The International Semiconductor Equipment and Materials Industry Association, as an international neutral organization in the semiconductor industry around the world, released the semiconductor industry information for 2013 at the end of December 2013.

This most authoritative industrial report immediately sparked heated discussions around the world.

The report released changes in the international semiconductor industry this year, especially the two fields of semiconductor raw materials and semiconductor equipment, which caused an uproar.

China's semiconductor equipment manufacturers have collectively climbed to the forefront of the world.

Among them, Shenguang Instruments surpassed ASMA in lithography machines and became the world's top lithography machine manufacturer; microelectronics surpassed Japan Nikon and Canon to become the world's third largest lithography machine manufacturer.

In the field of etching machines, China Micro Semiconductors and applied materials ranked first in the world, and Northern Huachuang was second in the world.

Among the other seven sub-sectors, China's semiconductor equipment manufacturers have caught up with the world's first-class level, among which the coating machine technology is also the world's top.

In the semiconductor raw materials industry, Shenguang Instruments are also not to be outdone in terms of photoresist. After all, this is the only one of x-ray photoresist, which is a real monopoly business.

China has also improved silicon wafers, silicon wafer cleaners, ion implanters, etc.

Asmay, Applied Materials, Tokyo Electronics, and Shintsuki, these traditional semiconductor equipment or materials companies were feeling stressed at this time.

Los Angeles, USA, Applied Materials Company is located in Silicon Valley.

Since they are the world's top companies in semiconductor equipment and raw materials, they have to face the China Semiconductor Equipment Corps headed by Shenguang Instruments.

At this time, the company's president's office was in a bleak state of sorrow.

President Robert James looked at the report in his hand and couldn't help but feel bleeding. Due to unprecedented fierce competition, their revenue this year has dropped by 27% compared with 2012, and their net profit has directly turned into negative 11%.

"James, we have to think of a way now, otherwise we won't last long." Chief Technology Executive George Hall looked anxious.

"How?..." James also looked sad.

Now that the company's stock is falling a lot, many directors are already putting pressure on them, he is in great difficulty.

Suddenly the phone rang at the desk, and he saw that it was President Wen Ningke of Asmay.

"Hello, why did Wen call here if he has time?"

"Okay James, let's just talk!"

“Ok.”

"We need to put pressure on Vassia to let them lift restrictions as soon as possible, otherwise the consequences..." Wenningk's subsequent words were self-evident.

But James frowned: "We two companies?"

"No, it's all semiconductor equipment companies together." Wen Ningke said firmly.

The two of them negotiated for a long time and finally decided to put pressure on Western officials to lift the restrictions on semiconductor equipment.

In this way, they can enter the hinterland of China. As for the troubles in the chip manufacturing industry, if you die, you will definitely give priority to your own survival now.

They immediately connected the capital force behind it and immediately started to operate it, so that the restrictions on semiconductor equipment and raw materials that were restricted from exporting from the Warehouse Association will be lifted as soon as possible

However, they have more than just applied materials. The next step is to reduce prices and promote sales to seize the Chinese and world markets.

Finally, it is legal battles, the favorite method of high-tech industry giants - patent wars.

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Gao Zhiyuan looked at the piles of lawyer's letters in his hand and the subpoena from the US Federal Court, and couldn't help but sneer.

He knew that these foreigners like to play with this method. In fact, the Divine Light Instruments had been wary of this situation.

Otherwise, they would not have chosen the x-ray lithography machine at the beginning, just to avoid being challenged by Asmay on extreme ultraviolet photolithography machines.

However, other semiconductor equipment companies will experience technical overlaps, which is an inevitable situation.

He immediately notified the subsidiaries and partners to respond, and at the same time appealed to the Chinese court that the other party infringed on patents, using this as a counterattack.

Since you want to fight a patent war, you cannot passively respond and take the initiative to attack. At worst, you can hurt each other and don’t know who will win in the end.

At the same time, Shenguang Instruments sent a large number of researchers to help subsidiaries or partners avoid other parties' patents as much as possible.

Then, I worked hard to develop new technologies and constantly covered the original technologies with new technologies, so that I could be foolproof.

Of course, these foreigners must be trying to be hooligan. Gao Zhiyuan knew that he might lose when he went to the United States to sue, but time must be delayed slowly, and it would be best to fight for four or five years.

With the development speed of Shenguang Instruments, we will take advantage of our powerful technical advantages to directly crush the other party, causing these companies to go bankrupt.

The appeal in the Chinese court is to make the other party take risks. Once the federal court dares to attack, don't blame the Chinese court for giving the other party the same way.

At the beginning of the patent war between the two sides, the public opinion war broke out.

There are news and hot discussions on both sides everywhere on the Internet at home and abroad.

January 1.

Two self-produced memory particles from Changjiang Storage have been officially released worldwide.

Jiangcheng, Yangtze River Storage Memory Particle Press Conference.

President Yang Shining trotted onto the stage in the spotlight with a little excitement, and he took the microphone:

"Dear guests are welcome to participate in the press conference of the Yangtze River Wave Memory Particles, and also welcome viewers who watch it online."

Slap... Most of the scenes were Chinese, and their families must have applause and encouragement.

"Now, I personally introduce to you the Yangtze River Wave-1 and Yangtze River Wave-2."

Yang Shining introduced the performance of Yangtze River Wave 1 and Yangtze River Wave 2 in detail, and finally gave a price similar to the market price.

Although this price is losing money and gaining publicity, Sanxin, Hynix, Micron and others have already lowered the price, and Yangtze Storage can only deal with it according to their own moves.

After entering the reporter's questioning session, the guy who was looking for trouble came indeed.

A reporter from the East Asia Ilbo asked with a microphone: "President Yang, is it true that Sanxin Electronics sued Changjiang Storage for infringement of memory patents?"

Obviously, the reporter's question was intentionally causing ambiguity. Is she asking whether the prosecution is true or the patent infringement is true.

"First, Sanxin Electronics did sue Changjiang Storage; second, our company did not infringe on Sanxin's patent." Yang Shining was not deceived.

"Then why is your company's chip design speed so fast? This obviously goes against the general rules of chip design." The reporter pursued him relentlessly.

Yang Shining replied coldly: "The rules are used to break them, and we have adopted a brand new design concept."

Before the reporter could continue to ask questions, Yang Shining took the lead: "Our memory particle process is 16 nanometers. What process does Sanxin Electronics use for memory particles?"

Well... the reporter was speechless.

Of course, Sanxin cannot use the 16-nanometer process to produce memory particles. The memory particles in the international community generally use 22 or 24-nanometers. The main reason is that this process is very mature, the equipment requirements are low, and the yield is high.

Sanxin Electronics' 16-nanometer process is used to produce high-end products such as CPU and graphics cards.

Now other reporters didn't dare to ask this question, but turned to other questions, such as when will the 32g memory particles be mass-produced, and whether there are any plans to produce other chips.

While Yangtze River Storage releases memory particles.

On the same day, Vancouver announced the lifting of the ban on semiconductor equipment and materials. It seems that ASMA and Applied Materials are moving very quickly.
Chapter completed!