In the field of lithography machines, only four companies around the world can independently develop and manufacture.

Among them, asml is the first manufacturer of lithography machine manufacturing technology, and the lithography machines it develops and manufactures have almost occupied the mid-to-high-end market.

As for the microelectronics that Chen Yuan is visiting, it is the most advanced manufacturer of lithography machine manufacturing technology in China.

It can be said that in the mature chip market, microelectronic lithography machines and other equipment account for a large part of the market, especially in China. In terms of advanced lithography machines, microelectronics are also making comprehensive breakthroughs.

This is also the reason why Chen Yuan is asking them to cooperate now.

This time I went to Shanghai, Chen Yuan packed himself.

Suits and ties are naturally indispensable. Compared to your tender appearance, you must give people a reliable feeling in your clothes.

After rushing to the next day's plane, Chen Yuan arrived in Shanghai.

After resting in the hotel for a while, Chen Yuan set off directly to the Microelectronics headquarters.

"Hello, I'll look for Mr. Xiaoqing. I made an appointment yesterday. You can check it out. This is my business card." Chen Yuan handed the business card to the front desk and told him what he wanted.

The front desk was a woman in her thirties. After taking the business card, she confirmed on the computer that she did make an appointment to purchase equipment. However, the person in front of her seemed too young, and most of the people who discussed cooperation were discussed and discussed were mostly three people.

"Wait." She didn't think much, responded with a smile, and called, "Secretary Gao has a buyer to look for Mr. Xu. Does he have time now?"

"Oh well."

"Understood."

The front desk put down the phone and walked out, "Mr. Xu is now talking about cooperation with others. I'll take you to the lounge and wait for a while."

"Okay." Chen Yuan nodded slightly and led him to the lounge at the front desk.

"Do you need something to drink?" the front desk asked before leaving.

Chen Yuan sat upright on the sofa with some restraint, waved his hand, "No need."

After leaving the front desk, Chen Yuan began to examine the surrounding environment.

He walked over with his hands, pushed away the blinds behind him, and opposite the lounge, Xu Xiaoqing was negotiating with overseas buyers.

Chen Yuan looked at the time and seemed to be more than ten minutes late. It seemed that Xu Xiaoqing was talking about a bigger business.

I originally planned to wait for a while, but I didn't expect that it would take nearly an hour to sit there.

Chen Yuan couldn't sit still anymore, so he got up and went outside, knocked on the door.

At this time, Xu Xiaoqing happened to have completed negotiations with overseas partners. The two were shaking hands. When they heard the knock on the door outside, Xu Xiaoqing said in.

Chen Yuan pushed the door open and introduced himself to Xu Xiaoqing, "Hello Mr. Xu, I am a buyer of HiSilicon. I contacted you yesterday."

This time he purchased equipment under the banner of HiSilicon. Chen Yuan thought about it for a long time, but it was more appropriate to purchase equipment in HiSilicon's name. He could never purchase it in his personal name.

Xu Xiaoqing thought about it and remembered that a purchaser from Haisi came over today, nodded with a smile, and signaled Chen Yuan to sit down.

The overseas buyer looked at Chen Yuan, and Chen Yuan nodded and responded with a smile. It was originally out of politeness, but he felt that the other party’s smile had some other taste.

Xu Xiaoqing lit a cigarette and signaled him whether to smoke it. Chen Yuan waved his hand with a smile.

"I haven't heard of HiSilicon's big moves lately, why did he suddenly think about purchasing domestic equipment?" Xu Xiaoqing's words have other meanings. HiSilicon actually did cooperate with domestic OEM manufacturers in the early stages of development, and there is also the shadow of microelectronics.

However, after entering the rapid development of mobile phone chips, the country could no longer meet the demand, so HiSilicon handed over the cooperation of foundry to MicroMechanical and Electrical.

Chen Yuan's hands were intertwined and responded with a smile, "That's right. We are planning to independently develop chips, so we are considering purchasing equipment from China. Choosing to cooperate with your company is also out of support for domestic equipment."

Xu Xiaoqing was a little surprised. With HiSilicon's current technology, it is not impossible to independently develop chips, but the final product performance may not be as good as a few years ago. Doing so undoubtedly gave up on progress and turned to a regression. In particular, domestic lithography equipment is not enough to support the development of current chips.

