Photolithography is the flower of the modern optical industry, and it's so difficult to manufacture that only a few companies around the world are able to make them. Currently, the only company in the world that can produce the highest precision lithography equipment with stable performance is ASML, which is the only company in the world that has successfully developed EUV lithography (extreme ultraviolet lithography).
ASML, headquartered in the Netherlands, was founded in 1984 as Advanced Semiconductor Material Lithography Holding N.V. It is an independent company from Philips. It is a semiconductor equipment manufacturer independent from Philips, and was renamed ASML in 2001. the company has about 16,500 employees, including more than 6,000 R&D personnel, R&D personnel accounted for more than 36%. Currently ASML has a total market capitalization of nearly 90 billion dollars, ranking first among global semiconductor equipment manufacturers.
Asmac is the only manufacturer in the world that can make EUV lithography and does so at very low volumes. Its entire capacity is booked out long before production. Asmax customers include international chip giants such as Intel, Samsung and TSMC, and the EUV lithography machine will also ensure that these companies remain at the forefront of the chip field. The chips produced by this machine will enable faster speeds and greater capacity to electronic devices. However, the introduction of this new machine will make a significant reduction in profitability by about 43%.
The outlook for Asmax is still quite promising, with a big increase in turnover and earnings in the first quarter of 2020, mostly just as a result of the sale of legacy products (DUVs), with up to 30, EUV lithography machines to be produced this year, and a target of 35 in 2021.
The earliest lithography using contact exposure, the mask is directly affixed to the wafer up to exposure, easy to have process contamination and mask life issues; later proximity lithography, the use of air cushions in the mask and the wafer to create a small gap between, but also affects the imaging accuracy. Until the 80's scanning projection exposure, the use of optical lenses to adjust the distance and improve the quality of the image, in order to achieve sub-micron accuracy.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that Asmac is the king of the semiconductor industry. It is not an exaggeration to say that Asmac is the king of the semiconductor industry, because five years ago, when the famous Moore's Law began to fail and lithography stagnated, it was the development of Asmac's EUV lithography that brought life to the semiconductor industry, which was almost at a standstill. 2013 saw Asmac's development of EUV lithography, which uses a 22nm light source; and 2017 saw the development of the even more advanced EUV lithography, which uses 13nm, making it possible to develop 7nm and 5nm lines of semiconductors. 7nm, 5nm line width processes can be realized.
In recent years, Asmax's revenue has been in a growth trend. 2012 to 2016, the semiconductor industry is slow, the company's revenue growth has slowed down, the growth rate is about 10%. But by 2017 the company's performance of the substantial growth is mainly by the downstream semiconductor industry recovery, represented by the storage manufacturers have expanded production to drive the demand for equipment, as well as the global wave of wafer foundry construction to drive the demand for equipment to improve due to.
Pfizer is one of the world's largest biopharmaceutical companies. Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) was founded in 1849 and is headquartered in New York, New York, United States, with 88,300 full-time employees. It is a global biopharmaceutical company engaged in the manufacture and sale of health products, chemical drugs, biologics, vaccines, and health medicines Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has three business segments: Healthcare, Animal Health, and Consumer Healthcare.
Pfizer developed a lipid-lowering drug at the end of the last century that had sales of more than $100 billion over the life of the patent, a sales volume that occurred between the time Lipitor was developed in the 1980s and 2011, when the patent expired. So, Pfizer is lying down and doing nothing but collecting royalties to become the richest man in the world.
Patents have a protection period, but do you think a patent is no longer profitable when it expires?
After the expiration of the patent, it is still boring to make a big fortune. 2011 Lipitor's patent expired, but Pfizer has long thought of a good countermeasure to prevent the expiration of the patent countermeasures, it is very worthwhile to learn from China's enterprises. After the patent expiration of Lipitor, the first generic of Lipitor authorized by Pfizer - the version of the U.S. Watson Pharmaceuticals officially listed.
This first-to-market generic variety was authorized by Pfizer, which will get a share of the sales revenue. Pfizer, after 20 years of monopoly, not only gained high monopoly profits at the time, but also accumulated unshakeable popularity and reputation, Lipitor occupied 80% of the market share in China by entering the health insurance system.
