Reinventing the Millennium

Yi Ke's systematic battle with Penguin returned to Fang Zhuo's field of vision, which gave him a lot of inspiration for his work.

EUV is not just a photolithography machine, but also a next-generation technology with this as its core.

According to the information currently available, ASML's six possible orders have their own thresholds. For example, Taiwan is a complementary partner. Belgian Microelectronics Imec is jointly conducting project research and development, and Toshiba has related processes on the mask table. And technology is what EUV needs.

There are three core bottlenecks in a lithography machine: light source, lens, and mask table. After solving these problems, we must rely on the strength of finishing.

The success of EUV relies not only on ASML's technology, but also on the integration of the entire supply chain technology, including Dutch cavities, British vacuums, American light sources, German optical systems, Japanese materials, etc., involving more than 100,000 parts and components. More than five thousand global suppliers.

Either join this supply chain or create a similar one, both of which are difficult.

What Bingxin now wants is not only an order for an EUV, but also cooperation with ASML.

Even if this road of cooperation has an end in the long run, it is better to have gone through it than to fumble alone. What's more, the stronger the ice core technology, the greater the benefits it can bring to Yike in the next few years. This is Radiation's profit in the global market.

The dual-core processor of Zhurong 02 performs well on the Galaxy Tablet. This iteration with the advancement of its own manufacturing process will bring more core competitiveness.

Fang Zhuo turned his attention from ASML to several of its partners, and familiar experience immediately jumped into his hands. The weakest among the six companies was almost obvious.

The situation of Japanese companies has not been very good in the past two years.

Just last month, Tokyo Shoko Research, a private investigative agency in Japan, released incomplete statistics. In 2010, more than 13,000 companies went bankrupt. Among them, large companies such as Japan Airlines, Japan Development Bank, and Takefuji Bankruptcy stands out.

Fang Zhuo is more familiar with Sony under the leadership of old Jazz Stringer. Although Sony has many global businesses, its true performance can also be seen as a microcosm of the recent situation of Japanese companies.

Sony achieved a small loss of US$190 million by continuously selling off assets and whitewashing its financial reports.

Quite coincidentally, Toshiba's loss in 2010 was US$215 million.

When Fang Zhuo reviewed Toshiba's information, he even doubted whether the old Jazz had made an arrangement with Toshiba to make a "small loss". The difference in the loss figures of the two giants was only 25 million US dollars, and their external rhetoric was similar. They were both expected to usher in success this year. Come to recovery, this feels so familiar.

First of all, Sony’s small loss is definitely fake.

Secondly, Toshiba's small losses may not be true.

Finally, Fang Zhuo does not preset a position on this matter, but leaves it to professionals to see if there is any room for maneuver.

After repeatedly reviewing Toshiba's information, he immediately called the gasoline man Kong Yu, and then pressed Dial himself before the call was connected.

Wrong typing, this is not a person who is professional in finance, but a person who is professional in data.

IDC.

This well-known data company was acquired when Lao Xiong acquired IDG.

Fang Zhuo asked the company to set up a special team to sort out the data of Japanese companies including Toshiba, focusing on the loss status and the authenticity of financial reports.

If there are problems in this area, the next step may be the appearance of the financial professional Gasoline Man.

However, Fang Zhuo did not expect that after he sent this order, IDC immediately sent a message that they were following up, and it involved a Japanese company.

Not Toshiba, but Japanese optical giant Olympus.

Olympus is one of the representative companies in precision and optical technology in Japan and even the world. Its business is mainly in the medical, life sciences and imaging industries.

According to IDC's feedback, their earliest interest in Olympus came from the revelations in Japanese newspapers, and the revelations came from employees of the company's finance department last year. Unfortunately, these revelations of financial fraud did not make waves in the Japanese media. .

This year, IDC has become more interested because Olympus's newly appointed foreign CEO Woodford hinted through the American media that the company has financial problems.

Why hint through the American media?

Because the Japanese media ignored him.

Why a hint?

It is speculated that they want to force the company to reform, but the foundation is not deep enough.

When Fang Zhuo looked at the internal data of IDC, he always felt a sense of déjà vu.

Japanese company, foreign CEO, financial problems, trying to reform... Isn't this just another old Jazz vs. Sony story?

Have you really found a way to solve the problem?

Otherwise, why would we fall into familiar problem-solving methods?

However, the matter between Woodford and Olympus has not yet come to a final conclusion. According to speculation and current public information and revelations, IDC believes that Olympus, a Japanese listed company, must have problems.

Now we can only see whether it is a big problem or a small problem.

After reading the materials sent by IDC, Fang Zhuo was stirred up with more ideas.

If Olympus has a problem, if Toshiba has a problem, how many Olympus and Toshiba stores are there in Japan?

These two are already quite famous listed companies.

If there is really a group of serious financial fraud, can you help burst the bubble, short-selling with one hand, fishing with the other, and squeeze the situation of Toshiba at the same time?

If you want to poke at it, at the very least, the only thing you can get rid of is the big bubble of Sony.

Massive financial fraud? Stock market chain reaction?

After putting down a lot of relevant materials and information, Fang Zhuo silently sketched out some "what ifs". There is a lot that can be mined in Japan. There are also many ice core equipment manufacturers there. If the progress with ASML is still not smooth, it may be possible. Let’s take another look at Nikon’s related technologies and team.

In addition to ASML's EUV, Nikon has also tried to do this in the past two years.

"A small loss is not a loss. Many small losses add up to a big loss."

Fang Zhuo stood by the floor-to-ceiling window of Yike 23 and sighed.

The parts on the desk were relatively scattered. When Liu Zonghong was refilling his boss's cup of tea, he glanced at it and saw that his boss had written two big characters "Sony" on the blank page, and also drawn a thick black circle.

He looked away, knowing that it was probably just the outside directors' deep concern for the company.

"Xiao Liu, the news from IDC will be given priority. Also, let Kong Yu return to China. I will contact him if I have anything to do." Fang Zhuo briefly reviewed the situation and found that he still needed to interview the gasoline man.

What we want to do now requires both confidentiality and in-depth investigation, and we also need to determine what the targets of this system attack are.

Liu Zonghong nodded in agreement and suddenly felt the ruthlessness in his boss's eyes.

"After the New Year, pick out the tea leaves and other gifts given by others and give them to Stringer, saying they are my feelings." Fang Zhuo said another small thing gently.

Liu Zonghong nodded again, feeling that his boss was even more cold and ruthless.

I spent some time thinking about the ending plot of this volume.