"Mr. Cao, thank you Nanshan Equipment for its support to Chang'an City, this chip equipment industrial park project, I personally served as the project team leader, so that Chang'an City can fully assist in the construction of new factories of various enterprises as soon as possible."

"Whether it is land, talent placement, equipment transportation, or surrounding supporting transportation, hospitals and schools, etc., we will do a good job of relevant cooperation."

After He Guangming of Modu Microelectronics and Yin Zhiqiang of China Micro Semiconductor communicated with Pan Jinxing, the chip equipment industrial park project in Chang'an City was soon officially determined.

Several companies have officially announced their participation in the project.

In addition, in the past few days, they have successively received contacts from many domestic chip manufacturers, to inspect their production plants on site, and prepare to purchase their production equipment.

This makes everyone more motivated to build a new factory.

Don't look at the fact that there are not many well-known semiconductor companies in China, but the number of semiconductor companies is actually not a lot at all.

Especially in recent years, relevant departments have encouraged all kinds of capital to enter the semiconductor industry, and various enterprises have sprung up.

Some may want to fish in troubled waters, and some are really trying to do something.

After all, Huaxia's chip market is a huge market with a scale of several trillion yuan.

As long as you can get a piece of the pie, you can make a company have a good life.

These semiconductor companies can make the manufacturers of the chip equipment industry alliance live a very good life.

With the official visit of various equipment manufacturers to Chang'an City and prepare to quickly build their own new factories, Chang'an Province will naturally have various actions.

Liu Tianwu, as the person in charge, also personally called Cao Yang to express his gratitude.

"This time, the relevant departments can vigorously support the development of domestic chip equipment, and I heard that you have also helped a lot."

"Nowadays, our equipment industry has formed a certain scale in Yangcheng and Modu."

"However, with the explosion of new demand, the current production capacity is definitely insufficient."

"Taking this opportunity to build a new industrial park in Chang'an City is also very suitable for various equipment manufacturers."

Cao Yang and Liu Tianwu are old acquaintances.

Liu Tianwu had invited Cao Yang to let Nanshan Chemical and other manufacturers set up factories in Chang'an City, but Cao Yang did not agree at that time.

This is not because Liu Tianwu left Yangcheng, Cao Yang ignored others.

But Nanshan Chemical is really not suitable for so many branches for the time being.

However, now that the companies in the Nanshan system have begun to throw money on the model, building some new factories in the magic capital, the imperial capital, Yangcheng and Chang'an City, they can naturally take this opportunity to pull a group of other enterprises to Chang'an City for development.

Although Nanshan Equipment is responsible for the production of some of the most important equipment in the wafer processing and chip processing process, there are still many equipment that need to be cooperated by other companies.

If the equipment required by various factories such as the entire wafer factory can be purchased in one industrial park, it is definitely a thing worth supporting for various chip companies.

In the future, when everyone goes to investigate, they don't need to fly around in the north and south, and stay in Chang'an City for ten days and a half months, and confirm all the projects together.

Even if the new factory is built directly in Chang'an City, there will be great advantages in equipment transportation and maintenance.

It just so happens that the semiconductor industry is also the next key industry for Chang'an City.

"In any case, we still have to thank Nanshan Equipment for choosing Chang'an City, otherwise this industrial park will definitely not fall in Chang'an City."

Liu Tianwu still saw it very thoroughly.

Huaxia's chip equipment industry alliance is actually an organization around Nanshan equipment.

Nanshan Equipment can be said to be the leader of this alliance, and it is absolutely effective to speak.

There is no way, who made Nanshan Semiconductor, the brother of Nanshan Equipment, the most important customer of the Core Equipment Industry Alliance.

Nanshan Automobile Group and Honor Technology Group are the most important chip users in China.

In this case, no matter which chip equipment manufacturer, they will choose to surround Nanshan equipment and get a piece of the pie.

After all, no matter where you are, there are circles.

If you're not in the circle, it's hard to eat the meat in the circle.

At most, people eat leftovers, and you drink soup.

And when Nanshan Equipment came to Chang'an City with a group of equipment companies to set up an industrial park, Pan Jinxing and Xie Lingyun took Cao Yang to attend another important event.

"Mr. Cao, as a subsidiary of Nanshan Special Steel, Nangang Gas mainly uses the tail gas produced by Shaogang Iron and Steel as a raw material to fractionate various inert gases."

"These inert gases have a great impact on the semiconductor industry, and more than eighty percent of the inert gases used in the domestic semiconductor industry still need to rely on imports."

"Although there are more import source countries, it will not be easy to be stuck, but the risk is still relatively large."

"Just two years ago, Baosteel consulted about our inert gas fractionation equipment, and we investigated and set up a team to be responsible for this aspect of the business."