Although the underlying patent has expired, the high profits from Lipitor have lasted relatively long. Pfizer still holds patents on dozens of drugs, and it's getting rich.
Lipitor (atorvastatin), used to lower LDL blood cholesterol;
Lyrica (pregabalin) to treat neuropathic pain/fibromyalgia;
Diflucan (fluconazole), an oral antifungal;
Zithromax (azithromycin kind of antibiotic;
Viagra (sildenafil), a treatment for erectile dysfunction;
Levitra (amlodipine benzenesulfonate tablets) is the world's most widely prescribed brand-name drug for treating high blood pressure.
Zoloft (sertraline hydrochloride tablets) treats depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Viagra, the world's first marketed oral PDE5 inhibitor, is the largest selling prescription drug for the treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED) in men.
Zithromax (azithromycin tablets/dry suspension) is a widely used oral antibiotic worldwide. It treats most respiratory infections in adults and children;
Cilostro (celecoxib capsules) is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory analgesic and the world's first selective COX-2 inhibitor.
Enbrel (etanercept, Etanercept, Enbrel) is the world's first original fully humanized soluble tumor necrosis factor (TNF) antagonist in rheumatology and the world's first biologic agent for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis;
Leruca (pregabalin capsules) is a new generation of neuralgia treatment, calcium ion channel modulator. It is used to treat neuropathic pain such as post-herpetic neuralgia by modulating overexcited neurons and reducing the excessive release of excitatory neurotransmitters.
Arnosine (exemestane) is a steroidal aromatase inactivator with a structure similar to that of natural androstenedione substrates, and is excellent for endocrine therapy of breast cancer in postmenopausal women.
Kepto (irinotecan hydrochloride injection) is mainly used for the treatment of patients with advanced colorectal cancer.
Soltan (Sunitinib Malate) is a novel multi-targeted oral drug for the treatment of tumors. It is primarily used for the treatment of patients with inoperable advanced renal cell carcinoma, gastrointestinal mesenchymal stromal tumors that are intolerant to or progressing on imatinib mesylate, and unresectable, metastatic highly differentiated progressive pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors.
SecuritasTM (crizotinib) is the world's first and only targeted agent for the treatment of locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer that is positive for the kinase (ALK) enzyme in mesenchymal lymphoma.
Qualcomm is a global leader in the development of 3G, 4G and 5G technologies, and has licensed its technology to multiple manufacturers around the world, across all of the world's brands of telecommunications equipment and consumer electronics devices.
Qualcomm provides customers with silicon and software that integrates Qualcomm's technology to help them easily and quickly develop and launch products. In addition, Qualcomm leverages cross-licenses from many major patent holders to reduce customers' IP costs and minimize IP disputes in the industry.
Over the years, Qualcomm has also collected patent license fees to receive a soft hand. in 2018 Qualcomm's patent licensing division posted revenues of $5.1 billion and a net profit of $3.5 billion. Innovation is productivity, which is especially evident in today's knowledge age. So how do you cash in on innovation and bring in revenue for your company? That's going to take a lot of thinking on the part of Chinese entrepreneurs.
By the way, China's Huawei is using Qualcomm chips, which will be out of supply by 2020.
U disk is USB (Universal Serial Bus) disk short, according to the harmonic also known as "U disk", is a kind of flash memory. It is connected to the computer through the USB interface, the main control chip is responsible for the various commands, and make the computer will be recognized as a U disk "removable disk", so that the data storage and movement has become convenient and simple.
It is believed that this convenient and compact digital storage device has been used by everyone, but how many people know that the patent for this invention belongs to a Chinese company, Lanxess Technology.
20 years ago, Lonco Technology applied for a patent for "flash electronic external storage method for data processing system and its device", patent number ZL99117225.6. In July 2002, this patent was officially authorized by the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO). Since then, Lonco has been granted a patent by the U.S. National Patent Office for the invention of the flash drive base (U.S. Patent No. 6,829,672).
