Chapter 1137 Incredible Operation
Asmail's EUV lithography machines are priced as high as 100 million US dollars. Is the 60-picometer level lithography machine of Xingchen Group expensive at 500 million US dollars?
Not expensive.
Really not expensive.
The gap between the two can be made up with $400 million, and I believe many companies are willing to spend this money.
Xingchen Group announced the cooperation with Huawei Group, which gave them hope of purchasing.
I am not afraid that your price is high, but I am afraid that you will not sell.
Many high-end technologies in the world require the support of high-end chips.
The production of high-end chips will inevitably require a lithography machine.
In fact, there are many theoretical knowledge, all because the current technology does not meet the requirements, resulting in unverifiable.
This time, the lithography machine developed by Xingchen Group has made a big step forward in the top scientific and technological strength.
One can expect explosive growth in the tech world over the next few years.
However, there is no need to wait until a few years from now.
Since the birth of Xingchen Group, the technological strength it has displayed has already left most people behind.
This makes many people or companies who are committed to researching a certain research very uncomfortable. When the project they have been researching for a long time is about to bear fruit, the other party comes out with mature technology, and it is the kind of technology that can be used immediately.
How to do this.
For more than half a year, the R&D team that has been destroyed by Xingchen Group is not a little bit, it is simply countless.
The most important thing to say is that it is a universal drug for cancer treatment, which directly defeats all the teams developing cancer treatment, and the losses caused are inestimable.
The reality is so cruel, whoever has the leading technology has the right to speak.
When you see a certain technology or a certain product appearing on the market, you don't know how many colleagues died in his hands behind the scenes.
Cruel to peers, but good news for those who need related technology.
The more people competing, the better.
At present, the lithography machine of Xingchen Group can basically be said to have no rivals.
Even Asmail's top lithography machine is not far behind, let alone other companies.
The Xingchen Group's lithography machine is in an absolute monopoly position, and the price is not up to them.
The cooperation between Xingchen Group and Huawei Group is like a signal to inform others that we have lithography machines for sale here.
For a time, everyone who paid attention to the lithography machine focused on the Xingchen Group.
Some companies that need a lithography machine, and some powerful companies, have begun to consult Xingchen Group on how to buy it.
Such a thing as a lithography machine is time-consuming and labor-intensive to build. If you reach a cooperation with Xingchen Group earlier, you can use it earlier.
Slow down and don't know where to go.
Fortunately, the customer service system of Xingchen Group is mainly controlled by artificial intelligence, otherwise it will be bombed to death by those companies.
In fact, using artificial intelligence to serve as customer service is nothing new.
As early as many years ago, artificial intelligence programs have been used for customer service.
Most of the things that customer service needs to deal with are repetitive tasks, and this type of work is most likely to be replaced by artificial intelligence.
Therefore, when artificial intelligence research is still in its infancy, most companies choose artificial intelligence to replace human customer service, leaving only a small part of human customer service.
After all, the current artificial intelligence is relatively rigid, and naturally it cannot be compared with real people when it serves.
This is also where the customer service of many companies is criticized, but in order to save money, they still choose AI customer service.
Compared with manual work, why spend so much money on a problem that a program can solve.
However, recently, due to the authorization of Xingchen Group to open up artificial intelligence, some companies have chosen to use real artificial intelligence as customer service.
Efficiency went up immediately.
The customer service of Xingchen Group is also an artificial intelligence customer service, but compared with the artificial intelligence of other companies, the artificial intelligence of Xingchen Group is a higher level.
Because this is Feiyun in control, Feiyun now belongs to intermediate artificial intelligence, and has come a long way in intermediate artificial intelligence.
Artificial intelligence also has levels. It seems that there is only one level difference between the primary and intermediate levels, but in actual use, you can find a huge difference between them.
Before obtaining the authorization of the company, the customer service of Xingchen Group directly rejected the purchase requests of those companies.
However, Liu Mingyu soon received a report from Feiyun.
The report details all the companies that intend to buy lithography machines, and makes it clear that the background of each other's companies is very different.
If these companies know that they are just coming to Xingchen Group to inquire about the price, and their old background has been exposed, I am afraid they will consider whether to buy Xingchen Group's lithography machine.
There are many companies that come to inquire, but there are actually very few companies that have the strength to buy lithography machines.
500 million US dollars for a lithography machine, this is still the price under favorable conditions, and the real transaction price may be higher.
Such a high price is not affordable for ordinary companies.
When I opened the report, the first thing I saw was Feidian and the Four Star Group.
This made Liu Mingyu smile a little. Not long ago, the two companies also issued a notice of suspension of supply to themselves.
Unexpectedly, there is no need to wait for 30 years for Feng Shui to take turns. In just over a month, the status of both parties has undergone a major reversal.
Feidian Group also expressed that it was very helpless. Xingchen Group developed a 60-picometer lithography machine. In addition to Asmail, the most influential person was Feidian Group.
Feidian Group and Four Star Group are currently the two largest chip foundries in the world.
More than half of the lithography machines produced by Asmar were purchased by these two companies.
Now there is a 60-picometer lithography machine suddenly, and the two companies have suffered a lot.
In the past, when the chip was upgraded, it was gradually replaced and replaced.
While producing a new generation of chips, while producing the old generation of lithography machines, this operation will not greatly affect his chip manufacturing business.
They can even use this news to increase the price in disguise.
Yes, you heard that right.
At the same time as the replacement, the old generation of chips not only did not drop in price, but instead increased in price due to insufficient production capacity.
In such a situation, in addition to the chip industry, which other industry has such a strange phenomenon?
Feidian Group and Four-Star Group sometimes set fire to their own processing plants when their products were unsalable due to overcapacity, so as to achieve the purpose of raising prices.
Who would have thought of such a rude operation?
And similar sleazy operations, they have done more than once.
Whether it was actually burned or not is unknown.
Anyway, the purpose of the final price increase has been achieved.