Reborn 80s

At the end of September, Chen Huaiqing went to the capital to hold a commendation meeting.

Baifu Retail Group received a commendation. During the flood, Baifu Retail's logistics warehouse played an extremely important role in material support.

The material supply in the disaster area was ensured, and there was no significant increase in material prices.

All supermarkets under Baifu Retail are open normally, and the goods in the supermarkets are extremely sufficient.

After Chen Huaiqing came to the capital, he naturally went to Mota Microelectronics to have a look.

Since the purchase of photolithography machine parts by Mota Microelectronics was blocked two years ago, Mota Microelectronics has strengthened its determination.

It is necessary to continuously improve the localization rate of photolithography machines.

In the past, it was Chen Huaiqing who pushed for it, but it is impossible for Chen Huaiqing to say that he has been keeping an eye on it. Sometimes, in order to pursue better performance and convenience, everyone just adopted the internationally available ones.

After all, in the past, Mota Microelectronics was not restricted in parts procurement.

Whatever you want to purchase, you can basically purchase it.

This situation changed a few years ago.

Mota Microelectronics' new generation photolithography machine cannot be produced at all. Not to mention the great losses caused to Mota Microelectronics, it is also an extremely annoying thing for the R&D team.

Not only will it require new research and development, but it will also delay everyone's ability to receive technology dividends.

The Mota300 lithography machine of that year was supposed to be the most advanced lithography machine in the world. Mota Microelectronics would occupy the top of the global market in one fell swoop, knocking out the two Neon lithography machine companies.

According to normal market competition, Mota300 will indeed be invincible in the market.

Moreover, the Mota300 lithography machine is used to produce the Xuanwu 7 chip. The Xuanwu 7 chip will be the most advanced chip in the world and will crush other chips in terms of chip performance.

In January 1996, small batch production began.

As long as there are enough Mota300, it can be launched in large quantities.

But all this was delayed because the initial version of Mota300 could not be mass-produced smoothly.

After the domestic version of Mota300 was successfully developed and debugged, the Xuanwu 7 chip was officially released in the second half of 1997 for small batch supply.

In the market, it is hard to find a "core".

By 1998, the production of Xuanwu 7 chips had increased to meet market demand.

By this time in 1998, computer prices were also falling further.

It should be said that while the price of the previous generation of computers has dropped, the prices of the new generation of computers are still stable.

Xuanwu 6 and Xuanwu 6plus are still quite mainstream in the market, and many computer products still use these two chips.

Compared with the latest Xuanwu 7 chip, the prices of these two chips can be described as cheap.

Become a favorite among assemblers.

As for the Xuanwu 7 chip, it is rarely seen on the market from the main suppliers.

This is a strategy of Sixiang Technology, which is to supply goods in large quantities without engaging in retail sales.

Prioritize the interests of computer manufacturers so that computer manufacturers can purchase more products from Sixiang Technology.

After all, Sixiang Technology does not mean that it is the only one in the market.

In the global market, Sixiang Technology has quite a few competitors.

If Sixiang Technology achieves a monopoly, then it can do whatever it wants.

But now, it doesn’t!

In fact, judging from the development of Iter Company, after Iter actually monopolized the PC chip market, various computer manufacturers are also very uneasy.

Otherwise, after AMD's new chips come out, AMD versions of computers will not be launched one after another.

At this time, there are really many powerful chip companies in the international market.

At this time, more than half of the top ten chip companies in the world are in North America. In the mainland, Sixiang Technology is the only one.

The other is Neon's chip company. At this time, Neon Semiconductor seems to be still strong, but it is in a period of decline.

Mota Microelectronics was previously suppressed, which affected the entire semiconductor industry chain.

This also makes everyone clearly realize that if you want to reach the top, there will definitely be various difficulties and hardships along the way.

Then you must strengthen yourself so that you do not have any weaknesses that others can attack.

Now Mota Microelectronics' R&D team no longer prioritizes purchasing components from abroad when conducting research and development.

Instead, give priority to using domestic products. If it doesn't work, use foreign products.

The rapid development of the entire semiconductor industry has also driven the development of other industries.

The importance of the semiconductor industry is becoming more and more prominent, and the domestic semiconductor industry is now a dominant industry, so the country will naturally invest more resources to support it.

Basically, all major universities offer computer courses if they have the conditions. The integrated circuit design major is also a must-have major in science and engineering universities.

The development of an industry really cannot develop if there are not enough talents to support it.

At Mota Microelectronics, Chen Huaiqing saw the latest product of Mota Microelectronics.

"This is the most advanced lithography machine Mota260 that we have mass-produced and sold at this stage, and now it is fully supplied to Mota Semiconductor's needs."

Mota Microelectronics’ lithography machines must be supplied to Mota Semiconductor first.

Of course, if other semiconductor manufacturers want to buy it, such as Iter and PMC, then Mota Microelectronics will also sell it.

The price is the same as the price sold to Motta Semiconductor, and there will be no price increase or the like.

Because when it was sold to Motta Semiconductor, the price was already expensive enough.

With the development of technology, the current lithography machine technology is really different from that of more than ten years ago.

Before 1985, chip manufacturing technology was still at the micron level.

But now, it has already reached the nanometer level.

1 micron\u003d1000 nanometers.

The diameter of a hair is 80-90 microns.

The technical difficulty is getting higher and higher. Once many photolithography companies fall behind in technological development, it can basically be said that they will fall behind directly.

In the stage of rapid technological development, it is basically impossible to catch up after falling behind.

Unless what?

The development of technology has slowed down or even fallen into a stagnant stage. As long as a certain company can persist, it will always catch up one day.

"Are there any other companies that want to purchase?"

"have!"

Chen Huaiqing tapped his fingers gently on his leg, thinking.

Giving all the photolithography machines to Mota Semiconductor will naturally be extremely beneficial to the development of Mota Semiconductor.

Motta Semiconductor is the world's largest semiconductor foundry company.

Motta Semiconductor's competitors are companies like PMC, while Sixiang Technology's competitors are companies like Iter.

As for Mota Microelectronics’ competitors?

There are not many lithography machine companies in the world now, led by Neon's two lithography machine companies and Mota Microelectronics.

There are also other lithography machine companies that are not doing very well.

The price of Mota Microelectronics' mid-to-low-end lithography machines is much lower than theirs.

They simply can't compete.

Whether it is a front-end lithography machine or a back-end lithography machine, Mota Microelectronics is extremely powerful.

There are still competitors for front-end lithography machines, but in terms of back-end lithography machines, Mota Microelectronics ranks first in the industry, directly knocking out Neon's lithography machine companies from this market.