Chapter 60 The sense of urgency after the end of ISSCC

ASM shipped a total of 217 units in 1999, and 22 of these 217 units were refurbished units.

By comparison, 162 units were shipped in 1998, 7 of which were refurbished.

This reflects the gradual improvement of the entire semiconductor market.

Full-year net sales in 1999 were 1.197 billion euros, while net income was only 81 million euros, with a gross profit margin of 33.4%.

Net R&D costs in 1999 reached 138 million euros, including a large number of labor costs. By the end of 1999, the entire ASML workforce was close to 3,000 people.

Zhou Xin wanted to buy ASML before 2004. The first problem was to convince Philips Semiconductors and ASM International, and the second problem was to circumvent regulatory restrictions.

Amerikan is very likely to intervene in this matter.

If you are unable to purchase ASML, you can consider purchasing other second-tier lithography machine factories and use the cognitive advantages of key nodes to achieve overtaking in corners.

Of course, the localization of the semiconductor industry chain is far from simple, and ASML cannot produce a photolithography machine on its own.

When the first demo was made, Stephen and Ashley realized that this would be another popular game.

In other words, Zhou Xin is originally a cold-blooded animal who only cares about looks and has no emotions.

We can always see Chinese scholars in the future.

For Hu Zhengming, this kind of conference is, firstly, to absorb the most cutting-edge knowledge in the industry and understand industry trends, and secondly, to communicate.

Designed from the beginning of the year, a team of fifty people worked for more than half a year to develop the new game, "Plants vs. Zombies."

As long as China can successfully join the WTO, it will be able to undertake the transfer of the European and American semiconductor industries.

At this time, Shida Semiconductor, founded by Zhang Rujing Hui Wanwan, had achieved mass production and profitability.

(I have some doubts here, that is, the information I found on the Internet said that in 2005, the mainland's foreign-funded company IDT-NEWAVE published the first paper on simulation on behalf of the mainland at ISSCC. It is generally believed that 2005 was the first time for mainland China to present at ISSCC.

Published papers on.

Zhou Xin’s only regret in participating in the ISSCC this time is that he did not meet Zhang Rujing.

Complete the accumulation of original customers.

After returning to Silicon Valley, Zhou Xin's game production company is now renamed Flamingo Game Development Company, and the company logo is an angry red flamingo.

This allowed the two people who were dissatisfied with Zhou Xin to monopolize shares of Riot Games and whose valuation exceeded 3 billion, to regain their psychological balance.

For the whole year of 1999, semiconductor sales in mainland China were only a little over 40 million US dollars, accounting for 0.04% of the world's total, which was not even a fraction of ASML's annual net sales.

In 2000, before China joined the WTO, it decided to return to China to build a factory. This was a very courageous thing to do.

Not everyone has a sense of serving the country and a long-term vision.

It was also after Shida was sold that Zhang Rujing returned to China to establish SMIC.

Moreover, Zhang Rujing plans to build the first and second factories of Shida in Wanwan, and the third to tenth factories in mainland China.

Zhang is an inescapable figure in the development of China's semiconductor industry.

This takes time, and Wanwan and Gao Li also came through this way back then.

“I don’t feel that much. What everyone does is great, but I still have a lot of shortcomings.

A 2B Parallel 1.25 Gb/s Interconnect I/O Interface with Self-Configurable Link and Plesiochronous Clocking,” 1999 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), San Francisco, CA, USA, pp.180-181.

But I couldn’t find this paper on the IEEE’s official website and his personal homepage. Before getting the answer, I first wrote it based on the fact that China’s first ISSCC conference paper was written in 2005.)

Seeing that Zhou Xin was not in a very high mood, Hu Zhengming knew that he was worried about the development of China's semiconductor industry, so he said: "The transfer of the semiconductor industry is a process.

There are many friends and many paths, and there is no guarantee that I will switch from academia to the industry.

Just when Zhang Rujing was preparing to make a big move, Shida's major shareholder, without Zhang Rujing's knowledge, secretly negotiated with TSMC to sell the company to TSMC for US$5 billion next year.

Now it's just the company's logo.

Therefore, the design of the game has been unanimously recognized by everyone since it was launched.

At the same time, the deeper feeling is that China still has a long way to go in the overall integrated circuit field."

Zhou Xin fell into a workaholic state again. He originally wanted to hook up with Elmo and enjoy the exotic scenery. After he resumed his work and scientific research rhythm, he had no time to see her at all.

SMIC will be registered in the Cayman Islands in April next year.

Hu Zhengming asked on the way back to Berkeley from San Francisco.

They also need 5,000 suppliers from around the world to supply them.

However, even if Zhou Xin met Zhang Rujing, he had no angle to remind him, and the price offered by TSMC was a price that Shida Semiconductor's major shareholder could not refuse.

They plan to incorporate flamingos into the game by the time of Angry Birds' 10th anniversary.

After going to ISSCC for a walk, the sense of urgency that had been relieved by the era of wealth freedom and integration was once again full.

Then I found on the homepage of Gai Weixin, dean of the School of Integrated Circuits at Peking University, that he published a paper on ISSCC in 1999, titled:

They were inferior to each other in terms of vision and ability. Zhou Xin was their core competitiveness. Once again, Ashley and Stephen realized this. After adjusting their mentality, they began to devote all their energy to the production of new games.

The company IDT-NEWAVE is preceded by IDT, followed by NEWAVE by Xintao Technology, a joint venture established after IDT acquired Xintao Technology. Among them, Yang Chonghe, one of the founders of Xintao Technology, later founded the company that is now on the Science and Technology Innovation Board.

Listed Montage Technology.

Zhou Xin has high hopes for "Plants vs. Zombies".

This high hope does not mean to achieve financial success, but to use this game to open up a living space for NewPay, which is about to be officially launched.

"How is it? How do you feel about this ISSCC conference?"

"At the ISSCC meeting, I didn't see any scholars from China, which made me feel a little frustrated." Zhou Xin continued.

This is also a market-proven and enduring game, and it is also in line with their consistent style.

This requires a process.”

Therefore, even if Zhou Xin has the opportunity to buy ASML, he must cultivate related enterprises in the upstream and downstream of China's industrial chain.

"We are going to do the final version of testing, and we expect to release it this Friday. Along with electronic payment, we still support the earliest transfer payment method, but if we use electronic payment, we will give it certain additional discounts."

Zhou Xin started preparing very early for the launch of "Plants vs. Zombies" and the launch of NewPay.

Riot Games has been promoting about a month ago that they are about to launch their own electronic payment software. If you use the electronic payment software to pay, you can enjoy a 20% discount on your first order.

You can enjoy discounts ranging from 10% to 9.5% off on every subsequent order.

As for Plants vs. Zombies, it attracted players through the game layout and the release of a small number of live demonstration screens.
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