Chapter 664 Credit Granting and Running Turmoil (Fourth Update, Asking for Subscription)
However, the follow-up is that the 1-micron process is not enough, and now AMD is 0.8 micron popular, as long as you are willing to spend money, in the international market, you can buy 0.5 micron equipment.
Therefore, China should follow up, and 0.5 microns is a short-term goal. In the future, we must continue to follow up the international technology level, and there can be no backwardness and widening the gap.
Advanced technology, only temporary!
To stay ahead, you have to keep investing!
For example, in the 80s~90s, Japan was not lagging behind in semiconductor equipment. In order to reduce costs, Intel has adopted Japanese equipment on a large scale.
Later, due to the meager profit of the lithography machine itself, many Japanese companies did not invest enough and the technological progress was slow. The world's mainstream semiconductor manufacturers transferred their orders to ASML in the Netherlands, resulting in a monopoly of this company.
In order to save so much money, in the end, the commanding heights of the lithography machine were lost, and after it no longer had the manufacturing capacity of advanced lithography machines, Japan's semiconductor industry in the 21st century was essentially in decline.
Later, Japan's semiconductor industry was not as good as the semiconductor division of South Korea's Samsung.
And now in the early 90s, Japan accounted for half of the world's largest semiconductor companies. Half of the companies in the world that can build lithography machines are Japanese companies. Although there is a gap between Japan and the United States in terms of top-level technology, in fact, Japan in this era can really replace it in the field of semiconductors if it holds back its strength.
But...... Japan is cowardly!
After a series of sanctions imposed by the United States, Japan's long-term industrial revitalization plan has gradually been abandoned. Japan is no longer the same as before, and the whole country has to make its industry bigger and stronger. Instead, a series of subsidies for high-tech industries were scrapped in exchange for America's satisfaction.
The United States was satisfied, and then, Japan declined!
In addition to the automobile industry, a series of industries that were originally advantageous in semiconductors, electronics, steel, home appliances, and shipbuilding began to become no longer dominant.
So......
The world's most difficult competition in the field of science and technology must not stop investing. As long as there is negligence, it will not take ten years for the original leading position to become backward.
Lin Qi waved his hand and said solemnly: "Everyone, I will always do my best to deal with the problem of funding, from now on, we will invest no less than 1 billion US dollars every year, and the research and development of user lithography machines and semiconductor-related industries will continue to increase in the future, and will not reduce the investment in cutting-edge technology in the strategic sense." However, in terms of talents, we have a big gap, and I hope that our counterparts across the country will work hard!"
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The domestic industry soon reached a consensus that Pangu computer is the overall situation in the domestic computer and semiconductor field, if the sales of Pangu computer collapse, the market share collapses, then not only will affect the domestic chip manufacturing industry, other emerging supporting industries, as well as the software industry and even the Internet industry, will be hit hard.
Therefore, it is not only Hang Seng Bank, which Lin Qi has acquired, that has made large-scale loans to the semiconductor manufacturing industry. Domestic banks have also received instructions from the central government to greatly increase the credit and loan line for the semiconductor industry. The total loan amount of the industry is at least 100 billion yuan.
Compared with the industries of the United States and Japan, this credit is naturally nothing. However, the key is that the current domestic semiconductor industry, under the influence of the new entrepreneurship department, growth and efficiency are very high, in the past affected the speed of development only because of insufficient supporting funds. Now, with the support of a large number of loans, what was originally an unfavorable situation has turned into a favorable situation.
Linmeng Technology is working overtime to speed up the production speed of 1 micron lithography machine.
Strive to have a lithography machine that can be produced every month and transported to Xinchuang Semiconductor and Lishan Semiconductor Company for debugging and production.
According to the current progress, the 1-micron Luban 1st generation chip, replacing the original AMD foundry XRM chip, is also progressive.
For the time being, AMD has reduced its supply, but it has not cut it off.
Even so, Lin Qi is ready for AMD to completely cut off supply.
However, it is an indisputable fact that the high-end models of Pangu computers are out of stock. On the whole, the sales of new consoles in the Pangu camp have declined, and the market share that originally exceeded the PC camp has gradually begun to fall back to 40% of the market share.
Monthly sales were once close to 6 million, but now monthly sales have fallen to more than 4 million units.
After years of hard work, it finally surpassed the sales of PCs for a time, and began to gain and lose again.
In response to this situation, there has been a lot of ridicule in the world, believing that after Pangu computers lose AMD, they will gradually disappear in the international market because they cannot produce CPUs.
Many Pangu users are also worried that after the Pangu computer market shrinks in the future, there will be problems in technology and after-sales.
In this regard, Lin Qi can only do things silently, strive for faster speed, and digest the impact of the breakdown of the relationship with AMD.
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"Mr. Lin, early in the morning, more than 100 business outlets of Hang Seng Bank have queued up to withdraw money!"
"Don't panic!" Lin Qi said indifferently, "The $5 billion futures investment income that Xinchuang Electronics Group has just recorded can be transferred to Hang Seng Bank." Also, how much do we have in deposit with HSBC?"
"HSBC has more than 80 billion Hong Kong dollars in cash. Xiao looked down at the document and said.
"So...... The scale of Hang Seng's assets is only more than 100 billion, and depositors' deposits do not exceed 80 billion. Transfer the deposits from HSBC to Hang Seng and give as much money as you want. Lin Qi said calmly.
Although it is simple, Lin Qi has been dealing with related affairs in the following days. Deposits from HSBC are constantly cashed out, and some are even exchanged for cash, which are delivered directly to HSBC outlets by trucks.
Basically, the efficiency of queuing up for a run is also relatively low, and it is only a matter of taking out hundreds of millions of cash in a whole day.
For this kind of drizzle-like run, Lin Qi will give as much cash as there is a run.
Constantly moving funds from other banks to Hang Seng Bank.
After a few days of trouble, some people came to their senses...... Even if all the depositors' money is combined, it is not as much as Mr. Lin's money alone. Therefore, the subsequent run also ended in nothing.
At the same time, HSBC, a big man in Hong Kong's banking industry, also kept coming to persuade Lin Qi that Lin Qi did not need to transfer all the funds to Hang Seng, after all, Hang Seng's international business outlets are insufficient, and the business division of the new entrepreneurship department is global, and it is the best choice to settle funds in HSBC.
Despite this, Lin Qi still insisted and deposited half of the funds into Hang Seng Bank.
After all, this is also necessary, in the future, Hang Seng Bank is ready to carry out large-scale loan credit for domestic industries, and ordinary depositors will come to withdraw money and run on the money, and those loans are often relatively long-term, for example, a few years later. It is precisely for this reason that it is better to deposit your own money in the bank as ballast funds to prevent a run, which is more secure.