Chapter 226 International Reaction

"Huaguo? Achieved a breakthrough in CMP polishing disc materials? How is this possible? How could they develop such a technology?"

Upon hearing the news, Dow Chemical President Jimmy Frederick frowned.

China has always been far behind them in these aspects, especially because it is restricted by their patent barriers. How can it be so easy to achieve a breakthrough in this regard?

It would be great to allow Chinese companies to survive in the cracks, but they actually made a breakthrough on this?

But the secretary nodded and said, "President, this news is true. If it wasn't important, I wouldn't be able to come to you."

Hearing what the secretary said, Jimmy Frederick asked: "What about their technology? Can they pose a threat to us?"

The secretary replied: "According to the available information, they use silicon carbide material with a thermal expansion coefficient of 0.16, which is about 10% better than our material. In addition, their material is also very hard and has a long service life.

It may be 3% higher than our materials.”

Hearing these two data, Jimmy Frederick's frown deepened.

The thermal expansion coefficient and hardness are actually better than them?

This made it even more unbelievable for him. That backward country not only broke through their monopoly, but even did it better than them?

However, the secretary said so, and even if he didn't believe it anymore, he had to believe this fact.

And this issue is also very important. After all, this issue involves very important interests.

The market size of CMP polishing disc materials is about US$700 million per year, and Dow Chemical occupies 79% of the market share, which is equivalent to a market of more than US$500 million. This is obviously very important to them.

important.

Among them, although the annual market share of the Chinese market is not high, it still has hundreds of millions of dollars.

If this part of the profits is squeezed out, it will obviously be a huge loss for them.

What's more, maybe the other party will not only give them a share of the Chinese market, but may even take away a little of the world market share by then.

The most important thing is that polishing is the most troublesome process in the entire semiconductor process and needs to be repeated up to 30 times. Mastering the step of polishing consumables is equivalent to mastering a lifeblood of the entire semiconductor process.

In particular, Dow Chemical occupies 79%, which is an indispensable part of the semiconductor industry, and every additional competitor will obviously take the most share from them.

In order to maintain their monopoly position, they must pay attention to this sudden competitor.

After thinking for a moment, Jimmy Frederick asked again: "What about the production technology? How is their production technology? China's production technology should always be very backward, right?"

"This matter is not yet clear. This news just came out. They have not officially started production yet, but it is estimated that they will be able to build it within this year. Moreover, Chinese officials seem to pay more attention to their new material.

Convenience has been provided in all aspects... In addition, there is one thing that you may need to pay attention to."

"what is the problem?"

"This new material was developed by that Chinese physicist Lin Xiao."

"Lin Xiao?" Jimmy Frederick was stunned, "Is this the Lin Xiao who proposed the multidimensional field theory?"

"Yes." The secretary nodded and said with a worried look: "That person is so smart, he won't pose any threat to us, right?"

"God only knows. Don't some people now say that he is the person closest to God?" Jimmy Frederick couldn't help complaining: "The key point is that they are Chinese, will they believe in God? What do they believe in,'lao

-tian-ye'?"

The secretary sighed: "That's right. I heard that this Lin Xiao was still studying in France last year. Why didn't the French want to keep him and let him convert to God? Now they let him return to China, but the result is that they started to turn around.

Deal with us."

Jimmy Frederick shook his head and then said: "Okay, everyone has returned to China. We can't go to China to arrest people. Let's think about what to do. Let's pray to God first and let them

The production process is too poor to compare with ours. By the way, let’s plan how to stabilize our customers so that they don’t let them buy Chinese materials when they see that Chinese materials are better than ours.”

"Well, then I'll ask someone to write some articles in the newspaper?"

"Go ahead."

Jimmy Frederick waved his hand.

…

Semiconductors are a huge system, but if there is any disturbance, the entire industry will know about it. After all, every part of the system is closely connected. Once an accident occurs in one part, it will eventually have an impact on the entire industry.

Especially now that it has something to do with China.

So, soon, everyone knew about the news that China had developed silicon wafer polishing materials.

