Magic City, Huaxin International!

As the largest and number one chip manufacturer in China, Huaxin International's importance and status are unquestionable.

It is no exaggeration to say that Huaxin International has a strategic position in China, which can be seen from the name starting with "Huaxin" that the core of China!

This is true. Huaxin International is a manufacturer in China with the most advanced lithography machines, the most advanced chip manufacturing processes and manufacturing capabilities. It is unique.

Although these "advanced" lag four to five generations behind foreign countries, others are 3 nanometers, and Huaxin International is still working hard for 14 nanometers, but it is the most advanced in China.

There are not many chip manufacturers in China, most of which are dozens or hundreds of nanometers, and 14 nanometers are undoubtedly the ceiling level.

Although Huaxin International's market value is only more than 300 billion yuan, it is still not as good as those mobile phone ODM manufacturers, and even more so than those Internet manufacturers with a market value of one trillion yuan. But its importance is that those mobile phone ODM manufacturers and Internet manufacturers cannot catch up with it even if they are successful.

When the market environment is bad, if the mobile phone ODM manufacturer and Internet giants are not good, then it won’t work. Work hard on your own, but once Huaxin International is not good, the country will immediately organize forces to save the situation and cannot fail.

At this time, a group of people were recruited on the sample line of Huaxin International, namely Huaxin International, Zhongzheng Company and Huake New Materials, and all sent a capable team.

Huake New Materials is the boss, and the R&D boss personally led the team; Zhongzheng Company is Yu Longguang, and the chip R&D boss Ke Lan; Huaxin International, as the host, came with the technical boss Meng Song.

The chip field seems to be fierce, and new processes appear or enter the next generation of chips in half a year, but in the field of photoresist, the cycle is very long, and it usually takes one to two years to enter the batch.

As a photoresist second only to the EUV line, it can almost meet the process manufacturing requirements of all chips above 10 nanometers. So at this stage, Huaxin International actually has no motivation to test a new AF line photoresist, which is basically directly purchased from Xiaolizi.

However, Huake New Materials' new arf-line photoresist came out, Huaxin International organized the company's core strength to arrange the test, and technical boss Meng Song followed up personally.

Nothing else, just to be able to be independent!

The establishment of Huaxin International was not a germination in mainland China, but was derived from the island and was separated from TJD, the world's largest chip manufacturer today.

Whether it is technology or equipment, it is largely inherited from tjd.

I didn't think there was anything at that time, after all, they were all so mature, and they were of the same origin and species.

But later, as soon as Ying Jiang got involved, the matter lost control and Huaxin International was almost bankrupt by TJD.

Although he finally resisted, his vitality was severely damaged. Fortunately, the country rescued the scene in time.

Therefore, Huaxin International is in the same mood as Zhongzheng Company for technological innovation and material replacement, and she wishes to replace them all immediately.

Therefore, when Huake New Materials requested to test their arf-line photoresist, Huaxin International agreed without thinking and arranged the fastest speed to do this.

"Mr. Ke, why do you have time to travel in person today?"

Meng Song, the technical boss of Huaxin International, asked Ke Lan with a smile.

Although everyone was wearing dust-free clothes on the production line, they couldn't see each other's faces clearly, and only two eyes were exposed and covered by eye masks, it did not prevent Ke Lan from feeling that Meng Song was talking with a smile.

"It seems that Lao Meng is in a much better mood with the replacement verification of photoresist material."

Ke Lan's thought changed and immediately put it aside, answering: "It's certainly worth my visit to the scene for such a big thing as a domestic material testing."

Meng Song said, "I think Ke is not the wine because he is drunk. His real purpose is to urge you to develop the research and development progress of the two chips, right?"

Ke Lan immediately asked: "Then where has our dual-chip superposition research and development progress been?"

Meng Song was stunned. Good guy, he was still so direct. He coughed twice and said, "It's still a bit troublesome for photoresist material providers. The photoresist and supporting processes we currently use cannot meet the requirements of your company's double-super chip. After the circuit is engraved and printed, circuit collapses are likely to occur during the cleaning process."

Hearing this, Ke Lan suddenly fell into deep thought and subconsciously said: "Is it still a problem with the lithography machine?"

"It is of course good to have an euv lithography machine, and the problem should not be very big."

Meng Song shook his head and explained: "Now our most advanced lithography machine uses deep ultraviolet light sources. Arf-line photoresist can meet the process needs. However, the arf-line photoresist we use is a wet process. It is not a big problem to make a single chip, but it is easy to cause circuit collapse when making double-supervised chips. We are still trying to overcome this part, or looking for the development of dry lithography processes."

Ke Lan took a deep breath and stopped talking.

While the two were talking here, the coating process of Huake New Materials' new arf line photoresist was already in an orderly manner on the thread body, and began to enter the lithography stage.

