So I picked up the phone and talked to IBM to explain the situation. After all, IBM is one of the technology shareholders of the wafer foundry, and they can't just watch the lithography machine run out of photoresist.
However, due to the different models, IBM said that their photoresist technology might not be suitable for Philips' machines.
Moreover, IBM kindly allowed Xing Baohua to crash into the Japanese, using Canon or Nikon.
Well, they hate him even more than Philips does; even after he places an order, they don't want to make money off him.
Well, he's the chairman of Nikon now, so let's give it a try and see if he can provide us with photoresist.
The problem of the light source has not been substantially resolved, and now another problem has arisen.
IBM replied that they would send someone over as soon as possible to provide technical support and find the verified photoresist. If they couldn't do it, they could only hope that the Japanese could provide the technology.
This guy is having a bit of a headache. Philips is such a good partner! How could they turn on him so suddenly?
Should we go to Europe again to talk to them?
Xing Baohua thought for a moment, then sighed. "A good horse doesn't turn back to eat the grass it already grazed. We have to tough it out. If we rely on outsiders, they can cut off our supply at any time. Who can stand that?"
He then contacted the lithography institute to find relevant units for joint research and development. He would provide the lithography institute with funds through Huahong Bank as experimental funding for the research and development of photoresist.
The remittance of ten million US dollars was quickly transferred to the Lu Zhonghua Hong branch through Huahong Bank.
The research and development funding for photoresist is only ten million yuan, which is just the start-up capital. This stuff is a bottomless pit!
Achieving complete domestic production of semiconductors is a very long and arduous journey.
The whole country is full of solution integrators; the most tragic thing is not having your own technology.
OPPO actually wanted to get into the chip business, investing tens of billions of yuan, but after spending all the money raised by investors, they stopped because they couldn't keep going.
It's not about the money. If OPPO just opens its mouth, it's not a big deal whether it loses hundreds of billions or even trillions of dollars.
The key is to have a precedent to learn from!
OPPO only has one final assembly workshop. If it runs out of goods from its suppliers, it will shut down and face severe disruptions, making it extremely unprofitable.
So they backed down immediately after burning through over 10 billion.
Even if we ignore the eldest brother, Xing Baohua is also being harassed by Philips, the giant in the windmill country. They're not supplying him with photoresist, so he can't replicate his 286. And with less supply, how can he supply the eldest brother?
Subsequently, Xing Baohua sent an encrypted email to Geng Rui, asking if there were any files about their photoresist on the IBM hard drive.
Believe it or not, it actually exists. Geng Rui sent Xing Baohua a list of IBM lithography machine patents from 1976.
After looking at it for a while, Xing Baohua couldn't help but sigh, "We can't even replicate the technology they had more than a decade ago."
He couldn't understand many of the things and words on it.
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