It is difficult for RB people to accept the rise of China because they are afraid.

The emergence of Wujiang Microelectronics Company and Wujiang Photoresist Company directly made competitors restless.

Not long after, Tokyo Yinghua "caught fire", the output of photoresist was insufficient, and the cooperation with Wujiang Microelectronics Company was terminated.

JSR adjusted production, increased the production of i-line photoresist, reduced the g-line photoresist, and terminated the cooperation with Wujiang Microelectronics.

Sumitomo Chemical and Fujifilm said that due to the "fire" in Tokyo, the global supply of G-line photoresist was tight, and Sumitomo Chemical and Fujifilm's G-line photoresist will only be given priority to long-term strategic partners, so the cooperation with Wujiang Microelectronics has been temporarily terminated.

Tokyo Oika, JSR, Sumitomo Chemical, and Fujifilm – four companies – basically joined forces to manipulate the global photoresist market, and their drama immediately led to a spike in global photoresist prices.

In particular, the announcement issued for Wujiang Microelectronics has already stated by name that it will not sell photoresist to Wujiang Microelectronics.

Other photoresist manufacturers also received notices from these four companies at this time, hoping to jointly block Wujiang Microelectronics and tell them about the existence of Wujiang Photoresist Company. Now don't suppress the other party, and wait for the development of boundless photoresist, who has competed with the other party?

The alarmism of RB manufacturers has an effect.

Several companies that produce photoresists, such as DuPont, Texas Instruments, and Micron Technology, have decided to suppress Wujiang Microelectronics.

Although the supply was not cut off, the purchase was limited at a high price, and he took the opportunity to make a lot of money.

The price of photoresist has risen four or five times.

Wujiang Microelectronics Co., Ltd. was in a hurry at this time, RB photoresist supply was cut off, and American photoresist took advantage of the fire to rob, and the key was to limit purchases, which almost stopped the Wujiang wafer factory.

However, the number of photoresists in stock is not large, and it cannot support three months.

Once the wafer factory is shut down, then the production of Kirin 1 chips and MMC chips will not be produced, and many of the production tasks of Wujiang will be suspended.

"Boss, we can also get the goods from other photoresist manufacturers, although the quantity is a little less, but at least it can be emergency. In addition, we can buy photoresist inventory from some foreign chip companies in their wafer fabs. ”

Chip companies generally build their own wafer factories and have more or less some photoresist inventory.

Some chip companies are about to go bankrupt and sell photoresist to Wujiang Microelectronics at a high price, why not? Even if the chip company does not go bankrupt, it can free up a little photoresist to sell it to Wujiang Microelectronics at a high price, so as to make a lot of money.

Of course, photoresist manufacturers cannot let these chip companies take the opportunity to resell photoresist on a large scale to make a profit, and will strictly supervise every chip company that comes to buy photoresist.

At this moment, Zhao Ye mobilized all the forces he could mobilize to buy G-line photoresist all over the world.

However, even if this is done, it is only a temporary solution to the problem, and in the long run, Wujiang Microelectronics Company will definitely not be able to persevere.

At the end of the day, you still need to develop your own photoresist.

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The headquarters of Wujiang Microelectronics.

The people from the Borderless Photoresist Company also came.

In the conference room, everyone felt aggrieved.

Zhao Ye is the most open-minded, in his previous life, he experienced the tragedy of Huawei's mobile phone chips being cut off.

In fact, there are a lot of such things, not only chip supply outages, but also production equipment supply outages and EDA supply outages......

To develop China's semiconductor industry, it must be self-reliant, and there is no way back!

Don't expect others to be kind.

Western countries, led by the United States, have allowed RB and South Korea to develop cutting-edge semiconductor industries.

But not in China.

No way, China is too strong.

One mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, unless one male and one female.

The earth is just a bigger mountain.

Lao Mei does not allow anyone to threaten his position as the world boss.

Therefore, any idea of taking chances is wrong.

Zhao Ye's rebirth and return determined that the domestic semiconductor industry should take the road of independent research and development. It's tough, but it's not impossible.

China is the only country in the world with a whole industrial chain!

Although it lags behind in all aspects, it has great potential.

Moreover, the Chinese market is huge, and it will be enough to feed the companies in the entire semiconductor industry chain in the future.

Although there are more than 100,000 parts and 5,000 parts suppliers for Dutch ASML EVU, in fact, most of the parts can also be developed in China. A small number of technically difficult parts, can China spend more time still can't overcome them?

It's man-made!

Moreover, it is now the 80s, and the development of lithography machines has only just begun. The development of lithography machines in China will suppress the development of other semiconductor companies.

As far as Zhao Ye knows, after the lithography machine reached the 90s, there was not much progress in almost one or two decades, and the industry generally believed that 193nm lithography could not be extended to the 65nm technology node, and 157nm would become the mainstream technology.

Until 2002, TSMC's Lin Benjian proposed the concept of 193nm immersion lithography, and before that, lithography machines were all dry lithography machines.

In 2007, ASML cooperated with TSMC to develop and successfully launched the first immersion lithography machine, which shortened the equivalent wavelength of 193nm light wave in water to 134nm, which is enough to exceed the limit of 157nm.

At this time, ASML completely defeated Canon and Nikon with the technical advantages of immersion lithography machines and became the overlord of lithography machines.

If Wujiang Microelectronics Co., Ltd. takes the lead in bringing Lin Benjian under its command and develops immersion lithography machines in advance, then China's lithography machine will achieve corner overtaking, which is just around the corner!

At this time, Zhao Ye faced the blockade of RB and even the global photoresist manufacturers, and the fighting spirit in his heart became more and more high.

And everyone present is holding a breath in their hearts, which will be transformed into power, and they will not give up until the photoresist is developed!

Zhao Ye looked around and said slowly: "The RB people are afraid that we will surpass them, so they will cut off the supply of photoresist to us!" As I said a long time ago, don't pin your hopes on others, you must stick to the route of independent research and development. Today, they cut off photoresist, tomorrow they may cut off monocrystalline silicon, chips, memory, operating systems, and so on. Are we going to keep people stuck? Longing for the mercy and charity of others? ”

"Self-reliance, abundant food and clothing! What we have abroad, we must also have, and we must strive to surpass them! ”

"I think it's a good thing that RB cut off the supply of photoresist, which reminds everyone not to have a fluke mentality, otherwise, similar things will emerge in an endless stream in the future!"

Speaking, Zhao Ye looked at the more than ten scientific research engineers of Wujiang Photoresist Company, "Now, we must speed up the pace of developing photoresist, time is not waiting, Wujiang Microelectronics Company is encountering a huge crisis, and Wujiang Group is also implicated!" Academician Li Yiming, are you confident that you will develop a G-line photoresist within half a year? ”

A middle-aged man in his forties, wearing a Mao suit and glasses, nodded solemnly and said in a deep voice: "I will definitely lead the team to work overtime and strive to get the G-line photoresist out within half a year!! Little RB, deceive me and no one in China?! Our Chinese researchers are no worse than RB people, but they only lack funds and R&D equipment before, which has led to the slow progress of photoresist R&D in our country. ”

Zhao Ye nodded with a smile and said to Academician Li Yiming: "Well, I believe you can do it!" ”