There was no contradiction in those words; all one had to do was savor them carefully.
I strictly prohibited the export of lithography machines, but there was no problem selling them to your company. You wanted to use them? Sure, just build a factory in our country. Besides, it wasn't as if you didn't already have factories here. Just build another one!
Although they truly had not previously had a factory here producing the most advanced chips, didn't they have one now?
Build the factory here, and once the chips were produced, I would not interfere with their export. You could sell them however you liked, but lithography machines were off-limits!
Well, Jiang Yan Hai did not know about this plan anyway. It had been discussed by people from the Ministry of Commerce, which was perfectly normal.
As for foreign countries, they could keep banning imports from us. They could ban theirs, and we could ban ours.
So, now that lithography machines were no longer in short supply domestically, tape-outs naturally were no longer much of a problem either. Zhongxin Technology, which Huawei often worked with, already had wafer fabs with several production lines, and their production schedules were currently packed full.
Of course, tape-outs from partners were not a problem either. These companies understood this clearly: at first, they indeed did not lack orders, but once the number of lithography machines increased, it would still come down to the number of orders they could secure.
Old customers would naturally receive preferential treatment.
Jiang Yan Hai entered work mode at a terrifying speed. After spending an hour in the laboratory, Director Yu and President Ren had no choice but to leave. Not only were they in the way there, but they could not get a word in edgewise and did