CSGO Unboxing Streamer: A Charity-Driven Tycoon

Chapter 364 Hongmen Banquet

As we all know, chips are hailed as the crown jewel of modern industry. From aerospace to automobiles and ships, everything relies on chips, which shows that their importance is self-evident.

At noon, the Dutch lithography machine giant took the lead in issuing a statement, followed by a series of statements from international chip companies in response.

In particular, the news that a lithography machine giant claimed it could remotely disable equipment, including EUV lithography machines, directly ignited the Chinese internet.

The news quickly rose to the top of the trending searches.

Unlike previous price increases, this time it's a complete purchase ban, meaning that starting today, foreign chip giants are cutting off chip supplies to China.

influenced by.

Domestic chip manufacturing stocks began to crash, with Xiaomi losing 18 percent of its market value in just 30 minutes.

A shadow fell over the faces of these investors. Those who didn't use leverage were better off, but those who did experienced the transformation from middle class to debtors.

the entire afternoon.

The entire internet is buzzing about this, mainly discussing the impact of the chip blockade on daily life.

To be honest, it won't have much of an impact. It's not like my monthly salary will drop from 3,000 to 2,000, is it?

[That's not fair! From everyday appliances to defense technologies like rockets, missiles, airplanes, and warships, which one doesn't use chips?]

[Referring to the three rounds of blockades against the US, the second was aimed at the foundry rights of wafer fabs controlled by US equipment companies like TSMC. The absence of domestic wafer fabs would affect advanced processes!]

The two largest industries in terms of output value are smart electric vehicles and smartphones. The core component is the domain controller chip. The cockpit domain and autonomous driving domain are all controlled by companies like Goto and Inveda. Blocking them would be really difficult!

[14nm is a barrier erected by foreign countries for advanced processes, not to mention 7nm! But since the new 90/55nm processes in China aren't unusable anyway, let's just have the whole nation support domestic products since the blockade is in place!]

【Wait, what? Have you forgotten something? Doesn't China have the Yinglong chip? Wasn't it said that the Yinglong chip's technology is incredibly advanced! That it completely outclasses any foreign chip? Am I mistaken?】

[Holy crap! I forgot about that!!]

【+1】

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At the beginning of the year, Yinglong chips were introduced to the world for the first time at the Starlight Technology Exhibition. The introduction of its manufacturing process shows that it uses self-developed lithography technology.

It became quite popular at the time.

However, no further news about Yinglong chips appeared online afterward.

Online reviews are limited to phone benchmark scores; there are no videos showing chip teardowns.

Logically, the chip blockade should have the most direct impact on the domestic mobile phone industry, and at this time, they have all turned their attention to the Weibo accounts of these mobile phone manufacturers.

After discovering that they had not reacted to the incident at noon, people began to leave comments under their latest Weibo post asking questions.

The headquarters building of Fanxing Group.

This was the first time Lu Yiming had brought his family to the company.

office.

Fu Xiaoli was taking care of the two little ones when Cao Siyun pushed the door open and came in. Seeing Fu Xiaoli taking care of the two little ones sleeping, she went up to her and said, "Sister Xiaoli~"

Fu Xiaoli returned the smile.

After greeting Fu Xiaoli, she sat down in front of Lu Yiming. Knowing that she had disturbed Lu Yiming and his family's time, she quickly got to the point: "Regarding the chip blockade, the higher-ups want us to expand production across the board to cope! In addition, we are to cooperate with the authorities in a synchronized counterattack. This is the document issued from above!"

Take the file.

Lu Yiming quickly scanned the contents of the document, then looked at Cao Siyun and asked, "What's the current situation regarding lithography machine production capacity?"

"The monthly production has increased from eight units to fourteen units, and forty units have been produced so far, of which twenty have already entered service. We are currently trying to break through the monthly production limit of twenty units."

A single lithography machine can produce more than 8 chips per hour, so a 24-hour production capacity would be 192 million chips, and a maximum annual production capacity of more than 6 million chips.

what is this concept?

In 2019, Mijia phones shipped only 1.24 million units, while Apple phones shipped a little more, but only 1.96 million units.

Can a single lithography machine guarantee the chip supply for a mobile phone manufacturer?

In fact, a mobile phone has more than 100 chips, and a single lithography machine cannot guarantee production. Moreover, the machine cannot run non-stop all year round, so the actual production capacity of a single lithography machine will be far lower than this number.

The lithography machine that Lu Yiming asked about is the latest lithography machine developed by Fanxing Group in conjunction with many domestic semiconductor companies.