Immediately, this attracted a lot of people to investigate the incident, and everyone wanted to know what the real situation was.

Then, Lin Xiao's name also appeared in front of them.

Netherlands, Asmer.

"Lin Xiao? How could it be Lin Xiao?"

Dawson Edinson also got the news, and he was stunned.

"Why did that guy go to study this kind of thing?"

Of course, despite the initial shock, he quickly recovered.

The polishing disc material is not their lithography machine, and it has no conflict with them at all. He does not believe that China can make any core components of the lithography machine. There is no need to consider this kind of thing.

Then he sighed with emotion: "However, this guy's luck is quite good, and he was able to get this kind of material for China."

Just as he was thinking this, suddenly, his phone rang again.

"Um...whose phone number is this?"

After looking at it, he didn't recognize it. Then he answered the phone and said, "This is President Asmail's office. What can I do?"

"FBI, open the door."

Dawson Edinson's expression changed and he sat up immediately.

FBI?

Why do these plague gods have the time to come to him?

What happened with espionage again?

"Mr. Edinson? What's wrong? Ask the security guard downstairs to open the door."

Hearing this, Dawson Edinson reacted and said, "Okay, please give him your phone."

Afterwards, he asked the security guard to open the door and waited for the FBI to come up.

He thought for a while and realized that the FBI people did not barge in directly and asked him to open the door, indicating that the matter was not serious and they probably just came to ask a few questions.

There is no need to worry. As long as the other party is not unreasonable, then he can reason with the FBI people, especially the shareholders behind Asmail, but no one is unreasonable.

But what exactly the FBI wanted to ask made him a little confused.

Soon, the FBI came to his office.

The three of them seemed to be wearing ordinary clothes, but their faces looked full of evil spirits.

The three people took out their FBI IDs and handed them to Dawson Edinson and let him look at them. The leader said: "Mr. Edinson, I am C1 Agent Huo from the FBI in Europe.

Rand Stein, I have a few questions for you now."

Dawson Edinson leaned on his chair and said, "Ask."

"First, Lin Xiao came here on December 30 last year. Why?"

"Don't you know about this problem?" Dawson Edinson raised an eyebrow: "This kind of thing has been reported to your American institutions, such as the Department of Commerce, FBI, CIA, NSA and so on."

"Mr. Edinson, please answer my question seriously." Holland Stein frowned and said seriously.

"Okay." Dawson Edinson spread his hands and said: "Lin Xiao is a mathematical genius and a physics genius. We invited him to come over to help us solve a mathematical problem. This kind of thing is very common. At the beginning

You didn’t even care when I reported it.”

As he answered, another FBI took a note sheet and wrote down his answer.

And Holland Stein asked again: "Okay, second question, did he do anything strange during the process? For example, deliberately touched your computer or something like that?"

Dawson Edinson: "No, after he entered our company, he was under all-round surveillance. It is impossible for him to do anything strange. If he did, we would find out immediately. We still save the surveillance video."

It's here, I can transfer it to you later if you need it."

"Okay, third question, is the information you gave him confidential?"

Dawson Edinson was speechless and said: "Mr. Stein, are you kidding me? How could I give secrets to a Chinese? What's more, even if they master all the secrets, there is no way that China can create ours."

Lithography."

Suddenly, he came to his senses and said with laughter and tears: "Oh, I remembered it. You should also know that Lin Xiao developed CMP polishing materials, and then came over to doubt us? Please, we are a lithography machine assembly factory, not a CMP

Polishing material production factory, we have no technology at all here! If you want to find trouble, you should go to Dow Chemical or Cabot, they all produce the materials, okay?"

Holland Stein said: "Some of our colleagues have already asked, but your place is the only place Lin Xiao has been to, so we must ask."

Then he stood up and said: "Thank you for your cooperation, Mr. Edinson, but I don't guarantee whether I will come to you again."

Dawson Edinson spread his hands: "Okay, okay, it's up to you. Anyway, I just want to say, if Lin Xiao can help China build a lithography machine, I will surrender myself to your FBI, okay?"

Holland Stein smiled, turned and left without saying much.
To be continued...