Two hundred billion, this number really surprised everyone present. Even Xiao Ma, even Lao Ma is a little uneasy.
No way, we don’t have that much money to give you. Sun Shu immediately raised his voice and said.
Two hundred billion, not twenty million. It is too risky to invest so much money into such a project with unknown risks. Snow Soldier said.
After Xue Bing finished speaking, Liu Qixiang said to Wu Hao and Lao Ma and Xiao Ma: "We have already invested too much in this project, and we don't have any extra money to continue investing."
Looking at some people who were overreacting, Wu Hao immediately said: "Don't get excited, everyone, two hundred billion may seem like a lot, but in fact it is not much.
And for us, there are many ways to solve it. "
After hearing Wu Hao's words, everyone became silent and turned to look at him. He said there is a way, so let's listen to what he has to say first.
Facing everyone's gaze, Wu Hao smiled and said: "I believe everyone knows the details about the lithography machine industry or the chip industry, so I won't go into details here.
Everyone should know that the chip industry is a high-input, high-output, and high-return industry. If you want high returns, you must invest heavily in the early stage. Whether it is Helan Company, Wanji Electronics or S Star, they have invested huge amounts of money in the fields of photolithography machine technology and chip manufacturing technology. The R&D investment of a company alone can reach tens of billions per year. Even in the research and development process of some EUV lithography machines, hundreds of billions of dollars were burned in a few years.
Compared with them, the 100 billion we invested is not low at all. Calculated, it does not even reach their annual R&D expenses.
Secondly, the chip industry is a winner-takes-all industry. In other words, only winners have a market. At present, the lithography machines with high-process processes in the world, especially those with processes below 7 nanometers, are monopolized by Helan Company. It can be said that it occupies 100% of the world's market.
What we want to do now is to break through the other party's monopoly and tear off a piece of fat from the other party's mouth. This will inevitably cause a violent reaction from the other party, and no one is willing to share what they say to the other party.
It is foreseeable that we will definitely be targeted in the future. This is conceivable. But don’t worry, because we have our own advantages. First of all, we have a huge domestic market, which is our natural reliance. With our huge domestic market, we can remain invincible. Secondly, several of our companies also have needs in this area, which also means that we will also become an important customer of this project.
With the support of enterprises like us, this project and this company will not fail so easily.
Now, we have passed the most important stage, and we have developed our own 5-nanometer EUV lithography machine. It can be said that we are already half successful. What we need to do next is to improve the entire production chain and put our photolithography machine into production as soon as possible.
Moreover, we have to gain as much time as possible before the other party reacts and takes action, so we must race against time. Therefore, funds must be received as soon as possible so that the entire project can move forward smoothly. "
Having said this, Wu Hao paused for a moment, then looked at everyone and continued: "Two hundred billion seems to be a lot, but when it is divided among us, it is actually not that much.
In addition, I think we can seek relevant support in this regard. The country has been committed to investment and support in lithography machines and chips. Now that our project has made significant progress, I think we can apply for some special fund support in this regard, and we can also appropriately consider supportive loans.
These two together can help us solve a considerable part of the funds. "
Hearing Wu Hao's words, Xue Bing shook his head and said: "It's too idealistic. It is indeed a good choice to seek relevant fund support. You can try it, but don't have high hopes. The relevant special support funds are just that Even if our project makes significant progress, I'm afraid not much can be allocated to us. Let's make an optimistic estimate. I think a billion yuan is enough for us.
There are a lot of special support funds, 180 billion, but there is nothing that can be done to stop so many people from taking advantage of it. There are too many monks and too little gruel, so I’m afraid it’s pretty good to be able to share these with us.
As for supportive loans, I think we can probably get about 10 billion supportive loans in this regard, but no more will be enough. Now that the central bank is tightening market regulation, major banks have stricter controls on housing loans to prevent and reduce bad debt rates.
Although the development prospects of our project are very good, the loans available are very limited. "
Everyone nodded in agreement with Xue Bing's words. Although it poured cold water on Wu Hao, what he said was correct, and the reality was indeed true.
In this regard, Wu Hao was not discouraged, but continued with a smile: "Then there is another way, and that is to attract investment. We have now developed a 5-nanometer high-process EUV lithography machine. I think whether it is Private capital, state-owned investment and state-owned assets, and even relevant banks will be very interested in this.
As long as we are willing, I think they will be very happy to join in, and the funding gap will definitely be solved very well.
Of course, this also means that everyone has to give up reducing shareholdings. But there is nothing wrong with this. You don’t need to pay any more money, and you can also make the plate bigger, so that future profits will naturally increase accordingly. "
After listening to his words, the conference room fell into silence again. Everyone frowned and thought, weighing the pros and cons. This is indeed a very good way to attract investment to solve the problem of shortage of funds. In fact, this is also common practice, and many companies in the industry initially did this.
In this way, they don’t need to invest any more money. But what follows is naturally the dilution of the shares it holds. There is still so much money, and it has not decreased after dilution, but the proportion of shares it holds has decreased, which also means that future dividend income will decrease. This is also a disguised form of meat cutting.
So faced with such a choice, everyone naturally fell into entanglement and troubles.
Facing the thoughtful people, Xiao Ma smiled and said, "If everyone is willing, we can spend some more. That's no problem."
After hearing Brother Xiao Ma's words, everyone looked at Brother Xiao Ma in unison, as if they wanted to kill Brother Xiao Ma. What Brother Xiao Ma means is very simple, that is, you might as well give your shares to an outsider because of your tone of voice.
Anyway, for them, there is plenty of money. They have made so much hot money from the Internet, but they don’t know where to spend it.
