Technological Supremacy Chapter 93: End of Year 1!
If you have been to the streets of Tokyo during the Christmas season, you will find that the festive atmosphere here is not worse than that in Europe and America.
The same Christmas tree, the same singing of jingle bells, and Santa Claus wearing a red Christmas hat, the only difference is probably the people with black hair and black eyes on the street.
President Takeda Kumaichi’s holiday life is very exciting. In order to relieve his depression, he took his wife and daughter to Hokkaido for skiing. In addition, he tasted delicious king crab and the famous Sapporo craft beer in Otaru .
After the vacation, Takeda Kumaichi returned to his office, and the latest information sent to him by Secretary General Makoto Tanibe was like a blow to the head, making President Takeda dizzy.
During the Christmas period, domestic manufacturers do not have a holiday, and they continue to plunder domestically.
News came from Huaxia Headquarters that Shin-Etsu Chemical's last client, Tianma Display, had made a formal decision not to renew the contract with Shin-Etsu Chemical.
So far, Shin-Etsu Chemical has fallen across the territory of China.
Starting next year, their share in China's photoresist market will drop directly from 14% to zero.
Takeda Kumaichi felt his hands trembling. Founded in 1926, Shin-Etsu Chemical, which has a history of nearly a hundred years, was actually cleared in the Huaxia market! It was cleared!
This is simply a disgraceful and disgraceful defeat. In the past, President Takeda would probably have to cut his belly to apologize.
Makoto Hasebe lowered his voice, "President, not only us, but other manufacturers have also lost their positions in the Huaxia market. This morning, TOK and Mitsubishi Chemical have officially announced that they will withdraw all their personnel in China to their headquarters. I believe it won't be long before other manufacturers will take the same countermeasures."
This news made President Takeda a little relieved. It wasn't just himself who failed, other giant companies also failed.
"Forget it, at least we still have the four major markets of Neon, Wanwan, South Korea, and the United States. Globally speaking, China's photoresist consumption only accounts for 35%, and there is still Sixty-five percent of the vast market requires us to operate." Takeda Kumaichi said.
After finishing speaking, he saw Secretary-General Makoto Tanibe's expression twisted, hesitant to speak.
"Bastard!" Takeda Kumaichi roared, "Why is there such an expression, are you hiding something from me!?"
Hasebe was terrified, so he had no choice but to tell the truth to the president, "Thirty minutes ago, Intel Corporation announced that it had reached a strategic cooperation with Xingchen Technology, and will fully use the new fully synthetic photoresist produced by Xingchen Chemical."
What! ?
Takeda Kumaichi jumped up from the sofa. During his Christmas in Hokkaido, Xingchen Technology actually took down the semiconductor giant Intel! ?
Who is Intel?
The benchmark of the semiconductor industry, Intel's CPU and north-south bridge chips are used all over the world. They are the most powerful semiconductor group on the planet!
Star Technology actually won Intel?
My goodness!
Takeda Kumaichi felt a splitting headache, his eyes suddenly went dark, and he fell heavily towards the sofa behind him.
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At the end of December, as the strongest player in the domestic photoresist field, Star Technology began to make a move, this New Year's offensive around semiconductor consumables finally reached its final climax.
When the news came out on December 28th that Xingchen Technology had officially become Intel's global supplier, the technology circle exploded completely, and countless colleagues in the semiconductor industry even shed tears of excitement.
"Star Technology actually took down Intel? It's too good!"
"Fully synthetic modified photoresist? Should this be considered the seventh grade?"
"Almost, Xingchen Technology is worthy of being the toughest group of tough guys in the Chinese technology circle. There was no seventh-level photoresist in the world, and Xingchen Technology made one for him!"
"This is the first time in history that domestic semiconductor upstream consumables are directly supplied to the world's top manufacturers! You must have a good drink tonight!"
All major professional forums exploded in an instant, and there were even discussions on Weibo and WeChat.
Although most of the onlookers don't know the difference between photoresist and rubber at all, but who doesn't know Intel, it must be awesome to be able to supply Intel.
The most painful are the seventeen giant companies that originally ruled the photoresist field.
They were just abused by the four major domestic factories headed by Xinyang in the Huaxia region, and they spent Christmas in a huff.
The significance of Intel is not just a factory, but an industry benchmark!
The photoresist that even Intel uses, the photoresist of Xingxing Technology must be of such good quality that it is irresistible.
As more and more news came out, the fact that Star Technology's photoresist could increase the yield rate by 2% directly blew up semiconductor factories around the world.
Now it is no longer a matter of accepting Xingchen Technology as a supplier, but the major semiconductor factories are begging Xingchen Technology to supply quickly!
With such fierce competition, if the good product rate is 2% lower than others, it will be fatal!
On December 29th, Star Technology won the North American semiconductor giant, Texas Instruments.
On December 30th, TSMC, the world's largest semiconductor foundry giant, announced a contract with Star Technology.
All of a sudden, the toughest group of men in the Chinese science and technology circles attacked frantically everywhere. Wherever they passed, it was as unstoppable as a torrent of steel, and quickly swept the global semiconductor consumables market!
The seventeen international giants were hit hard in succession.
In the high-end market, Xingchen Technology is in full swing.
In the mid-end and low-end markets, there are four major domestic manufacturers headed by Xinyang.
This is an all-out offensive from high end to low end!
It's too scary. Huaxia manufacturers make all seven grades of photoresist, from low-end photoresists worth 80,000 yuan per ton to fully synthetic modified photoresists worth one million yuan per ton!
Among the five major manufacturers, Star Technology need not be mentioned, they specialize in the most high-end products~IndoMTL.com~ plunder the biggest profit in the market.
The other four major factories are also highly competitive. Their quality comes from the patents and technologies of Xingchen Technology, and their prices are the traditional cabbage prices of Chinese manufacturers.
The once invincible industry giants suddenly discovered that they can't beat Xingchen Technology in high-end, and can't beat Xinyang, Boyue, Ruihong, Kechuang in price.
Overnight, it even reached the point of quitting the industry completely!
In fact, they have already figured it out. Taking into account the factors of international relations, the major semiconductor factories will still give a certain share to traditional manufacturers. The Five Tigers of China were completely overthrown.
The ones who are really uncomfortable are the major chaebols in South Korea.
Samsung, LG, Hynix, they once let it go, they would never use the photoresist of Chinese manufacturers, but now that the fully synthetic modified photoresist of Star Technology has come out, they are in a hurry. Ants.
If you ask for Xingchen Technology, they may not give you face.
If you don't ask for it, and you see your good product rate lagging behind that of your peers, your cost remains high, and you are gradually falling into a disadvantage in global competition, then you want to cry without tears.
So far.
Dow, Dupont, Huntsman, JSR, Shin-Etsu, Tokyo Chemicals, Fuji, Sumitomo, TOK, Mitsubishi Chemicals, Asahi Kasei, Hitachi Chemicals, Nippon Steel Chemicals, Sun Ink, LG Chem, Toshin Chemical, MO Dayton Chemicals.
The rule of the seventeen giants over the photoresist industry has officially come to an end.
Time flies.
In the crazy offensive planned by Xingchen Technology, in the chaos of the technology world.
The old days are slowly coming to an end.
In the new year, the sun still rises from the east.