"Xing Hai Technologies has a way to provide the lenses you need."
Chen Jin reiterated his point.
"This is impossible!"
Zhang Yuming shook his head violently. "With the current industrial processing technology, it's impossible to make such a lens. The difficulty of processing it is legendary."
"Give me the lens design plan. You'll know when you get your hands on it and whether it can be made and whether it meets the requirements."
Chen Jin said with a mysterious face, brimming with confidence.
Not bad.
With the current level of industrial processing on Earth, it was almost impossible to produce a photolithographic lens that integrated ten thousand miniature lenses.
Therefore, he planned to cheat.
It was directly produced on Haierfa and then "imported" to Earth.
He had to work as a porter again, carrying dozens of photolithographic lenses.
However, in order to deceive the public and explain the source of the photolithography lens reasonably, Chen Jin had to establish a "photolithography lens project department." He would recruit a group of people and provide them with the technical route so that they could produce a substitute product in a short period of time. This would avoid arousing suspicion. With the help of the "Virtual Factory 2.0," there was absolutely a way to produce the photolithography lens within a year or two.
Moreover, Chen Jin held 100% of Xing Hai Technologies' shares. There was no need for him to announce the company's operations to the public. Moreover, Xing Hai Technologies had entered many and varied fields. It would not be suspicious for them to suddenly acquire a photolithography lens.
This was the benefit of having 100% of the shares.
With the help of the people from Shang Microelectronics, Chen Jin could act as a porter. It was not a problem to get some photolithographic lenses over.
In short, he had to break through ASML's photolithography machine immediately!
Seeing the certainty on Chen Jin's face,
Zhang Yuming felt an inexplicable sense of anticipation in his heart. He nodded and said, "Alright, President Chen! I'll give you the design plan of the lens immediately. If your company can really produce it, our super resolution photolithography machine will definitely be able to make a name for itself in the field of chips! "
Once the problem of the lens was solved, the advantages of the super resolution lithography machine would be too great. First of all, the cost would be greatly reduced. Then, on a larger wafer, a hundred sets of lenses and a million beams of light could be engraved at the same time. The lithography efficiency would be more than 10 times that of the traditional lithography machine.
The conformity rate was also higher (basically 100%).
Since it was a direct "drawing" of an integrated circuit, it was much more flexible and could even simplify the production process of the chip.
Therefore, the production efficiency of the chips would also increase significantly.
It was hard to imagine the price of the chips that would eventually be taken offline.
However …
Although the super-resolution lithography technology was good, combined with multiple exposure technology, it could only produce chips of 10 to 9 nanometers. It would be very difficult to advance further.
The most advanced chips on the market were still 7 nanometers and 5 nanometers produced by traditional EUV lithography machines.
In terms of price, no matter how cheap the 10-nanometer chip produced by super-resolution lithography was, in terms of performance, it would still be crushed by the 7-nanometer and 5-nanometer chips.
For users who pursued performance and experience, they still cared more about a good experience.
Therefore, Zhong Xin International still had to have the EUV photolithography machine!
He still had to rely on this type of photolithography machine to produce high-end 7-nanometer, 5-nanometer, and other chips. He could not give up on this market.
The problem was that AMSL did not sell this photolithography machine!
What should Zhongxin International do?
He could only produce the EUV photolithography machine himself.
This was the purpose of Zhang Wei Jin's acquisition of Shang Wei Electronics. He wanted to use his own EUV to break ASML's malicious ban.
Eh, where's the intellectual property? Forget about the patent barrier?
What if they infringed ASML's photolithography patents?
"This kind of behavior is not illegal."
Zhang Wei Jin explained, "Two years ago, the country amended the Patent Protection Law and added a special clause. It means that if some advanced technology or equipment is unreasonably banned from sale by foreign countries, the company that is maliciously banned can ignore the other party's patent barrier and imitate the other party's equipment to break the monopoly. If they sue, we can use this law to invalidate the other party's complaint."
Chen Jin said, "What you mean is that if ASML bans Zhongxin International from selling the EUV photolithography machine, Zhongxin International can develop its own EUV photolithography machine without considering whether it infringes on the other party's patent?"
"That's right! If you unreasonably ban the sale, I'll immediately imitate it! This is completely legal. If you don't ban the sale, I won't imitate it. It was you who was heartless first, so I have the right to fight back. "
"I'm afraid that many foreign companies can't accept this law, right?"
"Even if they can't accept it, they have to accept it. If you forcibly block the road, others must sit and wait for death? You're the first to invent that technology, but you have the right to decide the life and death of others? What kind of robber logic is this! Patent protection does not allow you to do whatever you want. If you dare to use the ban to harm the interests of your customers, the customers have the right to fight back! "
"Acquiring Shang Microelectronics and building the EUV photolithography machine is our most direct counterattack!"
Zhang Wei Jin clenched his fist and said.
Chen Jin nodded, "Yes, the patent is not a tool to do whatever you want. The victims have the right to fight back."
But he thought of a problem. He frowned and said, "The foreigners are extremely shrewd. If they immediately lift the ban on the sale of the EUV after you achieved a breakthrough, what should we do then? Wouldn't the acquisition of more than 8 billion be invalid? "
"Don't worry, after we break the ban, we will have bargaining chips. ASML wants us to give up on the domestic EUV and buy their photolithography machine again. That's fine. Originally, it was 100 million US dollars per unit. Now, they have to sell it to us at cost price! Because this is the cost of our self-produced EUV. Moreover, you have to supply as many units as Zhongxin International wants to buy. Priority supply. If you can't meet our needs, we have the right to buy our own EUV. "
Cost price + unlimited purchasing rights.
This was the right that ASML would enjoy if they chose to sue for peace after Zhongxin International broke the ban on the sale of the EUV.
It was also a supplementary provision in the Patent Protection Law.
If the foreign companies were not satisfied, they could just hold it in!
Who asked their ban to cause immeasurable losses to Zhongxin International? Just the market value alone had evaporated by 30 billion!
Therefore, these supplementary provisions in the Patent Protection Law were also known as the "legal knockoff provisions."
After their introduction, they effectively deterred a group of foreign technology companies and patent hooligans.
And once Shang Microelectronics, a subsidiary of Zhongxin International, decided to make a knockoff of ASML's EUV photolithography machine, with the assistance of the "virtual factory," they would be able to break the ban on the sale of the EUV photolithography machine by ASML in about half a year's time.
In short, as long as you had something that others had, the so-called "ban on the sale" would not befall you. Chen Jin shook his head.
"If I had known that there was such a legal provision, I would have acquired Shang Microelectronics half a year ago and made a knockoff in advance. That way, once they announced the ban, we could immediately come up with a substitute product. We wouldn't have fallen into such a passive position and wasted half a year."
"It's my fault for trusting ASML too much."
Zhang Wei Jin blamed himself. "I thought that they wouldn't dare to ban the sale of the EUV, but in the end, they still did. I underestimated the power of the Western capital behind Samsin and Mossy Electrics. Heh, how could they be willing to let go of profits of hundreds of billions of US dollars every year?"
"Cutting off the road to wealth is equivalent to killing their parents. It's normal for them to be driven to desperate measures."
Chen Jin nodded. "It's enough that we've learned our lesson this time. Check again to see if there are any shortcomings. If there are, we'll quickly make up for them now."
However, after a careful investigation, other than the photolithography machine, there were almost no other areas that were restricted by others. For example, in the past two years, many domestic companies had achieved breakthroughs in photoresist, breaking the monopoly of foreign companies. The etching machine was their strong suit … they had everything that they needed.
The technology blockade by foreign countries was about to run out of tricks.
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