Several people watched for a while and saw that the process was going on normally. In addition to the necessary technicians following up and the follow-up of Huake New Materials, most of them finished watching the scene, walked out of the workshop, and worked in the conference room outside while waiting for the results.

The day passed quickly.

In the evening, when everyone who was working overtime was praying for everything to go well, a bad news came out of the workshop.

"Dear leaders, the circuit pattern is not clear enough! The resolution is not enough!"

The technician of Huaxin International introduced the situation, told his own judgment results, and asked: "Does the subsequent test continue?"

At this time, Huake New Materials and his group walked out of the workshop followed closely into the conference room, and their faces were clearly showing a look of loss and frustration.

As professionals, after knowing the result, they also know that there is no need to conduct the subsequent tests.

Sure enough, they soon heard Meng Song, the boss of Huaxin International's technology, decisively deny: "No need, the clarity and resolution are not enough, and the wafers produced do not meet the standards."

"OK!"

Seeing that the boss had spoken, the technician immediately responded and went down.

In the conference room, the three parties looked at each other. After a brief silence, the boss of Huake New Materials chuckled and said, "Thanks to Mr. Meng and Mr. Yu, and Mr. Ke's strong support. This failure is because our material performance is not up to standard. We go back and analyze the reasons in depth, formulate improvement measures, and strive to make improvement products as quickly as possible for the next test."

This matter was revealed like this, but everyone present left a deep impression on him.

Nanjiang County, Feiyang New Materials Company.

Zhou Feiyu, who had returned to the company to handle affairs, received an inquiry from the Zhongzheng Company R&D team on the same day about the new display solution for the M-series flagship. However, he did not deal with it immediately, but began to develop another new material.

"Tianfeng Chemical and King of Materials are going to talk to me?"

Soon, Zhou Feiyu received reports from two other news.

"Yes, the boss, Tian Feng Jiao Nan and King Materials CEO Michael Roman, called in person, and it looks very sincere."

Xiao Weidong replied.

“It looks sincere?”

Zhou Feiyu raised his eyebrows and laughed: "I think he is honest, right? They believe in the respect of strength. Now they come to worship the mountain, they may be the bad people. Maybe they have some evil intentions."

Xiao Weidong nodded in agreement: "Indeed, they are talking about them without trust. Even if they have equal strength, they will still come to beat you. If they can't beat you alone, they will fight together. Only when their strength is far beyond them will they sit down and talk to you seriously."

Zhou Feiyu said: "Since they want to talk, let's talk and let their boss come to me personally."

Xiao Weidong smiled and said, "Okay, I'll notify them now."

At this moment, Xiao Weidong was so happy.

Since Feiyang Optics has been strongly supported by Nanjiang County, its production capacity has quickly increased. In addition to meeting the two companies of Hualong and Zhongwei, it has also launched a large amount of goods to terminal companies and the vast number of agents, and the price war with King of Materials is also in full swing.

Tianfeng Chemical, ranked second, could no longer support it and would soon close its optical materials branch. Tianle Materials, ranked third, also fell into losses, and I believe it will not last long.

As for Kings Materials, there is indeed no sign of fatigue at present, but Xiao Weidong believes that they are used to living a wealthy life and cannot last long. He believes that within three months to half a year, Kings Materials will be kicked out of the domestic market.

After all, no one is willing to trade at a loss, users don’t, nor can King Materials themselves.

Fy-01 has a polymer optical film with a performance that exceeds King of Materials and is cheaper. Users must also vote with their feet and have to put them all into Feiyang Optics' arms.

Xiao Weidong thought the production cost of fy-01 was so low that Xiao Weidong thought it was outrageous in his heart that he could actually be even lower than his old boss Di Guang, which is far beyond King of Materials.

Xiao Weidong calculated that the real cost of the polymer optical film of King of Materials at this stage should be about 50% higher than that of the old boss Diguang, which is the result of cost optimization over more than half a century.

In this case, how can King of Materials compete to win Feiyang Optics?

The user does not have it, he keeps burning money and his opponent is still making profits. How can he win?

So, your King of Materials is vigorously sanctioning us and actively launching a price war. Now it is difficult to get into the world. Are you going to come to us for negotiations?

But in Zhou Feiyu's mind, he had another guess: "It should be the electronic-grade PI material that needs to be discussed with me."

Electronic-grade PI materials are the highlight, and optical materials are just the younger brother level in front of it.

"Do I want to talk to him in person?"

After receiving the reply, Tian Feng Zhangnan was furious at first, but soon calmed down and ordered: "Come a plane ticket for me and leave for China tomorrow."

Michael Roman's attitude was completely different. He was just a little unhappy and then rejected the proposal and arranged for Susan Krier, the head of global business solutions, to say: "Susan, you go to China for me."

Susan Krier was stunned for a while, but she had no right to refuse, so she had to agree: "Okay, boss, follow your arrangement."
Chapter completed!