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Chapter 667 Super Luxury Team

Chapter 667 Super Luxury Team
The arrival of Populus euphratica gave Li Qi an excellent opportunity.On the one hand, you can cleanse your boss, and on the other hand, you can take advantage of the trend to carry out a wave of social activities, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

"Mr. Hu, please come inside! Your Madam's attire is really radiant and will make many ladies jealous."

When Li Qi saw Populus euphratica and Tian Sichun in formal attire, his eyes lit up.The man is handsome, the woman is beautiful, standing together can be said to complement each other.

He was ashamed to praise Populus euphratica, so he praised Tian Sichun earnestly.

"Mr. Li, you've been here for a few days, and you're already looking like a European gentleman."

Hu Yang smiled and dropped a word, and walked in with Tian Sichun.

Wu Xinhui stood at the door and whispered a few words to Li Qi, because Yi Jun and Du Deng might come.

The two of them didn't have invitations. If they didn't arrange it in advance, it would be a joke if they couldn't get in after they came.

"A Yang, I don't like this kind of dinner, they are all cold meals."

This so-called dinner party, reception, and buffet are all similar. It doesn't matter what you eat, it's just a social event.

After the dinner began, Hu Yang and his wife were undoubtedly the focus of the scene.

It was the first time that the top executives of Tuwei Precision Machinery met the boss of the company, a young and handsome Chinese rich man.

The atmosphere when everyone met was much better than expected. Hu Yang felt that he might have been misled before. Who said that all Germans are old-fashioned and unreasonable?Perhaps these are the two states at work and in life.

Tian Sichun followed behind Populus euphratica, because he kept smiling, the muscles on his face felt a little stiff.

Taking a break, Hu Yang said with a smile: "Chunchun, you go and rest for a while, I will find you later."

As a result, not long after Tian Sichun left Populus euphratica, he was surrounded by a group of ladies.Today's dinner was originally allowed to bring female companions, and there are many topics that women can talk about.

Tian Sichun's English level is not bad, German is the same as Populus euphratica, and he also knows nothing at all.

Fortunately, Li Qi did not ignore this situation. He prepared several male and female translators early in the morning.

"Mr. Hu, hello! Thank you for your invitation and brought us a wonderful night, cheers!"

Hu Yang didn't remember how many people he had dealt with, but he managed to get away, and when he walked to a quiet corner, he realized that there were still people waiting here.

Waiting for him is Yi Jun, and Yi Jun's German friend Duden.

"Cheers! Mr. Yi, Mr. Durden, this evening is really a bit hectic. Please don't mind if you don't greet well. Let's sit over there for a while, okay?"

Hu Yang didn't care about Yi Jun and Du Deng at all just now, and now he has some free time, so he wanted to chat with each other.

Yi Jun and the two naturally had no objection, so they walked to the side, found a chair and sat down.

"Mr. Hu, it turns out that you bought Tuwei Precision Machinery. Earlier, Duden asked me if I knew who bought this company, and I was so open-mouthed by him."

It's funny for Yi Jun to think of this. Tuwei Precision Machinery is still quite famous in the local area.However, the company is not listed, so naturally it has not fulfilled its obligation to announce.

The outside world has heard that a Chinese company acquired the company, but they don't know the details.

If they hadn't come to the dinner tonight, Yi Jun and Du Deng would not have known that Hu Yang was the boss behind Tuwei Precision Machinery.

Hu Yang smiled politely and said, "It's also a coincidence that there is such an opportunity."

"Mr. Hu, you have always been interested in the equipment for the production of large-scale integrated circuits, right? I wonder what you think of domestic lithography machines and etching machines?"

Sitting there, Duden didn't talk much, but drank a lot of wine.

But Yi Jun didn't say a word, and quickly changed the topic to his company.

Hu Yang glanced at Du Deng, Yi Jun immediately reacted, shook his head with a smile, and signaled that it was okay.

"Mr. Yi must have stayed in North America for many years, right? At your age, you probably had a good time there. Why did you think of returning to China to develop?

The current status of the domestic semiconductor industry is like this. The technical foundation is relatively weak. At the same time, it is facing pressure from North America and competition from international giants. It is really not easy to make a difference.

