Rewrite the Technological Landscape

Back at the company the next day, Meng Qian first called the company's executives together for a meeting and learned about some of the things he cared about. The first thing to bear the brunt was the company's recent profitability and cash flow problems. The next few years will be a concentrated explosion of the company's hardware development This period is also an important period for the scientific research center to lay the foundation. Nothing is more important than money.

From the financial report, it can be seen that in Taiwan Province, only five companies were acquired in the end, and it cost less than 1 billion. The money from the bank loan was not spent. In addition, the company has made some money recently. The cash reserve is still quite sufficient. He just invested 500 million yuan in the scientific research center and there are 2 billion yuan left, and he is waiting for Meng Qian to find a place to spend the money.

Meng Qian looked at the report on the game side. The profitability of "The Legend of God" has begun to show an inflection point. There have been a lot of this type of game in China in the past two years, and it is a bit weak. Fortunately, the profitability of "Clash of Gods" The ability is still on the rise, and the sales volume of the Kyushu platform abroad is also good, but what makes Meng Qian most gratified is that Fengxin's profitability has begun to explode.

Penguin officially withdrew from the competition with Fengxin. Fengxin’s only rival in China is MSN, but MSN has no profit point because of its elite setting every day. Fengxin continues to attract users, and its profitability is rising steadily. Now Fengxin Just relying on selling Fengxinxiu, selling memberships and Fengxinquan costumes, the company can earn 100-200 million yuan a month.

Relying on the game and Fengxin alone, the company's monthly profit has reached 500 million, which finally surpassed Chen Tianqiao's performance of making 300 million a month from "Legend". Now commercial software has also begun to explode overseas, and the profitability of Dafeng Group has risen.

"How's the communication with Canon going?" Meng Qian asked the accountant to go back to work first after knowing about the company's financial situation, and then asked Xiao Boshi.

"About the first round of cooperation negotiations just experienced yesterday, here are the meeting minutes." Xiao Boshi sent the printed meeting minutes to everyone in the meeting. It can be inferred that Canon actually believes in immersive lithography.”

"Then why don't they do it themselves?" Ding Mingyuan couldn't help asking.

"I also went to find out the general situation. Judging from the current judgment, whether it is Nikon or Canon, there has been a limit investment in traditional lithography technology, so everyone really can't spend so much capital and manpower to disperse In another direction, it is said that Nikon has threatened TSMC not to allow them to study immersion lithography machines."

Everyone didn't notice that Meng Qian nodded slightly. This situation is consistent with the records he saw in later generations.

Seeing that Ding Mingyuan stopped asking, Xiao Boshi continued, "So the bottom line of Canon's cooperation now is that once our immersion lithography machine is successfully developed, they will require us to authorize relevant technologies and open up all relevant patents for them. He can basically accept their needs, including their core technology of lithography machines, which will also be licensed to us."

"But the premise is that the immersion lithography machine is successfully developed." Meng Qian couldn't help shaking his head, "Canon has been inferior to Nikon in the field of lithography machines in the past few years, and the research and development funds are not as good as each year, so now it is Canon. , he hopes that the immersion lithography machine will be successful, which is an opportunity for him to fight back against Nikon.

So once our research and development is successful, he is naturally willing to pay for his core technology, but before the research and development is successful, he dare not show any courage to directly exchange core technology with us. Although Canon is still successful in the transformation of civilian consumer products , but there is a reason for the repeated failures in cutting-edge products, and even being kicked out in the military field. "

"But after all, it's just the first negotiation. I'll put some pressure on them later."

"Don't." Meng Qian denied Xiao Boshi's plan, "They want to see a rabbit before they scatter eagles, so we will follow him. At this time, we will follow Canon, and Canon will feel a little ashamed. What they did on the traditional lithography machine It’s actually not very rare for me to get some core technology now, I have taken a fancy to other things in Canon’s hands, and now we follow them a bit, and they should be willing to give it to us.”

"What?" None of the participants understood what Meng Qian meant.

