At the end of December 2013, the International Semiconductor Equipment and Materials Industry Association, an international neutral organization for the semiconductor industry around the world, announced its 2013 semiconductor industry information.

This most authoritative industry report immediately sparked heated discussions around the world.

The report announced the changes in the international semiconductor industry this year, especially in the two fields of semiconductor raw materials and semiconductor equipment, which caused an uproar.

Huaguo semiconductor equipment manufacturers have collectively climbed to the forefront of the world.

Among them, Shenguang Instrument surpassed ASML in lithography machines and became the world's top lithography machine manufacturer; Microelectronics surpassed Nikon and Canon to become the world's third-largest manufacturer of lithography machines.

In the field of etching machines, China Micro Semiconductor and Applied Materials are tied for the first place in the world, and NAURA is second in the world.

Among the other seven segments, Huaguo semiconductor equipment manufacturers have caught up with the world's first-class level, and the coating machine process is also the world's top.

In the semiconductor raw material industry, Shenguang Instrument is also not to be outdone in terms of photoresist, after all, X-ray photoresist is the only one, which is a real monopoly business.

Silicon wafers, silicon wafer cleaners, ion implants, etc. are also improving.

Traditional semiconductor equipment and materials companies such as ASML, Applied Materials, Tokyo Electron, and Shin-Etsu are feeling the pressure at this time.

Los Angeles, Applied Materials, based in Silicon Valley.

Since they are the world's top companies in semiconductor equipment and raw materials, they have to face the Huaguo semiconductor equipment corps headed by Shenguang Instruments.

At this time, the company's president's office was gloomy.

President Robert James looked at the report in his hand, and couldn't help dripping blood in his heart, due to the unprecedented fierce competition, their revenue this year fell by 27% compared with 2012, and the net profit directly became negative 11%.

"James, we have to figure out a way now, or we won't last long." Chief Technology Officer George Hall looked anxious.

"The way ?......" James also frowned.

Now that the company's stock is in shambles, many directors are already putting pressure on it, and he is also very embarrassed.

Suddenly, the phone on his desk rang, and he saw that it was Wennink, the president of ASML.

"Hello, why is Wen free to call?"

"Okay James, let's just get to it!"

“OK。”

"We need to put pressure on the W&A to lift the restrictions as soon as possible, otherwise the consequences will ......," Wennink's words speak for themselves.

However, James frowned: "Two of us?"

"No, it's all semiconductor equipment companies together." Wennink said firmly.

The two consulted for a long time, and finally decided to put pressure on Western officials to lift restrictions on semiconductor equipment.

In this way, they can enter the hinterland of China, as for the troubles of the chip manufacturing industry, they must now prioritize their own survival.

They immediately connected the capital forces behind them and immediately put them into operation, so that the restrictions on the export of semiconductor equipment and raw materials in the Tile Association could be lifted as soon as possible

However, they are not limited to applied materials, and the next step is to reduce prices and promotions to seize the Chinese and world markets.

Finally, there is the legal battle, the favorite method of the high-tech industry giants - patent war.

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Gao Zhiyuan looked at the large number of lawyer's letters in his hand, as well as the summons from the Federal Court of the United States, and couldn't help sneering.

He knew that these foreign devils liked to play this kind of trick, and in fact, Shenguang Instrument had been on guard and prepared for this situation.

Otherwise, they would not have chosen the X-ray lithography machine in the first place, just to avoid being found by ASML on the extreme ultraviolet lithography machine.

However, it is inevitable that other semiconductor equipment companies will have more or less overlapping technologies.

He immediately notified the subsidiaries and partners to respond to the lawsuit, and at the same time appealed to the Chinese court against the other party's patent infringement as a counterattack.

Since you want to fight a patent war, you can't passively respond to the war, but also take the initiative to attack, the big deal is to hurt each other, and in the end, you don't know who will die.

At the same time, Shenguang Instrument sent a large number of researchers to help subsidiaries or partners avoid each other's patents as much as possible.

Then desperately develop new technologies, and constantly cover the original technologies with new technologies, so that nothing goes wrong.

Of course, these gringos must want to play hooligans, Gao Zhiyuan knows that there is a chance that he will lose a lawsuit in the United States, but the time must be dragged on slowly, and it is best to fight for four or five years.

With the speed of development of Shenguang Instrument, when the time comes, it will use its strong technical advantages to directly crush the other party and cause these companies to go bankrupt directly.

The appeal in the Huaguo court is to let the other party throw a mouse, once the federal court dares to make a black hand, then don't blame the Huaguo court for returning the favor to the other party.

As soon as the patent war between the two sides began, the public opinion war also broke out.

On the Internet at home and abroad, there are news and heated discussions from both sides.

January 1.

YMTC's two self-produced memory chips were officially released globally.

Jiangcheng, the scene of the Yangtze River Storage memory particle press conference.

President Yang Shining trotted onto the stage with a little excitement under the spotlight, and he took the microphone:

"Welcome to all guests, to participate in the press conference of the Yangtze River Wave memory particles, and also welcome the audience and friends who watch on the Internet."

Bang Bang Bang ...... Most of the people at the scene are Chinese, and their own family members must be applauded and encouraged.

"Now, I personally introduce to you the Yangtze River Wave-1 and Yangtze River Wave-2."

Yang Shining introduced the performance of the Yangtze River Wave-1 and Yangtze River Tide-2 in detail, and finally threw out a price that was about the same as the market price.

Although this price is making money at a loss, Sanxin, Hynix, and Micron have already lowered their prices, and YMTC can only see a move.

After entering the reporter's question session, the guy who found fault really came.

A reporter from Dong-A Daily took the microphone and asked, "May I ask President Yang, is it true that Sanxin Electronics sued YMTC for infringement of memory patents?"

Obviously, the reporter's question was deliberately ambiguating whether she was asking whether the prosecution was true or whether the patent infringement was true.

"First, Sanxin Electronics did sue YMT; Second, our company did not infringe Sanxin's patent. Yang Shining was not fooled.

"Then why is your company's chip design speed so fast? This is a clear violation of the general laws of chip design. The reporter chased after him.

Yang Shining replied coldly: "Laws are used to break, and we have adopted a new design concept. ”

Before the reporter continued to ask, Yang Shining took the preemptive action: "Our memory particle process is 16 nanometers, what process does Sanxin Electronics' memory particle use?"

Forehead...... The reporter was speechless.

Of course, it is impossible for Sanxin to use the 16nm process to produce memory particles, and the memory particles in the world are generally used 22 or 24 nm, mainly because this process is very mature, the equipment requirements are low, and the yield rate is high.

The 16nm process of Sanxin Electronics is used to produce high-end products such as CPU and graphics card.

At this moment, other reporters did not dare to ask this question, but turned to other questions, such as when the 32G memory particles will be mass-produced, whether there are plans to produce other chips, and so on.

At the same time as YMTC released memory particles.

On the same day, the Association announced the lifting of the ban on semiconductor equipment and materials, and it seems that ASML and Applied Materials are moving very quickly.