Technological power starts with upgrading lenses

Chapter 89 China’s speed!

The eastern capital of the island nation, the headquarters of Shin-Etsu Chemical Group.

After hearing the situation report from Eda Kozaburo, Nohara Takehiro also began to realize that something was wrong.

On the one hand, he directly asked Eda Kozaburo to double the price of silicon wafers. On the other hand, he asked him to keep an eye on the news in China 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 on his face, wondering if he had missed anything, Koji Fukuhara, the head of the silicon wafer department, suddenly ran in with a panicked expression.

"President Nohara, it's bad!" Koji Fukuhara directly placed a newly printed copy in front of Takehiro Nohara, "They found the problem!"

Nohara Takehiro suddenly narrowed his eyes and looked down at the copy.

"On the Vibration Constraints of Precision Processing Equipment by Magnetic Field Environment", author: Kang Chi! ! !

Nohara Takehiro immediately stood up and angrily tore the copy of the paper into pieces!

"Shameless! So shameless! These people are simply bandits!" Takehiro Nohara gasped and roared, "This is obviously a technology we have discovered long ago, but they dare to publish a paper!?"

Fukuhara Koji stood nearby and didn't dare to move. It wasn't until Takehiro Nohara moved a chair and vented at the bookcase behind him for a while that he swallowed and whispered: "The problem now is that we wanted to keep this technology secret at the time. No relevant patent application has been made..."

"Nonsense, I know it without you reminding me!" Nohara Takehiro glared at Fukuhara Koji.

In the field of high-tech technology, applying for a patent often 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, you can get more benefits by not applying for a patent.

But interests and risks always coexist.

Once someone else discovers this technology and announces it earlier than the first person who discovered it, there will need to be a good fight over who owns the technology.

In this case, Shin-Etsu Chemical can definitely 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 of the more cutting-edge technologies, because they are only theoretically established and have not been announced and have no evidence of practical application, 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 a patent in advance. As a result, he obviously invented the technology himself, but later had to pay patent fees to others.

Of course, Watt only felt 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 set up technical barriers.

Now, they finally paid the price for their arrogance!
Hua Guo published this paper first. There is no doubt that it is to preemptively occupy a pit in terms of patents, so that in the subsequent patent competition, at best, it will be in an invincible position.

In fact, if Kangchi really wanted to develop a chemical mechanical polishing machine from scratch, he could use another route that could bypass the technical barriers.

But Silicon Information Technology has almost developed it, and various parts drawings and parts manufacturing equipment are also ready-made. It saves time and effort to use them directly, so he is too lazy to recreate them.

And it’s a pleasure to be able to disgust the notebooks with patents.In fact, even if this paper is not published, patent infringement lawsuits are not easy to fight. If sufficient evidence is not prepared in advance, the court will not accept it at all.

When SMIC was sued for patent infringement by Taiwan Electromechanical, the main reason was that they went too far. Not only did they frantically recruit people from Taiwan Electromechanical, they even brought over Taiwan Electromechanical's drawings when they came, and they were eventually arrested by Taiwan Electromechanical. When the situation came to light, he was severely punished.

Patents are actually not that scary. Just keep a low profile and use them secretly. Don’t let anyone find the obvious reason. Generally, it can’t do anything to you. Especially for most high-tech things, you can’t tell the specific use of them just from the analysis of the product itself. What kind of technology is there, and how can we talk about prosecution?
So what’s really scary is that you know what technology others are using, and you have the stuff in front of you, but you can’t make it yourself...

All in all, Nohara Takehiro and Fukuhara Koji knew very well at this moment that China had made a breakthrough in silicon wafer polishing technology, and they were still patenting it, so there was nothing they could do against each other.

Fukuhara Koji 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, "While they are expanding their production capacity, we have the opportunity to take a bite out of them!"

However, after hearing these words, Nohara Takehiro's mood suddenly dropped, and he whispered: "No, Fukuhara-kun... you are too naive."

Fukuhara Koji couldn't help but look at Nohara Takehiro in confusion.

"Since they dare to publish this paper, it shows that they are fully prepared... We have all underestimated China and have to admit that no matter how much humiliation and painful history they have, they can really create What a miracle guy..."

As Nohara Takehiro said, he picked up a surviving bottle of foreign wine on the messy ground, then found a chair and sat on it, opened the bottle cap and poured it into his mouth.

"President Yuanye!"

"You 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 trace of fantasy, thinking that Nohara Takehiro's guess might be wrong.

But soon,
A piece of news from Huaguo Daily completely shattered his last trace of fantasy!
"Breaking the Monopoly of Silicon Chips - Let us witness China's miraculous speed again!" 》

This article occupies a full sixth of the front page of the printed version of Huaguo Daily!
The article started with the establishment of the Global Silicon Wafer Association three months ago, introduced the situation of the global silicon wafer market and the previous shortcomings of domestic silicon wafer technology, and then reported the key points of the news in detail:

Dahan Silicon successfully conquered the silicon wafer polishing technology two months ago and actively improved and expanded production within these two months. It finally achieved a comprehensive upgrade of the original small-size silicon wafer production line and the construction of two new wafer production lines. A new production line with an output of up to 80 pieces.

This brings the production capacity of Dahan Silicon's 12-inch semiconductor silicon wafers to an astonishing figure of 200 million pieces per month!
The success of Dahan Silicon has completely ended domestic semiconductor companies' dependence on imported silicon wafers, directly causing the Global Silicon Wafer Industry Association to fail in its blockade of China's silicon wafer supply!

Driven by the efforts of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Pingjiang local government, with the day and night efforts of thousands of employees of Dahan Silicon Industry, and with the full support of domestic friends such as Jingfang Technology and FiberHome Photovoltaics,

This international silicon wafer crisis is finally over!

This not only proves the scientific research strength of China and the industrial miracle of expanding production of 200 million silicon wafers in two months, but also shows the world once again what China’s speed is!

(End of this chapter)