"Now that we have finally developed qualified fractionation equipment, most of the rare gases such as neon and helium that will be used in the production of Nanshan Semiconductor in the future can be supplied by Nangang Gas."

Pan Jinxing took Caoyang Caoyang Nangang Gas Production Plant.

The tall distillation tower looks spectacular.

As an indispensable material in the chip production process, the importance of inert gas cannot be ignored.

Cao Yang also realized this early.

In addition to the key equipment and raw materials such as lithography machines, photoresists, and silicon wafers, inert gas is also an indispensable raw material in chip manufacturing.

Using the extremely inactive chemical properties of inert gas, it can be used as a shielding gas in the production process, among which, neon, xenon, and krypton are more inert gases used in the chip manufacturing process, which is equivalent to the blood of the semiconductor industry.

For example, neon plays a very important role in the refinement and stability of engraving circuits and chip manufacturing, and nearly 80% of the world's neon gas is used in semiconductor manufacturing.

So, without inert gases, you can't make chips.

However, inert gases cannot be directly used in the production and manufacturing of semiconductors, and need to be used in the form of mixed gases, such as krypton-neon mixtures, fluorine-neon mixtures, etc., which are also called electronic special gases.

The global electronic specialty gas market is mainly controlled by American Air Chemical, Deutsche Linde, Air Liquide, and Dongying Sun Risuan, which together occupy more than 90% of the global market share, and also occupy more than 80% of the market share of Huaxia Electronic Specialty Gas.

There are technical barriers to electronic special gases, and there are extremely high requirements for gas purity and mixed gas ratio accuracy, resulting in many manufacturers not easily changing electronic special gas suppliers.

This also means that it is easy to get stuck in the neck.

Whether it is to prevent the United States from pulling the little brother against him again, or for some future conflicts that will cause the price of inert gas to skyrocket, Cao Yang feels the need to promote the localization and development of these electronic special gases.

Just before Nanshan Special Steel acquired Shaogang, it has some basic conditions for the production of related rare gases.

However, Huaxia's steel industry is the world's first, but it has not been able to handle most of the electronic specialties before.

This is because Huaxia can't get the equipment to produce these gases.

If the equipment is not good, the industry will naturally not be good.

Conventional air fractionation equipment cannot effectively separate inert gases such as neon.

Taking neon gas as an example, on the one hand, the neon gas content is very low, accounting for only about 1/100,000 in the air, and on the other hand, the boiling point of neon gas is extremely low, which is about the same as liquid hydrogen, and it is difficult to turn into liquid.

It is difficult to obtain useful neon gas by traditional fractionation methods.

Therefore, whether it is Baosteel, Anshan Iron and Steel, or Shougang, they know that this thing is valuable, and they also produce a large amount of these gases in the steelmaking process, but they can't do anything about it.

The Germans, who were more economically savvy in this regard, found that China's steel production was so large that the demand for air fractionation was so great that it was a pity that precious noble gases such as neon were re-discharged into the air.

Therefore, they took the initiative to sell the primary concentration tower equipment that can produce neon gas and other products to some steel mills in Huaxia, so that Huaxia could help them produce crude products.

After they buy crude products at a low price, they purify them to obtain high-purity neon gas, which in turn can be sold to Huaxia at a high price.

As for the high-end equipment and related technology for purifying neon gas, it is absolutely confidential.

This kind of restriction, they have always been very slippery.

"Of course, Shaogang's crude steel output is limited, and our Nangang Gases wants to meet the various inert gases needed by the entire Huaxia semiconductor industry chain, and the production capacity is not enough."

"So we plan to sell some of the primary concentration towers to manufacturers such as Baosteel, Anshan Iron and Steel, Wuhan Iron and Steel and Shougang, and then buy crude products from them."

"In the end, it will be further processed into qualified electronic special gases on the side of Shaogang Gas, making Shaogang Gas the largest electronic special gas manufacturer in China and even the world."

Xie Lingyun added his own ideas beside him.

The scale of Nanshan Special Steel is not very large, but the scale of Huaxia's steel industry is the first in the world.

This number one, no country can threaten.

After having this foundation, it means that the production cost of some inert gases in China will be much lower than that of other countries.

At that time, Shaogang Gas can take advantage of the price war to take advantage of the world's major electronic specialty gas manufacturers.

In a few years, Shaogang Gas will be able to live a life close to monopoly.

When the time comes, it will be the turn of Shaogang Gas to jam other people's necks.

"Your idea is very good, and it is well worth investing in and promoting."

"Even in order to prevent Baosteel and Shougang manufacturers from exporting crude gases overseas, they can also consider promoting the introduction of relevant policies to restrict the export of primary gas products."

