That night, the relevant media reported the incident in a low-key manner. It's just a sentence, saying that East Asia Mingyu Group Co., Ltd. has established a new chip production enterprise and is building a production line, which is expected to alleviate the shortage of domestic chips after completion.

The news of the establishment of Dongya Mingyu Integrated Circuit Manufacturing Co., Ltd. immediately spread all over the world, and many media from various countries sent reporters to interview them in the hope of obtaining further information.

Fifty States Federation, Office of the President.

"Are you listening, Mr. President?" Intelligence Chief Burns saw that the president's eyes were closing again, and hurriedly reminded him.

"Ah, I'm listening." The president forcibly bred himself up.

"Just now we talked about the newly established chip production company, and their announcement shows that if it is built, it can produce chips of similar types as TSMC."

"Couldn't they have produced before?" The president asked the CTO.

"You can only produce partially, and it's all low-end production."

"What's the worst outcome if their business goes into production?" The president asked again.

"The worst result is that they will no longer need to import one-third of the high-end chips, and of course the top ones will also need to be imported." The CTO replied.

"Why did I only know this news now, and it was announced through the other party." The president asked Intelligence Chief Burns.

"The production process of chips is too complex, and the industrial chain involved is very long. For example, let's say a mobile phone needs 100 parts, and they can't assemble a qualified mobile phone without any of them before, but it's not impossible for us to know the progress of the development of these parts in real time. And many of them are kept secret. Burns explained.

"Is there anything we can do about it?" The president understood and asked the chief of staff.

"The lithography machine, which is the most important equipment for making chips, they can't produce it themselves." The chief of staff said something that was well known.

"That's it." The president ordered.

"As you wish."

However, it was too late, and Dongya Mingyu Integrated Circuit Manufacturing Co., Ltd. had already obtained 20 DUV lithography machines and 10 EUV lithography machines, and paid 24 billion yuan for the purchase and transportation costs.

This is also the reason why the construction cost of the chip factory needs so much, and there are 30 production lines to be built around these lithography machines, and the remaining cost is also a lot.

Some people will wonder how so many lithography machines can be bought. You must know how much the lithography machine needs to produce, and there is no situation where the production is put in the warehouse, how can it not be found for such a long time.

But in fact, there is really no useful information in the 50 states in the federation, because someone intercepted the news halfway.

First of all, in fact, Guoxing Company only bought three units through vests, and it is no problem to report this to the 50 states in the federation.

Secondly, the remaining 27 units were purchased using various foreign vest companies, which belong to many countries. Of course, in this case, the 50 states will definitely investigate these companies, but the investigation process itself has gone wrong, resulting in a fake investigation.

Finally, the purchase contract should have a restrictive clause prohibiting resale, etc. However, there are two problems with this treaty, one is that the company that does not resell but buys the lithography machine is acquired or merged? The second is that there is no prohibition in the treaty on such situations, and there are loopholes.

This is almost impossible to happen, how can this happen in a standard treaty?

Because there are people in the Asmael Company, the Windmill Nation, and even the Fifty States that want to sell the lithography machine.

This may sound strange, but it's actually normal, because businessmen want to make money.

Asmael Company's EUV lithography machine starts from 160 million euros, a DUV lithography machine starts from 80 million euros, and follow-up maintenance and so on have to be charged.

Then the problem comes, chips are a necessity, either import chips or make them yourself. Now a lot of chip manufacturers have been established, although they are only low-end, but at least they have alleviated the pressure on demand.

If you can't buy a lithography machine, you'll make it yourself. Once you build your own lithography machine, can Asmail still make money? At least not as profitable as it is now, for sure. For capitalists, cutting off people's wealth is tantamount to killing their parents, so why should I sacrifice my interests for you?

As long as chip companies have lithography machines that can be used, the speed of self-development will be slowed down, even if they will definitely build their own lithography machines in the future, but I can make more money, capitalists are so selfish.

There are also several factions within the windmill country, and naturally there are those who support selling, and they are also playing their role.

Besides, if Asmail can make more money, the windmill country will collect one more year of taxes.

Businessmen in the Federation of Fifty States can influence politicians, and for businessmen, interests are the most important, and some people who feel that it is beneficial not to sell lithography machines must have people who think it is beneficial to sell lithography machines.

In addition, not all of the people who are responsible for investigating the background of the purchasing company and the personnel assigned by the Fifty States to Asmael are conscientious, or they are unable to do their duty in the face of American knives.

These people alone don't make a difference, but if they all happen to be given the green light to sell the lithography machine within their own functions, then the end result will be like this.

As long as the lithography machine bought by Guoxing Company meets the scope of use specified in the agreement, as long as I do not violate the terms of the contract, then the rest is a matter of verbal warfare.

PS: These are all imaginary ideas of the author, and they are not reasonable, just watch it.