Chapter 650 European Semiconductors

The current international situation is complicated, and Japan's domestic aging problem is still serious. However, the interest groups that Japanese companies have invested in for decades are not as vulnerable as experts say.

In the "1020 Science and Technology White Paper" released by Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology two years ago, those projects that were picked up and continued to work on have also played some initial roles in the development of the past two years.

Well, roughly speaking, I feel that my foundation has been built and I can take on the role of high-end semiconductor manufacturing.

However, this time the Japanese semiconductor team returned with a failure, and exaggeratedly said that they had suffered all kinds of grievances in Daxia, which caused an uproar within the major group chaebols.

The engineer bonus and industrial policy stability require industry confidence and continuous industrial upgrading to maintain.

Japan has a foundation in high-end manufacturing, but with the rise of other competitors over the years, this foundation has become increasingly thin, and sometimes even has to use fraud to cover up technical embarrassment.

This time, Daxia's team was dubbed "the biggest shame of Japanese semiconductors in the new century" by the industry.

But what else can be done?

In the face of Jiuzhou Technology's lack of respect, the Japanese semiconductor industry not only complained, but did not dare to be "disrespectful".

Even when the beautiful reporter of "Asahi Shimbun" interviewed Watanabe Ichiro, the "main person in charge" of this action, the defeated general said apologetically: "Jiuzhou Technology is busy providing technical assistance to companies such as Hanxing, Nvidia, and Intel, and the genius imperial talent Mr. Gu is obsessed with research and development.

But the senior executive of Jiuzhou Technology's semiconductor department and I had a long conversation and consultation. When the time is right, our semiconductor industry will also usher in new, cross-era technology like Goryeo Hanxing."

As soon as this report came out, the confidence of the Japanese semiconductor industry was greatly boosted!

Many Japanese netizens said very sensibly: "Jiuzhou Technology is a responsible company. We invited them too late, so the delay is understandable."

"Thank you for your hard work, we will definitely return to the top!"

"Korea and Korean stars have been showing off for 20 years, let's charge forward later~"

After saving public opinion, Tokyo University, Osaka University, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Tohoku University, Hitachi and other research institutes and factories. Professors from various universities and technicians from research institutes and factories have launched a familiar "government, industry and academia" trinity research system on projects related to semiconductor devices, materials, and technologies.

However, America, Korea and Japan, these people who have a good life seem to have forgotten a powerful group.

The dividends of European countries have also been weakened...

Small European countries have been at the top of the run list in recent decades, with a small population, a large land area, and a good environment. The welfare is so good that people feel that life is meaningless and choose to end their lives.

But did they pick up this paradise-like enjoyment for no reason?

No.

Did they struggle for it through their own hard and honest labor?

No.

How did they save up such a rich fortune that they can give money at will and provide free medical care for all people?

Killing people and setting fires will bring you a golden belt, but repairing bridges and roads will not leave any corpses.

Under the brilliant light of the Industrial Revolution, there are wars, plunder, and the first movers taking advantage.

The behemoth of capitalism has long eroded the cage.

Sulla, who was born into a German aristocratic family, is the President of the European Commission. As a European elite with a good family background, her husband is a teacher at Stanford University in the United States.

In the era of European integration, some people say that this is a strong alliance, but it can also be said that it is another concentration of capital industry. Under this concentrated force majeure, the strong will become stronger and the weak will become weaker.

In capitalist society, the weak will inevitably be exploited and become victims of concentrated development.

In these countries where economic development has stagnated or even regressed, the basic services and social welfare that can be provided will naturally deteriorate.

As people live worse and worse, they will naturally turn from left to right and make protecting their own economic development their top priority.

For example, in the new round of elections in Italy, where development has stagnated, the → party that shouted "Italy first" won more than 30% of the votes.

In Germany, where the economy is still booming, the old elite Christian Democratic Union can stabilize the situation and get the most votes.

If Europe is regarded as a whole, then Germany and France are undoubtedly the biggest beneficiaries of this unity, while Italy, Bulgaria and other countries are victims of exploitation.

Although the EU is nominally a whole, it does not have a real balance mechanism, let alone the transfer payment that the strong support the weak.

Now countries with stagnant or even regressing development are not doing well, while countries with good development such as Germany and France are not as glorious as they appear.

In terms of technology, companies in Asia and North America are overtaking like crazy. In terms of economy, debt is high.

In the ever-changing situation, semiconductors, as the jewel in the crown of the secondary industry, naturally entered the key catalog of European industrial development.

Since last year's preparation, stimulated by various factors, the "European Chip Plan" that European semiconductor companies and relevant departments have long planned was finally officially announced on September 6.

According to the plan, the European Semiconductor Plan invests more than 105 billion euros to boost the European chip industry to reduce its dependence on other national and regional companies. One of the goals is to strengthen research on smaller and faster chips.

It also called for a 20% global production capacity share by 2030, and established and strengthened innovative capabilities in advanced chip design, manufacturing and packaging...

Although this is not the first time Europe has "saved itself" from the European semiconductor industry, it is definitely the most powerful one.

Enterprises from 19 European countries, together with relevant institutions and departments, have jointly formulated a development plan to build a wafer factory for the production of advanced processes below 10nm.

17 EU countries including Germany, France and Italy signed the "Joint Statement on the European Processor and Semiconductor Technology Program", stepped up "de-molding", and aimed at 5-2nm advanced processes.

The "5-2nm process" is regarded by Europe as an important breakthrough point for revitalizing the chip industry. The moment this news came out, the global semiconductor industry was shocked.

In the words of Gao Shan, president of Xiaxin Technology, "Europe wants to "overtake on the curve" and use this as an opportunity to advance into the 1nm and even angstrom fields.

However, European wafer foundry and other industries have lagged behind Asia by 5-15 years. Considering that the current chip foundry uses 2nm as the node, European local chip companies do not seem to have enough investment in the construction of advanced process factories."

An executive of AS-ML has similar ideas to him. The executive pointed out that it is meaningless to use huge subsidies to build wafer factories in Europe to produce advanced chips.

"For European semiconductors, this huge investment will not only increase European debt and accelerate the outbreak of the economic crisis, but also be a drop in the bucket for European semiconductors, which have too many gaps in the upstream and downstream semiconductor industry chains."