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Toshiba CEO Tanimura Atsushi's vision is actually very accurate. TFT LCD is by no means easy to play. The deepest feeling about this is undoubtedly Sharp.

Sharp has benefited a lot from the latter through its cooperation with the Oriental Research Institute. Therefore, less than three months after Jiachuang Technology, a subsidiary of the Oriental Research Institute, developed a 14-inch TFT LCD screen, Sharp immediately followed up and developed similar products.

On the surface, Sharp's liquid crystal technology does not seem to be inferior to that of the Oriental Research Institute. As a result, there are still many voices criticizing Sharp in Japan, and they believe that the rapid progress of the Oriental Research Institute is entirely supported by Sharp.

There is indeed a close relationship between Sharp and the predecessor of the LCD project department of the Oriental Research Institute, that is, the LCD department of the original RCA company. In 1972, Mr. Sasaki, then Sharp's CEO, bought the TN-LCD technology from RCA at a cost of $3 million. After that, he defied all opinions and decisively invested a huge sum of 200 million US dollars to build a TN-LCD production line, which made Sharp's calculators almost monopolize the market in the early 1980s.

But it is precisely because Sharp is too successful in TN LCD that it relaxes its technical upgrade. By the time Sharp Corporation reacted, Seiko, NEC and other companies had already caught up with the latecomers, and made a lot of breakthroughs in color STN. In order to maintain its technological leadership, Sharp skipped STN to develop more advanced TFT liquid crystals. Sharp's desperate venture was a success, and without the addition of the Oriental Research Institute, it would have taken this opportunity to become the later "father of liquid crystal".

When the Oriental Research Institute independently split its LCD department and established a wholly-owned Jiachuang Technology Company for commercial operation, Sharp also began to actively promote the large-scale production of TFT LCD. Sharp's first TFT LCD panel has also been completed and put into production not long ago, and the hot sales of Ikon's NoteBook notebook computers should be a major positive news for Sharp. Because everyone knows that color liquid crystal is the future development trend, and TFT has huge technical advantages compared to STN, DSTN, etc.

But Sharp's executives are not happy now. The yield rate of the newly put into production TFT LCD panel production line is less than 10%. That is to say, for every ten pieces of LCD screen cut out, there is not even one qualified product, which makes Sharp's LCD screen factory cost soar, and there is no market competitiveness at all.

You must know that according to Sharp's previous inquiries, the experimental production line that Jiachuang Technology has built has a yield rate of 40%. But even so, Aikang still thinks that the price of TFT LCD screen is too high, and instead uses a more cost-effective STN LCD screen on NoteBook.

The large-scale production of TFT liquid crystal is a process for all companies that are interested in joining this industry now, and they are constantly trying to accumulate experience through trial and error. It is inevitable to pay some tuition fees in the early stage, so Toshiba will pull IBM together to share the risk.

But for the Oriental Research Institute, the rebirth halo of the big boss Li Xuan is a sky-defying bug. Li Xuan's knowledge of the production of TFT LCD panels was actually very limited in his previous life, but many common sense things in his mind were indeed valuable lessons for others to buy with real money.

For example, TFT liquid crystal actually has a lot in common with the manufacture of chips, except that chips are etched on silicon wafers, while TFT liquid crystals are etched integrated circuits on glass plates. Sharp also owns a fab, so when Sharp builds the clean workshop of the LCD panel production line, it basically follows the standards of the fab.

The most advanced fabs at this stage only need to remove dust particles larger than 0.18 microns in diameter. And Sharp's LCD production line, simply in accordance with the 0.5 micron cleanliness standard construction workshop. But Sharp's technicians have no idea now that LCD panels are far more sensitive to dust particles than fabs. A large number of dust particles floating in the workshop is one of the poor culprits of low product yield.

And Li Xuan emphasized the importance of building a high-level clean workshop long before Jiachuang Company started to build a production line. This is also the fundamental reason why Jiachuang's production line yield is much higher than Sharp's.

Liquid crystal displays will be widely used in digital cameras, mobile phones, computer monitors, and flat-panel TVs in the future. The liquid crystal industry in twenty years will be a market worth hundreds of billions of dollars. However, the purpose of Li Xuan's active investment in the liquid crystal field is not just to seize the opportunity in this emerging field. The liquid crystal industry is also inextricably linked with other industries under the Oriental Group.

For example, etching equipment, chemical vapor deposition equipment (CVD), lithography machines, etc. required for the production of TFT liquid crystal panels are also the core equipment in the semiconductor field. Fanlin, a semiconductor equipment supplier under the Oriental Group, started from etching equipment at first, and quickly rose in the field of lithography by annexing GCA in the United States.

In contrast, CVD equipment has become the biggest shortcoming of Pan-Lin. Just as Li Xuan was sweating profusely with two radish heads to say goodbye to the teacher and returned home, Lin Jieping, who had just met Li Xuan in Texas before, also flew from San Francisco to Japan. Great progress has been made in the talks between Lam and Applied Materials.

Applied Materials is definitely a company like thunder for later generations of semiconductor practitioners. It is the world's largest semiconductor equipment supplier~www.readwn.com~ The Applied Materials company has naturally not grown into the world's largest semiconductor equipment. supplier, but the CVD equipment it is based on has already gained a lot of fame in the industry.

Fanlin Company aspires to become a leading company in the field of global semiconductor equipment manufacturing, so the company's CEO Lin Jieping set his sights on Applied Materials after annexing GCA. It's just that the price to pay for the acquisition of Applied Materials is not small, especially after Pan-Lin's annexation of GCA, it has not had time to fully integrate, and it is simply unable to carry out another round of large-scale mergers and acquisitions by its own strength.

Therefore, Lin Jieping flew to Hong Kong in a hurry, hoping to get the strong support of the parent company Oriental Group. When Jiachuang Company, a subsidiary of Oriental Research Institute, started to build the first TFT LCD production line, Fanlin Company participated in the whole process of preparation and construction of the production line in the name of equipment supplier.

And this time, with the hot sales of NoteBook, Fanlin has a good opportunity to spread the sales of its own equipment from the single semiconductor industry to other aspects such as liquid crystal. (To be continued.)

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