But this is indeed very pleasant.

Chen Yuan is actually cheating Xu Xiaoqing, but there is a reason for this fraud. It is definitely a secret that the factory wants to start producing carbon-based chips. At least it cannot be disclosed at the moment. If it truly reaches a cooperation with Microelectronics, it is not impossible to say.

But obviously it's not possible now.

"How many units do you want to purchase?" Xu Xiaoqing asked.

Chen Yuan thought about it and said, "The packaging-type lithography machine requires 20 units, and the 90nm-process duv lithography machine requires 40 units. In addition, a batch of photoresist is needed."

Photoresist is an organic compound, and its solubility in the development solution will change after being exposed to ultraviolet light. During the photolithography process, it is used as a corrosion-resistant coating material and is the most indispensable part of wafer production.

At present, Chen Yuan has carried out independent research on photoresist, but it takes time, so he can only purchase other people's.

As for the reason why the number of packaging lithography machines purchased is less than that of duv lithography machines, it is because the tasks undertaken by packaging lithography machines are very limited, and they are generally after-care work, such as chip thinning, shell packaging, engraving and other tasks, and the packaging lithography machines cannot do such work in line manufacturing.

"Haisi's tone is a bit big." Xu Xiaoqing's face was jumping. Of course, he understood that Haisi was doing independent research and development, not OEM. If he really bought so many equipment, he would not have a suitable business at that time, so he could only think that he had bought a pile of scrap iron and placed it there.

And he instinctively didn't believe that HiSilicon could monopolize all the chip manufacturing processes.

"We, Haisi, naturally, have this ability, otherwise we wouldn't have sent me here." Chen Yuan responded.

"Sorry, our microelectronics can't satisfy you."

"Why?" Chen Yuan stood up, then sat down again, and whispered, "Is it because of too many? But I have checked before that the number of lithography machines currently in stock in Microelectronics can fully meet the needs of HiSilicon."

"I was able to satisfy it before, but now I can't." Xu Xiaoqing stretched out his hand and pointed to the partner opposite. "This is an overseas OEM. Before you came, I have already negotiated cooperation with me. I have given him the lithography machine you want. If you HiSilicon really needs it, you can wait and you can deliver it all in two years."

Two years?

Just kidding.

Two years later, the global chip industry has no idea what it will be like.

"If HiSilicon really can't wait, it can bid from the outside world. I think there should be many companies willing to provide lithography machines for you."

It's lightweight.

If other manufacturers can really meet their needs, they will not come to find Microelectronics.

Chen Yuan snorted coldly in his heart.

Now I understand why Xu Xiaoqing doesn't like him anymore. It turns out that he has already negotiated cooperation. If this were the case in the past, if HiSilicon had such a large order demand, wouldn't Microelectronics be the first to come up with it?

"I hope Mr. Xu can think carefully, after all, you have not signed a contract yet." Chen Yuan said sincerely.

"No need to think about it. No matter how much price they offer, our Max Semiconductor will add one percent." The overseas buyer said arrogantly, his eyes full of contempt.

Now he understood what happened to the smile just now.

This was definitely intentional.

Those overseas guessed what actions would happen in China, so they strangled the road to death in advance.

If Chen Yuan could not get this batch of equipment, the only way to leave him was to independently develop a lithography machine.

But that took a very long time.

Now he urgently needs to open up the strategic road of carbon-based chips. Just having system drawings in hand technology is no longer a problem, but time.

Chen Yuan now only thought of a solution, that is, to ask Long Weiguo for help and let Shangfeng come in and intervene in this matter.

But this is absolutely impossible to do unless it is absolutely necessary.

At this time, the knock on the door sounded again.

"Please come in."

Chen Yuan subconsciously looked back and found that the person coming was Li Xiangda.

Li Xiangda also saw Chen Yuan and the smile on his face immediately pulled down.

"Then I'll leave first, I hope Mr. Xu can think about it carefully."

Chen Yuan didn't know why Li Xiangda appeared here, but it was obviously not suitable to stay.

He picked up his briefcase, wiped Li Xiangda and walked out.
Chapter completed!