If AT&T can be successfully persuaded to come to Japan, both NTT and KDDI will enter the competition for network construction.

If Xing Baohua wants to benefit from this, he has to rely on AT&T's brand.

Even if he didn't take advantage of this opportunity, Xing Baohua wouldn't feel like he'd lost anything! But he achieved his goal: activating Japan's network construction was the only way he could profit.

Adding to the recent uproar from the Japanese, who claimed he was trying to harm Japan's telecommunications industry, and the fact that so many gold bars were spent to finally settle the matter, Xing Baohua has no choice but to accept the situation if the issue really comes down to equity investment.

After all, they don't want you to make this money.

When Xing Baohua was in China, he always wanted to cause trouble for Sony. Unfortunately, Sony was more advanced and had more technological patents. The gap between Xing Baohua's patents and Sony's was huge, making it difficult for him to find a similar excuse to cause trouble.

After dealing with matters in Hong Kong, Xing Baohua then went to JD.com.

Xing Baohua knew that Sony also had optical equipment, so he searched Nikon's patent database. Xing Baohua refused to believe that he couldn't find something similar, and decided to sue them.

The renovation of the π Building is also being rushed by working overtime. Xing Baohua still has to find time to look at the renovation renderings, especially for his office and other spaces.

His office alone is about 100 square meters, with a reception area, an office area, and a small meeting room.

There were indeed many things to worry about. After arriving in Japan, Fraser Ball brought the CEO from headquarters to Japan and also met with Xing Baohua.

The location should still be outside; it's taboo to discuss all external matters at Nikon headquarters.

The CEO of AT&T is O'Neill Aguirre. He is very tall, with a high nose bridge that is slightly curved, but not so obviously hooked.

Accompanying them was a guy named Bulsen, the president of an AT&T branch.

The two sides sat down and got straight to the point. Xing Baohua had initially asked for 40% of the shares, and would offer 30% in cash and 10% in technology shares.

AT&T wants Xing Baohua to reduce his shareholding to 28%, and all of it to be in cash. As for the technology, they have it themselves.

And let me briefly explain why Xing Baohua reduced his shares.

The larger the company's investment, the more likely there is venture capital behind it. In places like Japan, the shareholders behind AT&T are all combined, with the majority of the shares coming from outside sources, except for the company itself which holds the majority stake.

Spending other people's money to do your own thing—that's the original American philosophy.

Even Xing Baohua was treated as just a venture capitalist.

The technology that Xing Baohua possesses is not rare at AT&T; it also belongs to other companies. If Xing Baohua can use it, so can they.

Preventing Xing Baohua from accessing the technology was also a form of precaution.

This investment is much larger than in Hong Kong, where the area is smaller and the investment is less. Building cell towers in all major cities of Japan would cost a billion US dollars. That doesn't even include operating equipment, server rooms, etc.

AT&T R's Japanese subsidiary has a budget of around $8 billion, and Xing Baohua needs to contribute more than $2.2 billion.

Two billion yuan is nothing to Xing Baohua. Now that he has money, being the second largest shareholder is not bad, and he also has a say in the board of directors.

As for the fact that his technology is looked down upon, Xing Baohua doesn't care. The fact that the two largest shareholders can't even manage the server room staff is a gross underestimation of him.

People thought Xing Baohua was trying to steal technology, but what Xing Baohua cared about was the data.

The AT&T branch has been basically finalized; all that's left is for them to enter Japan and become the third operator.

When Xing Baohua returned to the company, Xiao Tian also came over. He was getting data from home, and Geng Rui had selected some important documents for Xing Baohua to review.

Xing Baohua used his computer, plugged in a hard drive, and opened the file to see a UV generator.

There is only a table of contents, but no detailed drawings or instructions.

There are only about a dozen items in the catalog. To be honest, this kind of purple light generator can be removed.

His lithography institute has already mastered this technology, and now he wants to improve the level of extreme ultraviolet light.

Extreme ultraviolet light can be used not only to fabricate superconducting chips, but also to produce 14-7 nanometer chips.

Even when he transmigrated, the technological level at that time was only 22 nanometers.

The processes from 45nm to 32nm are all achieved using immersion lithography systems, and breakthroughs in this technology are quite difficult due to the influence of wavelength.

The technical concepts and theories were proven in the 1980s, but putting them into practice is not so easy.

There's a ten-year bottleneck period here.

The development of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology began in the mid-1980s in Japan—yes, Nikon. Their initial goal was to utilize EUV lithography machines at a half-cycle size of 70 nanometers.

However, this technology has consistently failed to meet the technical specifications and production capacity requirements for mass production of lithography in wafer fabs. Delays continued, and by 2016, EUV lithography machines still had not been put into mass production.

However, the United States made breakthroughs in the research and development of extreme ultraviolet light and obtained wafer fabrication production from wafer fabs.

Before this, everyone relied on double lithography to produce 45-nanometer, 32-nanometer, and 22-nanometer logic devices.

The continuous delays have both advantages and disadvantages for extreme ultraviolet light technology.

Slower progress allows more time to resolve technical issues and improve performance parameters.

Another aspect is that it will place higher demands on the next technological node.

Although it wasn't of any immediate use to Xing Baohua, it confirmed that Nikon did indeed have extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology.

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