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Everyone in the meeting room is our own people.

Island companies have always had a tradition of banding together for support. Any method that can deal with the Northern Machinery Group will surely receive full support from other companies.

Hearing this, Kawaguchi Fumio smiled coldly and said, "Gentlemen, we cannot compete with Northern Machinery Group in the field of home appliances. If we shift the battlefield to the semiconductor industry, Lin Kaifeng may not be our opponent. Longguo has a large number of semiconductor supporting companies, but there are various problems in terms of semiconductor materials. The biggest problem is that Longguo cannot produce photoresist in large quantities."

A word to awaken the dreamer.

Including Jiro Noda, representatives from more than a dozen island companies attending the meeting woke up from their dreams.

I am so stupid.

Why we must focus on the home appliance market.

Northern Machinery Group is involved in a wide variety of fields, and in each field there are supporting industrial chains with at least a dozen and as many as dozens of companies.

To produce semiconductor chips with excellent performance, in addition to equally excellent lithography machines, a large amount of manufacturing materials is also required.

Silicon wafer is one kind.

Photoresist also plays a vital role.

Whether it is computer chips or household appliance chips, they all cannot do without photoresist.

Photoresist is a special photosensitive polymer, mainly composed of four substances: resin, photosensitive agent, solvent and additives.

Moreover, photoresist does not exist in a single type, but comes in many different types.

In the research and development and production of this material, island companies have always occupied a dominant position in the market.

in other words.

Only island countries can produce various types of photoresists.

Meet Lin Kaifeng's production needs.

"Kawaguchi-kun, you are truly our wise man. The suggestions you put forward will help us completely defeat the Northern Machinery Group!!!"

Jiro Noda put out his cigarette, walked over and patted Kawaguchi Fumio's shoulder hard.

Everyone present laughed.

The island country has the production capacity for various types of photoresists.

In terms of high-end photoresists, it almost has a monopoly.

Since the 50s, the island nation has begun to focus on the semiconductor industry.

Because the island nation is small and has a small population, supplies are severely scarce.

Island companies will try every means to get their hands on any materials that can create economic profits for themselves.

An hour later, the heads of several photoresist companies received calls from Jiro Noda.

Invite them to dinner tomorrow night.

Discuss a major trend that affects the economic development of island countries.

……

“The price has doubled!”

A few days later in the afternoon, the semiconductor project leader, Chief Engineer Xie Wenyuan, and his assistant Professor Ni came to Lin Kaifeng's office together.

An hour ago, several photoresist companies in the island countries called at the same time, as if they had discussed it beforehand.

It was announced that starting from next week, the prices of exported photoresists will increase collectively.

Due to production capacity and other limitations, the price of photoresist supplied to Northern Machinery Group will triple.

Xie Wenyuan sighed and said, "Before this, I have never heard of any news about the price increase of photoresist in the island countries. Several island companies that we cooperate with called us to raise prices almost at the same time. I don't doubt that they have discussed it and took the opportunity to ask for a huge price."

"Seeing that our computer business is booming, they are ready to jump in and take over the big guys."

"These bastards really know how to find opportunities!"

Niu Yonggui, the deputy general manager who came to the office to discuss the export of motherboards with Lin Kaifeng, slapped the desk.

The group has just reached an agreement with a group of computer companies in the United States to supply them with a total of 200,000 computer motherboards.

The island country's companies probably received the news and were ready to give Lin Kaifeng a good beating.

Without photoresist, it is impossible to produce semiconductor chips that meet standards.

After Lin Kaifeng's repeated popularization, even non-professionals such as Niu Yonggui and Lu Changshun have a certain degree of understanding of semiconductors and computers.

Photoresist is directly related to chip production.

This special material has long been monopolized by island countries and is also the group's most important imported production material.

Photoresist not only affects semiconductor chips, but also affects domestic lithography machines.

"Xie Gong, don't be angry yet, I'll make a phone call and ask."

In order to calm everyone down temporarily, Lin Kaifeng picked up the phone and called Gangcheng.

Arrange Wang Lei to investigate something.

Is the price of photoresist supplied by the island country to other countries rising as well?

if there is not.

There must be a bigger conspiracy behind this incident.

It's not as simple as just the lion opening its mouth wide.

The next morning.

All engineers and department heads related to computers and semiconductor projects were called to the conference room by Lin Kaifeng.

At the beginning of the meeting, Lin Kaifeng said with a serious expression: "Comrades, I think everyone knows about the collective price increase of the island's photoresist companies. I will tell you clearly now that this collective price increase of the photoresist companies is only aimed at us."

"None of the American and European companies that have cooperative relations with them have received any notice of price increase."

As soon as the words fell, the scene immediately exploded.

"Damn it!!! The Japanese are still as bad as they were back then. Even after decades, they are still as disgusting as ever."

"General Manager, the photoresist companies in the island countries have collectively raised their prices, which is equivalent to forcing us to submit. If we don't buy photoresist from them, many projects will probably be suspended."

"Even if the project is stalled, we must not give in to these bastards and agree to their unreasonable wishes. I think it won't be long before these bastards continue to raise the price."

"That's right. If it doubles today and triples tomorrow, I'm afraid all the profits we make from the products will be given to the bastards."

"Don't worry, the world is so big, there are still many companies capable of producing photoresists. Although the photoresist companies in the island countries have an absolute market share, it does not mean that they can really dominate the market."

"I suggest that we stop all photoresist cooperation with the island companies and send people to find new sources of photoresist supply around the world. I don't believe that without Zhang the butcher, we will have to eat hairy pigs."

A group of impatient department heads and technical engineers loudly cursed the island country's shamelessness.

Some people believe that the island country's move hit the weak spot of Northern Machinery Group, but it is not enough to completely defeat the group.

Send people around the world to find new photoresist suppliers.

Xie Wenyuan said: "Comrade Lin Kaifeng, you must make a decision as soon as possible. The stock of photoresist in the group is only enough to last for one month. After one month, all the photoresist will be sold out."

"If you decide to look for photoresist globally, we should focus on the European continent, where there are a large number of photoresist companies. Although the overall scale is not as good as that of the island countries, I think it can solve some urgent problems."

"The United States, and the U.S. market! We have reached a strategic cooperation with Best Buy Group, and they will definitely help."