This lithography machine can adjust the light source and achieve processes from 7nm to 0.5nm. Among them, the Yinglong first-generation chip is based on the 1nm process and uses a hybrid technology of the 4nm process.

The advantage of this is that it can increase production while allowing for a clear differentiation in chip performance.

While using 0.5nm technology does offer outstanding performance, it also represents an overabundance of technology. Current chip technology has not yet matured to the point where it can perfectly utilize the capabilities of 0.5nm-level chips.

What does it mean to produce 14 lithography machines per month?
The world's largest lithography machine company plans to increase its lithography machine production to 90 units by 2050.

At this time, Fanxing Electronics Technology Co., Ltd. was producing 144 lithography machines per year. Its internal technology came entirely from domestic semiconductor companies, and four of its five core technologies came from Pangu Company.

This thing is a bit like a ballpoint pen tip. If too much is produced, there will be an oversupply. Some people have calculated that just to meet domestic demand, only one hundred lithography machines are needed.

A lithography machine can have a lifespan of up to 10 years, which means that it can be put into production for one year and then rested for about nine years.

Hearing this, Lu Yiming nodded.

"Then let's wait for orders from above. Starry Sky Group, be prepared to cooperate!"

The first topic has concluded.

Cao Siyun immediately moved on to the second task, taking thirty minutes to resolve the decision that the company needed Lu Yiming to make. Afterward, Lu Yiming left the company with his family and returned home.

Lu Yiming took leave that night and did not go live, which greatly disappointed netizens who were planning to come to his live stream to ask him for an explanation.

Choosing to suspend broadcasting at this time is tantamount to sending a signal that the rumors about Yinglong chips are false.

Rumors suggest that Yinglong chips are domestically produced, with everything from chip design to lithography machines being made in China. To be honest, this is hard to believe. However, apart from Yinglong chips, there really isn't another mobile phone chip on the market that can score over two million points.

But to say it's true.

There isn't a single high-end domestic graphics card on the market that can outperform high-end foreign graphics cards.

eight pm.

In response to the statement from overseas lithography machine companies, China announced that it will stop exporting core materials related to chip production.

【It's useless! They've already prepared to reduce production! Stopping the export of these raw materials isn't even a retaliatory measure!】

Sigh~ Exporting raw materials worth 100 yuan, after processing them, they sell them back to us for at least 10,000 units, or even just blades. If you ask me, we should really support the domestic lithography machine industry!

[Waaaaah~ I invested 100,000 yuan in semiconductors, and lost 20,000 yuan today! Who can withstand this?!]

[The person upstairs must be crying now! Haha! Luckily, I realized something was wrong and sold early. Although I lost 10,000, I still made a little money because I bought in early~]

Hey bro upstairs, can you tell me what you're buying right now? I want to follow your lead!

[Ugh~ Being held back is really painful! This afternoon I thought Fanxing Group had the goods, but I didn't expect CEO Lu to stop broadcasting tonight, probably to avoid this wave of attention!] [Who says otherwise? But CEO Lu said that Yinglong chips are completely domestically produced! He can't be lying to us, right?]

[No, I don't recall Mr. Lu ever saying that the lithography machine was developed in-house! He only said that the Yinglong chip is completely domestically produced!]

【.】

Netizens' sentiments are still quite negative.

In their view, all countermeasures were empty talk; only what they had themselves was real. This sentiment persisted into the next day.

Ten o'clock in the morning.

Lu Yiming received a call and went to Fanxing Group.

meeting room.

Cao Siyun walked over with a document and said, "President Lu! This document was sent over half an hour ago. Please take a look!"

Take the file and open it.

After scanning the content above, Lu Yiming shrugged and said, "Okay! I thought we'd have to go through some kind of formality! In that case, I can just announce it on the live stream later!"

The core of the document's content consists of only four words.

Feel free to improvise.

The information blockade regarding Yinglong chips and lithography machines was proposed by higher authorities, so Lu Yiming will not reveal too much about them on public platforms.

Now the requirement from above is that there's no need to hide anything anymore.

The Star Group can arrange the public announcement in the next few days in whatever way they prefer.

Upon hearing Lu Yiming's words...

Cao Siyun said timidly, "Um... how about we hold a press conference? It'd be more formal, after all."

This suggestion gave Lu Yiming something to think about.

He then shook his head and said, "No need! That would be less effective than the impact of my live stream. I want the West to feel like they've shot themselves in the foot. By the way, didn't the higher-ups say we could expose the lithography machine? Does that mean we can sell it?"

