Chapter 687: The weak have never had the right to negotiate! Break through the Northern Region!
After the Xingyuan Technology press conference ended, the entire network instantly became popular.
'iPhone 6 release', 'TFBOYS', 'Ice Bucket Challenge' and 'Alibaba listing', which had previously dominated the hot searches, were all suppressed.
The three major portals, Douyin, Kuaishou, Toutiao and Weibo platforms have reserved large advertising spaces on their homepages and launched extensive reports on "Dawn A220".
At 7 o'clock that evening, the evening news set aside a three-minute segment to not only provide a detailed introduction to the development process of the Dawn A220 lithography machine, but also broadcast a real-life working scene of the Xingyuan Technology R&D Center.
The official personally stamped the Dawn A220 with the logo of the country's first EUV lithography machine!
For a time, all kinds of shocking news headlines began to flood the screen.
"The first domestically produced lithography machine has been released! It supports up to 7nm process, and AMS can't sit still!"
"The Dawn A220 makes its debut! Breaking through the 50-year blockade of Europe and the United States!"
"Big news! China's first domestically produced EUV lithography machine has been unveiled, with performance far exceeding international top-tier standards. The industry chain may take off!"
Immediately afterwards, the Big Fund announced that it would provide Xingyuan Technology with a 20 billion yuan grant.
As soon as the news came out, optoelectronic institutes and laboratories across the country were all jealous.
20 billion?
Just give it to me when you say it, no strings attached!
It is called a subsidy, but everyone knows in their hearts that this is just a bonus, right?
This was a joint decision made by Han Jinheng and Li Qingsong. They wanted to take this opportunity to send a clear signal to the outside world: as long as they can produce excellent scientific research results, there will be no limit to the rewards.
Equipment manufacturers, photoresist suppliers, and special gas suppliers upstream and downstream of the industrial chain were suddenly injected with strong momentum.
R&D is never smooth sailing, and there must be a fault-tolerant mechanism.
Without the accumulation of repeated failures, how can there be ultimate success?
It is precisely with this in mind that the Big Fund invested more than 30 billion yuan in one go, specifically to promote technological upgrades in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain and to provide support for scientific research and exploration.
Frankly speaking, these companies had no motivation for research and development before, because they could not produce lithography machines, and the equipment they developed had to face a practical problem: it could not be used domestically and no one abroad would buy it.
Without economic benefits and commercial value, R&D investment is like a bottomless pit and it is difficult to sustain it.
Just relying on subsidies won’t make you full!
Now with the A220, the situation is different.
As long as we can develop supporting equipment or materials, we can get stable orders and reap huge profits, and the enthusiasm for research and development will naturally increase.
The entire Chinese Internet was in a state of excitement, but far away at the AMS headquarters in Eindhoven, Chairman Peter Wennink was filled with melancholy.
As far as he knows, Fujifilm, Samsung and GlobalFoundries have been confirmed as the first batch of buyers of the Dawn A220 lithography machine.
What makes him even more anxious is that the processing efficiency of the Dawn A220, which is 235 wafers per hour, is not only 1.3 times that of the Twinscan NXT 1980i, but also 12 times that of the NXE 3300B.
In the field of EUV lithography, the NXE 3300B is like a child wearing open-crotch pants compared with the Dawn A220, which makes him lose face.
If AMS cannot launch the more efficient EUV lithography machine before the 14nm process is mass-produced, the company will be on the verge of collapse.
Although it will not go bankrupt directly, it will most likely have to retreat to the mid- and low-end markets and compete with Canon and Nikon for a limited market share, and it will be difficult to maintain its previous dominant position in the industry.
Will Xingyuan Technology be content to just stick to the EUV lithography machine field?
The answer is no.
With profits right in front of us, who would give them up?
One more product means more revenue. This is simple business logic that even a child can understand.
Peter was helpless. After thinking for a moment, he found a phone number and dialed it.
The only solution he could think of at the moment was to persuade all parties to reach a tacit understanding and limit Xingyuan Technology's business scope to Asia so that everyone could live in peace.
But he overlooked the most crucial point: the weak never have the right to negotiate conditions.
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Two days later, the day before Mid-Autumn Festival.
The Internet Information Center released the latest statistical report. As of August 2014, the number of Internet users in China had reached 860 million, of which 790 million were mobile phone users.
The report highlighted mobile phone brands such as Orange, Xiaomi, 360, and Coolpad.
