Ni Guangnan vaguely understood what Boss Jia wanted to do when they got on the plane to the Netherlands.
"You're really going to buy that 70nm lithography machine!" Ni Guangnan stared at Jia Yapeng with his eyes wide open.
"Of course!" Jia Yapeng laughed, "Why else would I bring you to the Netherlands? To go to the red-light district in the Netherlands? "
"It's not impossible to go there!" Unexpectedly, Ni Guangnan looked at the white clouds outside the window and said, "I've heard that the red-light district in the Netherlands is world-famous. It would be worthwhile to experience it!"
"Really?" Boss Jia was shocked. It turned out that his teacher was such a person.
"However, I think it's necessary to tell my wife, who is also your teacher's wife. I think your teacher's wife won't tell Qiushui!" Ni Guangnan said lightly. Boss Jia instantly softened and said righteously, "We're all decent people, a proper teacher and disciple. How can we do something so improper!"
"Okay, let's stop joking. Didn't you say a month ago that you didn't have 150 million USD? Why did you suddenly change your mind? "Ni Guangnan asked with a puzzled expression.
"Because I didn't expect that Pokemon would suddenly drop. In February, I received 210 million USD!" Boss Jia said with a helpless expression.
"210 million … USD …" Ni Guangnan's gaze became complicated, "Sigh, if I knew this, I wouldn't have studied computer hardware. If I made games, wouldn't I have been successful long ago?"
"You went to make games …" Thinking of the games that Ni Guangnan had made, Boss Jia instantly felt a chill run down his spine.
After a 14-hour long flight, Jia Yapeng and his group finally arrived at the Amsterdam Airport in the Netherlands.
Different from the cold treatment he received when he went to Hasbro, ASLM was extremely eager to Boss Jia. They directly sent the company's vice president to lead a total of four cars to pick up Boss Jia and bring him to Aindhoven. This treatment could be said to be the level of a national guest. I'm afraid that even the leaders of a second-world country would receive this kind of treatment.
"It seems that no one is interested in ASLM's lithography machine! Otherwise, why would they treat us so well! "Seeing the other party giving him such a grand treatment, Boss Jia couldn't help but sigh.
"It's impossible, 70nm lithography machine, this is the highest technology in the world. How could no one be interested in such a lithography machine?" Ni Guangnan said to himself with some puzzlement.
"There's nothing strange about this. Didn't you say that the current electronic products don't use 70nm chips for the time being? Naturally, the lithography machine is even more useless, and the price is very expensive. It costs 150 million USD per unit, so I don't think anyone is willing to buy this lithography machine. ASML is afraid of losing it, so naturally, they will do everything they can to get us to buy this lithography machine!" Jia Yapeng said very optimistically.
"It makes sense!" Ni Guangnan nodded and felt that this was almost the case.
"It seems that we can have a good discussion on the price when the time comes. Maybe we can even save tens of millions of USD!" Boss Jia said optimistically.
Eindhoven was not far from Amsterdam. In addition, there was a time difference between the Netherlands and Hua Xia, so although Jia Yapeng and others left in the morning, it was still morning when they arrived in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. When they arrived at the ASML factory, it was only noon.
"Do you two want to rest for the night first and talk about it tomorrow, or do you want to visit our factory today?" ASML's vice president asked with a smile.
Boss Jia might not be interested in visiting, but Ni Guangnan absolutely couldn't resist the opportunity to visit the world's most advanced lithography machine factory, so Ni Guangnan said on the spot that they could skip lunch. After visiting the factory, they could have dinner together.
The vice president could only smile a little awkwardly, and then took Jia Yapeng and others to a high-end restaurant nearby to eat. When it was about 3 o 'clock in the afternoon, the official visit to the factory began.
At the beginning, they first visited the company's office building, office site, conference room, and the company's history. Boss Jia looked quite interested in these, but Ni Guangnan was not.
However, after visiting the office area, Ni Guangnan became extremely excited as soon as he entered the factory workshop.
ASML's factory had a very modern sci-fi feel. The whole factory was a huge space with an area of about 100,000 square meters, and the inside of the factory was like a large aquarium.
Jia Yapeng and other visitors walked through a transparent glass shroud. Through the glass, they could see that the inside of the factory was full of workers wearing thick white dustproof suits, operating the instruments and equipment.
Watching these workers working felt like watching the fish swimming in the tank in the aquarium passage.
Almost everyone in the passage was automatic. There were no doors that needed to be opened manually. All the doors needed to be swiped to open automatically.
"Our workshops are all Level 1 dust-free and sterile workshops. When all workers enter the workshop to work, they must go through strict dust removal measures. After all, we produce optical and semiconductor components at the nanometer level. Any case of dust at the sub-micron level will destroy the whole product! "The vice president, who took Jia Yapeng and others to visit, said proudly.
Level 1 dust-free, this was indeed something worth bragging about.
Generally, the higher the number, the higher the level. The level standard of dust-free workshops was the lower the number, the higher the level.
Among them, the lowest level was the 300,000-level dust-free workshop, which was simple cleaning. It was not much different from a normal workshop.
Next was the 100,000-level dust-free workshop. Most of the workshops in the country were basically dust-free workshops of this level. They were mainly used to produce food.
For example, the Daqian crispy noodle snack production workshop was a 100,000-level dust-free workshop. Of course, when Boss Jia first took over the Daqian, the Daqian workshop must have been dusty. It was not even a 1,000,000 level, but now the food hygiene of Pixie Crispy Noodle Snacks was still guaranteed. At least, it was cleaner and more hygienic than 99.999% of the food processing workshops in the country.
Then there were the 10,000-level dust-free workshops, which were generally used to produce medical supplies. Such workshops had become very rare in the country. Only some pharmaceutical factories had such workshops.
Then there were the 1000-level and 100-level dust-free workshops, which did not exist in the country at all, because there was no such high-end manufacturing industry in the country.
However, there was one 10,000-level dust-free workshop in the country, and that was Boss Jia's joint laboratory. After all, a 10,000-level dust-free workshop was still necessary to carry out all kinds of high-precision electronic and optical component experiments and manufacturing.
As for the top-notch level-one dust-free workshop, Daqian also had one, but only three of the top laboratories could achieve this. Of Boss Jia's 500 million USD investment, 30 million was invested to build these three level-one dust-free laboratories.
It could not be helped. This kind of technology was not available in the country at all. Boss Jia specially invited a professional technical team from Europe to build them.
At this time, all the workshops in ASML had reached the level-one dust-free standard. Boss Jia could not help but feel amazed. It also made Boss Jia understand that there was still a considerable gap between Hua Xia and other countries.
"Does making a photolithography machine require such a high dust-free level?" Ni Guangnan could not help but ask from the side.
"Under normal circumstances, a 10,000-level dust-free workshop is actually enough!" The vice president said with a proud face, "However, ASLM is the world's best high-end optical and electronic instrument company. Our standards for ourselves are far higher than other companies. Moreover, the 70-nm photolithography machine must be made in a level-one dust-free workshop, so we upgraded the entire factory last year and spent a total of 300 million USD to build the world's largest level-one dust-free workshop!"
"F * ck, I was cheated!" Hearing the vice president's words, Boss Jia could not help but curse.
"This 100,000-square-meter giant level-one dust-free workshop only cost 300 million USD. Boss Jia's three laboratories added up to less than 300 bottles, and the result was 30 million USD. This was simply treating Boss Jia as a fat sheep to be slaughtered!
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