Chapter 460 Three Stars and the Electric Power Station Mutually Damage!? (Ch 460)

“Taipower, Samsung, and Intel all asked us to deliver EUV lithography machines as soon as possible…”

At ASML.

As the CEO of ASML, he was completely helpless when he heard the news reported by the marketing department.

The news came out that Xinghai Semiconductor has mastered the 7m process!

All companies in the semiconductor industry feel the impact of Alexander.

Whether it is upstream chip design and R&D companies such as Intel, Nvidia, Samsung, and Apple, or chip production and foundry companies such as Samsung and Teclast.

Even chip equipment suppliers such as ASML feel the pressure is tremendous.

Xinghai Semiconductor has its own artificial intelligence chips, high-performance server chips, and graphics cards; Loongson’s computer chips; DaMi and Youwei’s mobile phone chips…

At this time, upstream chip design and R&D companies need better technology to improve chip performance and catch up with Xinghai Semiconductor, Dami Company, and Youwei Company!

Large chip foundries such as Samsung and Teclast also need better equipment and better processes to keep up…keep up with the times!

Want to stay ahead now?

That’s impossible!

ASML is under great pressure!

As the CEO of ASML, he slammed the table and said, “At first, they demanded a ban on the sale of lithography machines to Xiaguo. Now our orders have dropped by 60%, and our revenue and profits have dropped by more than 50%. Now they are urging us to buy EUV lithography machines?!”

“Revenues and profits are both declining. Where can we get so much money to accelerate research and development? Salaries and everything else are not enough!”

“With enough funds, we can naturally speed up!”

“We need better lithography machines, and we need them to pay for them!”

“And Xinghai Semiconductor… Photolithography Factory… Xiaguo… doing this… is not conducive to the stability of the international market. We must oppose this practice!”

When the CEO of ASML was interviewed by the media, he publicly expressed the hope that Xinghai Semiconductor would respect the international market and use low prices and other means to win a large number of orders, which would be detrimental to market stability!

At the same time, ASML’s CEO publicly stated that he had applied to and obtained approval from Washington to sell lithography machines to global semiconductor companies!

Including Xia Kingdom!

We can sell top-notch lithography machines to Xia Country!

In addition, foundries such as Taiclast and Samsung have also expressed their approval.

Xinghai Semiconductor’s wafer factory has too high a production capacity!

Taiclast and Samsung both use photolithography machines… Xinghai Semiconductor uses a “photolithography factory”. After a beam of light is introduced, it can process and produce chips of multiple processes at the same time.

Higher productivity and lower cost!

The price will naturally be lower!

The key point is, nowadays…is the technology still leading?

Samsung, together with Taiclast, had originally boycotted Xinghai Semiconductor, but immediately received news from Qualcomm that it was demanding a reduction in the price of Snapdragon chip manufacturing! !

The reason is that Samsung’s Snapdragon chips have received poor market feedback and the OEM price is even higher.

Taipower has more mature technology and lower OEM price!!

“Damn it! Taipower is shameless and also cuts the price to snatch our orders!”

Here, Taiclast and Samsung are working together to boycott Xinghai Semiconductor’s price cuts to “grab” chip foundry orders?

Behind the scenes, Teclast cut prices to snatch Samsung’s big customer: Qualcomm?

This is something that no human being can do!

In addition, Samsung has also received news that due to the influence of Star Ocean Semiconductor and Loongson, Intel’s chip market has also been greatly affected. It may give up self-production and sales and instead find others to manufacture chips!

Intel is a semiconductor company with an IDM model!

From design, manufacturing, to packaging, Intel can also design and manufacture baseband chips, WiFi and Bluetooth chips. Looking at the world, the only company that can do this is Samsung, in addition to Intel!

However, now there is another company: Xia Guo’s Xinghai Semiconductor, which now also independently completes the entire process from chip design, manufacturing, to packaging!

However, Intel’s own wafer fab and supporting process have been constantly improving and have already been surpassed by Loongson, which puts Intel under tremendous pressure!

Investing in the upgrading and transformation of a wafer fab requires a huge amount of money!

Now there is news that Xinghai Semiconductor has mastered the 7nm process?

Even a generation ahead EUV light source!

This means that Loongson’s chips next year will use 7nm technology. How can Intel not be anxious?

After considering many aspects, and with Taipower’s strenuous efforts, Intel really considered giving up self-production and sales… Of course, a top semiconductor company like Intel cannot completely give up producing its own chips.

However, facing the pressure from Loongson, it is preparing to outsource some chips to Teclast.

This matter has not really been finalized yet.

Intel is also holding technical discussions internally, board discussions… and is also having further discussions with Taiclast.

Samsung also received news from Intel.

Now we hear from Qualcomm that Teclast is lowering its prices to win big orders from Qualcomm?

Samsung immediately became anxious and sent people to stabilize its major customer Qualcomm… and then sent people to join the competition for Intel’s foundry orders!

At the same time, people were sent to NVIDIA to take all of NVIDIA’s chip orders!

Ever since Xinghai Technology released the artificial intelligence: ‘Hetu’.

Nvidia feels like it’s taking off!!

It can be said that at present, the artificial intelligence chips provided by Xinghai Semiconductor are unique in the world!

Then it should be this side!

When it comes to GPUs, Nvidia is indeed ahead of other semiconductor companies.

After the rise of the artificial intelligence “River Map”, NVIDIA seems to have been placed with high hopes by many overseas capitals. Its market value has continued to rise, and it has completed several rounds of financing, accelerating the iteration of GPUs and the research and development of artificial intelligence chips!

NVIDIA is also preparing to launch a new generation of GPU graphics cards next year, as well as professional chips for artificial intelligence technology! !

According to Nvidia’s original conversation, will next year’s graphics cards use 12nm technology?

But after the emergence of Star Ocean Semiconductor, Nvidia felt a crisis… and also felt that this was an opportunity, so it continued to spend money to accelerate research and development and iteration, and will directly adopt 7nm technology next year.

It’s basically finalized!

Nvidia does not produce its own chips, but is only responsible for research and development and design. All chip production orders are given to Samsung and Teclast.

Samsung knows that Taiclast is stealing its big customer: Qualcomm! ?

We can’t just sit there and wait for death!

While retaining its major customer Qualcomm, it is also preparing to take over all Nvidia chip orders!

Isn’t it just a price reduction?

When it comes to reducing prices and increasing production, Samsung is the best!

Samsung’s rapid rise in the semiconductor field is due to the fact that in addition to the fact that Washington suppressed Japanese semiconductors, Samsung received a lot of technology, equipment, and support… It also seized the opportunity, went against the market and the cycle, and continued to develop, making it difficult for other companies to withstand it, and the last one standing was the winner! It has successfully risen!

Price reduction?

Even producing at a loss?

Behind Samsung is the entire country…In South Korea, a person cannot escape Samsung from birth to death!

The revenue of Samsung alone accounts for 20% of the country’s GDP!

What do you have to buy from Taipower? How much money do you have?!