnan Semiconductor is allowed to continue purchasing lithography machines for 1-micron process, but more advanced ones will continue to be restricted.

This continued until Nanshan Equipment completely caught up with ASML.

Jiang Hui had almost predicted this situation in advance.

"No problem. After our prototype is produced, we can do some debugging based on the test results and immediately use it to produce mass-produced equipment."

"With our previous experience, it will definitely be faster for us to produce the equipment ourselves than to purchase it from outside."

"In terms of price, we can achieve the same level as ASML in the early stage, and it will definitely be cheaper in the future."

Although they are all owned by the same boss, they are transactions between different companies after all.

If you sell equipment, you will definitely have to charge money.

"No problem, I'll follow this rule from now on."

"The first lithography machine delivered will be priced the same as ASML's."

“But starting from the second unit, the cost reduction will be reflected.”

"Eventually, our production costs were reduced by more than half compared to ASML, and we began to enter the international market."

Jiang Hui's investment in Nanshan Equipment is definitely not simply to meet the group's own usage needs.

Enter the international market, develop more customers, and make Nanshan Equipment a world-renowned equipment manufacturer.

He must take this path.

"That's no problem."

"For us, the initial R&D cost investment will be allocated to early products first."

"The later the time is, the less the sharing fee will be."

"In the future, our equipment of the same type will be half the price of ASML, even if it is more than 30% of the price, I cannot accept it."

Lin Qiaosheng signed a military order for himself.

Even though it seems challenging to reduce the cost to 30% of others.

In fact, we need to compare the production costs of the entire industrial chain in China with those in Europe.

This possibility is still very high.

It is just like the CT equipment used in hospitals in later generations.

When there are no similar products in the country, the sales price is in the tens of millions.

When domestic equipment came on the scene, one zero was simply removed.

The situation of photolithography machines is similar in theory.

Now that China cannot produce it, the price is naturally high.

By the time China is able to produce, the price will definitely drop significantly.

"Okay, I'll remember what you said."

"I will have Lingnan Semiconductor contact you later to start the construction of the new phase of the factory."

"This time, our goal is to seize more than half of the world's 3-micron chip production and foundry business."

Now that the key equipment business has been completed, Lingnan Semiconductor is naturally going to make a big move.

Don't think that low-end chips have no market, in fact, the opposite is true. High-end chips are expensive, but sales are limited.

Mid- and low-end chips are the main contributors to sales.

Although the 3-micron process chip is not advanced, it is not far behind.

After all, it was only in the past two years that China relied on Lingnan Semiconductor to master the 3-micron process chip technology.

It was impossible to produce before.

After localization, the cost will drop significantly and various home appliance companies will be able to afford chips.

Then many new products with control functions will naturally emerge.

By then, after promoting each other, Lingnan Semiconductor's business will be alive.

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"Mr. Jiang, if we want to capture more than half of the global 3-micron chip market, then investing in just one production line is not enough."

“It is estimated that at least five lines will need to be built.”

"But our land reserves are more than sufficient."

"I suggest building a new factory that can accommodate two production lines first, and then expand investment based on the situation of chip orders."

As the general manager of Lingnan Semiconductor, Zhang Shaohua has never enjoyed such abundant funds.

When he was the deputy director of Factory 742, although he was in charge of technical research and development, he was actually marginalized in the factory and had little say.

After arriving at Lingnan Semiconductor, I was directly responsible for all matters related to the construction of the new factory.

He has the final say on almost all matters in the company.

Jiang Hui only cares about whether he is working hard in the direction he has pointed out.

Now that the production capacity of the first factory has not reached 100%, the second factory has to start construction.

After all, judging from Jiang Hui’s words, there will be various big moves to follow.

Lingnan Semiconductor aims to transform itself into a large-scale global chip manufacturer in the next few years.

However, being cautious by nature, he still didn't want to take too big a step.

"No problem, just follow the pace you said."

"However, in terms of recruitment and training of personnel, some work needs to be carried out in advance."

"We can set up one or two deputy positions for each of our management positions, so that they can be pulled out at any time to take charge of a new factory."

Jiang Hui is not the kind of person who is blindly arrogant.