I had a general understanding of the etching equipment before, among which Panlin Semiconductor accounted for half of the etching equipment, followed by Tokyo Electronics and Applied Materials.
These international giants occupy about 94% of the world's etching equipment market share.It's not easy for Mr. Yi to survive. "

After Hu Yang met Yi Jun in the Master Gallery, he asked Wu Xinhui to collect some information about etching equipment.After reading it, Hu Yang was also full of emotion.

Semiconductor equipment is at the upstream of the entire industrial chain, and North America has the strongest overall technical strength.Among them, Applied Materials has always maintained the world's largest market share in semiconductor equipment, and it is difficult for any wafer factory to bypass it.

For a wafer factory, the largest part of the investment is the investment in equipment, accounting for about 70% of the total investment.

A chip production line roughly includes seven separate production areas:

Divided into, diffusion, lithography, etching, ion implantation, film growth, polishing, metallization.The relevant steps and measurements of the seven main production areas are carried out in the wafer clean room.Several kinds of semiconductor equipment are placed in the production area to meet different needs.

It can be seen that semiconductor equipment covers many aspects, and domestic substitution has a long way to go.

Yi Jun nodded, agreeing with Hu Yang's statement.The data on market share are all public, and there is no need to hide this.

"Mr. Hu, when it comes to age, how old do you think I am?"

After all, it was not a formal negotiation, so Yi Jun wanted to make a joke.

Hu Yang thinks that Yi Jun is about the same age as Du Deng, maybe a few years older: "Mr. Yi, if you ask me that, I'll guess higher. Are you almost 50?"

"Hahaha"

Duden couldn't help laughing out loud when he heard this.

Yi Jun also shook his head with a smile, and said, "Mr. Hu, you are so good at talking! If I am only 50 years old, I can wake up from my dreams with a smile. I am just 60 years old this year, and I have already retired from Silicon Valley."

Now that it is here, Yi Jun briefly talked about his past.

Yi Jun is a top student who graduated from a prestigious university in China, and then went to study in North America, where he studied for a master's degree and a doctoral degree.

He then stayed in North America and has more than 20 years of work experience in Silicon Valley.

Yi Jun has worked in Intel, Applied Materials and other companies for a long time, and the highest position was technical director.

When he returned to China to start a business this time, he took away nearly 40 top semiconductor talents from Silicon Valley, and he brought back more than 600 personal technology patents.

"Wo Cao, this is really a luxurious technical team!"

Hu Yang secretly sighed in his heart, this lineup is simply inhuman, and the starting point of Elbe Semiconductor equipment is much higher than the original microelectronic equipment and Bolong Optics!

At this time, a dusty and long-lasting memory suddenly appeared clearly in Hu Yang's mind.He remembers having dinner with a few friends once, and everyone talked about the pain of lithography machines in the domestic semiconductor industry for some reason.

One person said that the current domestic lithography machines are not bad, so what kind of company's equipment has already achieved 5nm.

At that time, another person immediately retorted, dude, you are getting the photolithography machine and the etching machine wrong, you are talking about the etching machine, and the photolithography machine is far from us
In that time and space, the only semiconductor equipment in China that could rival the most advanced semiconductor equipment in the world was the plasma etching machine developed by Yi Jun's team.

"Mr. Yi, I really admire you. It's not because you look very young, but because you don't enjoy life at home after retirement, but you still have to fight.

In addition, you are much older than me, so I can't bear you to stop using honorifics to me. "

Hu Yang couldn't disperse his thoughts, so he quickly brought his attention back.

"I didn't expect Mr. Hu to be so approachable. Well, let's talk casually. I came to Germany this time mainly to see old friends and relax. My company is really a headache."

Yi Jun is as good as others, and the more polite they are, the more unfamiliar they seem, but Hu Yang's words made him feel very happy.

In the past two years since returning to China, Yi Jun has indeed experienced the hardships of starting a business.

He and his entrepreneurial team raised $725 million to found Elb Semiconductor Equipment.Later, Shanghai invested 5000 million US dollars in them, and since then, no financing has been received.

After two years, the company's research and development is about to produce results, but unfortunately, the company has no money.

Before Yi Jun came to Germany this time, he actually had a talk with STMicroelectronics.The result of the negotiation made him very dissatisfied. The other party's asking price was too high, so he could only give up.

