89. Chapter 89 China Speed!
Chapter 89 China Speed!
Toudou, the island country, the headquarters of Shin-Etsu Chemical Group.
After hearing the situation report from Yukisaburo Eda, Takehiro Nohara also began to realize that something was wrong.
On the one hand, he directly asked Yukisaburo Eda to double the price of silicon wafers, and on the other hand, he asked him to keep an eye on the news in China at any time to see if he could find any clues.
However, just when he hung up the phone and was still sitting in the office with a serious look thinking whether he had missed something, Yukiharu Fukuhara, the head of the silicon wafer department, suddenly ran in in a panic.
”President Nohara, it’s not good!” Yukiharu Fukuhara directly put a freshly printed copy in front of Takehiro Nohara, “They found the problem!”
Takehiro Nohara narrowed his eyes and looked down at the copy.
”On the Vibration Constraints of Precision Machining Equipment by Magnetic Field Environment”, author: Kang Chi!!!
Nohara Takehiro stood up immediately and angrily tore the copy of the paper into pieces!
”Shameless! Too shameless! These people are simply robbers!” Nohara Takehiro panted and roared, “This is obviously a technology we discovered a long time ago, and they dare to publish a paper!?”
Fukuhara Koji stood by and dared not move, until Nohara Takehiro moved a chair and vented to the bookcase behind for a while, then swallowed his saliva and whispered: “The problem now is that we did not apply for relevant patents for this technology in order to keep it confidential…”
”Nonsense, I know it without you reminding me!” Nohara Takehiro glared at Fukuhara Koji.
In the field of high-tech technology, many times applying for a patent does not necessarily mean that you can get more benefits. When your technology is advanced enough and it is difficult for others to break through, not applying for a patent can get more benefits.
But benefits and risks always coexist.
Once someone else discovers this technology and publishes it earlier than the first person who discovered it, it will be necessary to have a good fight over who will own the ownership of this technology.
In this case, Shin-Etsu Chemical can certainly provide sufficient evidence to prove that it has owned this technology for a long time and has actually applied it a long time ago. The result of this situation is usually that the ownership of the technology belongs to the first inventor, but the second inventor also has the right to use the technology.
As for some more cutting-edge technologies, because they are only theoretically established, neither published nor have actual application evidence, it is very likely that latecomers will be able to obtain patents due to insufficient evidence.
For example, Watt, who invented the steam engine, did not register the patent in advance, resulting in the fact that he had invented the technology himself, but later he had to pay patent fees to others.
Of course, Watt just thought that the crank technology was just a small invention and there was no need to apply for it, while Shin-Etsu Chemical deliberately did not apply in order to establish a technical barrier.
Now, they finally paid the price for their arrogance! Huaguo published this paper first, no doubt, in order to take the initiative in patents and occupy a position, so that in the subsequent patent competition, at worst, it would be invincible.
In fact, if Kang Chi really wanted to develop a chemical mechanical polishing machine from scratch, he could use another route that could bypass the technical barriers.
But Silicon Technology has almost developed it, and various component drawings and component manufacturing equipment are also ready-made. It is time-saving and labor-saving to use them directly, so he is too lazy to rebuild them.
And it is also a kind of fun to disgust the little notebooks with patents. In fact, even if this paper is not published, patent infringement lawsuits cannot be filed at will. If sufficient evidence is not prepared in advance, the court will not accept it at all.
When SMIC was sued by TSMC for patent infringement, it was mainly because they went too far. Not only did they frantically poach people from TSMC, but they even asked them to bring TSMC’s drawings when they came. In the end, TSMC caught them and severely sanctioned them.
Patents are actually not that scary. Use them secretly and keep a low profile. Don’t let people find obvious handles. Generally, they can’t do anything to you, especially for most high-tech things. Just from analyzing the product itself, you can’t tell what specific technology they use, so how can you sue? So what’s really scary is that you know what technology they use, and the things are in front of you, but you still don’t know what technology they use.But they can’t make it at all…
In short, Takehiro Nohara and Koji Fukuhara knew very well at this moment that China had already made a breakthrough in the polishing technology of silicon wafers, and they were still stuck in patents, and they had no way to deal with each other.
Koji Fukuhara actually expected this day, but he didn’t expect it to happen so soon…
”It’s okay, they just made a technological breakthrough now.” Koji Fukuhara comforted Takehiro Nohara, “During their expansion of production capacity, we have the opportunity to bite off a piece of meat from them!”
However, after hearing this, Takehiro Nohara suddenly became depressed and whispered: “No, Fukuhara-kun…you are too naive.”
Koji Fukuhara looked at Takehiro Nohara in confusion.
“Since they dare to publish this paper, it means they have made full preparations… We have underestimated China. We have to admit that no matter how much humiliation and painful history they have had, they are really capable of creating miracles…”
Nohara Takehiro said, picking up a bottle of surviving foreign wine on the messy ground, then found a chair to sit on, opened the bottle cap and poured it into his mouth.
”President Yuanye!”
”Go out, I want to be alone for a while.”
Looking at the decadent Nohara Takehiro, Fukuhara Koji almost couldn’t help but shed tears, but he still held on to the last bit of fantasy, thinking that Nohara Takehiro’s guess might be wrong.
However, soon, a piece of news from the Huaguo Daily completely shattered his last bit of fantasy! ”Breaking the monopoly of silicon wafers – let us witness the miraculous speed of China again! ”
This article occupied one-sixth of the area on the front page of the print version of the Huaguo Daily! The article takes the establishment of the Global Silicon Wafer Association three months ago as the starting point, introduces the situation of the global silicon wafer market and the previous shortcomings of domestic silicon wafer technology, and then reports the key points of this news in great detail:
Two months ago, Dahan Silicon successfully conquered the silicon wafer polishing technology, and actively improved and expanded production within these two months, and finally achieved a comprehensive upgrade of the original small-size silicon wafer production line, and built two new production lines with a monthly output of up to 800,000 pieces.
This makes Dahan Silicon’s 12-inch semiconductor silicon wafer production capacity reach an astonishing figure of 2 million pieces per month! The success of Dahan Silicon has completely ended the dependence of domestic semiconductor companies on imported silicon wafers, and directly caused the Global Silicon Wafer Industry Association to fail in its blockade of China’s silicon wafer supply!
Under the efforts of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Pingjiang local government, the day and night efforts of thousands of employees of Dahan Silicon, and the full support of domestic friendly companies such as Jingfang Technology and Fenghuo Photovoltaic,
This international silicon wafer crisis has finally come to an end!
This not only proves China’s scientific research strength, but also the industrial miracle of expanding production of two million silicon wafers in two months, and once again shows the world what China’s speed is!
(End of this chapter)