He just wants Lingnan Semiconductor to become a giant in the future, not to build it immediately by building factories.

This is definitely unrealistic.

"No problem. Now that the reform policy has been thoroughly clarified, more and more people are coming to Shenzhen on their own initiative."

“Some people who didn’t dare to go into the sea before are now much braver.”

"The salary and benefits here are generally more than three times higher than those of corresponding state-owned enterprises within the system."

“This is still very attractive to many people.”

Zhang Shaohua is now completely addicted to poaching his former colleagues.

Colleagues poach colleagues, and classmates poach classmates.

The size of Lingnan Semiconductor's technical team is expanding very rapidly.

Especially in the past six months, the progress has accelerated significantly.

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Naturally, the news of Lingnan Semiconductor spread quickly within the industry.

Especially this time, Lingnan Semiconductor invited many leaders and related manufacturers to attend the groundbreaking ceremony of the new factory.

"Xiao Jiang, is it true that more than half of the equipment in your new factory was purchased from China this time?"

Zhu Jiansheng will definitely come to show his support.

Although the new factory's technology has not made any breakthroughs, it is even behind the technology of the second production line purchased from international equipment manufacturers such as ASML.

But the key equipment has been domestically produced, which has a very different meaning.

Especially with the decline in the strength of the polar bears and some actions in Eastern Europe.

The relationship between China and the polar bear began to heat up rapidly, but the relationship with the United States began to deteriorate.

Some advanced equipment is no longer available as long as you have money, as it was a few years ago.

As the head of the Ministry of Machinery and Electronics Industry, Zhu Jiansheng naturally heard a lot of relevant reports.

"Yes, Nanshan Equipment can already produce the most core lithography machines itself."

"Although some of the parts are imported from abroad, we will soon be able to achieve a breakthrough in the future."

"According to our own plan, we will be able to achieve self-sufficiency in the photolithography machines used in all domestic chip processing production lines in the future."

Nowadays, all factories that can produce chips, regardless of their technology, are state-owned enterprises.

If these companies want to purchase lithography machines, they need to obtain approval from their superiors.

When similar equipment is available domestically, you still need to import it.

The Ministry of Machinery and Electronics Industry can completely reject these applications.

Eventually, all lithography machines will be produced by Nanshan Equipment.

Although this approach was a bit excessive to some extent, Jiang Hui was not going to be polite.

After all, the development of lithography machines is so critical.

Now everyone is just aware of the importance of chips, but they don’t know how important it will be.

But Jiang Hui knew.

In the future, chips will surpass oil and become the product with the largest import value.

The performance of high-end chips is related to the competitiveness of products produced by various manufacturers.

The same is true for mobile phones and computers.

Even the automotive-grade chips have to pay attention to performance.

This is especially true since we entered the era of autonomous driving.

Automotive-grade chips are no longer synonymous with mature manufacturing processes.

"I will arrange for a team of experts to come and inspect your lithography equipment to see if it has really reached the international level."

"Then if other factories want to replace their equipment in the future, let them purchase equipment from Nanshan."

Zhu Jiansheng did not intend to avoid suspicion this time.

Nanshan Equipment is so competitive, there is no need to be polite.

Besides, he didn’t issue such a document directly.

"The industrial equipment park in Shenzhen has developed rapidly in recent years."

"It is impossible for Nanshan Equipment to produce all its own equipment. Some of the relatively less difficult technologies will be outsourced to other equipment manufacturers for production."

“Eventually, it became a whole production line.”

"In the future, domestic manufacturers can consider looking for cooperation opportunities in the Industrial Equipment Park if they have any equipment procurement needs."

"Most of the equipment can be produced by suitable equipment manufacturers here."

As the second industrial park in Shenzhen, the strength of the Industrial Equipment Industrial Park is now gradually being revealed.

This impact is actually more far-reaching.

Because there are many small private enterprises, they often need to order some cost-competitive equipment.

Traditional equipment often cannot necessarily meet their requirements.

However, in the industrial equipment park, various customized production can be carried out.

This is also a great boon to the development of private enterprises in Shenzhen.

It has even affected the development of enterprises in the entire Pearl River Delta.

Many people have also noticed this. (End of this chapter)