Zhang Dongning resigned from his position as a BASF Group in Germany, sold his Volkswagen Golf car, rented out the apartment on Hank Street, and gave the small appliances and bedding at home to local international students.

Then he took two simple luggage without hesitation and took a plane from Frankfurt to return to his hometown where he was born.

Ten years ago, he left home like this, without changing anything, except for age and vague white hair on his temples.

Zhang Dongning stayed in his hometown in northern Jiangsu for three days, and then took the high-speed train to Shanghai.

When Zhang Dongning first saw the Baoshan headquarters, he was a little surprised.

The construction has not been completed. The restaurant is a row of temporary board houses with decoration materials piled up everywhere. In order to prevent being trampled by people, workers built a boardwalk and walked up and staggered. From time to time, the harsh twitching of chainsaws and the crisp banging sound of nail guns came from time to time.

In an office with a decorative smell, Zhang Dongning met Luo Jia.

The water dispenser was not ready and there was no tea, so Luo Jia threw him a can of Coke directly.

Zhang Dongning frowned and placed the coke on the messy coffee table. He had bad teeth and never dared to drink too sweet drinks.

Luo Jia, the unreasonable boss, seemed very busy. He called several times in a row, then lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, and shrugged at Zhang Dongning.

"Actually, I didn't smoke before."

Zhang Dongning expressed his understanding that after completing the three major projects of optimization, optical, wireless charging, and Xingchen Technology is sprinting to the display industry with all its might. This is not a secret. Maybe the boss is under great pressure.

"We have already understood your situation. I invite you back this time because I hope you will join our company's photoresist team." Luo Jia said straight to the point.

Plop ~

Plop ~

Zhang Dongning couldn't believe his ears, and his heart accelerated wildly.

Photoresist is the most important consumable in the semiconductor industry.

Although Zhang Dongning has the best graduation results in history at the Department of Chemistry at Hamburg University, he has always been able to lead some less important small projects at BASF Group.

Xingchen Technology actually invited itself to come back to make photoresist?

This is the project he dreams of!

Although the number of self-produced photoresist in my country has reached an astonishing 90,000 tons every year, it is all primary products. Mid- and high-end products need to be purchased from abroad, and the technology has been completely blocked from abroad.

An important consumable with an annual usage of more than 100,000 tons actually relies on imports, which is also sad to say.

"Photoresist, then our company is about to enter the chip industry!" Zhang Dongning said excitedly.

Luo Jia smiled bitterly, "It takes six major machines to manufacture chips, lithography machines, etching machines, developer, coating machines, injection machines, and oxidation furnaces. Those are all the hearts of the great powers. Among the top ten semiconductor equipment suppliers, there is a Dutch company, four American companies, and five neon companies. These giants have formed an absolute monopoly in the industry."

"It only exists in novels and movies when making chips when they are disagreeable."

Zhang Dongning nodded. It was indeed because he was too naive. The technical difficulty of the chip industry was definitely not something that laymen could imagine. If you want to take down this industry, it is comparable to landing on the moon.

Luo Jia paused, "But nothing is absolutely absolute. In the past two years, in the field of etching machines, my country's Northern Micro and Zhongwei have achieved breakthroughs, especially Zhongwei, whose oxide layer etching equipment and silicon through-hole etching equipment are basically the first in the world."

Zhang Dongning's eyes lit up immediately, "I know this matter, which has been introduced in the important weapons of a great country!"

Luo Jia smiled and said, "It seems that when you were in Germany, you watched a lot of domestic programs."

Zhang Dongning touched his head awkwardly, "When I was a child, my family was poor, and I was afraid of being poor, so I wanted to earn more money. When I graduated, BASF paid a high salary, so I stayed. Actually, I..."

Luo Jia interrupted him, "No need to explain, if you can come back, you have explained it all."

"We and the giant companies in the display industry are about to start a war, and I am very worried about this."

"Although we have solved the problem of raw materials upstream of LCD, it may still be choked in the midstream of the industry."

