Rebirth of Northland Technology

A Japanese electronics giant

meeting room.

The company's main core leaders and technical backbones are all present.

"The information is clear. The 12-inch LCD panel that Yueya provided to Fushi came from China's Ice City."

The middle-aged man in a gray work jacket continuously projected slides on the white screen.

"This photo shows the gate and factory buildings of "Full Color Technology"."

"This is a photo of the interior of the workshop of the LCD production line."

"This is the appearance of the main equipment in the liquid crystal filling process."

"They used a method called ODF to infuse the liquid crystal. The operation is simple, the processing speed is fast, and the yield is high."

"Their TFT processing technology is also different from ours. Their process requires only 5 photolithography."

"Their PECVD is customized from Fengtian. It belongs to the same level of equipment as the wafer."

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One after another photos flashed before everyone's eyes.

With the exposure of the 12-inch LCD panel, "Full Color Technology" finally attracted the attention of the world, especially the attention of related companies in the Japanese optoelectronics industry.

Although the full-color LCD workshop is fully protected for information, no outsiders are allowed to visit.However, production lines and equipment always need to be debugged, and people from all manufacturers can enter.In addition to the various construction personnel, decoration personnel, and the photovoltaic itself, there are two to three thousand workers to be trained for this production line.

There is no impermeable wall in the world, and these secrets have slowly spread over time.

Not to mention, this kind of penetration is at the national level.

Although these outsiders have not had the opportunity to get more detailed information in a short period of time, conceptual level information is sufficient.

The idea and practice of "Full Color Technology" on TFT-LCD finally came out in broad daylight.

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Seeing this confidential information, people in related industries were not delighted, but stunned.

"All the information is here. Let's talk about it. What is the next step? Will our TFT-LCD production line be built?"

1992 was originally the year when the LCD Alliance, companies aggressively marched into the TFT industry, but more advanced production processes appeared on the market.

The last time information showed that the LCD from Bingcheng was just a desperate attempt from a backward country.

The full-color LCD production line is a low-capacity, low-yield test line.

If anything can be compared, it is on the same level as the two production lines in South Korea.It is a production line that exists for existence.

But the advent of 12-inch monitors broke everyone's illusions.

So far, the largest size of LCD generation line that can be economically produced is 10.4 inches.It is possible to use this line to produce 12-inch samples in principle, but it is absolutely impossible to mass produce!

The full-color production line can already mass produce 12-inch display panels!

"I suggest that the construction of the new production line should be completely stopped. It is impossible for our production line to become obsolete as soon as it is completed."

"I agree!"

Everyone in the conference room came up with similar conclusions.

Judging from the known information, the production line adopted by the Chinese has made technological breakthroughs in many aspects.TFT photolithography process, panel size, liquid crystal perfusion process, and dedicated PECVD.

Although their production line equipment, automation level, and overall processing technology are very backward, what use are these?

From a strategic point of view, the Chinese people’s advanced concept of LCD production technology completely surpasses Japanese technology in terms of size, yield and other important indicators.

Continuing to invest funds into the construction of the first generation line will have the opposite effect.

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"Just like that, we do nothing? The recent market for TFT-LCD is very good. Many computer companies are ready to launch TFT notebooks."

The TFT-LCD liquid crystal panel market is about to become hot, and all sources of capital have the urge to end.New manufacturers are preparing to end, and old players are preparing to expand production capacity.

Japan has been betting on this technology, even with state-owned enterprises, for more than ten years. Seeing that it is about to reap the results, such a thing happened.

"That can't be quite good. You can't fight an unsure battle! For the current plan, we must first find a way to thoroughly understand the Chinese technology, and then redesign ours."

The technology giants are still much better than China in terms of automation and processing accuracy.Everyone is confident that after thoroughly comprehending the other's technical principles, the blue is better than blue.

"Can we buy Chinese equipment? Use their equipment to build our production line?"

"I'm afraid it's not possible. Their equipment and automation level are too backward. Their entire workshop does not even have an assembly line. The transportation of workpieces between workstations is actually manual operation."

An important reason for the face loss of several major equipment giants.China has completely defeated it with equipment that is two generations behind Japanese technology. They have carefully prepared a production line for 20 years.

This is simply subverting everyone's imagination.Large-scale industrial production was defeated by manual operation!

"Using Chinese equipment, the entire production line, with only one-line operators, requires close to a thousand employees. And the production capacity of this production line is not high."

One reason for the introduction of Chinese equipment is that the productivity-benefit ratio is too poor.In addition, this kind of shabby production line is put out, and it is estimated that this group of so-called high-tech elites can be crippled by the media!

Haven't heard of it, what is the spirit of craftsmanship?

This is not a technical issue, but a matter of honor for Yamato.

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"Although it cannot be used in production, the Chinese still have to buy a set of equipment, even if it is used as a reference. This is helpful for the development of new equipment."

"Your thinking is right. This money cannot be saved!"

A group of elites in the room quickly reached a consensus on this point.

China's semiconductor equipment is not expensive.Moreover, when Japanese people buy equipment, they don’t buy all of them. After all, they don’t go for the purpose of production. There is no need to order as many sets of equipment as the production line.

This small amount of money is nothing to do with these Japanese electronics giants.

Thus, at the end of 1992 and the beginning of 1993, China's semiconductor equipment industry suddenly ushered in a large-scale export boom.

Seven or eight electronics giants from Japan have placed orders for complete sets of equipment from related equipment manufacturers in China.Not only the Japanese are doing this, some electronics manufacturers in Europe, America, Taiwan and South Korea are also doing the same thing.

The cost of LCD production line equipment is different from that of LEDs.No matter how expensive a set of LED production line equipment is, it is only one million dollars at most, while LCD, no matter how cheap it is, is also worth ten million dollars.

These orders almost affected the capacity expansion plan of Optoelectronics.