"Boss, in the fourth round of negotiations, Inpex finally accepted the $17.5 million acquisition price!"

"Inpex originally intended to raise prices, but recently the price of photoresist has dropped, and Inpex is getting impatient, fearing that the price of photoresist will continue to fall, at which point Inpex may not be able to sell at a high price."

Rex Eden said to Zhao Ye with a smile.

Zhao Ye instructed, "Sign the contract as soon as possible, then organize the Inpex technology and bring it to Wujiang Photoresist Company. At the same time, require the workers to work overtime to produce more, stop sales in Europe, and ship all the photoresist to Wujiang Microelectronics Company!"

“Okay, boss, I know what to do!” Rex Aiden immediately nodded in agreement, as this was the purpose of acquiring Inpex.

"Hmm." Zhao Ye nodded, then ended the conversation, feeling a sense of relief.

After acquiring Inpex and absorbing its technology, Wujiang Photoresist was soon able to produce g-line photoresist (436nm) on its own.

Although g-line photoresist was previously considered a low-end photoresist, it is now a mainstream product.

The following day, Rex Eden, representing Alphabet, officially acquired Inpex, and the two parties signed an acquisition agreement.

This news was considered a minor matter in the UK and did not attract much attention.

Rex Eden ordered the company's engineers to compile the photoresist technology, and a week later, he brought the information to Boundless Photoresist Company.

Academician Li Yiming and others received the materials brought by Rex Eden as if they were priceless treasures, and were extremely excited. They immediately ran to the laboratory to prepare to study the materials.

Zhao Ye said to Rex Aiden, "Rex Aiden, thank you for your hard work!"

Rex Aiden laughed and said, "As long as the result is good and it helps the company, it doesn't matter how hard it is!"

Zhao Ye said, "Go and rest for a while. I have something important to ask you to do later!"

Rex Aiden smiled and nodded: "Okay!"

In the afternoon, Zhao Ye arrived at the laboratory. Before he even got close, he heard Academician Li Yiming exclaim in surprise, "So this is how photoresist is formulated! It's truly unexpected! If we had to figure this out ourselves, we would probably have to try thousands and thousands of times to find the correct formula..."

Zhao Ye then walked up to Academician Li Yiming with a smile and asked, "Academician Li, are these materials useful for your development of photoresist?"

Li Yiming nodded excitedly and replied, "Useful, extremely useful! As long as we absorb this information, we'll soon be able to produce photoresist ourselves. This information not only contains the photoresist formula but also the production process technology, which is of immense help to us!"

Zhao Ye smiled warmly and nodded, saying, "It's good that it's useful. Then I'll trouble everyone to absorb this information as soon as possible and then start making the photoresist."

“Okay, no problem. I had someone print out multiple copies of the materials and gave one to each member of the development team so they can learn the material as soon as possible. If there’s anything they don’t understand, we can discuss it together,” Li Yiming nodded.

"By the way, Academician Li, these materials cannot be taken out of the lab. We went through a lot of trouble to buy them!" Zhao Ye reminded him.

"Yes, I know. Don't worry, everyone's awareness of confidentiality is pretty good right now. These past few days, the people from Wujiang Company have been teaching everyone to enhance their awareness of confidentiality and strictly prevent commercial espionage!" Li Yiming said.

Upon hearing this, Zhao Ye couldn't help but smile. He felt that the confidentiality awareness of domestic researchers was not strong enough, so he specially recruited some professionals to give them a lesson on preventing commercial espionage.

"Academician Li, please continue your research. I have other matters to attend to, so I will be leaving now."

"Okay, boss, take care, I won't see you off!"

After Li Yiming finished speaking, he immediately turned around and went to study the data, seemingly eager for Zhao Ye to leave as soon as possible so as not to delay his research work.

Zhao Ye shook his head, feeling both amused and exasperated.

...

However, since the acquisition of Inpex, a steady stream of photoresist has been shipped from the Inpex factory to Wujiang Microelectronics.

The four major RB photoresist companies thought that Wujiang Microelectronics was still holding on and that the wafer fab would stop production once the photoresist inventory was used up.

In order to lull the Japanese manufacturers into a false sense of security, Zhao Ye continued to pretend that he was searching the world for photoresist.

Despite these circumstances, the price of photoresist remains high, causing considerable hardship for many chip companies.

...

Foreign exchange market.

More than three months after the Plaza Accord was signed, the yen appreciated by 20%.

Afterwards, the yen will appreciate further, but the increase will be relatively small, and Zhao Ye no longer cares about that small profit.

So, at this point, he had the accounts settled and made a profit of $1 billion!

In the coming years, Japanese real estate prices will soar, creating a huge bubble.

Buying property in Tokyo is a guaranteed way to make money.

Inside Zhao Ye's office.

"Boss, after foreign exchange settlement, we now have more than $1.5 billion in cash. Of that, $500 million is a loan from HSBC."

After Lu Maoshi finished speaking, he asked, "Boss, what are your plans for this money?"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Ye thought for a moment and realized that this money definitely needed to be spent. Only by making money work for him could he earn more. It would be too foolish to just leave it in the bank to earn interest.

“Mr. Lu, I plan to use this money to buy property in Tokyo, then mortgage the property to the bank to get the loan. After that, I will use part of it to continue the mortgage and take out a loan for the property, and I will use the rest of it for a very important purpose.”

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