I was born again with 100 million

Chapter 350 A key part of the plan!
For Lin Xiao, the layout of chips is what he has always been thinking about.

Because before he was reborn, chips had too many restrictions on China's high-tech development.

The main reason for all this is that Huaxia enterprises do not have enough voice in this industry.

And if you want to have a certain right to speak in this industry, you need technology precipitation.

The manufacturing industry, especially the high-end manufacturing industry, is different from the Internet. ByteDance can grasp the threshold of the mobile Internet and complete the overtaking of the established Internet companies in just a few years.

However, if the high-end manufacturing industry wants to really have the right to speak, it will take at least ten or twenty years of development.

So for Lin Xiao, the layout of the chip industry is actually more urgent than the layout of the Internet, even though the Internet is one of the next most profitable industries.

Because of this, after Lin Xiao sold CDC shares to cash out so much money last year, he kept the money there because he was waiting for an opportunity.

Waiting for the opportunity to continue to make money after the Nasdaq crash is also waiting for the opportunity to invest money in the chip industry.

Lin Xiao didn't wait in vain. He waited until the Nasdaq crashed, which meant that the amount of gold in his hand might double several times.

He waited for Zhang Jing to set up Huaxin Technology together, and unexpectedly recruited Lin Benjian to join him.

But Lin Xiao is also very clear that the establishment of Huaxin Technology does not mean that this problem will be solved. Even if Lin Benjian has been recruited to join the team, he is expected to take the lead in deploying immersion lithography technology in the world and catch up with those big chip manufacturers. Process technology.

Because the United States has accumulated a lot of technology in this area, and there are too many moves that can be made.

Therefore, to achieve self-sufficiency in chips, Lin Xiao needs to make more preparations.

Of course, Lin Xiao never thought of laying out every link of the chip industry, that would be too unrealistic, let alone a person, a company, even a country can't do it.

What Lin Xiao thinks is that he should have the right to speak on some key points in this field.

So Lin Xiao aimed at one thing, a lithography machine!
The company he aimed at was ASML, a Dutch company that developed into a well-known company in later generations.

In the previous life, the immersion lithography technology proposed by Lin Benjian made two companies, TSMC and ASML. (Chapter 343 has been written, you can read it if you skip it)

TSMC is Lin Xiao's target, and now Lin Benjian, the key figure, has been taken away by Lin Xiao.

And ASML is the object of Lin Xiao's earlier planning. In his opinion, just a normal cooperative relationship like TSMC and ASML is not safe.

Because immersion lithography technology requires the cooperation of lithography machine manufacturers, ASML is undoubtedly the best partner, but another point is that it is impossible for ASML to produce this lithography machine and only sell it to Lin Xiao They are a company.

Therefore, it is not enough to just cooperate with ASML. What Lin Xiao wants is to take a stake in ASML, and then plan to bring the immersion lithography technology to China.

If it's another ten years, or even five years, I'm afraid I won't even think about it, but now is an excellent opportunity!

In the past few years, although lithography machines are also important, because there are relatively many manufacturers and the technological gap has not widened, they are not as popular as later generations.

And in terms of making money, the unit price of this thing is naturally profitable, but the total market size is actually not large.

Because lithography machines are not directly oriented to consumers, even when lithography machines are so valued in 2020, the market size is actually only more than 100 billion yuan.

Compared with those industries with a market size of hundreds of billions or trillions, it is really far behind.

Therefore, the strategic significance of the lithography machine is far greater than its economic benefits.

But not all companies will see this strategic significance, or value this strategic significance.

ASML's major shareholder, Philips, did not take this seriously.

ASML's lithography technology was first incubated in Philips in the early 80s. At that time, because the lithography market was too small, Philips did not have much interest, but there were no other big companies willing to cooperate, so it chose to cooperate with the Dutch local cooperation with a small company.

When ASML was established in 1984, it was only a small company with 31 employees. Even after more than ten years of development, the overall scale of the company is not particularly large.

And Philips has never believed that ASML can grow into a big company, so when the company went public in 1995, it sold a lot of shares, and in 1997 it sold some shares again, and at this time it still had about 20.00 A few percent of the shares.

Lin Xiao doesn't remember the specific value very clearly, but he who reported on ASML in his previous life clearly remembers that after the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, Philips sold most of ASML's shares. This figure is about 20%.

In fact, Philips has been on the road of selling and selling in later generations, and it has sold off many sectors that the group believes are not core businesses.

ASML, which produces lithography machines, is just one of them, but the executives of Philips did not expect that the market value of this company will far exceed Philips itself in the future.

Precisely because he remembered that Philips would sell ASML shares in 2000, Lin Xiao had been asking Dong Meilan to help pay attention to this news some time ago.

However, Dong Meilan has always said that there is no relevant news.

But now, Dong Meilan called and said that she had learned that Philips was going to sell ASML shares, and Lin Xiao was naturally ecstatic.

"Mr. Lin, according to the information we have received, Philips will soon send representatives to Silicon Valley to find the next home to take over ASML's shares."

After Dong Meilan finished talking on the phone, Lin Xiao immediately said, "You find a way to find out the news and see if you can get in touch with the other party. I will book the nearest flight from Pearl to Silicon Valley."

"Okay, Mr. Lin, then I will pick you up at the airport." Dong Meilan responded immediately.

After hanging up the phone, Lin Xiao immediately canceled the ticket back to Yanjing and directly booked a ticket to the United States.

This matter cannot be delayed at all.

If you can really buy a 20.00% stake in ASML, you will be able to get involved in the lithography machine industry!
This not only means that I have completed the key link in the chip plan, but also means that once Lin Benjian proposes the immersion lithography technology solution, I will be able to complete the combination of the lithography machine and the chip manufacturing as quickly as possible!

Of course, Lin Xiao's ambition is even bigger.

If the whole plan can really be pushed forward according to my own ideas, then this key link will really give my layout an absolute right to speak in this industry!

(End of this chapter)