"All kinds of parts production equipment."

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, even if they knew the answer, they were still at a loss.

It is actually very difficult for Meng Qian to explain this to them, because only the reborn who understand the situation can understand the stakes. Because Canon knew that it could not compete with Nikon, it gradually began to shift the company's focus since the late 1990s. On the one hand, it is civilian. Consumer products, similar to digital cameras, have increased the research and development of many parts and components production equipment on the other hand.

In fact, Canon’s initial transformation was very helpless. I couldn’t get a lithography machine, so I just made production equipment for important parts of the lithography machine, so that at least I could gain a foothold in this field. In other words, Neon Enterprises has the habit of doing everything by itself.

As a result, Canon’s helpless decision made him a success, because in 2002, there were many companies making this kind of equipment. Canon’s main opponent in this field is still Nikon, and there are several companies in Germany. All about the same.

Since ASML developed the immersion lithography machine, Nikon did not admit defeat at the beginning, but continued to increase investment in research and development. In just three years, it almost exhausted all the company's blood transfusion capabilities, and almost failed to bankrupt itself. It will naturally drag down my investment in other fields.

As for Germany, it is well known that the United States and the European Union have always been superficial brothers. German companies were very excited when they learned that ASML was successful. They originally wanted to discuss cooperation with ASML. Well, at that time, several companies in the US wanted to take the opportunity to develop these equipment by themselves, and suppress Germany by the way.

Then Canon became cheaper, and Canon became the biggest winner of parts production equipment, not even limited to the field of lithography machines. For example, Canon’s vacuum coating machine in later generations is a lithography machine in the field of OLED screens. Because Huaxia is restricted by Canon, it cannot buy The vacuum coating machine in their home also suffers from unfair pressure in the field of OLED screens.

But at this moment, no one can imagine that future generations will develop like this, including Canon itself. Naturally, the technology of many devices at this moment is not so precious. What is so precious about what everyone can produce.

Another point is that the precision requirements of many parts and components are not as high as those of later generations. Even if you buy a poor production equipment, you can make do with it. Unlike later generations, everything is developing towards high precision, and more and more industrial equipment can Slowly becoming irreplaceable.

Meng Qian didn't know how to explain it to the employees, so he didn't explain it at all, and asked He Yating to show Xiao Boshi a list of prepared equipment, and also copied a copy for others, "When you negotiate next time, you can grasp the speed." , He wants to be conservative, I can accept it, but once we cooperate later, I need the core technology of these devices, and I will send personnel to learn.

In addition, if possible, please see if Canon can first hand over some of the core technology of the equipment. In exchange, we can authorize the Zhulong architecture to him at a low price. "

"The authorization of Candle Dragon Architecture does not violate our agreement with Sony?"

"No violation, Sony only needs the right to sell. Speaking of this matter, I will let everyone know at the meeting. I have decided to make a digital camera by myself, so at the end of the equipment list are some camera technologies we need. You and Bring it with you when negotiating with Canon." Meng Qian directly changed the subject, and the previous arrangement was considered finalized, he didn't need to talk to Xiao Boshi about the details of the negotiation, he just left this matter to Xiao Boshi.

The employees may not know how important the parts production equipment is. Meng Qian knows too well that if he knows nothing, most of the parts of the lithography machine have to be imported, and some parts that are easy to replace will be fine. Yes, but the production of some important parts must be transferred to China, otherwise it will always be a big hidden danger.

Regarding Meng Qian's desire to make a camera, everyone briefly exchanged ideas, and Meng Qian gave Xiao Boshi a list, which was the acquisition list recommended by Sea-Gull and Tsinghua University.

However, most of these domestic camera companies are dead at the moment. The acquisition of a group of camera companies will cost less than 500 million yuan, and the company has to find other places to spend money.

In the afternoon of that day, Meng Qian convened the management and core technicians of the five acquired chip design companies. What he was going to talk about this afternoon was a bit of a waste of money.

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