I came to Germany just to see Duden, and take a vacation to adjust my mentality. I didn't expect to meet the head of the Huijia Department, Hu Yang.

"Mr. Yi, I basically understand your situation. How about this? Let's talk about it in detail after returning to China. I am very interested in investing in etching equipment. If you have time, you might as well go to the deep sea."

Seeing Tian Sichun approaching in the distance, Hu Yang stopped talking in time.

After all, today is a dinner organized by his company, and it is inconvenient for him to sit here and chat with Yi Jun all the time.

"Okay, Mr. Hu. I'm sorry for taking up so much time! Please call me when you get back to China, and I'll go to the deep sea to see you right away."

Yi Jun's attitude is correct, no matter what aspect he is currently in, he is far behind Hu Yang and the Huijia family.It doesn't make sense that he wants to raise money, but Hu Yang has to go to Shanghai to meet him in person.

Hu Yang smiled and got up and left, walked over to join Tian Sichun, and continued to walk through the crowd.

"Du Deng, why don't you speak up? Since you intend to develop in China, you will definitely get a lot of help if you have a good relationship with Mr. Hu."

After Hu Yang walked away, Yi Jun looked at Du Deng and said.

Duden has left Zeiss and intends to go to China to find opportunities.The two once talked about Bolong Optics, a subsidiary of the Huijia Department, but they met the boss behind Bolong Optics, but Du Deng didn't say anything.

"Yi, what does it matter if you don't talk about it now? Anyway, I have already planned to go to Huaxia with you this time. Next time, next time you go to see Mr. Hu, I will go with you."

Duden is a senior technician of Zeiss and an expert in the field of optics.There are many reasons why he left Zeiss, but in detail, it is nothing more than turmoil in the workplace.

"That's okay. You have to hurry up and show me around these two days. I guess we'll be leaving soon."

Yi Jun had a hunch that he should be able to persuade Huijia to invest in him.

As for the conditions, if they are not too harsh, he can accept them.

The dinner lasted until very late, Hu Yang and Tian Sichun persisted until the end of the banquet before returning to the hotel.

The next day.

Hu Yang accompanied Tian Sichun and Xiao Yifei for a stroll in the morning, and in the afternoon he brought Wu Xinhui to Tuwei Precision Machinery Company.

Looking around, he felt that the foundation of this company was very good.Take the alignment system of a lithography machine as an example, the most critical of which is the pneumatic bearing.

The current chip manufacturing process has already reached the nanometer level, and there is no slightest vibration when aligning the workbench.This has very high requirements on the mechanical parts (especially the bearings), and the prototype produced by Tuwei Precision Machinery can basically replace the products of microelectronic equipment and former suppliers of Bolong Optics.

"Mr. Li, there is still a slight gap, but it hardly affects anything. Since the company's foundation is so good, you should not be stingy in investing in technology research and development. I think that as long as the funds are in place, the alignment system made by the company will It must be at the top level in the world.”

The company's products are rich and of good quality, but the difficulty lies in the market.

It can be said that the products of Tuwei Precision Machinery are very expensive, so its market share is very small.The problem of market size in turn affects the development of the company, which is a typical case of a vicious circle.

"Mr. Hu, the production cost of local German companies is very high, and market development is the company's weakness. Therefore, we still need to develop the domestic market as soon as possible. Establishing a sole proprietorship or a joint venture is the best option."

At this point in time, many industries are planning to cancel the restriction on the proportion of foreign capital shares.Some industries do not know, but the machinery industry has already started a pilot.

Li Qi's idea is to give it a try. If the policy allows, you can even consider setting up a wholly foreign-owned enterprise in China.

"Well, Mr. Xia has already negotiated with a domestic company. After all, we don't have experience in the machinery industry, so there's nothing wrong with being steady."

Populus euphratica tends to form alliances with domestic enterprises, but does not necessarily want the name of a joint venture company.He can also buy the company he likes first, so that Tuwei Precision Machinery can quickly localize after it comes to China.

After inspecting Tuwei Precision Machinery for a day and a half, Hu Yang was very satisfied with this company.At the same time, he has a new understanding of Li Qi's ability.

In the past, Li Qi's work in microelectronics equipment may have been hindered too much, and he did not play his due role.

Now it seems that putting him in Germany is a good move.

(End of this chapter)