I don't know why Lu Yiming would ask this question.

However, as he said, with the expiration of the confidentiality regulations, the lithography machines produced by Fanxing Electronics Technology have indeed been moved to the forefront, and there is naturally no problem with sales.

of course.

Exporting is definitely not an option.

Hearing this, Lu Yiming laughed and said, "Of course I won't say it! Here's what we'll do! Go and make the arrangements. I'll start my live stream this afternoon for the next two days. Make it bigger and more mysterious. Also, call the partners of Fanxing Intelligent Manufacturing and Fanxing Electronic Technology Company and ask them to help warm up the atmosphere when I start my live stream this afternoon."

at this time.

Cao Siyun didn't know what Lu Yiming was planning to do, but since Lu Yiming had made the arrangements, she would just carry them out.

It starts at noon.

The news that Lu Yiming would be broadcasting at 2 PM began to generate widespread buzz.

It's impossible to make such a big deal out of a simple live stream, and with the hot topics online these past two days, his fans have already guessed what's going on.

[Holy crap! This is practically confirmed! Is CEO Lu going to go live to address the issue of the Yinglong chip?]

[Hard to say~ but it's definitely not a simple live stream! President Lu would prefer his live stream to only have tens of thousands of viewers, so this huge promotional effort must mean there's something big to announce!]

Wait! A big announcement? Is it going to be an announcement of quitting the internet?

【? ? ? *10086】

[Holy crap! That can't be! Didn't CEO Lu say he'd be doing live streams for at least another five years?]

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The news of Lu Yiming's live broadcast quickly went viral, with the ranking rising by a little every minute until it reached the top of the trending searches at 1 p.m.

Say something.

Even his fans don't believe he didn't spend money to buy it.

After all, it was just a broadcast announcement, and there was nothing exciting in the content. You can tell at a glance that this kind of news trending on social media was bought.

It was five minutes to two in the afternoon.

The live stream showed 1.2 million viewers, but hundreds of thousands more were not displayed. However, through Lu Yiming's live stream portal, it was clear that the number of viewers exceeded 1.5 million.

This time, Shark Platform learned its lesson and deployed a full twenty streaming lines, all on top-tier servers with increased capacity. Each server is sufficient to meet the needs of 200,000 viewers, and they have prepared ten such servers, with several more ready to be turned on at any time.

It's 2 o'clock.

Lu Yiming started his live stream, and in an instant, large gifts kept pouring in. Judging from the IDs, they all belonged to certain companies. At this moment, the viewers were stunned for a moment, and then they also took the opportunity to send their own gifts.

"Guys! The gift feature is now enabled! But don't send any gifts yet! We've got a really big use for this feature today!"

The viewers didn't care about any of that. From small things like getting membership cards to big things like sending virtual gifts, Lu Yiming alone gave away tens of millions of yuan in red envelopes from his live streams this year. Some viewers were happy to send some of it back as a return gift.

Seeing that his words were ineffective, Lu Yiming grinned and said, "It seems the preparations were too hasty! Today does indeed have the feel of a trap, but you are not my targets! I believe everyone has seen what happened yesterday, and I know about the questions you want to ask. This broadcast is to answer these questions with your permission!"

Upon hearing this, the netizens watching the scene were all surprised.

Even astute netizens have already guessed it.

When Lu Yiming announced that the Yinglong chip came from a domestically produced lithography machine and admitted that the domestic lithography machine's process technology had reached below 7nm, the live broadcast room instantly erupted in excitement!

and many more!

Below 7NM?

After realizing this, things got even more heated!
【No way! When did this happen? Below 7nm? My God! You're not kidding, are you?!】

[As everyone knows! President Lu never lies! Therefore, this is true!]

【Wait, this is a bit sudden! What happened? Wasn't it blocked? It was just blocked and it's already broken? (laughs)】

[Let me be quiet! So, you're saying this lithography machine was actually successfully developed the year before last, right? After all, it supplied 200,000 mobile phones after the new year, which would require at least two million chips, right? Let's say one lithography machine has about two days' worth of production capacity?]

Wow, the person upstairs is so meticulous! They even figured that out?

【.】

It was very sudden.

These past two days, there's been a lot of discussion about what would happen if China were blocked from obtaining chips. Suddenly, Lu Yiming stepped forward and said that China has its own chips, so there's no need to panic.

It would be strange if I wasn't surprised.
(End of this chapter)