Chapter 534 Layout of the electronics manufacturing industry

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That evening, in Nick. In Reilly's castle, Jin Xiaoqiang received the most 'warm' hospitality, and Nick arranged for him to sleep with two large ocean horses, but of course Jin Xiaoqiang did not refuse.

Anyway, these are all by Nick. The senior maid who came to pay the salary of Reilly, if he didn't use it, it would be a waste, and besides, he was not a Taoist gentleman, and if he didn't let go of such a delicious fat meat, it would really suffocate him.

and two hot foreign girls, tossed until midnight, Jin Xiaoqiang fell asleep, held back his anger for several months, and finally vented it, but those two chicks had already been tossed into mud by him......

The next morning, when Jin Xiaoqiang woke up, he was told by the housekeeper that Mr. Nick had gone out, but he asked Jin Xiaoqiang to continue to live in his house today, and wait for him to come back at night to see if he could bring any good news.

Anyway, there was nothing to do, Jin Xiaoqiang decided to simply stay at Nick's house tonight and stay overnight, but he was not idle during the day, instead of continuing to take a chick there and continue to vent, but to call his employees in Greenwich again.

During this time, according to his instructions, Brian and they were not satisfied with their gains in the natural gas market some time ago and withdrew from this market.

On the contrary, according to Jin Xiaoqiang's orders, and continued to lurk in this market, according to Jin Xiaoqiang's orders, during this time, the Thunderbird company behaved very low-key and did not attack everywhere.

Brian has also sent additional personnel to investigate and monitor the movements of the Amarens Company, intending to follow them behind their butts and take a hard bite.

After all, in the natural gas market, Amarans has become the brightest star of last year, and they swept everything in the natural gas market at the end of last year, making a lot of money.

The total assets have increased several times from the original more than a billion yuan, reaching the level of five or six hundred million, even if it is a Thunderbird company, if it is calculated according to the net profit, I am afraid that it will not make as much as Amarans.

After all, not every company leader is the leader of Amarans, a madman like Brian and Hunter, not everyone dares to be like him, as soon as he goes to the casino and does the gambling # in front of the table, he dares to shout stud!

Jin Xiaoqiang feels that if he remembers correctly, then in the summer of a few years, the hype of Amarans will be even more crazy, and the price of natural gas will be pushed to a new height by Amarans's wild betting.

Such a hitchhiker, of course, he has to take it and make a lot of money, and after the funds in his hand are returned to the principal and interest of the two billion US dollars dismantled from the bank, there are still billions of funds left to operate.

This money is all from the white wolf in the American capital market, in this country that is already crazy for capital, of course he doesn't mind letting this share capital increase several times and rise a little more.

The Amarans made a lot of money in the gas sniper battle in July, but for the next two months, they will pay for their greed.

Nine billion dollars, in the end, the loss is all gone, such a big piece of fat, if you don't go up and take a bite, then I'm really sorry for myself.

So of course Jin Xiaoqiang will not miss the opportunity to let the Thunderbird Company participate in this battle of the century, in the two Amarans sniper battles in the middle and autumn of this year, such a good opportunity to make a fortune, if you change it, I am afraid you will not choose to miss it.

After explaining on the phone with several senior executives of Thunderbird, Jin Xiaoqiang received a call from Alice, and Alice's call brought Jin Xiaoqiang a good mood all day.

The news that Alice brought is very simple, that is, Matt and Professor Edwards will come to New York tomorrow morning to meet Jin Xiaoqiang, and the good news they bring is that they have made a certain breakthrough in the manufacture of new solar panels. …,

Hearing such news, how can Jin Xiaoqiang not feel happy, you must know that he has not paid much attention to this company since he left Australia last time.

After the two sides reached an agreement that year to set up a solar panel production company, all he had to do every year, almost at the end of each year, look at the company's annual budget report, and then pull out his checkbook and throw money into it.

In the more than two years since its establishment, the solar panel production company has hardly sold a single panel, but every year he is asked to invest a lot of money in it.

So far, Jin Xiaoqiang has successively invested more than 300 million US dollars in research and development funds into this company, and now Matt and Edwards have finally brought him good news, that is, their solar turbocharging technology seems to be about to be developed.

Unconsciously, the time is not as good as in 2006, and at the beginning of this year, human beings finally made a breakthrough in the application of lithium batteries, and next year, lithium batteries for mobile phones will also be overwhelmingly popular.

The next coming will be the intelligent era of mobile phones, Apple's master Jobs, is no longer satisfied, just make computers, what mp3, he has begun to plan to extend his tentacles to the field of mobile phones.

And in June 2007, the official launch of Apple's first generation of mobile phones in the United States, the iPhone, an era of mobile phone giants, is coming.

And the end of another mobile phone dynasty will also begin.

Jin Xiaoqiang, who is familiar with the trend of history, knows very well that in this battle for hegemony in the mobile phone world, how miserable will Nokia, the current overlord of the mobile phone industry, die?

The rise of the iPhone not only opened the era of mobile phone intelligence, but also changed the state of people's lives an epoch-making great invention, from then on the contact between human beings and the Internet, will no longer be limited to the front of the computer desk, but with which small mobile phone, and can be arbitrarily converted to any location.

The emergence of the iPhone not only played the role of Nokia's gravedigger, but also brought an earth-shaking reshuffle to the entire world's mobile phone industry.

It can even be said that his influence is not only in the mobile communications industry, but also in the pattern of electronics manufacturers in the whole world, bringing a reshuffle.

HTC, which was born from the grassroots, took advantage of the situation, and the quiet Samsung became the second in the world a few years later, while the major Japanese brands were all defeated in this battle for hegemony.

