Chapter 297: The Battle for Semiconductors

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When looking at problems, you should put yourself in others' shoes and look at it from the environment in which they grew up and lived.

Daxia’s unique system relies on collective strength to concentrate on one point and assign tasks to do big things. Under the leadership of Red Faith, the originally slightly chaotic forces can quickly gather together, and the project can also achieve great breakthroughs.

However, in economic systems led by Western capital, including neon island countries, when R&D tasks or plans are formulated, the research topics are generally led by enterprises for industry-research cooperation.

The former requires too much faith, self-discipline and system, while the latter requires higher investment in resources and mobilizing the inner desires of R&D personnel.

Of course, there are many forces that are inseparable from each other. Today they are friends, but they are flirting with each other, and tomorrow they are enemies. If you hit me, I will hit you.

When Korean Star merged with GlobalFoundries and wanted to break through the restrictions and become the overlord in the semiconductor field, but was sniped by Kyushu Technology midway, Neon also restricted the export of a wave of advanced materials to Korea in order to not make things easier for Korean Star, and waited until Korean Star's development of the semiconductor industry was blocked. At that time, it did not turn around to deal with Daxia. Instead, it intensified the sanctions on Goryeo and launched a second wave of war bans. It is expected that as many as 857 important materials will be restricted from exporting to Goryeo. According to experts, this move will Seriously affecting Korea's semiconductor and panel industries.

It was this move in the second round that was somewhat suspected of beating a drowned dog that made the news hot in one fell swoop.

There are many speculations about the dispute between the two, but when Gu Qing talked about this matter at the company meeting, he was talking and laughing.

Today is a regular meeting of the middle and senior management of Jiuzhou Technology. Boss Gu talked about some old almanacs of the industry to remind the executives to "not forget history."

Taking a sip of hot tea, Gu Qing looked at the management and said with a smile:

“Goryeo and Neon have been fighting fiercely in the semiconductor industry for half a century.

Therefore, the recent restrictions imposed by neon-related departments on Korea’s semiconductor industry are actually not a new move.

Even if the Korean prince came to visit him, he would probably be rejected by the Japanese. "

"Hahaha." There was a tacit laugh from the audience.

Gu Qing always tells some unpopular stories about the industry at meetings, so when such meetings are held, the atmosphere is not serious.

Boss Gu sighed and said: "There is a saying that is appropriate for the situation. Summer friendship depends on the Han Dynasty, and the same goes for the semiconductor dispute between Neon and Goryeo.

In the 1950s, a neon young man knocked on the purchasing door of Bulova America. He wanted to sell the company's newly developed small radio. Of course, the company that developed the small radio later changed its name to SONY. (Sony is extremely guilty)

This is a somewhat cliche plot. After the defeat of the World War, Neon began to gradually spread to the United States and the world through the advancement of the low-end industrial chain, including radios, televisions and other semiconductor products.

In the 1960s and 1970s, when Neon's economy was at its most prosperous, Neon's semiconductor products had swept across the American home appliance market.

At this time, the Neon people began to carry forward the old tradition. "

Without being too pretentious, Gu Qing took some time off and continued:

“In order to catch up with the world leader, the Neon Island government took the lead and invested more than 70 billion yen in the research and development of integrated circuits.

This project was successful and brought many dividends to the Neon semiconductor industry.

Various chip manufacturing technologies, including photolithography, etching, equipment, process and other patents are owned by Neon people.

The new products brought by these new technologies began to have a crazy impact on the global semiconductor industry. Intel, which was still at its peak at that time, was soon defeated by Neon Semiconductor. Under huge financial losses, Intel laid off employees. More than seven thousand people.

At this time, Neon reached a situation similar to our current situation in Daxia.

Unable to win in a normal competition within the industry, America chose to resort to off-market moves.

In the late 1980s, the American Semiconductor Industry Association complained about unfair competition in the Neon Semiconductor industry. Then, with the help of many forces, the famous "Plaza Agreement" was signed.

Neon's official currency began to appreciate, and all of Neon's exported commodities increased in price.

This is not a huge blow to foreign trade, but even so, the robbers are still not satisfied. They ruled that Neon chips were dumped and imposed a 100% anti-dumping tax on Neon.

It also forced Neon to sign the "Semiconductor Safeguard Agreement", requiring Neon to open up the intellectual property rights and patents of the semiconductor industry to the United States.

After a series of events happened, Neon was completely reduced to a wage earner under the gangsters.

And in order to prevent Neon from being defeated again, Meili also supported another wage earner - Korean Korean star.

After Korean Star obtained investment and technology, in addition to making products, it also vigorously tapped talents in the neon semiconductor industry.

At that time, Neon was suppressed and the island's economy was in devastation. These talents were easily poached.

Korean stars, like taking a powerful pill, absorbed the technology and talents of the two countries and began to make waves in the semiconductor industry.

Of course, there are still three jins to the bad ship. While Neon dominated in the early stage, it also allowed its semiconductor materials company to occupy a larger share in the chip manufacturing materials link.

For example, important materials such as silicon wafers, synthetic semiconductor wafers, photoresists, protective coatings, ceramic plates, thin film polycrystals, and packaging materials all accounted for more than 40% of the global share before our semiconductor department developed its capabilities.

And these 'legacies' are also weapons used by Neon to restrict the development of Korean stars, so Neon will not let Korean stars go so easily. "

After briefly talking about some key points, some of these executives, who were still unaware of the reasons, also learned about the competition between these two forces.

"It's like dog eating dog."

A young manager in the audience sighed softly.

Unfortunately, he ignored the atmosphere in the conference room at the moment, so this sigh was also heard by many people.

"Hahaha, yes, it's dog bites dog."

"That makes sense!"

"First he raised a white-eyed wolf, and then he raised a sideburned dog. He will also kill you when you are sick. He is very insightful."

Boss Gu glanced at the young manager who blushed because of the heckles, and smiled softly: "It's true that his words are rough but not rough."

Seeing that the atmosphere was aroused, Gu Qing's demeanor changed and he said seriously: "So trade friction and technology zhicai are not routines that only exist today.

There were before, there are now, and there will be again in the future. As Daxia develops faster, the overlords at the top will feel more and more threatened, and there will be more challenges in the future.

Take the semiconductor industry as an example. Neon wants to climb up and regain its dominance. Korean stars do the same, and so do we.

But I believe that we will win in the end, because our lithography machine has broken through the limitations and found a way with new light sources, while Korean stars and neon still have to look up to others in this regard. "