A number of well-known companies such as Kingston, SanDisk, PNY, Alibaba, and Spinning Pole have stepped on Lonco's patents, and it is fair to say that companies in the market that are basically involved in the field of flash memory can't get around Lonco.
With major patents in hand, Lonco started their "open life". The patent for USB flash drive invention brought Lonco huge profits, and in January 2010, Lonco was officially listed on the Technology and Innovation Board (TIB), and was known as "China's No.1 mobile storage company". In January 2010, Lonco Technology was officially listed on the Technology and Innovation Board and was called "the first mobile storage stock in China". Over the past nine years, Lonco Technology has realized a cumulative net profit of 295 million yuan, with an average annual net profit of about 33 million yuan. Not only that, the infringement compensation than the authorization fee to earn more.
In other words, because of the flash memory patents in hand, Lanxess can be said to be lying also in the money.
Royal FloraHolland, the Netherlands, is a warehouse flower company, this century-old flower industry giant company, annual revenue of 4.5 billion euros! Millions of flowers are scattered throughout the vast warehouse, attracting visitors from all over the globe.
Every day, crowds of tourists arrive in the center of Amsterdam a day early, rise at dawn the next day, and head to Royal FloraHolland's warehouse just outside the city, where they pay 7 euros for a ticket to enter the premises. It's not just a warehouse, it's the size of 400 soccer fields and sells 200,000 different kinds of flowers and plants.
In 1911, a group of Dutch flower growers **** with the creation of Royal FloraHolland, they organized auctions, bidders auction flowers, and then exported to the world. In Europe, flowers are used for weddings, birthdays and funerals, and it soon attracted customers from London, Spain and Germany, and has now grown into the world's largest flower market. The wholesale flower auctions continue to this day.
Preparations begin at 6 a.m. and the market opens at 7 a.m., with many motorized trolleys of fresh flowers and greenery moving through the warehouse, and the rooftops smelling amazing.
For flower-loving tourists, this is definitely a rare opportunity to see enough millions of flowers. The logistics of this company is also superb, to hundreds of thousands of kinds of flowers that are not easy to leave for a long time to be settled in an orderly manner is definitely a difficult task.
At the end of the auction, which lasts 90 minutes each day, the warehouse delivers the flowers to the buyers as soon as possible, either by road express to neighboring cities in Europe or by shipping them around the world.
Today, Royal FloraHolland has 4,500 members from countries all over the world, including Kenya, Ethiopia, Israel, Colombia, Ecuador, Belgium, Italy, the United Kingdom, and more, and the 4.5 billion euro (about 32.9 billion yuan) annual revenue of this floral giant has helped Holland to become the world's largest exporter of fresh cut flowers.
For the period from January 1 to March 31, 2020, Lixin Precision reported earnings of between $955 million and $986 million, a 55%-60% increase from the same period a year earlier.
Founded in 2004, Lucent Precision is mainly engaged in the research, development and production of connectors, motors, antennas, acoustics, electronic modules and other products. Thanks to its first-class factories and advanced manufacturing processes, in 2015, Lixun Precision successfully penetrated Apple's Mac, iPad, and iPhone product lines.
Following Apple's development, Luxun Precision has gone from a small factory with a market capitalization of billions of dollars all the way up to a foundry giant with a market capitalization of more than $200 billion. Since 2006, due to Apple's AirPods series favored by consumers, sales are rising, Lucent Precision has also been rapid development, and is highly sought after by the capital.
Thanks to the continuous improvement of the product production process and the climbing yield rate, Luxun Precision has become an important foundry for Apple's TWS products. According to statistics, in 2017, 70% to 80% of the capacity of the Kunshan plant of Lucent Precision was used for Apple's orders, which shows that Lucent Precision is very much influenced by Apple.
Luxun Precision is an electronic component supplier, and its main customers are Apple, Huawei, Samsung, Google and other companies. As the planning and development of specific products need to be combined with the product orientation of end customers, Lucent Precision has always adhered to the customer-centric development strategy.
With Apple's support and customer-centered development strategy, Luxun Precision has become a leading precision manufacturing company in the domestic electronics industry. Suffocating behind Apple, relying on OEM headphones netted more than 3 billion dollars a year.