Chapter 188 The maker of the ultimate semiconductor weapon
Right now, the Flamingo Company is at its peak, and third-party game manufacturers have finally given in!
In fact, they have no choice at all.
In the home game console market, Flamingo-1 accounts for more than 90%. Even if they comply with the royalty system, they can make a lot of money.
However, as more and more game companies agree with the royalty system, Flamingo's profits will increase significantly.
Although there are many junk games on the market, there are also some good ones. Porting the Atari 2600 to the Flamingo-1 platform can bring 20% revenue sharing to the Flamingo company, and some arcade games can also be ported.
In addition, the royalty system stipulates that the game cartridges are produced by Flamingo Company, and are eventually handed over to Ant Factory for production.
Therefore, the ant factory must be expanded!
Ant Factory is currently producing game consoles, game cartridges and other related products for Flamingo Company, and is also producing GalaxyNet1.0 network cards for Galaxy Network Company. In addition, even Netflix’s movie tapes are also produced by Ant Factory. Soon, Sun Computer Systems' graphics workstations will also be produced here. At the same time, Ant Factory also began to accept other electronic product OEMs, including personal computers, televisions, etc.
Ant Factory has gradually developed into a large-scale electronics foundry.
Near the Ant Factory, some parts factories have sprung up like mushrooms after a spring rain, such as plastic factories, steel factories, etc. The Flamingo-1 game console and game cartridges are not cutting-edge technologies. For some simple accessories, Li Zetian is willing to start from These factories purchase some. Moreover, the products they produce are of high quality and low price, which can save the company money.
“Made In China” is not a name for nothing~~
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The success of Flamingo Company brought huge income to Li Zetian, giving him enough financial resources to realize his plan.
The plan to acquire Disney is just one of them. The most important thing is that he wants to integrate the upstream and downstream industry chains of chips!
The most important equipment for manufacturing chips is the chip lithography machine.
There are only a few companies in the world that can produce chip lithography machines, and you can count them on your fingers, because the technology involved in lithography machines is so advanced.
So far, there are three main photolithography machine manufacturers. One is ASML, which now belongs to Philips and has not yet become independent. The other is RB's Nikon and Canon.
Compared with Nikon and Canon, ASML can only be regarded as a rising star.
Some people have concluded that the reason why RB Semiconductor was so awesome in the 1970s and 1980s was because the photolithography machines of Nikon and Canon were powerful. RB Semiconductor manufacturers were using these two photolithography machines, so these semiconductor manufacturers produced The product is excellent.
However, with the rise of ASML, global semiconductor manufacturers have switched to this company's lithography machines. However, RB manufacturers still use Nikon and Canon lithography machines with backward technology. As a result, the competitiveness of RB's semiconductor products has dropped sharply. , so the decline of the entire RB semiconductor industry is caused by ASML!
There was an unwritten saying in the semiconductor industry in the previous life: Wherever ASML's technology goes, there will be the world's semiconductor manufacturing processes.
Obviously, this sentence is enough to explain all the problems.
Intel is also using photolithography machines from Nikon and Canon, but the purchase price is much more expensive than that of RB manufacturers. Therefore, compared to RB's semiconductor manufacturers, Intel first has a lot more factory construction costs. In addition, RB Semiconductor manufacturers usually get the best and most advanced photolithography machines immediately.
Intel's loss to RB Semiconductor in the memory market was indeed a fair loss.
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At the end of the year, the financial statements come out.
The most astonishing performance is of course Flamingo Company, with sales exceeding 10 billion US dollars. Since the game console does not make money, the profit is only about 1.54 billion US dollars. However, the game console platform is a cash cow, which will continue to bring huge profits. income.
Then there is Violet Records. Michael Jackson and Yu Jingqiu’s records have both sold more than 40 million copies. In addition, there are MVs, Michael Jackson’s commercial performances, and endorsements, which have earned the company US$3 billion, with a profit of US$1.25 billion. However, this is a special situation, and it will not be so profitable in the future. The MTV music television network has developed, and has also successfully recorded "The Voice". It is currently undergoing post-processing and will be broadcast next year. Li Zetian only learned about this aspect and paid relatively little attention. He almost completely delegated power and let them operate it themselves. .
Galaxy Networks also started to make a profit this year, selling 845,000 GalaxyNet 1.0 network cards, with sales reaching US$210 million and profits as high as US$100 million.