"Or let these companies use their own gas companies as capital and integrate them into Shaogang Gas to form a professional manufacturer of electronic special gases such as various inert gases."

Electronic special gases are widely used in various processes such as semiconductor chips and liquid crystal panel material manufacturing, such as cleaning, deposition, photolithography, etching, ion implantation, film formation, doping and other links.

Electronic special gases have the characteristics of high technology and high added value, and are indispensable basic and supporting raw materials in the production of semiconductors, liquid crystal display panels, photovoltaics, LEDs and other electronic industries.

According to the statistics of relevant institutions, semiconductors accounted for 73.1% of the global electronic specialty gas downstream application market, display panels accounted for 19.4%, compound semiconductors/LEDs accounted for 4.4%, and photovoltaics accounted for 3.1%.

Such an important thing, Cao Yang naturally attaches great importance to it.

So even if you give up some of your shares, it's worth it.

After all, monopoly business is the most profitable.

"Electronic specialty gas is the second largest raw material in the wafer manufacturing process after silicon wafers, which runs through the main process of wafer manufacturing."

"Wafers account for about 32.9% of the raw materials for wafer manufacturing, followed by electronic special gases at 14.1%."

"As a large amount of consumables, electronic special gases run through the whole process of wafer manufacturing process."

"In the whole process of wafer manufacturing, up to 100 kinds of electronic gases are used, and about 40-50 kinds of electronic special gases are involved in the core process, which run through the process of film formation, cleaning, deposition, etching, doping, ion implantation, etc., so electronic special gases are also known as the 'food' of wafers."

"Such an important raw material is fully worthy of Shaogang Special Gas and Nanshan Equipment to vigorously invest relevant resources for development."

Zhang Jing also came with him today to participate in this visit.

There are too many enterprises in the Nanshan system, and it is impossible to carry out the groundbreaking ceremony or commissioning ceremony of every factory, so Cao Yang does not have so much time to participate.

This time, the scale of the first phase of the Shaogang Gas Project is not particularly large, mainly to solve the treatment of the tail gas produced by Shaogang itself.

In the future, we will consider using crude gases from other manufacturers such as Baosteel.

Therefore, Zhang Jing naturally hopes that Xie Lingyun and Pan Jinxing can arrange more manpower and material resources to develop the field of electronic special gases.

After all, the semiconductor industry is the largest consumer of electronic gases.

Nanshan Semiconductor is the largest semiconductor company in China.

"The production process of these electronic special gases should still be relatively complicated, right?"

"Academician Pan, you have to worry more about equipment."

Cao Yang must have supported Zhang Jing's view.

Xie Lingyun must also hope that Shaogang Gas can develop and grow, so that the influence of Zinanshan Special Steel will be greater.

However, this requires Nanshan Equipment to develop more kinds of related equipment.

"Electronic specialty gases differ from traditional industrial gases in that they are of higher purity or have special uses, such as involvement in chemical reactions."

"In this way, the requirements for production equipment are much higher, which is why most of the electronic special gases used in the domestic semiconductor industry need to be imported."

"We have to research and produce these equipment, and we can naturally make it."

"However, I think it is still possible to selectively target some gases, otherwise if all the gases are produced by themselves, the cost performance may not be higher."

"There are some relatively mature gases and the equipment to produce them, and other manufacturers can handle them."

Pan Jinxing understands everyone's needs.

But he didn't want to take it all over.

After all, there are some small markets, and if there are already other good domestic manufacturers playing in them, there is no need for Nanshan equipment to join in the fun.

Regarding Pan Jinxing's statement, Zhang Jing basically agreed.

"Usually the purity requirements of electronic special gases must reach the level of 5N and above, and N represents the number of 9 in the purity percentage."

"Wafer manufacturing has stricter purity requirements for electronic special gases, generally greater than 6N."

"For example, in the wafer manufacturing process, the purity of silane special gases in the deposition and film-forming section is required to reach 8N and above."

"In addition, the proportioning accuracy is the core parameter for the blending of gases, that is, the precise control of the mixing ratio of different gases, and the industry generally expresses the composition ratio in ppm, ppb, ppt and percentages."

"If the impurity content is too high, it will cause the quality of the downstream batch to be substandard, and at worst, it will diffuse and pollute the entire production line, causing high losses."

"The more advanced the production line, the higher the quality requirements for electronic special gases."

"At present, our Nanshan Semiconductor's chip manufacturing process has developed from 60nm and 28nm in the past to the current advanced 14nm, and the volume of polluting particles in the corresponding electronic special gas must be reduced by many times to ensure that the wafer is not polluted and maintain the yield rate of the output product."

"In this case, it is also possible to produce high-end electronic specialties and hand over the low-end market to other domestic manufacturers."