Motorola, Nokia have gone to Maicheng, NEC, Panasonic, and even kicked out of the mobile phone manufacturing industry, and the high-performance balance of mobile phones, such as the embedding of high-definition cameras, finally even led to the end of Kodak in the United States.

In the next few years, there will be an earth-shaking revolution in electronic science and technology coming, and how Jin Xiaoqiang, as a person who has come over, can win the most advantageous position for himself in this revolution is the most critical for him.

At present, Matt and Edwards, the breakthrough made in this new type of solar panel, is the best signal for Jin Xiaoqiang.

Although their main goal is solar cell technology, Jin Xiaoqiang is more concerned about another technology in their hands, that is, lithography machines, as well as their silicon wafer chemical corrosion, and laser cutting technology.

In the past few years, Jin Xiaoqiang has been quietly providing them with all kinds of support, but in fact, in his heart, he has always been a little drunkard.

The solar panel technology that Matt and Edwards have devoted all their efforts to research is actually to cut silicon wafers, and then divide the silicon wafers into seven silicon wafers of different sizes, and then push these silicon wafers to the panels through a similar technology as printing, so that this kind of solar cells have a higher photoelectric conversion rate, and become lighter, smaller and cheaper. …,

This is the direction they are devoting all their efforts to research, but in fact, Jin Xiaoqiang is more concerned about the equipment they use, that is, the lithography machine at the beginning.

This lithography machine, known as the most complex equipment in the equipment manufacturing industry, is even hailed as one of the greatest inventions of the twentieth century.

However, like other high-precision equipment in the world, this thing is also a foreign company that has joined forces to enforce a strict embargo on the Celestial Empire.

It is the lack of technology in this area that makes China's electronic chip field lag behind the international era more than one era.

But the last time I visited Matt and Edwards' lab in Australia, Jin Xiaoqiang saw such a lithography machine in their lab.

At that time, Jin Xiaoqiang didn't know much about this thing, but after returning to China, especially after establishing that he wanted to get a share of the electronic equipment manufacturing industry in the future, Jin Xiaoqiang worked hard to study the electronic equipment manufacturing industry.

However, in the end, it was concluded that whether it is a silicon crystal growth cultivation furnace or chip manufacturing, etc., it is inseparable from this lithography machine to the last step.

At present, the most proficient in the production and manufacture of this kind of lithography machine is ASML in the Netherlands, and then Nikon and Canon in Japan.

However, the best performance among them is the Dutch ASML, and even Intel in the United States is using their equipment, but unfortunately the price of this thing in the international market is not low, just take the most mainstream ASML 300mm dual-body scanning lithography machine, and it will also cost 5000-60 million euros.

And the most important thing is that if you come to the Celestial Empire, even if you want to buy such a machine, you can't buy it, so Jin Xiaoqiang has to find a way to get these things through other paths.

Matt and Edwards' lab, as well as a new solar cell manufacturing plant, became his best front.

In the past two years, companies like this have allocated three to four hundred million US dollars, on the one hand, to provide technology research and development funds for this company, and on the other hand, from the Netherlands or Japan, quietly buying this lithography machine.

The lithography machine of ASML in the Netherlands has stable performance, low failure rate, and the best resolution and accuracy, but the lithography machine in Japan is not much worse than that in the Netherlands.

But just having this kind of machinery does not mean that you will be able to play with this machine, and you must be familiar with the hype of this kind of machine, and consider that if you quietly smuggle into the Celestial Empire in the future, if the machinery fails, you must also know how to repair it, and do daily maintenance and so on.

Therefore, Jin Xiaoqiang has long sent a lot of technicians from China to Australia, on the one hand, to help Matt and Edwards in the research and development of solar energy technology, on the other hand, to be familiar with the hype of this machine, as well as daily maintenance and other work.

He even sent a group of engineers to Australia to get an obsolete lithography machine from the laboratory to conduct dismantling research and understand the manufacturing process and principle of this lithography machine.

After more than two years of hard work, the experience engineers he sent out finally had their own experience and understanding of the lithography machine, although at present, due to various comprehensive technical limitations, they have not been able to produce their own lithography machine, but at the very least, for some small failures encountered by the lithography machine, their engineers have mastered the workflow of maintenance and post-maintenance.

At present, in the field of electronic chips or integrated circuits, if you want to step in, then it means the investment of sky-high funds, such as such lithography machines, if you want to build an integrated circuit factory, then at least you have to collect fifty or sixty units.

The price of one unit is 50 or 60 million euros, but now in 2005, the exchange rate of the euro is strong, not the euro that was plagued by the conservative European debt crisis a few years later. …,

So fifty or sixty units are calculated, and the investment in lithography machines alone may cost billions of dollars, which is also the main reason why the cost of building chip factories will be larger and larger in the future.

If you think that a few years later, Intel and AMD will have to spend billions, or even tens of billions of dollars, just to invest in building a new factory, and you can understand the horror of the capital intensity and technology intensity of this industry.

However, this kind of chip manufacturing industry is the most core technology in the field of electronics, so for people like Jin Xiaoqiang, who either don't do it or want to do the best, if they want to step into this field, it is of course better to lay out in advance.

In the field of lithography machines, Jin Xiaoqiang has begun to take precautions, and in the field of silicon wafer cutting, he started earlier.

Matt and Edwards have the chemical corrosion technology in their hands, as well as the laser cutting technology, he has obtained the patent rights early, but he has not yet begun to apply it.

And in a few years, in the turbulent era of the electronics industry, these technologies will be carried forward in his factory!

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