Compared with the unprecedented grandness of the exhibition area where manufacturers such as the United States, Japan and Japan are located, the European exhibition area is much deserted.

Although there are many manufacturers, Wan Feng can name not many of them, and he has even never heard of many of them.

In this way he has no purpose.

Wan Feng wandered around aimlessly. Judging from the feedback from his eyesight, he would not have spent more than two hours in this exhibition area.

Maybe I'll be out in an hour.

Most of the manufacturer's booths here are relatively ordinary. There are few fancy costumes, no glamorous models, and nothing eye-catching.

His footsteps have not stopped since he entered this exhibition area, and he has been walking.

In other exhibition areas, he almost always walked around and looked around, but here he just walked around and looked around without stopping at all.

So we quickly reached the final corner area.

The manufacturers here are not so much here for the exhibition as they are here to make up the numbers.

Wan Feng felt that the products on display were handmade in family workshops.

Probably they can't afford to rent a good booth, so they have to deal with it in a place like this.

Maybe if you sign a deal, you will make money in vain, and if you fail to sign a deal, you won't lose much.

After all, the price of the booth at this place is probably not much different if you get it for free.

At this time, a manufacturer's booth attracted Wan Feng's attention.

This manufacturer's booth was empty, except for a computer and a box.

There were two middle-aged men with haggard expressions sitting listlessly, not talking to each other.

The computer is obviously not new, so we can be sure that the other party is not selling computers.

If a computer seller is placed in a corner like this, who would buy it?

So what is this manufacturer doing here?

Even if other manufacturers have shabby booths, they at least have a few products. What are they doing here?

Selling people?

It would be possible if these were two beautiful girls, but who would buy these two bald men?

Wan Feng subconsciously looked up at the manufacturer's name: ASMI.

The name of this manufacturer, Wanfeng, seemed familiar, but after thinking about it for a long time, I couldn't remember who it was.

If I can't remember it, I won't think about it.

We are almost at the end of the exhibition area here, and there seems to be a manufacturer's booth in front of it.

Wan Feng turned around and prepared to lead Han Guang's family out to find a Chinese restaurant for a meal.

European food is terrible.

Wan Feng suspected that foreigners' digestive systems were still in their original state. How did they eat and digest the food that only animals can eat?

The people from the embassy told them that there were several good Chinese restaurants run by overseas Chinese on such and such streets.

"Let's go! Get out! Find a restaurant owned by overseas Chinese and have a good meal. I feel like my intestines are going to be knotted these past two days."

"Don't watch it?"

"It's boring. If you don't understand or understand, it's just a waste of time."

The two people started to walk out, and when they were about to leave the west exhibition area, they saw Mi Guangnan and his group.

"Xiao Wan! Have you finished reading this area?" Mi Guangnan asked in surprise.

"I just took a quick look at it, but it's not interesting. Do you want to go in and take a look?"

"We plan to spend half a day looking around here, and we will mainly visit the east exhibition area tomorrow."

Unfortunately, for more than a day and a half, they stayed in the middle exhibition area.

"Then you go in, and we go out to find two restaurants owned by people from our country. When we find one, I will take you to have a good meal."

"Okay! This is a good idea. We can't eat the food from foreigners anymore. Finally, we can find something to eat in the evening."

Wan Feng waved goodbye to them, and after walking a few steps, he turned around and called out to Mi Guangnan: "Mr. Mi, what does ASMI mean?"

"Asmi or Asmai."

Wan Feng nodded to show that he remembered, and turned back to walk outside again, thinking about Asmi as he walked.

Asmi? Asmi?

When he was about to walk out of the hall, Wan Feng suddenly remembered what Asimi was doing.

Isn’t this the famous Helan factory that made photolithography machines in later generations?

The most critical lithography equipment for making chips.

A machine sells for 1.2 billion yuan, which makes them a huge profit.

Wan Feng stopped and his head began to spin rapidly.

He was recalling an article he had read.

Before his rebirth, ZTE had just been strangled by the United States. It was then that he became interested in chips and read countless articles on chips, one of which mentioned the development of lithography machines.

The second most important process in chip production is development, which is to carve geometric structures on the photoresist layer.

In the 1970s, the technology used in this process was a lens-type developing device.

Feilipu began to develop lens-type non-contact lithography equipment in the early 1970s, and launched new lithography equipment around 1973.

Although it has achieved success in overall performance, it is expensive and has a series of technical problems, making it difficult to promote commercially.

At the same time, some manufacturers in the United States and Japan solved a series of problems with contact lithography machines.

Feilipu believed that this lithography machine had no future, so it shut down the group.

At this time Asmi appeared.

At that time, ASMI was just a semiconductor equipment agent at the beginning. Later it entered the chip packaging field, and now it has expanded to front-end equipment.

When they learned about Feilipu's plan, they thought Feilipu's research was very valuable and came excitedly.

Feilipu was determined to close the project, but it could not withstand Asimi's insistence and transferred the project to Asimi at a very low price around 1984.

Asimi thought he could succeed in research and development, so he spent money on research.

But the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.

Asimi faced several problems as soon as he took over. The first was that the technology was backward. After all, Feilipu developed this technology more than ten years ago. It became obsolete during the long wait and could no longer meet the needs of the market.

The second is market saturation. At that time, there were several lithography machines competing in the market, including the Japanese Nikon and Canon, as well as the American GCA, ASET, Eaton, Ultrach, and a democratic company.

What they sell are contact lithography machines, and they have almost carved up all the market share.

The last problem is, of course, no money.

ASML has been struggling for several years and is now probably on the verge of bankruptcy.

After recalling, a question came to Wan Feng's mind: What are they doing here?

From the looks of it, they definitely weren't selling products because they didn't carry any products at all.

Since they are not here to promote products, it looks like they are planning to exchange these technologies for a few bucks?

Wan Feng's heart beat for no reason.

He took a deep breath to calm down his heart.

"Go back!" Wan Feng suddenly said this, then turned around and walked towards the West District Exhibition Hall again.

Han Guangjia was stunned for a moment and shook his head helplessly.
Chapter completed!