The reason is simple. It is the low-price business strategy of these mobile phone manufacturers that has strongly promoted the development of mobile Internet.
Smartphones priced at 599, 799, and 899 yuan are emerging one after another!
Lei Yijun even lowered the price of the first generation of Redmi to 499 yuan during the Mi Fan Festival at the beginning of the year!
It became the last straw that broke the camel's back for the copycat phone factory.
Most domestic netizens have not noticed that the once popular copycat mobile phones have long disappeared without a trace.
Some of them switched to making feature phones, while others set their sights on the Southeast Asian and African markets.
At ten o'clock in the morning, Huawei released a new model - Mate 7 at the Berlin International Consumer Electronics Show.
The front adopts a 6-inch large screen design, equipped with a Kirin 925 processor and Aurora Future OS operating system, built-in 7000mAh second-generation deep blue battery, but the body thickness is only 7.2mm.
The front camera is 5 megapixels, the rear camera is 18 megapixels, and the launch price is 2,699 yuan.
On the surface, this is the world's first smartphone equipped with the second-generation Deep Blue battery.
But most people in the mobile phone industry know that the Yaocheng X2 Plus is the first smartphone to use the second-generation deep blue battery.
It’s just that Orange Technology didn’t admit it.
Thanks to its high energy density, deep blue batteries have almost become standard equipment for mid-to-high-end smartphones.
Most users will not buy a smartphone that costs more than 2,000 yuan if it does not have a deep blue battery.
After all, a mobile phone that needs to be charged two or even three times a day is really inconvenient to use, and buying a power bank is even more cumbersome.
Especially for business people, battery life is their primary consideration before purchasing a phone.
In the afternoon, employees from major Internet companies posted their Mid-Autumn Festival benefits.
Netizens were dazzled and envious by the various mooncake gift boxes.
"Ali's mooncake gift boxes are the most beautiful, and they also come with a Yao cat doll. I really want one!"
"You can buy it anywhere on second-hand websites. A bunch of Ali employees are selling it."
"The Penguin one is also good. In addition to mooncakes, there is also a tea set and a pillow."
"To be honest, Baidu's performance is a bit average and doesn't deserve the title of the BAT Big Three."
"Hey buddy, it's 2014 now, what's the BAT thing? Baidu has already fallen behind!"
"It's not practical and it's just gaudy! Why not give me some shopping cards?"
"Send the video to my boss!"
"Hey, why don't I see any employees of Senlian Capital showing off their Mid-Autumn Festival gifts?"
In the comment section of Douyin's popular videos, netizens are discussing it enthusiastically.
At the end of the discussion, everyone suddenly discovered a strange phenomenon: none of the more than ten subsidiaries under Senlian Capital released any related videos or photos.
"Because I don't have any, I can't show them off, hehe!"
A courier from Yunsu Express saw this video during his free time and replied.
"Bullshit! With Brother Sen's personality, how could he not even be willing to give a box of mooncakes?"
"Stop asking nonsense questions! This guy is just pretending! Have you all lost your memory? Senlian Capital was on the hot search during the Dragon Boat Festival last year. Their company never gives out those nonsense things, only money!"
"During the Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, and Spring Festival, 1,000 yuan in cash is given each time. For other holidays, including Qingming Festival, there is a 500 yuan holiday allowance."
Some people questioned it, while others who knew the matter came forward to explain.
When netizens saw this, they couldn't help but exclaim "Wow!"
1,000 yuan in cash is definitely more cost-effective than a box of mooncakes!
This benefit is available to everyone, from project managers to customer service representatives, couriers, delivery drivers, and front-line operators, and is applied equally.
Many workers were instantly devastated after learning about this.
Because for many factories, let alone holiday allowances, they are reluctant to even give out a complete box of mooncakes.
In some companies, it takes two people to share a mooncake!
At three o'clock in the afternoon, a few hours before the holiday, a piece of news about Ali suddenly became a hot topic on Weibo.
When I clicked on the news, I found out that several programmers from Ali had used a script to steal several extra boxes of the company's Mid-Autumn Festival mooncakes, and were actually fired by the company.
Netizens were stunned. Following the "life-seeking judge", Ali caused the mooncake incident again.
at the same time.
Under the leadership of Leggi, the Omoro Armed Front captured the Northern Region in five days and seized a large number of individual weapons, tanks and missile equipment.
Wang Jingtao heard the news as soon as he got off the plane and could only smile bitterly.
(End of this chapter)
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