Cao Yang has been very busy lately!

Domestic chip companies have successively arranged people to visit Nanshan Equipment, wanting to confirm whether the optical system published by Cao Yang in the school journal of Lingnan University of Science and Technology is really successfully used in the lithography machine of Nanshan Equipment.

Everyone wants to know the news reported by Huaxia Channel, is there moisture?

Even people from TSMC and Samsung contacted Nanshan Equipment to come and investigate.

This made Pan Jinxing a little undecided.

"Mr. Cao, TSMC and Samsung are all important shareholders of ASML, and they have always had the right of first refusal to purchase equipment."

"In a way, ASML's interests are their interests."

"Even ASML is an important means for them to maintain the existing high-end chip landscape."

"Now we are actually contacting us to arrange technical personnel to come over for inspection and discuss the purchase of lithography machines."

"I feel like this thing is a bit unreliable!"

Pan Jinxing is old, so he is naturally not a stunned boy who doesn't understand anything, and he fools around.

After receiving the contact between TSMC and Samsung, he immediately came to Cao Yang's office to discuss the next step.

"You don't have to think that it's just unreliable!"

"Until we have fully demonstrated our technical superiority, they will not be able to abandon ASML and choose us."

"Even if our lithography machine is really more advanced than ASML, they will not choose to cooperate with us."

"Behind this is the pattern of the global chip industry."

Cao Yang really didn't plan to do business with TSMC and Samsung.

It will be enough to be able to eat the mainland market in the next 10 years.

As for those overseas chip giants, it is impossible for Nanshan Equipment to break into it even if it uses all its strength.

He still has this self-knowledge.

Of course, if one day in the future, the lithography machine of Nanshan equipment is advanced enough, and no one can catch up, then the situation will be completely different.

The buying and selling of the pole is not a buying and selling, so let's wait and see.

"Since it's unreliable, do we still need to receive them?"

His guess was confirmed, and Pan Jinxing naturally wanted to further confirm the follow-up arrangements.

After all, no matter where these two companies are placed, they are well-known existences.

If it comes out of their mouths in the future that Nanshan Equipment is snubbing customers, it will obviously be no good.

"Reception!"

"Why don't you receive it?"

"Aren't they just trying to find out if our lithography machines are real?"

"Maybe they will be able to further help us publicize it and save us a lot of saliva."

The more high-end the device, the more you can't learn it at a glance.

Besides, when the time comes, these products of Nanshan equipment are to be sold to customers for use, will it be difficult for you to produce them all and stay in the warehouse to eat ashes?

So it won't be good to be looked at!

If you are looked at, the technique will not be learned!

It is just this opportunity to let them know that the technology of Nanshan equipment is really possible.

With Cao Yang's instructions, Pan Jinxing naturally knew what to expect.

After TSMC and Samsung's people visited, they could only force a smile.

Because they found that what was said in the paper seemed to be confirmed at the production site.

There are even some devices that are already almost assembled.

In this case, things are a big deal!

At least that's how it works for them.

After the people from Samsung and TSMC went back, they immediately reported the situation of the inspection internally and shared it with ASML.

Several parties even held an emergency video conference together to discuss how to push the EUV lithography machine to mass production as soon as possible.

Of course, this can also be understood as a meeting to encircle and suppress Nanshan equipment.

"Ladies and gentlemen, even if the DUV equipment produced by Nanshan Equipment can really maintain the same level as our existing mass production products, there is still a big gap between it and the EUV equipment developed this year."

"The more the lithography machine evolves to a relatively high-end level, the easier it is to eliminate a group of competitors."

"Nanshan equipment can be the king and hegemon in Huaxia, and there is no opponent."

"But in the international market, they are not enough!"

ASML's CEO, Christopher, personally cheered up the shareholders.

Of course, he is also really confident in his company's EUV equipment.

In his opinion, this is the most advanced lithography machine ever built by mankind, and no manufacturer can surpass it.

This lithography machine almost concentrates the cutting-edge forces of major Western countries, so the prototype rolled off the assembly line this year.

However, the stability of this equipment still needs to be improved, so it will take some time to officially enter the mass production state.

How to shorten this time as soon as possible is what Christopher wants to discuss with you today.

In fact, it is very simple, it is nothing more than spending more money and recruiting more people.

The R&D work that used to take five or six years to complete has been reduced to two or three years, or even less.

In this way, the problem is naturally solved.

Of course, where does this money come from, in addition to the support of shareholders, it is naturally the funds obtained from the sale of current equipment.

In other words, if you want to speed up the research and development of EUV lithography machines, then the price of lithography machines sold now will have to be considered.

Or it is necessary for each shareholder to inject capital to support it.

"Christopher, we at Intel support ASML to launch an EUV lithography machine that meets the mass production requirements as soon as possible."

"Only by forming technical barriers as soon as possible can we leave competitors behind, otherwise, it will be difficult to form an absolute competitive advantage."

Intel's CEO, Rodneth Otellone, was the first to stand up for Christopher's view.

They are the most active manufacturers of chip-related equipment.

After all, Intel's chip technology basically represents the most high-end technology in this era.

Look at each computer, and mark the Intel chip model so that everyone knows that they are using Intel.

To put it bluntly, this is a proof of Intel's bull break.

Just like when many car companies launch new cars in later generations, they have to emphasize that they use CATL batteries, which shows that people's battery levels are very good.

"I studied the paper published by Cao Yang in the school journal of Lingnan University of Science and Technology, and theoretically the optical system of both DUV and EUV lithography machines can be produced using the scheme in the paper."

"When the time comes, after our EUV equipment is put into mass production, will the other party also launch an EUV lithography machine?"

Lee Jae-lin, as the person who knows the Nanshan device best within Samsung, was also invited to participate in the meeting today.

And as soon as he threw this question, everyone's faces changed.

(End of chapter)