There are too many electronic special gases needed in the semiconductor industry, and not all gas manufacturers in Huaxia can't handle it.

Therefore, Zhang Jing also supports Pan Jinxing's idea, and there is no need to produce everything on the side of Shaogang Gas.

That is not in the interests of Nanshan Semiconductor.

For example, companies such as Huate Gas, Jinhong Gas, and Kaimei Gas in the industry have done very well in many products such as high-purity carbon tetrafluoride, high-purity hexafluoroethane, high-purity carbon dioxide, high-purity carbon monoxide, high-purity ammonia, and high-purity nitric oxide, and can achieve import substitution.

At this time, there is naturally no need for Shaogang Gas.

For example, helium, neon and other relatively weak areas in China are the most worthy of Shaogang gas.

"Then work hard in this direction and promote the rapid development of Shaogang Gas as soon as possible."

With Cao Yang's decision, Shaogang Gas has officially entered the fast lane of development.

The first batch of electronic special gases produced by them have also begun to be officially used in some factories of Nanshan Semiconductor.

Naturally, it is impossible to hide this news all the time.

Especially when Nanshan Special Steel officially announced that Shaogang Gas, a subsidiary of the company, officially entered the electronic special gas market, some relevant companies immediately noticed this change.

"Pat, Huaxia's brother company of Nanshan Semiconductor has started to produce neon and helium, have you seen this news?"

Aldernine called Pat to his office early in the morning.

As the world's largest chip company, Intel is now full of fear of Nanshan Semiconductor.

There is no way, in the past, Intel led the industry in chip manufacturing process, but now it is about to be surpassed by Nanshan Semiconductor.

They will certainly not be able to accept this result.

Therefore, last year, Intel was very active in promoting photoresist-related solutions, wanting to encircle and suppress Nanshan Semiconductor, limit its development speed, and even directly kill Nanshan Semiconductor.

However, this plan quickly failed.

During this time, people from Intel, Apple, ASML and other companies are thinking of new, better and more comprehensive solutions to deal with Nanshan Semiconductor.

And neon, helium and other inert gases, is an area that Otellin's screening is ready to sell.

Although the industry concentration of these inert gases is not as high as that of photoresist, the enterprises of Nanshan Group have no previous experience in producing this area, and even if they want to break through, they are not so fast.

Who knew that just after thinking about the general direction, the plan has not been implemented, and it will be stillborn.

After knowing that Shaogang Gas began to produce neon and helium and other electronic special gases, the world's relevant electronic special gas manufacturers definitely do not want to force others to expand their production scale.

Normally, what the global electronic specialty gas giants need to do at this time is to reduce the price of related gases and stifle the development of new enterprises through low-cost dumping.

As for cutting off the confession, it is digging a grave for yourself.

Especially in the case of photoresist, there are few electronic specialty gas manufacturers willing to cooperate.

"I've just heard a report from someone down there."

Pat wasn't in a very good mood either.

During this time, he was also forced to work overtime every day, leading everyone to break through the 14-nanometer chip processing technology as soon as possible.

Although Americans work harder than in Europe, it is absolutely rare to work overtime every day.

After all, the degree of involution of chip companies like Intel is not comparable with Internet companies in Silicon Valley, let alone with companies in China.

"Do you think it's necessary to continue the implementation of the plan we originally discussed?"

Otellenne asked further.

Pat struggled for a while and said, "I think even if we want to continue to implement it, it is estimated that suppliers such as American Air Chemical, Deutsche Linde, Air Liquide and Dongying Sun are not necessarily willing to actively cooperate." ”

"In addition, our plan is not perfect in the first place, and Nanshan Semiconductor can also import some of the relevant gases from Polar Bear and Central Europe."

"So I suggest that you don't deal with Nanshan Semiconductor from the direction of encirclement and suppression."

Hearing Pat's words, Ou Dening was a little unhappy, "If we don't encircle Nanshan Semiconductor, will we just watch them grow and develop?" ”

Now that he has expressed his opinion, Pat naturally has to say something at this time.

Otherwise, he knew that Otellens would not let him go.

"Otellin, in the past so many years, we have never had any direct contact with Nanshan Semiconductor."

"I think we are competitors, but it's not impossible to cooperate."

"There are still relatively few manufacturers of computer chips, and it is not unacceptable for everyone to divide the market or form a certain price agreement."

"Otherwise, if you continue to compete, no one will make any money at that time."

Pat doesn't want to go down with Nanshan Semiconductor in chip technology.

According to the original R&D progress, it is very good, why should it be accelerated at every turn?

For Pat, Nanshan Semiconductor already has the strength to sit down with Intel and discuss.

It is better for everyone to make money than vicious competition.

(End of chapter)