Coming out of the computer R&D department, Secretary Ding led everyone out of the headquarters building and went to inspect the semiconductor factory next to it!

The semiconductor factory is very close to the headquarters building, it is a combination of several large workshops, and it is the core industry of the Panda Industrial Park. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The semiconductor industry is the foundation and source of the information revolution, and whether this industry does well or not will be directly related to the development of the entire industry in the future. Not only computers and mobile phones need semiconductor circuits, but also all home appliances, automobiles, airplanes, aerospace, almost all modern industries, even a socket is inseparable.

Chen Xu was unwilling to give up the initiative of the semiconductor industry, so he personally established the semiconductor industry under the Panda Group from scratch.

The establishment of these factories is actually very simple, that is, to build workshops, and then buy back the most advanced semiconductor equipment from abroad, with China's current international influence, almost everything can be bought.

However, semiconductor equipment is changing rapidly, and if you want to maintain your advantage, you must constantly update your equipment.

Especially in the later generations, semiconductor technology became more and more advanced, and equipment manufacturers were constantly eliminated, as long as they fell behind, they could no longer catch up, and in later generations, only the Netherlands and Japan were basically left to continue the game.

For example, the most advanced EUV laser-driven extreme ultraviolet lithography system is the most advanced lithography machine at present, and ASML in the Netherlands spent 30 years, and it is said to use Zeiss optical path system, which cost 10 billion euros. In order to allow ASML to successfully develop this lithography machine equipment, and also to get the goods in the first time, the world's semiconductor industry giants such as Intel, TSMC, and Samsung Semiconductor have invested in ASML as shareholders.

After the successful development of such a lithography machine, it is said that it will cost 100 million euros for one piece, which is comparable to the size of a large truck, and it will have to be transported by a transfer machine. As for the flower planters, they can only look at and drool over such advanced semiconductor equipment, because they can't buy our embargo.

Tens of billions of euros of R&D expenditure seems to be very high, but ASML has a monopoly advantage, and it is very likely to reach 10 billion euros in sales by 2020 according to the growth trend.

The semiconductor industry is a dojo in a snail shell, and the laser-driven extreme ultraviolet lithography system of ASML in the Netherlands can be said to be the top construction machinery of mankind. This kind of high-end instrument, there are not many factories in the world will buy, but there is no need to sell more, as long as you sell a dozen or twenty units a year, life will be moisturized, not to mention that there are spare parts and after-sales maintenance have to be charged.

The international mainstream consensus is that Japan's semiconductor industry has declined, but in fact, the Japanese semiconductor industry is still the world's first-class, and most of the world's instruments and equipment are still using semiconductor parts made in Japan.

This country is like a two-dimensional country, and the world is disconnected! They have their own CPUs, mobile phones, computers, communication networks, in short, everything is different from the world. They have their own standards, and they also strive to promote Japanese standards to the world, but the world doesn't buy them, and they spend tens of billions of dollars on research and development that others don't want, so they can only use them themselves.

From this aspect, it can be seen that the ambition of the Japanese wants to dominate the world at every turn, even if it is only to rule with a certain semiconductor part, they will spare no effort to fight for it, of course, the Japanese such thinking, it has indeed made them a big country in the semiconductor manufacturing industry.

In the Asian semiconductor industry chain, the Japanese were indeed defeated by Samsung, and Samsung stepped on Japan to establish its own semiconductor industry, which can make CPU chips, memory, hard disks, and mobile phone screens, and it can be said that the one-stop industrial chain is all included.

It's a pity that after the self-blowing mobile phone accident, Samsung's mobile phone brand is stinky, and it is certain that Samsung's semiconductor industry will be hit hard, plus Aunt Park, who plays politics with her best friend, agreed to deploy the THAAD missile defense system on the Korean Peninsula, stabbing China in the waist, which is a strategic failure of the flower planters on the peninsula issue.

However, the lost harvest of mulberry elm in the east corner, on the contrary, the Philippines, which was the most ferocious flower planter, suddenly changed its personality after changing the president, changing from pro-American to pro-China, and ran over with a smile and hugged the thigh of the flower planter.

The imperial capital is also atmospheric, since the Philippines is willing to recognize the big brother, tens of billions of small money will be spent first, and if the attitude is good, there will be more in the future.

On the contrary, Aunt Park's wrong policy has led to the entire South Korea will face sanctions from flower growers, and Samsung Semiconductor is equivalent to losing China's huge market.

The changes in the political situation in Asia have blinded everyone's eyes, and the flower growers have also told the Asian countries with practical actions that the end of betraying the flower growers will be severe punishments, and the small money that the eldest brother holds his thighs is enough.