"I did some research and estimated that the opponent's most likely attack on us is photoresist. After all, the number of exposure machines and lithography machines in China is huge. Even if you can't import these two machines for a while, the domestic display industry can still hold on."

"But photoresist is different. It is a consumable that consumes a lot of consumables every day. Once the supply is cut off, there will be no consumables available in the entire display industry."

I have to say that when Luo Jia gets serious, she is really infectious.

Zhang Dongning felt nervous and his expression suddenly became serious. He even forgot that he had just walked into the gate of Xingchen Technology, completely looking like he wanted to advance and retreat with the company.

In Luo Jia's office, he habitually placed a few whiteboards and ink pens.

He picked up the ink pen and quickly wrote on the whiteboard, listing the entire list of giant companies that currently dominate the photoresist industry. His skillfulness shows that he has studied these industry competitors countless times behind his back.

Photoresist is divided into six levels from low to high, from the lowest linear glue to metal oxide glue used in extreme ultraviolet euv.

The ones that dominate this industry are Dow Chemical, DuPont, Hunsman, Neon JSR, Shingoe, Tokyo Eki, Fuji, Sumitomo, Tok, Mitsubishi Chemical, Asahi Kasei, Hitachi Kaise, New Nippon-Telecochemical, Sun Ink, and South Korea Dongge Chemical, LG Chemistry, Italy Morton, etc.

Although photoresist is only a not-so-large category in the semiconductor field, it gathers such a number of industry giants, which is even more terrifying than the seven major raw materials upstream of LCD.

No wonder Luo Jia said that starting a business in the field of technology is like climbing a mountain. The higher the climb, the more wind and snow it will be.

As long as Star Technology continues to move forward, its future opponents will only become stronger and stronger.

Zhang Dongning felt extremely pressured, but fortunately Luo Jia had already made a project plan.

"Photoresist consists of photosensitive compounds, matrix materials, and solvents. What you need to be responsible for is the following classification of photosensitive compounds, sensitizers."

Zhang Dongning was stunned, "It turns out that more than one team in the company is engaged in photoresist research!"

Luo Jia smiled, "How is it possible? According to our Xingchen Technology's approach, as long as we focus on a project, we will immediately suppress all our technical strength!"

"This time, in addition to your sensitizer research group, there are six other chemical materials groups, semiconductor departments, and optical departments, and they will also send expert groups to cooperate."

......

Seoul, Samsung Group Headquarters.

As October approaches, more and more information is gathered in the office of President Lee Jae-yong.

The information displayed was enough to make the entire Samsung Group frightened.

After passing the May, June and July storms, the Huaxia suddenly stopped and there was no major move for two months.

Now it seems that there is no big move, but they are holding on to their big moves!

"In recent times, Huaxia panel manufacturers have upgraded their production lines, including Corning, Xiao Xuzi, Dongli, and Teiren. The number of orders they received has been greatly reduced. It is estimated that Huaxia has completed the domestic replacement of the upstream of displays." Gao Dongzhen said, "I guess they will move our display business department in the next step."

Lee Jae-yong felt his scalp numb.

Although Samsung Group has a large foundation and many industries, the most profitable thing is display and storage, plus pharmaceuticals.

Samsung Military Industry has actually been sold quietly to Hanwha, Samsung Chemicals has been sold to Lotte, Samsung Construction and Samsung Comprehensive were suppressed by Daewoo, Samsung Heavy Industry could not compete with Daewoo Heavy Industry and Hyundai Heavy Industry, while Samsung Automobile is an independent brand of Renault, with sales of Silla Hotel and Silla duty-free shops far less than those of Lotte Group.

If Samsung's display division is really broken, it will be like cutting off one of Samsung's legs.

"How likely is it?" Lee Jae-yong asked.

Gao Dong was really embarrassed, "One hundred percent, the Huaxia Show Alliance has been established, obviously trying to seize the high ground of the industry. In this industry, the biggest players are us and lg."

"All signs show that they are preparing for a big battle, from the phone panel, to the computer panel, to the TV large panel, all the areas related to displays."

Lee Jae-yong was shocked, "Also include the personal computer field?"
Chapter completed!