Net revenue for Star Wars Studios was $750 million.
As for other companies, their performance has improved significantly compared with previous years.
At last count, revenue exceeded US$50 billion and profit was around US$10.5 billion.
Donate money to the L.Y Foundation every year as usual to reduce taxes, and then use part of the funds to distribute dividends.
In order not to pay the 20% dividend tax, Li Zetian and Yu Jingqiu transferred all their shares to the umbrella company. The umbrella company already had US$2.48 billion on its books!
At this time, Li Zetian had enough confidence to integrate the upper and lower chip industry chains and achieve a high degree of vertical integration! ! !
However, ASML is now a division of Philips. I wonder if it is possible to buy it?
In fact, Li Zetian's worries are unnecessary.
The reason why ASML became independent from Philips was because at this time, Philips's economic situation was very bad and it was implementing a large-scale layoff plan and could not fund ASML.
Li Zetian sent someone to investigate and soon learned about the situation.
"The right time, right place and right people! It seems that the success rate of buying ASML is very high! Haha..." Li Zetian couldn't help laughing happily.
"Soldiers are expensive and quick", Li Zetian immediately sent someone to communicate with Philips in the name of Times Technology Company, and spent US$500 million to acquire ASML.
Philips was a little reluctant at first, but soon gave in to the strong financial offensive and accepted the acquisition price of US$550 million.
Philips obviously does not realize the importance of photolithography machines, otherwise it would never be sold.
The Netherlands also did not intervene to prevent Times Technology's acquisition.
This made the acquisition very smooth.
Li Zetian couldn't help but feel proud of himself, as if he had gotten a huge advantage, but it was indeed the case.
With the acquisition of ASML, half of the task of integrating the chip industry chain has been successful.
However, just acquiring ASML (ASML) is not enough, you have to invest huge sums of money in research and development. As we all know, high technology is very expensive, especially photolithography machines. It is normal for several years of research without a product.
Dongfang Yuqin smiled bitterly and said to Li Zetian: "Mr. Li, is this investment too risky? Brinke, ASMO's president and chief technology officer, said that for research and development, we need to invest at least 200 million US dollars, and because They have extremely strict quality requirements, so they cannot guarantee that they will be able to produce new products within three years..."
Without thinking, Li Zetian smiled and said, "Tell them that Times Technology Company is willing to invest US$400 million in research and development!"
"Uh, okay!" Dongfang Yuqin nodded helplessly. She was not optimistic about a company that spent a lot of money on research and development but had no products for a long time because there were too many variables in the process...
But Li Zetian thinks that the only lithography company that can compete with RB Nikon and Canon is ASML (ASML). Therefore, what he needs to do now is to fully support ASML, then defeat Nikon and Canon, and let RB Semiconductor The industry has never recovered since then! ! !
Of course, at the same time, let your own chip industry take the lead, and then rely on powerful chip technology to produce semiconductor products!
ASML is headquartered in the Netherlands, and Li Zetian did not move it to the United States because it has many R\u0026D partners in Europe, including Dutch universities and European research institutions.
However, Li Zetian asked Asmore to establish an Asmore American Research Center in the United States and an Asmore Asian Research Center in Hong Kong. As a result, there are research centers in Asia, Europe, and America to speed up the development of new products.
The news of ASML's acquisition did not attract much attention except from competitors and semiconductor manufacturers. In fact, even if Asmore has become a lithography giant, not many people in the world know about this company. However, Asmore is the truly awesome company, and almost all semiconductor companies around the world cannot do without Asmore. Before Li Zetian traveled through time, the EUV lithography machine, known as the "ultimate weapon of the semiconductor industry", was invented by Esmore, and each machine sold for more than 100 million US dollars!
RB's Nikon and Canon combined are not enough to beat Asmore!
Li Zetian's self-confidence has greatly increased at this moment, and he is very smug. Little RB, let his brother destroy your semiconductor industry with his own hands! ! !
Subsequently, Li Zetian began to look for other semiconductor equipment manufacturers non-stop.
At this time, he remembered a person, a Chinese.
“Geniuses have come from Chinese origin since ancient times!!!”
“The Chinese are really one of the smartest people in the world!!!”
Li Zetian said with deep feeling.
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