The Philippines has been pro-American for decades, but in the end it has not caught a single hair, and the number of things promised by the Americans is actually just a mouthful, and in the end they can only be used as a gun by the United States, and they have a hard time with the flower growers on the South China Sea issue, and as a result, bananas and mangoes can no longer be sold, but can only rot on the trees.

After the new Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte came to power, he consolidated his power through anti-narcotics, and then reversed his strategy from pro-American to pro-China.

The flower grower is also a thousand dollars to buy bones, and immediately gave tens of billions of benefits, and I believe that the Philippines will not make so much money selling bananas for more than ten years.

However, Duterte is an old and spicy politician, a politician who really focuses on the interests of the country, and a 70-year-old man actually uses extreme methods to ban drugs, and if he wants to completely eliminate the country's nearly one million drug addicts and traffickers, he has to use heavy regulations. If the progress movement fails, Lao Du will definitely be ruined and have no place to die, this thing is really patriotic.

In any case, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has turned the Philippines into a pawn in the game between China and the United States, and both sides have to curry favor with the Philippines and make enough money from it.

In any case, such an old politician is at least rational in governing the country and will not blindly go pro-American, which is a major benefit to the flower planters, and once the United States loses power, Duterte will immediately lean over with the Philippines. In short, the first island chain of the United States has loosened in the Philippines.

The military serves politics, and politics serves the economy, and South Korea has gone against the grain by taking the trade relationship between China and South Korea of more than $227.3 billion and allowing THAAD to enter South Korea. It is conceivable that the flower planter will make all kinds of overt and implicit sanctions on South Korean companies, and giants like Samsung are estimated to be struggling in China.

Perhaps Samsung's semiconductor industry will be completely degraded.

Semiconductor factories are almost all automated assembly lines, and workers don't need too much technology, so all the technology in the semiconductor industry is on equipment. The best equipment is only the United States, Japan, and the Netherlands, and the most powerful of them are undoubtedly only ASML in the Netherlands, Nikon in Japan, and other semiconductor manufacturers, although they also have, but they are much worse than these two companies.

In other words, the world's most advanced semiconductor equipment is firmly in the hands of the Americans, the Netherlands, and the Japanese, who hold the most advanced technology.

The world's top ten semiconductor equipment factories have an annual turnover of tens of billions of US dollars, providing production equipment for electronic products all over the world, not to mention making more money.

Compared with the flower plant, there are also semiconductor equipment manufacturers in China, but it is a pity that the sales of all semiconductor equipment manufacturers in our country are only several billion, and they are still RMB. In the global semiconductor market of nearly 100 billion US dollars, it is almost negligible, and the backwardness of semiconductor equipment manufacturing can be seen clearly through this simple data.

As for the well-known Intel, Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, MediaTek, and TSMC, these are just designing high-end chips, and they need to buy equipment from semiconductor equipment companies before they can produce it.

There is no market is the main reason why the domestic lithography machine can not get up, it is impossible to produce results for decades of investment in research and development, and no one will necessarily buy the results, the competition in the semiconductor industry is too fierce, if you buy the wrong equipment and cause production lag, then it is very likely to lead to the bankruptcy of the company, so no company will take the risk of buying semiconductor equipment made in China, even if it is very advanced, no one will believe it before it has not been tested by the market.

Fortunately, the semiconductor industry has not yet reached the level of horror in later generations, and there are semiconductor equipment factories all over the United States, as long as you have money, you can buy equipment or move it casually!

In order not to let China become so backward in the semiconductor industry as later generations, Chen Xu decided to establish Xiangping Semiconductor, abbreviated as "XP", under the Panda Group, as the world's first comprehensive semiconductor equipment manufacturer, but also the most upstream equipment supplier of Panda Electronics Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary.

The company's main products are silicon wafer materials and processing equipment, such as coating machines, plasma etching systems, heat treatment systems, chemical polishing systems, cleaning systems, silicon wafer automatic detection, etc., in short, a chip from silicon wafers to chip factory, as many as thousands of process procedures, the amount of equipment required is unimaginable.

The process is complex, which means that the production line is expensive, especially in the future, a silicon wafer will be integrated with tens of millions, hundreds of millions of transistors, the increase in technical difficulty means that semiconductor equipment will become more and more expensive, a production line often starts with tens of billions, such a huge investment in the general enterprise can not afford to play at all, even if the state-owned enterprises with deep pockets smash ten lines and tens of billions of dollars to go out, this is only the basic investment, the key is to circuit design talents, Putting tens of millions of transistors smaller than dust on a chip the size of a fingernail shell and having a variety of functions is not something that ordinary people can do. (To be continued.) )