He came and went in a hurry. Li Yuhang did not stay in Finland for long. After completing this business, he went to the Netherlands, the last stop of his European trip.
As an ambitious person, the importance of chips is self-evident, so how could he be willing to be controlled by others in this regard?
The development of lithography machines is not a temporary thing, but this does not prevent him from purchasing lithography machines and going back to develop a chip company.
The reason why businessmen are called businessmen is because they have huge profits and they dare to do anything. The US blockade is nothing, they have many ways to get around it.
This is also valid for the Dutch ASML company. Currently, American capital does not have the final say behind this company. They have sufficient autonomy.
In the past few years, they have captured most of the top lithography machine market. At the time of their prosperity, the two major Japanese lithography machine companies, as their important rivals, were defeated by them.
Since Li Yuhang wants to do it, he plans to find an advanced company. In terms of talents, he has already ordered Xu Xinrong to go to Baodao to dig. What is lacking now is the equipment, and it is eight-inch crystal body manufacturing equipment.
This aspect is not as easy as Lukia's. Li Yuhang has money, but ASML has no goods. This time he came not to pick up goods, but to visit this company that was rumored in the previous life, and to sign a purchase contract.
Moreover, we purchased from a foreign trade company in the Netherlands instead of ASML. Obviously, we wanted to make money without offending the United States.
After all, Li Yuhang plans to set up his company in Chengdu. It would be okay to export some relatively backward products to Li Yuhang. But this time, the equipment Li Yuhang wants is the mainstream equipment used by Intel, TSMC, Samsung, etc., and there is nothing to do in the United States.
Jump out and point fingers.
For the sake of Li Yuhang's money, they came up with such a way. This batch of equipment will enter a neutral country and then be resold to Li Yuhang. As for the name under which Li Yuhang bought it, it has nothing to do with them.
Only in this era can we appreciate the intimidating power of the Big Mac. Many companies would rather make less money than offend the Big Mac, even though Batumi has actually disappeared for several years. In fact, those regulations have been continuing.
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The reason why Li Yuhang is investing heavily in these aspects now is that he does not want to finish his products in the future just because of the Big Mac.
It’s not scary to lose a U.S. market. What’s scary is not being able to produce its own products. This is definitely not what Li Yuhang wants to see.
Although he knows that this is a costly and labor-intensive industry, he is still preparing to lay out the plan. This chip company is just a start-up, and he will not be left behind in the lithography machine company. He believes that his own capital is enough to support the development of this industry.
Li Yuhang's idea that there are always unscrupulous people trying to harm me has also affected the United States, so he has never paid much attention to the American market. Even icq is just playing around and just wants to make some quick money.
The only thing that attracts Li Yuhang is the crazy stock market in the United States, and he doesn't mind making some profits from it.
For example, during this period, Li Yuhang directly transferred 5 billion U.S. dollars to the American company of Xinyu Investment Company, allowing it to continue to acquire shares in Microsoft, Yahoo, Cisco and other companies. In two years, the crazy Nasdaq will let
He gained more than this stock market gain.
The former maritime coachman has long lost its glory. When it comes to Western Europe, it is now only Britain, France and Germany, and the Netherlands no longer has a place among the world powers.
However, this is still a country with highly developed capitalism. Its innovation power has long been at the forefront of the world, and there are nearly ten Fortune 500 companies in the world, such as Shell, Airbus, etc.
This is also the first time Li Yuhang has arrived in a country with a constitutional monarchy, such as England and Japan. Although Japan is famous, even though Li Yuhang is cooperating with the Japanese Fuji Foundation, he has not yet set foot in Japanese territory.
The idea that princes, generals, and princes should be in harmony in the country does not seem to apply in some Western European countries. Although the royal family in these countries has now become symbolic, it is still respected by its citizens.
Compared to going to Finland, Li Yuhang's arrival in the Netherlands was much more low-key. After all, he didn't want to be the focus of the American conquest. If he didn't want to visit the legendary company in person, he wouldn't have appeared in the Netherlands at all.
ASML Company attaches great importance to large buyers. In addition to the company's core departments, as long as Li Yuhang is interested in visiting, they have made arrangements.
During this period, they kept talking about the capabilities of their products and their advantages compared with Nikon.
No one would dislike having too many orders, and the same goes for ASML executives. This time they caught a rich owner who was not short of money. Naturally, they wanted to have enough at once.
As for the possible displeasure of the United States, it is not within their scope of consideration at all in the face of huge interests. They are not an American company, and the other party's hand cannot reach that far yet.
Especially since the EU was established in recent years, the main purpose of this organization is to compete with the United States for the market. Sometimes, EU member states do not need to look at the face of the United States.
Li Yuhang sometimes thinks that if there is no such emperor, there will be no pressure on the east of the EU, and it might really be possible to confront the United States. After all, there are only so many global interests, and the EU does not want to be able to just drink soup.
In fact, after the disintegration of the Red Soviet Union, the establishment of the European Union played a certain role in containing the United States. The United States did not want to see the emergence of a united Europe.
In the past few decades, European countries led by Germany and France have competed with the United States on the economic level. In order to get rid of their dependence on the United States, they have also done a lot of work.
For example, Airbus is a company jointly established by multiple countries, especially the group behind it, which is the European United Military Industrial Group, of which the Netherlands is also a member.
No country is willing to succumb to other countries, especially these former world hegemons. Although they are now in a state of decline, no one can suppress them together.
In the next ten years, the European Union will definitely be one of the examples of making a fortune silently. The main competition is those three countries. This huge European Union is very easy to be ignored. It seems that these former overlords have no fangs. Even Asan
It seems that they can overwhelm the countries in Western Europe.
Because the EU is such an institution, they can swing from one side to the other to make profits. Because they have to face pressure from other parties, these countries mainly focus on cooperation with the EU and generally do not direct their firepower at the EU.
Compared with the single market, individual EU countries are now not as good as Japan. However, based on the markets of EU member states, the EU is currently the second largest market, and it is close to the US market, and Japan has to step aside.
It's a pity, Li Yuhang lamented that he still developed too late. If in the 1980s, he might have used more force to boost the EU's self-confidence and get rid of the influence of the Big Mac on Europe.
As long as the polar bear becomes stronger, the EU is destined to rely on the United States. This aspect is an inextricable knot. Of course, the lack of unity among the countries within the EU is also a major reason, otherwise a polar bear would not worry them.