Chapter 71: Photoresist and battle clouds

Zhang Dongning resigned from his position at the BASF Group in Germany, sold his Volkswagen Golf car, cancelled his apartment on Hank Street, and gave home appliances and bedding to local students.
Then he took two simple pieces of luggage and, without hesitation, took a plane from Frankfurt and returned to his hometown where he was born.
Twenty years ago, he left the house like this, and nothing changed, except for his age, and the vaguely white hair.
Zhang Dongning lived in his hometown in northern Jiangsu for three days, and then took the high-speed rail to Hudu.
东 Zhang Dongning was surprised when he first saw Baoshan headquarters.
The construction is still not complete. The restaurant is a row of temporary board houses. Decoration materials are piled up everywhere. In order to prevent people from stepping on the concrete floor, workers have set up a boardwalk and walked up and down. From time to time, the ringing noise of the call saw, and the crisp pop of the nail gun.
Zhang Dongning met Luo Jia in an office with a taste of decoration.
The water dispenser was not ready, and there was no tea. Luo Jia threw him a can of cola directly.
Zhang Dongning frowned and put Coke on a messy coffee table. He had bad teeth and never drank too sweet a drink.
Luo Luojia, a young and unreasonable boss, seemed very busy. He made several phone calls in succession, then lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, shrugged Zhang Dongning.
"Actually I didn't smoke before."
Zhang Dongning expressed his understanding that after completing the three major projects of optimization, optics, wireless charging, and Xingchen Technology, it is sprinting into the display industry. This is not a secret. Perhaps the boss is really under pressure.
"We have already understood your situation, and this time I invite you back, I hope you will join our company's photoresist team." Luo Jia said immediately.
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Zhang Dongning couldn't believe his ears, and his heart accelerated fast.
Photoresist is the most important consumable in the semiconductor industry.
Although Zhang Dongning has the best graduation record in the history of the Department of Chemistry of the University of Hamburg, he can only lead some less important small projects in the BASF Group.
Xingchen Technology actually asked to come back to work on photoresist?
This is what he dreams of!
Although the number of photoresists produced in China each year has reached a staggering 90,000 tons, they are all primary products. Mid- to high-end products need to be purchased from overseas, and technology is completely blocked overseas.
An important consumable that uses more than 100,000 tons per year is actually imported, which is also sad.
"Photoresist, then our company is going to enter the chip industry!" Zhang Dongning said excitedly.
Luo Jia smiled bitterly. "Six major machines, lithography machines, etching machines, developing machines, coating machines, implanters, and oxidizing furnaces are needed to make chips. All of them are the minds of major powers. There is a Dutch company, four American companies, five neon companies, and these giants have formed an absolute monopoly in the industry. "
"The thing that makes a chip without a word is only in novels and movies."
Zhang Dongning nodded, he was indeed too naive. The technical difficulty of the chip industry is by no means imaginable for laymen. Wanting to take this industry down is comparable to the moon landing.
Luo Jia paused. "But well, everything is absolute. In the past two years, in the field of etching machines, China's northern micro and medium micro have made a breakthrough, especially China micro, their oxide layer etching equipment, And TSV etching equipment, the level is basically the first in the world. "
Zhang Dongning's eyes suddenly flashed, "I know this, I have been introduced in the great country!"
Luo Luojia said with a smile, "It seems that when you were in Germany, you didn't watch a lot of domestic programs."
Zhang Dongning touched his head awkwardly. "When I was young, my family was poor and scared, so I wanted to make more money. When I graduated, BASF paid a high salary, so I left it. Actually I ..."
Luo Luojia interrupted him, "You don't need to explain, you can come back, you have already explained everything."
"We and the giant companies in the display industry are about to start a war, and I am very worried about this."
"Although we have solved the problem of raw materials upstream of LCD, in the middle of the industry, it may still be stuck."
"I made an estimate, and the opponent is most likely to hit us with photoresist. After all, the number of exposure machines and lithography machines in China is huge. Even if there is no way to import these two types of machines, the domestic display industry can still sustain . "
"But photoresists are not the same. It is a consumable that is consumed a lot every day. Once the supply is cut off, the entire display industry will have no consumables available."
