"We have a choice," was met with a furious look from the CEO of AmsL. His eyes widened, staring intently at A.
"Yes, it's just that Jiangnan Group's offer is very high. They have expressed their willingness to purchase one set of equipment for 300 million US dollars!" the representative of AmsL stated.
"Three hundred million US dollars!" some of the board members' eyes lit up. This could mean a profit of hundreds of millions of dollars for the company, which was certainly worth considering.
"There is no need. Even if they offered 3 billion US dollars, we would absolutely not sell!" the representative from Hynix immediately stated without hesitation.
"Indeed, we from Samsung also believe so. We absolutely cannot sell our latest lithography machines to Jiangnan Group, otherwise many of us will truly have nowhere to be buried!" the representative from Samsung insisted firmly. As one of the South Korean companies that had the most cooperation with Jiangnan Group, the Samsung representative was very clear about the consequences if Jiangnan Group acquired the most advanced lithography machines.
Indeed, as of now, Samsung Group had basically abandoned the storage chip business. This was because Jiangnan Group's storage chips had successively lowered their prices three times in just two years. The current price was only one-third of the initial price.
Such a terrifying price had completely squeezed the survival space for other storage chip companies. Samsung had basically given up on this business, having lost all its strength to compete with Jiangnan Group.
The only one present who could still compete with Jiangnan Group was likely Hynix. As the former number one storage equipment manufacturer in the world, Hynix had long ceded its top position to Jiangnan Group and was now second in the world.
However, the market share of this second place was more than three times smaller than the first place. Currently, Hynix could only rely on cooperation with companies like Intel and Samsung, as well as its technical advantages in hard disk drives to maintain its market position. As for solid-state drives, memory modules, flash drives, and TF cards, they had completely abandoned these mobile storage device markets.
That's right, under the powerful offensive of Jiangnan Optoelectronics, there was currently no storage chip company in the world that could compete with them. It was only traditional storage devices like mechanical hard drives, because Jiangnan Group did not operate in such equipment, that companies like Hynix could survive.
However, Hynix and others were clearly unwilling to concede defeat so easily. They believed that to break Jiangnan Group's current advantage in the storage chip market, they needed to rely on high-precision lithography machines.
Only by using these lithography machines to produce storage chips could they defeat Jiangnan Group in terms of cost-effectiveness. This was Hynix's last hope of defeating Jiangnan Group, and they absolutely could not allow Jiangnan Group to obtain these latest lithography machines!
"Gentlemen, I have very reliable information that Jiangnan Group is developing computing chips internally for their server systems. If Jiangnan Group obtains the strongest lithography machines, I fear we will also lose the market for computing servers!" the Samsung representative added. The Intel representative immediately stated, "We must resolutely fulfill the contract and absolutely not allow Chinese enterprises to obtain equipment on the embargo list!"
This statement was the final nail in the coffin, directly eliminating the possibility of Jiangnan Group acquiring the most advanced lithography machines from AmsL.