Chapter 297 Semiconductor War
When looking at problems, you should put yourself in others' shoes and look at it from the environment in which they grew up and lived.
Daxia’s unique system relies on collective strength, focusing on one point, assigning tasks to do big things. Under the leadership of Red Faith, the originally slightly chaotic forces can quickly gather together, and the project can also achieve great breakthroughs.
In the current economic system under the leadership of Western capital, including neon island countries, when R&D tasks or plans are planned, the process of research projects is generally led by enterprises for industry-research cooperation.
The former requires too much faith, self-discipline, and discipline, while the latter requires higher investment in resources and mobilizing the inner desires of R&D personnel.
Of course, there are many forces that are inseparable from each other. Today they are friends, but they are flirting with each other, and tomorrow they are enemies. If you hit me, I will hit you.
When Korean Star merged with GlobalFoundries and wanted to break through the restrictions and become the overlord in the semiconductor field, but was sniped by Kyushu Technology midway, Neon also restricted the export of a wave of advanced materials to Korea in order to not make things easier for Korean Star, and waited until Korean Star's development of the semiconductor industry was blocked. At that time, it did not turn around to deal with Daxia. Instead, it intensified the sanctions on Goryeo and launched a second wave of war bans. It is expected that as many as 857 important materials will be restricted from exporting to Goryeo. According to experts, this move will Seriously affecting Korea's semiconductor and panel industries.
It was this move in the second round that was somewhat suspected of beating a drowned dog that made the news hot in one fell swoop.
There are many speculations about the dispute between the two, but when Gu Qing talked about this matter at the company meeting, he was talking and laughing.
Today is a regular meeting of the middle and senior management of Jiuzhou Technology. Boss Gu talked about some old almanacs of the industry to remind the executives to "not forget history."
Taking a sip of hot tea, Gu Qing looked at the full management and said with a smile:
“Goryeo and Neon have been fighting fiercely in the semiconductor industry for half a century.
Therefore, the recent restrictions imposed by neon-related departments on Korea’s semiconductor industry are actually not a new move.
Even if the Korean prince came to visit him, he would probably be rejected by the Japanese. "
"Hahaha." There was a tacit laugh from the audience.
Gu Qing always tells some unpopular stories about the industry at meetings, so the atmosphere in such meetings is not serious.
Boss Gu sighed and said: "There is a saying that is appropriate for the situation. Summer friendship depends on the Han Dynasty, and the same goes for the semiconductor dispute between Neon and Goryeo.
In the 1950s, a neon young man knocked on the purchasing door of Bulova America. He wanted to promote the company's newly developed small radio. Of course, the company that developed the small radio later changed its name to SONY. (Sony is extremely guilty)
This is a somewhat cliche plot. After the defeat of the war, neon gradually spread to the United States and the world through the advancement of the low-end industrial chain, including radios, televisions and other semiconductor products.
In the 1960s and 1970s, when Neon's economy was at its most prosperous, Neon's semiconductor products had swept across the American home appliance market.
At this time, the Neon people began to carry forward the old tradition. "
Without being too pretentious, Gu Qing took some time off and continued:
“In order to catch up with the world leader, the Neon Island Government took the lead and invested more than 70 billion yen in the research and development of integrated circuits.
This project was successful and brought many dividends to the Neon semiconductor industry.
Various chip manufacturing technologies, including photolithography, etching, equipment, process and other patents are owned by Neon people.
The new products brought by these new technologies began to have a crazy impact on the global semiconductor industry. Intel, which was still at its peak at that time, was soon defeated by Neon Semiconductor. Under huge financial losses, Intel laid off employees. More than seven thousand people.
At this time, Neon reached a situation similar to our current situation in Daxia.
Unable to win a normal competition within the industry, America chose to resort to outside competition.
In the late 1980s, the American Semiconductor Industry Association complained about unfair competition in the Neon Semiconductor industry. Then, with the help of many forces, the famous "Advertisement Agreement" was signed.
Neon's official currency began to appreciate, and all of Neon's exported commodities increased in price.
This is not a big blow to foreign trade, but even so, the robbers are still not satisfied. They ruled that Neon chips were dumped and imposed a 100% anti-dumping tax on Neon.
It also forced Neon to sign the "Semiconductor Safeguard Agreement", requiring Neon to open its intellectual property rights and patents in the semiconductor industry to the United States.
After a series of events happened, Neon was completely reduced to a wage earner under the gangsters.
And in order to prevent Neon from being defeated again, Meili also supported another wage earner - Korean Korean star.
After Hanxing obtained investment and technology, in addition to making products, it also vigorously tapped talents in the neon semiconductor industry.
At that time, Neon was suppressed and the island's economy was in devastation. These talents were easily poached.
Like taking a powerful pill, Korean stars absorbed technology and talents from two countries and began to make waves in the semiconductor industry.
Of course, there are still three jins in the bad ship. While Neon dominated in the early stage, it also allowed its semiconductor materials company to occupy a larger share in the chip manufacturing material link.
For example, important materials such as silicon wafers, synthetic semiconductor wafers, photoresists, protective coatings, ceramic plates, thin film polycrystals, and packaging materials all accounted for more than 40% of the global share before our semiconductor department developed its capabilities.
And these "legacy" are also weapons used by Japan to restrict the development of Hanxing Semiconductor, so Japan will not let Hanxing go so easily. "
After briefly explaining some key points, some of these executives who originally did not know the reason also knew the struggle between the two forces.
"This is just like dog bites dog."
A young manager in the audience sighed softly.
Unfortunately, he ignored the atmosphere of the conference room at the moment, so this sigh was also heard by many people.
"Hahaha, that's right, it's dog bites dog."
"That makes sense!"
"First you raise an ungrateful wolf, then you raise a mutt, and you will take your life while you are sick, very insightful."
Boss Gu glanced at the young manager who was teased and blushed, and smiled softly: "The words are rough but the truth is true, it is indeed so. "
Seeing the atmosphere being mobilized, Gu Qing's expression changed, and he said quite seriously: "So trade frictions and technological disputes are not routines that have only appeared today.
There have been, there are now, and there will be in the future. As Daxia develops faster and faster, the overlords at the top will feel more and more threatened, and there will be more challenges in the future.
Take the semiconductor industry as an example. Neon wants to climb up and return to its dominant position. So does Hanxing, and so do we.
But I believe that we will definitely win in the end, because our lithography machine has broken through the limitations and has found a way out with the new light source, while Hanxing and Neon still have to rely on others in this regard. "