I have to say that Luo Jia was really contagious when she got serious.
Zhang Dongning felt nervous, his expression became serious, and he even forgot that he had just walked into the door of Xingchen Technology. It was a posture to advance with the company.
In Luo Jia's office, a few whiteboards and ink pens were habitually placed.
He picked up the ink pen, and quickly wrote on the whiteboard. He was so skilled at the full list of the giant companies that currently dominate the photoresist industry, indicating that he had already studied these industry opponents countless times in the background.
Photoresist is divided into six grades from low to high, from the lowest linear resist to the metal oxide resist for extreme ultraviolet EUV.
Dominating the industry is Dow Chemical, DuPont, Huntsman, Neon JSR, Shin-Etsu, Tokyo Yinghua, Fuji, Sumitomo, TOK, Mitsubishi Chemical, Asahi Kasei, Hitachi Chemical, Nippon Steel Chemical, Sun Ink, Coupled with Dongjin Chemical of South Korea, LG Chemical, Morton of Italy and so on.
Although photoresist is only a small category in the semiconductor field, there are such a large number of industry giants, even more terrifying than the seven raw materials upstream of LCD.
No wonder Luo Jia said that starting a business in the technology field is like climbing a mountain. The higher the climb, the greater the snowstorm.
As long as Xingchen Technology continues to advance, future opponents will only become stronger and stronger.
Zhang Dongning felt great pressure, but fortunately Luo Jia already had a project plan.
"Photoresist consists of a photosensitive compound, a matrix material, and a solvent. What you need to be responsible for is a classification of sensitizers, sensitizers."
Zhang Dongning snapped, "It turned out that more than one group of companies engaged in photoresist research!"
Luo Luojia laughed, "How is it possible? According to our star technology, as long as we focus on a project, we will immediately squeeze all the technical power!"
"In addition to your sensitizer research group, there are six other chemical materials groups, the semiconductor department and the optics department, and experts will also be sent to collaborate."
Uh ...
Seoul, Samsung Group headquarters.
As October approached, more and more intelligence was gathered in the office of President Li Zaiyu.
情报 And what the information shows is enough to make the entire Samsung Group feel alarmed.
After consecutive May storms, June storms and July storms, Huaxia suddenly seemed to be dying. UU reading www.uukanshu.com did not move for two months.
Now it looks like there is no big move here, but they are doing a big move!
"Recently, Huaxia panel manufacturers have upgraded their production lines with technology, including Corning, Xiao Xuzi, Toray, and Teijin. The number of orders they have received has been reduced significantly. It is estimated that Huaxia has completed the domestic production of upstream displays. Gao Dongzhen said, "It is estimated that their next step is to move our display division."
Li Zai felt numb from the scalp.
Samsung Group has a large family and many industries, but the most profitable is display and storage, plus pharmaceuticals.
Samsung military has actually been quietly sold to Hanwha, Samsung Chemical has been sold to Lotte, Samsung Construction and Samsung have been suppressed by Daewoo, Samsung Heavy Industries can not compete with Daewoo Heavy Industries and Hyundai Heavy Industries, and Samsung Automobile is a French Renault OEM, Silla Hotels and Shilla Duty Free, sales are far less than Lotte Group.
If Samsung ’s display division is defeated, it is equivalent to cutting off one leg of Samsung.
"How likely is it?" Li Zaiyu asked.
Gao Dong really felt embarrassed. "One hundred percent, the China Display Alliance has been established. Obviously, it wants to seize the high ground of the industry. In this industry, the biggest players are us and LG."
"All signs show that they are preparing for a big war, from mobile phone panels, computer panels, all the way to large TV panels, all in display-related areas."
镕 Li Zaiyu was shocked. "Including the field of personal computers?"
Gao Dong really nodded, "Xiaomi and Huawei already have their own computer product lines, and Vivo acquired Shenzhou last week. According to the latest news, Opal will also acquire Tsinghua Tongfang in the near future."