Reborn 80s

Globally, there are still four photolithography machine companies.

Motta Microelectronics, ASML, Connie and Nengjia.

As for other lithography machine companies, they have all disappeared from the market amid fierce market competition.

As the accuracy of lithography machines becomes higher and higher, the technical requirements become higher and higher, and the complexity of the entire technology is also constantly increasing.

If there is no huge financial support behind it, there will be no way to raise the research and development expenses alone.

After huge R&D expenditures, products may not be recognized by the market when launched on the market.

This has caused many companies to abandon the photolithography machine business and focus on other businesses.

Is the global lithography machine market big?

To be honest, it's really not big.

Global shipments of lithography machines are only a few hundred units.

We invested huge sums of money in research and development, but after the product came out, there was no market...

I believe that a normal company would not do this.

For example, Connie Company only shipped six lithography machines last year!

Six stations!

How much profit can be earned?

There is not even enough money for the next stage of research and development of the technology.

Connie has fallen into huge losses in its photolithography machine business.

Liu Manzi walked in and reported the news she had just received to Chen Huaiqing: "Boss, there is news from Neon. In recent days, Connie has announced that it will abandon the photolithography machine business and seek to sell it."

Chen Huaiqing was surprised, but at the same time he felt that it was expected.

After all, Connie is really no longer good in the lithography machine market at this time.

There is no point in continuing to carry on.

The entire Neon semiconductor industry has been in a continuous decline process over the past few years.

To be honest, Chen Huaiqing always felt that Neon's company felt like it was strong on the outside but hard on the inside.

How powerful they were once, but now they appear so weak.

It has to be said that Neon's company has quite serious management problems.

Chen Huaiqing said with a smile: "Let Mota Microelectronics come forward to see if we can acquire its photolithography machine business. We don't need to actually get it. It would be good to raise the price and delay the transaction time."

Chen Huaiqing has never regarded Neon's company as his ultimate opponent.

However, Chen Huaiqing didn't mind causing some obstacles to Neon's company.

Kangni is a related company of Sanling, and attacking Kangni will be beneficial to Tianyuan Co., Ltd.

In Neon, there are currently seven major recognized consortiums. As a new consortium, the Tianyuan Consortium is, to a large extent, hostile to the other six major consortiums.

However, the internal vitality of Tianyuan Consortium is higher than that of the other six major consortiums.

In addition to the huge collapse in the photolithography machine business, Connie also faced strong market competition in the camera business, showing its decline.

The market is so big, if I eat more, my opponents will naturally eat less.

When it comes to digital cameras, Seagull Camera’s technology is no worse than Neon’s camera company.

The lenses on Chenxing’s Mphone and other electronic products all use Seagull lenses.

Many products of Tianyuan Electronics also use Seagull lenses.

The lenses of the Seagull lens come from Mozi Optics.

Liu Manzi: "I'll call Mota Microelectronics right now."

Watching Liu Manzi go out, Chen Huaiqing looked away.

Next, it’s Neng Jia.

Even in the era of EUV lithography machines, Nengjia still occupies 30% of the global lithography machine market share.

It has to be said that the old photolithography machine company has two brushes.

The battle for the top four in the lithography machine industry is now about to enter a three-legged battle.

Now Nengjia is the strongest, Mota Microelectronics is ranked second, and ASML is third. Itel is still supporting Nengjia and purchases photolithography machines from Nengjia every year.

There is no way, Asmai is not developing very smoothly now.

Regarding DUV lithography machines, ASML’s technology does not have an advantage in market competition.

As for the research and development of EUV lithography machines, even with the support of Europe and the United States, the research and development is not very smooth.

The prototype has already been released, but mass production is still far away.

In the last life, ASML’s rise was aided by immersive lithography machines. The neon lithography machine companies have gone too far on another technical path and have been slow to respond to the new path.

After ASML was launched, it took more than a year to launch.

Then Itel strongly supported Asmai.

But in this life, Mota Microelectronics took the lead in developing an immersion lithography machine, and Itel purchased it from Mota Microelectronics.

Mota Microelectronics did not block the purchase of Itel and quickly delivered the goods.

But in terms of price, it must be more expensive.

After Nengjia made it, Itel immediately transferred the order to Nengjia.

As for Asmai, he didn't catch anything.

Liu Manzi smiled and said, "I understand!"

It's hard to get things done, but it's not easy to make trouble?

Kenni's abandonment of the photolithography machine business has received some coverage in the news.

For most people, this is just a piece of news and they don’t pay much attention to it.

Many people don’t even know what a lithography machine is.

People at this time are undoubtedly happy.

Because China has developed very strongly in the semiconductor industry, the prices of electronic products are naturally much lower than in the previous life.

Liu Xinran couldn't help but sigh when talking about this matter: "I never expected that Connie would give up the photolithography machine business."

"Why don't you give up? Keep dragging down the performance of the entire company."

Liu Xinran: "How is the EUV lithography machine now?"

Among the information disclosed to the outside world, only ASML is developing EUV lithography machines. Motta Microelectronics’ EUV lithography machine development has not been announced to the outside world at all.

Sometimes, it is done in secret and does not need to be publicized in a big way.

As for Nengjia, judging from public information, there is no research and development plan for EUV lithography machines.

Chen Huaiqing: "It will probably take a few years for the EUV lithography machine to be available. What's wrong?"

Liu Xinran peeled the shrimp and put it in Chen Huaiqing's bowl: "I'm thinking about how much the performance of the chip will be improved if there is an EUV lithography machine!"

Chen Huaiqing: “I don’t know to what extent it will be improved, but there will definitely be excess performance.”

Chen Huaiqing really doesn’t know where the best chips will be in ten years, but he knows that excessive performance of electronic products has become the norm.

Because of the excess performance, the time for everyone to improve electronic products has also been extended a lot.

Liu Xinran: "Excessive performance?"

"Competition in the domestic smartphone market is quite fierce now. How about it? Do you feel any pressure?"

"Fortunately. The market's recognition of our brand is still quite high."

At this time, domestic smartphones are not very expensive, and you can buy one for a few hundred yuan.

The fact that the price can reach such a low level has a lot to do with the development of China's semiconductor industry.

Of course, the chip used in a smartphone costing several hundred yuan will definitely not be the latest chip. (End of chapter)