Of course, even though its market share was hit by 60%, Intel was not worried because they already knew about the research progress of immersion lithography machines, and As
Another reason why China could not overcome lithography machines until after 2020 was that lithography machines have more than 80,000 parts.
And among these over 80,000 different parts, more than 40% are high-tech hardware. Especially core equipment such as laser sources and lenses, their manufacturing is extremely difficult. Only a few rare companies in Fusang and Europe can produce such equipment.
In the future, many mobile phones like to claim that their phones use Zeiss lenses. Little do they know that only Zeiss can produce the world's top lithography machine lenses. These are their unique skills, and even Boss Huang cannot replicate them.
With the support of so many European technology companies, AmsL's development has gone smoothly. Within a few years, it has produced its own lithography machines, and its prices have a certain advantage. It has barely entered the lithography machine market and has become a lithography machine company second only to Fusang.
However, Fusang also felt the pressure of AmsL's rise. Therefore, Nikon, Canon, and other companies joined forces and directly started to lower prices, desperately trying to kill AmsL.
AmsL suddenly entered a state of survival. To survive, AmsL thought about how it was born and how it became Europe's hope for lithography machines.
Therefore, AmsL decided not to be Europe's hope for lithography machines anymore, but to become the hope for lithography machines in the Americas, or rather, the hope for lithography machines in all markets except Fusang.
After convincing its European shareholders, AmsL invited representatives from dozens of companies in the Americas, including Intel, Samsung, TSMC, and Fairchild, and proactively offered shares at half-selling and half-giving prices to invite them to invest.
Intel and other companies naturally did not refuse such a good opportunity.
Of course, after investing, AmsL became their own child. Therefore, any mature patented technology they possessed would be prioritized for licensing to AmsL, and any parts needed for lithography machines would be sold to AmsL at the lowest possible price.
And for the equipment produced by AmsL, as long as the technology and price were not too unreasonable, they would naturally prioritize the procurement of their own child's equipment.
This is why Lin Benjian of TSMC chose to entrust his immersion lithography machine ideas and technologies to AmsL first, as they were essentially one entity.
AmsL essentially found itself countless fathers, and with the help of these fathers, AmsL began to rise at an unimaginable speed. This was probably the initial sharing economy, named "Shared Fathers."
Conversely, as a child, it must prioritize giving its fathers the first experience. After breaking through the technical bottlenecks of lithography machines, the first batch of advanced equipment produced would naturally be given priority to its fathers.
It is worth mentioning AmsL's "father-finding" technology here. AmsL not only found good fathers, but also the fathers with the strongest technology in the world. At the same time, it was very selective and would never choose two fiercely competing companies to be fathers simultaneously.
For example, in the computer chip industry, if it chose Intel as a father, it would never choose AMD. In chip manufacturing and foundry, it chose TSMC, and would have no relationship with Fusang's semiconductor companies.
In electronic device chips, it chose Samsung and would have no relationship with Singapore. The same applied to others, so AmsL's fathers were very harmonious and got along well with each other, without any jealousy.
Because of this, Intel could completely control AmsL's computer chip business and lithography machine sales. For example, half of the first batch of lithography machines produced by AmsL were to be sold to Intel. Although Intel no longer produced chips itself and handed over the equipment to TSMC, these equipment could only produce equipment needed by Intel and would never be given to AMD.
Although some other companies could also get a few machines, these companies would not be involved in the computer chip market, and their equipment would not be used to produce computer chips.
Even if they did, out of respect for Intel, they would never sell to AMD... at least not in batches. Therefore, for at least the next 3-5 years, AMD would not be able to access high-precision computer chips produced by the latest lithography equipment. Consequently, AMD would have no hope of competing with Intel in the computer chip market, and the market would return to Intel's sole dominance.
Since the computer chip market could not obtain these equipment, AMD's graphics card production lines could not obtain these equipment either. It could be imagined that in the future, AMD would suffer repeated setbacks in its two main markets, CPU and GPU, and would not be able to produce the minimum number of CPUs and GPUs in a short period, thus having to cede the high-end market.
Even if AMD could enter the market a few years later, it would naturally lag behind its competitors by several years. It would be extremely difficult to catch up with this gap, unless the lithography machine industry entered a new bottleneck again.
This is why when consumers in 2020 thought about CPUs and GPUs, they naturally considered Intel and NVIDIA to be the best, and AMD to be the eternal second place. It was entirely because they were already at a disadvantage from the start.
This is also why, even though it was the same venue and the audience consisted of AmsL's consumers, their joys and sorrows were not the same.
Those were the companies that were AmsL's "shared fathers," and they naturally had smiles on their faces. They were the first batch of companies to benefit from AmsL's technological breakthroughs. As for those with unpleasant expressions, they were destined not to receive the latest equipment and technology at the first opportunity, and could only watch as their competitors took over the high-end market.
For example, at this moment, AMD's representative was sitting in the audience with a troubled expression. The company had finally seen some improvement and captured 40% of the market through price wars, but now this market was deliberately being handed over to others. This made AMD's representative very unwilling.
"Mr. Porter, long time no see!" As the representative was lost in thought, a somewhat broken English voice sounded. Porter looked up and saw an old acquaintance, Jirokichi Suzuki of the Suzuki Consortium.
Adm Company and the Suzuki Consortium did not have much business relationship. The only connection was probably in the business of lithography machines and electronic chips.
After being excluded by AmsL, AMD naturally had to find reliable chip suppliers. As the Japanese semiconductor industry, which shared half of the market with AmsL, it was naturally the best choice.
The Suzuki Consortium had invested in the Nikon Group, and Jirokichi Suzuki was the representative of the Suzuki Consortium in the Nikon Group and was also responsible for the group's business in North America. He had met Mr. Porter several times, and their relationship was quite close.
"Mr. Jirokichi, I didn't expect to see you here. I thought you wouldn't attend!" Porter said with some surprise. As the main competitors in the industry, AmsL, Nikon, and the entire Japanese semiconductor industry were at odds with each other. Generally, they would not see each other's people at such press conferences. Although they often sent invitations to each other, it was up to the recipient whether to attend.
"Alas, in normal circumstances, we could avoid it, but how could we, Nikon Group, not come when the entire industry situation is changing like this?" Jirokichi Suzuki said with a smile.
"Mr. Jirokichi, you have high cultivation! How can you smile in such a situation?" Seeing Jirokichi Suzuki's smile, Mr. Porter said helplessly.
"Why shouldn't I smile?" Jirokichi Suzuki smiled even more happily. "An industry breakthrough means a technical breakthrough, which is a good thing for everyone. Mr. Porter should also be happy!"
"Heh heh, the breakthrough was made by AmsL and Intel. Why should you and I be happy?" Mr. Porter said grumpily.
"I admit that in terms of technology, AmsL is indeed more mature, but it's just more mature!" Jirokichi Suzuki said lightly. Upon hearing this, the originally helpless Mr. Porter's expression instantly lit up.
"Could it be?"